Event Archive
The event list displayed here is intended as an archive.
Upcoming events can be found on the "Events" page.
Table of contents
- 15.05.2024 | Tipping Points. A Discussion About the Arctic in Art and Literature
- 19. - 22.03.2024 | Leakage | Inaugural Conference of "stsing e.V."
- 15.02.2024 | Workshop with Dr. Michael Gordian | Science Communication
- 11.12.2023 | Thinkshop | Dark Patterns and Generational Divides
- 06.12 - 08.12.2023 |Myths of Disruption. Programs, Narratives, and Utopias of Future Innovations|4th TUDiSC Conference
- 16.11.–17.11.2023 | Discourses in/of Disruption | International Conference
- 15.11.-17.11.2023 | Smart Borders | Conference | A collaboration between TU Dresden & LSE
- 14.11. & 17.11.2023 | Dark Patterns - Manipulative Design on the Internet!? | Workshop of the TUDiSC project "Designate"
- 07.09.2023 | Future Editor Forum
- 05.09.2023 | Turnaround in Transport Policy – Rethinking Transport Areas | Dialogue forum as part of the IOER autumn series
- 05.09.2023 | Short History(ies) of Humankind | Event at DHMD with moderation by TUDiSC PI Solvejg Nitzke.
- 15.08.-19.08.2023 | Disruptive Imaginations Conference
- 21.07.2023, 14:00 - 16:30 | Reading group (internal) | Prof. Alison Landsberg
- 16.06.2023, 10:00 - 12:30 | Reading group (internal) | Prof. Sverker Sörlin
- 23.05.2023 |Disrupting Infrastructural Inertia: On Settler and Indigenous Infrastructuralisms|Guest Lecture: Jordan B. Kinder| 18:30-20:00 at the Kustodie
- 06.–07.05.2023 | “Listening in, Sounding out: Resonances of Future Pasts” | Public Conference and Workshop
- 16.03.2023 | 3rd TUDiSC Conference (10:30 - 18:00)
- 13.01.2023 | TUDiSC reading circle with Prof. Dr. Gerhard Reese
- 01.-02.12.2022 | Conference: Thinking through "The Transnational": A Tumultuous Task?
- 9.-12.11.2022|Rethinking Relations: Michel Serres and the Environmental Humanities. International Conference
- 13.10.2022 | Inauguration Lecture by Orit Halpern
- 12.-14.10.2022 | "Systems of Agency in Face of Disruption": 2nd Conference
- 22.-23.09.2022 | "Exploring Socio-Technical Research": Workshop by DIPCY
- 10.06.2022 | TUDiSC reading circle with Dr. Andreas Pettenkofer
- 13.05.2022 | TUDiSC reading circle with Prof. Dr. Joachim Scharloth
- 31.03.-01.04.2022 | "Disruption under Observation": 1st Conference
- 05.10.2021 | TUDiSC Set-Up Workshop
- 15.07.2021 | "Digitalisation for Humans": Visit of State Minister Gemkow
- 07.07.2021 | TUDiSC Kick-Off
- 20.11.2020 | Workshop Research on Disruption
15.05.2024 | Tipping Points. A Discussion About the Arctic in Art and Literature
On May 15, a discussion about the Arctic in art and literature will take place at the COSMO Science Forum (Dresden).
19. - 22.03.2024 | Leakage | Inaugural Conference of "stsing e.V."
This conference inaugurates stsing e.V., an association (“Verein”) doing Science and Technology Studies (STS) in and through Germany, established in 2020. STS is an interdisciplinary field of research and activity interested in how science and technology are practically done and socially embedded. Find out more, including information relating to the call for papers, on the event page.
15.02.2024 | Workshop with Dr. Michael Gordian | Science Communication
A short workshop focused on developing skills in science communication. Find out more here.
11.12.2023 | Thinkshop | Dark Patterns and Generational Divides
This event looks to analyse the subject of Dark Patterns specifically from the perspective of the participation and protection of younger and older people, and therefore understand any resulting or associated generational divides.
06.12 - 08.12.2023 |Myths of Disruption. Programs, Narratives, and Utopias of Future Innovations|4th TUDiSC Conference
This conference aims at questioning “myths of disruption" and the associated programs, narratives and utopias of future innovations, though not (only) by disruptive means – exposing something as a myth, i.e., a lie – but by collecting and exploring the programs, narratives and utopias on which our disciplines, research subjects, and collaborative ideals rest and which they produce.
Keynotes by Adrian Daub and Kylie Crane.
16.11.–17.11.2023 | Discourses in/of Disruption | International Conference
The 12th annual meeting of the network “Diskurs – interdisziplinär” is dedicated to the multi- faceted entanglements of discourse and disruption.
Keynote by Prof. Dr. Lars Koch.
15.11.-17.11.2023 | Smart Borders | Conference | A collaboration between TU Dresden & LSE
This conference aims to address the international research field on temporalities and histories of smart borders, to trace genealogies and longue durées of media, communication, and information technologies in the control of borders and migration.
