“The simple is complex”: Professor Giora Hon starts the c:o/re 2023 lecture series on Complexity
On April 12, 2023, the 5th c:o/re lecture series started off. After c:o/re director Gabriele Gramelsberger welcomed attendees and introduced the speaker, Professor Giora Hon delivered his talk, From Reciprocity …
Historicizing STS @ c:o/re: Turning points in reflections on science and technology
GABRIELE GRAMELSBERGER, ARIANNA BORRELLI, CLARISA AI LING LEE, KYVELI MAVROKORDOPOULOU, BENJAMIN PETERS, JAN C. SCHMIDT, ROLAND WITTJE On March 14th and 15th the workshop Turning points in reflections on science …
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 the 20th and 21st century. It aims at opening up the field by historicizing Science …
Coming up: Lecture Series on Complexity
The summer term’s c:o/re Lecture Series will focus on the topic of complexity. But what is complexity? The Encyclopedia Britannica explains complexity as “a scientific theory which asserts that some systems display …
Social Change in Ukraine – Obstacles and Opportunities: Conference report
SVITLANA SCHERBAK On November 16-17, 2022, the Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts hosted conference Social Change in Ukraine – Obstacles and Opportunities. The event gathered scholars from Switzerland, …
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 of Science and Technology at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Madras, Roland Wittje, will …
‘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 of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, will talk about ‘Modernization’ in Ideological Discourses …
IDEA League Summer School: Trajectories of Technology
Is development of technology driven by innovation and break through engineering or is technology development incremental resulting from long-term agenda setting, road mapping processes, social interaction? By taking a break …
Book launch: The world’s first full press freedom
We had a book launch at c:o/re, as Ulrik Langen and Frederik Stjernfelt‘s book The World’s First Full Press Freedom: The Radical Experiment of Denmark-Norway 1770-1773 is being published this …
Digital justice for all… and letters: Jean Lassègue on Space, Literacy and Citizenship
Part of the c:or/e Philosophy of AI: Optimis and Pessimist Views, Jean Lassègue’s talk showed that (digital) literacy is intrinsic to digital justice. His minute comparison of the modern notion …
