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SUMMARY:Digitality as a Triad: From the Love Letter to Emotion AI - Anna Tuschling (Bochum)
DESCRIPTION:Abstract: \nThe lecture presents various historical and contemporary concepts of digitality that highlight the three characteristics of digital systems: discreteness\, arbitrariness\, and systematicity. In short\, digitality is often understood as a triad that applies not only to modern electronic computers but also to analog sign and writing systems. The lecture examines this form of digital complexity in terms of its epistemic and ontological status on the one hand\, and in relation to historical changes in the coding of qualities such as affectivity and emotionality on the other. Although digitality as a triad allows us to draw a line from love letters to emotional AI as historically varying forms of coding\, it by no means precludes a critique of AI. Rather\, systematically focusing on digital complexity helps us understand how emotions are to be made computable and enables us in the humanities to define more clearly what “emotion” and “affect” mean in the approaches of affective computing and emotion AI. \nThis event is part of our winter term 2025/26 Lecture Series Digital Complexity: Beyond Human Understanding. \nIf you would like to attend\, please register with events@khk.rwth-aachen.de.
URL:https://khk.rwth-aachen.de/event/digitality-as-a-triad-from-the-love-letter-to-emotion-ai-anna-tuschling-bochum/
LOCATION:Stadtpalais/Online\, Theaterstraße 75\, Aachen\, 52062\, Germany
CATEGORIES:Lecture Series 25/26
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20251105T140000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20251105T170000
DTSTAMP:20260414T195611
CREATED:20251023T101619Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260116T095402Z
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SUMMARY:Kick-off Event: Freedom of Research: A European Summit – Europe in Times of Division
DESCRIPTION:We cordially invite you to our kick-off event for the Freedom of Research Summit 2025\, featuring an online talk by Ines Pohl\, the Washington Bureau Chief at Deutsche Welle. \nProgram: \n14:00–14:15: Welcome remarks\n14:15–15:00: Talk by Ines Pohl (via Zoom)\n15:00–15:30: Questions and discussion\n15:30–15:45: Coffee break\n15:45–16:45: World Café\n16:45–17:00: Summary and end \nAbstract: \nThe United States has long been a beacon for freedom of research and expression. People from around the globe have come to this country to enjoy high-quality laboratories\, collaborate with international colleagues\, and thrive in an ideal environment for brilliant minds. However\, this landscape has changed dramatically since Donald Trump’s second term. Universities are facing challenges and lawsuits\, while students and faculty are increasingly concerned about their status\, often hesitant to speak on camera due to fears about the evolving work environment. \nInes Pohl\, a Nieman Fellow who studied at Harvard for a year\, has been covering these changes in the country for many years. She has engaged with professors and students on campus and\, as a White House foreign press pooler\, has had the opportunity to experience Donald Trump firsthand in the Oval Office. \nIn her talk\, she will share her insights on what makes Trump still successful\, what the world can learn from his rise\, and how individuals can stand firm in their beliefs without resorting to self-censorship out of fear of retribution. \nIf you would like to attend\, please send a short email to events@khk.rwth-aachen.de.
URL:https://khk.rwth-aachen.de/event/kick-off-event-freedom-of-research-a-european-summit-europe-in-times-of-division/
LOCATION:Stadtpalais/Online\, Theaterstraße 75\, Aachen\, 52062\, Germany
CATEGORIES:Talks,Workshops
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20251106T090000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20251106T170000
DTSTAMP:20260414T195611
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SUMMARY:Freedom of Research: A European Summit – Europe in Times of Division
DESCRIPTION:Europe stands at a crossroads: Political polarization\, disinformation\, and social fragmentation threaten the cohesion of our continent. National interests clash\, while external crises put increasing pressure on our democracies. At the same time\, science is under strain – facing targeted disinformation\, political interference\, and restrictions on academic freedom. How can we uphold shared values\, safeguard scientific exchange\, and strengthen trust in European institutions in times of division? \nUnder the motto “Europe in Times of Divison”\, the Summit will explore these pressing questions in various event formats and seek ways to build bridges – between nations\, generations\, and social groups\, as well as between politics\, business\, and science. \nThe Summit has three parts: Starting with a festive evening event on November 5\, from 7:00 to 10:00 pm in the Coronation Hall in Aachen Town Hall. Following with a symposium on the next day on November 6\, from 9:30 am to 5:30 pm in the Generali-Saal of SuperC at RWTH Aachen University. And ending with the Stand-up FoR Science NIGHT on 6 November\, starting at 6:30 pm at the Apollo Bar & Kino\, Aachen. \nFor more information about the program\, check out the event website. \nThe Summit is organized by the Charlemagne Prize Foundation and RWTH Aachen University’s Knowledge Hub and Käte Hamburger Kolleg: Cultures of Research (c:o/re).
