© Universität Bielefeld
I²SoS-Colloquium
Summer Term 2024
The Interdisciplinary Colloquium on Science Studies takes place each Tuesday from 16:15 to 17:45 in room X-E0-218 and over Zoom.
The intended format is to have live events with remote access. Should a speaker be giving their talk only via Zoom, this will be indicated by the prefix “Zoom only”.
https://uni-bielefeld.zoom-x.de/j/69894807136?pwd=eVJhbE1kMklCeFN4SFdYQ0h4SDY2UT09
Meeting ID: 698 9480 7136
Passcode: 505400
The language of the title indicates the language of the talk. You are warmly invited to take part. We would be delighted to welcome you to the colloquium.
Dr. Arianna Borrelli, Prof. Dr. Marie Kaiser, Prof. Dr. Holger Straßheim
| Date | Presenter | Title |
|---|---|---|
| 16.04. | Nora Hangel (Hannover) | Normative social epistemology |
| 23.04. | Rolf Lidskog (Örebro University) | Environmental expertise for social transformation: meaning, roles, and expectations |
| 30.04. | Andrey Lovakov (DZHW) | The structure of science and the trajectories of its development in the post-Soviet countries |
| 07.05. | Rudolf seising (TUM/Deutsches Museum) |
When Artificial Intelligence arrived in West Germany and how it became established |
| 14.05. | Michele Luchetti (Bielefeld) | Staging medicine: performativity and knowledge in medical research, education, and practice |
| 21.05. | Guido Prieto (Bielefeld) & Alejandro Fábregas-Tejeda (Leuven) |
Not models but model carriers: A fresh look at model organisms |
| 28.05. | Nathalie Bredella (Hannover) | Architecture and the genealogies of data-based design |
| 04.06. | Simone Rödder (Hamburg) | Science and Climate Communication (title tba) |
| 11.06. | Katharina Paul (Wien) | Values and Vaccination (title tba) |
| 18.06. | Trym Eiterjord (MPIWG) | Science, Politics, and Climate Change in China (title tba) |
| 25.06. | Susanne Schmidt (HU Berlin) | Probing the Promises of Self-Control: The Marshmallow Test, Race, and Social Science, 1950–today |
| 02.07. | Frank Meier (SOCIUM Bremen) | Valuation and Failure (title tba) |
| 09.07. | Tom Medvetz (UC San Diego) | Think Tanks and Expertise (title tba) |
Previous Colloquia
- Winter Term 2023/24
Date Presenter Title 17.10. 17:00 - 18:30! Londa Schiebinger (Stanford) From the Mind Has No Sex? to Gendered Innovations 31.10. Mikko von Bremen (Bielefeld) Worldviews of Ice: The Role of Arctic Research Funding 07.11. Jacob Stegenga (Cambridge) Fast Science 21.11. Phillip Roth (Aachen) Preprint Culture. Towards the Study of a Communication Format in Late-Modern Science 28.11. Jean-Philippe Martinez (TU Berlin) Exploring virtuality: Lessons from the history of modern physics 05.12. Mathilde Tahar (Lille) Biological Agency as Inventiveness: Rethinking the Role of Non-Human Organisms in Evolution 12.12. Niels Taubert (Bielefeld) How Openness Travels 19.12. Zoom only: Uljana Feest (Hannover) Context-Sensitivity and the Problem of Data in the Behavioral Sciences 09.01. Nora Hangel (Hannover) Normative Social Epistemology Naturalized 16.01. Zoom only: Barbara Prainsack (Wien) Research in a crisis: Lessons from a European study on solidarity 23.01. Sonja Blum (Bielefeld) Expertise, Evidence and Public Policy (preliminary title) 30.01. Nathalie Bredella (Hannover) Architecture and the genealogies of data-based design - POSTPONED TO THE SUMMER TERM 2024 - Summer Term 2023
