Practicing Evidence – Evidencing Practice How is (Scientific) Knowledge Validated, Valued and Contested?

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Practicing Evidence – Evidencing Practice How is (Scientific) Knowledge Validated, Valued and Contested?

Veranstalter
DFG Research Group 2448: Practicing Evidence – Evidencing Practice.
Veranstaltungsort
Carl Friedrich von Siemens Stiftung, Südliches Schloßrondell 23 80638 München
Ort
Munich
Land
Deutschland
Vom - Bis
19.02.2020 - 21.02.2020
Deadline
17.02.2020
Website
Von
Sarah Ehlers, TUM

From February 19th-21st 2020, the DFG research group “Evidence Practices” is hosting an international conference “Practicing Evidence – Evidencing Practice. How is (Scientific) Knowledge Validated, Valued and Contested?” at the Carl Friedrich von Siemens Stiftung, Munich.

This conference will bring together international scholars from the history and sociology of science, technology and medicine, science and technology studies, media and communication studies, political science, architecture, economics, philosophy, literary studies, and anthropology. The event includes a pre-conference workshop, presenting works in progress around the question of evidence.

We aim to discuss research trends, to identify promising new questions, and to encourage international networking across disciplines, field boundaries, and national borders. Among the questions we seek to explore are: What counts (or does not count) as evidence in a given (disciplinary, practical or historical) context? How does this affect epistemic and social practices? How do evidence practices change over time? What happens to practices of evidence when established knowledge is challenged? What is the role of evidence-based knowledge in neoliberal, democratic and knowledge-based societies? How does the wider public react to (scientific) crises of evidence and the perceived blurring of boundaries between fact and opinion?

We are happy to have two distinguished scholars of the history and sociology of science and technology, Angela Creager (Princeton University) and Harry Collins (Cardiff University), as keynote speakers.

As the number of places are limited, please email our administrator Victoria Woollven by Monday, Feb 17 2020 for registration: victoria.woollven@tum.de

Further information and the full program can be found at:
https://tinyurl.com/evidence-conference

Programm

Wednesday 19.02.2020
PRE-CONFERENCE WORKSHOP

09:30 – 10:00 WELCOME
Karin Zachmann, Sarah Ehlers, Stefan Esselborn

10:00 – 11:30 PANEL 1 AND PANEL 2
PANEL 1: EVIDENCE FOR PLANNING
Mod.: Sascha Dickel, Andreas Wenninger Wiebke Petsch (Goethe Universität Frankfurt, Germany): Forensic architecture – Practices of truth-making at the intersection of aesthetic and scientific knowledge production
Nadia Alaily-Mattar (TUM, Germany): On the (im)possibility of identifying the evidence base of the impact of star architecture projects
PANEL 2: EVIDENCE IN THE MEDIA
Mod.: Susanne Kinnebrock, Helena Bilandzic Max Long (Cambridge University, UK): Natural History on the Airwaves: the BBC and its interwar audiences
Annegret Scheibe (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany): Image of/as evidence - Visual evidence in forensic crime series

Coffee Break

12:00 – 13:30 PANEL 3 AND PANEL 4
PANEL 3: EVIDENCE IN COURT
Mod.: Karin Zachmann, Stefan Esselborn Uponita Mukherjee (Columbia University, USA): Of Bodies, Bottles, Boxes and Spirits: policemen, doctors and 'admissible' legal evidence in British India, 1870-1900
Lara Bergers (Utrecht University, Netherlands): Forensic Knowledge in Practice. On the (re)creation of forensic knowledge(s) in rape and murder investigations in The Netherlands, 1930-1988
Pauline Dirven (Utrecht University, Netherlands): Sites of Forensic Drama: performances of forensic expertise in court, crime fiction, and news media, England 1930-2000
PANEL 4: EVIDENCE FOR GOVERNANCE
Mod.: Sabine Maasen, Anton Schröpfer Tim Seitz (TU Berlin, Germany): Governing through behavioral experiments. An ethnography of behavioral governmental practices
Laura Stielike (Universität Osnabrück, Germany): Big Data, Migration Governance and the Production of Knowledge

Lunch Break

14:30 – 16:00 PANEL 5 AND PANEL 6
PANEL 5: EVIDENCE FROM BONES
Mod. Ruth Müller, Sarah Ehlers Naama Kopelman (Holon Institute of Technology, Israel ) & Noa Sophie Kohler (Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Israel): Under the Influence. Genetic Evidence Between Methodology, Technology, and Narrative
Patrick Anthony (Vanderbilt University, USA): Politics and Paleontology: interpreting fossil evidence in the Age of Revolution
PANEL 6: EVIDENCE FOR INNOVATIONS
Mod.: Christine Haßauer John Lidwell-Durnin (University of Oxford, UK): Field experiments: evidence, plants, and the production of consensus in agriculture, 1789-1848
Maja Korolija (University of Belgrade, Serbia): Scientific Practice in Yugoslavia: from Marxism-Leninism to self-managed Socialism

