Zeman, Daniel | Czech Republic

Daniel Zeman is a doctoral candidate at the department of Anthropology at the Faculty of Humanities, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic. He received a Diploma in Ethnology at Faculty of Arts, Charles University, where he focused on contemporary subcultures. His PhD. Research is based on participant observation and focuses on anthropological perception of contemporary biological laboratories, methods and research. Mainly he focuses on questions of purity and impurity in laboratory process and space.

Project at IAS-STS: Artificial Intelligence: Interdisciplinary Perspectives

I came for a short stay (two weeks) sponsored by the grant from centre MOAINet, this is a project from Pilsner University for interdisciplinary partnership for artificial intelligence under the New Technologies Research center. This project aims to deal with AI problematic from different points of view (TA, STS, philosophy of science, engineering). Aim of my stay is to learn more about similar projects, methodology and search for possible cooperation.

Selected Publications

Zeman. D. (2012): Science and technology studies (STS): Possibilities and limits of anthropology in laboratories (In Czech). Antropowebzin. 3/2012, p 153-159.

Zeman. D.: Middle Horizon (In Czech). Historická sociologie (in press).