Department of Science and Technology Studies

💡STS Talk: We are thrilled to have Professor Amade M´charek share some of her latest work on the RaceFaceID project (https://race-face-id.eu) in our first of the year.

Join us Thursday, April 28th, at 6pm 🎉 in presence 🎉 in the STS Seminar Room. No prior registration is necessary!

Professor M´charek joins us from the Department of Anthropology at the University of Amsterdam where her work has centred on the ir/relevance of race in science and society focusing on genetics and forensic practice, exploring issues of post-coloniality, temporality and identity. We hope to see you all soon at this fascinating STSTalk!

☢️ Find out which nuclear waste disposal type you are with our new blog post by one of our Science-in-Society-Laboratory students, Marie Rathmann!

Which nuclear waste disposal type are YOU? – STS Blog Which nuclear waste disposal type are YOU? 05/04/202205/04/2022 by Marie Rathmann   I’ll be honest, the “Science in Society Laboratories“ course threw me into the deep end. In the course, we discussed three different controversies and worked on them in interdisciplinary research teams. I woul...

💡New blog post by two of our PhD students Esther & Bao-Chau who found their places at by reflecting on care in research with the use of collaborative autoethnography! Read about their personal experiences entering the digital academic world:

Reflecting on care in research: Using collaborative autoethnography to find our place as PhD students at the STS department – STS Blog Reflecting on care in research: Using collaborative autoethnography to find our place as PhD students at the STS department 28/03/202228/03/2022 by Esther Dessewffy and Bao-Chau Pham   In February 2021, marking the first anniversary of the COVID 19 pandemic, Fredy, Andrea, and I newly arrived at th...

STUDENT FILM SCREENING – VISUAL ETHNOGRAPHIES OF SCIENCE at the Festsaal of the Technisches Museum Wien, Tuesday 24 March, 16:00–17:30!

The Technisches Museum Wien and the University of Vienna cordially invite to the screening of the short ethnographic films produced by the students of the course 'Visual ethnographies of science: Investigating knowledge production through media practice’.

The public screening of eight short films offers insights into the working procedures and conditions of different science institutions in Vienna, including laboratories, museums, and a university library. Two films focus on day-to-day processes at the Technisches Museum Wien, documenting museum employees carrying out established workflows and conducting interviews with them.

Please sign up to the event by clicking the Tickets Button in the lower right area next to the event date, here:

Technisches Museum Wien -Film Screening – Visual ethnographies of science Das Technische Museum Wien und die Universität Wien laden Sie herzlich zum Film Screening  “ Visual ethnographies of science” ein. Gezeigt werden exklusive Einblicke in die Rahmenbedingungen institutioneller Wissensproduktion. 

📅 Come join us on Thursday, 24 March, 4pm at TMW - Technisches Museum Wien for a film screening of eight short films produced by students participating in the 'Visual ethnographies of science' course.

🎥. The public screening offers insights into the working procedures and conditions of different scientific institutions in Vienna, including laboratories, museums, and a university library.

The course was taught last semester by Department of Science and Technology Studies's Sarah Davies and Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology - University of Vienna's Sanderien Verstappen. We look forward to seeing many of you there, entry is free!

Technisches Museum Wien -Film Screening – Visual ethnographies of science Das Technische Museum Wien und die Universität Wien laden Sie herzlich zum Film Screening  “ Visual ethnographies of science” ein. Gezeigt werden exklusive Einblicke in die Rahmenbedingungen institutioneller Wissensproduktion. 

New post on our blog! Read Magnus Rust's first report from the STS Archives of how the latest technologies have changed our way of collaboration. Handout Hermeneutics tells a story of corporate amnesia and collective writing 📜Check it out here: https://blog.sts.univie.ac.at

STS Blog – Blog of the STS Department at the University of Vienna Handout Hermeneutics. A Report from the STS Archives 28/02/202228/02/2022 by Magnus Rust   This is a story of how the latest technologies have changed our way of collaboration, and why this change is invisible. The center of this study is a mundane object. An object millions of students worldwide h...

New post on our blog! In the post, Carsten Horn, an MA student at our department and researcher for the “ICU4Covid” project, reflects on his recent theater visit where his Covid-19 vaccination Green-pass failed to work and how the promise of “seamlessness” unraveled in real-time. Check it out here to learn more: https://blog.sts.univie.ac.at

STS Blog – Blog of the STS Department at the University of Vienna The Failures of Seamlessness? When a Visit to the Theater Turns into an STS Lesson 16/02/202216/02/2022 by Carsten Horn The Vienna State Opera is one of many cultural institutions in the city of Vienna (Credit: Karl MPhotography) Vienna is beautiful, not only because of the historic buildings or the...

Interested in studying STS at the University of Vienna?
In case you've missed the online Master Info Event yesterday, you can still find information about our STS Master's program in this Zoom recording. We are looking forward to your application!
https://univienna.zoom.us/rec/share/ZpR047bMJr1EQr-k55G2lR8npGoAOdBUbj-lqlP-udF21ZkmJczml36svMWW26mt.2GuLPgrwwJBW__22
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Next summer term will offer "Science Communication Laboratories" - an interdisciplinary seminar for elective Master students of the University of Vienna taught by Barbara Streicher, Simone Schumann, and our very own Sarah Davies!