Friday, April 3

Author: aybike

4S Exhibition: Innovating STS in Turkey

4S Exhibition: Innovating STS in Turkey

Duygu Kaşdoğan and Aybike Alkan curated an exhibition entitled “Innovating STS in Turkey” for the 4S 2019 meeting in New Orleans. The exhibit extended the digital collection entitled “An Archaeology of STS in Turkey” that was built for the 4S 2018 meeting in Sydney. It searched for multiple ways to innovate STS in Turkey through highlighting old and new practices that have taken place in and out of the academic world on the basis of personal narratives and interpretations. These practices, for example, include:  Creation of STS-related content for a local arts and culture magazine by STS scholars (see: Mehmet Ekinci’s publications in Bant Mag.)Engagement of STS scholars with artists to re-think about STS methods and methodologies (see: Maral E...
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Taming the Nuclear: Between Past and Future Imaginaries | Nükleer’i Evcilleştirmek: Geçmiş ve Gelecek Tahayyülleri Arasında

Taming the Nuclear: Between Past and Future Imaginaries | Nükleer’i Evcilleştirmek: Geçmiş ve Gelecek Tahayyülleri Arasında

Konuşmacı | Speaker: Prof. Ulrike Felt Moderasyon | Moderation: Dr. Duygu Kaşdoğan Kürasyon | Curation: Dr. Duygu Kaşdoğan &  Doç. Dr. Ebru Yetişkin https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bSmLMFRXgEo Whatever choice might be made in any given national context (and beyond) to expand the use of or to phase out of nuclear energy, we have come to live in “nuclear times”. And this well beyond any temporal horizon we usually think about. This invites to pose the question of what we can collectively learn from the ways nuclear pasts evolved? What futures did we imagine back then and how did major incidents (Three Mile Island, Chernobyl and Fukushima) disrupt the respective prevailing imaginaries of the nuclear and make us develop new ones? Using the notion of “taming the nuc...
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