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The Exposome
03 June 2025, 5:00 pm–6:00 pm
This event is part of the Interdisciplinarity: new reconfigurations of the social and natural sciences seminar series.
This event is free.
Event Information
Open to
- All
Availability
- Yes
Cost
- Free
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UCL Anthropocene
About the seminar:
Nikolas Rose (IAS, UCL) will speak about The Exposome in conversation with Andrew Barry and Sahra Gibbon.
About the seminar series:
Over twenty years ago, in the early 2000s, Georgina Born, Andrew Barry and Marilyn Strathern led an ESRC funded project that focused on new institutional collaborations between natural and social scientists and creative practitioners. In these collaborations, the work of social scientists and artists often served to supplement dominant naturals scientific or engineering paradigms, standing in for a wider engagement with society (Barry, Born and Weszkalnys 2008, Born and Barry 2010, Barry and Born 2013). In some collaborations, there was a more radical reconfiguration of the relation between different forms of practice. In this mini-series of events, we revisit the question of the relation between the disciplines at a different moment, and from different angles.
Today, the potential contribution of the social and historical sciences to what were once thought of predominantly scientific or technical domains (including climate change and environmental research, computer science and AI) is more established, although it remains uneven. However, there is also growing recognition that an engagement with the natural and computational sciences have become critical to the reconfiguration of the social sciences themselves, beyond the established field of Science and Technology Studies.
In this mini-series, we reflect on the question of interdisciplinarity and the social and historical sciences through a series of conversations with Ann Stoler (on radical adisciplinarity), Mariam Motamedi-Fraser (on Animal Studies), Nikolas Rose (on the exposome), John Haddon (on history), and Georgina Born (on AI, and interdisciplinarity more broadly).
This event will take place online via zoom with the link to join to be shared closer to the date.
About the Speaker
Nikolas Rose
Honorary Professor at UCL Institute for Advanced Studies
Nikolas Rose was Professor of Sociology at King's College London from 2012 until his retirement in April 2021. He was the founding Head of the Department of Global Health and Social Medicine at King’s and Co-Founder and Co-Director of King’s ESRC Centre for Society and Mental Health, the UK’s first major research centre on the social dimensions of mental distress.
From 2011 to 2020, Nikolas Rose was a member of the Steering Committee of the Society and Ethics Division of the Human Brain Project, a European FET Flagship Project, and was responsible for their Foresight Laboratory. He was the lead investigator in several large EPSRC funded collaborations to develop research and capacity in synthetic biology, and lead partner in BIONET, a 21 partner consortium, funded by the European Commission, examining the ethical governance of research in the life sciences in China and Europe. He is Chair of the Neuroscience and Society Network previously funded by the European Science Foundation. For six years he was a member of the Nuffield Council on Bioethics, and he has worked in various capacities with the Academy of Medical Science and the Wellcome Trust, and with the Royal Society, where, until December 2016, he was a member of the Science Policy Advisory Group.
His current research concerns the changing relationships between the life sciences and the social sciences, and the role of the life sciences and neurosciences in changing conceptions of human identity, reshaping ideas of normality and pathology, and shifting ways of thinking about and governing human beings, in particular in relation to mental life and mental health