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In Spring Semester 2019, ZGW hosts the event series “Knowledge in Society” with three dates at Cabaret Voltaire, Zürich. These events focus on current public debates and are open to the public, no registration is required. In these lectures, discussions, platforms, readings etc ZGW wants to keep up with the task of our institution to contribute to relevant public debates relating to our field of research.
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
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.)
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
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
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
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.
From fall semester 2014 to fall semester 2016, our lectures were streamed on audio platform Voice Republic.
Spring 2018
Fall 2017
Spring 2017
Fall 2016
Spring 2016
Fall 2015 (podcast)
Spring 2015 (podcast)
Fall 2014 Knowledge, Law & Jurisdiction (podcast)
Spring 2014 Future Knowledge
Fall 2013 Knowledge Work
Spring 2013 Risk and Knowledge
Fall 2012 Urban Knowledge
Spring 2012 Assimilation
Fall 2011 Knowledge and Belief
Spring 2011 Introduction to the History and Philosophy of Knowledge
Fall 2010 The Grammar of Exclusion
Spring 2010 Experts
Fall 2009 A Return of Evidence?
Spring 2009 Standardization
Fall 2008 Ignorance
Spring 2008 Evolution
Summer 2007
Winter 2006/2007
Summer 2006
Winter 2005/2006
Summer 2005
Winter 2004/2005