ETHZ - Research in Ethics, Technology and Society

[Gabriel Dorthe]

Dear colleagues,

Next week, the Ethics, Technology and Society group at ETH Zürich will resume its biweekly seminar devoted to collective discussions of works in progress.

For the last 2 years, we have crafted this space for colleagues (new or returning) and MA or PhD students (who can enroll for credit) to engage in horizontal discussions about our research topics and academic writing practices.

If you’re interested in joining us, please read below and get in touch with me. Please keep in mind that the value of this space lies in developing a shared culture and set of practices; therefore, commitment to consistency is essential.

There are two linked raison d’être for this research group. We bring together STS researchers at all stages of experience and careers from across ETH and the Zurich community to help each other develop our knowledge of the field (its fundamentals as well as its latest edges) and improve our voice and writing.

To this end, the research group is run as a writing group—a place where participants circulate in advance their work in progress (draft chapters, articles in revision, course papers) and get feedback from the group during the meeting. The aim of the feedback is to improve the writing and get it submitted or published. 

The first meeting of our research group will take place on Wednesday, February 18, 12:15-14:00 in the IFW C 31 seminar room. The meetings will continue every other week for six more sessions, on 04.03, 18.03, 01.04, 15.04, 29.04, 13.05.

In our first meeting, we will take time for extended self-introductions of our research question(s), our empirical objects (historical or ethnographic objects of inquiry we work on), and the core theoretical frameworks/concepts framing and animating our work.

To prepare for the first meeting, please consider your writing projects this semester. If you have a piece of writing that would benefit from the group’s review think when, ideally, you would like to share it. Given that we have only 6 meetings for the writing group, not everyone will be able to participate in sharing a piece this semester. We will do our best to prioritize those who have something timely, but even if you cannot be the beneficiary this time around of review, reading and engaging with others’ writing is always productive for our own!


Best regards,
Gabriel


Dr. Gabriel Dorthe
Senior Scientific Assistant
Professorship for Ethics, Technology and Society
D-GESS (Department of Humanities, Social and Political Sciences)
ETH Zürich, Switzerland
https://ets.ethz.ch