Desk to Discourse: Development of the Philosophy of Computing from Wordstar and VisiCalc – Robin Hill (Laramie)
Abstract: While the American Philosophical Association's Committee on Philosophy and Computers started its mission with…
Art Event: The Ambiguity of Sorting
The Ambiguity of Sorting How do technologies of separation bring us together? Digital systems are…
What Is a Computer Program? Or, How I Liberate(d) Myself as a Computer User – Liesbeth De Mol (Lille)
Abstract: The aim of this talk is to present the PROGRAMme project, a collective work…
A Portrait of the Scientist as a User – Alexandre Hocquet (Nancy)
Abstract: Why are computational chemists so peculiar ? The history of their relationship with software…
Conference HaPoC 2025
The KHK c:o/re is proud to host the 8th edition of the international conference on…
Reasoning in the Age of AI: Philosophical Perspectives
Abstract: This workshop explores the conceptual foundations of reasoning and asks whether artificial systems can…
Green Work and Environmental Knowledge
Abstract: What is green work, who are green workers, and how are material cultures of…
Stochastic Systems – Dirk Baecker (Friedrichshafen)
Abstract: Digital complexity eludes human understanding not only because it is based on the synchronization…
Computer Science and Computer Use in Public Administration in Switzerland (1960-1984) – Ricky Wichum
Abstract: In my presentation, I examine the digital culture of public administration in Switzerland from…
Freedom of Research: A European Summit – Europe in Times of Division
Europe stands at a crossroads: Political polarization, disinformation, and social fragmentation threaten the cohesion of…
Kick-off Event: Freedom of Research: A European Summit – Europe in Times of Division
We cordially invite you to our kick-off event for the Freedom of Research Summit 2025,…
Digitality as a Triad: From the Love Letter to Emotion AI – Anna Tuschling (Bochum)
Abstract: The lecture presents various historical and contemporary concepts of digitality that highlight the three…
Digital Complexity: De-Anthropological Trends in Computing, AI, and Robotics – Gabriele Gramelsberger (Aachen)
‼️ Unfortunately, tonight's lecture by Gabriele Gramelsberger has to be canceled due to illness. We…
Workshop “Cultures of Credence: Mind Control and Other Fringe Epistemologies”
This workshop explores the borderlands of knowing, where knowledge claims are made and rejected, and…
How Uncertainty is Rendered Residual – Carsten Reinhardt
This event is part of our summer semester 2025 Lecture Series Expanding Science and Technology…
Tagung “Illustratives Denken – Zur Rolle von Zeichnungen, Scribbles und Visualisierungen im wissenschaftlichen Entdeckungsprozess”
Tagung "Illustratives Denken – Zur Rolle von Zeichnungen, Scribbles und Visualisierungen im wissenschaftlichen Entdeckungsprozess" by…
Data Behaviorism: A History – Daniela Wentz
Due to the heat, the lecture will only take place online. Abstract: Is behaviorism a…
Talk & Discussion “Hidden Futures: Work. Clicks & Crowds”
Which chain of work processes are triggered by a click in an app? Whose bodies…
Vortrag “Ein Kind der Wissensökonomie? Zur Geschichte der Wissensgeschichte”
Professor Caspar Hirschi from the University of St. Gallen will give a talk on “A…
Metascience as the Social Hygiene Movement of Science Studies – Bart Penders
Abstract: Metascience and its more activist sibling, scientific reform, seek to rebuild public and peer…
Tagung “Der singuläre Satz”
Tagung "Der singuläre Satz" by the Research Area "Wissenskulturen" of the Faculty Arts and Humanities…
Expanding STS: Art, Science, and Technology Studies (ASTS) – Hannah Star Rogers
Abstract: Art and science are all around us: in the academy, in galleries, and in…
Design Meets Evolution: Theory and Practice – Theodore von Kármán Lecture with Victor de Lorenzo
Abstract: The prevailing view of biological evolution is not unlike bricolage/pastiche/tinkering – in sharp contrast…
Innovation as Res Publica: The New Governance of Technoscience and its Politics – Nina Frahm
This lecture is part of the summer semester 2025 lecture series Expanding Science and Technology…
Science-Art Installation Experiment “Melodic Pigments: Exploring New Synesthesia”
Science-Art Installation Experiment by Yasmin Vega (Tokyo University of the Arts) and Masahiko Hara (Tokyo…
Workshop “After Networks: Reframing Scale, Reimagining Connections”
If “Expanded STS” can also be understood as a platform – in a sense that…
Tagung “Digitale Aufklärung” der DGPhil
