winter school: Transnational_History_Lab
Title:
Transnational_History_Lab
Funding:
Volkswagens Stiftung’s “Researching Research” (Project number: Az.: 9C520)
Main question:
How can we write transnational history in a world in which science and technology become increasingly relevant? With this winter School “Transnational_History_Lab” we seek to answer this question by inviting junior and senior scholars in close collaboration to develop new approaches and methods in an inter-disciplinary environment.
Description:
The Chair of Science, Technology and Gender Studies supported by a grant through the Volkswagens Stiftung’s “Researching Research” agenda is organizing the winter school “Transnational_History_Lab: Writing the History of Science and Technology Anew”. The winter school will take place in early 2024 and will invite junior and senior scholars to “enter the laboratory” to critically evaluate on how to write transnational history in an inter-disciplinary fashion in an increasingly transnational world. The winter school will focus on four main themes: International Organizations, Global Histories of Anti-Nuclear Activism, Internationalism and Academic Refugees and Scientific and Technological Standards and Standard Setting. These themes will form the basis of the winter school and the junior and senior scholars will seek to develop new approaches and methods within these topics. By bringing both junior and senior researchers working on transnational history together, the winter school aims to create a diverse environment for deep contemplation through bridgebuilding between different academic disciplines and to open for new research avenues on the transnational history of science and technology.
The winter school has four main objectives:
- To provide a venue for “researching research” by advancing the concept of transnational history through new, diverse, and interdisciplinary approaches.
- To contribute to the discussion of an increasingly interconnected world by examining the political, historical, societal, and cultural origins and implications of transnationalism for current societies and contemporary science related debates.
- To facilitate an interdisciplinary exchange of ideas for up to 20 junior scholars to hone their research skills within several research fields of History of Science, History of Technology, Sociology of Science etc.
- To create new research networks on transnational history and transnational issues, and train the junior scholars’ publishing skills.
Participants:
Prof. Dr. Maria Rentetzi, Chair of Science, Technology and Gender Studies, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU)
Dr. Aske Hennelund Nielsen, Chair of Science, Technology and Gender Studies, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU)
Dr. Eirini Karamouzi, Senior Lecturer at the Department of History, University of Sheffield
Dr. Luc-André Brunet, Senior Lecturer at the School of Arts and Humanities, The Open University