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WTMC Writeshop 10 October 2025

Amsterdam/Utrecht area
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WTMC Spring Workshop 8-10 April 2024 “Endangered Futures”

WTMC Spring Workshop – ‘Routines and Disruptions’

26-28 May 2025 - Study and Conference Centre Soeterbeeck
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WTMC Writeshop 8 April 2025

8 April 2025 - Social Impact Factory Utrecht
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Membership WTMC

WTMC Annual Meeting 2025

WTMC Annual Meeting 7 March 2025 - Balie, Amsterdam
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WTMC Autumn Workshop

WTMC PhD Fall Workshop 4-7 November 2024 ‘Infrastructures Across Borders’ (online)

From Monday 4 until Thursday 7 November 2024, WTMC will organize the next WTMC (online) Autumn Workshop on ‘Infrastructures Across Borders'. Registration is open now!
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WTMC Writeshop 14 October, 2024

WTMC writeshop with Jarno Hoekman
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Summer School WTMC 2023

WTMC Summer School “Epistemic inequities”

with anchor teacher Sharon Traweek
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WTMC Spring Workshop 8-10 April 2024 “Endangered Futures”

WTMC Spring Workshop “Endangered Futures”

8 -10 April 2024 Study and Conference Centre Soeterbeeck
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WTMC Annual Meeting 2024

March 8, 2024 at "De Balie" in Amsterdam
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Vacancy PhD Training Coordinator

Deadline: 8 February 2024
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Writeshop March 7, 2024

WTMC writeshop, Johanna Höffken
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WTMC PhD Fall Workshop 6-8 November 2023 ‘Archiving’ (online)

From Monday 6 until Wednesday 8 November 2023 WTMC will organize…
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Writeshop October 11 2023

On Wednesday, 11 October 2023, WTMC will organize the next Writeshop…
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WTMC PhD Summer School 21-25 August 2023, “Algorithmic”

Study and Conference Centre Soeterbeeck Elleboogstraat 2 NL-5352…
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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…
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WTMC Annual Meeting 24 February, De Balie, Amsterdam

24 February, De Balie, Amsterdam
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Introducing the new WTMC director Esther Turnhout

Since January this year, I will be acting as the Academic Director…
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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!
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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.
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4S-Bernal Prize for Nelly Oudshoorn

4S-Bernal Prize for Nelly Oudshoorn
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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!
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ERC Synergy Grant for Willem Halffman (RUN) and Cyrus Mody (UM)

ERC Synergy Grant for Willem Halffman (RUN) and Cyrus Mody (UM)
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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.
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Athena Institute wins a 2020 Making and doing award

Athena Institute wins a 2020 Making and doing award
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WTMC PhD Summer School ‘Failure’ 24-28 August 2020

We are very sorry to let you know we have decided to cancel the WTMC Summer School 2020 because of the Covid19 outbreak and its consequences. We are currently working on realizing some sort of alternative (quite likely online): the WTMC Summer Festival.
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WTMC PhD Workshop Care as Concept, Method, Ethic, 22-24 June 2020

WTMC PhD Workshop Care as Concept, Method, Ethic, 22-24 June 2020 (Re-scheduled)
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WTMC PhD Writeshop 27 March 2020 – Cancelled

We are very sorry to let you know we have decided to cancel the Writeshop of 27 March 2020 because of the Covid19 outbreak and its consequences. The next WTMC PhD Writeshop will take place on 30 October 2020. 
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Willem Halffman wins Radboud Education Award Science Faculty

Congratulations to Willem Halffman who won the Education Award…
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Lotte Krabbenborg New Member The Young Academy of KNAW

Lotte Krabbenborg, Assistant Professor Philosophy and Science…
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WTMC vacancy PhD training coordinator

Deadline: 1 March 2020. WTMC is looking for a PhD training coordinator
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WTMC Annual Meeting 13 December 2019, De Balie, Amsterdam

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You are gladly invited to join the incoming WTMC Annual Meeting. Please register by 29 November!
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WTMC PhD Workshop “Open”, 18-20 November 2019

In this workshop, we will consider the more or less recent quest to make science more ‘open’.
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WTMC Writeshop 25 October 2019

On Friday 25 October 2019, in new location the Social Impact Factory, WTMC will organize the next Writeshop.
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WTMC Summer School Experimenting, or Trying to Change the World with STS

WTMC Summer School 26-30 August 2019: Experimenting, or Trying to Change the World with STS. Anchor teacher: Michael Guggenheim.
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KNAW Academy Medal for Trudy Dehue

