Science, Technology, Society — Science and Technology Studies
ENVIRONMENT/SUSTAINABILITY
2022-2023 LECTURE/DISCUSSION SERIES IN THE ENVIRONMENTAL HUMANITIES: SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY,ENVIRONMENT/SUSTAINABILITY
Day/Time: Friday, 18:15-20:00 (EEST)
Place: Teaching Room C, Department of History and Philosophy of Science, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (NKUA)
Zoom: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/86003468724
Find the spring semester program, here.
SUMMER SCHOOL: ENERGY AS A COMMONS
The coordinator is Prof. Vasilis Kostakis. The summer school is co-organised by the P2P Lab of Tallinn University of Technology, and by the Interdepartmental Graduate Program “Science, Technology, Society – Science and Technology Studies” of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens.
For more information, see here.
ENVIRONMENTAL HUMANITIES 2021-2022 LECTURE SERIES: ENVIRONMENT/SUSTAINABILITY, SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY
You can find the program, here.
ONLINE LECTURE BY VASILIS KOSTAKIS
"Technology won’t bring about a sustainable society, but here’s something that can"
A lecture by Vasilis Kostakis
Professor of P2P Governance at TalTech; Faculty Associate at Harvard University's Berkman Klein Center; Recipient of a four-year (2019-) grant from the European Research Council, to study how to create a sustainable and inclusive economy based on locally productive communities that are digitally interconnected; Founder of the P2P Lab and a founding member of the rural makerspace Tzoumakers (Epirus, Greece)
Wednesday, 10 November 2021, 20:00-22:00
Webex Link:
https://uoa.webex.com/uoa/j.php?MTID=mfddc80613e7c344ad75738e427c5b64f
Organized in the context of the course: Science, Technology, Society Graduate Program ‘Science, Technology, Society – Science and Technology Studies’ (sts.phs.uoa.gr)
Department of History and Philosophy of Science & Department of Informatics and Telecommunications
School of Science
National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
Further Information: Aristotle Tympas (tympas@phs.uoa.gr)
Find the flyer, here.
"DIFFICULT CHEMICALS: UNDERSTANDING THE SLOW UPTAKE OF INSECTICIDES IN BRITISH FARMING AFTER 1945" WEBINAR
In the frame of "Sustainability, Techno-sciences, Transitions: From history to contemporary environmental and social challenges" series, we are joined by Dr. Sabine Clarke, Senior Lecturer, Department of History, York University, UK.
The title of this webinar is "Difficult Chemicals: Understanding the slow uptake of insecticides in British Farming after 1945"
Join Zoom Meeting: us02web.zoom.us/j/81932213086
Sabine Clarke is Senior Lecturer in Modern History. She works on the history of science, technology and medicine in Britain and its colonial empire between WWI and 1965, with a particular focus on the Caribbean and East Africa. Her monograph, Science at the End of Empire: Experts and the Development of the British Caribbean, 1940-1965 was published by Manchester University Press in 2018.
LECTURE BY DR. IVAN TCHALAKOV "ORDERS OF WORTH IN NUCLEAR TRANSITION: THE CASE OF BULGARIA (1969-2019)"
Invitation to the lecture by Dr. Ivan Tchalakov
"Orders of Worth in Nuclear Transition: The Case of Bulgaria (1969-2019)"
Thursday, February 28th 2019, 18:30-20:00
Lecture Room E (Panepistimioupolis, Ano Ilisia), Department of History and Philosophy of Science, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (NKUA)
Ivan Tchalakov is Professor of Sociology of Science and Technology - Department of Applied and Institutional Sociology, University of Plovdiv, Bulgaria
Senior Research Fellow - BAS Institute for the Study of Knowledge & Society
Senior Research Fellow - Center for Policy Analyses & Studies of Technologies (PAST), Tomsk State University, Russia
Organized upon the completion of the EU HORIZON 2020 research project ‘HoNESt: History of Nuclear Energy and Society’
Hosted by the Interdepartmental Graduate Program “Science, Technology, Society—Science and Technology Studies” (Department of History and Philsophy of Science and Department of
Informatics and Telecommunications, NKUA)
Contact: Aristotle Tympas (tympas@phs.uoa.gr)
Find the lecture's poster, here.
