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Responsible Innovation Lectures at Leiden University

On Thursday 5th and Monday 9th of December (2024), Bassetti Foundation correspondent Jonathan Hankins brought discussion about responsible innovation and sociotechnical imaginaries to Leiden University Institute of Cultural Anthropology and Development Sociology, as part of its Social Theories undergraduate course. Here his report: In December of 2024 I was given the opportunity to discuss responsible ... Responsible Innovation Lectures at Leiden University

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Future Food: Cristina Grasseni Kicks Off the Follow the Food Seminar Series

Thanks to an Incubator grant, Utrecht University (NL) is hosting the Follow the Food seminar series. The project is led by Martijn Huysmans (Utrecht School of Economics) and aims to trace the workings of the global food system by following several products with a so-called Geographical Indication (GI). In Follow the Cheese, the first of ... Future Food: Cristina Grasseni Kicks Off the Follow the Food Seminar Series

Nina Litsios

New directions in the anthropology of entrepreneurship: beyond social embeddedness

Long-time Bassetti Foundation collaborator Cristina Grasseni recently presented a paper at the European Association of Social Anthropology (EASA) conference in Barcelona, held between 18-26 July.  The conference theme was ‘Doing and Undoing with Anthropology’, with Grasseni participating in a full-day panel entitled New directions in the anthropology of entrepreneurship: beyond social embeddedness convened by Joost ... New directions in the anthropology of entrepreneurship: beyond social embeddedness

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Postdoctoral Researcher at Goethe University Frankfurt

The Research Training Group “Fixing Futures: Technologies of Anticipation in Contemporary Societies” in the Department of Social Sciences at Goethe University Frankfurt is offering to fill the position of a Postdoctoral Researcher. Building on recent scholarship in science and technology studies (STS), the Research Training Group “Fixing Futures” investigates how contemporary societies accommodate future developments ... Postdoctoral Researcher at Goethe University Frankfurt

Scarce Resources in a Pandemic: Intensive Care in times of COVID-19

Back in 2009 I reported on a Hastings Center publication entitled When Endemic Disparities Catch the Pandemic Flu: Echoes of Kubler-Ross and Rawls in which the author recounts experiences of participating in panels considering the clinical and ethical challenges posed by pandemic flu. Within the context of this series on COVID-19 the report makes interesting ... Scarce Resources in a Pandemic: Intensive Care in times of COVID-19

Jonathan Hankins

Five Open Questions about the Post Covid 19 World.

For the first time, humanity in its entirety is having to face glocal problems: a pandemic virus, the ecological survival of the planet, life with artificial intelligence, how to deal with the infinite space of the big bang. The historical role of those who inhabit our Earth is changing, as she no longer unconditionally agrees ... Five Open Questions about the Post Covid 19 World.

Piero Bassetti

In Response to ‘On policy choices by european countries during the 2020 Covid-19 outbreak’.

In his article ON POLICY CHOICES BY EUROPEAN COUNTRIES DURING THE 2020 COVID-19 OUTBREAK, Maurizio Bettiga proposes two opposing and contrasting (possible) policy justifications for the action taken to limit the spread of the Corona Virus across Europe: 1. fight the spread of the infection at all cost and prioritize every patient life over everything ... In Response to ‘On policy choices by european countries during the 2020 Covid-19 outbreak’.

Jonathan Hankins

ON POLICY CHOICES BY EUROPEAN COUNTRIES DURING THE 2020 COVID-19 OUTBREAK.

On March 11th, 2020, The World Health Organisation (WHO) has characterised COVID-19 as a pandemic. In its statement regarding this assessment, WHO has also clearly expressed its position regarding the fact that this is likely the very first pandemic that can be potentially controlled and, notwithstanding this, a number of countries in the World do ... ON POLICY CHOICES BY EUROPEAN COUNTRIES DURING THE 2020 COVID-19 OUTBREAK.

Maurizio Bettiga

What do epidemiologists do? Investigating a controversial symptomatology in Colombia

From May 2014 onwards the community of El Carmen de Bolivar, a municipality on the Caribbean Coast of Colombia, was hit by a mysterious outbreak with a very specific target: female teenagers. The symptoms, that from their first manifestation affected a growing numbers of girls, were general weakness, fainting, headaches, tachycardia, numbness in the extremities, ... What do epidemiologists do? Investigating a controversial symptomatology in Colombia

Maurizia Mezza

Uncertainty and disquiet

Discussion of the panel W098 of the EASA Conference 2012. Nanterre University, France, 10/07/2012 – 13/07/2012. The call for papers “Who is Responsible” has invited ethnographic reflections on the diverse meanings and use of a term, “responsibility” which “has become such a conspicuous terms in contemporary thought styles”, to highlight its salience in contemporary culture ... Uncertainty and disquiet

Cristina Grasseni

Vincent Lepinay on Mapping Controversies at MIT

Event: interview. Title: Vincent Lepinay on Mapping Controversies at MIT Date: 2012 01 30 Time: 8 min. Place: Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard University. Language: English. url Vimeo: http://vimeo.com/35529694 Post: Vincent Lepinay on Mapping Controversies at MIT. This is an interview to Prof. Vincent Lepinay carried out by Jonathan Hankins about the MIT Mapping ... Vincent Lepinay on Mapping Controversies at MIT

Cristina Grasseni
Jonathan Hankins
Vincent Lepinay

About the Anthropology of globalization

Questo blog si prefigge, per quanto non sistematicamente, di offrire spunti di riflessione e ricerca sulle reciproche relazioni tra pratica e riflessione antropologica e pratica e riflessione sull’innovazione, e in particolare sul problema della responsabilità dell’innovazione. Si tratta di una interconnessione non ovvia, scarsamente tematizzata. Tuttavia è possibile mappare alcuni contributi, anche e soprattutto ai ... About the Anthropology of globalization

Cristina Grasseni
Valentina Porcellana