Tagung “Digitale Aufklärung” der DGPhil
RWTH Aachen University - Super C Templergraben 57, AachenYou can find the program in this document. If you would like to attend, please register with: events@khk.rwth-aachen.de
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Workshop “After Networks: Reframing Scale, Reimagining Connections”
RWTH Aachen University - Super C Templergraben 57, AachenIf “Expanded STS” can also be understood as a platform – in a sense that it gathers different disciplines that eventually go back to their original research field – the workshop "After Networks: reframing scale, reimagining connections" proposes a direct connection with the KHK c:o/re’s 2024 research theme. The interdisciplinary program, combining art and internet …
Science-Art Installation Experiment “Melodic Pigments: Exploring New Synesthesia”
Stadtpalais Theaterstraße 75, Aachen, GermanyScience-Art Installation Experiment by Yasmin Vega (Tokyo University of the Arts) and Masahiko Hara (Tokyo Institute of Technology/Institute of Science Tokyo) Synesthesia is a perceptual phenomenon in which the stimulation of one sensory or cognitive pathway leads to involuntary experiences in another sensory or cognitive pathway. An example of synesthesia is experiencing "colors" in response …
Innovation as Res Publica: The New Governance of Technoscience and its Politics – Nina Frahm
Stadtpalais/Online Theaterstraße 75, Aachen, GermanyThis 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 …
Design Meets Evolution: Theory and Practice – Theodore von Kármán Lecture with Victor de Lorenzo
Stadtpalais Theaterstraße 75, Aachen, GermanyAbstract: The prevailing view of biological evolution is not unlike bricolage/pastiche/tinkering – in sharp contrast with rational engineering. Yet, different paths often lead to solutions that coincide or converge whether they emerge from naturally-occurring evolution or rationally designed. Such a conjunction – often presented as a mere anecdote – in fact reveals the ability of …
Expanding STS: Art, Science, and Technology Studies (ASTS) – Hannah Star Rogers
Stadtpalais/Online Theaterstraße 75, Aachen, GermanyAbstract: 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 …
Tagung “Der singuläre Satz”
Stadtpalais Theaterstraße 75, Aachen, GermanyTagung "Der singuläre Satz" by the Research Area "Wissenskulturen" of the Faculty Arts and Humanities of RWTH Aachen University in cooperation with the KHK c:o/re. The event will be held in German. Abstract: Singuläre Sätze zirkulieren in unterschiedlichen Wissenskulturen. Manche dieser Sätze, etwa mathematische Sätze, Weisheitssätze, Gnomen und Aphorismen, sind von vornherein als Einzelsätze konzipiert, …
Metascience as the Social Hygiene Movement of Science Studies – Bart Penders
Stadtpalais/Online Theaterstraße 75, Aachen, GermanyAbstract: 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 …
Talk & Discussion “Hidden Futures: Work. Clicks & Crowds”
PACT Zollverein Bullmannaue 20a, Essen, GermanyWhich chain of work processes are triggered by a click in an app? Whose bodies are thereby set in motion and exposed to the elements? And how will our cities change when work is no longer tied to spaces, but is controlled by an ephemeral architecture of routes, data and likes? The promise of services …
Data Behaviorism: A History – Daniela Wentz
Stadtpalais/Online Theaterstraße 75, Aachen, GermanyAbstract: Is 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 …
How Uncertainty is Rendered Residual – Carsten Reinhardt
Stadtpalais/Online Theaterstraße 75, Aachen, GermanyThis event is part of our summer semester 2025 Lecture Series Expanding Science and Technology Studies. To take part either online or in presence, please register with events@khk.rwth-aachen.de.
Symposium “Freedom of Research: A European Summit – Europe in Times of Division”
RWTH Aachen University - Super C Templergraben 57, AachenEurope 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 …
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