MCTS Extended Doctoral Workshop

“Practicing conceptual flexibility: Staging your research through the work of Stephen Hilgartner” This MCTS Extended Workshop invited doctoral candidates to an exercise of intellectual curiosity and conceptual playfulness: It challenged …
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Hot off the Press: Bedeutende Daten

Bedeutende Daten: Modelle, Verfahren und Praxis der Vermessung und Verdatung im Netz Herausgegeben von Thorben Mämecke (Universität Paderborn), Jan-Hendrik Passoth (MCTS) und Josef Wehner (Universität Bielefeld). Wer sich im Netz …
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MCTS Visiting Fellow Nona Schulte-Römer

In the week of October 23, the Innovation, Society & Public Policy (ISPP) group is hosting Nona Schulte-Römer. Nona is a postdoc at the Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research (UFZ) …
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MCTS Visiting Professor Stephen Hilgartner

Welcome to the MCTS‘ Visiting Professor Stephen Hilgartner, who will be staying with us from Sep 25th−Nov 21st, 2017. Stephen Hilgartner is professor and former chair of the Department of Science …
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New Workshops for Doctoral Students

In the winter semester 2017/18, the Integrative Graduate Center at MCTS will again be offering several doctoral workshops. In these workshops doctoral students practice and develop important academic and scholarly …
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MCTS Forum

Workshop Bürgerbeteiligung und Kommunikation in Konfliktsituationen Am 5. und 6. Juli 2017 fand der Workshop Bürgerbeteiligung und Kommunikation in Konfliktsituationen im Zentrum für Energie und Information (ZEI) auf dem Forschungscampus …
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#mytopic.in.society – MCTS Doctoral Colloquium

Presenting and discussing doctoral projects with peers and more is an integral part of the doctoral studies at the MCTS – to get to know the various projects, support them …
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Erschienen: Berechenbarkeit der Welt?

Die Festschrift zur Emeritierung von Klaus Mainzer widmet sich dem Zusammenspiel von Philosophie und Wissenschaft im Zeitalter von Big Data, herausgegeben von Wolfgang Pietsch, Jörg Wernecke und Maximilian Ott. Die …
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Sensor Publics

Report from a workshop on the politics of sensing and data infrastructures From 5 – 7 April 2017 the Munich Center for Technology in Society (MCTS) organized a workshop on …
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Scholarship granted

MCTS is delighted to announce that Özgür Isik, student of MA Science and Technology Studies (MCTS) Master’s Program, has been granted a Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung Scholarship for his MA studies. Congratulations to …
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