During the fall, RUC will host a series of STS-workshops in the seminar room at Department of Philosophy & Philosophy of Science, 3.1.3, 13.00-15.00, followed by a reception. Everybody is welcome to join.
Schedule:
17. september
Emmanuel Didier (Centre national de la recherche scientifique / École des hautes études en sciences sociales, Paris): ’What is America About? Statistics, the New Deal, and Democracy’.
1. oktober
Matthias Heymann (Aarhus Universitet): ’Constructing evidence and trust: How did climate scientists’ confidence in their models and simulations emerge?’
15. oktober
Kirsten Simonsen (Roskilde Universitet): ’Practice, Spatiality and Embodied Emotions: An Outline of a Geography of Practice’.
29. oktober
Mats Fridlund (Københavns Universitet): ’The Terror and Security of Things: Recovering a Material and Phenomenological History of a Lost Fear’.
12. november
Fernando Flores (Lunds Universitet): ’Broken Technologies: The Humanist as Engineer’.
26. november
Thomas Söderqvist (Københavns Universitet): ’Cultures of Meaning and Cultures of Presence: The Use of Material Objects in the History of Science, Medicine and Technology’.
10. december
Gert Goeminne (Vrije Universiteit Brussel / Universiteit Gent): ’Does the climate need consensus? Rethinking science as politics’.
| Event information: | | September 17, 2010 |
| 1:00 pm | to | 3:00 pm |
| October 1, 2010 |
| 1:00 pm | to | 3:00 pm |
| October 15, 2010 |
| 1:00 pm | to | 3:00 pm |
| October 29, 2010 |
| 1:00 pm | to | 3:00 pm |
| November 12, 2010 |
| 1:00 pm | to | 3:00 pm |
| November 26, 2010 |
| 1:00 pm | to | 3:00 pm |
| December 10, 2010 |
| 1:00 pm | to | 3:00 pm |
August 16th, 2010
The PhD course is hosted by the Technologies in Practice Faculty Group (f.k.a. Design of Organizational IT), IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark and takes place 27-30 September 2010. The broken link to registration has been fixed.
Lecturers: Lucy Suchman (Lancaster University); Helen Verran (University of Melbourne); Christopher Gad (IT University of Copenhagen)
This PhD course aims to unfold empirically and analytically how computer screens and other displays help ‘project’ or otherwise ‘perform’ knowledge, interaction and practice. Screens are increasingly ubiquitous, for example as part of personal computers, televisions, cameras, surveillance equipment, ticketing equipment, mobile phones and other handheld devices. Simultaneously screens play an increasingly important role in a wide range of human practices relating to work, play, travel, care, learning, planning, monitoring, designing, coordinating, modelling, policing and much else. At the same time screens are curious entities. They may stretch human interactions nearby to globally-distributed locations. They seem to multiply the world around us while simultaneously constructing very specific fields of vision. Thus, screens perform cuts between displayed worlds and human knowledge about the world. Screens also mediate human action in particular ways by actively participating in new visions that define and situate action. With their capacity to organize human attention elsewhere screens may enact viewer displacement, as viewers becomes screened off. Thus boundaries may shift between screens, the knowledge they present, the interactions they facilitate and the practices they engender. For these reasons, screens are objects of interest for contemporary social scientific research into technologically mediated environments, including anthropology, cultural/media studies, design studies, and science and technology studies (STS) . Drawing on a range of theoretical traditions the course aims to frame screens by exploring their implications for knowledge, interaction and practice. This includes but is not limited to analytical topics such as:
· Shifting ’screen’ relationships between practice (e.g. dwelling, working, travelling, playing, planning, controlling) and viewer positions (e.g. onlooker, spectator, user, voyeur, investigator)
· Variations between heterogeneous on- and off-screen interactions
· Screens as organizers/disruptors/mediators of human knowledge, experience, perspectives, etc.
· Space, place and temporalities of screens in local/global/glocal/translocal situations and fields
· Comparative or exploratory studies of recent ‘hi-tech’ displays (e.g. HD, LCD, mega-screens, 3-D, touch) vs. ‘traditional’ ones (e.g. theatres, windows, veils, frames)
· Ethnographies of screens including qualitative implications of screen types, modes, juxtapositions, placements and proximities in practice
· Philosophical investigations of screens including debates about visible/invisible and presence/absence
· ‘Screen’ as a conceptual metaphor in social studies of technology, in other words what human practices can be understood as ’screening technology’?
Further information and application procedure may be found
here.
| Event information: | | September 27, 2010 9:00 am | to | September 30, 2010 4:00 pm |
July 30th, 2010
A PhD-course hosted by the Department of Organization (Ursula Plesner & Maja Horst) at CBS
Guest faculty: Anne Beaulieu, Virtual Knowledge Studio, Amsterdam, Mike Michael, Goldsmiths, University of London, Barbara Czarniawska, University of Gothenburg. Guest Faculty, texts and course description has been updated
The aim this course is to interrogate how we might devise concrete research strategies based on Actor-Network-Theory’s material semiotic approach, in particular the principles of symmetry and agnosticism. A premise underlying the concept of actor-networks is that we should not strive for the reconciliation of dualities (between, for instance, subject/object, material/symbolic, virtual/real), but completely dissolve them and follow how heterogeneous actants are interwoven in complex assemblages that both comprise and transcend such categories. Now, while ANT scholars have argued theoretically for the dissolution of dualities and offered countless empirical stories of heterogeneous networks, the ANT literature is rarely particularly articulate about what we could call middle-range methodological issues regarding, for instance, casing, delineation, etc. Hence, although theoretical discussions and empirical examples are part of this course, it will give priority to discussions about challenges arising from concrete research designs. If we consider ANT a methodology of the in-between of ‘the virtual and the real’, ‘the immaterial and the material’, ‘the social and the technical’, we might ask how we turn this type of methodological sensibility into concrete strategies.
More information about the course can be found here.
Event information: September 20-23, 2010 Department of Organization, Copenhagen Business School
| Event information: | | September 20, 2010 9:00 am | to | September 23, 2010 2:00 pm |
July 30th, 2010
It is time for STS people to get involved in a discussion of what the concept of Scientific Social Responsibility could mean. A good opportunity is June 17th, when DEA, ATV, CBS og SDU jointly invites you to a conference on the subject. The conference is organized as a set of dialogues and you can find more information about program and registration at DEAs webpage.
| Event information: | | June 17, 2010 |
| 1:00 pm | to | 6:00 pm |
May 27th, 2010
As a part of IOA’s public lecture series on the theme of organizing uncertainty, Professor Mike Power, London School of Economics, will give a lecture entitled “Re-Thinking the Moral Economy of Risk Management”. The lecture will take place at Copenhagen Business School, Porcelænshaven 20, in ‘ovnhallen’, June 3rd, 15.30 -17.30. Additional information can be found here.
Mike Power’s visit also includes a Postgraduate Seminar on morning of 4th June on the topic of ‘Calculation, Counting and Control’.
| Event information: | | June 3, 2010 |
| 3:30 pm | to | 5:30 pm |
May 27th, 2010
