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Locating
Emerging Technologies
Thursday
9 November 2006, Cambridge University
at The
Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities
(CRASSH)
University of Cambridge,
17 Mill Lane, Cambridge, CB2 1RX
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This workshop will explore the relationships between
emerging technologies and place. It will question the possibility
of using emerging technologies as sites to study the production of
place. Speakers will address how dominant tropes of regions and networks
of high technology overlook the possibility that investment in emerging
technologies depends on the production of difference among locations.
The workshop
will be organised around three discussions, focusing on how infrastructures
of investment of emerging technologies
are
configuring places through operation of regions and networks; labour
and capital; expectations and futures.
Programme
| 9.45am |
Registration and coffee
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| 10.15am |
Welcome and introduction
Gail Davies (Geography, UCL) and Robert Doubleday (Geography,
University of Cambridge)
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| 10.30am |
Session 1: Spaces of innovation
Chair: Brian Wynne (Science Studies, University of
Lancaster)
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Nanotechnology developments as a site to study emerging local/global
configurations
Arie Rip (Science and Technology Studies, University of Twente)
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On locating and mapping unruly innovation - some experiences
from studying Swedish biotech
Henrik Mattsson (Geography, Uppsala University)
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| 12.30pm |
Buffet lunch
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| 1.30pm |
Session 2: Configuring experimental sites and subjects
Chair: Andrew Barry (Geography, Oxford University)
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From Island to Laboratory: Making space for gene discovery
Beth Greenhough (Geography, Keele University)
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Surplus Health and Displaced Labour: Speculations on the
Figure of the Experimental Subject
Kaushik Sunder Rajan (Anthropology, University of California,
Irvine)
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| 3.00pm |
Tea
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| 3.30pm |
Session 3: Locating Futures
Chair: Gail Davies (Geography, UCL)
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Placing place in lab and field: Past and future forms of
environmental innovation
Astrid Schwarz (Institute of Philosophy, Technical University
Darmstadt)
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Hope in/for Nanotechnology: Anticipatory Governance and the
Spatialities of Affect
Ben Anderson (Geography, Durham University)
Reflections: Will Davies (Sociology, Goldsmiths College and
Visiting Fellow, IPPR)
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| 5.00pm |
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