14.11. & 17.11.2023 | Dark Patterns - Manipulative Design on the Internet!? | Workshop of the TUDiSC project "Designate"
We are pleased to draw your attention to an exciting workshop from the TUDiSC project "Designate" held as part of the campaign "Internet Policy & Democracy" by the State Center for Political Education.
07.09.2023 | Future Editor Forum
Common publication formats for scientific research, across the various disciplines, continue to be in the form of journals and textbooks. The possibilities of digital technologies and formats are hardly represented and utilized. The goal of this forum therefore, is the exchange of experiences between scientists who experience and wish to change the limits of current science communication.
05.09.2023 | Turnaround in Transport Policy – Rethinking Transport Areas | Dialogue forum as part of the IOER autumn series
As part of a cooperation with the Leibniz Institute of Ecological Urban and Regional Development , the TUDiSC research project "DOUbT" will hold the dialog forum "Turnaround in Transport Policy - Rethinking Transport Areas" September 5 as part of the Autumn Series 2023.
05.09.2023 | Short History(ies) of Humankind | Event at DHMD with moderation by TUDiSC PI Solvejg Nitzke.
On September 05 (7:00 p.m., no admission charge), a discussion between Susanne Wedlich (freelance science journalist specializing in biology) and Prof. Dr. Nils Güttler (historian of science at the University of Vienna) will take place as part of the discussion series " The Power of Origin" at the Deutsches Hygiene-Museum Dresden. The event will be moderated by TUDiSC PI Dr. Solvejg Nitzke.
15.08.-19.08.2023 | Disruptive Imaginations Conference
Joint annual conference at the TU Dresden organised and hosted by the Science Fiction Research Association (SFRA) and the German Association for Research in the Fantastic (GfF).
21.07.2023, 14:00 - 16:30 | Reading group (internal) | Prof. Alison Landsberg
The reading circle with Prof. Alison Landsberg takes place under the title "Dialectical Images and Counter-hegemonic History Writing in Mass Culture." The reading circle is moderated by Declan Galbraith.
Please be aware: This reading circle is an internal event, open only to TUDiSC members! The text and meeting link are to be found in the invitation email sent out to TUDiSC members.
16.06.2023, 10:00 - 12:30 | Reading group (internal) | Prof. Sverker Sörlin
We are pleased to be able to announce that the next TUDiSC reading circle will be with Prof. Sverker Sörlin. We look forward to a lively discussion! The reading circle will be moderated by Svenja Engelmann-Kewitz.
Please be aware: This reading circle is an internal event, open only to TUDiSC members! The text and meeting link are to be found in the invitation email sent out to TUDiSC members.
23.05.2023 |Disrupting Infrastructural Inertia: On Settler and Indigenous Infrastructuralisms|Guest Lecture: Jordan B. Kinder| 18:30-20:00 at the Kustodie
Infrastructuralisms describe modes of attunement to how the built environment mediates social and cultural relations.Taking his recent work on Indigenous solarities as a point of departure, Jordan B. Kinder looks back on a watershed moment in Canadian infrastructural history where settler and Indigenous infrastructuralisms publicly collided—the unbuilt Mackenzie Valley Pipeline.
06.–07.05.2023 | “Listening in, Sounding out: Resonances of Future Pasts” | Public Conference and Workshop
Public Workshop and lecture about difference, the history of sound, and the future of speaking and listening
Organized by Nelly Y. Pinkrah and Michelle Pfeifer at the Chair for Digital Cultures and Societal Change, TU Dresden
16.03.2023 | 3rd TUDiSC Conference (10:30 - 18:00)
Thematic subject: “Disruptive Worldmaking: Technology, Design, Art”
Venue: SLUB Open Science Lab, Zellescher Weg 25, 01217 Dresden
We are very pleased to announce that the 3rd TUDiSC Conference will take place on March 16th focusing on the thematic subject of "Disruptive Worldmaking: Technology, Design, Art". The conference, directed by Orit Halpern and Lars Koch, will be open to the public and enjoy the following exciting presentations:
- Research-Creation: Nonpropositional knowledge and the Production of Publics - Chris Salter (Concordia University)
- Critical media - Johannes Bruder (The University of Applied Sciences Northwestern Switzerland)
- Designing Mobilities - Jens Krzywinski/Lenard Opeskin
The day will be concluded with a presentation of the book The Smartness Mandate by Orit Halper and Robert Mitchell (Duke University).
The programme for the event can be found here
You are welcome to invite interested parties.
Registration:
Please confirm or cancel your attendance via Outlook, or alternatively, for those who have not received an Outlook invitation, we ask that you register over the following email address:
The deadline for registration is 08.03.2023
13.01.2023 | TUDiSC reading circle with Prof. Dr. Gerhard Reese
In the reading circle organized by the PhD students of TUDiSC, Prof. Dr. Gerhard Reese will discuss a text of his choice with the attendees.
01.-02.12.2022 | Conference: Thinking through "The Transnational": A Tumultuous Task?
