Workshop: Historical and Social Scientific Perspectives on Life and its Cycles

本奖项将于2017年夏季（6月25日至7月1日）举行的生命科学历史与社会研究研讨会上颁发。讲习班的计划地点是意大利那不勒斯的动物学研究所，这是一家致力于生物学基础研究的研究所。资金将用于支持来自美国机构的五名学生参与者和五名教师参与者参加国际合作研讨会的旅行和住宿。2017年研讨会的主题是“生命的循环”。“生命周期”的主题涉及生命科学的历史和社会研究中的基本问题。它将发展对与“生命”主题相关的伦理、文化和科学实践的深入理解，并分析与野外和实验室中生命过程的循环作用有关的科学工作。该研究所每两年举办15个讲习班；它是一个建立良好的论坛，在生命科学的历史和社会研究方面进行特殊的国际互动和专业提升。工作坊只允许10名教师和25名学生参加。它明确地促进了通常不联系的年轻研究人员之间的新的和国际网络。虽然没有出版研讨会论文集的计划，但主任们积极鼓励个人发表文章或论文的计划。技术总结研讨会包括高度集中的讨论研讨会，随后是主题演讲和教师主导的讨论。研究和讨论议程探讨了当代科学技术的局限性，研究了现代在分子水平上标准化、控制和操纵生命的能力，并讨论了公众对自然和生活过程的理解中道德和伦理观念的历史和当代挑战。参与者将认真参与有关环境和生活过程的问题。国际层面也很重要，有助于就关于生命及其周期主题的不同国家伦理、法律和科学实践交流意见和信息。参与者将因此遇到新的想法，新的知识框架和新的文献来源，所有这些都很容易转移。参与者将熟悉不同历史时期、不同文化和地理区域的不同科学思维模式。

General Audience Summary This award is for a workshop in the history and social studies of the Life Sciences that is to be held during the summer of 2017, between June 25 and July 1. The planned location for the workshop is the Stazione Zoologica, a research institute in Naples, Italy, devoted to basic research in biology. Funds are to support travel and accommodation of five student-participants and five faculty-participants from USA institutions in an international collaborative workshop. The theme for the 2017 workshop is "Cycles of Life". The theme "Cycles of Life" engages with fundamental questions in the history and social studies of the life sciences. It will develop advanced understanding of the ethical, cultural, and scientific practices associated with the topic of "life" and analyze scientific work concerned with the cyclical action of living processes in the field and laboratory. The institute has run fifteen workshops every two years; it is a well-established forum for exceptional international interaction and professional enhancement in the history and social studies of the life sciences. The Workshop is restricted to ten faculty and twenty-five student-participants. It explicitly promotes new and international networks between young researchers not normally in contact. There are no plans to publish the workshop proceedings, but the directors actively encourage individual publication plans for articles or for dissertations.Technical Summary Workshop sessions are comprised of a highly focused discussion seminar, followed by a keynote lecture and faculty-led discussion. The research and discussion agenda probes the limits of contemporary science and technology, investigates the modern capacity to standardize, control, and manipulate life at the molecular level, and discusses the challenges, both historical and contemporary, to moral and ethical perceptions in the public's understanding of nature and living processes. Participants will engage seriously with issues of concern about the environment and living processes. 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 its cycles. Participants will thereby encounter new ideas, fresh intellectual frameworks, and new documentary sources, all readily transferrable. Participants will become familiar with different modes of scientific thought across historical time and in different cultures and geographical regions.