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

一般观众摘要这个奖项是为了表彰将于2017年夏季6月25日至7月1日期间举办的生命科学历史和社会研究研讨会。研讨会计划在意大利那不勒斯的Stazione Zoologica研究所举行，该研究所致力于生物学基础研究。资金将用于资助来自美国机构的五名学生参与者和五名教师参与者参加一个国际合作研讨会的旅费和食宿。2017年讲习班的主题是“生命的循环”。“生命周期”这一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、文化和科学实践的高级理解，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次讲习班；它是生命科学历史和社会研究领域杰出的国际互动和专业提高的良好论坛。研讨会仅限10名教职员工和25名学生参加。它明确地促进了年轻研究人员之间新的国际网络的建立，这些研究人员通常不会有联系。研讨会没有发表会议记录的计划，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一个高度集中的讨论研讨会，随后是一个主题讲座和由教员主导的讨论。研究和讨论议程探讨了当代科学技术的局限性，调查了现代在分子水平上规范、控制和操纵生命的能力，并讨论了公众在理解自然和生活过程中对道德和伦理观念的挑战，无论是历史上的还是当代的。与会者将认真讨论有关环境和生活过程的关切问题。国际层面在协助交流关于生命及其周期这一主题的不同国家伦理、法律和科学做法的意见和信息方面也很重要。因此，参与者将接触到新的想法、新的知识框架和新的纪录片来源，所有这些都是可以随时转移的。参与者将熟悉跨越历史时代、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.