Event overview
Part of the Centre of the Body programme of events - 'Exploring the Body: Interdisciplinarity in Practice'
How should or might we respond as scholars of the humanities to the rising prominence of the neurosciences? Does this open up the opportunity for collaboration and if so, what kinds of collaboration might be possible? If the humanities are undergoing a critical re-appraisal of the sciences (particularly in light of the 'affective turn'), what might be some of the problems and possibilities of such a rapprochement?
NIKOLAS ROSE is Professor of Sociology and Head of the Department of Social Science, Health and Medicine at King's College. He had previous professorships at Goldsmiths and LSE where he also was Director of the BIOS Centre for the Study of Bioscience, Biomedicine, Biotechnology and Society.
Nikolas Rose was trained as a biologist before switching to psychology and then to sociology. He was a founding editor of two influential radical journals in the 1970s and 1980s – Ideology and Consciousness (I&C), which played a key role in introducing French post-structuralist critical thought to an English speaking audience, and Politics and Power which sought to develop a new approach to political analysis and strategy. He founded the History of the Present Research Network, an international network of researchers influenced by the writings of Michel Foucault; together with Paul Rabinow, he edited the Fourth Volume of Foucault's Essential Works. From 1996 to 2004 he was managing editor of Economy and Society, one of Britain's leading scholarly interdisciplinary journals of social sciences and he remains an active member of the Editorial Board. He is co-editor of BioSocieties: an interdisciplinary journal for social studies of the life sciences.
Nikolas Rose has published widely on the social and political history of the human sciences, on the genealogy of subjectivity, on the history of empirical thought in sociology, on law and criminology, and on changing rationalities and techniques of political power. His books include The Psychological Complex: Psychology, Politics and Society in England, 1869-1939 (Routledge, 1984), Governing the Soul: The Shaping of the Private Self (Routledge, 1989, Second Edition, Free Association Press, 1999), Inventing Our Selves: Psychology, Power and Personhood (Cambridge University Press, 1996), Powers of Freedom: Reframing Political Thought (Cambridge University Press, 1999) and The Politics of Life Itself: Biomedicine, Power, and Subjectivity in the Twenty-First Century(Princeton University Press, 2006). His most recent book, written with Peter Miller, is Governing The Present (Polity Press, 2008). His new book, Neuro, written with Joelle Abi-Rached, is about to be published by Princeton University Press. His work has been translated into Chinese, Danish, German, French, Finnish, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Spanish and Swedish.
LISA BLACKMAN is a Reader in the Department of Media and Communications at Goldsmiths. She works at the intersection of body studies and media and cultural theory. She is the editor of the journal Body & Society (Sage) and co-editor of Subjectivity (with Valerie Walkerdine, Palgrave). She has published four books: Immaterial Bodies: Affect, Embodiment, Mediation (2012, Sage/TCS); The Body: The Key Concepts (2008, Berg); Hearing Voices: Embodiment and Experience (2001, Free Association Books); Mass Hysteria: Critical Psychology and Media Studies (with Valerie Walkerdine, 2001, Palgrave). She teaches courses which span critical media psychology, affect studies, embodiment and body studies, and experimentation in the context of art/science. She is particularly interested in phenomena which have puzzled scientists, artists, literary writers and the popular imagination for centuries, including automaticity, voice hearing, suggestion and telepathy. She is currently collaborating with two cognitive neuroscientists on a project called, ‘Creative Experimentation: Affect, Automaticity, Mediation’ - an arts, humanities, science collaboration.
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24 Jan 2013 | 6:00pm - 8:00pm |
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