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CFP: STS Approaches to Neuroscience Objects and Practices

DEADLINE MONDAY 15th MARCH   |   EASST conference in Trento Abstracts of no more than 500 words should be sent by email (following website instructions) by 2010 March 15th: http://events.unitn.it/en/easst010/abstract-submission

Symposium: Personhood in a Neurobiological Age

Brain, Self and Society | Final Symposium | 13 September 2010 | Venue:   The Wolfson Theatre, New Academic Building (NAB), LSE It seems that we have learned more about the brain in the last decade than over the previous millennia of human history. But to what extent are developments in the ‘new brain sciences’ [...]

CFP: “Loving the Machine: Human-Machine Relationships in Film and Television”

In the last century, the long-running discourse of human-machine relations extended to film and television depictions of struggles for power, intimacy, identity, or security. Potential social conflicts engendered by producing machines that operate in their own self-interest have been explored in films such as