Lecture Series
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Art’s Mediation as Remediation: On Some Artworks and their reuses of Toxic Materials – Esther Leslie
Stadtpalais/Online Theaterstraße 75, Aachen, GermanyThere is so much toxicity and contamination in the world. It is incontestable that vast…
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Plea for the Political Philosophy of Engineering and Technology – Carl Mitcham
Stadtpalais/Online Theaterstraße 75, Aachen, GermanyAbstract: My thesis is that discussion of ethical and other issues in the philosophy of…
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Towards an Ecology of Technoscience – Massimiliano Simons
Stadtpalais/Online Theaterstraße 75, Aachen, GermanyAbstract: New emerging sciences and technologies - such as AI, synthetic biology, or robotics -…
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Flowers for Agouti: Epigenetics and the Genealogy of Uplift – Ben Woodard
Stadtpalais/Online Theaterstraße 75, Aachen, GermanyAbstract: The notion of uplift has a science-fictional and social justice connotation: it is the…
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Bio-inspired Materials and Dreams of Inspiration – Michael Friedman
Stadtpalais/Online Theaterstraße 75, Aachen, GermanyAbstract: Materials are found at the very center of our life, situated in the complex…
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Distilled, Extruded, Suspended: Lessons in Lifelikeness from the Metabolism of Mass Production – Hannah Landecker
RWTH Aachen University - Super C - Generali Saal 639 Templergraben 57, Aachen, GermanyKeynote “Politics of the Machines” Conference Abstract: This talk is about quite ordinary matters, such…
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Lifestyle Transitions in Human Microbiome Research: A View from History and Philosophy of Science – Abigail Nieves
Stadtpalais/Online Theaterstraße 75, Aachen, GermanyThis event is part of our summer semester 2024 Lecture Series Lifelikeness. If you would…
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On the Origin and Development of Scientific Concepts: Light Rays and Lines of Force – Friedrich Steinle
Stadtpalais/Online Theaterstraße 75, Aachen, GermanyAbstract: In studying the historical dynamics of scientific knowledge, concepts constitute central objects. Their study,…
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Life-Like Artificial Music: Understanding the Impact of AI on Musical Thinking – Nikita Braguinski
Stadtpalais/Online Theaterstraße 75, Aachen, GermanyAbstract: This lecture explores the impact of machine learning on the future of music research…
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Indoor Atmospheres: Comfort, Aerial Hygiene and the Microbiome of the Built Environment – Sven Opitz
Stadtpalais/Online Theaterstraße 75, Aachen, GermanyThis event is part of our summer semester 2024 Lecture Series Lifelikeness. If you would…
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Organising Life: Biocuration, Bio-Ontologies, and the Conditions of Academic Work – Sarah Davies
Stadtpalais/Online Theaterstraße 75, Aachen, GermanyAbstract: In this talk I discuss biocuration as a field of scholarly practice. In creating…
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Towards Expanded STS? – Stefan Böschen
This event is part of our winter semester 2024/25 Lecture Series Expanding Science and Technology…



