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Svenja Matusall studied sociology, history and political sciences in Hamburg and Hanover. She graduated in 2006 with an M.A. thesis on a sociological perspective on ADHD children and also received a certificate in gender studies. She then studied at Durham University, on a Wellcome Trust studentship, from which she received an MA in history and philosophy of science and medicine in 2008. Her MA thesis was on neuroscience and education. Since 2007 she is academic assistant at the Chair for Science Studies at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) Zurich. From 2007 - 2010 she was also research assistant at the URPP Ethics at the University of Zurich , working in the research project "The neurobiological investigation of the moral agent: philosophical and historical perspectives" (University of Zurich and ETH Zurich), funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation. She is a member of the interdisciplinary graduate school History and Philosophy of Knowledge. 2009 she was visiting scholar at University of Chicago (supported by an ENSN/ESF Exchange Grant) and McGill University, Montreal.

Projects

The History of the Neurobiology of Thinking, Feeling, and Acting

Articles

2011. Sex in the Brain?. In: ROSA. Zeitschrift für Geschlechterforschung 43: 4-7.

with Ina Maria Kaufmann / Markus Christen. 2011. "The Emergence of Social Neuroscience as an Academic Discipline". In: The Oxford Handbook of Social Neuroscience. ed. Jean Decety and John Cacioppo. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 9-27.

2008. "Über Neuronen, Eltern und Kinder – Die Popularisierung medizinischer Diagnostik am Beispiel des Aufmerksamkeitsdefizit-Hyperaktivitätssyndroms". In: Die Natur der Gesellschaft. Verhandlungsband des 33. Kongresses der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Soziologie in Kassel 2006. ed. Karl-Siegberg Rehberg. Frankfurt/Main: Campus.
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Reviews

2008. "Gender im Mainstream der Wissenschaft?". Review: Carmen Leicht-Scholten (Hg.), Gender and Science. Perspektiven in den Natur- und Ingenieurswissenschaften, Bielefeld 2007. In: Querelles-Net 24, März.
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Entries in dictionaries

2010. “Emotion”. In: Evolution. Ein interdisziplinäres Handbuch. ed. Sarasin, Philip und Marianne Sommer. Stuttgart: Metzler, 14-16.

Talks

2011. “Wie kommt das Soziale ins Gehirn? Soziale Neurowissenschaften und der Begriff des Sozialen (Posterpräsentation)”. Visions of the Body. Körper zwischen Theorie, Praxis und Vision. 4.11.-5.11.2011. Universität Bern.

2011. “Sex in the brain. Essential differences or politics in the brain?”. “The brain, the person, and the social. Probing neuroscientific ideas and practices from STS & history of science perspectives” 23.-25.6.2011. ETH Zürich.

2011. “ADHS - Risiken und Nebenwirkungen einer Diagnose”. ADHS - Eine Krankheit wird erwachsen 26.03.2011. entresol und Verein für psychoanalytische Sozialarbeit Zürich.

2010. “Empathy and the Cerebral Subject”. Colloque éthique et philosophie de la médecine 08.12.2010. Université de Lausanne.

2010. “Social in Social Neuroscience”. Two Kinds of Science Going Neuro: Social Neuro Sciences and Neuro Social Sciences 21.10.-22.10.2010. Universität Basel.

with Peter Schneider. 2010. “Der indiskrete Charme der Amygdala”. Extim Gespräch . Cabaret Voltaire Zürich.

2010. “Nothing in Social Behaviour Makes Sense Except in the Light of Evolution. Social Neuroscience and Human Nature”. Practicing Science and Technology, Performing the Social. EASST 2010 02.09.-04.09.2010. Trento.

2009. “Nothing in Social Behavior Makes Sense Except in the Light of Evolution”. . Department for the Social Studies of Medicine, McGill University Montreal.

2009. “Social Neuroscience - A New Human condition?”. 4S Annual Meeting 28.10.-31.10.2009. Washington, DC.

with Ina Kaufmann. 2009. “Disciplinary dynamics in emerging social neurosciences and neuroeconomics”. Science and Technology in Society Conference 28.03.-29.03.2009. AAAS Washington, DC.

2008. “Knowledge Production in Social Neurosciences”. ENSN Workshop 'Our Brains, Ourselves?' 30.11-1.12.2008. University of Aarhus, Denmark.

2008. “Where to look for the social? Thought on social neuroscience”. ENSN Neuroschool 28.9.-4.10.2008. EMBL Monterotondo, Italy.

2008. “Wie kommt das Gefühl ins Gehirn? Historische Überlegungen zur neurowissenschaftlichen Emotionsforschung”. Von-Monakow-Zyklus "Pathologie der Gefühle" 27.9.2008. Universität Zürich.

with Dennis Eversberg. 2008. “Discursive Power and Social Structures”. EJST Conference 'Interpreting Social Change' . University of Sussex Brighton, UK.

2007. “’Mozart Effect’ - Can music make you smarter?”. . History, Philosophy and Sociology of Science and Medicine (HSSPM) Postgraduate Group Durham.

2007. “Neurons, Parents, and Children”. Annual British Society for the History of Science Postgraduate Conference . Durham.

2006. “Die Popularisierung medizinischer Diagnostik unangepassten Benehmens am Beispiel von ADHS”. Die Natur der Gesellschaft . 33. Kongress der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Soziologie Kassel.

Conference organization

The brain, the person, and the social. Probing neuroscientific ideas and practices from STS and history of science perspectives. 23.6.-25.6.2011. sts-ch und Zentrum Geschichte des Wissens, Zürich.
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workshop report

Neuroscience as a New Science of the Social? Open Panel at the EASST/4S Meeting 2012. 17.-20.10.2012. , Kopenhagen.