Workshop: Summer School in the History of the Life Sciences, Naples, Italy, July 2013

研讨会：生命科学史暑期学校，意大利那不勒斯，2013 年 7 月

• 批准号: 1256646
• 负责人: Janet Browne
• 金额: $ 2.49万
• 依托单位: Harvard University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2013
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2013-05-01 至 2014-04-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1256646&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Workshop; Summer; History; Life; Sciences

IntroductionThis award supports travel and accommodation for five student-participants and five faculty speaker-participants from US academic institutions to participate in an international collaborative workshop in the history and social studies of the Life Sciences to be held at the Stazione Zoologica, Naples, Italy, 29 June - 6 July 2013. The aim of the Workshop is to develop advanced understanding of the ethical, cultural, and scientific practices associated with the topic of life and the artificial creation of life. The workshop will connect an international roster of specialized faculty with chosen graduate students and postdoctoral scholars from Europe, North America, the Near East, Russia, South America, and Asia. Intellectual MeritWorkshop participants will engage with fundamental ethical and social questions in STS and in the history of the life sciences that are closely associated with the Workshop theme, creating life. The workshop will serve to produce highly educated science historians who can engage with the cultural issues emerging from the laboratory fabrication of life. Participants will discuss in depth six aspects of the core workshop theme moving from early notions about the generation of life in Antiquity to the latest research programs around the world attempting to create life artificially, either bottom-up by designing and constructing molecular building blocks, or top-down by starting with the creation of whole genomes. Sessions are arranged in highly focused seminar format, with intensive discussion of selected topics aided by keynote lectures that are followed by faculty-led discussion. The workshop will also serve to promote the development of a professional network in this important area of history of biology research.Broader ImpactsThis research agenda will probe the limits of contemporary science and technology, investigate the capacity to standardize, control, and manipulate life at the molecular level, and discuss the challenges for moral and ethical perceptions of the dignity and sanctity of life. Participants will be able seriously to engage with issues of concern to the public. The Workshop directly engages with topics of great public interest where the interaction of science and society come into high relief. The international dimension is also important in aiding the exchange of views and information about different national ethical, legal, and scientific practices on the topic of life and the artificial creation of life.

IntroductionThis award supports travel and accommodation for five students-participants and five fucking speaker-participants from US academic institutions to participate in the history and social studies of the Life Sciences to be held at the Stazione Zoologica，Naples，意大利，2013年6月29日至7月6日.该研讨会的目的是发展与生命和人工创造生命的主题相关的伦理，文化和科学实践的高级理解。该研讨会将连接专业教师的国际名册与选定的研究生和博士后学者来自欧洲，北美，近东，俄罗斯，南美和亚洲。知识价值讲习班的参与者将参与STS和生命科学史中与讲习班主题密切相关的基本伦理和社会问题，创造生命。该研讨会将有助于培养受过高等教育的科学历史学家，他们可以参与实验室制造生命中出现的文化问题。与会者将深入讨论核心研讨会主题的六个方面，从古代生命产生的早期概念到世界各地试图人工创造生命的最新研究计划，无论是自下而上设计和构建分子构建模块，还是自上而下从创建整个基因组开始。会议安排在高度集中的研讨会的格式，与选定的主题由主旨演讲，其次是由教师主导的讨论辅助密集讨论。研讨会还将促进在生物学研究史这一重要领域的专业网络的发展。更广泛的影响这一研究议程将探讨当代科学和技术的局限性，调查在分子水平上标准化，控制和操纵生命的能力，并讨论生命尊严和神圣性的道德和伦理观念的挑战。参与者将能够认真参与公众关注的问题。该研讨会直接参与具有重大公共利益的主题，其中科学与社会的相互作用得到高度重视。国际层面也很重要，有助于就不同国家在生命和人工创造生命问题上的伦理、法律的和科学做法交流意见和信息。