Das Institut Wiener Kreis und die Wiener Kreis Gesellschaft laden sehr herzlich ein zur
32. Wiener Kreis Vorlesung
Massimo Ferrari (University of Turin)
Moritz Schlick und sein Zirkel. Nach 100 Jahren
Donnerstag, 28. November 2024
17 Uhr
Aula am Campus
Universität Wien
Hof 1, Eingang 1.11
Spitalgasse 2-4
1090 Wien
Wir laden außerdem sehr herzlich zu einem Workshop am Vormittag:
Neue Forschung über Moritz Schlick - Zwei Buchprojekte:
Julia Franke-Reddig (Universität Siegen)
Zur Kontinuität und Eigenständigkeit der Wissenschaftsphilosophie von Moritz Schlick (2025)
Friedrich Stadler (Universität Wien)
Moritz Schlick, Philosophie der Natur, Kultur und Geschichte. Ausgewählte Schriften aus dem Nachlass (2025)
28. November 2024, 10-12 Uhr
Aula am Campus
Vorträge in deutscher Sprache
Eintritt frei, um Anmeldung wird gebeten: vcs(a)univie.ac.at <mailto:vcs@univie.ac.at>
Weitere Informationen entnehmen Sie bitte dem Anhang
Dear all,
our next speaker in the Philosophy of Science Colloquium organized by
the Institute Vienna Circle is Lorenzo Sartori (IVC Fellow), who will
give a talk on November 7, 4.45-6.15 pm.
All are welcome!
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Philosophy of Science Colloquium TALK: Lorenzo Sartori
SCIENTIFIC PICTURES, MODELS, AND THEIR JUSTIFICATION
Philosophy of Science Colloquium
The Institute Vienna Circle holds a Philosophy of Science Colloquium
with talks by our present fellows.
Date: 07/11/2024
Time: 16h45
Venue: New Institute Building (NIG), Universitätsstraße 7, 1010 Wien, HS
2G
ABSTRACT:
In this paper, I first show that similarity accounts of scientific
pictures fail with more realistic cases of scientific pictures. My
primary case study is the picture of a black hole, from which I develop
an interpretation-based account of picture representation analogous to
how models represent: a picture represents a designated target system
iff, once interpreted, it exemplifies properties that are then imputed
to the target via a de-idealising function. Then, I show that
justification of the inferences from pictures crucially depends on their
causal mechanisms of production, in contrast with the standard
justificatory strategies we employ for model inferences.
*Einladung*
*Symposium*
*Paul Martin Neurath: Über-Leben und Werk*
Symposium | 19. bis 20. November 2024 | Beginn jeweils 17:00 Uhr
Fachbereichsbibliothek Soziologie und Politikwissenschaft Rooseveltplatz
2, 1090 Wien
*PAUL MARTIN NEURATH*
Geboren am 12. 9. 1911 als Sohn des Philosophen und Sozialwissenschaft-
lers Otto Neurath und der Schriftstellerin, Übersetzerin und Ökonomin
Anna Schapire-Neurath in Wien. Soziologe und Statistiker.
1937 Promotion an der Universität Wien zum Dr.jur. Paul Neurath wurde
1938 von der Gestapo verhaftet, mit dem ersten Österreicher-Transport
in das KZ Dachau deportiert und einige Monate später in das KZ Buchen-
wald überstellt. 1939 wurde er entlassen und emigrierte nach Schweden,
1941 in die USA. Er arbeitete und studierte Soziologie und Statistik an
der Columbia University. Zudem war er Assistent von Paul F. Lazarsfeld.
Ab 1946 war er Mitarbeiter am Queens College der City University of New
York, wo er vom Instruktor zum Professor für Soziologie und Statistik
aufstieg. Er lehrte und forschte unter anderem in Bombay, Köln und Wien.
