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Webinar Invitation: Policy bias in economic research and the epistemological problems of econometrics: Lessons for designing economic policy processes | Jan 14, 3pm

by Zarah Weiss

Invitation Policy bias in economic research and the epistemological problems of econometrics: Lessons for designing economic policy processes SUERF BAFFI Bocconi webinar Tuesday, January 14, 2025 Online, Webex, 3-4.30 pm A recent paper finds considerable policy bias in economic research. Jelveh, Kogut and Naidu (2024) show that partisanship is detectable across fields and within fields, even across those estimating the same theoretical parameter. This poses serious challenges to economic policy development. Models and their econometric estimation play an increasingly important role in modern economic and political life. From macroeconomic policy and financial regulation to public health and climate policy, models contribute to shaping policies. The generation of ever more data is likely to support the proliferation of models and econometrics. Yet, research resources in academia focus on the theoretical foundations of the underlying model and on the statistical methods of econometrics; much less attention is devoted to the epistemological challenges of the underlying concepts, the normative challenges of the everyday work with models and econometrics as well as the inevitable role of expert judgement. Yet, understanding these challenges would be crucial to design policy processes that effectively address potential policy biases on economic policy development and ensure the integrity of that process. This SUERF panel discussion discusses how serious the policy bias in economic research is and how it affects policy development. Furthermore, panellists will explain how that policy bias is possible even when rigorous mathematical /statistical methods are employed. Finally, the panel suggests design features of economic policy development processes that improve its integrity in the face of the policy bias in economic research. Registration: https://www.suerf.org/events/policy-bias-in-economic-research-and-the-episte mological-problems-of-econometrics-lessons-for-designing-economic-policy-pro cesses/registration/ More information: https://www.suerf.org/events/policy-bias-in-economic-research-and-the-episte mological-problems-of-econometrics-lessons-for-designing-economic-policy-pro cesses/

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New Years Greetings, New Years Plans

by Vinzenz Fischer

Dear all! Before the new year begins, I wanted to share some new year plans with you: 1. New Year's Writing Marathon 2. APSE Reading Circle 3. Guide to this Mailing List 1. New Year's Writing Marathon Veronika Lassl from the Vienna Forum for Analytic Philosophy (WFAP) is organizing a New Year's Writing Marathon and has asked me to invite you all. If structured co-working helps you with writing and researching, please feel free to join us! Dates: December 30th & January 2nd - 4th (Monday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday) Location: Room 3C (NIG) Here's our schedule: 8:50-9:00 Welcome 9:00-9:50 1st writing period (50 min) 9:50-10:00 Break 10:00-11:30 2nd writing period (90 min) 11:30-12:00 Break 12:00-12:50 3rd writing period (50 min) 12:50-14:00 LUNCH BREAK 14:00-14:50 4th writing period (50 min) 14:50-15:00 Break 15:00-15:50 5th writing period (50 min) 15:50-16:00 Break 16:00-16:50 6th writing period (50 min) After 16:50 People can continue to write if someone with a key card is still there. A few rules: - No coming/going during writing periods (except for obvious exceptions: going to the toilet, emergencies, …) - Please arrive and get settled in your seat before the session begins - No disturbances during writing periods (crunchy or smelly snacks, phone ringing, etc) - If you want, you can put your phone away at the teacher’s desk during writing periods - Bring snacks if you want, we will have a shared snack desk to use during breaks - If you want to eat the shared snacks, we kindly ask for a donation of 5€ per person per week. - You can work on anything you want It's helpful if you could let us know if you're planning to attend (so we can gauge the amount of coffee we need to make). Please write an e-mail to veronika.lassl(a)univie.ac.at We're looking forward to seeing you there! 2. APSE Reading Circle The Applied Philosophy of Science and Epistemology (APSE) Unit is organizing a lecture series every semester. Upcoming January there are three talks planned. We are organizing an accompanying reading circle for these three upcoming sessions. We will be reading and discussing a text written and suggested to us by the speaker and then visit the talk afterwards. Since it will take place at lunch time, feel free to bring some food and snacks with you to the Reading Circle. The sessions are: Thursday, 16.01.2025 Laura Caponetto (University of Milan) Reading Circle Session: 13:00-15:00, HS 3A, NIG 3rd floor APSE Lecture: 15:00-17:00, HS 3A, NIG 3rd floor Thursday, 23.01.2025 Stephan Hartmann (LMU) Reading Circle Session: 13:00-15:00, HS 3A, NIG 3rd floor APSE Lecture: 15:00-17:00, HS 3A, NIG 3rd floor Thursday, 30.01.2025 Igor Grabovac (MedUni Wien) Reading Circle Session: 13:00-15:00, HS 3A, NIG 3rd floor APSE Lecture: 15:00-17:00, HS 3A, NIG 3rd floor Closer to each event I will send out an seperate e-mail with the literature and a more detailed description of the topic. Please feel warmly invited! 3. Guide to this Mailing List This Mailing List is intended to facilitate the communication among students, teachers and researchers in and surrounding the Master Epistemologies of Science and Technology. Any information for events and other happenings concerned with the topics Philosophy of Science and Technology, History of Science and Technology and/or Science and Technology Studies are welcome. Current Settings: Anyone can send messages to hps_est(a)lists.philo.at that will be sent to all members of the list. Messages from members of the list will be sent without the acceptance of a moderator. This is to ensure quick and easy communication from member to member. Messages from non-members need to be accepted by a moderator of the list. If any questions or suggestions arise, please send a message to hps_est-owner(a)lists.philo.at Signing up via E-Mail: Send an e-mail with the subject "subscribe" to: hps_est-subscribe(a)lists.philo.at Signing up via Link: Alternatively, you can follow this link and follow the instructions: https://lists.philo.at/postorius/lists/hps_est.lists.philo.at/ I wish you all a warm winter break and einen guten Rutsch (a good slide into the new year)! Vinzenz Fischer

