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Each semester, the Chair of Science, Technology and Gender Studies offers teaching seminar for students from diverse backgrounds and to the various faculties at the FAU, educating a new generation of students on new and innovative research within the history of science and technology. Our current te...

This is a brief introductory video of us at STGS, working in the chair during the period 2024-2025. You can watch the video here.

Dates: June 13-14, 2025 Deadline: February 20, 2025 Location: Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany   The Chair of Science Technology and Gender Studies (STGS) at Friedrich-Alexander Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany, in collaboration with the Department of...

watch the video here   We are celebrating the one-year anniversary of our international hybrid course: Introduction to Science and Tech Diplomacy: the New Geopolitics of Technology. With 45 students and professionals from 16 countries and from almost all disciplines and levels, the cou...

⁉ The project was part of an advanced seminar held as part of a co-op by Prof. Dr. Maria Rentetzi and Prof. Dr. Kristina Giesel at the Department of Physics in the summer semester of 2024, titled “How Does Gender Shape Science? The Intermingling of Gender and Natural Sciences in Historical Context.“...

As part of our commitment to break down the solid boundaries between academia and public audiences, this is the first video in our ERC funded series on the public history of radiation protection. Historian of nuclear science, Maria Rentetzi, explains her research on how two mobile radioisotope labor...

Maria Rentetzi and Sandra Klos   “Radiation from x-ray tubes and radioactive substances is very useful in medicine and industry. But we must never for a moment lose sight of the fact that improperly used radiation can be a menace, not only to the user but to the completely innocent bystan...

Do you know Marietta Blau? She was one of the first women in Austria to study physics and mathematics. She conducted research on radioactivity at the University of Vienna and as a “freie Mitarbeiterin” (unpaid affiliate) at the Institute for Radium Research of the Academy of Sciences. She was nomina...

Physikstudentin Anabel Kummer hat am Seminar „Strahlungsgegenstände, die Geschichte schrieben“ teilgenommen und sich mit den Auswirkungen von Naturwissenschaften auf unsere Gesellschaft auseinandergesetzt. Hier erzählt sie von ihren Erfahrungen.