Getting up close to autonomous driving in theory and practice
How do autonomous vehicles work in practice? Which technologies will shape the future of mobility? How do students benefit from industry collaborations?
Invitation to the lecture “Panda Heritage: Kinship Measurements and Life’s Value in Species Conservation” on 8 May (Dr. Christof Lammer)
Why are giant pandas considered a species worth protecting and a national treasure of China, while not all pandas are seen as equally valuable? Christof Lammer reports on his research […]
Podcast: Food Networks, Democratic Bureaucracy, and the State in China (New Books Network)
Christof Lammer (University of Klagenfurt) spoke with Suvi Rautio (podcast host, University of Helsinki) about his recent open access book, Performing State Boundaries: Food Networks, Democratic Bureaucracy and China (2024). You can […]
New publication on quality and accessibility in European biobanks
In a recently published paper in Big Data & Society, Erik Aarden analyses how quality of materials is managed and how materials are made visible and accessible in the European […]
Stellenausschreibung Senior Scientist mit Doktorat (Universität Klagenfurt, City Science Lab)
more information: 776-24_A-Text_Senior Scientist mit Doktorat_SoKPol-1
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, […]
