PhD course on Modern Classics and Theoretical Debates in Technology and Social Change in Linköping this fall

[Julia Velkova]

Dear colleagues,

 

We will be running a new PhD course at TEMA-T, Linköping University this fall called “Modern Classics and Theoretical Debates in Technology and Social Change” ( 10 ECTS, half-time, Sept-Dec 2025). We believe that the course would be of relevance to many on this list. Applications are currently open! Please join us or spread further to PhD students for whom this course might be relevant!

 

Deadline to apply: 30 May by emailing phdadmi...@liu.se

See more info below.

/Julia Velkova and Kristin Zeiler

 

 

Modern Classics and Theoretical Debates in Technology and Social Change, 10 ECTS, half-time

 

Course description:

This course introduces technology and social change as a theoretical field by situating it in larger intellectual traditions and debates on technology, science and medicine in the social sciences and humanities. Acknowledging the richness of theoretical developments in this broad area, the course focuses on influential intellectual streams as well as on critique, reactions, responses and new trajectories that these have opened up. The course is attentive to the co-emergence of intellectual streams, as well as the specific socio-political, cultural, philosophical, and historical contexts in which they have been developed and subsequently been employed in scholarly practice.

 

The course is designed to be highly interactive, with ample time for conversations. It centers on six themes that all contribute to the understanding of technology and social change as a theoretical field by situating it in larger intellectual traditions and debates on technology, science and medicine in the social sciences and humanities:

• Debates on Practices of Scientific Knowledge Production;
• Debates on the Relation between Subjectivity/Objectivity and Subject/Object;
• Debates on Techno-Scientific Governance: Institutions, Systems, Power, and Biopolitics;
• Debates on Technological Mediation and Human-Machine Relations;
• Debates on Bodies and Embodiment;
• Debates on Time and Space. 

The course starts September 1 and ends December 5, 2025. Lectures and seminars take place on Mondays, in the T-Building, Campus Valla, Linköping University.

 

Submit your application to phdadmi...@liu.se before May 30, 2025. Please include a short CV, a description of your planned or on-going PhD project (max a 0.5 A4), and your motivation to apply for the course.

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Contacts: *

Jelmer Brüggemann (jelmer.b...@liu.se), Director of doctoral education.

Kristin Zeiler (kristin...@liu.se) or Julia Velkova (julia....@liu.se), course coordinators.

 

More information here: https://forskarstudier.liu.se/en/kurs/7FTEM20/2025H/1589705

 

Best,

Julia

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Julia Velkova, PhD

Associate Professor of Media and Communication Studies & of Technology and Social Change

Co-chair DATA LAB

ProFutura Scientia Fellow, Swedish Collegium for Advanced Studies  

Department of Thematic Studies - Technology and Social Change, Linköping University

Tel: +46 13 28 40 25

web: www.juliavelkova.org