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Wendy Kline, Dema G. Seelye Chair in the History of Medicine at Purdue University, is visiting the Science Stuides Colloquium Series. The Seminar is open for everyone!

  She received her Ph.D. from the University of California, Davis, in 1998. She is the author of several articles and two books: Bodies of Knowledge: Sexuality, Reproduction, and Women¡¯s Health in the Second Wave (University of Chicago Press, 2010) and Building a Better Race: Gender, Sexuality, and Eugenics from the Turn of the Century to the Baby Boom (University of California Press, 2001).

Professor Steve Bova is a Professor and Group Leader at the Prostate Cancer Research Center, Institute of Biosciences and Medical Technology, BioMediTech, University of Tampere and Fimlab Laboratories, Tampere University Hospital in Finland.

He will give a talk titled, 'Leveraging the evolutionary history of metastatic prostate cancer'.

Jaime Castro-Mondrag¨°n is a PhD student in Bioinformatics. The title of his talk is, 'Identification of Transcription Factors related to mammalian promoters with distal functions'.

Alan Love is an associate professor of philosophy at the University of Minnesota and the director of the Minnesota Center for Philosophy of Science. His research focuses on conceptual issues in biology.

Dr. Harald Binder, Professor, Institute of Medical Biostatistics, Epidemiology and Informatics, University Medical Center, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Germany, will present the lecture: 

"Two uses of stagewise regression: from landmarking in cancer patients to deep learning for SNPs".

 Eva Krick is visiting the Science Studies Colloquium Series. The seminar is open for everyone. 

Krick is guest researcher at ARENA from April 2015 to March 2017. She is Assistant Professor at the Department of Social Sciences at Humboldt University in Berlin.

Hot Topics in Liver MRI.

Carl-G?ran Heidegren, professor i sosiologi ved Lunds universitet kommer til Forum For Vitenskapsteori. Seminaret er ?pent for alle!

Carl-G?ran Heidegren, er forfatter av b?ker som Det moderna genombrottet i nordisk universitetsfilosofi 1860¨C1915 og Positivismstrider (2016).

Hepatic macrophage heterogeneity in liver diseases ¨C from pathogenesis to novel therapeutic strategies

Links Between Anger and Pain: The Role of Endogenous Opioids.

Vibeke Pihl is a sociologist, who holds a PhD in Medicine, Culture and Society. She is affiliated with the Centre for Medical Science and Technology Studies, University of Copenhagen.

Nancy Cartwright, Professor of Philosophy at the Department of Philosophy, University of Durham and at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD), is visiting the Science Studies Colloquium Series. The lecture is open for everyone.

 F?rsteamanuensis Svein Atle Sk?lev?g ved Universitetet i Bergen, kommer til Forum for Vitenskapsteori. Foredraget er ?pent for alle. 

Nick Hopwood, Department of History and Philosophy of Science,University of Cambridge, is visiting the Science Studies Colloquium Series. The lecture is open for everyone.

Richard Swedber professor at the Cornell University,department of Sociology is visiting the Science Studies Colloquium Series.  Before Cornell, he worked at the Department of Sociology at Stockholm University. Swedberg's main areas of interest are economic sociology, theorizing in social science, and classical sociological theories. He recently published The Art of Social Theory (2014).

The lecture is open for everyone. 

Genetic and environmental pathways to substance use and misuse.

Professor Geoffrey Bowker, UCI-Donald Bren School of Information & Computer Sciences, is visiting the Science Studies Colloquium Series. The Seminar is open for everyone.

Welcome to the opening of K.G. Jebsen Coeliac Disease Research Centre. The seminar is open to the public.

Will Wimsatt, Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at the University of Chicago, is visiting the Science Studies Colloquium Series. The Seminar is open for everyone. His work centers on the philosophy of the inexact sciences-biology, psychology, and the social sciences-the history of biology, and the study of complex systems.

The seminar has been cancelled due to personal circumstances. 

Torbj?rn Gundersen, stipendiat ved Senter for profesjonsstudier ved HiOA, kommer til Forum for vitenskapsteori. Han leverer i 2017 avhandlingen "Epistemiske og sosiale verdier i styring av vitenskap: En case-studie av norske klimaforskeres profesjonelle forst?else av forholdet mellom vitenskap og politikk". Seminaret er ?pent for alle. 

Hugh Raffles, professor of Anthropology at The New School for Social Research in New York, is visiting the Science Studies Colloquium Series. He will show a short film, followed by a conversation with John Law. John Law is Professor Emeritus at Open University UK; and fellow at Center for Advanced Study in Oslo, with the research group 'Arctic Domestication in the Era of the Anthropocene'.

The lecture is open for everyone.

PET ligands for imaging Alzheimer¡¯s disease ¨C neuropathological validation.