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Workshop “The Digital Making of Art and Science”

by Jeannette Haagsma 18 March 2010

What are the artistic dimensions of scientific practice? What are the scientific dimensions of art? And how do digital technologies affect interactions between science and art? On April 14th 2010, the Virtual Knowledge Studio in Maastricht will organize a workshop on the role of digital technologies in interactions between science and art: “The Digital Making [...]

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Presentation: Ethnography and the Alfalab project

by admin 17 March 2010
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On Thursday 18 March, Anne Beaulieu and Smiljana Antonijevic will present on the importance of ethnography in the Alfalab project.  This presentation will be in the context of a special session on humanities at ICTDelta, and will emphasize the practical usefulness of ethnographic insights about users, for the development of new tools and research practices.

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Technology and culture determine our view of the brain

by admin 17 March 2010
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The Virtual Knowledge Studio would like to congratulate Sarah de Rijcke with her cum laude PhD on different visual ways of knowing the brain. Sarah received her PhD from the University of Groningen on February 18, 2010, after having successfully defended her thesis entitled Regarding the Brain. Practices of Objectivity in Cerebral Imaging. 17th Century-Present. [...]

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NWO research funding awarded to Prof. E. Talstra

by admin 3 March 2010
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Prof. E. Talstra, Chair of the VKS Scientific Advisory Board, was awarded a grant from the Dutch Organization for Scientific Research (NWO). This grant is intended to fund development of technological infrastructure to support  Prof. Talstra’s research on Aramaic and Hebrew Bible texts: Data and Tradition: The Hebrew Bible as a linguistic corpus and as a literary composition. [...]

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NWO Bilateral Agreement awarded to Sally Wyatt

by admin 3 March 2010
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Selling genetic tests online: user perspectives on direct to consumer psychiatric genetic tests - prof. S.M.E. Wyatt, Universiteit Maastricht This collaborative, interdisciplinary project will provide a timely empirical base for examining societal impacts of two technological developments which are now beginning to intersect: genetic testing and the internet. Specifically, the research will examine user perspectives (affected [...]

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Regarding the Brain

by Jeannette Haagsma 9 February 2010
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Technologie en cultuur bepalen onze kijk op de hersenen Persbericht – 09 februari 2010  Hoe ziet het brein eruit? Wat weten we eigenlijk over onze hersenen? Al eeuwenlang houden we onszelf steeds opnieuw voor dat we nú een objectief beeld van onze hersenen hebben. Maar objectiviteit is afhankelijk van onder meer technologische ontwikkelingen, menselijke ingrepen en sociale [...]

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VKS Spring 2010 Postdoc fellow

by admin 1 February 2010
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In April Christina Dunbar-Hester joins the VKS as a 3-month Postdoc fellow from New York, where she is a Fellow in Technology and Activism and adjunct instructor in Media, Culture & Communication at New York University.  Go here for more information about Christina.

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Paul Wouters in GridBriefing

by VKS admin 1 January 2010
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“If we want the humanities to profit from investments in large informational infrastructures such as the grid, developing the right kinds of interfaces is the critical issue.” Says Paul Wouters. In new GridBriefing (December, no.10, p.4) from GridTalk.

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New Postdoc researcher at the Erasmus Studio Rotterdam

by admin 1 January 2010
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Frank Neffke, PhD in Evolutionary Economic Geography, is a new Postdoc researcher at the Erasmus Studio Rotterdam. His research interests included evolutionary economics, econometrics, innovation systems in Europe, old industrial regions, and lock-in. Frank’s website.

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New PhD researcher and project at the Erasmus Studio

by VKS admin 1 January 2010
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The Erasmus Studio project Text Technologies and Epistemic Reading to be conducted under supervision by Paul Wouters at the Department of Sociology (FSW, Erasmus University) started on 1 October 2009. The PhD student appointed for this project is Wolfgang Kaltenbrunner. More about Wolfgang and his project Wolfgang Kaltenbrunner has been awarded a HASTAC graduate student [...]

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Women Writers in History: Toward a New Understanding of European Literary Culture

by VKS admin 1 January 2010
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Paul Wouters (VKS) is involved in the COST project by Suzan van Dijk et al.: Women Writers in History: Toward a New Understanding of European Literary Culture.

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Designing Survival Strategies for Propulsion Innovations

by admin 15 December 2009

New Publication: Scharnhorst, Andrea, Lutz Marz, and Thomas Aigle. 2009. Designing Survival Strategies for Propulsion Innovations. Preprint. http://arxiv.org/abs/0910.4313

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Challenging the digital imperative

by admin 15 December 2009

New Publication: Wyatt, Sally. 2009. Challenging the digital imperative. In Spreken is goud. Oraties en colleges van hoogleraren…en de archivistiek, Jaarboek 2008, edited by H. Waalwijk and J. Weterings. s-Gravenhage: Stichting Archiefpublicaties. 358-381. [This is a reprint of the inaugural lecture of the same title, 2008]

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Science and technology: socialising what for whom?

by admin 15 December 2009

New Publication: Wyatt, Sally. 2009. Science and technology: socialising what for whom? (Comment). JCOM – Journal of Science Communication 8 (3).URL Accessed September 21, 2009.

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