November, 25 2020

Wie denkt das Valley? Eine Ideengeschichte des digitalen Kapitalismus
(Poster / Flyer)

Lecture by Prof. Dr. Adrian Daub (Stanford University, literature), and a discussion with Dr. Monika Wulz and Prof. Dr. Michael Hagner (both ETHZ / ZGW).

in cooperation with the Chair for Science Studies at the ETH Zürich. 

Online event, 6:30–8 pm. 18:30–20:00 Uhr. Zoom-meeting link (Meeting-ID: 992 8558 7009 Code: 779717)

November 11, 2020

Medizin nach COVID19? Gesundheit und Gesellschaft in Zeiten der Pandemie
(Poster /Flyer)

with short inputs by Dr. Janina Kehr (Medizinanthropologin, Universität Bern) and Prof. Dr. Flurin Condrau (Medizinhistoriker, Universität Zürich) and a discussion afterwards.

Online only, 6:30 pm, here (zoom-meeting link), Meeting-ID: 953 0711 2092 Kenncode: 195368

CANCELLED!
October 8, 2020

Lecture by Prof. Dr. Massimiano Bucchi (University of Trento & ETH guest professor for Italian literature and culture).

Scienza, tecnologia e opinione pubblica in Italia / Science, technology and public opinion in Italy
(Flyer, in Italian with German translation)

After the lecture there will be a talk with the historian Prof. Dr. Monika Dommann (UZH / ZGW).

Place & Time: ETH Zürich, Rämistrasse 101 HG D 1.2, 6.15-8pm

COVID 19: Das Schutzkonzept für die Veranstaltung wird zwei Wochen vor der Veranstaltung hier auf unserer Webseite kommuniziert. Bitte informieren Sie sich dann an dieser Stelle, auch über Möglichkeiten, den Abend online mitzuverfolgen.

April 8, 2020
CANCELLED & AND WILL BE POSTPONED

Lecture by PD. Dr. Robert Matthias Erdbeer (Universität Münster, Germanistik)

Modell und Spiel – Probleme ludischer Intervention

Place & Time: ETH Zürich, RZ building, Clausiusstrasse 59, 8092 Zurich, Room F 21, 6.15-8pm

CANCELLED DUE TO CORONA OUTBREAK
March 17, 2020

Wie denkt das Valley? Eine Ideengeschichte des digitalen Kapitalismus
(poster / leaflet)

Lecture by Prof. Dr. Adrian Daub (Stanford University, Literature), & talk with Dr. Monika Wulz und Prof. Dr. Michael Hagner (both ETHZ / ZGW).

in cooperation with the Chair for Science Studies at the ETH Zürich. 

Place & time Cabaret Voltaire, Spiegelgasse 1, 8001 Zürich, 7 pm
(be aware: extraordinarily, the event will take place on a Tuesday)

November 27, 2019

Is there Progress? (Poster)

Lecture and talk with Prof. Dr. Rahel Jaeggi (Philosophy, HU Berlin)

Place & Time: Cabaret Voltaire, Spiegelgasse 1, 8001 Zurich, 6.30pm

November 13, 2019

Lecture by Prof. Dr. Shaul Katzir (Tel Aviv University, Cohn Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science and Ideas)

Simultaneous Inventions and the Process of Innovation (Abstract)

Place & Time: ETH Zürich, RZ building, Clausiusstrasse 59, 8092 Zurich, Room F 21, 6.15-8pm

October 30, 2019

Lecture by Prof. Dr. Dominic Sachsenmaier (Göttingen University)

Knowledge Production in 17th-century Chinese Christianity: Global and Local Dimensions of Power and Faith (Abstract)

Place & Time: ETH Zürich, RZ building, Clausiusstrasse 59, 8092 Zurich, Room F 21, 6.15-8pm

October 23, 2019

Lecture by Prof. Dr. José Brunner (Tel Aviv University, Cohn Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science and Ideas)

Trauma und Überschuss. Wie wir an einem (un)moralischen Exzess erkranken können (Abstract / Poster)

The event is part of the exchange program »Knowledge in Society« with Cohn Institute Tel Aviv.