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FutureSpace Talk by Eleanor Armstrong & Réka Gál

by Katrin Hackl

We are happy to invite you to our 6th talk of the Vienna STS Talk Series in 2024W [cid:image001.jpg@01DB40AD.59CFEBC0] FutureSpace Talk by Eleanor Armstrong & Réka Gál Department of Physics & Astronomy, University of Leicester & STS, TU Munich December 11, 2024 04:00 PM-05:00 PM The Playboy Bunny and the Astronaut Wife: Constructing Femininities and the United States Space Program. You can register for the talk here<https://futurespace-project.eu/futurespace-talk-registration/> Abstract Inspired by Ahmed (2010), we follow the figures of the 'playboy bunny' and the 'astronaut wife' through the cultural legacies of (north american) space flight. Following from our work on what feminist interventions can offer to social studies of outer space (2023), in this talk we work through how femininities of the Other of the hegemonic masculinities of outer space are constructed. Our work asks how these figures reverberate in popular cultures to shape present and futures conceptions of femininity in outer space, and offer pathways that intervene in normative gendered futurities. In following these figures, we think about what illuminating them might do also for directing pathways of feminist scholarship on outer space in the future. We consider the Playboy Bunny: a construct of the pornotopic 1950s, and the discursive counterpoint to the womanizing young man. Appearing off-handedly in archival interviews about life at Johnson Space Center during the early space programmes of the 1950s and 60s, making her way secretly into lunar checklists worn by astronauts on the Moon, and continuing to draw media attention into the 2000s, we draw on Preciado's biopolitical theorising (2019) to think through the sexual relations and gender politics of the space programme. Contrastingly on the mother-whore axis, stands the media construct of the "astronaut wife." Using perspectives from Feminist Communication Studies, we explore how the assigned duties of the astronaut wife upheld the figure of the hypermasculine astronaut. We argue that the caretaking duties assigned to the figure of the "astronaut wife" extended beyond the confines of her homeboundness and homemaking into outer space: she was rendered part of the communication technologies available to take care of the hypermasculine astronaut's mental health. We conclude by considering how these examples help us pluralise and (re)make future femininities in relation to outer space. Biography Eleanor S Armstrong is a Space Research Fellow at the University of Leicester, UK, where she leads the Constellations Lab (on Outer Space & Feminism). She was awarded her PhD at University College London, UK, in 2020; and since then has held positions at the University of Delaware and Stockholm University, and visiting positions at, among others, the University of Cambridge, Ingenium Canada's Museums of Science and Innovation, New York University, and University of Vienna. Réka P Gál is a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Department of Science, Technology and Society at Technische Universität München. She completed her doctorate at University of Toronto's Faculty of Information. She is the co-editor of Earth and Beyond in Tumultuous Times: A Critical Atlas of the Anthropocene, published by meson press. Organiser Nina Klimburg-Witjes, Assist. Prof. STS Dep Vienna / PI "FutureSpace" & Joseph Popper (Postdoc Researcher, STS Dep Vienna / FutureSpace) FutureSpace (ERC Starting Grant Project), Department of Science and Technology Studies Location online via zoom<https://univienna.zoom.us/j/63251489007?pwd=FBTgiIoQbHPTvmHhnjFwObba9mAGqZ.6> [cid:image004.png@01DB40AE.A5A235C0] Best wishes, Katrin Hackl __________ Mag. Katrin Hackl Research Support & Communication Department of Science and Technology Studies University of Vienna Universitätsstraße 7 /II/ 6th floor (NIG) 1010 Vienna / Austria Tel.: 0043-1-4277-496007 [cid:image002.jpg@01DB40AD.59CFEBC0]<https://sts.univie.ac.at/>

