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DESCRIPTION:By Tara Mahfoud\, Ph.D.\, Lecture (Assistant Professor)\, Depar
 tment of Sociology\, University of Essex.\n\nZoom registration\, click her
 e\n\nAbstract:\n\nThe Human Brain Project (HBP) was launched in October 20
 13 by the European Commission to build an information and communication te
 chnology infrastructure that would support large-scale brain modelling and
  simulation. Less than a year after its launch\, more than 800 neuroscient
 ists signed a letter that claimed the HBP ‘would fail to meet its goals’. 
 Based on multi-sited ethnographic fieldwork conducted between February 201
 4 and January 2017 in France\, Germany\, the United Kingdom and the HBP he
 adquarters in Switzerland\, and over 40 interviews with scientists\, engin
 eers and project administrators\, this talk traces how competing visions o
 ver how brain models should be built became tied into debates over how sci
 entific communities should be governed. Articulations of these different k
 inds of models and communities appealed to competing imaginaries of Europe
  itself – of Europe and European science as unified or pluralistic. I argu
 e that scientific models are sites of contestation over social and politic
 al futures. The tensions between visions of scientific unification and plu
 ralism in the HBP mirrored the tensions between imaginaries of European po
 litical unification and pluralism.\n\nBionote:\n\nTara Mahfoud is a Lectur
 er in the Department of Sociology at the University of Essex. Before that\
 , Tara was a Research Associate in the Department of Global Health and Soc
 ial Medicine at King’s College London\, and a Visiting Research Fellow in 
 the Science\, Technology and Society programme at Harvard University. Trai
 ned in sociology and anthropology\, her work explores the intersections be
 tween science\, technology and medicine. She conducts multi-sited qualitat
 ive research on the cultural\, social\, and political contexts and implica
 tions of developments in the neurosciences\, primarily in Europe.\n
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SUMMARY:Culture\, Mind & Brain Speaker Series: Visions of Unification and I
 ntegration: Building Brains and Communities in the European Human Brain Pr
 oject 
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 ker-series-visions-unification-and-integration-building-brains-and-329418
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