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25.02.07: Program ready. Room for a few more abstracts.

Thank you, thank you, thank you for your abstracts! We are very impressed with their variety and quality. And the number we have received is “just right” as Goldylocks said – in this instance, just right for the format we are planning. We have a bit of room left in case of late submissions (some of which have already been announced to us). As of now we are planning on 20-minute presentations with 10 minutes discussion time each, a coffee break mid-session, and an extra half hour at the end of most of the paper sessions for overarching discussions. That should be a fairly low-stress, high-interaction format. We are very much looking forward to the event, even more so now that we have read through the abstracts.

 There is still room for a few more abstracts if you need a paper to participate. This will be operated on a first-served-basis.

24.10.06: Call for papers out now. Our workshop "Statistics as boundary object between scinece and the state" is ready to accept abstracts. We are proud to announce plenary speakers Susan Leigh-Star, Alain Desrosières, Jean-Guy Prévost, Simon Cole, Karen-Sue Taussig, Jonathan Kahn and Ann Rudinow Sætnan, and look forward to be hearing from you.

15.08.06: Announcement: WORKSHOP in may 2007: "Statistics as boundary object between science and the state". We are proud to announce confirmed plenary speakers Alain Desrosières, Simon Cole, Karen-Sue Taussig, Jonathan Kahn and Ann Rudinow Sætnan for the workshop. There will be parallell work sessions for presenting other papers.

15.07.06: First edition of the project flyer is printed and will be made available.

13.03.06: Municipality survey launched today: The subprojects on municipality services and algorithm evaluation have co-operated on a survey on municipality statistics, launched today. Responce deadline is 22. March. Information on the survey in Norwegian.

28.01.06: No EU-funding: In December it became clear that our efforts for EU-funding were barren. Read the statement here. This does not interfere the progress of the project, which will carry on steady.

26.01.06: Publications on web. On the title menu you find a new link to 'Publications', where project related productions and publications will be posted.

16.01.06: Project meeting: "Sociology of Numbers"

14-15. December 05 the project held a general meeting for planning and discussion. The meeting was partly an open workshop, partly internal planning. In addition to historical researcher Hege Roll-Hansen from University of Oslo (read her presentation...), project members Ann Rudinow Sætnan, Svein Hammer, John-Arne Skolbrekken, Lidia Grøtte, Heidi Mork Lomell, Johanne Yttri Dahl, Nadji Khefif and Jon Hovland presented different approaches the sociology of numbers.
You will find announcements on coming events and open meetings on this site, when scheduled.

08.09.05: Welcome to three new project team members: Jon Hovland, Nadji Aïssa Khefif, and Lidia Grøtte. Jon and Nadji are research fellows working towards PhDs. Each will be involved in two of the sub-projects, Jon in Evaluating Municipal Services and Evaluating and Interpreting the Algorithms, Nadji in Criminal Justice Statistics and Identity Categories. Lidia will be assisting on the Health Statistics sub-project. Her job may be extended to a full research fellowship later on.