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Researchers from different universities and research centres in Catalonia, including the UAB, have created the Catalan Association of Science and Technology Studies (STS-CAT). The official presentation will take place on 28 February at 9:30 a.m. at the Barcelona Research Residence.

The presentation will feature an inaugural lecture by Wiebe E. Bijker, lecturer and researcher at the University of Maastricht and advisor to the Dutch government as an expert on the relationship between democracy and technology. Biojker is one of the fathers of international Science and Technology Studies and one of the main exponents of the Theory on the Social Construction of Technologies. The engineer, philosopher and PhD in Sociology and History of Technology from the University of Twente (The Netherlands), studies the relationship between the development of technology and society, and how the emergence of new technologies impacts on democracy and can lead to the emergence of a new social order.

The lecture will be followed by a round table (STS in Action) with the participation of Blanca Callén (UAB), Israel Rodríguez (UOC), Ismael Ràfols (Ingenio CSIC-UPV & Univ Leiden) and Vincenzo Pavone (IPP-CSIC), and moderated by the vice-president of the STS-CAT, Núria Vallès (IIIA-CSIC). 

The closing speech will be given by Miquel Domènech (UAB), member of the STS-CAT.

Attendance is free, but prior registration is required.

Place: CSIC Researcher Residence, Barcelona (Carrer Hospital 64)

Date: Friday 28, February2025 - 09:30h

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Do you have questions or doubts and you don’t know who to ask?

Come on September 16 at 4 p.m. and we will solve them (in the same classroom 4-5 of the welcome meeting)

Date: Tuesday 16, September2025 - 16:00h