1980 gründete Paul M. Neurath mit Anton Amann das Paul F. Lazarsfeld Ar-
chiv an der Universität Wien, das er bis zu seinem Tod am 3.9.2001
leitete. Das Paul F. Lazarsfeld Archiv verwaltet den wissenschaftlichen
Nachlass von Paul M. Neurath sowie seine Privatbibliothek.
*RAHMENPROGRAMM*
Ausstellung von Archivalien und Objekten aus dem Nachlass von P. M. Neurath
*Eine Kooperation von*
Paul F. Lazarsfeld Archiv / Fachbereichsbibliothek Soziologie und
Politikwissenschaft
Institut für Soziologie, Universität Wien
Fakultät für Sozialwissenschaften, Universität Wien ÖGE –
Österreichische Gesellschaft für Exilforschung
VGA – Verein für die Geschichte der ArbeiterInnenbewegung
*Weitere Informationen entnehmen Sie bitte dem Anhang*
We are happy to invite you to our 5th talk of the Vienna STS Talk Series in 2024W
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FutureSpace Talk by Eleanor Armstrong & Réka
Department of Physics & Astronomy, University of Leicester & STS, TU Munich
November 14, 2024 04:00 PM-05:00
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.1>
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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
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Liebe EST-ler:innen,
Wir haben einige Hinweise aus dem Bereich Wissenschaftsgeschichte: Heute
sind Sie zu einem Vortrag über eine preisgekrönte Dissertation über die
Welt der Bilder in der Pädagogik eingeladen (HS 30); Anfang November
beginnt eine geblockte Vorlesung zur "Geschichte der Reproduktion", die
wir sehr empfehlen. Diese Vorlesung ist ein einmaliges Angebot, denn die
Gastprofessorin Martina Schlünder ist nur dieses Semester bei uns in
Wien. Zudem gibt es einige Hinweise auf Stipendien und
Stellenausschreibungen für diejenigen, die bereits über die Zeit nach
dem Master nachdenken.**
Mit bestem Gruß
Anna Echterhölter
<https://ifg.univie.ac.at/ueber-uns/mitarbeiterinnen/wissenschaftliche-mitar…>P.S.
Wenn Sie Rückfragen zum Projektmodul M4 haben: Derzeit bin ich
Modulbeauftragte.
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Anna Echterhölter
Professor of History of Science
University of Vienna
Faculty of Historical and Cultural Studies
Department of History
Universitätsring 1
1010 Vienna| Austria T + 43-1-4277-40 865
Editor of Science in Context
Member of new DFG Network: Global Cultures of Enquête: Towards a
Praxeology of Surveying (17th–21st Century)
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*30. Oktober 2024, 18.30 – 20.00 Uhr*
Institut für Geschichte, Universität Wien, Universitätsring 1, 1010
Wien, Hörsaal 30
*Simon Huber *(Wien):* Buchstäbliche Aufklärung. Die Emergenz der
Anschaulichkeit in Comenius’ /Orbis pictus /(1658)*
/Moderation: Anna Echterhölter/ HYBRID – VOR ORT UND ONLINE UNTER:
https://univienna.zoom.us/j/64820480515?pwd=OxWSTMlGHGYHaVykekomQOSUK1wUDk.1
Einer gängigen Einschätzung zu Folge erhob Johan Amos Comenius
(1592–1670) „Anschaulichkeit“ zu einer zentralen Maßgabe der
Unterrichtsgestaltung, ohne noch diesen Begriff zu prägen. Doch machte
er in der Bildenzyklopädie /Orbis sensualium pictus /(‚Der sichtbare
Erdkreis im Bild‘) die zugedachte Funktionsweise schulmeisterlich vor:
Die 150 „vornehmlichsten Dinge“ dieser Welt werden repräsentiert, auf
jeweils einer Doppelseite, mittels Holzschnitts, lateinischem
Beschreibungstext und deutscher Übersetzung – auch unbedarfte Kinder
sollten sich durch das Blättern in diesem Werk die darin repräsentierte
Welt aneignen können.
