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Auf diesen CfP darf ich aufmerksam machen:<br>
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<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://global.rice.edu/pariscenter/about/engineering-life-cfp">https://global.rice.edu/pariscenter/about/engineering-life-cfp</a><br>
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<h2 class="text-align-center">"Engineering Life: Regulating
Science, Risks, and Society in Europe"</h2>
<h3>Paris, France<br>
June 14 - 16, 2023</h3>
<p class="title"><strong>Workshop Organisers:</strong></p>
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<li style="margin-left:8px">Luis Campos, Rice University (US)</li>
<li style="margin-left:8px">Francesco Cassata, Università di
Genova (IT)</li>
<li style="margin-left:8px">Christina Brandt,
Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena (DE)</li>
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<p class="title"><strong>Workshop Information:</strong></p>
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<li style="margin-left:8px">Contact: <a
href="mailto:asilomar@rice.edu" rel="noopener"
target="_blank" class="moz-txt-link-freetext">asilomar@rice.edu</a></li>
<li style="margin-left:8px">Proposal submissions by March 8,
2023</li>
<li style="margin-left:8px">Notifications by March 15, 2023</li>
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<h3>Background</h3>
<p class="discover">"Debating the ethics of human interference
with the mechanics of evolution in a church at the edge of the
immense saline test tube where it all started: Rarely does one
find one’s metaphors so cheap—or so apt.” So began an infamous
Rolling Stone article summarizing the historic International
Conference on Recombinant DNA Molecules held in February 1975.
Convened by the world’s molecular biologists, the meeting was
intended as a technical gathering to assess means of
minimizing the risk of potential biohazards involved with
novel recombinant DNA techniques before these had been fully
developed (and before much was known about them), in order to
lift a temporary and voluntary moratorium. The “Asilomar”
meeting, as it came to be known, drew over a hundred
scientists from around the world (as well as four lawyers) to
hash out the potentials of the novel recombinant DNA
technology—all while being observed by sixteen journalists, a
new feature for a scientific conference.</p>
<p class="discover">Nearly fifty years on now, the contested
meanings of this landmark event in the history of science
policy are ripe for reconsideration, and highlight important
transnational issues. While in the US it was the National
Institutes of Health that took an advisory role, in Europe it
was specific bodies and institutions within each country—as
well as the newly founded European Molecular Biology
Organization—that established committees to advise on national
policies and the building of specially designed laboratories
for recombinant DNA work. Moreover, in the half-century since
Asilomar, scientists, scholars, and policymakers alike have
debated whether “Asilomar” was a paradigmatic or exemplary
event; recounted how it unfolded and what it all meant for
laboratory protocols, research agendas, scientific governance,
and for society at large; and also questioned whether “another
Asilomar” meeting was necessary to deal with the emergence of
newer techniques in biotechnology. (Today, “Asilomar” is
routinely invoked in a variety of other fields ranging from
geoengineering to artificial intelligence and machine
learning.)</p>
<p class="discover">In preparation for the fiftieth anniversary
of Asilomar, we propose to activate a network of scholars and
students across the United States and Europe to reconsider
this seminal event in the history of science and science and
technology policy. A related but separate event on the
American legacies of Asilomar will be organised and hosted in
Houston in May. This June event in Paris aims to convene a
group of expert scholars at the Rice Global Paris Center to
study the legacies and spirit of Asilomar and its implications
for the development of science policy in Europe.</p>
<h3>Submissions</h3>
<p class="title">Submissions related to the following topics
would be favorably received:</p>
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<li style="margin-left:8px">science policies in Europe
developed in the wake of Asilomar</li>
<li style="margin-left:8px">histories of genetic engineering
in Europe</li>
<li style="margin-left:8px">radical science and political
activism in Europe related to emerging technologies of life</li>
<li style="margin-left:8px">changing notions of “risk” in the
life sciences in Europe from the 1970s to today</li>
<li style="margin-left:8px">the “myth” of Asilomar in
contemporary bioethics and biotechnology</li>
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<p class="discover">Please send a title and abstract of no more
than 300 words, along with a short biography or one page CV,
to <a href="mailto:asilomar@rice.edu" rel="noopener"
target="_blank" class="moz-txt-link-freetext">asilomar@rice.edu</a>
by March 8, 2023. Notification of acceptances will be given by
March 15, 2023.</p>
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