Place & Time: Cabaret Voltaire, Spiegelgasse 1, 8001 Zürich, 6.30-8pm

October 16, 2019

Lecture by Prof. Dr. Gabriel Motzkin (Hebrew University of Jerusalem)

The Emotional Preconditions for Modern Subjectivity (Abstract)

Place & Time: ETH Zürich, RZ building, Clausiusstrasse 59, 8092 Zurich, Room F 21, 6.15-8pm

October 2, 2019

Is a Green Capitalism Possible? New Approaches to the Relationship between Ecology and Economy (Poster / Flyer)

Talks by Prof. Dr. Thomas Kuszynski (Economic History, Berlin) and Dr. Simone Müller (History, Rachel Carson Center Munich), moderated by Prof. Dr. Jakob Tanner (History, UZH/ZGW).

Place & Time: Cabaret Voltaire, Spiegelgasse 1, 8001 Zurich, 6.30pm

April 17, 2019 (Poster/Flyer)

Safe Space Uni? Gender Politics and Discrimination in Science and Research

Inputs and Talk by Prof. Dr. Caroline Arni (Historian, University of Basel), Dr. des. Simona Isler (equal opportunities officer SNF), and PD Dr. Peter-Paul Bänziger (Historian, ZGW/University of Konstanz).

Place & Time: Cabaret Voltaire, Spiegelgasse 1, 8001 Zurich, 6.30pm

March 20, 2019 (Poster/Flyer)

Is Theory Political? Theory of Language as Counterknowledge

Talk by Prof. Dr. Robert Stockhammer (Literary Studies, LMU Munich) and discussion with Prof. Dr. Andreas Kilcher (Literary and Cultural Studies, ETH/ZGW). 

Place & Time: Cabaret Voltaire, Spiegelgasse 1, 8001 Zurich, 6.30pm

March 6, 2019 (Poster/Flyer)

Counter-Knowledge – From Critique of Science to »Alternative Facts«?

Talk with Cornelia Hesse-Honegger (Knowledge Artist and Anti-Nuclear Activist), Reinhard Keil (Professor for Computer Science and Co-Founder of Wissenschaftsladen Berlin), and Roland Stulz (Architect and Co-Founder of 2000-watt society).

Place & Time: Cabaret Voltaire, Spiegelgasse 1, 8001 Zurich, 6.30pm

November 28, 2018

Lecture: Prof. Dr. Eve Chiapello (EHESS Paris)

Understanding the History of Public Policies – Management Tools & Governmental Knowledge (Abstract)

Place & Time: ETH Zürich, RZ building, Clausiusstrasse 59, 8092 Zurich, Room F 21, 6.15-8pm

November 14, 2018 (Flyer)

Humor & Subversion – a Myth?

Lecture and Discussion with Prof. Dr. Uwe Wirth (University of Giessen) and Prof. Dr. Sylvia Sasse (UZH/ZGW).

Time: 6.30pm
Place: Cabaret Voltaire, Spiegelgasse 1, 8001 Zurich

October 31, 2018

Lecture: Prof. Dr. Felicity Callard (Birkbeck, University of London)

Daydream archive: tracking normal and abnormal inner life in the clinic, factory, school, and laboratory

Place & Time: ETH Zürich, RZ building, Clausiusstrasse 59, 8092 Zurich, Room F 21, 6.15-8pm

October 17, 2018 (Poster / Flyer)

What do I decide by myself?

Autonomy in the Digital Age

Inputs by Prof. Dr. Jessica Heesen (Universität Tübingen) and Prof. Dr. David Gugerli (ZGW/ETHZ), panel discussion with Stefan Klauser (ETHZ) moderated by Nadja El Kassar (ZGW/ETHZ).

Place & Time: Cabaret Voltaire, Spiegelgasse 1, 8001 Zurich, 6.30pm

October 3, 2018

Lecture: Prof. Dr. Andrew Zimmerman (George Washington University)

Constructing Black Poverty in Civil War Arkansas: Revolution and Counterrevolution in the Transnational Politics of Knowledge (Abstract)

Place & Time: ETH Zürich, RZ building, Clausiusstrasse 59, 8092 Zurich, Room F 21, 6.15-8pm

(There will also be a workshop with Prof. Zimmerman on October 4.)

