10 Jahre IZWT - A Decade of Science and Technology Research
10 Jahre IZWT - A Decade of Science and Technology
Research:
Past Insights & Future Challenges
After a decade of productive interdisciplinary projects
and discussions, the Wuppertal Interdisciplinary Centre for Science and
Technology Studies (Interdisziplinäres Zentrum für Wissenschafts- und
Technikforschung, IZWT), founded in 2005, will host a two-day conference on
past insights and future challenges in the field of science and technology.
Representing historical, philosophical as well as sociological perspectives,
the invited speakers will reflect upon past and current debates, methodologies,
theories and approaches to tackle the question of future relevant fields and
upcoming challenges in science and technology studies: Which approaches have
proved influential and in what ways have they become fundamental for the field
? Which dimensions have been neglected or ignored and for what reason and
should we correct this? What is the role of humans, gender or ethics in science
and technology studies in an era that seems to be dominated by concepts such as
posthumanism and the
anthropocene? What tools or interdisciplinary approaches
should be developed to better understand the past relationships of scientific
knowledge, technology, and society, as well as the meaning of science and
technology for the 21st century?
The conference is open to the public. If you wish to
participate, please, send an email to iz1@uni-wuppertal.de
by October 23, 2015..
Programm
Thursday, November 5
14:00-15:00 Opening: Friedrich Steinle (Berlin): The
Wuppertal IZWT - Idea and Beginnings
15:00-16:00 Alisha Rankin (Medford, MA): Gender and
Science in Historiographical Perspective: Past, Present, and Future
16:00-16:30 Coffee break
16:30-17:30 Cyrus Mody (Maastricht): Science as
Occupation and Avocation: Deflating Science without Disenchanting It
17:30-18:30 Martina Hessler (Hamburg): „Technology in
Context“: History of Technology, Its Merits and the Striking Absence of Humans
Friday, November 6
9:00-10:00 Martina Merz (Wien): Science as Practice in
the Social Studies of Science: Looking Back and Ahead in Search of New Allies
10:00-10:30 Coffee break
10:30-11:30 Alfred Nordmann (Darmstadt): Where is the
Practice in the Practice Turn of the Philosophy of Science?
11:30-12:30 Torsten Wilholt (Hannover): Integrating
Ethics and Epistemology of Scientific Research
12:30-13:00 Final discussion