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Bendik Hellem Aaby (IFIKK, UiO) does research in philosophy of biology and philosophy of action. His research concerns are, amongst other things, the role behavior plays in evolutionary theory, the attribution of agency to non-human organisms, and to what extent purposiveness can be adequately accounted for by evolutionary theory.

Ulrike Felt's (University of Vienna) presentation will focus on the 'twin transition' as a buzzword in European policy discourse, and draw on the research project Innovation Residues - Modes and Infrastructures of Caring for our Longue-durée Environmental Futures. 

Robert Aronowitz is Professor, History and Sociology of Science, and the Walter H. and Leonore C. Annenberg Professor in the Social Sciences at the University of Pennsylvania. He studied linguistics at Berkeley before receiving his M.D. from Yale.  He did his internal medicine residency at Pennsylvania Hospital and was a Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholar at Penn.  Before starting his present position, Aronowitz was an attending physician at Cooper Hospital and taught at the RWJ medical school.  At Penn, Aronowitz was the founding director of the Health and Societies Program and co-director of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Health and Society Scholars Program.  He is the author of Making Sense of Illness: Science, Society, and Disease (Cambridge University Press, 1998), Unnatural History: Breast Cancer and American Society (Cambridge University Press, 2007), Risky Medicine: Our Quest to Cure Fear & Uncertainty (Chicago University Press, 2015) and co-editor of Three Shots at Prevention: The HPV Vaccine and the Politics of Medicine's Simple Solutions (Hopkins, 2010), and has published widely on the history of medicine. 

Professor Robert Northcott (Birkbeck University of London) will give a talk for the Science Studies Colloquium Series. Detailed content will be announced soon.