PhD Thesis Workshop, January 20–23, 2022
Congress Center Monte Verità, Ascona


The interdisciplinary workshop seeks to explore scientific and aesthetic approaches to the occult through manifold lenses, working against familiar disenchantment narratives that scientific reasoning and Enlightenment world views alienated modernity from occult practices, the natural world and the divine. For this workshop, the terms "occultism" or "the occult" are viewed in an expanded manner, as an effort to produce and interrogate knowledge of "invisible" realities. Analyses of occultism are thus not restricted to religious traditions, practices and phenomena; they also concern the wider aesthetic and scientific formation and transformation of modernity.

The workshop is organized by the ZGW together with the ESSWE – The European Society for the Study of Western Esotericism, and the Chair for Literature and Cultural Studies of ETH Zurich. It forms part of the academic exchange program of the ZGW with the Cohn institute at Tel Aviv University,
 generously supported by the Daniel Gablinger-Stiftung.

Öffentlicher Vortrag, 20. Dezember 2021 von Prof. Yossef Schwartz (Tel Aviv University) 18.15 bis 19.45 Uhr (Poster)

Der Vortrag findet im Rahmen der Ringvorlesung "Devianz und Häresie – Abweichung im Judentum" der Sigi Feigel-Gastprofessur für Jüdische Studien an der UZH sowie des internationalen akademischen Austauschprogramms mit dem Cohn Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science and Ideas an der Tel Aviv University, gefördert von der Daniel Gablinger-Stiftung.

Ort: Theologisches Seminar, Kirchgasse 9, 8001 Zürich, Raum KIR-200
Eintritt frei

Hybrid Public Lecture, October 25th, 2021
by Prof. Leo Corry (Tel Aviv University)
18.15–20.00 (poster)

A prevailing ideal of mathematical knowledge that consolidated towards the end of the nineteenth century, particularly in number theory, celebrated theory development as the pinnacle of mathematical creativity and downplayed the role of specific computations as mere mechanical aids for the discipline. Working under this ideal, mathematicians of several generations attained remarkable success. The rise of high-speed electronic computation since the mid-twentieth century, however, has challenged this ideal.

The public lecture is a cooperation with the Turing Centre and its lecture series. 

In fall semester 2021, Leo Corry is academic guest at the ZGW. The international exchange program with the Cohn Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science and Ideas at the University of Tel Aviv is generously funded by the Daniel Gablinger-Stiftung.

Venue: ETH Zurich, main building, D1.2
Zoom: Link

Academic Writing Course of the doctoral program »History of Knowledge«, fall term 2021
October 22, 1–5 pm; December 10, 1–4 pm.

Writing reviews is part of academic publishing. Crucial ingredient is the evaluation of the book within the relevant research field. The workshop introduces the requirements of reviews in the humanities, especially in the history of knowledge and related fields (history of science, history of medicine, history of knowledge, social history, gender history, legal history etc.). The participants will learn how to publish a review in a scientific journal.

Lecturer: Gleb Albert, Ruben Hackler, review editors at H-Soz-Kult
For registration please write to:
zgw-dp(at)ethz.ch

Public lecture
October 20, 2021

by Prof. Felwine Sarr (Anne-Marie Bryan Distinguished Professor of Romance Studies at Duke University / Visiting Professors of French Literature and Culture at ETH Zurich)
Epistemologies of the Non-Logos
In this lecture, Sarr proposes to rethink the plurality of journeys of human thinking, starting from the idea of equality in principle of the different traditions of thought or discursive practices, while acknowledging their incommensurability. This leads Sarr to consider these different traditions of thought, from their horizons, and the configurations of the thinkable which they propose; as unique journeys of the mind which have developed concurrently, shaped by the cultures from which they originate.(poster)

Time & place: 18:15-19:45, ETH Zurich, Haldeneggsteig 4, IFW A 36
Due to Covid 19 measures and rules, access to the lecture is only possible with Covid certificate and mask.

Further information here.

Colloquium of the ETH Chair for Science Studies
October 13, 2021 (program)

Presentation by Tuvaal Klein. In fall semester 2021, Tuvaal Klein is an academic guest at the ZGW. The international exchange program with the Cohn Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science and Ideas at the University of Tel Aviv is generously funded by the Daniel Gablinger-Stiftung.