URL:https://khk.rwth-aachen.de/event/freedom-of-research-symposium-2/
LOCATION:RWTH Aachen University – Super C\, Templergraben 57\, Aachen\, 52062
CATEGORIES:Conference
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20251112T170000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20251112T183000
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SUMMARY:Computer Science and Computer Use in Public Administration in Switzerland (1960-1984) - Ricky Wichum
DESCRIPTION:Abstract: \nIn my presentation\, I examine the digital culture of public administration in Switzerland from 1960 to 1990. The perspective on Switzerland is significant for the history of computing because the country lacks its own computer industry\, but has an internationally well-connected computer science department at ETH Zurich. As I will demonstrate\, numerous formal and informal interactions took place between ETH’s computer science department and government agencies\, which significantly influenced both sides’ work with computers. \nThis presentation focuses on debates about data protection in Switzerland during the mid-1970s. I argue that data protection can be seen as a trading zone between academic computer science and administrative computer use. Despite their different interests\, both sides agree to cooperate for a time. While the administration was eager to avoid federal laws and relied on the data protection mechanisms of the computer itself (and the computer scientists who promoted trust in the computer with public data)\, the academics used the bureaucratic routines of data processing and data protection as inspiration for teaching and research in the newly established discipline. Finally\, I would like to speculate on whether elements of a political theory of digital societies can be found in the administrative knowledge of computer science. \nThis event is part of our winter term 2025/26 Lecture Series Digital Complexity: Beyond Human Understanding. \nIf you would like to attend\, please register with events@khk.rwth-aachen.de.
URL:https://khk.rwth-aachen.de/event/computer-science-and-computer-use-in-public-administration-in-switzerland-1960-1984-ricky-wichum/
LOCATION:Stadtpalais/Online\, Theaterstraße 75\, Aachen\, 52062\, Germany
CATEGORIES:Lecture Series 25/26
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20251126T170000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20251126T183000
DTSTAMP:20260414T195611
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SUMMARY:Stochastic Systems - Dirk Baecker (Friedrichshafen)
DESCRIPTION:Abstract: \nDigital complexity eludes human understanding not only because it is based on the synchronization of incommensurable systems\, but also because each of these systems operates stochastically. We owe this insight to the “synthetic intelligence” (Brian Cantwell Smith) of machine learning models. An initially random variation of model assumptions enables the discovery and description of chance-dependent structures of an object or field ‘out there’. Stochastic systems “tame” (Ian Hacking) chance with the help of chance. This may apply not only to artificial systems\, but also to neural\, mental\, and social systems. And perhaps their stochasticity is the condition of possibility for their synchronization\, which can only ever be temporary. The lecture outlines a basic understanding of technology\, society\, consciousness\, and the brain in order to plausibly demonstrate that we are dealing with stochastic systems here. It discusses three concepts that can be used to describe the synchronization of these systems. The concept of information comes from computer science and formulates a relational understanding of information. The concept of feedback comes from cybernetics and brings the observer into play. And the concept of chance comes from stochastics and establishes a medial as well as formal understanding of reality. Digital complexity arises from the unavailability of the difference between the systems involved. \nThis event is part of our winter term 2025/26 Lecture Series Digital Complexity: Beyond Human Understanding. \nIf you would like to attend\, please register with events@khk.rwth-aachen.de.
URL:https://khk.rwth-aachen.de/event/stochastic-systems-dirk-baecker-friedrichshafen/
LOCATION:Stadtpalais/Online\, Theaterstraße 75\, Aachen\, 52062\, Germany
CATEGORIES:Lecture Series 25/26
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20251127T100000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20251127T190000
DTSTAMP:20260414T195611
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LAST-MODIFIED:20251121T104204Z
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SUMMARY:Green Work and Environmental Knowledge
DESCRIPTION:Abstract: \nWhat is green work\, who are green workers\, and how are  material cultures of practice and work and sustainable-society-in-transition co-produced? This workshop engages these questions\, proceeding from the premise that\, generally speaking\, studies of environment\, science\, technology\, society (STS)\, and energy have overlooked studies of material cultures of practice and work. Over the last half-century\, public policies have invested increasingly large resources into environmental mitigation and statistics suggest that many environmentally-sustainable green jobs are being stimulated in the process. Yet green work remains an ill-defined “contested discourse” (Teelucksingh 2019) as evidenced in the disparity between US and European data on this subject (Apostel and Barslund 2024). This controversy and the knowledge deficit it implies raises questions of the character and culture of environmental mitigation\, including the technologies\, infrastructures\, and material practices/social relations informed by environmental policy and green industrialization\, as well as what a socially and environmentally-just society would look like for the workers expected to build and maintain it. \nSchedule: \n10:00 Morning coffee \n10:15 Welcome and introductions: Matthew N. Eisler (University of Strathclyde) \n11:00 Keynote: University Professor Ferdinanda Ponci (E.ON Energy Research Center\, RWTH Aachen University) \n11:40 Q&A\, discussion \n12:00-1:30 Lunch \n 1:30  Mila Davids (Eindhoven University) \n2:00 Q&A\, discussion \n2:20  Lisa Claussmann (Paris-PSL) \n2:50  Q&A\, discussion \n3:10  Katie Kung (LMU Munich) \n3:40 Q&A\, discussion \n4:00 Afternoon coffee \n4:15 Rosalind Donald (American University) \n4:45 Q&A\, discussion \n5:30-6:30 Wrap-up discussion\, moderated by Hannah Star Rogers or Phillip H. Roth \n7:00 Dinner (Restaurant Elisenbrunnen) \n  \nPlease find more information and the abstracts in this document. \nIf you would like to attend\, please register with events@khk.rwth-aachen.de.
