Soziologie

We are delighted to invite you to join us in celebrating the founding of the Institute for Studies of Science (ISoS) at Bielefeld University.

Our inaugural conference, “Science in Practice and in Society”, will be held at the Center for Interdisciplinary Research (ZiF) in Bielefeld, on October 24, 2025. The Institute for Studies of Science (ISoS) has recently been founded as a forum and research hub dedicated to the pursuit of integrated and interdisciplinary studies of science, medicine, and technology. ISoS integrates perspectives from philosophy, history and sociology to reflect on science and its relationship with society. Our program is rooted in an interdisciplinary working mode, involving close collaboration with the sciences.

At our inaugural conference, we will discuss interdisciplinary perspectives on the practice of science and its entanglement with society – and explore how these aspects are intertwined.

Keynote speakers:

• Barbara Prainsack, University of Vienna

• Maël Lemoine, University of Bordeaux

• Adrian Wüthrich, Technische Universität Berlin

Program: For the program details, please visit our website: https://www.uni-bielefeld.de/zwe/isos/events/opening-conference/

Registration: Attendance is free, but you are kindly asked to register via email by September 30: isos@uni-bielefeld.de.

Please indicate if you would like to join the dinner.

Organizing team: · Marie Kaiser (Bielefeld) · Holger Straßheim (Bielefeld) · Carsten Reinhardt (Bielefeld) · Julie Schweer (Bielefeld)

We would be delighted to welcome you at our inaugural conference in Bielefeld!

Best regards, The organizing team