The series kicks off on Wednesday 4 November with a lecture by Marie I. Kaiser from Bielefeld University entitled ‘Reflective Interdisciplinarity in Practice: Integrating Biology and Philosophy in Studies of Individualisation’. Other presentations will address topics including the transformation of academic disciplines at German universities, feminist perspectives on artificial intelligence, and the management of sharks on South African and Australian beaches.

The lectures will take place every Wednesday at 4.30 pm in the Glanzstoffhaus (Kasinostraße 19–21, 42103 Wuppertal, 6th floor, seminar room 06.25). Most of the lectures will be held in English.

Further dates and topics for the winter term:

• 11 November: Thomas Heinze (University of Wuppertal): “Disciplinary Change and Organisational Growth in German Universities, 1995–2023”
• 18 November: Marie Mirsch (RWTH Aachen): ‘A Relational Feminist Perspective on AI’
• 25 November: Miles Powell (University of Roskilde): ‘Fencing Out the Wild: Managing Sharks and People at South African and Australian Beaches’
• 2 December: Henriette Bertram (Technical University of Braunschweig): “Gender and Care Perspectives in Urban Planning – A Critical Analysis of New Suburban Neighbourhoods”
• 9 December: Karoliina Pulkkinen (Leibniz University Hannover): “Politicising science through concepts? A closer look at chemical elements in the USSR”
• 16 December: Daniel Brewing (RWTH Aachen University): ‘Loose Ends: Wolfgang Scheffler as a historical expert’
• 13 January: Klarita Gërxhani (University of Amsterdam): ‘Dimensionality of intersectionality’
• 20 January: Brigitte Stenhouse (Open University, Milton Keynes): “Co-constructing scientific identities in 19th-century Britain: Mary and William Somerville”
• 27 January: Maximiliane Wilkesmann (TU Dortmund): “Invisible colleagues? How generative AI is currently transforming scientific work”
• 3 February: Grit Laudel (TU Berlin): ‘How do epistemic evaluation systems of scientific communities affect scientific innovations?’

Further information and abstracts for the individual talks are available on the IZWT website.