Trudy Dehue, long-standing member of WTMC, has recently been awarded the KNAW Academy Medal.
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WTMC Writeshop 24 May 2019

On Friday, 24 May 2019, WTMC will organize a Writeshop, formerly known as Dissertation Day. The Writeshop is meant for WTMC members who are in the final phase of their PhD.
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WTMC Spring Workshop “Postcolonial STS” 8 – 10 May 2019

WTMC Spring Workshop "Postcolonial STS" 8 - 10 May 2019, Soeterbeeck, Deursen-Dennenburg, the Netherlands.
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WTMC Perspectives Day 10 March, Museum Boerhaave, Leiden

On Sunday, March 10th, WTMC will organise the first ever WTMC Perspectives Day.
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WTMC Annual Meeting 2018

WTMC Annual Meeting 30 November

WTMC Annual Meeting 30 November, De Balie, Amsterdam
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WTMC PhD Autumn Workshop “Smart” 17-19 December 2018

WTMC PhD Autumn Workshop "Smart", 17-19 December 2018, Soeterbeeck, Deursen-Dennenburg, the Netherlands
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WTMC Summer School Infrastructures

Anchor teacher: Elizabeth Shove 27 - 31 August 2018, Soeterbeeck,…
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University of Maastricht hands over secretaryship of WTMC to University of Twente

University of Maastricht hands over secretaryship of WTMC to University of Twente
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WTMC Spring Workshop DOING COMPARISON

WTMC Spring Workshop DOING COMPARISON 2 - 4 May 2018 Conference centre Soeterbeeck, Deursen-Dennenburg, the Netherlands
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Successful international evaluation WTMC

WTMC underwent a hugely successful international evaluation in…
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List of the publications of senior WTMC members 2011-2016

An extensive and fascinating list of the publications of senior WTMC members

The list provides a fantastic overview of the kind of work done by members of WTMC. Alternative ways of navigating this have been produced by WTMC members.
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Sublime Blood Tomato, Red Rice and Wadden Sea Mussel soup

A recipe of WTMC publications 2011 – 2016

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Sublime[1] Blood Tomato, Red Rice and Wadden Sea Mussel soupA…
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WTMC Annual Meeting 24 November, De Balie, Amsterdam

WTMC has been in the care of Maastricht University for 13 years.…
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WTMC Workshop (Re)inventing Responsibility and Innovation

WTMC Workshop (Re)inventing Responsibility and InnovationConference…
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2017 SHI book prize for “CyberGenetics. Health genetics and new media”

Congratulations to Anna Harris, Susan Kelly and Sally Wyatt on…
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Workshop The Nature of Nature - WTMC 2013

WTMC Writeshop (formerly known as Dissertation Day), November 23rd, 2017

Restaurant Claar, Voor Clarenburg 7, Utrecht On…
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Anna Harris becomes member of Global Young Academy

Anna Harris (Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, Maastricht…
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Jess Bier wins Maastricht University dissertation prize

Each year, Maastricht University awards a prize for the best…
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Congratulations with the completed dissertations!

Congratulations with the completed dissertations!

Congratulations to the ‘new doctors’ who successfully defended their PhDs in the last few months
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‘National Science Agenda’: contributions WTMC members to the discussions

Science policy is a hot political theme in this cold January…
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Awards for WTMC and members of WTMC

At the EASST/4S Conference held in Barcelona in early September,…
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WTMC Summer School September 2017 with Dr. Christine Hine

 Dr. Christine Hine will be the anchor teacher of the Summer…
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Karin Bijsterveld appointed KNAW member

Karin Bijsterveld (former director of WTMC, 2005-2010) has been…
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Dissertation Day / Postdoc Day 8 May 2017

On Monday 8 May 2017, the Spring Dissertation Day / Postdoc Day…
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Launch of UK STS association

Andrew Webster, member of WTMC International Advisory Board,…
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WTMC Annual Meeting 25 November 2016

The WTMC Annual Meeting 2016 will take place on Friday 25 November,…
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Andrade-Sastoque, E. MSc.

