Events

11 February 2026
Stadtpalais/Online, Theaterstraße 75
Aachen, 52062 Germany
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Did the Computer Drive Science? Hardware Development and Digital Complexity in the 20th Century – Ulf Hashagen (Munich)

Abstract: The assumption that economic, technological and scientific development is driven by technological determinism is…

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21 January 2026
Stadtpalais/Online, Theaterstraße 75
Aachen, 52062 Germany
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Reimagining Cities: Computational Thinking in the Post War Period – Nathalie Bredella (Hanover)

This event is part of our winter term 2025/26 Lecture Series Digital Complexity: Beyond Human…

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07 January 2026
Stadtpalais/Online, Theaterstraße 75
Aachen, 52062 Germany
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Desk to Discourse: Development of the Philosophy of Computing from Wordstar and VisiCalc – Robin Hill (Laramie)

Abstract: While the American Philosophical Association's Committee on Philosophy and Computers started its mission with…

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19 December 2025
RWTH Aachen University – Super C, Templergraben 57
Aachen, 52062
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Art Event: The Ambiguity of Sorting

The Ambiguity of Sorting How do technologies of separation bring us together? Digital systems are…

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18 December 2025
RWTH Aachen University – Super C – Generali Saal 639, Templergraben 57
Aachen, 52062 Germany
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What Is a Computer Program? Or, How I Liberate(d) Myself as a Computer User – Liesbeth De Mol (Lille)

Abstract: The aim of this talk is to present the PROGRAMme project, a collective work…

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18 December 2025
RWTH Aachen University – Super C, Templergraben 57
Aachen, 52062
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A Portrait of the Scientist as a User – Alexandre Hocquet (Nancy)

Abstract: Why are computational chemists so peculiar ? The history of their relationship with software…

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17 December 2025
RWTH Aachen University – Super C, Templergraben 57
Aachen, 52062
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Conference HaPoC 2025

The KHK c:o/re is proud to host the 8th edition of the international conference on…

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17 December 2025
RWTH Aachen University – Super C, Templergraben 57
Aachen, 52062
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Reasoning in the Age of AI: Philosophical Perspectives

Abstract: This workshop explores the conceptual foundations of reasoning and asks whether artificial systems can…

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16 December 2025
Stadtpalais, Theaterstraße 75
Aachen, 52062 Germany
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Green Work and Environmental Knowledge

Abstract: What is green work, who are green workers, and how are  material cultures of…

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27 November 2025
Stadtpalais, Theaterstraße 75
Aachen, 52062 Germany
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Stochastic Systems – Dirk Baecker (Friedrichshafen)

Abstract: Digital complexity eludes human understanding not only because it is based on the synchronization…

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26 November 2025
Stadtpalais/Online, Theaterstraße 75
Aachen, 52062 Germany
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Computer Science and Computer Use in Public Administration in Switzerland (1960-1984) – Ricky Wichum

Abstract: In my presentation, I examine the digital culture of public administration in Switzerland from…

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12 November 2025
Stadtpalais/Online, Theaterstraße 75
Aachen, 52062 Germany
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Freedom of Research: A European Summit – Europe in Times of Division

Europe stands at a crossroads: Political polarization, disinformation, and social fragmentation threaten the cohesion of…

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06 November 2025
RWTH Aachen University – Super C, Templergraben 57
Aachen, 52062
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Kick-off Event: Freedom of Research: A European Summit – Europe in Times of Division

We cordially invite you to our kick-off event for the Freedom of Research Summit 2025,…

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05 November 2025
Stadtpalais/Online, Theaterstraße 75
Aachen, 52062 Germany
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Digitality as a Triad: From the Love Letter to Emotion AI – Anna Tuschling (Bochum)

Abstract: The lecture presents various historical and contemporary concepts of digitality that highlight the three…

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29 October 2025
Stadtpalais/Online, Theaterstraße 75
Aachen, 52062 Germany
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Digital Complexity: De-Anthropological Trends in Computing, AI, and Robotics – Gabriele Gramelsberger (Aachen)

‼️ Unfortunately, tonight's lecture by Gabriele Gramelsberger has to be canceled due to illness. We…

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22 October 2025
Stadtpalais/Online, Theaterstraße 75
Aachen, 52062 Germany
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Workshop “Cultures of Credence: Mind Control and Other Fringe Epistemologies”

This workshop explores the borderlands of knowing, where knowledge claims are made and rejected, and…

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22 October 2025
Stadtpalais, Theaterstraße 75
Aachen, 52062 Germany
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How Uncertainty is Rendered Residual – Carsten Reinhardt

This event is part of our summer semester 2025 Lecture Series Expanding Science and Technology…

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16 July 2025
Stadtpalais/Online, Theaterstraße 75
Aachen, 52062 Germany
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Tagung “Illustratives Denken – Zur Rolle von Zeichnungen, Scribbles und Visualisierungen im wissenschaftlichen Entdeckungsprozess”

