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Experimental Subjects

Date: 14-15 January 2010 Time: 12.30 14 Jan - 17.00 15 Jan 2010

Venue: IAS Building MR2/3

Workshop 3: Experimental Subjects

14-15 Jan 2010

Institute for Advanced Studies, Lancaster University

Participants in this workshop will explore the different kinds of subjectivity and relations of power produced by different forms of experimentality. Themes will include:

'experimental subjects', such as subjects of clinical trials or of behaviourist-inspired public policy interventions;
the self as the site of self-experimentation in popular culture, alternative spirituality, performance art, and human resource discourses
the experimenter as a form of subjectivity in science, technology, and finance capital.

Speakers include

Celia Lury (Goldsmiths, University of London)
Emily Martin (New York University)
Alan Collins (Psychology, Lancaster University)
Paul Heelas (Religious Studies, Lancaster University)
David Healy (Director of the North Wales Department of Psychological Medicine, Cardiff University)
Kaushik Sunder Rajan (University of California, Irvine)

Event website: http://www.lancs.ac.uk/experimentality/

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Who can attend: Anyone