One open post for a DOCTORAL STUDENT in the Department of Information Processing Science, University of Oulu, Finland

1 DOCTORAL STUDENT to start work on September 1, 2010 (or as soon as possible after). The post will be filled until July 31 2012 (with a possibility of a two year extension, i.e. until July 31 2014).

The doctoral student will participate in a research project that addresses e-research collaboration and e-infrastructure development from a socio-technical point of view. The research is funded by Academy of Finland and led by Academy Research Fellow Helena Karasti.

Applicants may have a variety of interests in the topic area, including but not limited to digital preservation and curation, sharing (more…)

Add comment July 11th, 2010

To nye ph.d.-afhandlinger

Anders Munk og Andrés Valderrama har for nyligt forsvaret deres ph.d-afhandlinger. De to afhandlinger kan frit downloades fra DASTS-hjemmesiden her.

Add comment July 11th, 2010

Position at Theory of science at Gotheburg University

A full time temporary position (at least 6 months, probably longer) as lecturer available. All information can be found here.

Add comment July 5th, 2010

DASTS ønsker tillykke

Peter Lauritsen, AU, har modtaget støtte fra Det Fri Forskningsråd (FKK) til et projekt om overvågning i Danmark. Projektbeskrivelse: “Surveillance in Denmark” undersøger overvågningspraksis i to organisatoriske sammenhænge: dansk politi og boligselskaber. Disse organisationer er bl.a. valgt, fordi de er involveret i væsentlige dele af den overvågning, som iværksættes i disse år. Projektet beskriver, hvordan de to organisationer former overvågningsteknologierne, men også hvordan teknologierne medvirker til at forme organisationerne. Det teoretiske udgangspunkt for dette arbejde findes i Science and Technology Studies (STS) herunder især i aktør-netværks-teori (ANT). Dette suppleres med post-fænomenologiske begreber, som bl.a. gør det muligt at forholde sig til overvågningens etiske dimensioner.

Add comment June 30th, 2010

The Humanities between Constructivism and Biologism

This conference takes place 16-17 September 2010 at the Faculty of Humanities, University of Copenhagen.
Humanistic studies as traditionally conducted are currently under pressure from two sides within academia itself: On one side, by a constructivist stance, which declares man to be a social construction. This robs the humanities of the natural focal point of their activities, the study of Man, and leaves them as an odd motley of disciplines with no unity and no shared vision. From the opposite side, the humanities are under pressure from evolutionary biology, which has no reservations about accepting the existence of such a thing as Man, who after all is a natural, biological species among others. In combination with (more…)

Add comment June 29th, 2010