URL:https://khk.rwth-aachen.de/event/workshop-green-work-and-environmental-knowledge/
LOCATION:Stadtpalais\, Theaterstraße 75\, Aachen\, 52062\, Germany
CATEGORIES:Workshops
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20251216T093000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20251216T170000
DTSTAMP:20260414T195611
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SUMMARY:Reasoning in the Age of AI: Philosophical Perspectives
DESCRIPTION:Abstract: \nThis workshop explores the conceptual foundations of reasoning and asks whether artificial systems can genuinely be said to reason. It deals with how human thinking\, which is shaped by beliefs\, intentionality and experience\, differs from the more formal\, rule-based processes of AI. By discussing different perspectives from philosophy\, cognitive science\, and AI research\, we aim to better understand whether artificial reasoning could ever be considered real reasoning\, and what this might mean for our understanding. \nProgram: \n09:30     Welcome (Gabriele Gramelsberger) \n09:45     Markus Pantsar (RWTH Aachen): Towards an Epistemology of AI Reasoning \n10:30     Jacqueline Bellon (University Tübingen): Reasoning by Accident and Intelligence beyond Belief: Is Statistical Reasoning Rational and are Humans? \n11:15     Coffee Break \n11:30     Jakob Ohlhorst (RWTH Aachen): Theory of Mind\, (joint) Reasoning\, and Large Language Models \n12:15     Lunch \n13:45     Pirmin Stekeler-Weithofer (University Leipzig): Higher level Reason in Dialectical and Speculative Reflections. On the limited “Rationality” of Automatable Thinking \n14:30     Stefania Centrone (Technical University Munich): Deductive Reasoning in Leibniz\, Boole\, and Beyond \n15:15     Coffee Break \n15:30     Daniel Wenz (RWTH Aachen): What is the Reason behind Artificial Reasoning? \n16:15     Final Discussion \nPlease find the program and of the workshop in this document. \n.
URL:https://khk.rwth-aachen.de/event/reasoning-in-the-age-of-ai-philosophical-perspectives/
LOCATION:Stadtpalais\, Theaterstraße 75\, Aachen\, 52062\, Germany
CATEGORIES:Workshops
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DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20251220
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SUMMARY:Conference HaPoC 2025
DESCRIPTION:The KHK c:o/re is proud to host the 8th edition of the international conference on History and Philosophy of Computing (HaPoC)\, taking place every two years under the auspices of the DHST/DLMPST Interdivisional Commission on History and Philosophy of Computing (www.hapoc.org). \nInitiated in 2011\, the conference has the aim of building an interdisciplinary community and environment to address the various facets of computing and computing  technology\, bringing together scholars from a broad range of disciplines to discuss the past and present cultures\, practices and images of computing. \nFind the program on our website. \n\nKeynote Speakers:\nLiesbeth De Mol\, CNRS/Université de Lille\, France\nRobin K. Hill\, University of Wyoming\, US\nAlexandre Hocquet\, Université de Lorraine\, France \nProgram Committee:\nArianna Borrelli\, TU Berlin and RWTH Aachen\, Germany\nJianqing Chen\, Washington University at Saint Louis\, US\nJack Copeland\, University of Canterbury\, Christchurch\, NZ\nBeatrice Fazi\,  University of Sussex\, UK\nGabriele Gramelsberger\, RWTH Aachen\, Germany\nThomas Haigh\, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee\, US\nAndrei Korbut\, CAIS Center for Advanced Internet Studies Bochum\, Germany\nAlfred Nordmann\, TU Darmstadt\, Germany\nMitsuhiro Okada\, Keio University\, Tokyo\, Japan\nBen Peters\, University of Tulsa\, US\nMate Szabo\, University of Southern California\, US \nLocal Organising Committee at RWTH Aachen University:\nGabriele Gramelsberger (philosophy of science)\nStefan Böschen (sociology of science)\nDawid Kasprowicz (philosophy of science)\nPhillip Roth (science and technology studies)\nSaskia Nagel (ethics of science)\nTorsten Voigt (science and technology studies)
URL:https://khk.rwth-aachen.de/event/hapoc-2025-conference/
LOCATION:RWTH Aachen University – Super C\, Templergraben 57\, Aachen\, 52062
CATEGORIES:Conference
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20251217T170000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20251217T183000
DTSTAMP:20260414T195611
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SUMMARY:A Portrait of the Scientist as a User - Alexandre Hocquet (Nancy)
DESCRIPTION:Abstract: \nWhy are computational chemists so peculiar? The history of their relationship with software brings an interesting case study to understand how software may shape scientific activity. We present four key moments in this history — from 1962 to 2024 — to illustrate how visions of openness and user agency have evolved. These include a software-sharing initiative\, controversies over licensing and user management\, and debates about the Alphafold AI tool. \nThe multifaceted category of ‘users’ is key to understand discourses about openness. We identify patterns of evolution in the relationship between software packages and the computational chemistry community. Throughout our narration\, the notion of ‘users’ becomes more complex\, in line with the commodification of programs into packages and the increasing complexity of the packages themselves. \nThrough the dyanmics of sharing\, the legal consequences of software licenses\, Non-Disclosure Agreements\, and End-User License Agreements\, we point out that the overall resulting pattern of evolution amounts to a kind of dispossession of scientists’ agency in their relationships with their tools. We propose to view the history of computational chemistry as the formation of a particular ‘repertoire’ where software is central and where the issue of the forms of collaboration and interaction among practitioners implies visions of openness of software development\, circulation\, maintenance and uses\, all in friction. \nThis lecture is part of the 8th HaPoC Conference 2025 in Aachen. \nIf you would like to attend\, please register with events@khk.rwth-aachen.de.
