Cooperating Researchers - Jörg Niewöhner

POSITION AT CILS

PI

 

DISCIPLINES / RESEARCH AREAS

Social Anthropology, Anthropology of the Life Sciences, Science and Technology Studies

 

OTHER AFFILIATIONS

Institute of European Ethnology, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin

Laboratory: Social Anthropology of Science and Technology

 

FELLOWSHIPS / AWARDS

  • Visiting Scholar, McGill University, Montreal, Canada (2009)
  • Senior Research Associate, CER, UK (2000 - 2003)
  • Research Associate, University of East Anglia (UEA), UK, Centre for Environmental Risk (CER) (1998 - 2000)

 

EDITORSHIPS / MEMBERSHIPS

  • Editor, book series MatteRealities / VerKörperungen. Perspectives from Empirical Science Studies with transcript publishers

 

  • Member, Society for the Social Studies of Science (4S)
  • Member, European Association for the Study of Science and Technology (EASST)

 

Project: Communicating Brains and Cultures

When people interact, information is transmitted between their brains. Modern imaging techniques permit to investigate the dynamics of this brain-to-brain transfer of information. Our previous data support current theories of intersubjectivity by providing direct evidence that during ongoing facial communication a 'shared space of affect' is successively built up between senders and perceivers. Here, we propose to extend this previous work in both neurology and anthropology. (more)

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

  • Roepstorff, A., Niewöhner, J., & Beck, S. (2010). Enculturing Brains through Patterned Practices. Neural Networks, 23: 1051-1059.
  • Niewöhner, J., Kehl, C., & Beck, S. (Eds.). (2008). Wie geht Kultur unter die Haut? Emergente Praxis am Schnittfeld von Medizin, Sozial- und Lebenswissenschaften. Bielefeld: transcript
  • Lipphardt, V., & Niewöhner, J. (2007). Producing difference in an age of biosociality. Biohistorical narratives, standardisation and resistance as translations Science, Technology & Innovation Studies, 3(1), 45-66.
  • Beck, S., & Niewöhner, J. (2006). Somatographic investigations across levels of complexity. BioSocieties, 1(2), 219-227.
  • Niewöhner, J. (2001). Using Mental Model Theory to Understand Risk Discourse. University of East Anglia, Norwich