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Vienna Science Studies Laboratory Reading Group

by Vinzenz Fischer

Dear all, We are happy to announce the Vienna Science Studies Lab Reading-Group Cycle of this academic year. The overall topic will be: Artefacts: confronting the bio-social. - There will be three sessions: 11.11.24 Langdon Winner (1980) - Do artefacts have politics? 15-16:30 27.1.25 Craver, C. F., & Dan-Cohen, T. (2024). Experimental artefacts. 15-16:30 28.4.25 Arina Aristarkhova (2016). - A feminist object 15-16:30 There is also the opportunity to do a work in progress meeting to discuss a paper draft you are interested in receiving feedback on. If you are interested in doing one, contact me (sophie.juliane.veigl(a)univie.ac.at) For now, please let us know whether you plan on attending the first meeting. If so, send us an email, and we'll forward the reading! Please feel free to share this invitation with others who might be interested! All the best, Olesya, Elis, and Sophie

3 months, 4 weeks

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Vienna STS Talks - INNORES Talk by Mike Michael

by Katrin Hackl

We are happy to invite you to our 3rd talk of the Vienna STS Talk Series in 2024W: [cid:image001.png@01DB14D0.42EA3540] INNORES Talk by Mike Michael 15.10.2024 17:00 - 18:30 We are thrilled to announce Mike Michaels's Talk on 15th October 2024, 5:00 pm Inventive problems and speculative things: What can (an ontologised) aesthetics offer STS and PEST, (and vice versa)? Abstract In this presentation I consider how an ontologised aesthetics might play a role in contemporary Science and Technology Studies (STS) and especially Public Engagement with Science and Technology (PEST), and vice versa. Drawing on the work of Whitehead and others, an ontologised version of aesthetics is outlined and related to STS and PEST. At base, the 'research event' of STS and PEST is understood as a process whereby heterogeneous elements 'aesthetically' combine to produce a cogent actual occasion. Re-visiting three empirical examples - the artistic controversy surrounding the nanotechnology Vantablack (the 'blackest black'), the enactment of the institutional 'defeat' of the London fatberg, and the use of lay metrology as a sociopolitical tool - the paper examines how technoscientific publics are 'aesthetically rendered aesthetic'. It is suggested that an STS/PEST attuned to 'speculative things' in material culture (e.g. respectively, Stuart Semple's 'the world's pinkest pink', Mike Thompson and Arne Hendriks floating fatberg, and Matty Benedetto's Vague Ruler) further opens up how aesthetics operates in the 'research event', not least by inventively problematising the parameters of both 'aesthetics' and 'publics'. Biography Mike Michael is a sociologist of science and technology, and a Professor of Sociology at the University of Exeter, UK. His research interests have touched on the public understanding of science, everyday life and technoscience, biomedical innovation and culture. Recently he has worked on lay metrology, design and speculative methodology. Major publications include Actor-Network Theory: Trials, Trails and Translations (Sage, 2017) and The Research Event: Towards Prospective Methodologies in Sociology (Routledge, 2021). Organiser Institut für Wissenschafts- und Technikforschung Location Seminarraum STS, NIG, 1010 Wien, Universitätsstraße 7/II/6. Stock and online via zoom<https://univienna.zoom.us/j/63251489007?pwd=FBTgiIoQbHPTvmHhnjFwObba9mAGqZ.1> (Meeting ID: 632 5148 9007, Passcode: 789205) [cid:image002.jpg@01DB14D4.9F2BC630] Best wishes, Katrin Hackl __________ Mag. Katrin Hackl Drittmittelreferentin Department of Science and Technology Studies University of Vienna Universitätsstraße 7 /II/ 6th floor (NIG) 1010 Vienna / Austria Tel.: 0043-1-4277-49607 katrin.hackl(a)univie.ac.at<mailto:katrin.hackl@univie.ac.at> http://sts.univie.ac.at<http://sts.univie.ac.at/>

