Upcoming
Presentation of project/title tba. – Oberseminar Forschungsinstitut für Wissenschafts- und Technikgeschichte Deutsches Museum, July 2023 (Munich).
Past
2022
Die „Interdisziplin“ Kognitionswissenschaft. – GWMT Jahrestagung, September 2022 (Erfurt).
Kognitionswissenschaft & Künstliche Intelligenz. – Advisory Board Meeting Project IGGI, June 2022 (Munich).
Anfänge von KI- und Kognitionsforschung in der Bundesrepublik Deutschland (with Rudolf Seising). – Was war Künstliche Intelligenz? Konturen eines Forschungsfeldes 1975-2000 in Deutschland, May 2022 (Berlin).
2021
Von der AI zur KI: Historisieren statt Definieren (with Florian Müller; IGGI Team). – Künstliche Intelligenz als geistes – und sozialwissenschaftlicher Begriff, December 2021 (Dresden).
Ingenieur-Geist und Geistes-Ingenieure: Künstliche Intelligenz und Kognitionswissenschaft (with Rudolf Seising). – AI in Flux, November/December 2021 (online)
Künstliche Intelligenz als imitatio und inventio (with Rudolf Seising). – How to Do History and Philosophy of Science with Hans Blumenberg?, October 2021 (Lübeck).
Wie (er)fasst man Denkprozesse? – Über Kognitive Modellierung in der Kognitionswissenschaft. GTG/GWMT Jahrestagung “Skalen, Normen, Grenzwerte im (digitalen) Wandel”, September 2021 (online).
Histories of Artificial Intelligence in Germany (with Rudolf Seising; IGGI Team). – ICHST/ICOHTEC, July 2021 (online).
Die Beziehungen zwischen KI und Kognitionswissenschaft. Senior Seminar of the Deutsches Museum, January 2021 (online).
2020
How AI came to be en vogue. – AI Fashion Conference, November 2020 (online).
Geschichte(n) der KI (with Dinah Pfau). – KI und Weltverstehen, September/October 2020 (Halle an der Saale).
Vom Gehirn zum Computer: Metaphern im Wandel. – Die Frühe Geschichte der Künstlichen Intelligenz im deutschsprachigen Raum – Manuskripte, Artefakte, Quellen, Methoden (Tandem-Workshop 1), September 2020 (Karlsruhe).
The Computer as Metaphor for the Brain. – Transformative Technologies Workshop, January/February 2020 (Munich).
2019
Exploring the History of Biology through the John Maynard Smith Archive. – British Library 21st Century Curatorship Talk, September 2019 (London).
Defending Neo-Darwinism: John Maynard Smith’s Responses to Creationism and Stephen Jay Gould. – British Society for the History of Science Postgraduate Conference 2019, April 2019 (Cambridge).
Hybrid and Born-Digital Archives. – Digital Humanities Workshop, March 2019 (London).
Inclusive Fitness, Kin Selection and Priority Issues. – Interdisciplinary Workshop on Evolution and Ecology: “Bringing Science, History and Philosophy Together”, March 2019 (Leeds).
PhD Research at the British Library: Reflections and Suggestions. – British Library Doctoral Open Day, January 2019 (Boston Spa).
2018
Science and Religion: the Difference According to John Maynard Smith, with Some Help from Karl Popper. – University of Leeds HPS Work-in-Progress Seminar, November 2018 (Leeds).
John Maynard Smith in Conflict and Collaboration: Intellectual Property, Priority Claims, and the Genesis of Scientific Ideas. – European Society for the History of Science Conference 2018, September 2018 (London).
Bringing Science Home – Evolutionary Biologist John Maynard Smith as a Broadcaster. – British Society for the History of Science Postgraduate Conference 2018, April 2018 (Manchester).
2017
Bringing the Science of Evolution and its Implications Home: John Maynard Smith as a Broadcaster. – University of Leeds HPS Work-in-Progress Seminar, October 2017 (Leeds).
Genetics in Popular Science: How John Maynard Smith Presents a Unified, Neo-Darwinian Theory of Evolution 100 Years after Darwin. – British Society for the History of Science Annual Conference 2017, July 2017 (York).
The Archive of Evolutionary Biologist John Maynard Smith. – Researching Born-Digital Archives Workshop, March 2017 (London).
2015
“Johann Sebastian Superstar” – How Media Create and Consolidate the Image of the Musical Genius. Part of Recreating Musical Cultures of the Past for the 21st Century (group presentation). – ‘Bending Baroque’ Symposium, June 2015 (Amsterdam). [see also the accompanying exposition in the Research Catalogue]
2014
Knowledge Transmission: Context, Techniques and Control – an Examination of Joachim Heinrich Campe’s ‘Entdeckung von Amerika’ as a Philanthropinist Book for Young Readers. – Student Research Conference 2014, November 2014 (Delft).
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