Place & time: ETH Zurich, Claussiusstrasse 59, RZ F 21, 16:15.

Fall term 2021
Wednesdays 10–12 am, every two weeks (starting September 22)

This doctoral seminar provides a platform for PhD projects in the history of knowledge. We focus on the specific forms, circulations, and practices of knowledge, its discursive, cultural, and social, moreover its scientific, technological, media, and infrastructural, as well as its legal, economic, and political conditions and effects in global and transnational perspectives. Based on the participants' research projects, the seminar introduces the methods, relevant literature and current issues in the history of knowledge
Languages: German and English

Lecturer: Kijan Espahangizi
For registration please write to:
zgw-dp(at)ethz.ch

Summer School of the doctoral program "History of Knowledge"
September, 13–15, 2021, Zurich (program)

Knowledge is not only an element within scientific laboratories, institutes and disciplines. It is also present in social transformation processes: in public and political debates, in medical and technical applications, administrative measures, but also in artistic processes and cultural critique, in which specific forms of knowledge are generated that challenge the boundaries of scientific knowledge and social structures. The Summer School is aimed at PhD students who, in their historical research projects, investigate knowledge as part of social and cultural change. In exchange with professors from the field of the history of knowledge and in relation to the participants' research projects, methods will be developed in order to analyze the forms, modes of operation and circulation of knowledge as part of social and cultural transformation – its institutional, economic, legal and political contexts as well as its media and forms of articulation.

With Prof. Dr. Caroline Arni (Basel), Prof. Dr. Mischa Suter (IHEID Geneva), Prof. Dr. Cécile Stehrenberger (IZWT Wuppertal) and professors of the doctoral program "History of Knowledge"

Languages: German and English.

Application: Please submit an abstract of your project or presentation (ca. 300 words) until June 10, 2021, and for participation without a presentation until August 25, to: zgw-dp(at)ethz.ch

Hybrid Workshop
June 24 & 25, 2021
(leaflet & program)

The great advancement of geometrical knowledge in the 19th century is often discussed in the framework of non-Euclidean geometries. However, some of the geometrical practices introduced in this century do not receive an adequate treatment in historical and philosophical scholarship. Little has been written on the development of these methods and the investigation of their mutual influences has been mostly neglected. This workshop offers an environment for historians and philosophers of mathematics to discuss the relationship between the new geometrical practices of the 19th century and the common characteristics of the knowledge they produce.

Organized by Idit Cikurel (Tel Aviv University / academic guest at the ZGW) and Juan Luis Gastaldi (Turing Center). Please register here.

The workshop is part of the academic exchange program Knowledge in Society between the ZGW and the Cohn Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science and Ideas (Tel Aviv University) funded by the Daniel Gablinger-Stiftung.

The New Book Forum #6
Science, Medicine, Environment
June 9, 2021, 6-7pm
online (poster)

Lara Freidenfelds
The Myth of the Perfect Pregnancy: A History of Miscarriage in America

Hosted by Martina Sochin-D'Elia and Lisa Haushofer.
Registration for Zoom link here.

The New Book Forum #5
Science, Medicine, Environment
May 19, 2021, 6-7pm
online (poster)

Prof. Amy Cooper (St. Louis University)
State of Health: Pleasure and Politics in Venezuelan Health Care under Chávez

Hosted by Sebastian Fonseca and Lisa Haushofer.
registration for Zoom link here.

The New Book Forum #4
Science, Medicine, Environment
April 21, 2021, time tbd
online

Prof. Anne Harrington (Harvard University)
Mind Fixers: Psychiatry's Troubled Search for the Biology of Mental Illness

Hosted by Leander Diener and Lisa Haushofer

Online-Workshop 
14. & 15 April 2021 (Programm)

mit Prof. Robert Matthias Erdbeer (Universität Münster)
im Rahmen des literaturwissenschaftlichen Kolloquiums ETH / UZH

Anmeldung und Kontakt: sekretariat(at)lit.gess.ethz.ch
Bei Anmeldung wird den Teilnehmenden der Reader und der Zoom-Link des Workshops zugestellt.

