Innovation as Res Publica: The New Governance of Technoscience and its Politics – Nina Frahm

Stadtpalais/Online Theaterstraße 75, Aachen, Germany

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. Abstract: Imperatives of technoscientific innovation have become a ubiquitous leitmotiv for public policies in the 21st century. Driven by increased public investments in research …

Expanding STS: Art, Science, and Technology Studies (ASTS) – Hannah Star Rogers

Stadtpalais/Online Theaterstraße 75, Aachen, Germany

Abstract: Art 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 …

Metascience as the Social Hygiene Movement of Science Studies – Bart Penders

Stadtpalais/Online Theaterstraße 75, Aachen, Germany

Abstract: Metascience 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 …