Mini-conference: Funding Bodies in Late Modern Science

In the mini-conference Funding Bodies in Late Modern Science, organised by the Descartes Centre, we want to explore the tension between distrust and trust, between the procedural and personal, in funding modes. Our central questions are how funding bodies of academic research have developed over time; how they have reconfigured “who truth-speakers are in late modernity” (Shapin p.6) and how this has changed (techno)scientific practices over the course of the twentieth century.

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