Discussing with Hans-Jörg Rheinberger
A roundtable on:
Split and Splice: A Phenomenology of Experimentation University of Chicago Press, 2023.
The experiment has long been seen as a test bed for theory, but in Split and Splice, Hans-Jörg Rheinberger makes the case, instead, for trea...
By today’s standards, it is almost shocking to see how radium was handled in the US in the early 20th century. Its inward journey from the exclusionary space of the scientific laboratory to the intimacy of the bedroom highlights first and foremost how corporate priorities and the emerging nuclea...
A special workshop with two international experts on the issue of “Women and Science in Africa“ will be organized by Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nuremberg (FAU), coordinated by Prof. Dr. Maria Rentetzi (FAU) and Dr. Sofia Costa D’Aguiar (EELISA Executive Director).
In this workshop, Dr....
Guest lecure by Derek Kramer, University of Cambridge
The guest lecture will take place on the 9. May at 10am CEST. Please register here to attend via zoom.
Abstract: In the spring of 1948, the lights in Seoul went out. The blackout marked thepostcolonial collapse of the peninsular electric ne...
The Antritsvorlesung will take place on the 25. May 2023 at the Orangerie Erlangen. For more informations about the event, please open the program attached below.
Abstract:
From spring 1962 to the end of 1965, Godofredo Gómez Crespo, a Spanish physicist employed by the International Atomic Ene...
On April 24, 19:00, Prof. Dr. Maria Rentetzi will give a public keynote lecture on the subject of “Why Do We Need Diplomats? The Birth of Science Diplomacy and the Challenge to Be International.” The lecture is part of the symposium “Science and Diplomacy: The Physics Community in the Post-war Perio...
Guest Lecture: 6pm CET, 6.2.2023
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Prof. Alexis De Greiff A.
Universidad Nacional de Colombia/Max Planck Institute for the History of Science (Dep. III)
This project examines the co-production of weak infrastructures, inefficient national states, and “para...
Wednesday, February 22, 2023, 10:00
STGS seminar room (Werner-von-Siemens-Str. 61, room 02.21)
Register here to attend via Zoom
When science meets art: How computer technologies impact art history
Recent years have seen an increasing intersection between sci...
On October 21-22, 2022, a group of international participants will come together at FAU (and on Zoom) to discuss their papers submitted for a forthcoming volume called Negotiating Radiation Protection, edited by Prof. Rentetzi in cooperation with Angela Creager (Princeton) and M. Susan Lindee (Unive...
On Thursday, July 28, 2022, our current visiting scholar, Dr. Linda Marie Richards (Oregon State University) will be giving a guest lecture titled:
An Auto/Ethnography of Human Rights and Nuclear Wrongs
The event takes place at 18:00 CEST and will be livestreamed via Zoom (registration).
Li...