4 months

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Invitation to the EST Opening Event

by Vinzenz Fischer

Dear students, researchers and teachers, To kick off the new semester we want to invite you to an Opening Event here at the Philosophy Institute! When? 17.10.2024, 18:30 Where? Hörsaal 3D, NIG 3rd Floor First our teachers Nils Güttler, Tarja Knuuttila and Max Fochler will give us a brief introduction into the idea behind the master’s program and how it came to be. Then we want to take some time to get to know each other in a different setting than the traditional classroom. We also want to hear your ideas about what we, as students, researchers and teachers, want to happen during the semester outside our classrooms. After eagerly getting to know each other, we could then move to a bar or café nearby. Please let me (Vinzenz, a11819352(a)unet.univie.ac.at) know if you want to join so I know roughly how many we are. We hope to see you there! Vinzenz and Philipp

4 months, 1 week

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Erdzugewandte Geschichte: Methodenworkshop mit Andrea Westermann

by Sebastian Felten

Liebe Studierende des MA HPS/EST, am 18.Oktober 2024 findet an der Uni Wien ein Methodenworkshop auf Deutsch statt, der von der sehr profilierten und viel zitierten Wissenshistorikerin Andrea Westermann (Zürich) geleitet wird. Es ist ein großer Gewinn, dass Westermann unserer Einladung gefolgt ist, um Wiener Studierenden den von ihr entwickelten Ansatz der “erdzugewandten Geschichte” zu vermitteln. Die Teilnehmendenzahl ist begrenzt, deshalb wollen wir euch an dieser Stelle persönlich einladen. Die Teilnahme ist kostenlos. Wir bitten um eine kurze Anmeldung bzw. Interessenbekundung bis 25. September per Email (sebastian.felten(a)univie.ac.at <mailto:sebastian.felten@univie.ac.at>). Eine ausführliche Beschreibung findet ihr unten. Mit herzlichen Grüßen, Anna Echterhölter, Sebastian Felten, Nils Güttler ————— Erdzugewandte Geschichte: Methodenworkshop mit Andrea Westermann Ort: TBC Zeit: 18. Oktober 9:30-14:00 Kann Geschichte «erdzugewandter» als bisher üblich geschrieben werden? Also so, dass die Erde nicht nur als historischer Akteur Einzug in geschichtswissenschaftliche Analysen erhält, sondern auch als eine Kraft, die mehr als bloss historisch wirkt – nämlich erdsystemisch bzw. erdhistorisch? Dieser Workshop bietet ein close reading von historischem Quellenmaterial und Forschungszweigen, die in meinen Artikel „Enrichment and dilution in the Atacama mining desert: Writing History from an Earth-Centered Perspective” eingeflossen sind. Im zweiten Teil der Veranstaltung stehen dieser Aufsatz sowie sein Folgeartikel „Entirely new and very old water: Elemental shifts in the Atacama mining desert’s relations with the Pacific, the Andes, and Chile” im Mittelpunkt der Aufmerksamkeit. Die Diskussion der Texte und ihrer Machart ist schliesslich der Ausgangspunkt, um eigene und weitere Ideen für eine erdzugewandtere Geschichtswissenschaft vorzustellen oder zu entwickeln. Methodengeber und Untersuchungsgegenstand meiner Forschung zur Atacama Rohstoffwüste sind die Wissensfelder Ressourcenökonomie, Literatur, Geologie, Bergbaugeschichte, Geopolitik sowie Umwelt- und Gesellschaftsgeschichte. Andrea Westermann ist Sekundarschullehrerin in Zürich. Sie promovierte in Geschichte an der Universität Bielefeld mit einer Dissertation über Plastik und politische Kultur in Westdeutschland. Von 2017 bis 2020 war sie wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin und Leiterin des Pacific Regional Office des Deutschen Historischen Instituts Washington in Berkeley. Ihre Forschungsschwerpunkte sind die Geschichte der Geowissenschaften, Umweltgeschichte, Umweltmigration und die Geschichte der materiellen Kultur. Aktuell: https://www.deutschlandfunk.de/geschichte-eines-materials-wie-plastik-zum-p… Der Workshop wird organisiert von den Professuren für Wissenschaftsgeschichte (Anna Echterhölter, Sebastian Felten, Nils Güttler) an der Universität Wien und richtet sich an MA- und PhD-Studierenden in der Wissens- und Wissenschaftsgeschichte sowie verwandten Disziplinen.

