Members - Stefan Beck

POSITION AT CILS

PI

 

DISCIPLINES / RESEARCH AREAS

Social and Cultural Anthropology in the Life Sciences: cultures of knowledge, methodology and theory of European ethnology, processes of Europeanization

 

 

OTHER AFFILIATIONS

Institute of European Ethnology, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin

 

 

FELLOWSHIPS / AWARDS

  • DAAD Teaching Award (2000)
  • Promotionspreis der Eberhard-Karls-Universität Tübingen (PhD award of the Eberhard-Karls-Universität Tübingen) (1996)
  • PhD scholarship-holder, Evangelisches Studienwerk Villigst (evangelical study agency Villigst) (1993 - 1996)

 

 

EDITORSHIPS / MEMBERSHIPS

  • Editorial Advisory Board, After Culture: Emergent Anthropologies
  • Editorial Board, Reihe Wissen – Kommunikation – Kultur im Röhrig Universitätsverlag, Konstanz

 

  • Member, Deutsche Gesellschaft für Volkskunde (german folklore society) (dgv)
  • Member, American Anthropological Association (AAA)
  • Member, Society for the Anthropology of Europe (SAE)
  • Member, Society for the Social Study of Science and Society (4S)
  • Associate Member, graduate college "Genese, Strukturen und Folgen von Wissenschaft und Technik" (Genesis, Structure, and Consequences of Science and Technology), Universität Bielefeld (1993 - 1996)

Project 1: 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.

 

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Project 2: Neurobiology of Human Aggression

 

In three related fields we will examine the theoretical foundations and the ethical implications of current neurobiological research on aggression. We expect to increase insight in social preconditions and neuroethical as well as practical implications of neurobiological research on determinants of aggressive human behaviour.

 

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SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

  • Beck, Stefan (2010). Translating Experience into Biomedical Assemblages. Observations on European Forms of (Imagined) Participatory Agency in Healthcare. In: Thomas Mathar and Yvonne J.F.M. Jansen (eds.): Health Promotion and Prevention Programmes in Practice. Münster 2010, S. 195–222.
  • Beck, Stefan (2009). Localising Genetic Testing and Screening in Cyprus and Germany. Contingencies, continuities, ordering effects and bio-cultural intimacy. In: Paul Atkinson, Peter Glasner and Margaret Lock (eds): The Handbook of Genetics and Society: Mapping the New Genomic Era. London: Routledge, pp. 76–93. (in cooperation with Jörg Niewöhner)
  • Beck, Stefan (2007). Medicalizing Culture(s) or Culturalizing Medicine(s)? In: Regula Valerie Burri, Joe Dumit (eds.): Medicine as Culture. Instrumental Practices, Technoscientific Knowledge, and New Modes of Life (=Routledge Studies in Science, Technology and Society, Vol. 6). London: Routledge, S. 17–33.
  • Beck, Stefan (2006). Enacting Genes – Anmerkungen zu Familienplanung und genetischen Screenings in Zypern In: Sigrid Graumann, Katrin Grüber (Hg.): Biomedizin im Kontext (= Mensch, Ethik und Wissenschaft, Bd. 3). Münster, S. 221–237.
  • Beck, Stefan (2006). Wissenschaft und die Transformation des Alltags – sozialanthropologische Anmerkungen zur Variation biopolitischer Regimes. In: Brigitte Liebig, Monique Dupuis, Irene Kriesi, Martina Peitz (Hrsg.): Mikrokosmos Wissenschaft. Transformationen und Perspektiven. (Interdisziplinäre Vortragsreihe der Eidgenössischen Technischen Hochschule und der Universität Zürich. Reihe Hochschulforum, Bd. 39.) Zürich: Universitätsverlag, S. 205–226.
  • Beck, Stefan (2006). Somatographic investigations across levels of complexity. In: BioSocieties, Vol. 1/1, S. 219–227 (in cooperation with Jörg Niewöhner)
  • Beck, Stefan (2005). Putting Genetics to Use. In: Cyprus Review 17/1, pp. 59–78.
  • Beck, Stefan (2004). Fryst altruism, varm solidaritet och kall etik. Om en biobank på Cypern. In: Susanne Lundin (ed.): En ny kropp. Essäer om medicinska visioner och personliga val. Nordic Academic Press, Lund, Nordic Academic Press. S. 43–76.