{"id":1201,"date":"2013-03-08T11:21:34","date_gmt":"2013-03-08T11:21:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/?p=1201"},"modified":"2019-05-21T14:15:31","modified_gmt":"2019-05-21T13:15:31","slug":"major-european-conference-features-work-of-dr-joy-zhang","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/2013\/03\/08\/major-european-conference-features-work-of-dr-joy-zhang\/","title":{"rendered":"Major European Conference features work of Dr Joy Zhang"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A major European conference on &#8220;Technology Assessment and Policy Areas of Great Transitions&#8221; will have a dedicated session focusing solely on the work of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr\/staff\/academic\/zhang-joy.html\" title=\"Dr Joy Zhang\" target=\"_blank\">Dr Joy Zhang<\/a>, Lecturer of Sociology at Kent.<\/p>\n<p>The conference, taking place in Prague 13-15 March 2013, invites commentary on Dr Zhang&#8217;s book, <em>The Cosmopolitanization of Science<\/em>. Organisers consider the book to be \u2018an important contribution from the field of technology assessment to the topics of technology governance and global bioethics\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>Based on site visits to 22 key research teams in China, as well as interviews with ethicists and Ministry of Health officials, <em>The Cosmopolitanization of Science <\/em>investigates how, over the last decade, Chinese stakeholders have developed a cosmopolitan sensibility in comprehending and responding to ethical and regulatory concerns with influence from both within and without their national boundaries. It is a pioneering account of non-western science-in-the-making, which provides a powerful corrective to existing cosmopolitan frameworks which are established mainly on Western data sources.<\/p>\n<p>For more information of this session, please visit the <a href=\"http:\/\/pacita.strast.cz\/en\/conference\/programme\/author-meets-critics\" title=\"PACITA Conference website\" target=\"_blank\">PACITA Conference website<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A major European conference on &#8220;Technology Assessment and Policy Areas of Great Transitions&#8221; will have a dedicated session focusing solely on the work of Dr &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/2013\/03\/08\/major-european-conference-features-work-of-dr-joy-zhang\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7108,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[124],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1201"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7108"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1201"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1201\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1204,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1201\/revisions\/1204"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}