WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER, 2 - Society for Social Studies of Science

Thursday
Participants:
Discursive Constructions of Life in the Context of Synthetic Biology.
Inna Kouper, Indiana University
Intervine the Science in the Making: Human Practices in Synthetic
Biology in Peking University. LU lucy GAO, STS Center, student,
Tsinghua University; ESRC Innogen Center, Associate , UK
Cultural Politics of Genomic Sovereignty: Tracing Genomics and its
Regulatory Use in Japan and Taiwan. Wen‐Hua Kuo, National
Yang‐Ming University
Troubled by Heterogeneity?: Control, Infrastructure and
Participation in the Study of Heredity and STS. peter john taylor,
UMass Boston
The Quintiles Model of Transnational Science. Mark Jones, The Life
Sciences Foundation
Chair:
Mark Jones, The Life Sciences Foundation
044. Skill, Labor and Identity in High‐Tech Occupations
10:30 to 12:00 pm
Crowne Plaza: Boardroom
Participants:
Born to Research: Recent Reassertions of Biological Bases for
Scientific Talent. Amy E. Slaton, Drexel University
“Being Useful to Society”: Labor, Skills and Knowledge in
Postindustrial Science. Mary Ebeling, Drexel University
Gender and Skill at the Dawn of Digital Computing. Janet Abbate,
Virginia Tech
Gifted: Merit and Caste in the Making of Indian Technical
Knowledge. Ajantha Subramanian, Duke University