Mervi Heikkinen (Universidad de Oulu) participará en el grupo de trabajo «Ciencia, Tecnología y Sociedad» en las Westermarck Society’s annual Sociology Days 2021. La conferencia de 2021 se celebrará los días 11 y 12 de marzo en la Universidad de Helsinki, en parte de forma virtual y en parte presencial, según las circunstancias.
El grupo de trabajo abarcará una amplia gama de temas interesantes y oportunos de los estudios de ciencia y tecnología:
Día 1 (11 de marzo):
- Expectations of safety in the discourse of autonomous vehicles; Tuisku Salonen, (VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland), Mika Nieminen (VTT), Nina Rilla (VTT)
- The Powers of Uncertainty in Telecare; Joni Jaakola (University of Turku)
- Care within everyday practices of meat eating; Outi Koskinen (University of Helsinki)
- Following Cellular Journeys: Morality and Ethics of Biogenetics in Tissue Donation; Ronja Tammi (University of Helsinki, Tampere University)
- The deficiency of human reproductive biology in fertility treatment practices; Elina Helosvuori (Tampere University)
- When craft kicks back: Embryo culture as knowledge production in the context of the transnational fertility industry; Riikka Homanen (Tampere University), Elina Helosvuori (Tampere University)
Día 2 (12 de marzo):
- Conceptualizations of gender and hormone-associated chronic pain in endometriosis and migraine; Maria Temmes (Asian University for Women) and Venla Oikkonen (Tampere University)
- The SAGA for the sustainable development – intersectional gender advancement in STEM; Mervi Heikkinen (University of Oulu) et al.
- The boundary-work of impact; Olli Tiikkainen (University of Helsinki)
- Faces of masking – an experimental take on metaphorical story telling in the pandemic process; Annerose Böhrer (University of Erlangen-Nürnberg), Marie-Kristin-Döbler (University of Thübingen), Heta Tarkkala (University of Helsinki)
- SARS-COV 2 and the probiotic turn; Giampietro Gobo (Università degli studi di Milano)