URL:https://khk.rwth-aachen.de/event/a-portrait-of-the-scientist-as-a-user-alexandre-hocquet-nancy/
LOCATION:RWTH Aachen University – Super C\, Templergraben 57\, Aachen\, 52062
CATEGORIES:Lecture Series 25/26
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20251218T093000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20251218T103000
DTSTAMP:20260414T195611
CREATED:20250926T102657Z
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SUMMARY:What Is a Computer Program? Or\, How I Liberate(d) Myself as a Computer User - Liesbeth De Mol (Lille)
DESCRIPTION:Abstract: \nThe aim of this talk is to present the PROGRAMme project\, a collective work amongst researchers from diverse disciplinary and ideological backgrounds who met for several years to work on the question “What is a computer program?”. In that project we develop a research programme which assumes it is possible /and/ necessary to work together across disciplinary and other boundaries to turn around a number of fundamental problems we are facing in connection to “programs”. In that regard\, the project is first of all a humanistic work: while programs have been interpreted before as an exemplification of cold\, inhuman rationality\, it is clear that more humanistic visions are possible. I present the project from a personal perspective and show how my version of PROGRAMme is deeply anchored in a more activist stance aimed at user liberations which\, in my case\, goes hand-in-hand with so-called academic nomadisms. I conclude with some concrete proposals for the future of the history and philosophy of computing. \nThis lecture is part of the 8th HaPoC Conference 2025 in Aachen. \nIf you would like to attend\, please register with events@khk.rwth-aachen.de.
URL:https://khk.rwth-aachen.de/event/what-is-a-computer-program-or-how-i-liberated-myself-as-a-computer-user-liesbeth-de-mol-lille/
LOCATION:RWTH Aachen University – Super C\, Templergraben 57\, Aachen\, 52062
CATEGORIES:Lecture Series 25/26
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20251218T180000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20251218T200000
DTSTAMP:20260414T195611
CREATED:20251121T131701Z
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SUMMARY:Art Event: The Ambiguity of Sorting
DESCRIPTION:The Ambiguity of Sorting\nHow do technologies of separation bring us together? \nDigital systems are based on acts of transformation from continuity and unity into discreteness and separation. These acts of transformation have been popularized in the multiple ways in which humans engage with AI systems and other forms of digital technologies. Everything we do is transformed\, one could say\, automatically into data. It is transformed into discrete units that can be computed. Digital technologies have become more than tools for research; people produce knowledge with them\, engage emotionally through and with these systems\, generating new forms and spaces of intimacy. At the same time\, these technologies carry a history of creating disconnections\, failing to account for different ways of engaging with the world. They are the result of a certain imaginary of the human and intelligence\, one that leaves aside many other existing ways to be in the world. What kind of communities are enabled by technologies? What kind of technologies are successful in bringing communities together? Can we imagine a history of technology that is based on plural ways of understanding intelligence and the human? How can we design technologies that bring people together? How can we imagine technologies that enable communities? \nThe Ambiguity of Sorting is a pop-up exhibition and a panel discussion that takes place during the 8th edition of the Conference of the Society for the History and Philosophy of Computing. The event brings together installation\, performance\, and conversations to discuss how the history of intelligent systems embodied ideas of intelligence\, the human\, and how we live together. With the panel\, we invite to think of a different history of computing\, one where those that were not thought to be fitting within their categories were creating their own technologies all along. \nWith contribution by: Sasha Bergstrom-Katz\, Ren Loren Britton\, and Verena Friedrich \nOrganization and moderation: Ana Maria Guzmán Olmos \nFind out more about the artists and their artworks on this website. \nHeader photo: Sasha Bergstrom-Katz\, On the Subject of Tests: Opening Boxes\, 2022. Video.
URL:https://khk.rwth-aachen.de/event/art-event-ambiguity-of-sorting/
LOCATION:RWTH Aachen University – Super C – Generali Saal 639\, Templergraben 57\, Aachen\, 52062\, Germany
CATEGORIES:Art,Conference,Talks
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20251219T093000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20251219T103000
DTSTAMP:20260414T195611
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SUMMARY:Desk to Discourse:  Development of the Philosophy of Computing from Wordstar and VisiCalc - Robin Hill (Laramie)
DESCRIPTION:Abstract: \nWhile the American Philosophical Association’s Committee on Philosophy and Computers started its mission with community tech help and suggestions\, the path proceeded through technique\, practice\, and application to philosophy. To explore interesting stages along the way\, this talk identifies and follows features of office software through their effects and implications to emerging philosophical questions. Some are known\, some are trivial\, but we find questions of potential depth concerning the affordances and constraints of naming\, values\, separation\, and structure\, all appropriate for the philosophy of computing. \nThis lecture is part of the 8th HaPoC Conference 2025 in Aachen. \nIf you would like to attend\, please register with events@khk.rwth-aachen.de.