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TODAY! Vienna STS Talks - STS Talk by Matthew Kearnes

by Katrin Hackl

We are happy to invite you to our 6th talk of the Vienna STS Talk Series in 2024W [cid:image001.png@01DB4AFA.AE812420] INNORES Talk by Matthew Kearnes School of Humanities & Languages, UNSW Sydney December 10, 2024 05:00 PM-06:30 PM Critical Circularity - (re)configuring repair and reuse Abstract Inasmuch as the circular economy has become a prominent topic within political and corporate discussions worldwide - imagining a wholescale transformation of linear modes of production and the creative recovery and repurposing of materials formerly classified as waste - a range of recent critical assessments have identified key faultlines in this discourse. These critiques have characterised the circular economy as a "refurbished version of market-oriented capitalism"(Genovese and Pansera 2021), and identified tendencies toward technocratic policy interventions such as "consumer nudging, quality assurance standards, and enhanced waste policies" (Niskanen and Mclaren 2023). Responding to these critiques in this paper we develop a notion of critical circularity, drawing on two overlapping projects focused on the configuration of projects of repair and reuse. Our first case is drawn from the fields of wastewater and sewage treatment. Emerging in the nineteenth century, through the consolidation of public health, sanitation and environmental science - together with what Schneider (2011) characterises as the technologies of industrial ecosystems in recent years sewage infrastructures have years emerged as sites of renewed political concern. In this context, visions of the circular reuse and anticipated monetisation of sewage have been troubled by a recognition of the ways in which wastewater is commonly contaminated by a range of toxic substances (including PFAS, microplastics and heavy metals). Basing our analysis in current research exploring the potential reuse of the solid waste produced through sewage treatment - commonly referred to as sludge or biosolids - we explore the ways in which anticipated transitions in sewage treatment entail situated negotiations of the mass and volume of solid waste, together with the ways in which biosolids are entangled with more-than-human and chemosocial relations, in the context of changing climatic dynamics. Our second case draws on an ongoing engagement with projects of repair and activism around the global 'right to repair' movement. In this case we explore how the objectives of a movement for a right to repair configure repair practices in ways that simultaneously preserve and subvert existing socio-material orders. We conclude by pointing to the prospects for critical and engaged conceptions of the circular economy. My coauthors for this work at Patrik Bonney (Deakin University) and Kevin Witzenberger (Queensland Universiyt of Technology). Biography Matthew is Professor of Environment and Society and Deputy Head of School (Research), School of Humanities and Languages, UNSW. His most recent books include the co-edited volumes Remaking Participation: Science, Environment and Emergent Publics (with Jason Chilvers, Routledge, 2016) & Thinking with Soils: Material Politics and Social Theory (with Juan Francisco Salazar, Céline Granjou, Anna Krzywoszynska & Manuel Tironi, Bloomsbury, 2020). Matthew is an editor of Science, Technology and Human Values (Sage), an associate editor for Science as Culture (Taylor & Francis). Organiser Department of Science and Technology Studies Location STS Seminar Room, NIG, St. II. 6th floor, Universitätsstraße 7, 1010 Vienna Best wishes, Katrin Hackl __________ Mag. Katrin Hackl Research Support & Communication Department of Science and Technology Studies University of Vienna Universitätsstraße 7 /II/ 6th floor (NIG) 1010 Vienna / Austria Tel.: 0043-1-4277-496007 [cid:image002.jpg@01DB4AFA.AE812420]<https://sts.univie.ac.at/>

