{"id":17785,"date":"2025-10-13T08:48:22","date_gmt":"2025-10-13T07:48:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/microsites.ncl.ac.uk\/nubsstaffblog\/?p=17785"},"modified":"2025-10-13T08:50:55","modified_gmt":"2025-10-13T07:50:55","slug":"centre-for-rural-economy-seminar-professor-joy-y-zhang","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/microsites.ncl.ac.uk\/nubsstaffblog\/2025\/10\/13\/centre-for-rural-economy-seminar-professor-joy-y-zhang\/","title":{"rendered":"Centre for Rural Economy Seminar &#8211; Professor Joy Y.\u00a0Zhang\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Title: <\/strong>Futuring Biological Commons: Engagement and the Cosmopolitics of Science<\/p>\n<p><strong>Date &amp; Time<\/strong>: 23 October 2025 at 15:00<\/p>\n<p><strong>Venue<\/strong>: AGRB.3.05<\/p>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">Professor Joy Y.\u00a0Zhang, Professor of Sociology at the University of Kent and Founding Director of the Centre for Global Science and Epistemic Justice, will present a seminar on\u00a0<b>\u2018Futuring Biological Commons: Engagement and the Cosmopolitics of Science\u2019<\/b>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">\u2018This talk reimagines socio-ethical engagement in science\u2014not as a fixed set of rules, but as a collective process of shaping futures. Socio-technical imaginaries have long been central to guiding innovation, yet in global discourse they are often flattened into rival visions competing for dominance.<\/p>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">Building on Elinor Ostrom\u2019s idea of\u00a0<i>commoning<\/i>, I propose an alternative approach that treats ethics as a socio-political vision and emphasises cultivating ethical social relations across borders. This perspective is developed in\u00a0<i>Futuring Biological Commons<\/i>, a research programme funded by ARIA, where \u201cfuture\u201d is understood both as a noun and a verb: it refers to the prospects for life on Earth and the active shaping of those futures through the hopes and actions that orient us toward particular socio-technical pathways.<\/p>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">Rather than seeking consensus, this talk calls for a cosmopolitics of science; one that embraces plurality, nurtures caring relationships between ecosystems, animals, and communities, and enables diverse publics to navigate the promises and uncertainties of emerging biotechnologies together.\u2019<\/p>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">Light refreshments will follow the seminar. We hope to see you all there!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Title: Futuring Biological Commons: Engagement and the Cosmopolitics of Science Date &amp; Time: 23 October 2025 at 15:00 Venue: AGRB.3.05 Professor Joy Y.\u00a0Zhang, Professor of&#8230; <br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/microsites.ncl.ac.uk\/nubsstaffblog\/2025\/10\/13\/centre-for-rural-economy-seminar-professor-joy-y-zhang\/\" rel=\"bookmark\"><strong>Read more<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11659,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[1142],"class_list":["post-17785","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-research","tag-cre-seminar"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/microsites.ncl.ac.uk\/nubsstaffblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17785","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/microsites.ncl.ac.uk\/nubsstaffblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/microsites.ncl.ac.uk\/nubsstaffblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.ncl.ac.uk\/nubsstaffblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11659"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.ncl.ac.uk\/nubsstaffblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17785"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.ncl.ac.uk\/nubsstaffblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17785\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17788,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.ncl.ac.uk\/nubsstaffblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17785\/revisions\/17788"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/microsites.ncl.ac.uk\/nubsstaffblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17785"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.ncl.ac.uk\/nubsstaffblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17785"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.ncl.ac.uk\/nubsstaffblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17785"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}