4 months, 3 weeks

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Vienna STS Talks - FuturSpace Talk by David Valentine

by Katrin Hackl

We are happy to invite you to our 1st talk of the Vienna STS Talk Series in 2024W: [cid:image002.jpg@01DB044C.F2224780] FutureSpace Talk by Juan Francisco Salazar 19.09.2024 12:00 - 13:00 We are thrilled to announce Juan Francisco Salazar's Talk on 19th September 2024, 12:00 pm Critical imaginaries of outer space: futures otherwise You can register for the talk here<https://futurespace-project.eu/futurespace-talk-registration/> Abstract This presentation offers an overview of critical perspectives and methods that are crafting space futures otherwise. Against the backdrop of ongoing militarization and commercialization of outer space, it reflects on what might be the urgently needed ethical compasses for how such space futures can be imagined and put into practice at the intersection of climate emergencies and decolonization processes, and across speculative fiction and engaged social research. Biography Juan Francisco Salazar is a Sydney-based Chilean transdisciplinary researcher and filmmaker and currently Professor of Communications, Media and Environment at Western Sydney University. Organiser FuturSpace (ERC Starting Grant Project), Department of Science and Technology Studies Location online via zoom<https://univienna.zoom.us/j/63251489007?pwd=FBTgiIoQbHPTvmHhnjFwObba9mAGqZ.1> [cid:image003.jpg@01DB0450.CED28700] Best wishes, Katrin __________ Mag. Katrin Hackl Drittmittelreferentin Department of Science and Technology Studies University of Vienna Universitätsstraße 7 /II/ 6th floor (NIG) 1010 Vienna / Austria Tel.: 0043-1-4277-49607 katrin.hackl(a)univie.ac.at<mailto:katrin.hackl@univie.ac.at> http://sts.univie.ac.at<http://sts.univie.ac.at/>

4 months, 3 weeks

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Call for Abstracts: Workshop I: "Adverse Allies: Logical Empiricism and Austrian Economics"

by Alexander Linsbichler

*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.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 --- Logical empiricism and Austrian economics are arguably the two internationally most influential intellectual movements with Viennese roots. The Vienna Circle and the Austrian School have shaped the development of philosophical, scientific, and political debate in the 20th century. In the 21st century, logical empiricism has undergone extensive re-evaluation, while the Austrian School experiences another revival. Yet, despite numerous connections and interactions between the two movements, their relationship has captured surprisingly sparse attention in the historical and philosophical literature. If an account is provided at all, logical empiricists and Austrian economists are portrayed as philosophically, scientifically, and politically antithetical groups. Among the most frequently mentioned contrastive pairs of catchwords are empiricism vs apriorism, formal methods vs verbal reasoning, and socialism vs classical liberalism. 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. *Topics for talks in workshop I include but are not limited to: * · pros and cons of formal methods in the social sciences (index numbers, models, …) · counterfactual reasoning and thought experiments (imaginary constructions, scientific utopianism, Robinsonades, …) · the socialist calculation debates · assessments of social welfare and universal basic income · notions of rationality, irrationality, and pseudorationality · justifications of praxeology · explications of the fundamental axiom of praxeology · the quest for certainty and fallibilism · origins and methodology of game theory · methodological reflections: rational reconstructions, … *The second workshop in Linz will focus on: · Karl Menger and Felix Kaufmann as mediators between LE and AE · common influences: Frege, Husserl, Kant, Mach, Wittgenstein · non-cognitivism, the fact/value distinction, and the ideal of value-neutrality · the principle of tolerance and polylogism · logical tolerance, methodological tolerance, political liberalism · logicism and the logic of action · naturalism vs antinaturalism, unity vs disunity of science, scientific pluralism and pseudorationality · essentialism and its discontents (Menger, Wieser, Neurath, Popper, Rothbard,…) · defenses of democracy in Viennese Late Enlightenment · expertise, education, and democracy* *Abstracts should be 300-400 words (including references, if needed) and submitted here: * https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSd5Mg7ThW9ufbzUkJcEk7ZodNnraJ7PuiZ… *Confirmed Speakers:* Erwin Dekker, Catherine Herfeld, Karl-Friedrich Israel, Reinhard Neck, Elisabeth Nemeth, Edoardo Peruzzi, Lukas Starchl, Richard Sturn, Adam Tamas Tuboly, Sophie Veigl, Igor Wysocki *Scientific Committee: *Alexander Linsbichler, Julian Reiss, Georg Schiemer, Friedrich Stadler *Queries:* Alexander Linsbichler (alexander.linsbichler(a)jku.at)

