Epigenetic Landscapes and Social Configurations - Concepts, Cases and Challenges
With this workshop, EpiCenter and Interacting Minds Centre invite geneticists, biologists, epidemiologists, anthropologists, and other interested to explore the interface between epigenetic landscapes and social configurations. We invite you to bring along cases, concepts, and challenges from your field.
Info about event
Time
Location
Aarhus, Interacting Minds Centre, Nobelparken, Jens Chr. Skous Vej 4, building 1483-3
Organizer
EpiCenter & Interacting Minds Centre
The reappreciation of epigenetic landscapes opens for new biological dynamics in the intergenerational transfer of dispositions. This may allow for a new rapprochement between sociological and biological understandings of habits and traits, but at least for now, it also raises a number of potential conceptual and methodological challenges at the interface between these.
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Programme Thursday, January 9th
09.15: Introduction, Andreas Roepstorff, Interacting Minds Centre, AU
Concepts
09.30: Freddy Bugge Christiansen, Bioinformatics Research Center (BiRC): Epigenetic variation, phenotypic heritability, and evolution
10.15: Jörg Niewöhner, Humboldt Universität, Berlin: Contexts of genetic regulation – (what) can biology learn from anthropology and science and technology studies?
Coffee break
Cases
11.15: Zeynep Tümer, Copenhagen University: Mapping epigenetics
12:00: Michael Bang Petersen: Epigenetic Inheritance as an Evolved Mechanism for Social Learning
12.45-13.30: Lunch
13.30: Anders Lade Nielsen, Professor Epigenetics, Department of Biomedicine, Aarhus University: Epigenetics in Psychiatric Diseases
14.15: Des Fitzgerald, King’s College, London: Epigenic Return: Urban life and mental health between history and the present
Break
Challenges
15.30: Uffe Juul Jensen, Aarhus University: Medical epistemology and epigenetics
16.15: Davor Löffler, Free University, Berlin: Cultural Evolution and the Propagation of the Most Flexible
17.00: General discussion: Jens Seeberg, Epicenter, AU.
17.45: Reception
18.30: Speakers dinner
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Programme Friday, January 10th
09.30-12.00: Brain storm: Socio-epigenetic futures: trends, topics and research projects
12.00-13.00: Lunch
Abstracts for the scheduled talks can be downloaded here
The programme for the workshop can be downloaded here
Also, please see the Links section below for articles and literature relevant to the workshop theme.