Aus diesem Paradigma speisen sich bis heute Hoffnungen auf eine
medientechnisch entsprechend raffinierte Vermittlung, die es in naher
Zukunft erlaubt, körperliche Präsenz aus der didaktischen Gleichung
streichen zu können. Das Medium des Buches wird zum universalen Träger
beliebigen Wissens, das nicht mehr der gleichzeitigen Anwesenheit von
Lehrenden und Lernenden erfordert, sondern sich selbst mitteilt.
Das medienarchäologische Studium dieses Buchs aus dem 17. Jahrhundert
legt die Entstehung eines Codes in der Darstellung von Wissen frei.
Dieser Anspruch, Wissen zur selbsttätigen Aneignung aufzubereiten,
migriert in außerpädagogische Bereiche, durch Verdinglichung der
Anschaulichkeit in Form eines Buchs. Sie ist als zentrales Kriterium des
graphischen Interface-Designs in unserer Alltagskommunikation vorzufinden.
*Zum Vortragenden:*
Simon Huber lehrt und forscht zur visuellen Kultur spielerischer
Wissensvermittlung. Er studierte Geschichte und Bildungswissenschaft
(Universität Wien) und wurde an der Universität für angewandte Kunst
promoviert. Seine Dissertation erhielt 2022 den Staatspreis „Award of
Excellence“ des BMBWF.
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*6. November 2024: Auftakt der Vorlesung: Geschichte der Reproduktion*
*Dozentin: Martina Schlünder*
Hormone und die "Pille", In-Vitro-Fertilisation und "Reagenzglaskinder",
Leihmutterschaft und Eizellspenden sind nur einige Ergebnisse der
technologischen Wende in den Reproduktionswissenschaften des 20.
Jahrhunderts. Sie beschäftigten Enquête- und Ethikkommission, änderten
Geschlechterbeziehungen, Familienstrukturen und
Verwandtschaftsverhältnisse. Bevölkerungspolitik auf eugenischer und
ökonomischer Basis, der Kampf um das weibliche Selbstbestimmungsrecht
über den Körper und die Regulierung globaler Märkte für reproduktive
Substanzen (Eizellen, Samen) prägen auch im 21. Jahrhundert
geschlechter- und gesellschaftspolitische Auseinandersetzungen. Dabei
tauchte der Reproduktionsbegriff erst im 18. Jahrhundert als Konzept in
der europäischen Naturgeschichte auf. Reproduktion ersetzte den
Zeugungsbegriff mit seiner Betonung des einmaligen, göttlichen
Schöpfungsakts. Stattdessen diente das Reproduktionskonzept der
Naturalisierung generativer Fähigkeiten und trug zur Konstitution des
Lebensbegriffs und der Entstehung der Lebenswissenschaften im 19.
Jahrhundert bei.
https://ufind.univie.ac.at/de/course.html?lv=070314&semester=2024W
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*3. Dezember 2024: University of Cambridge:*
*HPS Futures Studentship for Widening Participation in History and
Philosophy of Science and Medicine*
The Department of History and Philosophy of Science will offer a fully
funded studentship for a student starting the MPhil in History and
Philosophy of Science and Medicine in October 2025. This studentship
aims to address challenges of equity and inclusion in the history and
philosophy of science, medicine and technology by widening access and
participation. We also encourage work deepening understanding of these
issues. Home and International students are invited to apply.
We encourage applications from those of Black or mixed Black
backgrounds, from low-income households, affected by war, and/or in
locations where research training in disciplinary HPS is unavailable, as
well as from others interested in transformative research and pedagogy
in HPS.
Applicants for this studentship may choose to address topics related to
equity, inclusion and widening participation and the varied ways these
have been and are significant in science, medicine and technology, but
the Department offers scope for research in many other fields.
Those wishing to be considered should apply in the usual way by the
funding deadline, *3 December 2024*, ensuring that their Statement of
Purpose describes how their background and/or research plans address the
aims of the studentship.
