How are the ways in which researchers are evaluated – and what they value in their work – entangled with who they aim to be as researchers, and with the directions they choose in their research? This is the central questions of the project „Valuing, Being, Knowing.“ (01/2019-06/2023) the position (75%, STS, University of Vienna)
Der Wissenschaftlichen Essaypreis 2019 des Forschungsinstituts für Philosophie Hannover informieren. Das Thema des Essaypreises lautet: „Welche Technik?“. Der Essaypreis 2019 will zu einem tieferen Nachdenken über Technik ermutigen, um die Chancen und Gefahren für das zukünftige Zusammenleben auszuloten. Das Preisgeld beträgt nach erstem bis drittem Preis gestaffelt 3.000, 2.000 und 1.000 Euro. Die Einsendefrist ist
The Workshop“Tracking Contemporary Metabolisms – Historicizing Ecological Epistemologies“ will take place at Max-Weber-Kolleg, University of Erfurt, on the 11/ and 12/12/2018. “Following” elements, things, actants, and references as they move, connect, interact, and enfold has become a watchword in social theory, anthropology, history and environmental humanities. Regardless if the production of knowledge, the sustainability of
A call for papers on „Transdisciplinary Sustainability Research – Linking research processes and outputs to societal effects“ has just been published by the journal „Environmental Science and Policy“. The editors are particularly interested in work that addresses one or more of the following questions through either new conceptual formulations or empirical studies (meta-analyses of several
Das 4. Mainzer Symposium der Sozial- und Kulturwissenschaften am Forschungsschwerpunkt SoCuM (Research Center of Social and Cultural Studies Mainz), „Jenseits des Menschen? Posthumane Perspektiven auf Natur/Kultur“ (19.-20. September 2019, Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz) ruft zur Einreichung von Beiträgen auf: In den letzten Jahrzehnten lassen sich zunehmend Ansätze und Positionen in den Geistes-, Kultur- und Sozialwissenschaften beobachten, welche
This interdisciplinary conference aims at bringing together international researchers working on subjects in the fields of engineering, technology, humanities, and the social and natural sciences, who are interested in reflecting on interdisciplinarity/multidisciplinarity, on science and technology studies, as well as gender, feminist, queer, intersectional, and postcolonial studies. It is organized by the PhD program »Gendered
Für die Fachsitzung „Ordering Mobilities – zur Planung, Steuerung und Unterhaltung von Mobilitäten in interdisziplinärer Perspektive“ (Deutschen Kongress für Geographie 2019, 25. – 30. September 2019 in Kiel) werden Beiträge eingeladen. Der ‚mobilities turn‘ in den Sozialwissenschaften (Sheller & Urry 2006) hat auch die Humangeographie sowie zahlreiche ihrer Subdisziplinen maßgeblich beeinflusst. „Mobilität“ gilt inzwischen als
The Research Unit „Epistemology of the LHC“ invites students and other scholars in philosophy, history and sociology of physics/science, as well as in physics, to register for the conference „Dark Matter & Modified Gravity“, taking place from 6 to 8 February 2019 at RWTH Aachen University, Germany: www.lhc-epistemologie.uni-wuppertal.de/dm-mg INTERDISCIPLINARY PERSPECTIVES ON THE UNDERDETERMINATION BETWEEN DARK
The University of Vienna is seeking to fill the position of a full professor for „Technosciences, Materiality and Digital Cultures“ at the Department of Science and Technology Studies. The successful candidate is expected to have a strong research track record in the field of Science and Technology Studies with a clear focus on empirically investigating
The Department of Science and Technology Studies at the University of Vienna is inviting applications for the position of a DOCTORAL RESEARCHER (3 years, 30 hours/week) in the research project ‚Making Europe through and for its Research Infrastructures‘, jointly funded by the Austrian Science Fund (FWF) and the German Science Foundation (DFG). This project – a collaboration between the Department