ETH STS Colloquium Spring 2025

[Gabriel Dorthe]

Dear all,

Please find below and in the attached poster the program of the Spring 2025 semester STS Colloquium, co-organized by the Professorship for Ethics, Technology and Society (Prof. Boenig-Liptsin) and the Chair of History and Philosophy of Mathematical Sciences (Prof. Roy Wagner) at ETH D-GESS.

You are most welcome to join us for all, some, or one of the sessions.

Best,
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




19.02.2025
Elizabeth de Freitas (Adelphi University) & Nathalie Sinclair (Simon Fraser University):
“Sense and Mediation in Colonial Baroque Mathematics”

05.03.2025
Stefan Schäfer (Research Institute for Sustainability – Helmholtz Centre Potsdam):
“From Doubt to Action: On Climate Science’s Engineering Ambitions”

19.03.2025
Paola Cantù (CNRS and Aix-Marseille Université):
“The Social Constitution of Mathematical Knowledge: Objectivity, Semantics, and Axiomatics”

02.04.2025
Luca Marelli (University of Milan):
“The Politics of Health Data Spaces: Reflections for an Emerging Research Agenda”

16.04.2025
Mourtaza Chopra (ETH Zürich) & Philippe Debroise (Université de Paris):
“Between the Straight Line and the Curve: the Angle of Contact Motif from Antiquity to Newton”

30.04.2025
Paula Bialski (University of St. Gallen):
“Good Enough Software: Corporate Tech Cultures at Work”

14.05.2025
Mark Goodale (University of Lausanne):
“Making Lithium More Like Gas: Bolivia’s Para-Carbon Transition”

28.05.2025
Roland Tormey (EPFL):
“Teaching Engineers Ethics of Care”