The call for Abstracts for a workshop with Philip Kitcher, titled “Progress in Science and Society”, on June 14, 2017 at Leibniz Universität Hannover: Is the notion of progress suitable to analyze such disparate endeavors as science, ethics, …
The call for travel grants regarding the Herrenhausen Conference “Society through the Lens of the Digital” (May 31 – June 2, 2017) has been extended until February 5, 2017. The Volkswagen Foundation offers travel grants …
2000 REVISITED soll als Tagung junge Forschende aus den Geistes- und Sozialwissenschaften zusammenführen, welche sich mit Wissenschafts- und Technikfragestellungen beschäftigen. Geplant ist ein Forum zum interdisziplinären Austausch, welches auch offen für Interessierte aus anderen Fachrichtungen …
Criticisms of media have become an essential component for the academic debate over social and power-related structures. Usually, they focus the contents of the media, and not their technology. But what about the …
The STS Conference Graz 2017 is the joint Annual Conference of the Institute of Science, Technology and Society Studies at Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt|Vienna|Graz (STS), the Inter-University Research Centre for Technology, Work and Culture (IFZ) and the …
Epigenetics links the environment and the genome in novel ways. It helps us trace how environmental exposures and life experiences affect gene expression and influence disease risks – possibly across generations. How does this new …
Der Workshop „Körper, Kategorisierungen und Rechte: zu biologischen Formen politischer Subjektivität“ findet im Rahmen der Konferenz der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Völkerkunde 2017 in Berlin vom 4.–7. Oktober 2017 statt: Was haben genetische Tests, Affirmative Action, Pflegestufen …