The Käte Hamburger Kolleg: Cultures of Research (c:o/re) is an International Center for Advanced Studies in Philosophy, Sociology, and History of Science and Technology at RWTH Aachen University. It fosters interdisciplinary exchange with scholars from the natural and engineering sciences, particularly in the fields of matter, life and brain research as focused on the topics of complexity, lifelikeness and emergence.
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Lecture Series Summer 2023: Complexity

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Nowhere(to) to land? Conference @ RRC
The programme of the conference Nowhere(to) to land?, organized by the rhine ruhr center for science communication is now available at this research centre’s website. c:o/re directors Gabriele Gramelsberger and Stefan Böschen will be present at this event, chairing keynotes…
“The computer is not in itself rigorous” – Professor Øyvind Eide on modelling in digital humanities: between the sciences and the history of the humanities
Professor Øyvind Eide at c:o/re On May 24th, Professor Øyvind Eide delivered a talk at c:o/re on Modelling in digital humanities: between the sciences and the history of the humanities. Øyvind Eide is head of the Institute for Digital Humanities…
Professor Klaus Mainzer on Complexity: From Natural and Social Sciences to Artificial Intelligence
Professor Klaus Meinzer on complex parameter explosion and the Internet On May 17th, we were delighted to host Professor Klaus Mainzer, who delivered a talk on “Complexity From Natural and Social Sciences to Artificial Intelligence”, as part of the the…
Alin Olteanu @ National School of Political and Administrative Studies on New Media Imaginaries
Alin Olteanu is a guest speaker at his alma mater College of Communication and Public Relations, on May 10. He will give a talk on New Media Imaginaries within the Branding through social media course, led by Dr. Bianca Cheregi.…
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Circulating the STS Hub 2023
How is STS, as a scholarly discipline, practised in Germany? Which are the approaches to STS here? How do these relate to each other and which topics stimulate joint interdisciplinary and integrated STS research? Which institutions and actors participate in German STS research communities? The new STS-Hub conference series, hosted for the first time by…
Research in Times of War – “The War Added One More Factor – the War Itself”
For over a year now the war is raging in Ukraine. Anna Laktionova and Svitlana Shcherbak, two philosophers from Kiev, left after the invasion. They are fellows at c:o/re, an advanced studies center at RWTH Aachen University that focuses on different research cultures and how they change in times of global challenges and transformations. War…
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