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12JUN 2023
gender studies
Emmy-Noether-Vorlesung: Seduced by Radium: How Radioactivity Entered the Bedroom
By today’s standards, it is almost shocking to see how radium was handled in the US in the early 20th century. Its inward journey from the exclusionary space of the scientific laboratory to the intimacy of the bedroom highlights first and foremost how corporate priorities and the emerging nuclear industry dictated the scientific agenda. Radium […]
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06MAY 2023
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FAU goes International: Women in Science in Africa
A special workshop with two international experts on the issue of “Women and Science in Africa“ will be organized by Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nuremberg (FAU), coordinated by Prof. Dr. Maria Rentetzi (FAU) and Dr. Sofia Costa D’Aguiar (EELISA Executive Director). In this workshop, Dr. Fiona Wanjiku Moejes (The Mawazo Institute, Nairobi, Kenya) will raise the question “Where […]A special workshop with two international experts on the issue of “Women and Science in Africa“ will be organized by Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nuremberg (FAU), coordinated by Prof. Dr. Maria Rentetzi (FAU) and Dr. Sofia Costa D’Aguiar (EELISA Executive Director). In this workshop, Dr. Fiona Wanjiku Moejes (The Mawazo Institute, Nairobi, Kenya) will raise the question “Where […]
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27APR 2023
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His-GenderGap – International Summer School on Gender and Science
International Summer School on Gender and Science Coordinated by Maria Rentetzi (FAU) and Sofia Costa D’Aguiar (EELISA). According to the 2021 edition of the European Commission’s She Figures report––the main source of pan-European, comparable statistics on the state of gender equality in research and innovation––there has been considerable progress in gender parity with regard […]International Summer School on Gender and Science Coordinated by Maria Rentetzi (FAU) and Sofia Costa D’Aguiar (EELISA). According to the 2021 edition of the European Commission’s She Figures report––the main source of pan-European, comparable statistics on the state of gender equality in research and innovation––there has been considerable progress in gender parity with regard […]
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22APR 2023
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Antrittsvorlesung by Prof. Rentetzi: The Gender of Nuclear Things: Godofredo and Françoise Travel Around the World
The Antritsvorlesung will take place on the 25. May 2023 at the Orangerie Erlangen. For more informations about the event, please open the program attached below. Abstract: From spring 1962 to the end of 1965, Godofredo Gómez Crespo, a Spanish physicist employed by the International Atomic Energy Agency, travelled the world carrying Françoise in a […]
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12APR 2022
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Invitation: “Seduced by Radium: How Men and Women became Familiar with Radiation”
presented by Maria Rentetzi, Chair of Science, Technology and Gender Studies de la Universidad Friederich-Alexander de Erlangen-Nuremberg Wednesday 20 April 2022, at 11.30 am (CET), at the Centro de Ciencias Humanas y Sociales, CSIC; calle Albasanz 26-28, Madrid 28037 Online live connection will be available at https://conectaha.csic.es/b/ana-p8g-ezu-gwj No registration needed. In the early 20th century radium infiltrated American […]presented by Maria Rentetzi, Chair of Science, Technology and Gender Studies de la Universidad Friederich-Alexander de Erlangen-Nuremberg Wednesday 20 April 2022, at 11.30 am (CET), at the Centro de Ciencias Humanas y Sociales, CSIC; calle Albasanz 26-28, Madrid 28037 Online live connection will be available at https://conectaha.csic.es/b/ana-p8g-ezu-gwj No registration needed. In the early 20th century radium infiltrated American […]
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08NOV 2021
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Invitation: Dr. Maria Santesmases talks about The circulation of penicillin in Spain
On Thursday, November 11, 2021, María J Santesmases will present her book The circulation of penicillin in Spain: Health, Wealth and Authority (London: Palgrave 2018). The book reconstructs the history of the circulation of antibiotics, with a particular focus on penicillin. It focuses on the material culture of antimicrobial activity and the industrial manufacture of […]
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