Gastvorträge und kleinere Veranstaltungen finden sich im Veranstaltungskalender des Schwerpunktes Wissenschaftsgeschichte [mehr]
Zum Archivführer Wissenschaftsgeschichte [mehr]
Zur AG Wissenschaftsgeschichte [mehr]
The Metrics of Energy: Accounting for Nature in the History of Social Science and Ecological Economics
June 15th and 16th, 2023
International workshop, organised by Anna Echterhölter and Marco Vianna Franco, University of Vienna (Key Research Area History of Science) in cooperation with the Institute for Advanced Studies IHS Vienna
IHS, Josefstädter Straße 39, 1080 Vienna, due to limited availability of seats, please register with wissenschaftsgeschichte.hkw@univie.ac.at
Links for the Keynotes will be shared briefly before the event on the workshops website.
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"Epistemologies of Science and Technology"
Neuer Studiengang startet Oktober 2022 [mehr]
"How is AI Changing Science?"
VWS Förderung für Bonn, Karlsruhe und Wien bewilligt:
How does artificial intelligence (AI) affect scientific practices and knowledge production in different disciplines? In order to explore the potentials, limitations, risks and ambivalences of AI-based methods, the interdisciplinary team combines perspectives from computer science, history of science, as well as media studies and media ethnography. Out of more than 100 probed research projects currently using AI based methods in Europe, three were deliberately chosen for further analysis. Specifically, these research projects exemplify changes in three focus disciplines form the humanities (film studies), social sciences (urban sociology), and natural sciences (meteorology). The goal is a better understanding, how AI is changing scientific practices (incl. continuities, discontinuities) and which new knowledge opportunities are emerging. In the course, an AI transcription and summarization tool for text and speech is developed for meta-research on AI.
- Workshop I „AI & the digital transformation“, 19.12.22, Online
- Our opening conference will take place at SCAI Sorbonne 3 / Paris, 21.-23.10.2022
"Beyond quantity: Research with subsymbolic AI" [more] - A workshop on KI in den Geisteswissenschaften will take place in Vienna from 18.-20.7.2022 organised jointly with colleagues from IGGI / Deutsches Museum München / Rudolf Seising: Deduktive Logik und Heuristik: Ansätze automatischen Beweisens / Helen Piel: Die Beziehungen zwischen KI und Kognitionswissenschaft / Florian Müller: Von der Linguistischen Datenverarbeitung zur sprachorientierten KI / Dinah Pfau: Bildverarbeitung / Jakob Tschandl: Expertensysteme
Partnership Seminars "Anthropocene Histories" wiht the Institute of Historical Research London
am Institute of Historical Research London veranstaltete Seminarreihe gemeinsam mit Sophie Page (UCL), Amanda Power (Oxford), John Sabapathy (UCL), Sujit Sivasundaram (Cambridge).
All are wellcome, registration required [mehr...]
1) The Anthropocene and the Challenges of Deep Historical Imagination
Pratik Chakrabarti (Manchester), 12 January 2021 / https://www.history.ac.uk/podcasts/anthropocene-and-challenges-deep-historical-imagination
2) Original sin & the Anthropocene
Sylvain Piron (EHESS), 2 February 2021: https://www.history.ac.uk/podcasts/original-sin-anthropocene
3) Thinking with extinction
Elizabeth Boakes (UCL): 'Living with extinction' | Lee Raye (Open University): 'Coping with loss' | Sadiah Qureshi (Birmingham): 'The frozen ark and new definitions of extinction' | Sandra Swart (Stellenbosch): 'Frankenzebra - a historian thinks about zombie zoology',
2 March 2021: https://www.history.ac.uk/podcasts/thinking-extinction
4) 'Imperial animals: are animals a new subaltern in the history of empires?'
Rohan Deb Roy (Reading) | Antoinette Burton (Illinois U-C) | Renisa Mawani (University of British Columbia) |Aleks Pluskowski (Reading), 4 May 2021
5) What should historians do in the next decade of the climate crisis?
