Open Call for applications
The Käte Hamburger Kolleg: Cultures of Research (c:o/re) is offering ten research fellowships for international scholars from the humanities, social sciences or STS as well as from natural, life and technical sciences for the academic year 2024/2025. The fellowships can start between June and October 2024. The Käte Hamburger Kolleg: Cultures of Research (c:o/re) is an International Center for Advanced Studies at RWTH Aachen University funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research. Part of its mission is to offer a free space to its fellows to develop their research projects in a vibrant academic environment facilitating exchange of ideas for a timespan of up to 12 months.
The topic Cultures of Research is positioned where the fields of philosophy, sociology and history interface with natural sciences and engineering. The overall interest of the Center’s work falls on transformations of science and technology as addressed by notions of complexity, lifelikeness and emergence. We are particularly interested in the digitalization of research (simulation, artificial intelligence, machine learning) for the study of epistemic complex systems (e.g., climate change, energy revolution, biologization, sustainability), in participatory arrangements between science and society and in investigating histories and varieties of cultures of research. Our aim is to explore new cultures of (transdisciplinary) research, and, as such, to develop new theories and methodologies for investigating scientific transformations.
For the year 2024/2025 call we are particularly, but not exclusively interested in the topic of Expanded STS. By this topic we mean reflecting on the specific challenges that STS is facing to explore and analyze scientific transformations, and providing this field with specific methods. Further, we are interested in the topic of lifelikeness, a research object emerging at the interface of engineering, AI, life sciences and material sciences. With this in mind, we encourage applications with research proposals from:
- the humanities, social sciences, and STS that explore methods for addressing the diversity of scientific and technological transformations;
- natural, life and technical sciences which scrutinize complex life-like systems; and
- arts, art history, science journalism and scientific illustration to explore the mediation and representation of life-likeness in science and technology.
