Teaching Activities
- Technik und Raumtheorien
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PhD Course at Darmstadt University of Technology
Summer Term 2013 - Der Raum hat sich breit gemacht in den Geistes-, Kultur- und Medienwissenschaften. Brücken zu Raumvorstellungen in den Natur- und Ingenieurwissenschaften jedoch werden bislang nur selten geschlagen. Die Veranstaltung möchte diesen Weg für die Technikforschung bereiten. Dazu stellt sie Ansätze der Wissenschafts- und Technikforschung vor, die dem Zusammenspiel von Orten und Räumen, Grenzen und Oberflächen, Strömen und Netzen sowie technischem und kulturellem Wandel nachgehen. Der interdisziplinären Perspektive des DFG-Graduiertenkollegs "Topologie der Technik" folgend wollen wir uns zunächst mit klassisch gewordenen Konzepten zu Raum und Topologie aus verschiedenen Disziplinen der Natur- und Geisteswissenschaften vertraut machen. Mit Blick auf die Forschungsschwerpunkte des Kollegs werden wir zudem Beispiele zu ausgewählten Themenfeldern der Technikforschung, wie Körper und Umwelt, Medien und Mobilität, oder Netzwerke und Infrastrukturen, heranziehen und diskutieren, inwiefern die jeweiligen Fragestellungen und Herangehensweisen unsere eigenen Arbeitsprojekte inspirieren können.
- The course is part of the DFG Graduate School Topology of Technology
(in German).
- History of Science and Technology
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Course at KTH – Royal Institute of Technology Stockholm
Spring Term 2013 - This course studies science and technology in a global historical perspective. It explores the relations between scientific and technological development and the formation of the modern world since the Renaissance. A major focus will be on the interplay between the concepts and strategies of scientific and technological universalization and the power relations that imbued the globalization process. The course is complementary for science and engineering students who wish to gain a deeper understanding of the historic implications of their fields and a differentiated historical perspective on contemporary world order. The course also gives an introduction to further studies in the history of science and technology. The course is part of the undergraduate study program of KTH's Division of History of Science, Technology and Environment.
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http://www.kth.se/student/kurser/kurs/AK1202?l=en_UK
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Science Goes Fiction
Science Fiction, Film and Technological Futures in a Historical Perspective -
Course at KTH – Royal Institute of Technology Stockholm
Spring Term 2013 - During the last 100 years, Science Fiction films and literature have been a forum through which science and technology have, directly and indirectly, been brought out to the public, discussed, and interpreted. Within the genre, images of the role of science and technology in future society have not only mirrored existing discourses and discussions about science's and technology's power or danger, but have also created visions of the future, as well as inspired and/or discouraged research and technological development. Taking works of science fiction as a starting point, the course will analyse statements regarding scientific and technological change and relate these to 20th century discussions and discourses regarding science, technology, and society. The objective is both for the students to critically reflect upon these discussions and to be introduced to the history of science and technology. The course will touch upon themes such as images of technoscientific development; science, technology and gender; futuristic visions of industrialization and environmental problems; research ethics; and the relations between man and machine. The course is part of the undergraduate study program of KTH's Division of History of Science, Technology and Environment.
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http://www.kth.se/student/kurser/kurs/AK1205?l=en_UK
- Past Seminars
- History of Science and Technology
Course at the Royal Institute of Technology Stockholm, Spring Term 2012.
http://www.kth.se/student/kurser/kurs/AK1202?l=en_UK
- Science Goes Fiction: Science Fiction, Film and Technological Futures in a Historical Perspective
Course at the Royal Institute of Technology Stockholm, Spring Term 2012.
http://www.kth.se/student/kurser/kurs/AK1205?l=en_UK
- Theory and Method in Historical Research of Science, Technology, and Environment
PhD Course "Theory and Method in Historical Research, Part I" at the Royal Institute of Technology Stockholm, Fall Term 2011.
http://www.kth.se/abe/om-skolan/organisation/inst/philhist/historia/utbildning
- Swedish Society, Culture and Industry in a Historical Perspective (Course Assistant and Seminar Leader)
Course at KTH – Royal Institute of Technology Stockholm, Fall Term 2011.
http://www.kth.se/student/kurser/kurs/AK1213
- Economy and Ecology
Seminar at ETH – Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich, Chair for Science Studies, Spring Term 2011 (in German).
http://www.wiss.ethz.ch/en/teaching/spring-semester-2011.html
- "Spaceship Earth" – Global Awareness prior to the Sustainability Debate
Seminar at ETH – Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich, Chair for Science Studies, Fall Term 2010 (in German).
http://www.wiss.ethz.ch/en/teaching/fall-semester-2010.html
- History of Infrastructures: Technology and Environment in the Age of the System
Seminar at Darmstadt University of Technology, Summer Term 2010, in the the graduate program Geschichte – Umwelt – Stadt (in German).
- Theories of Topology
Graduate Seminar at Darmstadt University of Technology, Winter Term 2009/10, at the interdisciplinary DFG Graduate School Topology of Technology (in German).
- Simple Truths? Gender Regimes in Science and Technology
Seminar at Darmstadt University of Technology, Summer Term 2009, in the interdisciplinary field of study "Sustainable Design of Technology and Science" (in German). - "Spaceship Earth" – Global Awareness prior to the Sustainability Debate
Seminar at Darmstadt University of Technology, Summer Term 2007, in the interdisciplinary field of study "Sustainable Design of Technology and Science" (in German). - Around the World in Two Centuries: Science and Globalization since 1800
Undergraduate Course "History of Science", International University Bremen (IUB), Fall Term 2006. - Globalisierung und Wissenschaft: Naturwissenschaftliche Versuche der Weltordnung
seit dem ausgehenden 18. Jahrhundert
Seminar at Darmstadt University of Technology, Summer Term 2006, in the interdisciplinary field of study "Sustainable Design of Technology and Science". - Technology in Action: Following Technical Objects through Society
Undergraduate Course "History of Technology", International University Bremen (IUB), Spring Term 2006. - Population: A Concept and its Consequences
Undergraduate Course "History of Science", International University Bremen (IUB), Fall Term 2005. - A Century of Nature: Science's Stories and Nature's Histories
Undergraduate Course "History of Science", International University Bremen (IUB), Spring Term 2005. - Global Knowledge: Spatial Themes in the History of Modern Science
Undergraduate Course "History of Science", International University Bremen (IUB), Spring Term 2004. - Fortpflanzung im Zeitalter ihrer technischen Reproduzierbarkeit
Graduate Course (with Dipl. Biol. Bärbel Mauß), Cultural Studies/Gender Studies, Humboldt University of Berlin, Summer Term 2002. - Biomedizinische "Evidenzen" des Körpers
Graduate Course (with Dipl. Biol. Bärbel Mauß), Cultural Studies/Gender Studies, Humboldt University of Berlin, Winter Term 2001.