Some Announcements
September 5, 2008
Some Announcements
President Brodhead’s Review
Just a reminder that you still have a couple of days to send your comments regarding President Brodhead to the committee conducting his performance review for the Board of Trustees. The deadline for submitting comments is October 29.
If you do not have enough time to write a letter, send a postcard or send an e-mail. Make your voice heard.
Tell them that Duke can do a lot better.
In formation on how to participate is here.
Another group has taken the lead in rallying the Duke community to participate in the comment phase for President Brodhead’s review. They are called Friends for a Better Duke or FABDU and they want a Duke to be a fab place once again. You can check out their website here.
Stuart Taylor
Our other friends at Duke Students for an Ethical Duke have are hosting a book signing and lecture by Stuart Taylor, the co-author of Until Proven Innocent at Duke on November 2. The book signing will be at 6:00 and the lecture will follow at 7:00. Details, including directions to the venue, Love Auditorium are here.
Stuart is an excellent speaker and his lecture will be every bit as interesting and informative as KC Johnsons’s a few weeks ago. Incidentally, DSED informs us that Stuart originally signed on to debate any of the book’s critics who wished to come forward. However, there have been no takers so far so he will give a lecture instead.
3 Dissertation research grants, IWT, University of Bielefeld
3 Dissertation research grants, IWT, University of Bielefeld
The Graduate College “Entering the knowledge society” at IWT, University of Bielefeld, Germany, now offers three dissertation research grants (current value € 1,000 plus a materials supplement). The Graduate College is jointly funded by the German Research Foundation and the State of Northrhine-Westphal ia and is housed in the Institute for Science and Technology Studies (IWT). Researchers from the sociology of science and technology, the philosophy and history of science and law participate in the Institue.
Science bears the stamp of modern society with respect on new epistemic and institutional features, which have repercussions for other sectors of society. The starting points of these transformations include, e.g.:
- Linkage of science and society in economy, law or media;
- disciplinary structure and institutional diversification;
- scientific practice (theory, model, simulation, experiment); and
- relationships between science and social values
Successful applicants are expected to make their homes in Bielefeld for the duration of their grants.
Interested applicants from the history, theory and sociology of science or other related disciplines are asked to submit their applications asap, but not later than 07. September 2008.
Applications should be addressed in electronic form (as .pdf-files) to Professor Weingart, email: gk@iwt.uni-bielefel d
They should contain a discursive curriculum vitae (not in tabular form) and the usual certifications, plus a statement of scientific interests, a brief description of the project proposed and how it fits in with the research focus of the Graduate College (about 5-10 A4-size pages).
For more information on the Graduate College visit http://www.uni- bielefeld. de/iwt/gk/ .
Alexandra Wiebke
Coordination
DFG Research Training Group 724
“Entering the Knowledge Society”
Institute for Science and Technology Studies (IWT) University of Bielefeld
P.O. Box 10 01 31
33501 Bielefeld
Germany
UHG U6-218
Fon: +49 (0)521 106 4646
Fax: +49 (0)521 106 6418
Web: http://www.uni- bielefeld. de/iwt/gk/
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