4 months, 3 weeks

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Vienna STS Series winter term 2024/25

by Katrin Hackl

We are happy to invite you to our talk series of the winter term 2024/25! [cid:image001.jpg@01DAFE13.DFD34690] Best wishes, Katrin Hackl __________ Mag. Katrin Hackl Drittmittelreferentin Department of Science and Technology Studies University of Vienna Universitätsstraße 7 /II/ 6th floor (NIG) 1010 Vienna / Austria Tel.: 0043-1-4277-49607 katrin.hackl(a)univie.ac.at<mailto:katrin.hackl@univie.ac.at> http://sts.univie.ac.at<http://sts.univie.ac.at/>

5 months

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CfA: Predoc Position in Linz

by Alexander Linsbichler

*Job posting* *2-3 years predoc position in history/philosophy of economics (30h per week)* The OeNB's Anniversary Fund project "Carl Menger as a Central Banker? From the Origin to the Future of Money" (PI Alexander Linsbichler) at the Institute of Philosophy and Scientific Method (Johannes Kepler University Linz) seeks candidates for one 2-3 years predoc position. Deadline for applications: 30.09.2024 Applications will be possible as of 05.09.2024 at the job portal of Johannes Kepler University Linz: https://karriere.jku.at/hcm/jobexchange/showJobOfferList.do Start date: 01.01.2025 (or as soon as possible after that) End date: 31.12.2026 Possible extension to 31.12.2027 (with 30-40 hours per week) More information about the project: https://www.jku.at/en/institute-of-philosophy-and-scientific-method/researc… Job Duties: - Conduct research and write a doctoral thesis in the context of the OeNB project “Carl Menger as a Central Banker?” - Participate in the project’s and the institute’s administrative tasks - Teaching option in the third year Your Qualifications: - The successful candidate must hold a Diploma/Master’s degree in Philosophy & Economics, Philosophy, HPS, PPE, Economics, or another relevant discipline by the time employment starts - Good knowledge or willingness to quickly acquire good knowledge of as many of the themes of the project as possible: philosophy of economics, Mengerian economics and methodology, different monetary theories and their critics (MMT, chartalism, Austrian, Eigentumsökonomik, …), cryptocurrencies, how-possibly-explanations, the fact-value-dichotomy and barriers to entailment, explication and rational reconstructions, economic modelling, philosophy of disagreement - Strong command of English (B2 minimum) - Strong command of German (reading C1) is an asset but not necessary - Strong team player - Intellectual curiosity regarding the themes of the project and beyond What we offer: - On the basis of full-time employment (40 hours/week) the minimum salary in accordance with the collective agreement is € 3,578.80 gross per month (14 x per year, CA Job Grade: B1) - Dynamic and internationally well-connected research environment - Stable employer - Attractive campus environment with good public transportation connections - Broad range of on-campus dining services / healthy meals (organic food at the cafeteria) - Exercise and sports classes (USI) - … and much more Application documents: - Cover letter [optional] - CV - Reading sample (seminar paper, MA thesis, published paper, review essay, …) [5000-50000 words] - Outline of your previous involvement with themes relevant to the project and/or sketch of ideas for your research in the project [500-5000 words] - Transcript and/or diploma - Other documents [optional] Contact: alexander.linsbichler(at)jku.at Subject to change. *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)*

5 months, 2 weeks

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Joining the EST list

by Tarja Knuuttila

Best, Tarja

6 months, 3 weeks

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STS Talks Vienna: presentation based on the book "Nature-Made Economy. Cod, Capital, and the Great Economization of the Ocean." by Kirstin Asdal (TIK, University of Oslo)

by Katrin Hackl

Come and join us and Kirstin Asdal for her talk and discussion, followed by informal exchange, on Wednesday, June 19th, 2024 in the STS Seminar Room at the NIG from 5:00-6:30 pm [cid:image001.jpg@01DAB745.3D655B10] __________ Mag. Katrin Hackl Drittmittelreferentin Department of Science and Technology Studies University of Vienna Universitätsstraße 7 /II/ 6th floor (NIG) 1010 Vienna / Austria Tel.: 0043-1-4277-49607 katrin.hackl(a)univie.ac.at<mailto:katrin.hackl@univie.ac.at> http://sts.univie.ac.at<http://sts.univie.ac.at/>

8 months

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