URL:https://khk.rwth-aachen.de/event/desktop-to-discourse-philosophy-born-of-wordstar-and-visicalc-robin-hill-laramie/
LOCATION:RWTH Aachen University – Super C\, Templergraben 57\, Aachen\, 52062
CATEGORIES:Lecture Series 25/26
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20260107T170000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20260107T183000
DTSTAMP:20260414T195611
CREATED:20250926T101612Z
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SUMMARY:Reimagining Cities: Computational Thinking in the Post War Period - Nathalie Bredella (Hanover)
DESCRIPTION:This event is part of our winter term 2025/26 Lecture Series Digital Complexity: Beyond Human Understanding. \nIf you would like to attend\, please register with events@khk.rwth-aachen.de.
URL:https://khk.rwth-aachen.de/event/reimagining-cities-computational-thinking-in-the-post-war-period-nathalie-bredella-hanover/
LOCATION:Stadtpalais/Online\, Theaterstraße 75\, Aachen\, 52062\, Germany
CATEGORIES:Lecture Series 25/26
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ORGANIZER;CN="c%3Ao/re":MAILTO:events@khk.rwth-aachen.de
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20260121T170000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20260121T183000
DTSTAMP:20260414T195611
CREATED:20250926T101537Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260116T094750Z
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SUMMARY:Did the Computer Drive Science? Hardware Development and Digital Complexity in the 20th Century - Ulf Hashagen (Munich)
DESCRIPTION:Abstract: \nThe assumption that economic\, technological and scientific development is driven by technological\ndeterminism is widespread in politics\, business\, and society\, as well as among scientists and\nengineers. A notable example of this belief is the current notion that advances in scientific\nknowledge are inextricably linked to the development of AI technology. Since the AI boom in the\n2010s was based on the particular potential of graphics processing units (GPUs) for implementing\ndeep learning algorithms\, the question arises as to what extent modern science in the 20th century\nwas already based on computers and driven by hardware innovations. \nA historical review should enable a critical examination of this assumption from a broader historical\nperspective. The lecture addresses the question of the extent to which the development of computer\nhardware and scientific development have influenced each other since the invention of the computer\nin the 1940s. Historical research has shown that the design and development of the first computers\nwas primarily driven by scientific problems in war research. From the mid-1950s onwards\,\nuniversities and non-university research institutions increasingly entered into “alliances with\nindustry” in the planning and production of new computers and eventually became customers of the\ncomputer industry. How this bilateral producer-customer relationship and the trilateral relationship\nbetween the computer industry\, the state\, and science have developed since the 1950s in terms of\nresearch funding\, the equipping of scientific institutions with computers\, and their use by scientists\nfrom various disciplines is a question that has received relatively little attention in historical research\nto date. \nThese questions are discussed against the backdrop that\, since the 1970s\, the history of technology\nhas been committed to a model of contextualized historiography and has sought to prove in\nnumerous studies that the assumption that technology is an autonomous factor in the continuous\ntransformation of the human environment is a naïve idea. \nThis event is part of our winter term 2025/26 Lecture Series Digital Complexity: Beyond Human Understanding. \nIf you would like to attend\, please register with events@khk.rwth-aachen.de.
URL:https://khk.rwth-aachen.de/event/did-the-computer-drive-science-hardware-development-and-digital-complexity-in-the-20th-century-ulf-hashagen-munich/
LOCATION:Stadtpalais/Online\, Theaterstraße 75\, Aachen\, 52062\, Germany
CATEGORIES:Lecture Series 25/26
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ORGANIZER;CN="c%3Ao/re":MAILTO:events@khk.rwth-aachen.de
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20260211T170000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20260211T183000
DTSTAMP:20260414T195611
CREATED:20250926T101445Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260115T104027Z
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SUMMARY:Digital Complexity in Historical Perspective: Lessons from the Study of Technological Transitions in Data Production and Visualization - Charlotte Bigg (Paris)
DESCRIPTION:This event is part of our winter term 2025/26 Lecture Series Digital Complexity: Beyond Human Understanding. \nIf you would like to attend\, please register with events@khk.rwth-aachen.de.
URL:https://khk.rwth-aachen.de/event/digital-complexity-in-historical-perspective-lessons-from-the-study-of-technological-transitions-in-data-production-and-visualization-charlotte-bigg-paris/
LOCATION:Stadtpalais/Online\, Theaterstraße 75\, Aachen\, 52062\, Germany
CATEGORIES:Lecture Series 25/26
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ORGANIZER;CN="c%3Ao/re":MAILTO:events@khk.rwth-aachen.de
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20260312T100000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20260312T170000
DTSTAMP:20260414T195611
CREATED:20260226T092506Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260226T092556Z
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SUMMARY:Workshop: Digital Capitalism & Varieties of Science (Tokyo\, Japan)
DESCRIPTION:In recent years\, digital technologies have not only given rise to new sociocultural realities\, thus reshaping economies\, but have begun to profoundly alter the ways in which knowledge is produced\, validated\, and disseminated. Against this backdrop\, this workshop explores the intersection of varieties of science and varieties of digital capitalism through a comparative and interdisciplinary lens. Starting from specific digital technologies – particularly the metaverse\, extended reality\, and human augmentation – we examine distinct institutional\, cultural\, and epistemic configurations.\nOur focus lies especially on Japan\, which has been characterized as a coordinated market economy alongside Germany. The workshop adopts an approach that investigates how science and capitalism co-evolve under conditions of digital transformation – understood here as a topic for critical inquiry (following Stolterman and Croon Fors 2004). Moving beyond modernization theory\, we ask how digital tools and platforms take shape across a range of socio-political contexts\, and how they in turn affect knowledge regimes and research practices.\nBy bringing together perspectives from STS\, economics\, and Japanese studies\, along with insights from practice\, the workshop seeks to open up a productive dialogue on how emerging technologies\, digital capitalism\, and scientific cultures co-constitute one another – across regions\, disciplines\, and epistemic traditions. We hold that the case of Japan\, the first non-Western country to become an advanced economy and fertile spawning ground for technoscientific imaginations and attributions\, offers particularly valuable insights into these processes. \nCo-Organizers: Käte Hamburger Kolleg: Cultures of Research (RWTH Aachen)\, German Institute for Japanese Studies (DIJ) Tokyo\nConvenors: Stefan Böschen\, Harald Kümmerle\, Nicole Müller\nLocation: German Institute for Japanese Studies (DIJ)\, Tokyo \nThe Sessions on Day One (“Digital Technology in Context”) will be livestreamed for a public online audience. Please register via: maxweberstiftung.zoom-x.de/webinar/register/WN_dKDVTS-VS5agd0_ea9wzaA. \nYou can find more information in the program and the speakers’ bios. \nPlease keep the time difference between Japan and Germany in mind!
