Stellenausschreibung Senior Scientist mit Doktorat (Universität Klagenfurt, City Science Lab)
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Science fiction movie night with discussion: Thursday, January 16, 6 p.m. – “Ex Machina” (HS 3)
The students of the course „Die Zukunft der Künstlichen Intelligenz: Visionen in Science Fiction, Politik und Gesellschaft“ (“The Future of Artificial Intelligence: Visions in Science Fiction, Politics and Society”) cordially […]
New FWF-project: How a European zoo biobank aims to support conservation
The new FWF-funded project “Banking on zoos for conservation?” addresses the question how a collection of biological materials from zoo animals might contribute to the conservation of endangered species. The […]
Job openings (doctoral and postdoctoral level)
For the project Banking on zoos for conservation? Towards a multispecies perspective on conservation research in the EAZA Biobank, funded by the Austrian Science Fund FWF, I am looking for […]
Foto: SoKPolA Look Back at the First Year of the Department of Society, Knowledge, and Politics (SoKPol)
On January 1, 2024, three smaller institutes merged to form the new Department of Society, Knowledge, and Politics. In this report, we reflect on the personal and academic highlights of […]
Invitation to the research colloquium of the Institute for Society, Knowledge and Politics: Can Science and Technology Save a (Dying) State? Sen. Scientist Dr. Vedran Duančić on December 12, 2024 from 3:15 – 4:45 p.m. in room S.2.05.2.05
Can Science and Technology Save a (Dying) State? Techno-Optimism in the Last Days of Socialist Yugoslavia During the 1980s, as the economic, social, and political crisis in socialist Yugoslavia was intensifying, […]
Invitation to the research colloquium of the Institute for Society, Knowledge and Politics: How to know a national park? Monitoring practices and the enactment of biodiversity in Neusiedler See – Seewinkel National Park Austria. Ass.-Prof.Dr. Erik Aarden am 28. November 2024 von 15:15-16:45 Uhr im S.2.05
How to know a national park? Monitoring practices and the enactment of biodiversity in Neusiedler See – Seewinkel National Park, Austria To confront the ongoing global ‘biodiversity crisis’ various international […]
Jakob GlasnerNew Book on an Ecological Village and Democratic Bureaucracy in China
Christof Lammer’s fine-grained ethnography describes the complexity of political processes in an eco-village in Sichuan. The usual pigeonholing of the Chinese state does not work here. An exciting read for […]
New Publication in Special Issue on Labour and Welfare in the Global South
In his contribution to this special issue of Global Social Policy, Christof Lammer examines social policy as a knowledge process and shows how the minimum livelihood guarantee (dibao) in China […]
photo by inheritinherit fellowship at HU Berlin for Christof Lammer
From April 2024 to March 2025, Christof Lammer will be researching at the Humboldt University of Berlin how kinship measurements make giant pandas a natural heritage worth protecting. The social […]
