Symposium on the Politics of Translation in the Age of Technoscience
8.-10.Januar.2009
Ort: Neuer Senatssaal der TU, Pockelsstraße 4, 38106 Braunschweig
Today, we experience an intensified knowledge transfer between technosciences, humanities, social sciences and art. The symposium discusses the politics and media of this knowledge transfer, its practices and underlying frames of thought. We ask whether these new developments support a more open, creative knowledge culture or one of formal compatibility and de-contextualization.
Travelling Concepts / Donnerstag, 8.1.2009
10.30 Welcome, Introduction
11.15-11.30 PD Dr. Maria Osietzki (Technikgeschichte, Uni Bochum), Resourcing human capacities of brain and mind. Cultural challenges of interdisciplinarity in positive psychology and placebo research
11.30-11.40 Comment by Gastprof. Dr. Petra Schaper-Rinkel
11.40-12.45 Discussion
12.45-14.30 Lunch
14.30 PD Dr. Elvira Scheich (Politikwissenschaft, TU Berlin), Theorizing Nature in Gender Studies: Opening Spaces and Passage Points between Cyborg-Feminism and Eco-Feminism
14.45-15.00 Comment by Prof. Dr. Cheris Kramarae
15.00-16.00 Discussion
16.00/ Coffee break
16.30/ Gastprof. Dr. Jutta Weber (Braunschweiger Zentrum für Gender Studies), Interdisciplining. On the Politics of Translation in Technoscience Culture
16.45-17.00/ Comment by Dr. Alexandra Manzei
17.00-17.45/ Discussion
20.00 -22.00/ On Mixed Reality, Prof. Dr. Reinhard Gerndt (Informatik, FH Braunschweig / Wolfenbüttel) & Gastprof. Thies Krüger (Industriedesign, HBK Braunschweig): Experiences with ‚Mixed Reality’ Presentation of students’ work from the interdisciplinary project ‚Mixed Reality – Science, Interdisciplinarity, Diversity (Humanities TU Braunschweig, Industrial Design HBK Braunschweig, Computer Science FH Braunschweig/ Wolfenbüttel)
A New Techno-Rationality? / Freitag, 9.1.2009
9.00/ Gastprof. Dr. Petra Schaper-Rinkel (Gender Studies, TU Berlin), Von der Interdisziplinarität zur Trans-Disziplinierung? Zur Dynamik in der Nanotechnologie und der Neuroforschung
9.15-9.30/ Kommentar von PD Dr. Maria Osietzki
9.30-10.30/ Discussion
10.30-11.00/ Coffee break
11.15-11.30/ Prof. Dr. Wahrig (Pharmazie- und Wissenschaftsgeschichte, TU Braunschweig) / Dipl.-Soz. Stephanie Zuber (Centrum für Globalisierung und Governance, Uni Hamburg), Inter Viduum – Die inter-disziplinierte Wissenschaftlerin bei der Arbeit
11.30-11.45/ Kommentar von Gastprof. Dr. Jutta Weber
11.45-12.45/ Discussion
12.45-14.30/ Lunch
14.30-14.45/ Prof. Dr. Cecile Crutzen (Informatik, FH Braunschweig / Open University, NL), An Interdisciplinary Approach to Interaction
14.45-15.00/ Comment by Prof. Dr. Herbert Mehrtens (Technikgeschichte,TU Braunschweig)
15.00-16.00/ Discussion
16.00-16.30/ Coffee break
16.30/ PD Dr. Ernst Müller (Zentrum für Literatur- und Kulturforschung, Berlin) (angefragt)
16.45/ Comment by N.N.
16.45-17.45/ Discussion
19.30/ Dinner, Networking
Theory & Practices of TechnoScience Culture / Samstag, 10.1.2009
9.00/ Prof. Dr. Cheris Kramarae (Gender Studies, Univ. of Oregon, USA), The Languages of Technoscience Connections
9.15-9.30/ Comment by Prof. Dr. Cecile Crutzen
9.30-10.30/ Discussion
10.30-11.00/ Coffee break
11.15-11.30/ Dr. Alexandra Manzei (Soziologie, TU Berlin), Transforming Body Knowledge. On the influence of ICT on medical knowledge in intensive care units
11.30-11.45/ Comment by Prof. Dr. Bettina Wahrig
11.45-13.15/ Summary, final discussion & good-bye