It can be found on our website here
<https://www.hps.cam.ac.uk/study/postgraduate/funding>, or you can use
the text below. Please share it with your respective networks. Thank you
to Charu and Richard for their hard work on this!
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*15. November 2024, Promotionsstelle 2889*
The working group history of science at the University of Vienna is
seeking to fill a predoc-position, 75%, for the duration of four years.
The dissertation will be supervised by Anna Echterhölter.
Candidates ideally specialise in political epistemology, for instance
the history of data or epistemic decolonisation. They will teach 1,5
courses per term at the Department of History, as well as with the new
MA Epistemologies of Science and Technology jointly with STS and the
Department of Philosophy. Applications should reach us no later than
November 15th, 2024. Feel free to circulate the information about the
position:
ENG:
https://jobs.univie.ac.at/job/University-assistant-predoctoral-1/1109285401/
DT:
https://jobs.univie.ac.at/job/Universit%C3%A4tsassistentin-Praedoc/11092853…
For our activities in Vienna:
https://fsp-wissenschaftsgeschichte.univie.ac.at
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*13. November 2024 Promotionsstelle 3106*
The University of Vienna is seeking to fill a predoc-position, 75%, for
the duration two years. The dissertation will be supervised by Dietlind
Hüchtker.
Geschlechtergeschichte/Wissenschaftsgeschichte rsp. Political
Epistemologies oder Ländliche Gesellschaften
https://jobs.univie.ac.at/job/Universit%C3%A4tsassistentin-Praedoc/11345803…https://jobs.univie.ac.at/job/University-assistant-predoctoral/1134580401/
Zum Zeitpunkt der Bewerbung muss das Diplom noch nicht unbedingt
vorliegen, zum Arbeitsbeginn aber ist die Vorbedingung des
Arbeitsvertrages.
*Final Call for Abstracts:*
*Workshop I: Adverse Allies: Logical Empiricism and Austrian EconomicsThe
FWF ESPRIT research project “Adverse Allies: Logical Empiricism and
Austrian Economics”, the Institute of Philosophy and Scientific Method (JKU
Linz), the Institute Vienna Circle (University of Vienna), and the Vienna
Circle Society host two workshops in 2025. The organizers seek submissions
for contributed talks for the first workshop now.*
Acknowledging the existence of disagreements between logical empiricism and
the Austrian School, recent scholarship has challenged the received view of
antithetical opposition by reconstructing hitherto neglected
compatibilities and similarities between the two movements.
This workshop aims to advance historical as well as systematic discussions
on the relationship between logical empiricism and Austrian economics.
Contributions that fruitfully inform contemporary debates in philosophy,
methodology, politics, or the sciences are particularly welcome.
*Deadline for Submissions: 31.10.2024*
Notification: 30.11.2024
*Workshop I in Vienna: 12.02.-14.02.2025*
Save the date for workshop II in Linz: 23.09.-25.09.2025
*You find more information and the abstract submission form here: *
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSd5Mg7ThW9ufbzUkJcEk7ZodNnraJ7PuiZ…
*Scientific Committee: *Alexander Linsbichler, Julian Reiss, Georg
Schiemer, Friedrich Stadler
*Queries:* Alexander Linsbichler (alexander.linsbichler(a)jku.at)
*Alexander Linsbichler*
Institute of Philosophy and Scientific Method (Johannes Kepler University
Linz)
alexander.linsbichler(a)jku.at
Department of Philosophy (
<https://ufind.univie.ac.at/de/person.html?id=47545>University of Vienna)
<https://ufind.univie.ac.at/de/person.html?id=47545>
alexander.linsbichler(a)univie.ac.at
*neu erschienen: Viel mehr
<https://www.vandenhoeck-ruprecht-verlage.com/detail/index/sArticle/57805/sC…>als
nur
<https://www.vandenhoeck-ruprecht-verlage.com/detail/index/sArticle/57805/sC…>Ökonomie
<https://www.vandenhoeck-ruprecht-verlage.com/detail/index/sArticle/57805/sC…>
(Böhlau, 2022)*
We are happy to invite you to our 4th talk of the Vienna STS Talk Series in 2024W
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FutureSpace Talk by Julie Michelle Klinger
Department of Geography & Spatial Sciences, University of Delaware
October 24, 2024 04:00 PM-05:00 PM
Extractive Labor in Extraglobal Geographies.
