WTMC Spring Workshop 24-26 April 2023 – “STS at work: Perspectives on Labour”

Date: April 24, 2023 until April 26, 2023 Time: 9:00 AM - 6:00…

Introducing the new WTMC director Esther Turnhout

Since January this year, I will be acting as the Academic Director…

WTMC Annual Meeting 10 December now as online event

You are cordially invited to join the 2021 Annual Meeting now as online event. Book your place here. We hope to meet you on December 10!

WTMC PhD Fall Workshop ‘Emerging Innovations as Systems’ 3-5 November 2021

The WTMC PhD Fall Workshop will be held from 3 till 5 November 2021 at Soeterbeeck. This WTMC PhD Workshop is an event for WTMC participants in the first instance. If less than 20 WTMC PhDs register the remaining places could be filled by external PhDs.

4S-Bernal Prize for Nelly Oudshoorn

4S-Bernal Prize for Nelly Oudshoorn

WTMC PhD Writeshop 1 October 2021 at Social Impact Factory

On Friday 1 October 2021, WTMC will organize the next Writeshop at Social Impact Factory, Utrecht. WTMC Writeshops are meant for WTMC PhDs who are in the second, third or fourth year of their PhD trajectories.

WTMC PhD Summer School ‘Epistemic Corruption’ 23-27 August 2021 (online)

From Monday 23 to Friday 27 August 2021 WTMC will organize a PhD Summer School (online) with anchor teacher Sergio Sismondo. Knowledge production is associated with particular values and standards (truth, objectivity, impartiality, etc), and failure to conform to these are often prominently condemned as corruption of the scientific endeavour.

WTMC PhD Workshop ‘Datafying non-humans’ 21–23 April 2021 (online)

Over the last forty years, scientific endeavours and related policy initiatives have been strongly shaped by datafication. Many of these current endeavours, whether space exploration, genomics or addressing climate change rely on complex digital objects, formed by global networks of data flow.

WTMC PhD Writeshop 19 March 2021 (online)

On Friday 19 March 2021 WTMC will organize the next online Writeshop. The Writeshop is only meant for WTMC members who are in the final phase of their PhD.

WTMC PhD Winter School ‘A New Political Sociology of Science’ 10-14 January 2021 (online)

From Sunday 10 to Thursday 14 January 2021 WTMC will organize a PhD Winter School (online) with anchor teacher Pierre-Benoît Joly.

WTMC Annual Meeting 11 December 2020 (online)

WTMC Annual Meeting 11 December 2020 (online) As always, you are all welcome – PhD members, retired members and everyone interested (also if not a member of WTMC). Book your place and receive the meeting link here (obligatory). Please register by 30 November!

ERC Synergy Grant for Willem Halffman (RUN) and Cyrus Mody (UM)

ERC Synergy Grant for Willem Halffman (RUN) and Cyrus Mody (UM)

WTMC PhD Writeshop 30 October 2020 at Social Impact Factory

On Friday 30 October 2020, WTMC will organize the next Writeshop. The Writeshop is meant for WTMC members who are in the final phase of their PhD.

About WTMC

Netherlands Graduate School of Science, Technology and Modern Culture.

WTMC is a collective effort of scholars based in the Netherlands who study the development of science, technology and modern culture from an interdisciplinary perspective.

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