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IVC Talk: Zofia Hałęza (University of Łódź) on "How Women Contributed to the Emergence of Polish Analytic Philosophy. Outstanding Female Philosophers from the Lvov-Warsaw School", December 12, 4.45pm

by Zarah Weiss

Dear all, our next speaker in the Philosophy of Science Colloquium organized by the Institute Vienna Circle is Zofia Hałęza (University of Łódź), who will give a talk on December 12, 4.45-6.15 pm. All are welcome! ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------ Philosophy of Science Colloquium TALK: Zofia Hałęza (University of Łódź) How Women Contributed to the Emergence of Polish Analytic Philosophy. Outstanding Female Philosophers from the Lvov-Warsaw School Philosophy of Science Colloquium The Institute Vienna Circle holds a Philosophy of Science Colloquium with talks by our present fellows. Date: 12/12/2024 Time: 16h45 Venue: New Institute Building (NIG), Universitätsstraße 7, 1010 Wien, HS 2G Abstract: From today's perspective, one of the most significant 20th-century discoveries in Polish philosophy's history was the Lvov-Warsaw School's rediscovery. The turbulent history of Poland and the political events after the Second World War led this group's members, who were still living, to the conviction that science would forget them. However, thanks to the woman philosopher Izydora Dąmbska and her influence on her pupils, the memory of the Lvov-Warsaw School has survived. I would even say - that the Lvov-Warsaw School has been rediscovered. Although the Lvov-Warsaw School was founded at the end of the 19th century by Kazimierz Twardowski, to a large extent his female students have contributed to the survival of the memory of his legacy, not only in the immaterial sphere, but also in the form of artefacts, archives and documents. In addition to their merits in the struggle for the survival of memory, women at the Lvov-Warsaw School practised philosophy equally with men. At the turn of the 20th century, this was a phenomenon unprecedented in any school of philosophy. A critical analysis of the history of philosophy is a vital phenomenon. After all, people write histories, and several different factors influence them. Thus, it is the history of Polish philosophy which I have been studying for several years. In the case of the Lvov-Warsaw School, we are dealing with a phenomenon that has yet to be sufficiently described-namely, the number of active women in this formation. In this seminar, I am eager to present the potential impact of my research, conducted as part of my PhD at the University of Lodz in the Doctoral School of Humanities. I will also share the inspiration that led me to this topic. How has the issue of women in the Lvov-Warsaw School been addressed in the past, and what promising avenues are there for further exploration? My research is primarily a critical analysis of the history of philosophy and a comparative analysis of the state of Polish philosophy at that time. In telling the story of women associated with the Lvov-Warsaw School, I will also present my research methodology and the unique historical and social conditions that enabled women in Poland to climb the scientific Olympus. I will emphasize the need for philosophical reflection in women's history, as it is not just a reenactment and reminder of forgotten figures and their achievements, but a crucial aspect that adds depth and significance to our understanding of the past. In the current situation, in addition to multiplying research on women's history, we should also ask ourselves - how do we do it? To what end do we conduct such research, and what does it result in?

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Einladung Workshop: Wissenschaftliche Philosophie | ÖAW | 12.-13. Dezember