You can register for the talk here<https://futurespace-project.eu/futurespace-talk-registration/>
Abstract
Contemporary space activities rely on hardware, and hardware is comprised of minerals, metals, and materials wrested from the Earth by human labor. This embeds the extraglobal geographies in extractive supply chains and labour regimes on Earth, and shapes the manner in which the immensity of the cosmos is understood and engaged by diverse publics. Drawing on several examples from around the world, this talk presents a conceptual architecture for centering the politics of labor and land use in outer space geographies, while also reflexively examining the potential epistemic violence of using extractivism as a spatial analytic to link Earthly and outer space geographies.
Biography
Dr. Julie Michelle Klinger (she/her) is an Associate Professor in the Department of Geography and Spatial Sciences at the University of Delaware, and a member of the International Standards Organization Technical Advisory Group 298: Rare Earth Supply Chain Transparency and Traceability. Dr. Klinger and her research team are supported by the National Science Foundation, The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, and the Ford Foundation to conduct grounded yet global-scope research on competing uses for energy-transition metals, materials, and infrastructures. She has published numerous articles on rare earth elements, natural resource use, environmental politics, and outer space, including the award-winning 2018 book Rare Earth Frontiers: From Terrestrial Subsoils to Lunar Landscapes. She holds a PhD in Geography from the University of California, Berkeley.
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.1>
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Best wishes,
Katrin Hackl
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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
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We are happy to invite you to our 4th talk of the Vienna STS Talk Series in 2024W:
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FutureSpace Talks by Julie Michelle Klinger
Department of Geography & Spatial Sciences, University of Delaware
October 24, 2024, 04:00 PM-05:00 PM
Extractive Labor in Extraglobal Geographies.
You can register for the talk here<https://futurespace-project.eu/futurespace-talk-registration/>
Abstract
Contemporary space activities rely on hardware, and hardware is comprised of minerals, metals, and materials wrested from the Earth by human labor. This embeds the extraglobal geographies in extractive supply chains and labour regimes on Earth, and shapes the manner in which the immensity of the cosmos is understood and engaged by diverse publics. Drawing on several examples from around the world, this talk presents a conceptual architecture for centering the politics of labor and land use in outer space geographies, while also reflexively examining the potential epistemic violence of using extractivism as a spatial analytic to link Earthly and outer space geographies.
Biography
Dr. Julie Michelle Klinger (she/her) is an Associate Professor in the Department of Geography and Spatial Sciences at the University of Delaware, and a member of the International Standards Organization Technical Advisory Group 298: Rare Earth Supply Chain Transparency and Traceability. Dr. Klinger and her research team are supported by the National Science Foundation, The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, and the Ford Foundation to conduct grounded yet global-scope research on competing uses for energy-transition metals, materials, and infrastructures. She has published numerous articles on rare earth elements, natural resource use, environmental politics, and outer space, including the award-winning 2018 book Rare Earth Frontiers: From Terrestrial Subsoils to Lunar Landscapes. She holds a PhD in Geography from the University of California, Berkeley.
Organiser
Nina Klimburg-Witjes, Assist. Prof. STS Dep Vienna / PI "FutureSpace" & Joseph Popper (Postdoc Researcher, STS Dep Vienna / FutureSpace)
Location
online via zoom<https://univienna.zoom.us/j/63251489007?pwd=FBTgiIoQbHPTvmHhnjFwObba9mAGqZ.1>
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Best wishes,
Katrin Hackl
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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:image003.jpg@01DB1FE6.0F050D10]<https://sts.univie.ac.at/>