Coffee Break

16:30 – 18:00 PANEL 7 AND 8
PANEL 7: EVIDENCE AND VIOLENCE
Mod.: Helmuth Trischler, Fabienne Will Sonja Dolinsek (Universität Erfurt, Germany): "Evidence”, law and global knowledge in the 1959 United Nations. Study on the traffic in persons and prostitution
Salman Hussain (University of Massachusetts, USA): Ethnographic Objects: the politics of truth and evidence in the ‘Missing Persons’ cases in Pakistan

PANEL 8: EVIDENCE AND ETHICS
Mod.: Mariacarla Gadebusch Bondio, Tommaso Bruni Alexander Schniedermann (DZHW Hannover, Germany): On top of the hierarchy: evidence practices and practicing evidence of systematic reviews in biomedicine
Anna Apostolidou (Panteion University of Social and Political Sciences, Greece): Research-based fictional ethnography: representational accuracy and the predicament of evidence

18:30 – 19:30 OPENING KEYNOTE SPEECH
To test or not to test? Science and evidence in environmental regulation
Angela Creager, Princeton University, USA

20:00 DINNER
 
Thursday, 20.02.2020
CONFERENCE

09:00
Conference Welcome by the Dean of the TUM School of Education Kristina Reiss
INTRODUCTORY SESSION Karin Zachmann, Sarah Ehlers

09:30 – 11:00 PANEL 1: EVIDENCE FOR EPISTEMOLOGIES
Chair: Karin Zachmann, Comment: Wolfgang König Joseph Freedman (Alabama State University, USA): Evidence and the Scientific Method as understood in academic Philosophy during the 16th, 17th, and early 18th centuries
Ute Deichmann (Ben-Gurion University of Negev, Israel Data, theory, and scientific belief in early molecular biology): Pauling's and Crick's conflicting notions about the genetic determination of protein synthesis and the solution to the 'secret of life'
Adelheid Voskuhl (University of Pennsylvania, USA): Engineering evidence and technological practices in the second Industrial Revolution

Coffee Break

11:30 – 13:00 PANEL 2: EVIDENCE FOR POLICY
Chair: Sascha Dickel, Comment: Ruth Müller
Anja Bauer (Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt, Austria): Proliferation, Networks and Opening: changing evidence practices in modelling for policy
Steffen Krämer (Berlin): Separating urgency and validation – A comparative reading of humanitarian mapping and disease surveillance
Kari Lancaster (University of New South Wales, Australia; London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, UK): ‘Evidence-making intervention’: new ways to think about evidence, policy and interventions in health

Lunch Break

14:00 – 15:30 KEYNOTE SPEECH:
Evidence and expertise in pluralist democracies
Harry Collins, Cardiff University, UK
Coffee Break
16:00 – 17:30 PANEL 3: NARRATIVE EVIDENCE
Chair: Jutta Roosen, Comment: Mariacarla Gadebusch Bondio Christiane Arndt (Queen‘s University, Canada): Practicing evidence by visual narration in the historic Anti-Vaccine movement
Helena Bilandzic and Susanne Kinnebrock (University of Augsburg, Germany): Narratives as evidencing practice in the science coverage of genomic research
Jill Hobbs (University of Saskatchewan, Canada): Communicating novel food technologies through narratives: evidence from a Canadian consumer survey

18:00 – 19:30 PANEL 4: COMMUNICATING EVIDENCE
Chair: Susanne Kinnebrock, Comment: Sabine Maasen
Sebastian Scholz (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Netherlands): Media of ‘Making-Evident’: epistemic images and the ‘problem’ of inscription
Alysse Kushinski (Université de Montréal, Canada): Charting course: rendering, evidencing and mediating data
Dana Wilson-Kovacs (University of Exeter, UK): Practices of evidence production in digital forensics

20:00 DINNER

Friday, 21.02.2020

09:00 -10:30 PANEL 5: MATERIAL EVIDENCE
Chair: Fabienne Will, Comment: Stefan Esselborn
Willemijn Ruberg (Utrecht University, Netherlands): Psychoanalysis and the practice of forensic psychiatry in the Netherlands, 1930-1960
Yi Lu (Harvard University, USA): The Dustbin of History: archives as Material Evidence
Julia Rodriguez (University of New Hampshire, USA): No “Mere Accumulation of Material”: land as evidence in Early Americanist Anthropology

Coffee Break

11:00 -12:30 PANEL 6: ALTERNATIVE EVIDENCE
Chair: Helmuth Trischler, Comment: Sarah Ehlers Sarah Blacker (York University, Canada): Adjudicating What Counts as ‘Sound Science’: practices of rendering data into evidence in Canadian Environmental Science
Yunus D. Telliel (Worcester Polytechnic Institute, USA): Science, Religion, and the Practice of Evidence-seeking
Eliza Vianna (Federal Institute of Alagoas, Brazil): When patients mobilize evidences: activism and the production of knowledge on AIDS in Brazil

12:30 – 13:30 CLOSING DISCUSSION
Karin Zachmann, Sascha Dickel

13:30 Lunch

Kontakt

Sarah Ehlers

Technische Universität München

sarah.ehlers@tum.de