URL:https://khk.rwth-aachen.de/event/workshop-digital-capitalism-varieties-of-science-tokyo-japan/
CATEGORIES:Workshops
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20260415T170000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20260415T183000
DTSTAMP:20260414T195611
CREATED:20260318T100823Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260318T104621Z
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SUMMARY:Dis/Trusting Generative AI? Assessing Four Types of Deception Through Generative AI - Judith Simon (University of Hamburg)
DESCRIPTION:Abstract: \nGenerative AI has taken the world by storm\, intensifying debates on the ethics of AI in general and notions of trustworthy Generative AI in particular. In my talk\, I propose the notion of quadruple deception to capture a distinctive feature of Generative AI with significant epistemological\, ethical and political implications: 1) deception regarding the ontological status of one’s interactional counterpart\, 2) deception regarding the capacities of AI\, 3) deception through content created with Generative AI as well as 4) deception resulting from function creep of Generative AI. Arguing that deception endangers trust and trustworthiness\, I assess the epistemic\, ethical and political implications of these four different types of deception for trust and trustworthiness. I will end with some conclusions on how to increase the trustworthiness of Generative AI to enable more justified trust in such technologies. \nThis event is part of our summer term 2026 Lecture Series Digital Complexity: Beyond Human Understanding. \nIf you would like to attend\, please register with events@khk.rwth-aachen.de.
URL:https://khk.rwth-aachen.de/event/dis-trusting-generative-ai-assessing-four-types-of-deception-through-generative-ai-judith-simon-university-of-hamburg/
LOCATION:Stadtpalais/Online\, Theaterstraße 75\, Aachen\, 52062\, Germany
CATEGORIES:Lecture Series 2026
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260416
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260418
DTSTAMP:20260414T195611
CREATED:20260316T091932Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260316T091932Z
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SUMMARY:DFG-Workshop: Erkennen und Handeln zwischen Simulation und Realität
DESCRIPTION:The DFG workshop “Erkennen und Handeln zwischen Simulation und Realität” (Recognizing and Acting Between Simulation and Reality) will take place from April 16 to 17\, 2026\, in the c:o/re lecture hall. The event will be held in German. The full program can be found here. \n 
URL:https://khk.rwth-aachen.de/event/dfg-workshop-erkennen-und-handeln-zwischen-simulation-und-realitat/
LOCATION:Stadtpalais\, Theaterstraße 75\, Aachen\, 52062\, Germany
CATEGORIES:Workshops
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20260429T170000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20260429T183000
DTSTAMP:20260414T195611
CREATED:20260318T104657Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260318T104657Z
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SUMMARY:Digital Complexity: De-Anthropological Trends in Computing\, AI\, and Robotics - Gabriele Gramelsberger (RWTH Aachen University)
DESCRIPTION:Abstract: \nCurrent developments in the fields of simulation and artificial intelligence (AI) have shown that the complexity of digital tools has exceeded the level of human understanding. We can no longer comprehend\, understand or explain the results that AI delivers. Even AI deceptions and hallucinations are now almost impossible to detect. This raises the question of the relationship between humans and their technology anew. Are technologies as instruments useful extensions of human capabilities\, as it was understood in the classical philosophy of technology\, or are we now extensions of our technologies? Will AI dominate and manipulate us in the near future? \nThis event is part of our summer term 2026 Lecture Series Digital Complexity: Beyond Human Understanding. \nIf you would like to attend\, please register with events@khk.rwth-aachen.de.