You can find the program in this document. If you would like to attend, please…
Workshop “Engaged Social Studies of Modelling”
Modelling and computing are increasingly at the heart of innovation, governance, and public policy. Yet,…
International Conference “Cultures of Research”
The international conference “Cultures of Research” takes stock of the first four years of the…
Beyond-nature / Beyond-life
Due to the rapid development of materials sciences during the past decades, such disciplines known…
ERS invites… Dr. Pēteris Zilgalvis: Competition Law in the Digital Era: AI and other new challenges
Professor Stefan Böschen, Director of the KHK c:o/re, and the Exploratory Research Space (ERS) of…
What Role for History and Philosophy of Science in STS? Critical Engagements with Empirical Inquiry – Sabina Leonelli
This event is part of our winter semester 2024/25 Lecture Series Expanding Science and Technology…
Lecture “The (global) politics of Technology Assessment – discursive-deliberative or agonistic?” – Pierre Delvenne
This lecture is part of the “STS Forum” organized by the HumTec (Human Technology Center)…
Communicating Science and Technology. How Can STS Benefit From Historical Semantics? – Désirée Schauz
This event is part of our winter semester 2024/25 Lecture Series Expanding Science and Technology…
Spaces of Research Beyond the Laboratory? The University as a Neglected Research Object in STS – David Kaldewey
This event is part of our winter semester 2024/25 Lecture Series Expanding Science and Technology…
Cancelled: From IP and Cookies to IDFA/GAID. Towards a Historical Sociology of (Digital) Addressing – Ricky Wichum
Unfortunately, this lecture has been canceled due to health reasons. We will continue our lecture…
Workshop: “Emergence, Causality, and Complexity”
Organizers: Erica Onnis, Ana María Guzmán, Alexander Schubert Abstract: According to many authors involved in…
Alan Turing, Artificial Intelligence, and the Imitation Game – Jack Copeland
At the turn of the millennium Time magazine listed Alan Turing among the twentieth century’s…
STS between the Climate Crisis and the Einstein Telescope – Harro van Lente
This event is part of our winter semester 2024/25 Lecture Series Expanding Science and Technology…
Logic and the Philosophy of Science – Workshop with Gabriel Sandu
9:00 - 9:10 Welcome 9:10 - 10:05 Gabriel Sandu (University of Helsinki): “Logical representation of…
“5 to 12” RWTH Science Night
On November 8, 2024, the 20th science night “5 to 12” will take place at…
Freedom of Research: Symposium
In a conference format, we will explore various aspects of research freedom in times of…
Freedom of Research: Freedom Late Night
We invite you to an inspiring event featuring thought-provoking talks, artistic performances, and scientific presentations.…
An IAEA for AI? The Regulation of Artificial Intelligence and Governance Models from the Nuclear Age – Elisabeth Röhrlich
This event is part of our winter semester 2024/25 Lecture Series Expanding Science and Technology…
Political Philosophy of Engineering and Technology – Workshop organized by Carl Mitcham (Colorado School of Mines)
Abstract: Why political philosophy of technology? Why aren’t the philosophy and ethics of technology adequate?…
Freedom of Research: Art Exhibition
We are pleased to have brought the exhibition “European Archive of Voices” to Aachen. A…
Towards Expanded STS? – Stefan Böschen
This event is part of our winter semester 2024/25 Lecture Series Expanding Science and Technology…
Net Zero Precinct Futures: place-based experimentation for sustainability transitions – Theodore von Kármán Lecture with Darren Sharp
Lecture by Darren Sharp, Monash Sustainable Development Institute (Melbourne, Australia); RWTH Kármán-Fellow Abstract: Urban experimentation…
Workshop “Practical and Epistemic Challenges of Living Lab Research – Perspectives from Australia and Germany” with Darren Sharp
Aim: The aim of the workshop is (1) to inform each other about current activities…
Anwendungen und Herausforderungen der Technologie der künstlichen Intelligenz in der Schul- und Ausbildung: Eine vergleichende Studie zwischen Südkorea und Deutschland – Chun-Shik Kim
This talk will be held in German. Abstract: Wie man sicher weiß, gewinnen die Geisteswissenschaften…
Organising Life: Biocuration, Bio-Ontologies, and the Conditions of Academic Work – Sarah Davies
Abstract: In this talk I discuss biocuration as a field of scholarly practice. In creating…
Indoor Atmospheres: Comfort, Aerial Hygiene and the Microbiome of the Built Environment – Sven Opitz
