Past Events of STS-CH

Friday, 19 November 2010

Faculté des lettres et sciences humaines,
Espace Louis Agassiz, salle RO14
University of Neuchâtel

• Speakers: Alain Bovet, Andrew P. Carlin, Stefan Hirschauer, Martina Merz, Philippe Sormani
• Organized by Secteur Qualité, University of Neuchâtel
• Supported by the Rectors' Conference of the Swiss Universities (CRUS)
• RSVP until November 10, 2010 (philippe.sormani@unine.ch).

Programme
This conference addresses evaluation in its multiple forms as a constitutive part of research practice. Prior to any external measure or technique of evaluation, researchers themselves are indeed engaged in the evaluation of their own and their colleagues’ work. Just how, when and where does such collegial evaluation proceed? In what circumstances, according to which criteria and contingencies?

• Programme

20.12.2010, 17.00-19.30h | Semper Aula, ETH Zürich

The International Balzan Foundation «Prize» and the Swiss Academies of Arts and Sciences, in cooperation with the Competence Centre «History of Knowledge» ETHZ / University of Zurich oraganize the Balzan Distinguished Lecture 2010.
This year’s Balzan Distinguished Lecture will be given by Professor Anthony Grafton, Princeton University, USA.

The aim of this event is to present some recent research on the History of Books and Publishing by Anthony Grafton, who received the Balzan Prize in 2002 in the category «History of the Humanities.» Professor Grafton will also present the work of the two young scholars who were funded by the second half of the Balzan Prize.

Programme

Registration [here]

Date: Thursday, 21 - Friday, 22 October 2010
Location: Bildungszentrum Mission 21, CH-4056 Basel

• Alain Ehrenberg, Nicole Becker, Georg Northoff,
  Marco Lehmann-Waffenschmidt, Majia Holmer Nadesan,
  Fernando Vidal, Sabine Maasen
• Organized by Science Studies Programme, University of Basel & STS-CH
• RSVP until September 30, 2010 (cornelia.huellstrung@unibas.ch).
• Programme

Date: Monday, 12 April 2010
Location: University of Basel, Kollegienhaus (Raum 111, Regenzzimmer), Basel

• 16 - 17 h General Assembly
• 17 - 19 h Lecture by Alexander Bogner, Austrian Academy of Sciences: "Why Participation? Paradoxes of Lay Participation in Technology Conflicts"
  

• STS-CH Swiss Association for the Studies of Science, Technology, and Society
  
• GWTF Gesellschaft für Wissenschafts- und Technikforschung e.V.
  
  Gemeinsame Jahrestagung 2009
  Tübingen, 27.-28. November
  
  
• Programm
  
  
  

Date: Monday, 30 March 2009
Location: Fondation Claude Verdan, Rue du Bugnon 21, Lausanne

• 16 - 17 h General Assembly
• 17 - 18 h Presentation about STS in Lausanne
  followed by an Apéro
  

An interdisciplinary workshop to be held from
June 25-27th 2008 at
Collegium Helveticum, UZH/ETH Zürich, Switzerland

Call for Papers

February 6-9, 2008,
ETH Zürich and University of Zurich,
Switzerland

http://www.zgw.ethz.ch/sts/

Prof. Dr. Peter Weingart, Universität Bielefeld

Montag, 17. Dezember 2007, 18.15 - 20.00
Collegium Helveticum, Schmelzbergstr. 25, 8006 Zürich

Abstract

Silke Bellanger, Luzern

Date: Thursday, 25 January 2007, 18.00 - 19.30
Location: Seminar für Kulturwissenschaft und Europäische Ethnologie, Spalenvorstadt 2, 4003 Basel

For more information see http://pages.unibas.ch/kulturwissenschaft.

Date: Thursday, 8 February 2007
Location: Collegium Helveticum, Schmelzbergstrasse 25, 8092 Zurich

• Invitation to the General Assembly 2007 of STS-CH
  16'30–17'30 h
  Invitation letter

• Lecture by Gail Davis
  18'00–20'00 h
  Deliberative Mapping: Staging symmetry in deliberative processes
  Dr. Gail Davis, Department of Geography, University of London
  Abstract

Prof. Dr. Thomas Bernauer, ETH Zurich
Thursday, 26 October 2006, 18.00 - 20.00
Collegium Helveticum, Schmelzbergstr. 25, 8006 Zürich

Several studies in political science have examined social controversies over the regulation of environmental, health and safety issues. They have pointed to the country characteristics to explain such controversies, or have underlined that such controversies are more likely to escalate than disputes over other issues. In our study we tested this latter claim by looking at more than 500 WTO trade disputes in 1995-2003. The results show that the escalation dynamics vary between the different stages of the dispute-settlement process. In my talk, I will discuss these findings and elaborate on how scientific knowledge on risks might be used in the settlement of controversies over environment, health and safety issues.

