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On Thursday, July 28, 2022, our current visiting scholar, Dr. Linda Marie Richards (Oregon State University) will be giving a guest lecture titled: An Auto/Ethnography of Human Rights and Nuclear Wrongs The event takes place at 18:00 CEST and will be livestreamed via Zoom (registration). Li...

Next up in our STGS lecture series on Thursday, June 23, 2022 (18:00 CEST), is a talk by Prof. John P. DiMoia from Seoul National University in Korea, who is visiting us this month: From Occupation to Containerization, 1945–early 1970s To join us via Zoom, please register here. Abstract: With th...

Prof. Dr. Maria Rentetzi recently wrote a piece for the Diplomatic Courier, arguing for a more sophisticated science diplomacy for the 21st century.   Also, on June 9, 2022, German newspaper DIE ZEIT published an interview with Prof. Rentetzi on the value of international relations in times o...

As the 2021 Cain Conference Fellow of the Science History Institute in Philadelphia, Prof. Dr. Maria Rentetzi will convene a two-day conference in Paris on June 13-14: Diplomatic Studies of Science: The Interplay of Science, Technology, and International Affairs after the Second World War A panel ...

In collaboration with Prof. Dr. Fritz Dross (Institute of Medical History), we are conducting a short seminar at the Siemens Healthineers MedMuseum on Tuesday, June 7, 2022, 14:00-17:00. The seminar starts off with a guided tour of the museum, followed by two presentations (all in English): F...

On Thursday, May 19, 2022, we will host Professor Saradindu Bhaduri of Jawaharlal Nehru University who will give a guest lecture entitled: From Margins to Mainstream: Locating Frugal Innovations in Science Diplomacy Discourse The lecture will take place at 18:00 CEST, and we encourage everyone in...

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 connect...

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 ...

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 pr...

The International Commission on Science and Literature DHST/IUHPST, the Chair of Science, Technology and Gender Studies, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen- Nürnberg, the Center for the History of Women Philosophers and Scientists, Paderborn University, the department of Sociology, N...