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

该奖项为来自美国学术机构的五名学生参与者和五名教师演讲者提供旅费和住宿费，以参加于2013年6月29日至7月6日在意大利那不勒斯动物园举行的生命科学历史和社会研究国际合作研讨会。研讨会的目的是发展对与生命和人工创造生命相关的伦理、文化和科学实践的深入理解。该研讨会将把来自欧洲、北美、近东、俄罗斯、南美和亚洲的研究生和博士后学者与国际专业教师名册联系起来。智力成就工作坊的参与者将参与与工作坊主题密切相关的STS和生命科学史中的基本伦理和社会问题，创造生命。该研讨会将培养出受过高等教育的科学历史学家，他们能够参与研究实验室制造的生活中出现的文化问题。与会者将深入讨论研讨会核心主题的六个方面，从早期关于古代生命产生的概念到世界各地试图人工创造生命的最新研究项目，无论是自下而上地通过设计和构建分子构建块，还是自上而下地从创建整个基因组开始。会议以高度集中的研讨会形式安排，通过主题演讲辅助选定主题的深入讨论，然后是教师主导的讨论。研讨会还将有助于促进生物学研究历史这一重要领域的专业网络的发展。更广泛的影响本研究议程将探索当代科学技术的极限，研究在分子水平上标准化、控制和操纵生命的能力，并讨论对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。研讨会直接涉及公众感兴趣的话题，科学与社会的互动得到了高度的体现。国际层面在帮助就不同国家关于生命和人工创造生命的伦理、法律和科学实践交流意见和信息方面也很重要。

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.