Interdisciplining Knowledge Cultures? On the Politics of Translation in the Age of Technoscience

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Interdisciplining Knowledge Cultures? On the Politics of Translation in the Age of Technoscience

Veranstalter
TU Braunschweig Zentrum für Gender Studies / Gleichstellungsbüro Gastprofessorin Dr. Jutta Weber
Veranstaltungsort
Altgebäude der TU Braunschweig, Pockelsstraße 4, Neuer Senatssitzungssaal
Ort
Braunschweig
Land
Deutschland
Vom - Bis
08.01.2009 - 10.01.2009
Website
http://www.gleichstellungsbuero.tu-bs.de/gz/downloads/Weber-Symposium_Flyer.pdf
Von
Jasmin Ramm

While interdisciplinary exchange between cultures of knowledge has not been unknown to modern science, this exchange rapidly increased with the emergence of technosciences in the post World War II period. Many technoscientists but also social scientists as well as scholars from the humanities had and still have the feeling that the classical approaches can not provide answers to today’s demands, challenges and questions. Therefore interdisciplinarity comes out of a need for new methods and conceptional frames to find innovative solutions. For example, the emergence of the radical interdisciplinary field of cybernetics could be interpreted as an answer to the messy and uncanny complexity of the postmodern world. In the last decades, we find intense discussion between such diverse fields as philosophy, artificial intelligence and neurosciences, between ecology and the social sciences and a growing interest of technosciences in art.
The transfer of concepts, ideas and knowledge is a central element of the dynamic of science and of theories since the 1950s, but the effects of these transfers had not been analyzed within the disciplines themselves. Mostly (interdisciplinary working) science & technology studies scholars have reconstructed the transfer of metaphors and concepts throughout divergent disciplines making visible the frequent knowledge travel between the so-called hard and soft sciences.
In our workshop we want to discuss the function and outcomes of the interdisciplinary knowledge transfer between technosciences, social sciences, humanities and arts. We ask whether this new and intensified exchange between diverse disciplines will result in a more restrictive, formal (biocybernetic) culture of interdisciplining, in which the input from the social sciences and humanities is used by the technosciences primarily as a resource for technoscientific innovation and the technoscientific input is primarily used for the formalization and scientification of the humanities. Or is the interdisciplinary transfer of knowledge and concepts moving towards a new creative interdisciplinary technoculture?

Programm

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

Kontakt

Jasmin Ramm

TU Braunschweig, Beethovenstraße 55

J.Ramm@tu-bs.de

http://www.gleichstellungsbuero.tu-bs.de/gz/downloads/Weber-Symposium_Flyer.pdf
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