URL:https://khk.rwth-aachen.de/event/digital-complexity-de-anthropological-trends-in-computing-ai-and-robotics-gabriele-gramelsberger-rwth-aachen-university/
LOCATION:Stadtpalais/Online\, Theaterstraße 75\, Aachen\, 52062\, Germany
CATEGORIES:Lecture Series 2026
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20260508T080000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20260509T170000
DTSTAMP:20260414T195611
CREATED:20260205T081710Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260414T141348Z
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SUMMARY:Hidden Futures: Prediction and Promise
DESCRIPTION:Our futures are made by technologies. How do data\, algorithms\, platforms\, and code structure the future? What kinds of visions of the future are designed and foreseen by scientific practices and technological development? Who is included in such visions? How can we act in the midst of our technological present? \nTogether with PACT Zollverein\, an international center for the performing arts working in the fields of dance\, performance\, theater\, media\, the KHK c:o/re organizes the event series “Hidden Futures”. The series brings together activists\, researchers\, and artists\, opening new perspectives on the increasing complexity of digital life. Here\, the future is not merely conceived as a distant vision\, but also as a concrete reality embedded in the present – inscribed in data and platforms\, in decision-making systems\, in landscapes\, infrastructures\, in actions\, and in social contexts. \nThe second edition\, “Hidden Futures: Prediction and Promise”\, explores how technological development creates future scenarios\, shapes human and nonhuman life\, and forms social and ecological contexts in the present. On May 8 and 9\, 2026\, we will engage in a series of conversations\, walks\, and tours to unpack how the future is being made and decided\, with and by technologies. \nOn May 8\, we are taking a bus tour into the Rhenish Mining area: Where the massive pit of the Hambach surface mine still stands today\, a new lakeland is set to emerge in the coming decades – one rich in ecological\, economic\, and tourist potential. In Elsdorf\, Manheim\, and Bürgewald\, we meet people\, including artist Silke Schatz and landscape and open space planner Daniela Karow-Kluge\, who are planning\, accompanying\, or questioning this structural transformation. \nOn May 9\, we will meet at PACT Zollverein in Essen\, where artists and researchers will engage in a dialogue to explore different forms of knowledge and practices that go beyond the promises of technological developments. The future is conceived here as a present shaped by predictive systems that already organize and yield reality. With Choy Ka Fai\, Ren Loren Britton\, Nonhuman Nonsense\, Nelly Y. Pinkrah\, Yi Gu\, Tomas Percival and many more. \nFind further information and tickets on PACT’s website here.
URL:https://khk.rwth-aachen.de/event/hidden-futures-work-clicks-crowds-2/
LOCATION:PACT Zollverein\, Bullmannaue 20a\, Essen\, 45327\, Germany
CATEGORIES:Talks
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20260513T170000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20260513T183000
DTSTAMP:20260414T195611
CREATED:20260318T104310Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260325T125803Z
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SUMMARY:Inferential Blueprints and Windows on Reality - Michela Massimi (University of Edinburgh)
DESCRIPTION:Abstract:\nIn this talk\, I present a key aspect of my 2022 book Perspectival realism (OUP)\, namely the view of scientific models as inferential blueprints. Against a long-standing tradition that has focussed on the representational role of scientific models\, I explain the rationale for regarding models as primarily inferential blueprints that allow different epistemic communities to exchange relevant and appropriate inferences on the relevant target system. I illustrate the view with both historical and contemporary examples of scientific modelling and I spell out the nature of the modal knowledge licensed by scientific models. \nThis event is part of our summer term 2026 Lecture Series Digital Complexity: Beyond Human Understanding. \nIf you would like to attend\, please register with events@khk.rwth-aachen.de.
URL:https://khk.rwth-aachen.de/event/inferential-blueprints-and-windows-on-reality-michela-massimi-university-of-edinburgh/
LOCATION:Stadtpalais/Online\, Theaterstraße 75\, Aachen\, 52062\, Germany
CATEGORIES:Lecture Series 2026
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20260603T170000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20260603T183000
DTSTAMP:20260414T195611
CREATED:20260318T104450Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260318T104450Z
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SUMMARY:Causation as Sign Action: Semiotic Empiricism and the Causal Complexity of Large Language Models - M. Beatrice Fazi (University of Sussex)
DESCRIPTION:Abstract: \nCan large language models (LLMs) engage with causation\, or are they confined to detecting correlations in data? This talk argues that addressing this question requires rethinking what causation itself is and how it becomes intelligible. Drawing on Charles Sanders Peirce’s triadic theory of signs\, the talk develops the position that causation is semiotically constituted: causal relations become meaningful not through experiential grounding alone but through irreducibly triadic sign processes involving signs\, objects\, and interpretants. Albert Michotte’s “launching effect” experiment provides a key departure point\, demonstrating that causal perception is already semiotic rather than a matter of direct apprehension or Humean inference. This reframing challenges Judea Pearl’s influential “ladder of causation”—which positions LLMs as processors of correlations incapable of causal reasoning—while also taking seriously Pearl’s own acknowledgment that causal information is embedded in the training texts on which these models operate. The talk proposes “semiotic empiricism” as a framework in which experience is structured by meaning-making rather than preceding it\, and examines its consequences for understanding how LLMs might participate in causal reasoning as semiotic machines\, thus moving the debate beyond both dismissive critique and anthropomorphic overclaiming. \nThis event is part of our summer term 2026 Lecture Series Digital Complexity: Beyond Human Understanding. \nIf you would like to attend\, please register with events@khk.rwth-aachen.de.
URL:https://khk.rwth-aachen.de/event/causation-as-sign-action-semiotic-empiricism-and-the-causal-complexity-of-large-language-models-m-beatrice-fazi-university-of-sussex/
LOCATION:Stadtpalais/Online\, Theaterstraße 75\, Aachen\, 52062\, Germany
CATEGORIES:Lecture Series 2026
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20260617T170000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20260617T183000
DTSTAMP:20260414T195611
CREATED:20260318T104735Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260318T104735Z
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SUMMARY:Cybernetics and Critique: A Theory of Digital Governmentality - Anna-Verena Nosthoff (Carl von Ossietzky University Oldenburg)
DESCRIPTION:Abstract:\nwill follow soon \nThis event is part of our summer term 2026 Lecture Series Digital Complexity: Beyond Human Understanding. \nIf you would like to attend\, please register with events@khk.rwth-aachen.de.
