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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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07APR 2022
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“Nuclear Ambiguities” – guest lecture by Dr. Fabian Lüscher
Our next guest lecture will be held on Thursday, April 28, 2022 (18:00 CEST), by Dr. Fabian Lüscher: Nuclear Ambiguities: Insights from the History of Science and an NGO Perspective Using nuclear energy has always been ambiguous. This technology was one of the defining aspects of the Cold War and remains crucial to political decision […]
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29MAR 2022
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Roundtable: Science diplomacy in times of war
APRIL 7, 2022, 6:30-8:30 PM CEST Four days after Russia launched a full-scale military invasion into Ukraine on February 24, 2022, the European Space Agency (ESA) announced that the EU sanctions imposed on Russia as well as the wider political context would make the continuation of the ExoMars program—a joint ESA and Roscosmos (Russian federal […]
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25FEB 2022
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“Regulating the Circulation of Knowledge Across US Borders” – guest lecture by Prof. John Krige
For our next guest lecture on March 17, 2022 (18:00 CET), we welcome Professor emeritus John Krige (Georgia Institute of Technology), author of the landmark study American Hegemony and the Postwar Reconstruction of Science in Europe(2006). His talk at STGS draws on his latest book Knowledge Regulation and National Security in Postwar America (co-authored with […]
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27JAN 2022
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“The Traveling Atomic Exhibition in Cold War Italy” – guest lecture by Dr. Donatella Germanese
The second guest lecture in our STGS Colloquium series will be held by Dr. Donatella Germanese (Max Planck Institute for History of Science, Berlin) on Thursday, February 24, at 18:00 CET: The Traveling Atomic Exhibition in Cold War Italy The mobile atomic exhibition of the United States Information Service was launched in Italy in […]
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10JAN 2022
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“Towards a Socio-History of Occupational Risk” – guest lecture by Dr. Véronique Stenger
We would like to announce the first of four guest lectures that will take place over the first half of 2022 in our new “STGS Colloquium” series. This time around, the series will focus on nuclear history (more info on Prof. Rentetzi’s ERC project “Living with Radiation” here). On Thursday, January 20, 18:00 CET, […]
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