The overall goal of this conference is to improve understandings of how sociologists can mobilize transnationalism at the local and international levels to respond to and account for present-day social transformations through academic work. The nation-state is often the starting point used to understand social change within society: what is included or excluded as important groups and processes for understanding these changes and the social inequalities that manifest (or are mitigated) from them. The concept of transnationalism as a corrective to methodological nationalism offers an opportunity to expand accounts and explanations of social transformations beyond these limited geographical and imagined boundaries of the nation, and thus who and what constitutes 'the social' as a result. yet. In fact, transnational lenses may be leveraged to paradoxically reinforce concepts of society as confined within a nation-state world order .
For preparation purposes, please register here:
For more information and the program, please visit the conference page.
9.-12.11.2022|Rethinking Relations: Michel Serres and the Environmental Humanities. International Conference
This conference is dedicated to dialogues between the environmental humanities and the boundary-defying philosophical thinking of Michel Serres (1930-2019). It extends an invitation to think beyond and with Serres to mobilize his work in relation to disciplines and fields that include media studies, design, literature, history, classics, sociology, philosophy, and psychology. Our international contributors attend to the ecological paradigms that inform both his polyphonic prose and hybrid subject matter to explore modes of generous, reciprocal, and ethical encounters for urgent, transdisciplinary, and experimental responses of the arts and humanities to ecologies in crisis.
Visitors are welcome. If you would like to attend, please register by sending an email to . No registration fee.
For more information and program, see the TU web page Rethinking Relations or the conference website www.rethinkingrelations.com
13.10.2022 | Inauguration Lecture by Orit Halpern
- University-wide inauguration lecture by the member of the Concept Group, Prof. Orit Halpern
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© TU Dresden
12.-14.10.2022 | "Systems of Agency in Face of Disruption": 2nd Conference
- Three-day conference hosted by the projects TPM, HumGlobal, Designate and DOUbT
- Public Keynote by Julia Wittmayer 13.10. Disruption and agency from a sustainability transition perspective: https://tu-dresden.de/gsw/der-bereich/news/oeffentlicher-gastvortrag-prof-julia-wittmayer-bei-der-2-tudisc-konferenz
- Conference Programme (PDF)
22.-23.09.2022 | "Exploring Socio-Technical Research": Workshop by DIPCY
The research project "Disruptions of Networked Privacy" (DIPCY) of the measure TUDISC and the Sociology of Media Communication Group (DGPuK) invite you to an exciting workshop at TU Dresden on September 22 and 23. We will take time for detailed insights into research projects that cross the boundaries between social sciences and IT. There will also be time for follow-up questions, discussions, and networking.
We start on Thursday afternoon, September 22, with digital art by Esmeralda Conde Ruiz (Artist in Residence, Schaufler Lab) and a small reception. Friday, September 23, is workshop day. Our special guests Autumn Edwards and Chad Edwards, renowned experts:in the field of human-machine communication, will give a joint session on "Qualitative Experiments." This will be followed by workshop insights into four other innovative research projects. These include research in and with living labs and digital memory practices. We have invited exciting guests! If you like, you can join us on an alternative city tour through Dresden's Neustadt (please register in time, as the number of places is limited).
A detailed program and the registration (until September 15) can be found at
https://tu-dresden.de/gsw/phil/ifk/forschung/forschungsprojekte-2/dipcy
Food and beverages will be provided. Participation in the workshop is free of charge, thanks to generous funding from TUDiSC and DGPuK.
10.06.2022 | TUDiSC reading circle with Dr. Andreas Pettenkofer
In the reading circle organized by the PhD students of TUDiSC, Dr. Andreas Pettenkofer will discuss his curent manuscript with the attendees.
13.05.2022 | TUDiSC reading circle with Prof. Dr. Joachim Scharloth
In the reading circle organized by the PhD students of TUDiSC, them and linguist and former TU Dresden professor Prof. Dr. Joachim Scharloth will discuss the text "Utopia in Practice: The Discovery of Performativity in Sixties' Protest, Arts and Sciences", published by Joachim Scharloth and Martin Klimke.
31.03.-01.04.2022 | "Disruption under Observation": 1st Conference
- Two-day conference led by the projects DiaDisK, DIPCY and Disrupt!Research
- Guest speakers: Martina Schober and Regina Franzen
05.10.2021 | TUDiSC Set-Up Workshop
- Presentation of the projects with thematic focus
- Pointing out the perspective of the network
- Discussion of future work formats
15.07.2021 | "Digitalisation for Humans": Visit of State Minister Gemkow
- Presentation of TUDiSC within the framework of the ministerial visit under the program item "Application and Responsibility".
07.07.2021 | TUDiSC Kick-Off
- Presentation of the joint projects
- Presentation of the conceptual and content-related cooperation within the network
- Aspects of coordination within the network
20.11.2020 | Workshop Research on Disruption
- Exploring the possibilities of disruption research
- Presentation of the conceptual basis
- Application preparation