Wednesday, December 6, 2023, 3:00 PM ET, virtual webinar
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Abstract
A startling woman wears a silk robe and seemingly nothing else. She flashes her naked shoulder, her hands elegantly reach his, while her bare legs touch his thighs. She looks young, elegant, inviting. He, an ol...
Were women written out of the history of science? Or was science history written from a masculine perspective, concerning topics and sites explored? Did history of science ignore those roles that were predominantly feminine? This seminar offers an opportunity to address these questions by putting t...
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As the Russian war in Ukraine has forced the redrawing of the global geopolitical map, national foreign science policies face novel challenges: from climate change and the role of artificial intelligence in all aspects of human life to the reemergence of the nuclear threa...
Prof. Dr. Maria Rentetzi will be part of a panel discussion with officials of the IAEA and other leading experts and will discuss the evolution of the Standards from various perspectives including the IAEA’s role in their development, their practical use in Member States and their dissemination. Wit...
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...
