STS Colloquium Spring 2025
STS Colloquium, co-organized by the Professorship for Ethics, Technology and Society (Prof. Dr. Margarita Boenig-Liptsin) and the Chair of History and Philosophy of Mathematical Sciences (Prof. Dr Roy Wagner) at D-GESS.
The colloquium starts on February 19, 2025.
19.02.2025
Elizabeth de Freitas (Adelphi University) & Nathalie Sinclair (Simon Fraser University):
“Sense and Mediation in Colonial Baroque Mathematics”
05.03.2025
Stefan Schäfer (Research Institute for Sustainability – Helmholtz Centre Potsdam):
“From Doubt to Action: On Climate Science’s Engineering Ambitions”
19.03.2025
Paola Cantù (CNRS and Aix-Marseille Université):
“The Social Constitution of Mathematical Knowledge: Objectivity, Semantics, and Axiomatics”
02.04.2025
Luca Marelli (University of Milan):
“The Politics of Health Data Spaces: Reflections for an Emerging Research Agenda”
16.04.2025
Mourtaza Chopra (ETH Zürich) & Philippe Debroise (Université de Paris):
“Between the Straight Line and the Curve: the Angle of Contact Motif from Antiquity to Newton”
30.04.2025
Paula Bialski (University of St. Gallen):
“Good Enough Software: Corporate Tech Cultures at Work”
14.05.2025
Mark Goodale (University of Lausanne):
“Making Lithium More Like Gas: Bolivia’s Para-Carbon Transition”
28.05.2025
Roland Tormey (EPFL):
“Teaching Engineers Ethics of Care”