PROGRAMME
Thursday, 26th March
Friday, 27th March
9:00-9:15 // Arrival and registration
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9:15-9:30 // Opening comments
Ann-Christin Fischer, Sergei Shekchenko, Vera Straetmanns & Jan Baedke
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9:30-11:00 Session 1:
Race and Human Diversity
(Chair: Sergei Shevchenko, RUB)
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Abigail Nieves Delgado (Utrecht University) and Jan Baedke (RUB):
Beyond Race: Rethinking Population Descriptors in Biomedicine
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Phila M. Msimang (Stellenbosch University):
Is Diversity Higher? Against the Superficial Inclusion of Racial and Ethnic Groups in Biomedical and Clinical Research
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11:00-11:30 // Coffee/tea
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11:30-12:15 Session 2:
Diverse Bodies in Medicine
(Chair: Jan Baedke, RUB)
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Ann-Christin Fischer (RUB):
From Pain to Knowledge: Endometriosis Patients as Epistemic Agents
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12:15-14:30 // Lunch & walk through botanical garden
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14:30-16:00 Session 2 continued:
Diverse Bodies in Medicine
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Sophia Wagemann (Charité Berlin):
Hormones, Drug Reactions, and Diversity: Concepts of the Body in West-German Medical Research, 1960s–1980s
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Session 3:
Diverse Ecologies in Soil and Society
(Chair: Vera Straetmanns, RUB)
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César Marín (Santo Tomas University, Chile):
Soil Biodiversity: A Lot of Data, Little Theory
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16:00-16:15 // Coffee/tea
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16:15-17:00 Session 3 continued:
Diverse Ecologies in Soil and Society
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Raphael Uchôa (Museu de Astronomia e Ciências Afins & Universidade de Coimbra):
Entangled Bio-Social Diversity: Rethinking the Amazon Under Extractive Hegemonies
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19:00 // Dinner
9:00-10:30 Session 4:
Epistemic Diversity and Occlusion​
(Chair: Ann-Christin Fischer, RUB)
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David Ludwig (Wageningen University & Research):
When Diversity is Not Enough: The Transgressive Potential of Scientific Pluralism
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Dunja Šešelja (RUB):
Expert Judgment and Epistemic Diversity
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10:30-11:00 // Coffee/tea
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11:00-11:45 Session 4 continued:
Epistemic Diversity and Occlusion
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Abraham Tobi (University of Montreal):
Epistemic Occlusion in Healthcare
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11:45-13:30 // Lunch
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13:30-15:00 Session 5: Ecological Diversity
(Chair: Jan Baedke, RUB)
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Sergei Shevchenko (RUB):
Temporal Extensions of Biodiversity Research: The Paradox of the Plankton as a Turning Point
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Tina Heger (Technical University Munich):
The EcoWeaver Project: Accommodating Ecological Diversity, Diverse Forms of Knowledge and Diverse User Perspectives
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15:00-15:15 // Coffee/tea
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15:15-16:00 // Final Discussion