The New Book Forum #3
Science, Medicine, Environment
March 31, 2021, 6-7pm
online (poster)

Prof. Matthew Hunter (McGill University, Toronto)
Painting with Fire: Sir Joshua Reynolds, Photography, and the Temporally Evolving Chemical Object

Hosted by Vera Wolff, Stephan Graf, and Monika Wulz
registration for Zoom link here.

The New Book Forum #2
Science, Medicine, Environment
March 3, 2021, 6-7pm
online (poster)

Prof. Erika Milam (Princeton University)
Creatures of Cain: The Hunt for Human Nature in Cold War America

hosts: Dr. Nils Güttler and Niki Rhyner M.A. (both ETHZ, History of Science)
registration for Zoom link here.

The New Book Forum #1
Science, Medicine, Environment
December 3, 2020, 4-5pm
online (poster)

Prof. Suman Seth (Cornell University)
Difference and Disease. Medicine, Race, And the Eighteenth-Century British Empire

hosts: Dr. Lisa Haushofer (UZH, History of Medicine) and Monique Ligtenberg M.A. (ETHZ, History of the Modern World) / registration for Zoom link here.

The New Book Forum: Science, Medicine, Environment is a new collaborative initiative organized by scholars at the ZGW, the Chair of Science Studies at ETH, and the Chair of History of Medicine at UZH, to showcase and discuss new books in the histories of science, medicine, and environment with their authors. In light of the ongoing pandemic, the New Book Forum seeks to provide authors with a platform to present their books outside of the traditional conference circle, and to connect researchers at our institutions in Zurich with the newest scholarship in these fields.

November, 25 2020

Wie denkt das Valley? Eine Ideengeschichte des digitalen Kapitalismus
(Poster / Flyer)

Lecture by Prof. Dr. Adrian Daub (Stanford University, literature), and a discussion with Dr. Monika Wulz and Prof. Dr. Michael Hagner (both ETHZ / ZGW).

in cooperation with the Chair for Science Studies at the ETH Zürich. 

Online event, 6:30–8 pm. 18:30–20:00 Uhr. Zoom-meeting link (Meeting-ID: 992 8558 7009 Code: 779717)

November 11, 2020

Medizin nach COVID19? Gesundheit und Gesellschaft in Zeiten der Pandemie
(Poster/Flyer)

with short inputs by Dr. Janina Kehr (Medizinanthropologin, Universität Bern) and Prof. Dr. Flurin Condrau (Medizinhistoriker, Universität Zürich) and a discussion afterwards.

Online only, 6:30 pm, here (zoom-meeting link), Meeting-ID: 953 0711 2092 Kenncode: 195368

CANCELLED!
October 8, 2020

Lecture by Prof. Dr. Massimiano Bucchi (University of Trento & ETH guest professor for Italian literature and culture).

Scienza, tecnologia e opinione pubblica in Italia / Science, technology and public opinion in Italy
(Flyer, in Italian with German translation)

After the lecture there will be a talk with the historian Prof. Dr. Monika Dommann (UZH / ZGW).

Place & Time: ETH Zürich, Rämistrasse 101 HG D 1.2, 6.15-8pm

COVID 19: Das Schutzkonzept für die Veranstaltung wird zwei Wochen vor der Veranstaltung hier auf unserer Webseite kommuniziert. Bitte informieren Sie sich dann an dieser Stelle, auch über Möglichkeiten, den Abend online mitzuverfolgen.

Practices of Mind-Body Medicine in the 20th Century
September 28-29, 2020

Workshop with Prof. Staffan Bergwik (Stockholm) and PD Dr. Anja Laukötter (Berlin/Strasbourg)
Flyer

Venue: University of Zurich, FSW (Seminar room) Rämistrasse 64, 8001 Zurich
Organized by the ZGW Doctoral Program (Leander Diener, Sarah Scheidmantel, Josephine Selander)

Zum COVID19 Schutzkonzept kontaktieren Sie bitte die OrganisatorInnen.