Date Presenter Title 11.04. Émile P. Torres (Hannover) Ethics of Extinction 18.04. Lukas Poppenborg (Bielefeld) Biodiversity and Functional Beauty 25.04. Zoom only: Eva Lövbrand (Linköping) Just Transition and the Politics of Listening 02.05. Zoom only: Alexandre White (Balitmore) Epidemic Orientalism. Race, Capital, and the Governance of Infectious Disease 09.05. Lena Kästner (Bayreuth) Understanding Artificial Intelligent Systems 16.05. Zoom only: Endre Danyi (Frankfurt a.M.) Reclaiming Melancholy 23.05. Amir Teicher (Tel Aviv / Berlin) From Disease Carriers to Super-Spreaders 30.05. Zoom only: Christine Luk (Beijing) The Entangled History of Freshwater Jellyfish Craspedacusta sowerbii in Modern China 06.06. Jonathan Fuller (Pittsburgh) tba 13.06. Dan Liu (München) Ending Epigenesis: Cell and Protoplasm as Developmental Agents in the 19th Century 20.06. Soraya de Chadarevian (Los Angeles) Heredity under the Microscope 27.06. Zoom only: Julie Jebeile (Bern) tba 04.07. Audray Alejandro (London) On Technicisation: Male Circumcision from Social Practice to Transnational Object of Medical Expertise 11.07. Justin Biddle (Atlanta) Organizations and Values in Science and Technology Selected abstracts
09.05.2023: Lena Kästner - Understanding Artificial Intelligent Systems
Modern artificial intelligence (AI) systems are often complex and opaque. At the same time, they are becoming increasingly prevalent in our lives. As a result, there is an increasing demand to make AI systems explainableand their behaviour intelligible. Recent work primarily approaches this problem by employing specific explainability methods to aid in-context understanding. We think, however, that important desiderata such as safety and reliability might be best satisfied through the increase of expert understanding with respect to how AI systems work. This is joint work with Barnaby Crook.
11.07.2023: Justin Biddle - Organizations and Values in Science and Technology
This presentation articulates a conceptual framework for examining philosophical issues such as the role of values in science at an organizational level. It distinguishes between three dimensions of organizations – organizational aims, organizational structure, and organizational culture – and it examines how these dimensions relate to values in research and development, with a focus on machine learning systems for predictive policing. This framework can be fruitful in identifying interesting and understudied philosophical problems – including those involving inter-organizational divisions of labor – that might otherwise be difficult to conceptualize.
- Winter Term 2022/23
Date Presenter Title 18.10. Mathias Frisch (LU Hannover) Uses and Misuses of Scientific Models in Pandemic
Policy Advice25.10. Lara Keuck (U. Bielefeld) Validation and Regulation in the Sciences of Health 8.11.
Anton Killin (U. Bielefeld) Auditory cheesecake 15.11. Daniel R. Friedrich (U. Bielefeld) Medizin - praktische, an der Wissenschaft orientierte Disziplin 22.11. Zoom only: Fabienne Will (Deutsches Museum München) Evidenzpraktiken an der Schnittstelle
von Disziplinen: Die Debatte um das Anthropozän29.11. Christian Suhm (Krupp-Kolleg Greifswald) nference to the best explanation – revisited and extended in the context of current debates on the scope and limits of science 6.12. Anna Klassen (U. Jena) olitisierung und Entpolitisierung von Wissenschaft - Die
Deutungskämpfe um Gentechnologie in der Bundesrepublik der 70er und 80er Jahre13.12. Jan Surman (Czech Academy of Sciences Prag) “Images of Science” in Central and
Eastern Europe between the Wars20.12 Zoom only: Karla Garcia (ISoS, U. Bielefeld) Rights of Nature: Analysis of a Decade of Legal
