Curriculum Vitae

 

Dr. Steindór J. Erlingsson

 

Education

2005    PhD degree in history of science from the Centre for the History of Science, Technology and Medicine, University of Manchester. .

1998        MS degree in history of science, from the University of Iceland.  

1997        In the fall semester I studied at the Centre for the History of Science, Technology and Medicine, University of Manchester, England. It was a part of my MS program.

1996        BS degree in Biology, with emphasis on evolution and molecular biology.

1986        Graduated from high school, with emphasis on the natural sciences.

 

Publications

Scholarly papers -- Newspaper articles

Teaching and lectures

2010        Delivered a paper entitled "Children, Adolescents and Psychotrophic Drugs: Why Do We Follow the US Model?" (in Icelandic) at the symposium How Can an ADHD Child Gain Control and Concentration Without Medication?, held November 19, 2010.

2010        Delivered a paper entitled "Do Psycitary and Religion Have Anything in Common" (in Icelandic) at the symposium To Recover Form a Mental Disorder held at Reykjavik University May 15, 2010. The keynote speaker was the US psychiatrist Dr. Daniel Fisher.

2010        Discussed, along with Auður Axelsdóttir, a forthcoming conference, entitled To Recover Form a Mental Disorder, on the Icelandic State Radion, Channel One (in Icelandic).

2009        Discussed Darwin's Origin of Species and its influence in Iceland on the Icelandic State Radion, Channel Two (in Icelandic).

2009        Delivered a paper entitled "The colonisation of Darwin's ideas in Iceland, 1872-1910" at the conferenceNature's Wonders held November 24 at the University of Akureyri (in Icelandic).

2009        Delivered a paper entitled "Darwin, Marx and the Question of Human Nature" at the symposium Do Humans Have Natue: A Symposium Honouring Charles Darwin's 200th Birthday" held February 2 at the University of Iceland (in Icelandic).

2009        Delivered a paper entitled "What should we do if they attack us? Mind Power's PsychEd Project" at the conference Do Icelanders Stigmatise the Mentally Ill? held November 3 at the University of Iceland (in Icelandic).

2009        Delivered a paper entitled "The colonisation of Darwin's ideas in Iceland, 1872-1910" at The Biological Conference 2009 held November 6-7 at the University of Iceland (in Icelandic).

2008        Talked about atheism in a 60-minute radio program on on Icelandic State Radio, Channel One (aired twice).

2007        Discussed my criticism of religious education in primary schools on the Icelandic State Radio, Channel Two (in Icelandic).

2007        Taught the history of evolution section in "Introduction to the History and Philosophy of Science", at the University of Iceland. .

2006        Discussed Darwin's Origin of Species and its influence on the Icelandic State Radio, Channel One (in Icelandic).

2006        Discussed the theory of evolution on the Icelandic State Radio, Channel Two (in Icelandic).

2005        Delivered the paper "The Plymouth Laboratory of the Marine Biological Association and the Rise of Experimental Zoology in Britain", at the conference Who needs scientific instruments?, held in Leiden, Netherlands, October 20-22..

2005        Delivered the paper "'It can be very illuminating to converse with an intelligent heathen': The interaction of religion and science thorough the ages", at the conference What is theology?.

2005        Delivered the paper "Have Science and Religion Always been at a War? A Critique on Professor Dungal's historiography in Blekking og þekking [Illusion and Knowledge] (1948)", at the conference Forbidden Fruit: A Conference on Science and Religion.

2005        Taught 1/13 of the course "Religious philosophy", University of Iceland,  (contemporary and historical relationship of science and religion).

2005        Delivered the paper "Modernism confronts the Enlightenment: Thoughts on the Tension Between the British Biologists Julian Huxley and Lancelot Hogben", at the invitation of the Society of Icelandic Historians.

2005        Taught 1/13 of the course "Intellectual history of the 19th and 20th centuries", University of Iceland,  (contemporary and historical influences of Darwin).

2005        Talked about new directions in the scientific study of religious beliefs in a 60-minute radio program on on Icelandic State Radio Channel One (aired twice).

2001    Delivered the paper How a big company can distort and manipulate a small gullible society at the conference La Guerre Du Génome Aura-T-Elle Lieu, organised by L'Association Diderot and held in Paris. The paper was the subject of front page story in Le Monde.

2001    Delivered the paper  "The World View of Thorvaldur Thoroddsen, 1872-1911", at the invitation of the Natural Science Department, University of Iceland

2000    Taught with Dr. Skuli Sigurdsson the course "Introduction to the History and Philosophy of Science", at the University of Iceland.  I was responsible for 50% of the course.

1999        Taught with Prof. Thorsteinn Vilhjalmsson the course "Introduction to the History and Philosophy of Science", at the University of Iceland.  I was responsible for 50% of the course (history of evolution and philosophy of science).

1998        Talked about the origin of the evolutionism in 19^th century Europe in a 45-minute radio program on on Icelandic State Radio Channel One (aired twice).

1998        Delivered a paper at the Biological Institute, University of Iceland, entitled "Evolution of Life: Icelandic views between 1870-1940.

1998        Taught the course "Introduction to the History and Philosophy of Science", at the University of Iceland.

1997        Taught with Prof. Thorsteinn Vilhjalmsson the course "Introduction to the History and Philosophy Science", at the University of Iceland.  I was responsible for 25% of the course (history of evolution).

1996        Gave a talk entitled “The introduction of systematic animal breeding in Iceland”, at an international conference, The Genesis of Scandinavian Genetics, held in Lund, Sweden, in November 1996.

1996        Gave a speech at the Biological Institute, University of Iceland, entitled "Pall Zophoniasson and Mendelism".

 

Employment

2008-        I am the project manager of the PsycEd educational project of the Icelandic consumer group Mind Power. We visit 9-12th grade classes and talk about our battle with mental disorder. I also have various writing projects in the pipelines.

2002        Wrote the book Our Genes: Biotechnology and Icelandic Society.

1998-2000        Worked for the US Embassy in Iceland, as Information Resource Center Director, in the Public Affairs Office.

1998        Edited and wrote an introduction to Um uppruna dýrategunda og jurta, which the Icelandic Literary Society published.

1997-2000, 2007        Part time teacher (history of science), University of Iceland.

1996        Worked Feb.-August for Professor Thorsteinn Vilhjalmsson, assisting him in his research on the sailing technology of the Old Norse vikings.

1988        Worked as a volunteer for the Icelandic Red Cross in Ethiopia.

1986-7 Worked as a cashier in a bank.

 

 

Other

2009- Honorary Research Associate, Department of Science and Technology Studies, University College, London.

2008- A member of a committee that is organising the celebration of Charles Darwin's bicentenary in 2009.

2005        Organized, and rised funds for, along with the religious scholar Guðmundur Ingi Markússon, the conference  Forbidden Fruit: A Conference on Science and Religion.

1997-8 Chairman of the Association of Graduate Students at the University of Iceland.

1997        Organized a conference, where graduate students at the University of Iceland introduced their research projects.

 

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