Exhaustible natural-resources, STI and the loot: How the royalties'…
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One of the KNAW ‘Faces of Sciences’: Hans Schouwenburg

PhD candidate Hans Schouwenburg has been selected as one of the…
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Interview with Koen Frenken in Trouw

On 13 February, Trouw published an interview with Koen Frenken,…
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Mertens, M., MA

Cross-cultural analysis of Responsible Innovation in prognosis…
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WTMC Spring PhD Workshop: Foucault’s Legacy

From 13-15 April 2016, at Soeterbeeck, NL-Ravenstein Michel…
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Semmerling, L., MA

Listening on Display. Exhibiting Sound Art 1960s-now Department…
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WTMC Summer School 2015: The Politics of Science, Technology, and STS

With Mark Brown as anchor teacher, six inspiring guest lectures,…
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WTMC Annual Meeting, 11 December 2015

The WTMC Annual Meeting 2015 will take place on Friday 11 December 2015 in Amsterdam. Location: De Balie (address: Kleine-Gartmanplantsoen 10, 1017 RR Amsterdam).
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Farewell symposium Nelly Oudshoorn, May 28

Farewell symposium Nelly Oudshoorn May 28 Save the date!Former…
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WTMC Scientific Director, Sally Wyatt, at Science 2.0 event

On  May 1st, the KNAW organized an event for PhDs to discuss…
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Award for Felix Schirmann

Dr. Felix Schirmann, WTMC alumn, has been awarded one of the…
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Royal Honour for Gerard de Vries

Philosopher Gerard de Vries was appointed Knight of the Order…
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PhD Workshop 21-23 October 2015, Future-Making

 21-23 October 2015, Soeterbeeck, NL-RavensteinFutures…
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Nelly Oudshoorn awarded FSHI Best Book Prize

Dissertation and Postdoc Day, 13 May 2015

The Spring Dissertation and Postdoc Day will take place on 13…
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PhD Workshop 22-24 October 2014

Workshop 22-24 October 2014
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PhD Summer School 24-28 August 2015: Politics of Science, Technology, and STS with anchor teacher Mark B. Brown

 From 24 to 28 August 2015, the Netherlands Graduate…
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Annual Meeting 2014: 20 and 21 November

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The WTMC Annual Meeting 2014 will take place on Thursday 20 and Friday 21 November in Amsterdam. Location: De Balie (address: Kleine-Gartmanplantsoen 10, 1017 RR Amsterdam).
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WTMC is very pleased to announce that Bernike Pasveer and Govert Valkenburg will take on the great WTMC coordinator job later this year.

New coordinators of WTMC PhD training

WTMC is very pleased to announce that Bernike Pasveer and Govert Valkenburg will take on the great WTMC coordinator job later this year.
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Sonic Science Festival

Sonic Science Festival, 23-28 January 2015

Maastricht, January 23-28, 2015 (free entrance)
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New chair WTMC Board - Paul Wouters

New chair WTMC Board: Paul Wouters

Professor Paul Wouters is the new chair of the WTMC Board, starting on 1 January 2014, for a period of three years.
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Workshop The Nature of Nature - WTMC 2013

WTMC 2013 Annual Meeting

The WTMC Annual Meeting 2013 will take place on Thursday 28 November…
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ESST European Award 2013

The ESST European Award 2013 for Aspiring Undergraduates in Science,…
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Sonic Skills Public Day

On January 17-18, 2014, a group of Sound Studies experts will…
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Workshop The Nature of Nature - WTMC 2013

Workshop “The Nature of Nature” – WTMC 2013

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Have you ever wondered what happens at Soeterbeeck, during WTMC workshops and summer schools? Watch this film to find out more.
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Lecture by Steven Shapin Who is the Modern Scientist

Lecture by Steven Shapin “Who is the Modern Scientist?”

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Thursday 28 November 2013, at 5-7 pm, Felix Meritis (Teekenzaal),…
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25 years of WTMC

25 years of WTMC

Watch this film about WTMC, made at the 2013 Annual Meeting.
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WTMC Annual Meeting 2012 and 25th Anniversary Celebration 05

WTMC Annual Meeting and 25th Anniversary Celebration

Take a look at the event's photo impression.
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WTMC at the EASST/4S conference in Copenhagen

Interesting presentations by and prizes for WTMC members at the EASST/4S conference.
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Interview with Nelly Oudshoorn

Interview with Nelly Oudshoorn

In this interview she is discussing her prize-winning book called Telecare Technologies and the Transformation of Healthcare (Palgrave, 2011).
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Nelly Oudshoorn awarded FSHI Best Book Prize

Nelly Oudshoorn awarded FSHI Best Book Prize

We are delighted to announce that Nelly Oudshoorn won the FSHI…
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About WTMC

Netherlands Research 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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