This event is part of our summer semester 2024 Lecture Series Lifelikeness. If you would…
c: o/re Movie Nights – I’m a Cyborg, But That’s OK
We are looking forward to the collaboration with the film studio of RWTH Aachen University!…
Life-Like Artificial Music: Understanding the Impact of AI on Musical Thinking – Nikita Braguinski
Abstract: This lecture explores the impact of machine learning on the future of music research…
c: o/re Movie Nights – Her
We are looking forward to the collaboration with the film studio of RWTH Aachen University!…
c: o/re Movie Nights – Talk: Ideal Locale – her and the envelope function of idealist predication by Ben Woodard
Spike Jonze’s her (2013) is a near-future science fiction film about the difficulties of romantic…
On the Origin and Development of Scientific Concepts: Light Rays and Lines of Force – Friedrich Steinle
Abstract: In studying the historical dynamics of scientific knowledge, concepts constitute central objects. Their study,…
Workshop: The Origin of Concepts: Philosophical analyses and historical accounts
Organizers: Giora Hon, Ruth Lorand, Gabriele Gramelsberger Please find the program of the workshop here.…
Workshop: Epistemology of Arithmetic: New Philosophy for New Times
Celebration workshop of Markus Pantsar’s book Numerical Cognition and the Epistemology of Arithmetic (Cambridge University…
A Crisis of Expertise? – Theodore von Kármán Lecture with Reiner Grundmann
Lecture by Reiner Grundmann, University of Nottingham; RWTH Kármán-Fellow There is a common perception that…
Lifestyle Transitions in Human Microbiome Research: A View from History and Philosophy of Science – Abigail Nieves
This event is part of our summer semester 2024 Lecture Series Lifelikeness. If you would…
‘life.like’
As part of the conference Politics of the Machines: Lifelikeness & beyond, a cooperation with…
Distilled, Extruded, Suspended: Lessons in Lifelikeness from the Metabolism of Mass Production – Hannah Landecker
Keynote “Politics of the Machines” Conference Abstract: This talk is about quite ordinary matters, such…
Conference: Politics of the Machines: Lifelikeness & beyond
From 22 to 25 April 2024, the experimental conference “Politics of the Machines: Lifelikeness &…
Workshop “Building on Models: Experiences from a Decade with the Microcircuit model”
Organizer: Hans Ekkehard Plesser Computational neuroscience, the field dedicated to understanding brain function through modelling,…
Symposium: Critical Perspectives on the Metascience Reform Movement
Metascience is often defined as the scientific investigation of science itself with the aim to…
Listening to Science – Valentina Vuksic
Live performance on the audification of data and computer processes The artistic research project „Computer…
Workshop „Kunst, Wissenschaft, Öffentlichkeit“ / “Art, Science, the Public”
The workshop takes place in cooperation with the project „Computer Signals: Art and Biology in…
Bio-inspired Materials and Dreams of Inspiration – Michael Friedman
Abstract: Materials are found at the very center of our life, situated in the complex…
Unfelt Threshold: Patched Phase
Live Art Installation and Conversation on “Fluctonomous Emergence” Abstract: Unfelt Threshold is a project in…
Flowers for Agouti: Epigenetics and the Genealogy of Uplift – Ben Woodard
Abstract: The notion of uplift has a science-fictional and social justice connotation: it is the…
Towards an Ecology of Technoscience – Massimiliano Simons
Abstract: New emerging sciences and technologies - such as AI, synthetic biology, or robotics -…
Plea for the Political Philosophy of Engineering and Technology – Carl Mitcham
Abstract: My thesis is that discussion of ethical and other issues in the philosophy of…
Agency across the Human and the Non-Human. Between Engineering and the Humanities
Workshop with c:o/re Senior Fellows Anna Laktionova, Masahiko Hara and Carl Mitcham from the Colorado…
Toxic Material(itie)s: Eco-Material Entanglements in Art
Workshop at the Käte Hamburger Kolleg: Cultures of Research (c:o/re) Organized by Käte Hamburger Kolleg:…
Art’s Mediation as Remediation: On Some Artworks and their reuses of Toxic Materials – Esther Leslie
There is so much toxicity and contamination in the world. It is incontestable that vast…
Neuromorphic Computing: Inspiration from the Brain for Future AI Technologies – Emre Neftci
Abstract: The importance of understanding the principles of brain computation and incorporating them into artificial…
