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Instructors: PD Dr. Claudia Lang
Event type:
Seminar
Org-unit: 03-Anthropology
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Subject:
Crediting for:
Hours per week:
2
Language of instruction:
English
Official course description:
This module is an introduction into anthropological key debates about science and technology. The module aims to equip students with a critical understanding of these debates through reading and analyzing the major scholarly contributions in this domain. Specific attention will be paid to the role of science and technology in the production of order and disorder in the so-called Global South. What hopes, fears, and uncertainties are evoked by the global circulation of science and technology? How are scientific knowledge and technological innovations constantly redrawing the boundaries between nature and society? How are science and technology transforming imaginations of identity, power, and knowledge? The objective is to draw on the full range of conceptual approaches deployed in anthropology and Science and Technologies Studies to elaborate a theoretically profound and interdisciplinary understanding of contemporary issues about science and technology.
Organisational issues:
This will be a reading-intensive discussion seminar. Students are required to prepare for class by thoroughly reading each sitting’s required readings and prepare short summaries/responses. To maximize learning, students are strongly encouraged to engage additional readings. Student submit an abstract and prepare a presentation of 10 minutes for the student conference and write a final paper.
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