Icelandic Scandals: deCODE Genetics and Other Tales of Excess and Bankruptcy. This presentation uses deCODE Genetics and its operations in Iceland as an index of the science and political economy of genomics, and the international political economy more broadly, from the late 1990s to the present. It tracks deCODE's evolution from incorporation ...
Creator:
Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:
Fortun, Michael
Created:
2009-04-16
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Icelandic Scandals: deCODE Genetics and Other Tales of Excess and Bankruptcy. This presentation uses deCODE Genetics and its operations in Iceland as an index of the science and political economy of genomics, and the international political economy more broadly, from the late 1990s to the present. It tracks deCODE's evolution from incorporation ...
Creator:
Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:
Fortun, Michael
Created:
2009-04-16
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Eric Avila talks to Peter Shea about the place of the city in the American cultural imagination, its relationship to social identity, the early construction of highways, and the development of urban planning as a science.
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Avila, Eric
Created:
2009-04-14
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
The Green New Deal. In the wake of the financial crisis, the question of a global insurer of last resort has once again moved centre stage. If brought into effect, such an authority would not only be responsible for underwriting accidents, both meteorological and financial, but also for ensuring the credibility of investments in the earth's futu...
Creator:
Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:
Cooper, Melinda
Created:
2009-04-14
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
The Green New Deal. In the wake of the financial crisis, the question of a global insurer of last resort has once again moved centre stage. If brought into effect, such an authority would not only be responsible for underwriting accidents, both meteorological and financial, but also for ensuring the credibility of investments in the earth's futu...
Creator:
Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:
Cooper, Melinda
Created:
2009-04-14
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
The Optimal Sacrifice: A Study of Voluntary Death among the Siberian Chukchi. The voluntary death of a person, who -- often due to illness and old age -- requests to die at the hands of close relatives, has traditionally been explained as a form of suicide, resulting from the harsh living conditions in the Siberian North. This paper suggests an ...
Creator:
Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:
Willerslev, Rane
Created:
2009-04-13
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
The Optimal Sacrifice: A Study of Voluntary Death among the Siberian Chukchi. The voluntary death of a person, who -- often due to illness and old age -- requests to die at the hands of close relatives, has traditionally been explained as a form of suicide, resulting from the harsh living conditions in the Siberian North. This paper suggests an ...
Creator:
Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:
Willerslev, Rane
Created:
2009-04-13
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Guillaume Boccara talks to Peter Shea about his experience living and researching in France and Chile, and the struggle for recognition and rights of indigenous and marginalized people in each place.
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Boccara, Guillaume
Created:
2009-04-12
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Michael Fortun talks to Peter Shea about his work doing oral history/anthropology of ongoing scientific enterprises. Fortun is concerned to convey the messiness and í±humanityí¬ of science, in a public climate in which scientific inquiry is often held up as a model of fairly simple, clear rational procedure. Fortun gives an account of his in...
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Fortun, Michael
Created:
2009-04-10
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.