Colloquium Science and Technology Studies

The IZWT colloquium presents lectures about current topics in science and technology studies.

Organizers: Thomas Heinze, Anna Leuschner, Volker Remmert

Program winter term 2026/27

Wednesday, 04.11.2026 | Marie I. Kaiser (Bielefeld) | “Reflective Interdisciplinarity in Practice: Integrating Biology and Philosophy in Studies of Individualization”

Wednesday, 11.11.2026 | Thomas Heinze (Wuppertal) | “Disciplinary Change and Organizational Growth in German Universities, 1995-2023”

Wednesday, 18.11.2026 | Marie Mirsch (Aaachen) | “A Relational Feminist Perspective on AI”

Wednesday, 25.11.2026 | Miles Powell (Copenhagen) | “Fencing Out the Wild: Managing Sharks and People at South African and Australian Beaches”

Wednesday, 02.12.2026 | Henriette Bertram (Braunschweig) | “Geschlechter- und Care-Perspektiven in der Stadtplanung - eine kritische Analyse neuer suburbaner Stadtteile”

Wednesday, 09.12.2026 | Karoliina Pulkkinen (Hannover) | “Politicizing science through concepts? A closer look at chemical elements in the USSR”

Wednesday, 16.12.2026 | Daniel Brewing (Aachen) | “Lose Enden: Wolfgang Scheffler als historischer Sachverständiger”

Wednesday, 13.01.2027 | Klarita Gërxhani (Amsterdam) | “Dimensionality of intersectionality”

Wednesday, 20.01.2027 | Brigitte Stenhouse (Oxford) | “Co-constructing scientific identities in 19th-century Britain: Mary and William Somerville”

Wednesday, 27.01.2027 | Maximiliane Wilkesmann (Dortmund) | “Unsichtbare Kolleg*innen? Wie generative KI aktuell wissenschaftliche Arbeit verändert”

Wednesday, 03.02.2027 | Grit Laudel (Berlin) | “How do epistemic evaluation systems of scientific communities affect scientific innovations?”

Programm Winter term 2026/27