Robot, a Laboratory “Animal”: Producing Knowledge through and about Human-Robot Interaction – Andrei Korbut
Abstract: The lecture focuses on the use of robots (primarily humanoid) in robotics laboratories to…
Life from scratch – Gabriele Gramelsberger
Abstract: For more than a decade, scientists have been exploring the transition from non-living to…
Tagung: Briefe des 15. Jahrhunderts als Quellen für interkulturelle Kontakte zwischen Italien und dem Osmanischen Reich
From the 19th to 20th October 2023, a conference on "Briefe des 15. Jahrhunderts als…
Lecture and discussion with Phil MacNaghten: The knowledge politics of making anticipatory knowledge
How can we engage with futures that are by definition uncertain and unknowable? How can…
Complexity beteween hype and history – Arianna Borrelli
“Complexity beteween hype and history” by Arianna Borrelli (TU Berlin). Abstract: Speaking about the history of…
Exposures, Photographic and Otherwise: Complex Encounters with Toxicity – Kyveli Mavrokordopoulou
Exposures, Photographic and Otherwise: Complex Encounters with Toxicity - Kyveli Mavrokordopoulou. Abstract: “Exposure,” as a…
Artificial Intelligence: The Brand That Wouldn’t Die. A lecture by Professor Thomas Haigh
The history of AI is the history of an overhyped brand that has only very…
A Philosophy of Artscience: Something Old, Something Novel – Clarissa Lee
“A Philosophy of Artscience: Something Old, Something Novel” by Clarissa Lee (transdisciplinary researcher, c:o/re Aachen). Abstract:…
Complexity – From Natural and Social Sciences to Artificial Intelligence – Klaus Mainzer
“Complexity – From Natural and Social Sciences to Artificial Intelligence” - Klaus Mainzer (TU Munich). Abstract:…
Neither Good nor Old-Fashioned: On the Curious Complexity of Soviet AI – Benjamin Peters
“Neither Good nor Old-Fashioned: On the Curious Complexity of Soviet AI” by Benjamin Peters (University…
European Traditions of Philosophy of Science: Unexpected Varieties
Workshop organized by c:o/re, Aachen University & Dr. Andrei Mărășoiu To understand the context-sensitive justificatory…
Instability and Complexity. On the Emergence of Late-Modern Science – Jan C. Schmidt
“Instability and Complexity. On the Emergence of Late-Modern Science” by Jan C. Schmidt (Darmstadt University…
From Reciprocity of Formulation to Symbolic Language: A Source of Complexity in Scientific Knowledge – Giora Hon
“From reciprocity of formulation to symbolic language: a source of complexity in scientific knowledge” by…
Engineering Turn? Talk by Stefan Böschen in Vienna (German)
On Tuesday, March 28, Stefan Böschen is presenting the work of c:o/re at the Institute…
STS Hub. Towards encounters amongst STS scholars in Germany
Science & Technology Studies (STS) has become a recognised, delineated academic field in the international…
Turning Points in Reflections on Science and Technology: Toward Historicizing STS
This workshop investigates turning points in reflections on science and technology over the course of…
Models of complex systems as scientific-public boundary objects. The case of climate change: Complexity and Transdisciplinarity (Marseille)
On February 27-28, 2023, the Complexity and Transdisciplinarity Graduate School of the Center for Advanced Studies…
“Wissenschaften des Konkreten” Conference (German)
Abstraktion und Konkretion lassen sich als komplementäre epistemische Operationen betrachten, die für die Literatur, die…
Voodoo science and the missing controversy: Neuroscience as an integration project (Torsten H. Voigt)
c:o/re Lecture Series: Cultures of Research On Wednesday, February 8th, Torsten H. Voigt, Professor for…
Moving Technical and Scientific Knowledge, People and Objects after 1945: IIT Madras and the RWTH Aachen (Roland Wittje)
c:o/re Lecture Series: Cultures of Research On Wednesday, January 25th, Associate Professor for the History…
‘Modernization’ in Ideological Discourses of Post-Soviet State: The Case of Russia and Ukraine (Svitlana Shcherbak)
c:o/re Lecture Series: Cultures of Research On Wednesday, December 21st, Svitlana Shcherbak, Philosopher and researcher…
Towards an Ergonomics of Data Science Practices (Fernando Pasquini Santos)
c:o/re Lecture Series: Cultures of Research On Wednesday, December 14th, Fernando Pasquini Santos, Assistant Professor…
Varieties of Science: Patterns of Knowledge
This workshop focuses on the kind of categories and conceptual frameworks that might be necessary to render visible the complex patterns of relations in which the plurality of scientific knowledge emerges.