Technologies of Prediction
An international workshop on risk,
uncertainty and the management of
future health
19–20 April, 2016
Centro Studi sul Rischio (CSR), University of Salento, Lecce (IT)
https://www.unisalento.it/web/guest/453
Programme
April 19
Location: “Sala della Grottesca", presso il Rettorato - Università del Salento –
piazzetta Tancredi - 73100 Lecce - Italia
14:00
Welcome: Prof. De Giorgi & Prof. Ine Van Hoyweghen
14:15 – 16:00
First session: Finance and technologies of prediction
Chair: Turo-Kimmo Lehtonen
Liz McFall & Dave Moats: “Devising Wellbeing Markets: how wearables track,
marketise and financialise movement”
Gert Meyers: “Enacting personalisation in insurance as a way of
economizing/moralizing behaviour”
Elias Storms & Gert Verschraegen: “Reclaiming the future: counseling
problematic debt”
16:00 – 16:30
Coffee break
16:30 – 18:00
Second session: Economizing (future) health
Chair: Gert Verschraegen
Liina Sointu: “Active citizens, responsible parents: private health insurance for
children in the context of universal health care"
Annet Wauters: “Different ways of feeling responsible when carrying a BRCA
mutation”
Lotta Hautamäki: “Past, Present and Future in Psychiatric Diagnosis: how
clinicians and patients deal with diagnostic uncertainty”
19:30
Dinner
April 20
Location: “Sala della Grottesca", presso il Rettorato - Università del Salento –
piazzetta Tancredi - 73100 Lecce - Italia
10:00 – 12:00
Third session: Social (order) imaginaries and technologies of prediction
Chair: Stefano Magnolo
Jyri Liukko & Turo-Kimmo Lehtonen: “Five problematizations that structure
the insurantial imaginary and its relation to welfare policy”
Kim Hendrickx & Ine Van Hoyweghen: “Ordering Biosocial Life. Towards a
political ontology of responsibility and solidarity”
Luca Marelli “”Having a structuring effect on Europe": Charting the
construction of an integrated EU research landscape in the biosciences”
12:00 – 14:00
Lunch
14:00 – 16:00
Fourth Session: Governance of uncertainty through technologies of
prediction
Chair: Ine Van Hoyweghen
Michiel van Oudheusden: “Volunteering Citizens in Nuclear Risk Governance:
Citizen Science after Fukushima”
Anne Bergmans: “Governing uncertainty over extremely long time frames: the
case of nuclear waste”
Mikko Virtanen: “Vaccination as risk and danger: the case of HPV”
Stephanie Begemann: “The link between Antimicrobials, Animals and
Antimicrobial Resistance: its ‘interdisciplinary’ controversies in the United
Kingdom”
16:00
Business Meeting