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The article reports on the workshop "Visual Humanities: Typisierungen des Menschen um 1900" (Typologies of Human Beings Around 1900), held in Frankfurt, Germany, on February 18-19, 2011. The presentations addressed various aspects of stereotyping and the construction of social types in late 19th- and early 20th-century Europe, including illustrations for the works of German adventure story author Karl May, discourses about physiognomy in late Victorian literature, and antisemitism.

Drawing on case studies from the STAGE research network, this article explores a possible new 'European mode' of scientific governance associated with participation and deliberation. The article presents a typology of governance styles: discretionary, corporatist, educational, market, agonistic and deliberative. Despite a widespread interest in deliberative forms of governance, the article argues that there are no clear patterns of convergence. Rather, European scientific governance is characterised by a coexistence of diverse forms. The article subsequently explores the deliberative mode in European practice and identifies a number of differences in relation to the purpose, the actual conduct and the outcome of deliberative engagement. A crucial conclusion is that deliberation is not a shortcut to the creation of social consensus. The case studies instead suggest a partiality within the conduct of deliberation across Europe, a persisting conflict in the case stories, and a fragility in the institutionalisation of initiatives. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]