Upcoming Events

Biological Futures Colloquium:
Anticipatory Governance of Emerging Technologies
David Guston (ASU)
Monday, Feb. 13, 2012
Communications 202

Biological Futures
Colloquium:
Biopolitics and Its Problems: A Genealogical Pragmatist Approach
Colin Koopman (Univ. of Oregon)
Monday, Feb. 27, 2012
Communications 202

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"Biological Futures Initiative Aims to Bring Larger Ethical Issues Into Non-Medical Science"

"Biological Futures in a Globalized World" Addresses Challenges Posed by Explosion of Biological Knowledge

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Biological Futures in a Globalized World is a cluster of projects hosted by the Simpson Center for the Humanities in partnership with the Center for Biological Futures (CBF) at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center and the Program on Values in Society (POV) at UW. Our goal is to develop an interdisciplinary network of scholars and scientists in order to foster better thinking about the dramatic growth in biological knowledge, its increasing use to manipulate living systems, and its consequent impact on human affairs.

Biological Futures projects include:

• a research consortium in the summers of 2011 and 2012
• a biweekly colloquium series and visiting speakers
• graduate seminars on biological futures topics
• The Research Ethics Project - a resource survey and program of curriculum development on research ethics
• an integrated science, technology, and society studies web portal project.

Project Personnel:

• Alison Wylie (Philosophy and Anthropology) Principal Investigator, Biological Futures in a Globalized World
• Roger Brent (The Hutchinson Center) Director, Center for Biological Futures
• Brandon Morgan-Olsen, Research Associate, Biological Futures in a Globalized World
• Suzanne Long, Program Coordinator, Biological Futures in a Globalized World