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

一般观众摘要此奖项是为在生命科学的历史和社会研究的研讨会，将在2017年夏季，6月25日至7月1日之间举行。讲习班计划在意大利那不勒斯的动物学研究所举行，这是一个致力于生物学基础研究的研究所。资金将用于资助来自美国各机构的五名学生和五名教员参加国际合作讲习班的旅费和住宿费。2017年研讨会的主题是“生命周期”。主题“生命周期”涉及生命科学历史和社会研究中的基本问题。它将发展与“生命”主题相关的伦理，文化和科学实践的先进理解，并分析与现场和实验室中生命过程的周期性作用有关的科学工作。该研究所每两年举办15次研讨会;它是一个在生命科学的历史和社会研究方面进行特殊国际互动和专业提升的成熟论坛。研讨会限于十名教师和二十五名学生参与者。它明确促进通常不接触的年轻研究人员之间建立新的国际网络。目前没有计划出版研讨会论文集，但董事们积极鼓励个人发表文章或论文。技术总结研讨会包括一个高度集中的讨论研讨会，然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和技术的局限性，调查了现代标准化，控制和操纵分子水平上的生命的能力，并讨论了历史和当代的挑战，以公众对自然和生活过程的理解的道德和伦理观念。与会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，有助于就不同国家在生命及其周期问题上的伦理、法律的和科学实践交流意见和信息。因此，参与者将遇到新的想法，新的知识框架和新的文献来源，所有这些都很容易转移。与会者将熟悉不同的科学思维模式跨越历史时间，在不同的文化和地理区域。

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.