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Neurosociety: programme 

last updated 3 December 2010


Tuesday, 7 December 2010     


9:30-10:00 am

Registration
and coffee

Location: Entrance Hall, Saïd Business School, University of Oxford


10:00-10:45 am

Welcome and opening remarks

Steve Woolgar and Tanja Schneider (InSIS, Saïd Business School, University of Oxford)

Location: Rhodes Trust Lecture Theatre


10:45-12:15 pm

Paper session 1A: Commodification of neuroscience
 

Chair: Javier Lezaun (InSIS, Saïd Business School, University of Oxford)

1. Paul Martin (University of Nottingham): Commercialising neurofutures: the commodification of neuroscience and the making of a new industry

2. Torsten Heinemann (Goethe University Frankfurt): Neuroscience goes to market: The commercialisation of the neurosciences and its consequences for science and society

3.  Isabelle Dussauge (Linköping University): Sex, cash and neuromodels of desire

Location: Rhodes Trust lecture theatre

 
10:45-12:15 pm

Paper session 1B: Neurological difference
  

Chair: Des Fitzgerald (BIOS Centre, London School of Economics and Political Science)

1. Michael Orsini (University of Ottawa) and Francisco Ortega (State University of Rio de Janeiro): From cerebral disorder to neurological difference: mapping political economies of hope in autistic communities

2. Robin MacKenzie (University of Kent): Capitalising on neurodiversity: an alternative to the conflation of normative standards and clinical diagnosis in the absence of the moral ‘feeling brain’

3. Stephen Clarke (Oxford Martin School, University of Oxford): The neuroscience of decision making and informed consent in medicine and medical research

Location: Seminar Room A


10:45-12:15 pm

Paper session 1C: Neurotechnological subjectivities


Chair: Lisa Stampnitzky (InSIS, Saïd Business School, University of Oxford)

1. Meg Ahern (University of Michigan): Change your brain, change your life: Agency, determinism and somatic ethics in contemporary neuro-self-help

2. Paolo Benanti (Gregorian University of Rome): The cyborg: a core concept for answers and questions of neurotechnology

2. Felicity Callard (King’s College London) and Daniel Margulies (Humboldt University Berlin): The industrious subject and the hard-working brain: cognitive neuroscience’s re-evaluation of ‘rest’

Location: Andrew Cormack seminar room


12:15-1:15 pm
 

Lunch


Location: Entrance Hall

1:15 - 2:45 pm

Panel discussion:  

Constructing and reading neuroimages

  

Panelists:

Gemma Calvert (Neurosense)

Kelly Joyce (College of William and Mary, Williamsburg,VA)

Patricia Pisters (University of Amsterdam)

Chair: Paul Martin (University of Nottingham)

Location: Rhodes Trust Lecture Theatre


2:45-3:00 pm

Break and refreshments


Location: Entrance Hall

3:00-4:30 pm

Paper session 2A:
Neuroscience in law and policy


Chair: Thomas Powell (Saïd Business School, University of Oxford)

1. Andrew Balmer (University of Sheffield): STS’s first commercial product? A novel method for lie detection

2. A. Scott Catey (University of Florida): From mind to brain: The implications of a neuro-ontology for policy and law

3. Jan-Hendrik Heinrichs (Forschungszentrum Juelich): Neuroimagining data sensitivities

Location: Rhodes Trust lecture theatre

3:00 - 4:30 pm

Paper session 2B: Neuroscience and dual use
  

Chair: Kenneth Hugdahl (University of Bergen)

1. Malcolm Dando (Bradford University): What does neuroethics have to say about the problem of dual-use?

2. Emma Zimmerman and Eric Racine (Institut de recherches cliniques de Montreal): Challenges of the social neuroscience revolution: public dialogue and dual use

3. Gina Rippon and Carl Senior (University of Aston): The role of neuroscience in national security: caveats for the future of research and practice in neuroscience

Location: Seminar Room A


3:00-4:30 pm

Paper session 2C: Ethnographies of the neurosciences
  

Chair: Timothy Webmoor (InSIS, Saïd Business School, University of Oxford)

1. Dimitrina Spencer (Dept of Education, University of Oxford): Pedagogical choreographies of algorithms in ‘brain’ research