by Zarah Weiss

Workshop: Wissenschaftliche Philosophie. Transformationen und Kontinuitäten im langen 19. Jahrhundert Die Kommission für Geschichte und Philosophie der Wissenschaften der ÖAW lädt ein, bei einem Workshop die Transformationen und Kontinuitäten der Wissenschaftlichen Philosophie als Fachdisziplin im langen 19. Jahrhundert zu diskutieren. Termin: 12. bis 13. Dezember 2024 Ort: Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Collegium Erdgeschoß, Seminarraum 1 Bäckerstraße 13 1010 Wien Kontakt: kgpw(at)oeaw.ac.at [1] T: +43 1 51581-3650 Kommission für Geschichte und Philosophie der Wissenschaften der ÖAW [2] Wissenschaftliche Philosophie ist der Versuch, Philosophie ausgehend von den Kriterien der Einzelwissenschaften als eigenständige Wissenschaft zu etablieren. Die Frage nach ihrer Entwicklungsgeschichte wirft folglich das Problem des komplexen und historisch kontingenten Verhältnisses von Philosophie und Wissenschaft auf. Die Kommission für Geschichte und Philosophie der Wissenschaften der ÖAW lädt zum Workshop "Wissenschaftliche Philosophie" ein, um die Transformationsgeschichte vom 18. ins 19. Jahrhundert genauer zu beleuchten. Dabei sollen sowohl die logische Analyse und ihre empirische Basis thematisiert werden: Erstere liegt in einer Problematisierung der Natur der Mathematik, der Frage nach dem Gegenstand der Logik bzw. nach dem Status von regulativen Prinzipien und ihrer Apriorizität; zweitere im Empfindungsbegriff, dem Konzept raumzeitlicher Gegenstände und dem Elementbegriff. Anmeldung erbeten bis 9. Dezember 2024 an kgpw(at)oeaw.ac.at [1] Mehr Infos und Programm unter: https://www.oeaw.ac.at/detail/veranstaltung/wissenschaftliche-philosophie Links: ------ [1] https://www.oeaw.ac.at//# [2] http://www.oeaw.ac.at/kgpw/

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Vienna STS Talks - STS Talk by Matthew Kearnes

by Katrin Hackl

We are happy to invite you to our 6th talk of the Vienna STS Talk Series in 2025S [cid:image001.png@01DB459C.EF1C8500] INNORES Talk by : Matthew Kearnes School of Humanities & Languages, UNSW Sydney December 10, 2024 05:00 PM-06:30 PM Critical Circularity - (re)configuring repair and reuse Abstract Inasmuch as the circular economy has become a prominent topic within political and corporate discussions worldwide - imagining a wholescale transformation of linear modes of production and the creative recovery and repurposing of materials formerly classified as waste - a range of recent critical assessments have identified key faultlines in this discourse. These critiques have characterised the circular economy as a "refurbished version of market-oriented capitalism"(Genovese and Pansera 2021), and identified tendencies toward technocratic policy interventions such as "consumer nudging, quality assurance standards, and enhanced waste policies" (Niskanen and Mclaren 2023). Responding to these critiques in this paper we develop a notion of critical circularity, drawing on two overlapping projects focused on the configuration of projects of repair and reuse. Our first case is drawn from the fields of wastewater and sewage treatment. Emerging in the nineteenth century, through the consolidation of public health, sanitation and environmental science - together with what Schneider (2011) characterises as the technologies of industrial ecosystems in recent years sewage infrastructures have years emerged as sites of renewed political concern. In this context, visions of the circular reuse and anticipated monetisation of sewage have been troubled by a recognition of the ways in which wastewater is commonly contaminated by a range of toxic substances (including PFAS, microplastics and heavy metals). Basing our analysis in current research exploring the potential reuse of the solid waste produced through sewage treatment - commonly referred to as sludge or biosolids - we explore the ways in which anticipated transitions in sewage treatment entail situated negotiations of the mass and volume of solid waste, together with the ways in which biosolids are entangled with more-than-human and chemosocial relations, in the context of changing climatic dynamics. Our second case draws on an ongoing engagement with projects of repair and activism around the global 'right to repair' movement. In this case we explore how the objectives of a movement for a right to repair configure repair practices in ways that simultaneously preserve and subvert existing socio-material orders. We conclude by pointing to the prospects for critical and engaged conceptions of the circular economy. My coauthors for this work at Patrik Bonney (Deakin University) and Kevin Witzenberger (Queensland Universiyt of Technology). Biography Matthew is Professor of Environment and Society and Deputy Head of School (Research), School of Humanities and Languages, UNSW. His most recent books include the co-edited volumes Remaking Participation: Science, Environment and Emergent Publics (with Jason Chilvers, Routledge, 2016) & Thinking with Soils: Material Politics and Social Theory (with Juan Francisco Salazar, Céline Granjou, Anna Krzywoszynska & Manuel Tironi, Bloomsbury, 2020). Matthew is an editor of Science, Technology and Human Values (Sage), an associate editor for Science as Culture (Taylor & Francis). Organiser Department of Science and Technology Studies Location STS Seminar Room, NIG, St. II. 6th floor, Universitätsstraße 7, 1010 Vienna Best wishes, Katrin Hackl __________ Mag. Katrin Hackl Research Support & Communication Department of Science and Technology Studies University of Vienna Universitätsstraße 7 /II/ 6th floor (NIG) 1010 Vienna / Austria Tel.: 0043-1-4277-496007 [cid:image002.jpg@01DB459C.EF1C8500]<https://sts.univie.ac.at/>

