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Brita BrennaNorskTitle: Telephone:22841627 E-mail: b.s.brennaATtik.uio.no Born in Vestre Slidre, Norway. MA in History of Ideas 1994. Phd student at Centre for Technology and Culture, later Centre for Technology, Innovation and Culture 1995-2001. Researcher on the project Consumption, Culture and Bildung at TIK 2002. Post.doc. at TIK 2002-2006. Subject InterestI am interested in the intersection between science, technology and culture, with a special emphasis on feminist perspectives. I have followed these interests in my studies of the International Exhibitions in London and Paris 1851-1867, and in my Ph.d.-thesis on Norwegian participations at World Exhibitions 1851-1900. The politics of display, with a special emphasis on display of science, has also been of particular interest to me in these studies. Parallel to this work I have been participating in a group of scholars at the TIK Centre where we have worked with feminist science studies, and published articles and books within the field of Science Studies and Feminist Science Studies. My post.doc.project is informed by a constructivist History of Science approach, where I am particularly interested in the intersection between science, religion, politics and economy in the construction of Nature.Selected PublicationsIn english (see Norwegian homepage for further publications): Kristin Asdal, Brita Brenna, Ingunn Moser, “The Politics of Interventions” (revised and translated version of “Introduksjon: Teknovitenskapelige kulturer” in Teknovitenskapelige kulturer ,forthcoming.Brita Brenna, John Law and Ingunn Moser (eds.) Machines, Agency and Desire, TMV Report series no. 33/98 “Situated knowledges. From science critique to new knowledge practices” in Erika Engelstad and Siri Gerrard: Challenging Situatedness. Gender, Culture and the Production of Knowledge, Delft: Eburon Press, 2005. “The Rise and Fall of the International Exhibitions” in Ginev, Dimitri et.al. Cultural Aspects of the Modernization Process, Centre for Technology and Culture, report series 13/1995 ResearchMy post.doc. project deals with how Norwegian nature came into being as an object of research, as an economical resource and as a political entity in the writings of the Dane Erich Pontoppidan, with special emphasis on his book The first Attempt at a Natural History of Norway published in two volumes in 1752-53. Pontoppidan was a pietist priest, closely connected to the Danish court. He was a bishop in Bergen in Norway in the years 1748 to 1754 and later became the pro-chancellor of the University of Copenhagen. He published widely on antiquarian topics and history, on religious and educational topics, and on natural history and economy. My project is closely affiliated with the larger research project Nature and Science in Politics and Everyday-practices at the Centre for Technology, Innovation and Culture. (see link) This project investigates the production and mediation of ’nature’ and ’the natural’ in scientific, political, and everyday practices. As a part of this project I have also been a visiting Post.doc. at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin, affiliated with the research project The History of Scienfitic Observation. (see link)LinksNatureCultureHistory of Scientific Observation |