Digital Complexity in Historical Perspective: Lessons from the Study of Technological Transitions in Data Production and Visualization – Charlotte Bigg (Paris)
This event is part of our winter term 2025/26 Lecture Series Digital Complexity: Beyond Human…
Aachen, 52062 Germany
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…
Aachen, 52062 Germany
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…
Aachen, 52062 Germany
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…
Aachen, 52062
Art Event: The Ambiguity of Sorting
The Ambiguity of Sorting How do technologies of separation bring us together? Digital systems are…
Aachen, 52062 Germany
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…
Aachen, 52062
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…
Aachen, 52062
Conference HaPoC 2025
The KHK c:o/re is proud to host the 8th edition of the international conference on…
Aachen, 52062
Reasoning in the Age of AI: Philosophical Perspectives
Abstract: This workshop explores the conceptual foundations of reasoning and asks whether artificial systems can…
Aachen, 52062 Germany
Green Work and Environmental Knowledge
Abstract: What is green work, who are green workers, and how are material cultures of…
Aachen, 52062 Germany
Stochastic Systems – Dirk Baecker (Friedrichshafen)
Abstract: Digital complexity eludes human understanding not only because it is based on the synchronization…
Aachen, 52062 Germany
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…
Aachen, 52062 Germany
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…
Aachen, 52062
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,…
Aachen, 52062 Germany
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…
Aachen, 52062 Germany
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…
Aachen, 52062 Germany
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…
Aachen, 52062 Germany
How Uncertainty is Rendered Residual – Carsten Reinhardt
This event is part of our summer semester 2025 Lecture Series Expanding Science and Technology…
Aachen, 52062 Germany
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…
Aachen, 52062 Germany
Data Behaviorism: A History – Daniela Wentz
Due to the heat, the lecture will only take place online. Abstract: Is behaviorism a…
Aachen, 52062 Germany
Talk & Discussion “Hidden Futures: Work. Clicks & Crowds”
Which chain of work processes are triggered by a click in an app? Whose bodies…
Essen, 45327 Germany
Vortrag “Ein Kind der Wissensökonomie? Zur Geschichte der Wissensgeschichte”
Professor Caspar Hirschi from the University of St. Gallen will give a talk on “A…
Aachen, 52062 Germany
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…
Aachen, 52062 Germany
Tagung “Der singuläre Satz”
Tagung "Der singuläre Satz" by the Research Area "Wissenskulturen" of the Faculty Arts and Humanities…
Aachen, 52062 Germany
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…
Aachen, 52062 Germany
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…
Aachen, 52062 Germany
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…
Aachen, 52062 Germany
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…
Aachen, 52062 Germany
Workshop “After Networks: Reframing Scale, Reimagining Connections”
If “Expanded STS” can also be understood as a platform – in a sense that…
Aachen, 52062
Tagung “Digitale Aufklärung” der DGPhil
You can find the program in this document. If you would like to attend, please…
Aachen, 52062
Workshop “Engaged Social Studies of Modelling”
Modelling and computing are increasingly at the heart of innovation, governance, and public policy. Yet,…
Aachen, 52062 Germany
International Conference “Cultures of Research”
The international conference “Cultures of Research” takes stock of the first four years of the…
Aachen, 52062 Germany
Beyond-nature / Beyond-life
Due to the rapid development of materials sciences during the past decades, such disciplines known…
Aachen, 52062 Germany
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…
Aachen, 52062 Germany
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…
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)…
Aachen, 52062 Germany
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…