[PHILOS-L] Lecture Series “Digital Complexity: Beyond Human Understanding” - Käte Hamburger Kolleg Aachen: Cultures of Research

[Guzmán Olmos, Ana]

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Dear all, 

The Käte Hamburger Kolleg Aachen: Cultures of Research is pleased to announce its upcoming lecture series “Digital Complexity: Beyond Human Understanding” in the winter term 2025/26. Lectures will take place mostly on Wednesdays from 5:00pm to 6:30pm (CET), starting 22 October. Some lectures are also part of the 8th HaPoC Conference held at RWTH Aachen University, please note their varying dates, time, and venue.

You can find more information on the series on our events webpage.

To attend online or in person please contact eve...@khk.rwth-aachen.de, either specifying the date of your in-person attendance or to register for online participation for the entire series. We will then send you an email with the zoom link and all the necessary information prior to the individual lectures. The link will stay valid for all talks in the series, also the HaPoC lectures!

Program:

22.10. Gabriele Gramelsberger – Digital Complexity: De-Anthropological Trends in Computing, AI, and Robotics

29.10. Anna Tuschling – Digitality as a Triad: From the Love Letter to Emotion AI

12.11. Ricky Wichum – Computer Science and Computer Use in Public Administration in Switzerland (1960-1984)

26.11. Dirk Baecker – Stochastic Systems

8th HaPoC Conference Aachen:

17.12. 5:00-6:00pm Alexandre Hocquet – A Portrait of the Scientist as a User 

18.12. 9:30-10:30am Liesbeth de Mol – What is a Computer Program? Or, How I Liberate(d) Myself as a Computer User

19.12. 9:30-10:30am Robin Hill – Desktop to Discourse: Philosophy Born of Wordstar and VisiCalc

                                                    

07.01.26 Nathalie Bredella – Reimagining Cities: Computational Thinking in the Post-War Period

21.01. Ulf Hashagen – Did the Computer Drive Science? Hardware Development and Digital Complexity in the 20th Century

11.02. Charlotte Bigg – Digital Complexity in Historical Perspective: Lessons from the Study of Technological Transitions in Data Production and Visualization

Looking forward to seeing you in the (virtual) audience!

Ana María Guzmán Olmos

(sie/ihr, she/her)

Research Associate
Käte Hamburger Kolleg: Cultures of Research

Chair of Theory of Science and Philosophy of Technology

RWTH Aachen University

Tel.: +49 241 8028402

Website: https://khk.rwth-aachen.de/

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