April 8, 2020
CANCELLED & AND WILL BE POSTPONED

Lecture by PD. Dr. Robert Matthias Erdbeer (Universität Münster, Germanistik)

Modell und Spiel – Probleme ludischer Intervention

Place & Time: ETH Zürich, RZ building, Clausiusstrasse 59, 8092 Zurich, Room F 21, 6.15-8pm

Wissenschaft des Judentums und jüdischer Nationalismus: Wechselseitige Wahrnehmungen und Debatten CANCELLED DUE TO CORONA
March 30, 2020

Lecture by Prof. Dr. Christian Wiese
Martin-​Buber-Professur für Jüdische Religionsphilosophie, Goethe-​Universität Frankfurt &
ETH guest professor »Science and Jewish Culture«

Place: Archiv für Zeitgeschichte, Hirschengraben 62, 8001 Zürich
Time: 6.15 – 7.45 pm

Der Zionismus und die Wissenschaft
WILL BE RESCHEDULED TO FALL 2020
March 30-31, 2020 (program)

with Prof. Dr. Christian Wiese Martin-​Buber-Professur für Jüdische Religionsphilosophie, Goethe-​Universität Frankfurt & ETH guest professor »Science and Jewish Culture«
&
Prof. Dr. Andreas Kilcher (ETH Zürich, Professur für Literatur und Kulturwissenschaft & ZGW)

Place: Archiv für Zeitgeschichte, Hirschengraben 62, 8001 Zürich
Please register here until March 20.

March 18, 2020 CANCELLED
book presentation in the Archiv für Zeitgeschichte

with the editors Monika Dommann and Sybille Marti, and others

Im Kalten Krieg galt die Schweiz als ein der Neutralitätspolitik verpflichtetes Land, das sich für humanitäre Zwecke engagierte. Der genaue Blick auf die Geschichte der Rüstungsindustrie zeigt jedoch ein anderes, ambivalenteres, hochpolitisches und direkt mit weltweiten Konfliktlagen verbundenes Bild. (Flyer)

Place & time: Archiv für Zeitgeschichte, Hirschengraben 62, 8001 Zürich, 6:15-7:30 pm

November 27, 2019

Does Progress exist? (Poster / leaflet)

Lecture by Prof. Dr. Rahel Jaeggi (Philosophy, HU Berlin)
+ a talk with Dr. Monika Wulz and Ruben Hackler.

Place & Time: Cabaret Voltaire, Spiegelgasse 1, 8001 Zurich, 7.00pm

November 13, 2019

Lecture by Prof. Dr. Shaul Katzir (Tel Aviv University, Cohn Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science and Ideas)

Simultaneous Inventions and the Process of Innovation (Abstract)

Place & Time: ETH Zürich, RZ building, Clausiusstrasse 59, 8092 Zurich, Room F 21, 6.15-8pm

October 30, 2019

Lecture by Prof. Dr. Dominic Sachsenmaier (Göttingen University)

Knowledge Production in 17th-century Chinese Christianity: Global and Local Dimensions of Power and Faith (Abstract)

Place & Time: ETH Zürich, RZ building, Clausiusstrasse 59, 8092 Zurich, Room F 21, 6.15-8pm

October 30 - November 1, 2019

International Conference (program)

in cooperation with: Deutsches Seminar der Universität Zürich, Professur für Literatur- und Kulturwissenschaften an der Universität Luzern, Lehrstuhl für Medizingeschichte der Universität Zürich

contact: Sophie Witt

October 24

Lecture by Prof. Dr. Dominik Perler titled »Wozu an das Jenseits denken? Spätmittelalterliche Debatten in methodischer Perspektive«

Comment by our academic guest Gabriel Motzkin.

Place & Time: ETH Zürich, RZ building, Clausiusstrasse 59, 8092 Zurich, Room F 21, 6.15-8pm

October 23, 2019

Lecture by Prof. Dr. José Brunner (Tel Aviv University, Cohn Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science and Ideas)

Trauma und Überschuss. Wie wir an einem (un)moralischen Exzess erkranken können (Abstract / Poster)

The event is part of the exchange program »Knowledge in Society« with Cohn Institute Tel Aviv. Supported by the Daniel Gablinger Stiftung.

Place & Time: Cabaret Voltaire, Spiegelgasse 1, 8001 Zürich, 6.30-8pm

October 16, 2019

Lecture by Prof. Dr. Gabriel Motzkin (Hebrew University of Jerusalem)

The Emotional Preconditions for Modern Subjectivity (Abstract)

Place & Time: ETH Zürich, RZ building, Clausiusstrasse 59, 8092 Zurich, Room F 21, 6.15-8pm

October 3, 2019

Workshop with Thomas Kuczynski.