Tagung "Illustratives Denken – Zur Rolle von Zeichnungen, Scribbles und Visualisierungen im wissenschaftlichen Entdeckungsprozess" by…

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10 July 2025
Stadtpalais, Theaterstraße 75
Aachen, 52062 Germany
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Data Behaviorism: A History – Daniela Wentz

Due to the heat, the lecture will only take place online. Abstract: Is behaviorism a…

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02 July 2025
Stadtpalais/Online, Theaterstraße 75
Aachen, 52062 Germany
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Talk & Discussion “Hidden Futures: Work. Clicks & Crowds”

Which chain of work processes are triggered by a click in an app? Whose bodies…

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26 June 2025
PACT Zollverein, Bullmannaue 20a
Essen, 45327 Germany
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Vortrag “Ein Kind der Wissensökonomie? Zur Geschichte der Wissensgeschichte”

Professor Caspar Hirschi from the University of St. Gallen will give a talk on “A…

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25 June 2025
Stadtpalais, Theaterstraße 75
Aachen, 52062 Germany
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Metascience as the Social Hygiene Movement of Science Studies – Bart Penders

Abstract: Metascience and its more activist sibling, scientific reform, seek to rebuild public and peer…

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18 June 2025
Stadtpalais/Online, Theaterstraße 75
Aachen, 52062 Germany
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Tagung “Der singuläre Satz”

Tagung "Der singuläre Satz" by the Research Area "Wissenskulturen" of the Faculty Arts and Humanities…

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11 June 2025
Stadtpalais, Theaterstraße 75
Aachen, 52062 Germany
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Expanding STS: Art, Science, and Technology Studies (ASTS) – Hannah Star Rogers

Abstract: Art and science are all around us: in the academy, in galleries, and in…

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21 May 2025
Stadtpalais/Online, Theaterstraße 75
Aachen, 52062 Germany
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Design Meets Evolution: Theory and Practice – Theodore von Kármán Lecture with Victor de Lorenzo

Abstract: The prevailing view of biological evolution is not unlike bricolage/pastiche/tinkering – in sharp contrast…

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13 May 2025
Stadtpalais, Theaterstraße 75
Aachen, 52062 Germany
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Innovation as Res Publica: The New Governance of Technoscience and its Politics – Nina Frahm

This lecture is part of the summer semester 2025 lecture series Expanding Science and Technology…

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07 May 2025
Stadtpalais/Online, Theaterstraße 75
Aachen, 52062 Germany
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Science-Art Installation Experiment “Melodic Pigments: Exploring New Synesthesia”

Science-Art Installation Experiment by Yasmin Vega (Tokyo University of the Arts) and Masahiko Hara (Tokyo…

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28 April 2025
Stadtpalais, Theaterstraße 75
Aachen, 52062 Germany
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Workshop “After Networks: Reframing Scale, Reimagining Connections”

If “Expanded STS” can also be understood as a platform – in a sense that…

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16 April 2025
RWTH Aachen University – Super C, Templergraben 57
Aachen, 52062
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Tagung “Digitale Aufklärung” der DGPhil

You can find the program in this document. If you would like to attend, please…

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16 April 2025
RWTH Aachen University – Super C, Templergraben 57
Aachen, 52062
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Workshop “Engaged Social Studies of Modelling”

Modelling and computing are increasingly at the heart of innovation, governance, and public policy. Yet,…

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03 April 2025
Stadtpalais, Theaterstraße 75
Aachen, 52062 Germany
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International Conference “Cultures of Research”

The international conference “Cultures of Research” takes stock of the first four years of the…

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25 March 2025
Forum M, Mayersche, Buchkremerstraße 1-7
Aachen, 52062 Germany
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Beyond-nature / Beyond-life

Due to the rapid development of materials sciences during the past decades, such disciplines known…

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21 February 2025
Stadtpalais/Online, Theaterstraße 75
Aachen, 52062 Germany
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ERS invites… Dr. Pēteris Zilgalvis: Competition Law in the Digital Era: AI and other new challenges

Professor Stefan Böschen, Director of the KHK c:o/re, and the Exploratory Research Space (ERS) of…

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24 January 2025
RWTH Aachen University – Super C – Generali Saal 639, Templergraben 57
Aachen, 52062 Germany
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What Role for History and Philosophy of Science in STS? Critical Engagements with Empirical Inquiry – Sabina Leonelli

This event is part of our winter semester 2024/25 Lecture Series Expanding Science and Technology…

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21 January 2025

Lecture “The (global) politics of Technology Assessment – discursive-deliberative or agonistic?” – Pierre Delvenne

This lecture is part of the “STS Forum” organized by the HumTec (Human Technology Center)…

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16 January 2025
Stadtpalais, Theaterstraße 75
Aachen, 52062 Germany
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Communicating Science and Technology. How Can STS Benefit From Historical Semantics? – Désirée Schauz

This event is part of our winter semester 2024/25 Lecture Series Expanding Science and Technology…

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08 January 2025