Trials in Ecuador10.1. Zoom only: Ruth Müller (TU München) Time as a Judgment Device: How Time
Matters When Reviewers Assess Applicants for ERC Starting and Consolidator
Grants17.1. Paulina Gennermann (U. Bielefeld) Natürlich synthetisch! Die Naturalisierung
nicht-natürlicher Aromastoffe im 20. Jahrhundert am Beispiel Vanillin24.1. Svenja Holste (U. Bielefeld) 'The Arctic We Know?!' The Production of Arctic
Knowledge and Natural Scientists' Worldviews31.1. Tahani Nadim (HU Berlin) Ends and Endings in Digitalization - Summer Term 2022
Datum Referent*in Vortragstitel 5.4 Marco Casali (Rome/Paris) Chance as an abstractor in cellular and molecular explanations 12.4 Silke Beck (Leipzig) online Experts as corridor-makers - understanding the role of the IPCC in the emerging climate regime 26.4 Mariko Jacoby (Essen) Disaster Prevention in Japan 1885-1978: Natural Disasters, Scientific Expertise and Global Transfers of Knowledge 3.5 Christian Suhm (Greifswald) Inference to the best explanation - revisited and extended 10.5 Fabian Flink (Wuppertal) Geschichte der Wissenschaftsgeschichte in Deutschland, ca. 1930-1950 17.5 Christian Forstner (Jena) Objektgebundenes Wissen in und zwischen Innovationskulturen 24.5 Julian Jürgenmeyer (Columbia) online Trials of Legitimacy -- Stress Testing and the Politics of Expertise in Banking Regulation 31.5 Caterina Schürch (München) Like cracking a walnut with a sledge hammer“: Die diffizile disziplinenübergreifende Erschließung des Mechanismus der Anthocyan-Synthese, 1928–1938. 7.6 Stefan Böschen (Aachen) online Offensiver Dilettantismus: Wissensproduktion in hybriden Arenen und ihre epistemischen Herausforderungen 14.6 Chiara Lisciandra (Bologna/Munich) Explanatory norms and interdisciplinary collaboration 28.6 Karin Zachmann (München) "Evidenzkritik: Zum Umgang mit Dissens in der Wissensgesellschaft". 5.7 Jan Baedke (Bochum) Conceptual challenges for the return of the organism in biology 12.7 Marlene van den Bos (Bielefeld) Explanation and External Validity of Models - Winter Term 2021/22
19.10. Mathias Girel (ENS Paris), “The Pragmatics of Ignorance” 26.10. Zoom only: Paolo Mancosu (Berkeley, history and philosophy of mathematics, presently Chaire Pascal Paris), "Paradoxes of infinity: classical problems and recent perspectives" 2.11. Lisa Malich (U. Lübeck), „Von Frauen und Vögeln: Eine historische Epistemologie des Nestbauinstinkts in der Schwangerschaft“ 9.11. - 16.11. Nur über Zoom: Alexander Bogner (Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften), „Die Epistemisierung des Politischen“ 23.11. Zoom Only: James Robert Brown (Philosophy, U. of Toronto), “Mathematical Evidence” 30.11. Davide Vecchi and Gil C. Santos (HPS, U. of Lisbon), “On the nature of phenotype construction: a dispositional account” 7.12. Zoom only: Gil Eyal (Columbia U.), "The Crisis of Expertise" 14.12. Philipp Haueis (Philosophy, Uni BI), “Local climate knowledge and activism, or: how to make philosophy of climate research more practice-based” 21.12. Zoom only: Malte Neuwinger (Sociology, Uni BI), "Global spread of RCTs" 11.1. Zoom only: Jalal Shahinitiran (ISoS, Uni BI), Presentation of Master's Thesis 18.1. Zoom only: Eva Krick (Arena Institut Oslo), “Citizen expertise in democratic governance” 25.1. Mathias Frisch (Philosophy, LUH), “Uses and misuses of scientific models in pandemic policy advice” 1.2. - - Summer Term 2021
20.4. Martin Carrier (Uni BI, Philosophie)
Wissenschaftliches Wissen und gesellschaftliche Entscheidung. Zu Wertfreiheit und Pluralität in der wissenschaftlichen Politikberatung27.4. Lukas Engelmann (U. Edinburgh, History and Sociology of Science)
