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ABSTRACTS for Session: Acting with Social Sciences and Humanities at 4S/EASST Joint Meeting Rotterdam 2008

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SESSION I: IMPACTS, USES AND POLITICS
SATURDAY, 23 AUG 2008 1st Sessions: 8:30 ? 10:30
Room: T3-05

Welcome and Introduction

Milena Bister (Vienna) ? Enacting Informed Consent through Social Science Research
Carolyn Dunn (Melbourne) ? Making Sense of Social Research in Forestry
Ursula Plesner (Roskilde) ? Studying sideways ? reflexivity in research interviews with sociologists and journalists
Louise Philips (Roskilde) ? Communicating Social Scientific Knowledge Dialogically: An Integrative Approach

Maarten Derksen (Groningen) ? Machines and machinations, part 2

Discussion

SESSION II: (PERFORMATIVITY OF) METHODS AND COMPLICITY
SATURDAY, 23 AUG 2008 2nd Sessions: 11:00 ? 12:40
Room: T3-20

Katja Mayer (Vienna) ? Social Network Diagrammatics
Peter Stegmaier (Nijmegen) ? Embedded Observation between (Re-) Construction and (Re-) Conceptualisation of Organised Visions
Veronika Wöhrer (Vienna) ? Complicity and Ambivalence. Questioning the Boundaries of a Research Field
Astrid Mager (Vienna) - Acting with the Web. How to handle Multiplicity in the Context of Online Health Information
John Law (Lancaster) - Collateral Realities /cancelled
Discussion

SESSION III: INTER-DISCIPLINES
SATURDAY, 23 AUG 2008 3rd Sessions: 13:30 ? 15:30
Room: T3-05

Alice ?ervinková and Tereza Stöckelová (Praha) ? Inter/disciplinarity in social sciences: Distributed sociology and boundary subjects

Stefan Dormans (Amsterdam) ? Social-technological aspects of collaboratory projects in social and economic history

Conor Douglas (York) ? Reflexive Engagement of the Social Sciences Component of Multidisciplinary Health Research: The Case of Pharmacogenetics

Thomas König (Vienna) ? Historical research on Social sciences and What We Can Learn from It

Javier Lezaun (Oxford) ? Underground Skills: The Socio-Technical System in the Other Tradition
Discussion

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