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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
gender studies
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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23APR 2023
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Guest lecture by Derek Kramer: Histories of the Blackout: Network Failures and Atomic Futures in the Cold War Koreas, 1945-1950
Guest lecure by Derek Kramer, University of Cambridge The guest lecture will take place on the 9. May at 10am CEST. Please register here to attend via zoom. Abstract: In the spring of 1948, the lights in Seoul went out. The blackout marked thepostcolonial collapse of the peninsular electric network, a vast apparatus of productionand […]
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22APR 2023
gender studies
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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01APR 2023
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Why Do We Need Diplomats? Keynote lecture by Prof. Rentetzi on April 24, 2023
On April 24, 19:00, Prof. Dr. Maria Rentetzi will give a public keynote lecture on the subject of “Why Do We Need Diplomats? The Birth of Science Diplomacy and the Challenge to Be International.” The lecture is part of the symposium “Science and Diplomacy: The Physics Community in the Post-war Period and into the Present […]
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04FEB 2023
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Guest lecture: A SOCIO-TECHNICAL HISTORY OF THE COLOMBIAN CIVIL WAR (1949-2016). THE CO-PRODUCTION OF INFRASTRUCTURES, STATES AND ‘PARALLEL TECHNOLOGIES
Guest Lecture: 6pm CET, 6.2.2023 register here to attend via zoom. Prof. Alexis De Greiff A. Universidad Nacional de Colombia/Max Planck Institute for the History of Science (Dep. III) This project examines the co-production of weak infrastructures, inefficient national states, and “parallel technologies”, through the case of the Colombian internal conflict, from 1949 to the […]
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