Fwd: Towards a Media Technoscientific Study?: STS and Media Theory as Intersecting Lines - Symposium (with STS-CH) at Basel- May 7, Thursday

[Loïc Riom]

Dear colleagues, 

For your information: please find below the detaislabout the next event in our series celebrating 25 years of STS CH will take place in Basel.

For more information about the series, please visit https://sts-ch.org/25th-anniversary-of-sts-ch/

I look forward to meeting you at one of these events.

Loïc 

Début du message réexpédié :

De: Ranjodh Singh Dhaliwal <ranjodhsin...@unibas.ch>

Objet: Towards a Media Technoscientific Study?: STS and Media Theory as Intersecting Lines - Symposium (with STS-CH) at Basel- May 7, Thursday

Date: 28 avril 2026 à 10:53:57 UTC+2

À: Ranjodh Singh Dhaliwal <ranjodhsin...@unibas.ch>

Dear colleagues,

Here are the details of an in-person symposium being organized in Basel that may be up your alley. Please feel free to pass it along to other colleagues/students you think may be interested. Full schedule and registration is available viahttps://contralab.online/sts-conference

Best wishes,

Ranjodh

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Towards a Media Technoscientific Study?: STS and Media Theory as Intersecting Lines
May 7, 2026
09:30–16:30
Allgemeine Lesegesellschaft Basel
Münsterplatz 8, 4051 Basel

In association with the Swiss Association for the Studies of Science, Technology and Society (STS-CH)


featuring Alexander Campolo (Durham University), Sebastian Giessmann (University of Siegen), Orit Halpern (TU Dresden), Dang Nguyen (University of California Berkeley), Christopher O'Neill (Monash University), Benjamin Peters (University of Tulsa), Florian Sprenger (Ruhr University, Bochum), Viktoria Tkaczyk (Humboldt University, Berlin), and May Ee Wong (Utrecht University).

The challenge presented by this symposium is to reckon with the relationships between media theory (which at least in its Germanophonic sense is often synonymous with studies of scientificities and technicalities) and STS (broadly construed, including inflections from history of science and technology but also philosophy, anthropology, cultural studies, and sociology of science): the methodologies, the arguments, the overlaps, the faultlines. As the disciplines shrink and merge and morph, we are hoping that the presentations and conversations lay open—via case studies, reflexive or methodological remarks, or historiographic insights—what these two intersecting lines look like when visualized.

Ranjodh Singh Dhaliwal

Director of the Digital Humanities Laboratory and Associate Professor of Artificial Intelligence and Media Studies in the Department of Arts, Media, and Philosophy, University of Basel.

Vice-President, The Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts.

https://www.ranjodhdhaliwal.com/

 

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