2. Melike Sahinol (University of Tuebingen): Development of neurotechnical treatment with brain machine interfaces in chronic stroke

3. Udi Butler (Dept of Anthropology, University of Oxford): The meditating brain: an encounter of neuroscientists and Buddhists

Location: Andrew Cormack seminar room


4:30-5:00 pm

Break and refreshments


Location: Reception room

5:00-5:45 pm

Keynote 1
 

Nikolas Rose (BIOS Centre, London School of Economics and Political Science)

Title: Who do you think you are? Managing personhood in a neurobiological age

Chair: Linsey McGoey (University of Essex)

Location: Rhodes Trust Lecture Theatre


5:45-7:30 pm

Unstructured break

 

7:30-10:30 pm

Conference dinner (pre-registration required)


Oriel College, University of Oxford

 

 


Wednesday, 8 December 2010


9:00-10:30 am


Keynote 2


Jonathan Rowson (Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce)

Title: The social value of neurological reflexivity: decisions, habits and attention

Sabine Maasen (University of Basel)

Title: Neuroeconomics - a marriage of giants thanks to neoliberal knowledge society?!

Chair: Claes-Fredrik Helgesson (Linköping University)

Location: Rhodes Trust Lecture Theatre


10:30-11:00 am

Break and refreshments


Location: Entrance Hall


11:00-12:30 pm


Paper session 3A: Neuroeconomics


Chair: Will Davies (InSIS, Saïd Business School, University of Oxford)

1. Natasha Schüll (MIT) and Caitlin Zaloom (NYU): The short-sighted brain: Neuroeconomics and the governance of choice-making in time

2. Sigrid Schmitz (Universität Wien): Rationality/emotionality in neuroeconomics: From references to socio-political implications

3. Ina Kaufmann and Christian Vögtlin (University of Zurich): Neuroscience and leadership research: Fact or fancy?

Location: Rhodes Trust lecture theatre

11:00-12:30 pm

Paper session 3B:
Brain and society
 

Chair: Felix Reed-Tsochas (InSIS, Saïd Business School, University of Oxford)

1. John Bone (University of Aberdeen): The social map and the regularities of everyday life

2. Morten Hillgaard Bülow (University of Copenhagen): Ageing brains and wishful thinking – How concerns about the ageing society and ideas about cognitive enhancement interact in neuroscience

3. Dirk Hommrich (Technische Universität Darmstadt): Neuro-topology and governmentality: Spatiality in the German discourse on neurodidactics

Location: Seminar Room A


12:30-1:30 pm


Lunch

Location: Entrance Hall

1:30-3:00 pm

Paper session 4A: Neuromarketing


Chair: Catherine Dolan (Saïd Business School, University of Oxford)

1. Stefan Schwarzkopf  (Copenhagen Business School): The ‘primitive person’ and its ‘triumph over the logical brain’: Antecedents of neuromarketing in Germany and the United States, 1930-1960

2. Tanja Schneider and Steve Woolgar (InSIS, Saïd Business School, University of Oxford): On the performativity of neuro market research: market research techniques and the enactment of ignorant consumers

3. Clement Levallois, Ale Smidts, Paul Wouters (Leiden University): Neuromarketing: an e-story

Location: Rhodes Trust lecture theatre

1:30-3:00 pm

Paper session 4B: Cognitive enhancement
  

Chair: Caitlin Connors (BIOS Centre, London School of Economics and Political Science)

1. Elisabeth Hildt et al (Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz).: Cognitive enhancement - expectations and reality

2. Anders Sandberg (Oxford Martin School, University of Oxford): The value of better brains: cognition enhancement and the personal and social benefit of cognition

3. Diana Deca (Cambridge University): Cognitive enhancing drugs – the politics behind the science – are we moving too fast?

Location: Seminar Room A


3:00-3:30 pm

Break and refreshments


Location: Entrance Hall

3:30-5:00 pm

Closing discussion: Neurosociety…what is it with the brain these days?


Speakers:

Steve Woolgar (InSIS, Saïd Business School, University of Oxford)

Paul Wouters (Leiden University)

Location: Rhodes Trust Lecture Theatre


5:00-6:00 pm


Reception

Location: Entrance Hall