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Buchpräsentation: Franz Roh 1890-1965 | IWK, 5. Dezember 19 Uhr

by Wiener Kreis Gesellschaft

Wir laden herzlich zur Buchpräsentation Franz Roh 1890-1965. Kunstkritiker, Vorkämpfer der Kultur-Moderne: Eine Kollektivbiographie *Datum/Zeit* Do 05/12/2024 /17:00–19:00/ *Ort *Institut für Wissenschaft und Kunst Berggasse 17/1 1090 Wien* * <https://doi.org/10.48666/1031108> Hans-Joachim Dahms (ed.), /Franz Roh 1890-1965. Kunstkritiker, Vorkämpfer der Kulturmoderne. Eine Kollektivbiografie/, Vienna: Virtual Archive of Logical Empiricism, 2024 Mit Beiträgen von *Hans-Joachim Dahms* und *Christian Damböck*. Das Buch „Franz Roh 1890-1965“ setzt sich zum Ziel, den Vordenker und Vorkämpfer der Kulturmoderne auf wissenschaftlicher Grundlage nach intensivem Quellenstudium und Archivrecherchen vorzustellen. Keine Ausstellung, die sich mit der mitteleuropäischen Moderne der 1920 Jahre befasst, kommt heutzutage an Franz Roh als ihrem Begleiter und Vordenker vorbei. Bisher existiert aber keine zusammenhängende wissenschaftliche Erforschung seines Lebens und Werkes. Diese Lücke will dieser Band schließen. Die Beiträge sind von ausgewiesenen SpezialistInnen der zahlreichen Facetten seines Werks verfasst und ergeben , zusammen genommen, eine Kollektivbiographie Rohs, die von seinen Jugendjahren und seinem Fachwechsel von der Germanistik und Philosophie zur Kunstgeschichte noch vor dem ersten Weltkrieg bis hin zu den letzten Treffen mit lebenslangen Freunden in der Mitte der 1965er Jahre reicht. *Programm *Joachim Dahms: “Franz Roh und die Neue Sachlichkeit” Christian Damböck: “Roh und der Wiener Kreis” Diskussion Ausklang *Mehr Infos *https://www.iwk.ac.at/events/franz-roh-1890-1965-kunstkritiker-vorkaempfer-der-kultur-moderne-eine-kollektivbiographie/

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TODAY Vienna STS Talks - STS Talk by Louise Whiteley

