CFA: Summer School „Philosophies of Technology in Intercultural Perspective“ at the University of Tübingen – Application deadline 15th April

The University of Tübingen in collaboration with the Society for Intercultural Philosophy (GIP: http://www.int-gip.de/home/) is organizing an international summer school on Philosophies of Technologies at the University of Tübingen, Germany  from 27th -31th July. The summer school is open to doctoral students in philosophy, sociology, social anthropology, history, art history, literature, but also technical studies and other related subjects. Applications are welcome from all over the world.

In Western philosophy, technology is understood in such a way that humans make use of the laws of nature for creating cultural artefacts, i.e. that humans copy the functionality of nature. In this way, humans have gained a set of instruments that enables them to decouple their cultural development from biological evolution. At the same time, this has led to an instrumental understanding of nature that has recently come under increasing criticism.

The purpose of this summer school promotes a dialogue among PhD candidates interested in the task of thinking philosophies of technology beyond the Western tradition, transgressing and problematizing at the same time the categories of nature and culture themselves. In doing so, this summer school will explore new theoretical and practical approaches to address challenges posed by the Anthropocene. Morning sessions will be given by Professor Dr. Yuk Hui. Participants must present a 15-minute paper during afternoon sessions that critically discusses one of the themes and/or questions of the summer school. Engagement with current research questions and issues are particularly welcome as well as connections with current PhD projects. There will be additional keynotes at the evening.

Organizer: Dr. Niels Weidtmann, University of Tübingen, Germany

This summer school is open to doctoral students from all disciplines
(applications of master students will be considered in exceptional
cases). Applicants should supply the following documents:

– Application form (available here:
 https://uni-tuebingen.de/de/148503)
– CV (2 pages max)
– 300-word expression of interest
– paper title and 300-word abstract

Applications should be sent until April 15th the latest to:
info@fsci.uni-tuebingen.de

Or to our postal address:

Forum Scientiarum
Doblerstr. 33
D-72074 Tübingen
Germany

A letter of admission will reach successful applicants by the end of April. There is a registration fee of 50 EUR for non-members of GIP which has to be paid upon admission.

Please see the website for further information