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International Summer School on Gender and Science   Coordinated by Maria Rentetzi (FAU) and Sofia Costa D'Aguiar (EELISA). According to the 2021 edition of the European Commission’s She Figures report––the main source of pan-European, comparable statistics on the state of gender equa...

Call for Papers Course: Introduction to Science and Tech Diplomacy: the new geopolitics of technology Objectives Deep transformations of the role of science in international affairs together with the rapid evolution of innovations are leading to renewed geopolitical rivalries and fragmenta...

(1st Giannis Pountos International Workshop)   Communicatiοn of Science and Literature in the multiverse Aegina, Aegina Island, Greece July 3-5, 2023   Call for papers   The Municipality of Aegina, The Greek Physicists Society,  The International Commission on Science ...

International Winter School February 5–10, 2024   Humanity lives in a transnational world. Recent global events such as the Covid-19 pandemic, major supply chain disruptions and the war in Ukraine have reinforced this claim and exposed the challenges of that transnational world. Resource...

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 register here to attend via zoom. 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...

Symposium, March 20-21, 2023, Vienna, Austria Download the program here. An event sponsored by theAustrian Academy of Sciences (ÖAW), Institute of Culture Studies and Theatre HistoryFriedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nuremberg (FAU), Chair of Science, Technology and Gender StudiesMedical ...