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IKYDA project (no. 57628081) please register here.   Schedule Tuesday, February 7, 2023 | Central European standard time     09:50 – 10:00                         Introductory Words by the Organizers Maria Rentetzi & George Vlachakis   10:00 – 10:40   ...

Wednesday, February 22, 2023, 10:00 STGS seminar room (Werner-von-Siemens-Str. 61, room 02.21)   Register here to attend via Zoom   When science meets art: How computer technologies impact art history   Recent years have seen an increasing intersection between sci...

Prof. Rentetzi was invited by German newspaper DIE ZEIT to participate in a panel discussion about “The Future of Science Diplomacy” on December 1, 2022. The panel is part of a one-day event on “Universities in Times of Crisis,” to be held at Auditorium Friedrichstraße in Berlin. Prof. Rentetzi’s fe...

Deep transformations of international relationships together with the rapid evolution of innovations are leading to renewed geopolitical rivalries and fragmentation. At the same time, the terrifying prospect of a nuclear conflict makes the use of nuclear military technologies a real threat. Understa...

In the last issue of FAU’s research magazine, alexander!, an interview with Prof. Rentetzi was published (in German) in which she reflects upon science diplomacy. You can read it here.

Two-stage workshop (Germany, Greece) IKYDA project (no. 57628081) Organizers: Maria Rentetzi, Professor, Chair of Science Technology and Gender Studies, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany George Vlahakis, Associate Professor, Hellenic Open University, Greece ...

On October 21-22, 2022, a group of international participants will come together at FAU (and on Zoom) to discuss their papers submitted for a forthcoming volume called Negotiating Radiation Protection, edited by Prof. Rentetzi in cooperation with Angela Creager (Princeton) and M. Susan Lindee (Unive...

How did the communication of the new great scientific developments function as another battlefield during the Cold War and how did the Cold War climate itself function as a fertile ground for the dissemination and transfer of knowledge from scientific laboratories to the general public? This proj...

Symposium, March 20-21, 2023, Vienna, Austria   Organizers: Johannes Mattes 1, Cécile Philippe 2, Maria Rentetzi 3   1 Institute of Culture Studies and Theatre History (IKT), Austrian Academy of Sciences 2 Division of Nuclear Medicine, Department of Biomedical Imaging and Im...

An interview with Professor Rentetzi was published in the latest issue of ZEIT GERMANY: Study & Research. In it, she explains what the concept of science diplomacy – which is “suddenly on everyone’s lips” – is all about, and she also gives some insight into her personal career path. Read the int...