The latest issue of Subjectivity — which focuses on “Neuroscience and subjectivity” — includes a number of interesting articles in the rapidly advancing discussion around neuroscience and society. In their opening Editorial (the only article available without a subscription) guest editors John Cromby, Tim Newton and Simon J Williams argue that:
[T]he neurosciences are likely to continue occupying
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Contributed by Talia Weiner (University of Chicago)
The Society for Social Studies of Science (4S) conference this August was not just a site of interdisciplinary and cross-cultural scholarly exchange, or a good excuse to plan a trip to Japan. It offered, in the almost endearingly undertheorized words of the Society’s online Annual Meeting announcement, no less than “a chance …
On September 24 and 25, the University of Ottawa is hosting a workshop entitled “Critical Autism Studies: Enabling Inclusion, Defending Difference,” organized by Michael Orsini, associate professor of political studies at U Ottawa and Joyce Davidson, associate professor of geography at Queen’s University. The abstract for the workshop is reproduced below. Please see the workshop website…
More of the articles in the 2010 issue of the Annual Review of Anthropology are now available online (unfortunately only to those with subscriptions or institutional access). One of the most interesting reviews is an article by Olga Solomon called “Sense and the Senses: Anthropology and the Study of Autism.” Solomon is a linguist in the Department of …
Apologies for the far-too-long hiatus in posts. Things should be getting back to normal in the coming weeks.
In any case, the March issue of Ethos was titled “Rethinking Autism, Rethinking Anthropology,” and was guest edited by Nancy Bagatell and Olga Solomon. It looks like a fantastic special issue, including work by a number of scholars we’ve written …
I’ve written here in the past about the National Humanities Center’s On the Human Forum–a site meant to foster discussion about what “the human” has or is coming to mean in the context of contemporary social and technoscientific developments. The topic of this summer’s issue of Daedalus is “On Being Human” and it is specifically framed as …