Flyer (german)

Place & Time: Universität Zürich, seminar room FSW, Rämistrasse 64, 8001 Zurich, 10-12am

October 2, 2019

Is a Green Capitalism Possible? New Approaches to the Relationship between Ecology and Economy (Poster / Flyer)

Talks by Prof. Dr. Thomas Kuszynski (Economic History, Berlin) and Dr. Simone Müller (History, Rachel Carson Center Munich), moderated by Prof. Dr. Jakob Tanner (History, UZH/ZGW).

Place & Time: Cabaret Voltaire, Spiegelgasse 1, 8001 Zurich, 6.30pm

The Conversation of Force in the knowledge of human

Reading group on how the physical theory of conversation of energy has informed psychology, psychiatry, psychoanalysis, social sciences, and cultural studies as well as occult knowledge about the soul. Organized by Prof. Dr. José Brunner (Tel Aviv University) and Dr. Monika Wulz (ETH Zürich).

Language: German

Fall Term 2019
Thursdays 3 to 5pm on 9/19, 9/26, 10/3, 10/10, 10/17, 10/24, 10/31
Room: ETH RZ F 1

Please register with Monika Wulz.

June 6-8, 2019 at the German Historical Institute Washington (Poster)

Political Culture and the History of Knowledge. Actors, Institutions, Practices

Amid the flood of information disseminated by social media, amid talk of "fake news" and "alternative facts," expertise is subject to challenges from many directions. These developments make politics and political culture an ideal test case for assessing the potential and limits of the history of knowledge. By investigating the role of knowledge in politics, the conference will seek to foster a transatlantic debate on the merits of using knowledge as a category of historical analysis. The conference will explore the role of knowledge in different sectors, institutions, and agents of political life, including the state, the economy, the legal system, the public and the media, political parties, social movements, universities and think tanks.

Organized by the German Historical Institute Washington, the Institute on the Formation of Knowledge (U Chicago), and Center »History of Knowledge« (ZGW).

The workshop explores the presence of scientists in public sociopolitical controversies. Our questions are: From which side is the exchange between science and politics motivated? In what forms, media, publics, and in what rhetorics do scientists mark their theses als political? How does politics feed back into science? (Program)

The workshop is held in German. Organized by the doctoral program of ZGW and supported by the Graduate Campus. Please register at zgw-dp@ethz.ch before April 30, 2019.

Thursday, May 2 2019, 2pm-6.15pm; ETH Zurich, RZ F 21, Clausiusstrasse 59, 8092 Zurich
Friday, May 3, 2019, 10am-3.30pm; UZH, Kolloquiumsram FSW, Rämistrasse 64, 8001 Zurich

April 17, 2019 (Poster/Flyer)

Safe Space Uni? Gender Politics and Discrimination in Science and Research

Inputs and Talk by Prof. Dr. Caroline Arni (Historian, University of Basel), Dr. des. Simona Isler (equal opportunities officer SNF), and PD Dr. Peter-Paul Bänziger (Historian, ZGW/University of Konstanz).

Place & Time: Cabaret Voltaire, Spiegelgasse 1, 8001 Zurich, 6.30pm

March 20, 2019 (Poster/Flyer)

Is Theory Political? Theory of Language as Counterknowledge

Talk by Prof. Dr. Robert Stockhammer (Literary Studies, LMU Munich) and discussion with Prof. Dr. Andreas Kilcher (Literary and Cultural Studies, ETH/ZGW). 

Place & Time: Cabaret Voltaire, Spiegelgasse 1, 8001 Zurich, 6.30pm

March 6, 2019 (Poster/Flyer)

Counter-Knowledge – From Critique of Science to »Alternative Facts«?

Talk with Cornelia Hesse-Honegger (Knowledge Artist and Anti-Nuclear Activist), Reinhard Keil (Professor for Computer Science and Co-Founder of Wissenschaftsladen Berlin), and Roland Stulz (Architect and Co-Founder of 2000-watt society).

Place & Time: Cabaret Voltaire, Spiegelgasse 1, 8001 Zurich, 6.30pm