Conference International Visiting Scholar and Dinner Speaker
Professor Peter Glasner
Peter Glasner is Professorial Research Fellow at the ESRC Centre for the Economic and Social Aspects of Genomics (Cesagen) at Cardiff University, undertaking research on current developments in post-genomics (particularly the rise of proteomics) and stem cell technologies in India and the UK. He has taught at a number of institutions in Britain, and was a foundation sociology lecturer at the Australian National University from 1971-1977. He has held visiting positions at the Universities of Sussex, Bristol, and the West of England, and was a Morris Ginsberg Fellow at the London School of Economics. His longstanding interests are in the organisation and management of the new genetics, the development of innovative health technologies, and in public participation in techno-scientific decision-making. Books include, most recently (with Aditya Bharadwaj) Local Cells, Global Science: the Rise of Embryonic Stem Cell Research in India and (co-edited with Paul Atkinson and Margaret Lock) Handbook of Genetics and Society: Mapping the New Genomic Era, both with Routledge. He is a founding editor of New Genetics and Society and 21 Century Society: Journal of the Academy of Social Sciences, and of the Routledge ‘Genetics and Society’ book series. He is an Academician of the Academy of Social Sciences and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts.
As well as being the conference dinner speaker, Peter is also presenting a conference paper called: “Celling the future: stem cell banks and bioeconomies in Europe and Asia”, and will also chair a special roundtable/panel tentatively called Techno-Science Engagement and Citizenship: Asia-Pacific Perspectives.
Keynote speakers
- Professor Ian Lowe - Griffith University, Australia
- Associate Professor Yuko Fujigaki - University of Toyko, Japan
- Associate Professor Wenling Tu - Shih-Hsin University, Taiwan
- Mr Bevan Tipene-Matua – Hawkes Bay, Aotearoa New Zealand
- Associate Professor Catherine Waldby – Sydney University, Australia
- Professor Herbert Gottweis - University of Vienna, Austria