[spsp-members] Workshop and Public Talk: Values at Sea - Science Studies meets Marine Biology

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Workshop and Public Talk - Science Studies and Marine Biology - University
of Exeter/Online - 27-28th April 2023.

In April the University of Exeter's Egenis Centre for the Study of Life
Sciences will host a free interdisciplinary marine workshop bringing
together scientists and scholars from history, philosophy and social studies
of science. This will also include a public talk by Prof. Stefan Helmreich
(MIT). Both the workshop and public talk will also be streamed online. See
below for more information and registration. Please contact Elis Jones
(erj205 at exeter.ac.uk <mailto:erj205 at exeter.ac.uk> ) if you have any
questions. 

 

Workshop: Values at Sea - Science Studies meets Marine Biology 

27-28th April, University of Exeter and via Zoom. Registration and more info
here https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/523035532357

 

Description:

Across many disciplines, attention is increasingly focused on the sea. This
is no surprise: it is a site of immense value, supporting and shaping the
global biosphere, and is under considerable threat. Whilst ocean ecosystems
are pushed to the brink, scholars now often talk of the blue humanities and
oceanic turns, of blue economics and accelerations, and of ocean decades.
These trends necessitate a similar refocusing towards the sea in the
history, philosophy, and social studies of science, fields that are well
placed to help understand and contextualise some of the changes occurring to
marine systems. To facilitate the emergence of social studies of marine
life, as well as the integration of such scholarship with biological and
ecological research, this two-day seminar will bring together people engaged
in and focused on interactions between scientists and the sea. The
discussion will centre on values in marine contexts: that is, the ways in
which oceans and ocean life come to matter to humans and other species.

By bringing together those working within marine sciences, those studying
the work done in those sciences, and those offering other perspectives on
the sea, we aim to nurture and strengthen cross-disciplinary understandings
of how the ocean is, has been, and can be valued. Speakers from ecology and
social sciences will present work on the biology and ecology of the sea and
its interactions with people, as well as from science studies to discuss how
knowledge and value are produced in these contexts. For more information see
www.marinesciencestudies.co.uk <http://www.marinesciencestudies.co.uk> 

This event is supported by South West Doctoral Training Partnership
<https://www.swdtp.ac.uk/> , Marie Skłodowska-Curie Action 885794
<https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/885794> , the Egenis Centre for the
Study of Life Sciences <https://sociology.exeter.ac.uk/research/sts/egenis/>
and History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences
<https://www.springer.com/journal/40656> .

 

 

Public Talk: Ocean Waves, Ocean Science, Ocean Media - Prof. Stefan
Helmreich, MIT

28th April, 9:30-11:00am, University of Exeter and via Zoom. Register here
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/522142531367

 

Description: 

How do oceanographers apprehend ocean waves? This presentation draws on
anthropological work I undertook among wave scientists in the United States
to argue that what oceanographers take ocean waves to be has been strongly
imprinted by the techniques, technologies, and media - maritime,
photographic, filmic, information theoretic - through which waves have come
to be known. I offer an account of ethnographic fieldwork I conducted on
board the Floating Instrument Platform (FLIP), a seagoing vessel managed by
the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, in La Jolla, California. FLIP is a
singular vessel, one that, once at sea, can "flip" 90 degrees into a
vertical position -with all the instrumentation inside swiveling
correspondingly-to become a stable platform from which to measure wave
action. Moving from an examination of the contemporary use of infrared and
laser imaging to study waves from FLIP, I place the platform within a longer
history of wave science, reaching back into the Cold War, when ocean
observation projects were conditioned by nuclear-age American maritime
expansion, particularly in the Pacific. I then flip to the recent present,
as scientists turn from understanding waves not only as a kind of
infrastructure for maritime networks, but also as avatars of anthropogenic
climate change. For more information see www.marinesciencestudies.co.uk
<http://www.marinesciencestudies.co.uk> 

This event is supported by South West Doctoral Training Partnership
<https://www.swdtp.ac.uk/> , Marie Skłodowska-Curie Action 885794
<https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/885794> , the Egenis Centre for the
Study of Life Sciences <https://sociology.exeter.ac.uk/research/sts/egenis/>
and History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences
<https://www.springer.com/journal/40656> .

 

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