Public Lecture
Studies of Science & Technology: Torn Between Scholarship and Politics?
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Location
Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Room 265
Organizer
MPIWG, Department III
Lecturing Person
Wiebe Bijker (Norwegian University of Science and Technology and Maastricht University)
Bijker will use a small research project on the practices of rice farming and the history of agriculture in India to discuss more general questions about the societal relevance of historical and social studies of science and technology and the ensuing tensions between scholarship and societal engagement.
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