URL:https://khk.rwth-aachen.de/event/cybernetics-and-critique-a-theory-of-digital-governmentality-anna-verena-nosthoff-carl-von-ossietzky-university-oldenburg/
LOCATION:Stadtpalais/Online\, Theaterstraße 75\, Aachen\, 52062\, Germany
CATEGORIES:Lecture Series 2026
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ORGANIZER;CN="c%3Ao/re":MAILTO:events@khk.rwth-aachen.de
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20260701T170000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20260701T183000
DTSTAMP:20260414T195611
CREATED:20260318T104806Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260318T104806Z
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SUMMARY:The Stack of Territory: Digital Complexity and the Making of Geospatial Infrastructures in China - Yi Gu (University of Toronto)
DESCRIPTION:Abstract:\nwill follow soon \nThis event is part of our summer term 2026 Lecture Series Digital Complexity: Beyond Human Understanding. \nIf you would like to attend\, please register with events@khk.rwth-aachen.de.
URL:https://khk.rwth-aachen.de/event/the-stack-of-territory-digital-complexity-and-the-making-of-geospatial-infrastructures-in-china-yi-gu-university-of-toronto/
LOCATION:Stadtpalais/Online\, Theaterstraße 75\, Aachen\, 52062\, Germany
CATEGORIES:Lecture Series 2026
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ORGANIZER;CN="c%3Ao/re":MAILTO:events@khk.rwth-aachen.de
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260706
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260711
DTSTAMP:20260414T195611
CREATED:20260304T095155Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260304T095155Z
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SUMMARY:Summer School: The impacts of digitalization on science and society in the quest for more sustainable futures
DESCRIPTION:The PRAXIS research group at the University of the Basque Country UPV/EHU\, the Institute for Technology Assessment and Systems Analysis (ITAS\, KIT Karlsruhe) and the KHK c:o/re at RWTH Aachen University will host an International Summer School for PhD students\, titled “The impacts of digitalization on science and society in the quest for more sustainable futures”\, from July 6-10\, 2026\, in Donostia-San Sebastián. \nThe transformative effects of the digitalization of science are evident at various levels\, but its interactions with\, and future impacts on\, the broader socio-cultural transformations of science and society remain largely unknown and call for further research. Accordingly\, the Summer School will focus on the following key topics: \n\nTransformations in scientific knowledge production through digitalization\nTransformations of scientific cultures in everyday practices\nTransformations of science–society interactions in transdisciplinary and transformative research through real-world experiments using digital twins\nConcepts and methodologies for the assessment and governance of digital transformation activities\nVarieties of knowledge production and their transformation through digitalization worldwide\n\nKeynote lecturers of the Summer School will be Prof. Dr. Gabriele Gramelsberger\, KHK c:o/re\, c:o/re Fellow Prof. Dr. Harro van Lente\, full professor of Science and Technology Studies at the Faculty of Arts and Social Science\, Maastricht University\, and Prof. Dr. Stefano Balbi\, Basque Centre for Climate Change (BC3) and IKERBASQUE – Basque Foundation for Science\, Basque Country. \nThe Summer School invites PhD-researchers worldwide from a broad range of Humanities\, Social Studies and Cultural Studies\, Science & Technology Studies (STS) and Technology Assessment (TA) and other inter- and transdisciplinary approaches such as policy-\, sustainability-\, and transformative-research\, which address the interrelations of digitalization of science and socio-cultural transformations.
URL:https://khk.rwth-aachen.de/event/summer-school-the-impacts-of-digitalization-on-science-and-society-in-the-quest-for-more-sustainable-futures/
CATEGORIES:Summer School
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20260722T170000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20260722T183000
DTSTAMP:20260414T195611
CREATED:20260318T104418Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260318T104418Z
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SUMMARY:Artificial Intelligence as Cultural Technique: Do Chatbots Understand What They Communicate? - Sybille Krämer (Leuphana University of Lüneburg)
DESCRIPTION:Abstract:\nwill follow soon \nThis event is part of our summer term 2026 Lecture Series Digital Complexity: Beyond Human Understanding. \nIf you would like to attend\, please register with events@khk.rwth-aachen.de.
URL:https://khk.rwth-aachen.de/event/artificial-intelligence-as-cultural-technique-do-chatbots-understand-what-they-communicate-sybille-kramer-leuphana-university-of-luneburg/
LOCATION:Stadtpalais/Online\, Theaterstraße 75\, Aachen\, 52062\, Germany
CATEGORIES:Lecture Series 2026
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20261104T080000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20261105T170000
DTSTAMP:20260414T195611
CREATED:20260205T081229Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260205T081236Z
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SUMMARY:Freedom of Research: A European Summit
DESCRIPTION:For more information about the program\, check out the event website. \nThe Summit is organized by the Charlemagne Prize Foundation and RWTH Aachen University’s Knowledge Hub and Käte Hamburger Kolleg: Cultures of Research (c:o/re).
URL:https://khk.rwth-aachen.de/event/freedom-of-research-a-european-summit/
CATEGORIES:Conference
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