Politics of the Machines: Lifelikeness & beyond
Call for Track-Topics and Formats Deadline Call for Track-Topics and Formats: 01 April 2023 New Deadline: 16th April 2023 The Call for Papers will follow after the Call for Track-Topics has closed._______________ The 4th POM Conference Lifelikeness & beyondRWTH Aachen UniversityKäteHamburger Kolleg:Cultures of Research (c:o/re).April 22-26, 2024 Life is in crisis. In society, this crisis …
Call for Contributions
For the international conference Nowhere(to)land? What Science Studies Contribute to Science Communication, that will take place in Bonn in June 14th to 16th, 2023, the Rhine Ruhr Center for Science Communication Research (RRC) and c:o/re are inviting researchers to submit proposals for contributions on the topic of STS and SCS. Deadline is January 15th, 2023.
Biosemiotic Erasmus adventures
CHIARA SCHUMANN AND JULE JANßEN As the first RWTH Aachen University students benefitting from the new Erasmus Blended Intensive Program (BIP) funding scheme, we wrote this text to convey our personal experiences to academics and university managers but especially to other students, who might be thinking of using Erasmus BIP. We used this type of …
IACS4: Semiotic complexities & research cultures
Together with the Linguistics and Cognitive Semiotics Chair of RWTH Aachen University, colleagues from KU Leuven MIDI research group and other international colleagues, KHK c:o/re contributed to hosting the 4th conference (IACS4) of the International Association for Cognitive Semiotics. The conference chair, Professor Irene Mittelberg and her departmental colleague, Professor Martin Thiering were assisted by …
Living in a Loop
Last semester in our Lecture Series, our Fellow Joffrey Becker gave a talk on Humans, Machines, and Anthropology of Cybernetic Pracitces where he also screened parts of a visual ethnography study that he conducted at a dairy farm. At the upcoming conference “Anthropology, AI and the Future of Human Society”, organized by the Royal Anthropological …
Drôles d’Objets: A New Art of Making
JOFFREY BECKER Robots, autonomous artifacts, connected objects: how can we design and understand these strange objects that renew our interactions with others and the world around us? We are more and more often invited to enter into a relationship with robots or machines, whether for practical (therapeutic, professional, scientific) or playful purposes. This type of …
