São Paulo Advanced School on Biotechnology, Biosocialities and the Governance of Life Sciences

This five day summer school will bring together leading experts from across a broad field of the social and historical sciences (including Anthropology, Sociology, Science and Technology Studies, Political Science, History of Science) from world class research and educational institutes inside and outside Brazil to examine these issues. Combining a programme of talks and workshops with an emphasis on interactive dialogue with professors and students the school responds to the urgent need to provide training and education that can address some of the pressing social and ethical issues raised by developments in the life and medical sciences.
  • Institution

    Instituto de Geociências / Unicamp

  • Field of Knowledge

    Sociology

  • Academic Director

    Maria Conceição da Costa

  • Grant Number

    2013/50546-0

  • Date

    2014-08-11 to 2014-08-15

  • Registration Deadline

    closed

  • Site

    http://www.ige.unicamp.br/espca2014

  • City

    Campinas

  • Keywords

    Biopower, Biopolitics, Science and Society

  • Program Hide

     

    Monday, August 11th

    08:30 – 09:00

    Credentials and Coffee

    09:00 – 10:00

    Opening ceremony and welcoming remarks
    PhD. Maria Conceição da Costa – State University of Campinas, Brazil (Head of SPSAS)
    PhD. Sahra Gibbon – University College London, UK
    PhD. Léa Velho – State University of Campinas, Brazil
    PhD. Leda Gitahy – Head of the Science and Technology Policy, Graduate Studies Program, State University of Campinas, Brazil
    PhD. Roberto Perez Xavier – Director of the Institute of Geosciences, State University of Campinas, Brazil

    10:00 – 12:00

    Guest Lecture: Social Study of the Life Science
    PhD. Stephen Hilgartner, Cornell University, US

    12:00 – 14:00

    Lunch

    14:00 –15:00

    Lecture 1: Production of biotechnologies and its implications on society 
    Phd. Aditya Bharadwaj, The Graduate Institute, Switzerland

    15:00—15:20

    Coffee break

    15:20 – 16:30

    Lecture 2: A new approach to governing GM crops: global lessons from the rising powers
    PhD. Phil Macnaghten, Durham University, UK

    16:30 – 17:30

    Lecture 3: Biosocialities
    PhD.Carlos Guilherme do Vale, Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil

     

    Tuesday, August 12th 

    Session I – Global politics and the Governance of Biosciences
    This module discusses social and political aspects of governance processes at biotechnology sciences, particularly those oriented application in building of structures of governance in new technologies life, the processes of scientific and technological regulation and their interactions in society and politics.

    09:00 – 09:50

    Lecture 4 : Labor unions’ concerns on occupational risks of nanotechnology and the regulatory agenda
    PhD Noela Invernizzi, Federal University of Parana, BR

    09:50 – 10:10

    Coffee break

    10:10 – 11:00

    Lecture 5: Social dimensions of Systems and Synthetic Biology
    PhD. Jane Calvert, University of Edinburgh, UK

    11:00 – 12:00

    Lecture 6: Biotechnology: to regulate or deregulate GMOs?
    PhD. Walter Colli, University of São Paulo, Brazil

    12:00 – 14:00

    Lunch

    14:00 – 17:00

    Discussion of student’s work, space for questions and debates with researchers
    Coordinator: PhD Maria Beatriz Machado Bonacelli
    PhD Phil Macnaghten
    PhD Aditya Bharadwaj
    PhD Jane Calvert

    18:00

    Meeting reception, Casa São Jorge Bar
    Wednesday, August 13th 

    Session II – Public Health, Genomics and Social Sciences
    This module discuss the processes of medicalization and biossociabilization in contemporary societies, as well as the implications of new genomic technologies in the reorganization of social groups. Discussions module stress the social elements included in the production of public health policies and the recent integration of genomics.

    09:00 – 09:50

    Lecture 7: Health/Illness, Offer/Demand: Limits of Intervention
    PhD. Kenneth Camargo, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

    09:50 – 10:10

    Coffee break

    10:10 – 11:00

    Lecture 8: The Human Genome Project
    PhD. Stephen Hilgartner, Cornell University, USA

    11:00 – 12:00

    Lecture 9: Biosocialities and implications of genomics in public health
    PhD. Sahra Gibbon UCL & PhD Marko Monteiro

    12:00 – 14:00

    Lunch

    14:00 – 17:00

    Discussion of student’s work, space for questions and debates with researchers
    Coordinator: PhD Maria Conceição da Costa
    PhD Carlos Guilherme do Vale
    PhD Kenneth Camargo

     

    Thursday, August 14th 

    Session III – Innovation in Life Sciences, transnational research and international co-operation
    This module discuss the dynamics of technological innovation of life sciences and healthcare. One key point is the impact of technologies and forms of transnational coordination of scientific and technological production systems in bioscience. We propose a discussion of concepts and ideas that contribute to an analysis of transnational policies in science, technology and innovation in biosciences, biotechnology and biomedicina. One fundamental point are discussions about experiences organizing research agendas in biosciences.

    09:00 – 09:50

    Lecture 10: Biopolitics and psychiatrization of life
    PhD. Sandra Caponi, Federal University of Santa Catarina, Brazil

    09:50 – 10:10

    Coffee break

    10:10 – 11:00

    Lecture 11:  Bioeconomies, biopolitics and gender relations
    PhD. Susanne Lettow, Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, DE

    11:00 – 12:00

    Lecture 12: International cooperation on biotechnology applied to bioprospection
    PhD Camila Rigolin, Federal University of São  Carlos, Brazil

    12:00 – 14:00

    Lunch

    14:00 – 16:00

    Visiting the National Laboratories (LNNano, LNBio, LNLS, CTBE)
    Friday, August 15th

    09:00 – 10:00

    Lecture 13: Science, Technology and Social Activism
    PhD. Rayna Rapp, New York University, US

    10:30 – 11:30

    Presentation on the lines of funding provided by FAPESP: opportunities for young researchers

    12:00 – 14:00

    Lunch

    14:00 – 15:00

    Closing remarks
    Maria Conceiçao da Costa, Unicamp
    Sahra Gibbon, UK
    Marko Monteiro, Unicamp

    18:30

    Closing reception (Almanaque Café)