This conference investigates science, states, and capital through the lens of Hans-Jörg Rheinberger's formulation of experimental systems. It juxtaposes accounts of experimental practice within the laboratory to those of experimental forms of knowledge production relevant to the operation of the states, laws, regulatory agencies, and political mechanisms. The formulation of "experimental systems, states, and speculations" signals the multiple scales which experiment work traverses, from the molecular to the organismic to the social, environmental, financial, and biopolitical.

April 13TH & 14TH, 2007 9am-7pm
Social Sciences Plaza B (SSPB) 1208
UC Irvine

SPONSORS:
National Science Foundation
Center for Ethnography, UC Irvine
Department of Anthropology, UC Irvine

ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
Kaushik Sunder Rajan, Joseph Dumit, Janet Alexanian, Asya Anderson
For additional information, please contact Janet (janeta@uci.edu) or Asya (asyaa@uci.edu)

Conference Website: http://www.socsci.uci.edu/experimentalsystems Directions & UCI Maps: http://uci.edu/campusmaps.shtml