A lecture in the context of the lecture series: "Scientific Futures, Public Affairs? Negotiating Challenges of the 21st Century in Science, Media and Politics", organized by STS-CH and supported by Collegium Helveticum

Abstract (Session)

• Abstract of Helga Nowotny

Wednesday, 14 June 2006:

• General Assembly of STS-CH (17'15-18'30 h)
• Lecture by Ilana Löwy, CERMES, Villejuif (19'00–20'30 h)
  “Hormone Stories”: Science, Industry, and Gender Hierarchy

Location: Humense Building (ex-BFSH2), University of Lausanne
Room 3155, 3rd floor (General Assembly)
Room 2013, 2nd floor (lecture)

_Präsentation des Films “Vietnam Transgenic" durch Thomas Isler, Zürich
_anschliessend Diskussion mit dem Filmemacher und mit
Frau Dr. Angelika Hilbeck, Geobotanisches Institut ETH Zürich

Donnerstag, 9. Februar 2006
18.00-20.00, Collegium Helveticum, Schmelzbergstrasse 25, 8006 Zürich
a printable flyer can be found here:

please follow this link to the homepage of the conference.
(tthe database containing the abstracts is not online anymore)
A pdf-documentation of the event is available here:

Location: EPF Lausanne, salle CO016
Directions: Lausanne-CFF – (M2) – Lausanne Flon – (M1/TSOL) – EPFL
See: http://plan.epfl.ch/ (count 30 minutes from the train station)

• RESEARCH SEMINAR with Vololona RABEHARISO (Ecole des Mines, Paris):
  
  "The Emergence of the 'Partnership Model' of Patient Organisation"
  
  Time: 12'15–14'00 h
  Location: Institut univ. romand d'histoire de la médecine, ch. des Falaises 1, Lausanne
  Directions: bus 45 in front of Lausanne-CFF at 12'00 h (or bus 5 or 6), stop: CHUV
  Registration: Please contact bruno.strasser@medecine.unige.ch to receive the paper that will be discussed. See also ww.sts.unige.ch/labs/

• PUBLIC LECTURE by Dominique FORAY (Paris)
  
  "IT: Between Intellectual Property Rights and Open Source"
  
  Time: 18'15–20'00 h
  Location: EPF Lausanne, auditorium CM5.
  Additional information: www.tg.ethz.ch/lehre/veranstaltungen/03Netzwerk/programmdetail.htm
  or: osps.epfl.ch/General/Manifestations/it-expert.html

Exhibition at the ZKM I Center for Art and Media, Karlsruhe (conceptualised by Bruno Latour, Peter Weibel, Peter Galison and others)

http://www.iconoclash.de/

The STS-trip takes place on the 11th of July. Incl. guided tour with Peter Weibel, director of ZKM. A symposium organised by the ZKM-people will take place the 12th/13th of July: "Image Wars and Image Floods - Reflexions about the Exhibition Iconoclash".
The participants are invited to stay over night and participate in the symposium. (Attention: sts-ch will not be able to take over any costs for the train ticket or the hotel!)

Version 1: One-Day-Trip on the 11th of July

Zuerich - Karlsruhe : Zurich HB dep. 8.02 Karlsruhe arr. 10.49 (direct train)

Karlsruhe - Zuerich: Karlsruhe dep.19.08 ZŸrich arr.22.02 (direct train)

Lausanne - Karlsruhe: Lausanne dep. 6:27 Biel arr. 7.25; Biel dep. 7.28 Basel arr. 8.35; Basel dep. 9.04 Karlsruhe arr. 10.49

Karlsruhe - Lausanne: Karlsruhe dep. 19.08 Basel SBB arr. 20.55; Basel SBB dep. 21.24 Biel arr. 22.32; Biel dep. 22.35 Lausanne arr. 23.33

Version 2: Two-Day-Trip 11th/12th July

incl. participation in the symposium, Night stay at the Hotel Handelshof, Return the next day - after participation in the Symposium.

Timetable: see above

Hotelbooking: You are kindly requested to make your own reservations at Hotel Handelshof (15 minutes to ZKM) Price: 45 Euro/Night Single Room (incl. shower, wc, breakfast) 65 Euro/Night Double Room (") Hotel Handelshof Reinhold-Frank-Stra§e 46a 76133 Karlsruhe Tel: 0721 / 9 12 09-0 Fax: 0721 / 9 12 09-88 E-Mail: HotelHandelshof@aol.com.

Important: Please let the hotel know that you are member of STS-CH

Meeting points: Zurich People coming from Zurich are meeting 11th July, 7.45 at the Meeting-Point-Clock in the Main Hall of HB Zurich. Meeting point in Karlsruhe Meeting point for people from various directions (like Geneva, Lausanne...): 11.30 at ZKM Karlsruhe.

Please confirm your participation via e-Mail to gisler@wiss.gess.ethz.ch

We are looking forward to our trip to Karlsruhe!

With kind regards, Priska Gisler, Regula Burri, Monika Domann

For practical information, in particular for accomodation, please contact:
Marc Audétat, marc.audetat@epfl.ch, at the Observatoire EPFL Science, Politique, Société, rue de Bassenges 4,
CH-1024 Ecublens, phone: +41 21 693 88 29, and fax: +41 21 693 88 47.

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The Swiss Association for the Study of Science, Technology and Society (STS-CH) has held its foundation meeting, on Friday the 20th of April 2001, in Bern.
At that occasion, it has adopted its status (soon available here) and elected a committee:

• Martina MERZ (co-president)
• Martin LENGWILER (co-president)
• Marc AUDETAT
• Monika DOMMANN
• Christoph MULLER (mailing list)
• Bruno STRASSER (web)
• Beate WILHELM (status)

It has also talked about many more interesting things and had just as many drinks but that's another story...