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20 November 2021
15:00 - 16:00

History of Science Society (HSS) Annual Meeting

Co-organisation of the panel "Forgotten Genealogies: Medical Genetics and the Emergence of Human Genomics" and talk by Miguel Garcia-Sancho: "Sequencing, Bibliometrics and History: A From Below Perspective on the Emergence of Human Genomics"
15 November 2021
15:30 - 16:30

STIS seminar presentation

On Monday 15th November, Miguel García-Sancho and James Lowe will present their work from the TRANSGENE project at the regular Science, Technology and Innovation Studies seminar series. Their presentation, 'Differentiating and historicising genomics: the value of mixed-methods and multi-species research', will explore the mixed-methods approach they have used throughout the project, and a selection of fruits from it.
08 October 2021
13:00 - 16:10

Society for Social Studies of Science (4S) annual meeting

James Lowe and Miguel Garcia-Sancho's contribution "Species, communities and the meaning of the genome" was selected for the open panel "Data-Based Biomedicine: Legacies, Frictions, Ontologies," organised by Luca Chiapperino, Nils Graber, and Francesco Panese from the University of Lausanne.
14 - 16 September 2021
13:00 - 16:30

Workshop "Trajectories of big data platforms: a multi-disciplinary and trans-domain approach"

We organised this international event as part of the conclusions of our project. James Lowe delivered the presentation 'Making sequence data genomic: species, communities and forms of organisation'. Miguel Garcia-Sancho introduced the workshop and made a final commentary on the proceedings. Jarmo de Vries contributed to chairing and took the lead in logistics and organisation.
09 September 2021
15:00 - 16:30

AsSIST-UK annual conference

Invited participation in a roundtable discussion on combining qualitative and computational methods in the social sciences
14 July 2021
15:00 - 16:30

Biennial meeting, ISHPSSB (International Society for the History, Philosophy and Social Studies of Biology)

James Lowe delivered the paper: "Differentiating the reference genome: Representation, abstraction and the exploration of variation in genomics and post‐genomic research"
05 - 07 May 2021
09:00 - 17:00

Philosophy of Plant Biology Workshop, University of Exeter

At this online conference, James Lowe presented a paper with David Ingram, titled: 'Ontological commitments and working worlds in plant DNA barcoding'
16 - 21 April 2021
17:00 - 19:00

"Molecular Lives" Seminar Series, University of Valencia

Miguel Garcia-Sancho delivered two invited talks:

"De la confederacion informal al G5 hegemonico: cartografias historicas de la genomica a finales del siglo XX"
["From the informal confederation to the hegemonic G5: historical cartographies of genomics at the fall of the 20th century"]

"Secuenciacion, bibliometria e historia: una aproximacion 'desde abajo' a la genomica humana"
["Sequencing, bibliometrics and history: a 'from below' approach to the emergence of human genomics"]
16 December 2020
15:00 - 17:00

Third National Colloquium of Social Studies of Sciences and Technologies (Colombia)

Miguel Garcia-Sancho was invited as plenary speaker. Title of talk: "Secuenciacion, bibliometria e historia: una vision desde abajo del desarrollo de la genomica humana" ("Sequencing, bibliometrics and history: a from below approach to the emergence of human genomics")
08 July 2020
12:00 - 13:00

BSHS Global Digital History of Science Festival

We will be hosting a symposium as part of the British Society for the History of Science's Global Digital History of Science Festival.
14 - 16 November 2019
16:00 - 14:00

Workshop "Cooperation and Competition in the Life Sciences", Ludwig-Maximilians University of Munich

Miguel Garcia-Sancho was invited to deliver the talk "Did the Human Genome Project exist? Historical cartographies of genomics at the fall of the twentieth century"
09 - 10 September 2019
13:00 - 15:30

Science, Technology and Innovation Studies: Critical Inquiries in Theory and Practice

Participation in this panel organised as part of the AsSIST-UK 2019 Conference, Manchester