Meeting
Studies on Science in Portugal: contemporary routes

April 27th and May 6th, 2009, 9:30

Organization: Centre for Social Studies and Institute for Social Sciences

 
Studies on sciences comprise, at the present time, a transdisciplinary and deeply internationalized research field that takes for object practices, institutions and objects associated to the social appropriation, production and movement of technology and scientific knowledge. In Portugal, studies on science have earned a significant development during the last decade, evident in the involvement of the new generations of social sciences researchers in themes and objects in the field of science and technology.

The meeting Studies on Science in Portugal: contemporary routes, aims to discuss the emergent agendas in this field of studies. The meeting will bring together a set of recent authors, challenging new generations of researchers to ponder, setting forth from their very own objects of study, on the contemporary routes regarding sociological and anthropological production as what pertains to science and technology. In a joint effort of the two associate laboratories in the field of social sciences in Portugal, ICS-UL and CES, this meeting also seeks to open way to cooperation lines between groups of Portuguese researchers working on science studies, in Portugal and abroad. The meeting will occur during two separate sessions, taking place in Lisbon on the 27th of April and in Coimbra on the 6th of May, 2009.

This meeting thus pursues three main objectives: (1) devising a debate forum on the present directions of research on social studies of science and technology in Portugal; (2) rendering visibility to new researchers of the field; (3) developing synergies between researchers dispersed in various institutions, mainly between ICS-UL and CES researchers.

Programme

May 6th, 2009 | Centro de Estudos Sociais, Universidade de Coimbra
 
9h30 – 12h30
Cristiana Bastos
João Vasconcelos
Tiago Saraiva
Ricardo Roque
 
14h00 – 16h00
Ana Delicado
Mónica Truninger
Paulo Granjo
 
17h00 | Book Release
Objectos impuros: experiências em estudos sobre a ciência
Orgs.: João Arriscado Nunes e Ricardo Roque Ed.: Afrontamento
Presentation: Tiago Santos Pereira, Centre for Social Studies

 
April 27th, 2009 | Polyvalent Room, Institute for Social Sciences, University of Lisbon

9.30 – 10.00 – Welcome Desk and presentation
João Arriscado Nunes and Ricardo Roque

Session 1
Moderation: Tiago Saraiva (Institute for Social Sciences, University of Lisbon)

10.00 – 10.20
Tiago Moreira (University of Durham)
Aging in technical democracies

10.20 – 10.40
João Arridcado Nunes (Centre for Social Studies, University of Coimbra)
Between heterogeneous construction and ontological policy: what routes for Studies on Science?

10.40 – 11.00 – Debate

11.00 – 11.20 – Coffee-Break

Session 2
Moderation: Cristiana Bastos (Institute for Social Sciences, University of Lisbon)

11.20 – 11.40
Marisa Matias (Centre for Social Studies, University of Coimbra)
Relations between environment and health in the crossroad between scientific controversies and protest movements

11.40 – 12.00
Sofia Bento (ISEG-UTL / SOCIUS)
Dams and Societies in the light of Social Studies on Science

12.00 – 12.20 Debate

12.30 – 14.00 Lunch

Session 3
Moderation: José Luís Garcia (Institute for Social Sciences, University of Lisbon)

14.00 – 14.20
Daniel Neves (Centre for Social Studies, University of Coimbra)
The Single Health System and Health Advices: institutional innovations in health governance

14.20 – 14.40
Ângela Filipe (Centre for Social Studies, University of Coimbra)
From biomedicalization of politics to the politization of biology: a perspective on patient associations in the Portuguese case

14.40 – 15.00 Debate

15.00 – 15.15 Coffee-Break

Moderation: José Luís Cardoso (Institute for Social Sciences, University of Lisbon)

15.20 – 15.40
Rita Serra (Centre for Social Studies, University of Coimbra)
Risk analysis on food safety: the science of norms and uncertainties

15.40 – 16.00
Tiago Santos Pereira (Centre for Social Studies, University of Coimbra)
What separates Science and Technologies Studies (STS) from Innovation Studies?

16.00 – 16.30 Debate

17.30 – 18.30
Book Release: Objectos impuros: experiências em estudos sobre a ciência, João Arriscado Nunes and Ricardo Roque (orgs.), Afrontamento (ed.)
Presentation: João Caraça, Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation

Venue: ICS-UL Auditorium

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