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SUMMARY:How Uncertainty is Rendered Residual - Carsten Reinhardt
DESCRIPTION:This event is part of our summer semester 2025 Lecture Series Expanding Science and Technology Studies. \nAbstract: \nResidual Uncertainty is a historiographical concept of mine that combines the contingency part of traditional historiography with an approach featuring chemical residues as “matter out of place\, time\, and reason”. In my lecture\, I wish to further develop the concept through addressing social processes that enable uncertainty to become a permanent and powerful\, yet invisible\, as well as a flexible and scientific\, but unquestionable\, feature of society. In other words\, I hope to answer the question: How is uncertainty rendered residual? I seek answers in the practices\, concepts\, and organizational forms of mid-twentieth-century regulatory science\, embedded in the executive branch of government. \nTo take part either online or in presence\, please register with events@khk.rwth-aachen.de.
URL:https://khk.rwth-aachen.de/event/how-uncertainty-is-rendered-residual/
LOCATION:Stadtpalais/Online\, Theaterstraße 75\, Aachen\, 52062\, Germany
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SUMMARY:Data Behaviorism: A History - Daniela Wentz
DESCRIPTION:Due to the heat\, the lecture will only take place online.  \nAbstract: \nIs behaviorism a revenant? This talk traces the emergence and expansion of data behaviorism – an epistemic and technical regime that models and governs human action through behavioral data and has shaped key infrastructures of prediction\, recommendation\, and control in contemporary digital systems. Drawing on historical case studies from mid-century behaviorist psychology\, this talk interrogates the historical and epistemological foundations of data behaviorism by asking whether the behavioral logics underpinning today’s algorithmic systems represent a rupture – or rather an expansion – of earlier modes of governing conduct. Engaging critically with contemporary diagnoses of data-driven control\, it explores how the capture\, formalization\, and modulation of behavior have long structured practices of intervention. By foregrounding its historical trajectories\, I aim to open up data behaviorism to critical scrutiny from an STS perspective. \nThis event is part of our summer semester 2025 Lecture Series Expanding Science and Technology Studies. \nPlease register with events@khk.rwth-aachen.de.
URL:https://khk.rwth-aachen.de/event/data-behaviorism-a-history-daniela-wentz/
LOCATION:Stadtpalais/Online\, Theaterstraße 75\, Aachen\, 52062\, Germany
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SUMMARY:Metascience as the Social Hygiene Movement of Science Studies - Bart Penders
DESCRIPTION:Abstract: \nMetascience and its more activist sibling\, scientific reform\, seek to rebuild public and peer trust for embattled fields or disciplines through the proposal\, development and testing of new bureaucratic procedures for experimentation and publication in science. In the expanding STS universe\, metascience is a qualitatively different addition\, located outside of the HPS sphere and drawing concepts and methods primarily from psychology and epidemiology. \nMetascience’s tendency to build procedures and infrastructures is primarily motivated to keep things out of scientific practice: researcher degrees of freedom\, bias\, social\, political and economic influence and more. This lecture explores how the 19th-century hygienist movement can serve as a metaphor for contemporary scientific reform\, in which reformers act as “procedural hygienists.” Drawing on Mary Douglas’ Purity and Danger\, I will argue that just as the hygienists sought to impose order and cleanliness on the physical environment\, today’s reformers aim to purify scientific procedures\, addressing concerns of pollution in the form of bias\, error\, and opacity. \nI will draw attention especially to the role of statistics as part of procedural hygiene. In both 19th century hygienist movements and in contemporary scientific reform movements\, they are used to quantify and display contamination\, purify data\, assert authority and legitimacy\, and build trust. They also come with the risk of epistemic injustice and the opacity of the moral agenda underpinning definitions of purity. To this end\, I will ask how metascience is positioned relative to an expanding STS. \nThis event is part of our summer semester 2025 Lecture Series Expanding Science and Technology Studies. \nTo take part either online or in presence\, please register with events@khk.rwth-aachen.de.
URL:https://khk.rwth-aachen.de/event/metascience-as-the-social-hygiene-movement-of-science-studies-bart-penders/
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SUMMARY:Expanding STS: Art\, Science\, and Technology Studies (ASTS) - Hannah Star Rogers
DESCRIPTION:Abstract: \nArt and science are all around us: in the academy\, in galleries\, and in the news. How do we make sense of the power that these two categories hold in our society? And is this process new? In this lecture\, Rogers explores how the tools of Science and Technology Studies (STS) can provide critical insights into art and science projects\, highlighting the practices of these knowledge-making communities as discussed in her book Art\, Science\, and the Politics of Knowledge (MIT Press\, 2022). Rogers’ work challenges the idea that art and science are inherently separate or incompatible. Instead\, she suggests that these fields are better understood as knowledge communities that are constantly negotiating\, shaping\, and blurring their boundaries. This approach reframes how we think about the roles of art and science in society\, and it also points to a new subdiscipline—Art\, Science\, and Technology Studies (ASTS)—which blends the insights of both fields to explore their interconnectedness. This framework can deepen our understanding of how these disciplines shape social worlds. By examining artistic practices through the lens of STS and showing how art can inform STS inquiry\, Rogers highlights a dynamic and evolving relationship between science and art. This approach invites us to think beyond the traditional categories and consider the fluidity of knowledge production\, where the boundaries of art and science are constantly in flux\, influenced by politics\, culture\, and technological advances. \nThis event is part of our summer semester 2025 lecture series Expanding Science and Technology Studies. \nTo take part either online or in presence\, please register with events@khk.rwth-aachen.de.
URL:https://khk.rwth-aachen.de/event/expanding-sts-art-science-and-technology-studies-asts-hannah-star-rogers/
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SUMMARY:Innovation as Res Publica: The New Governance of Technoscience and its Politics – Nina Frahm
DESCRIPTION:This lecture is part of the summer semester 2025 lecture series Expanding Science and Technology Studies and the STS Forum organized by the HumTec (Human Technology Center) at RWTH Aachen University. \nAbstract: \nImperatives of technoscientific innovation have become a ubiquitous leitmotiv for public policies in the 21st century. Driven by increased public investments in research and development and fueled by hope and hype regarding the benefits of emerging technologies for society\, innovation is no longer a mere task of the market but a central concern of democracies in their pursuit of desirable futures. Yet\, innovation’s intrinsic uncertainty\, its risks and possible harms for people and the planet also present a challenge for public institutions when it comes to legitimizing innovation efforts. \nIn my research\, I follow the turn to innovation as res publica – a public thing – and argue that it is enabled by a shift from ‘hard’ regulatory instruments to tools and frameworks for the ‘soft’ governance of technoscience such as ethics guidelines and principles\, public engagement exercises\, and co-creation processes. Rather than following technocratic rationales\, the new governance of technoscience relies on new forms of reasoning and expertise that grant society\, its values and needs a central role in shaping innovation trajectories. As such\, it is key for the production of powerful imaginaries of democratic sovereignty vis-à-vis innovation and corollary ideals of socio-technical order. By zooming into the field of AI and emerging neurotechnologies\, I examine the situated politics of new governance regimes\, and in particular\, their critical role in the making of a body politic in the innovation era. \nIf you would like to attend\, please register with: events@khk.rwth-aachen.de.
URL:https://khk.rwth-aachen.de/event/innovation-as-res-publica-the-new-governance-of-technoscience-and-its-politics-nina-frahm/
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