Virus-Imagery: The History of Pandemic Visualization, HIV to Covid4.5. Franz Mauelshagen (Uni BI, Geschichtswissenschaft)
Die Expansion der Technosphäre in der 'Großen Beschleunigung’. Ein Werkstattbericht11.5. Anke Reinhardt (Bonn)
Research Activities of International Organizations18.5 Bettina Bock von Wülfingen (Uni BI, Geschichtswissenschaft)
Zeugung unter dem Mikroskop 1850er bis 1900: Wie die moderne Familie das Problem der Erbschaft löste1.6. Niki Vermeulen (U. Edinburgh, Science, Technology and Innovation Studies)
Architectures for Collaboration15.6. Chrysostomos Mantzavinos (U. of Athens, Philosophy)
Science, Institutions, and Values22.6. Andy Stirling (U. of Sussex, STEPS Centre)
From Politics of Uncertainty to Convulsing Modernity29.6. Simon Groß (Uni BI, Geschichtswissenschaft)
Soziologie in den 50er Jahren: Helmut Schelsky in Hamburg (1948-1960)6.7. Annabelle Littoz-Monnet (U. Genève, Political Science),
Governing through Expertise. The Politics of Bioethics13.7. Constanze Schmidt (Uni BI, Master ISoS)
Downscaling als Teil der Wissensinfrastruktur? Die Nützlichkeit von regionalen Klimadaten am Beispiel des Geologischen Dienstes NRW20.7. Inanna Hamaty-Ataya (U. of Cambridge, Sociology)
Anthropological Epistemology and its Implications for the Philosophy of Science: The Case of Palaeolithic Knowledges- Winter Term 2020/21
10.11 Stephanie Beyer (LU Hannover, Sociology), „Homo Prestigious – Die soziale Konstruktion der US- akademischen Elite“
17.11 Wolfang Krohn (U. Bielefeld, Sociology), "Realexperimente und das Problem der Verallgemeinerung des Wissens"
24.11 Valerie Wittek (U. Bielefeld, Economics), Technology Transfer between Academia and the Pharmaceutical Industry – Effects of Political Control Mechanisms
1.12 Anna Kosmützky (LU Hannover, Sociology), Vergleichsmethodik
8.12 Matthias Heymann (U. Aarhus, History), Algorithms, politics and scientific standards: How climate models and climate prediction changed the culture of climate science.
15.12 Paloma Schlichting (Uni BI, Philosophy), Public engagement in science – the public is online, can science be too?
12.1 Alkistis Elliott-Graves (Uni BI, Philosophy), Understanding Ecological Complexity
19.1 Gabriele Gramelsberger (RTWH Aachen),
26.1 Alejandro Esguerra (Uni BI), Science-Policy-Society Relations im Kontext von Global Climate Governance
2.2 Lisa Regazzoni (Uni BI, History), Geschichtsstoff: Zwei oder drei Dinge, die ich von ihm weiß
9.2 Florian Irgmaier (Weizenbaum-Institut Berlin, Sociology), Zurechenbarkeitsverschiebung und Latenzverdacht: Der Plausibilitätsverlust liberaler Normen durch verhaltenswissenschaftliche und digitale Mustererkennung
- Summer Term 2020
28.04.2020 Johanna Wagner, Künstliche Intelligenzen als Verantwortungsträger: Warum es nicht ausreicht so zu tun als ob 05.05.2020 Peter Weingart, The many sources of the 'public engagement of science' — rhetoric 19.05.2020 Stefanie Haupt, Überlegungen zu den Merkmalen einer völkischen Wissenschaft am Beispiel der ‚Ortungsforschung und Germanischen Himmelskunde‘ 09.06.2020 Minea Gartzlaff & Basel Myhub, First empirical insights into research heuristics in the context of practice 07.07.2020 Julia Engelschalt, Tropicality in Theory and Practice: American: Colonial Medicine and Southern Public Health, 1898-1925 14.07.2020 Alexander Schniedermann (DZHW Berlin), Function, reception and performativity of review literature in science, in the context of the bibliometrics-driven incentive structure