IZWT Colloquium
International perspectives on science and technology
Uwe Schimank (University of Bremen) will kick things off on Wednesday 29 October with a lecture on "Freedom of Research - Manifest and Latent Threats". The lectures will begin on Wednesdays at 4.30 pm in the Glanzstoffhaus (Kasinostraße 19-21, 42103 Wuppertal, 6th floor, seminar room 06.25).
Further speakers in the winter semester:
- 12 November: Sonja Brentjes (University of Wuppertal): "How does researching a manuscript corpus on the stars help us to master fundamental historiographical questions on the history of science in Islamic societies?"
- 26 November: Peter Fischer (Dresden University of Technology): "New Physics and Old Philosophy. The attempt of historical materialism to undermine quantum physics"
- 10 December: Jonas Pöld (University of Münster): "Citizens' initiatives instead of epistemology? - Paul Feyerabend and Hans Albert on the relationship between science and democracy"
- 7 January: Hannah Hilligardt (University of Bern): "Diversity and Disagreement in Science Communication"
- 21 January: Annette Leßmöllmann (KIT Karlsruhe): "Does Science Communication Need a Common Ground?"
- 4 February: Marianne Thivend (Université de Lyon): "Learning to Count Like Men? A Study of the Gendered Construction of Accounting Knowledge in Schools in 19th-Century France"