by Katrin Hackl

We are happy to invite you to our 5th talk of the Vienna STS Talk Series in 2024W [cid:image001.jpg@01DB449E.D012B4D0] STS Talk by Louise Whiteley Medical Museion & CBMR, University of Copenhagen December 02, 2024 05:00 PM-06:30 PM Attempting the Impossible: Communicating Microbe-Human Relations in a Research Museum. Abstract The idea that the microbes in our guts can affect our mental wellbeing has moved from niche interest to mainstream discourse over the last decade. Based on early-stage laboratory research with non-human animals, the proposition has nonetheless spread rapidly into popular media, commercial products, and alternative medical practices. The Microbes on the Mind project started from a curiosity about what this means for thinking about the human as an everyday, experiencing self in constant negotiation with concepts, practices, and systems of health. We investigated how microbe-mind relations are communicated, felt, and experienced, and asked whether this communication helps activate the potentially positive consequences of thinking about human wellbeing as partly-microbial. Throughout we experimented with offering new forms of communication and experience within a university museum, addressing the difficulties of communicating about relations between invisible multitudes and human subjectivity. In my talk I will share examples of our research and public engagement - from a podcast to an art-science exhibition. I will also discuss how this hybrid project was informed by an STS lens on what microbiome research means and does, and reflect on how we applied STS principles of mirroring the complexity of the world in research to our curatorial practice in the museum. Biography Louise Whiteley is an associate professor and curator at Medical Museion and CBMR, at the University of Copenhagen. Louise researches how biomedicine moves and shapes everyday ideas about what is to be human, through popular culture and public engagement. Within this frame, they have looked at neuroimaging, microbiome research, metabolic science, and most recently translational stem cell research. Louise also curates exhibitions, art-science collaborations, and public engagement events, in dialogue with research, and is passionate about the importance of communicating values within interdisciplinary collaboration. Organiser Department of Science and Technology Studies Location STS Seminar Room, NIG, St. II. 6th floor, Universitätsstraße 7, 1010 Vienna & online via zoom<https://univienna.zoom.us/j/63251489007?pwd=FBTgiIoQbHPTvmHhnjFwObba9mAGqZ.6> [cid:image003.png@01DB449F.AFB03090] Best wishes, Katrin Hackl __________ Mag. Katrin Hackl Research Support & Communication Department of Science and Technology Studies University of Vienna Universitätsstraße 7 /II/ 6th floor (NIG) 1010 Vienna / Austria Tel.: 0043-1-4277-496007 [cid:image002.jpg@01DB449E.D012B4D0]<https://sts.univie.ac.at/>

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Job advertisement for a new student assistant position at the project SCARCE

by Dolores Šurlina

Dear students, The ERC-STG project SCARCE [1] (Sustained Concerns: Administration of Mineral Resource Extraction in Central Europe, 1550-1850) is looking for a reliable and committed person to take on a variety of project-related tasks as a study assistant in a dynamic team and a pleasant working atmosphere. The position is based at the Institute of History at the University of Vienna and the field of work is in the area of history. As I am a research assistant on this project myself, I can highly recommend it. :) If you are interested, have a look at the specifications below. All best, Dolores Šurlina --- Scope of employment: · Working hours: 8-10 hours per week (negotiable) · Start: from begin of February · Duration of employment: limited to 12 months, extension possible by mutual agreement Job profile: · Project-related organisation and administration · Support with research tasks, e.g. literature review and bibliography · Archive research, (machine-aided) preparation of transcriptions · Maintenance of websites and blogs, possibly also social media channels Requirements profile: Required: · Current studies at the University of Vienna (BA, BEd, MA or MEd), no completed subject-related master's or diploma programme · Good knowledge of German and/or English · Organisational experience (within or outside the university) Of advantage: · Knowledge of other languages (especially Hungarian, Slavic languages, Dutch, French) · Experience in managing websites, blogs, social media · Knowledge of early modern history (1400-1800 CE) and experience in dealing with early modern sources · Good communication skills (written, oral, teamwork) · Time flexibility Form and content of the application: · CV incl. the following contact details: Name, email address, telephone number, matriculation number, study reference number · Letter of motivation considering your own interests (max. 1 page) · References or contact details of reference persons (if available) Deadline & addressee: · Please send applications exclusively as a PDF (1 document) to: scarce.geschichte(a)univie.ac.at If you have any questions, please contact Dolores Šurlina at dolores.surlina(a)univie.ac.at · Application deadline: 15. December 2024 · Submissions by post will not be considered Selection process: * Review of applications by project staff * Interviews are planned to take place 8-17 January * An acceptance or rejection will be made by the end of January 2025 General conditions for study assistants: According to § 30 of the collective agreement (KV) for university employees, study assistants belong to the group of student employees. This includes part-time employees who have not yet completed a master's (diploma) degree programme for the intended use when the employment contract is concluded. The employment relationship of a student employee ends, without the need for a termination declaration, at the end of the semester in which the Master's (diploma) programme is completed, but at the latest after a total period of two years. Like tutors, study assistants are student employees and are subject to salary group C: https://personalwesen.univie.ac.at/jobs-recruiting/job-center/gehaltsschema Links: ------ [1] https://scarce.univie.ac.at/

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