In the run-up to the UN climate change conference in Glasgow this November, much attention is focused on the political and social adaptations needed to address the climate crisis. Going into and beyond that however, there are also questions for historians and the discipline of history. From activism, to reparative climate justice, to the shape of the wider historical narratives we offer, historians too face a question about what we should do in the next decade of the climate crisis. Andreas Malm is Senior Lecturer in Human Ecology at the University of Lund, and author most recently of How to Blow Up a Pipeline: Learning to Fight in a World on Fire. | Julia Adeney Thomas is Associate Professor of History at the University of Notre Dame, and co-author most recently of The Anthropocene: A Multidisciplinary Approach | Ling Zhang is Associate Professor of History at Boston College, and author of The River, the Plain, and the State: An Environmental Drama in Northern Song China, 1048-1128, 1st June 2021
6) Epistemicides and the Resources of Justification
Extinction is most readily associated with the accelerated loss of lifeforms and ecosystems. The annihilation of epistemic systems is less visible. Yet, there is no doubt that "epistemicides" occur. According to Boaventura de Sousa Santos, the intellectual tectonics of colonialism still annihilate and devaluate epistemologies of the South to this day. One particular province of knowledge - which is affected by epistemicides and yet crucial to the challenges posed by the Anthropocene - is the conceptualization of "nature" in it's spiritual, legal, aesthetic, and economic meanings. While the non-human must to some extent be considered as a resource of life, how was it dealt with in a more or less sustainable way throughout different societies? Which systems of reacculturation, restraint, or long-term use can be salvaged from the continuous destruction of epistemic perspectives?
David Ludwig is Associate professor in the Knowledge, Technology, and Innovation Group of Wageningen University in the Netherlands and PI of the Global Epistemologies and Ontologies (GEOS) Project. / Elizabeth A. Povinelli FAHA is Franz Boas Professor of Anthropology and Gender Studies at Columbia University where she has also been the Director of the Institute for Research on Women and Gender and the Co-Director of the Centre for the Study of Law and Culture. / Sujit Sivasundaram is Professor of World History and Director of the Centre of South Asian Studies at the University of Cambridge. He is co-convenor of the Anthropocene Histories seminar series.
7) Teaching Environmental History & the Anthropocene: Challenges and Possibilities
How can we teach environmental history most effectively? The field is both a longstanding and a somewhat marginal area in historiography. Despite its centrality to major intellectual shifts (such as the Annales), environmental history has arguably not achieved the importance it merits within the discipline more widely. That may be changing as students become more concerned by the accelerating climate crisis, and more mainstream history recognizes the interdependence of human life on other biosystems.
This discussion brings together a panel with a wide experience of teaching environmental history and the Anthropocene to discuss their experiences of assembling curricula, teaching environmental history, and developing new approaches to the topic to explore both the challenges and the possibilities of teaching environmental history and the Anthropocene.
The panel will include:
Prof. Karen Jones (Kent); Dr Mark Levene (Southampton and Rescue! History); Dr Amanda Power (Oxford); Dr Giulia Rispoli (MPIWG); Prof. John Sabapathy (UCL)
https://www.history.ac.uk/partnership-seminars/anthropocene-histories
8) Climate in Motion: Science, Empire and the Problem of Scale
Deborah Coen (Yale), Eva Horn (University of Vienna), Richard Staley (University of Cambridge)<time datetime="2022-02-23T12:00:00Z">23 February 2022</time>, 3:30PM - 5:30PM
9) Wednesday 8th March, 1500-1700 GMT, online
Locating the Anthropocene: Markers, meaning, implications
Speakers: Simon Turner (AWG/UCL), Introduction
Carbon: Neil Rose (UCL) + Jenny Bulstrode
Plutonium: Andy Cundy (NOC Southampton) + ulia Adeney Thomas
Plastics: Simon Turner (AWG/UCL),
From where and when can we say the Anthropocene had started? The Anthropocene Working Group (AWG) is currently voting on which of twelve sites globally will be recommended to the Subcommission on Quaternary Stratigraphy as the geological reference point for the Anthropocene. What difference will this make to our understanding of the Anthropocene? What implications does choosing any one site carry? How might this change our understanding of the historical and political processes that produced the Anthropocene?
In advance of the AWG’s final vote, this seminar will explore some of these questions with members of the AWG by thinking about three major marker types—plutonium, carbon ash (SCPs) and plastics—and their implications.
Jahrestagung GTG & GWMT: "Skalen, Normen, Grenzwerte im (digitalen) Wandel"
17.-19. September 2021 / Die Gesellschaft für Technikgeschichte (GTG) und die Gesellschaft für die Geschichte der Wissenschaften, der Medizin und der Technik (GWMT) stellen ihre gemeinsame Jahrestagung in Wien unter das Thema "Skalen, Normen, Grenzwerte im (digitalen) Wandel". Organisiert wird die Veranstaltung vor Ort durch das Technische Museum Wien und die Universität Wien (Anna Echterhölter). Zur Website der Jahrestagung [mehr].
Vorschau Publikationen
2022 gemeinsam mit Tilman Richter und Caspar Friedolin Lorenz: CfP ilinx 6, administrative tools
2021 gemeinsam mit Laurens Schlicht und Sophie Ledebur: Themenheft zur Tagung "Data at the Doorstep" bei "Science in Context"
2023 Äquvalenz und Asymmetrie. Vom ökonomischen Handwerk des Messens (Habilitation) Reihe Wissensforschung
2023 Politische Epistemologie der Daten für Junius
