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Fall Semester Program:
Day/Time:
Thursday, 15:00-16:30
Place:
Amphitheater A
Department of History and Philosophy of Science
School of Science
National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
Dates/Lecturers/Titles:
14.10.2021 / Aristotle Tympas / Technological black boxing versus ecological reparation
21.10.2021 / Zoi Christina Siamanta / Renewable energy development and socio-ecological impacts
4.11.2021 / Zoi Christina Siamanta / Community Renewable Energy Ecologies (CREE)
18.11.2021 / Elia Apostolopoulou / Technology, digitalisation and social-environmental innovation
25.11.2021 / Elia Apostolopoulou / A critical approach of free market environmentalism:
Neoliberal natures and social-environmental justice
2.12.2021 / George L. Vlachos / Introduction to environmental history: The international case
9.12.2021 / George L. Vlachos / Introduction to environmental history: The Greek case
16.12.2021 / Giorgos Velegrakis / On the concept of planetary boundaries
23.12.2021 / Giorgos Velegrakis / The political ecology of austerity
13.1.2022 / Zoi Christina Siamanta / The social construction of nature
20.1.2022 / Zoi Christina Siamanta /Environmental conflicts and environmental justice
27.1.2022 / Dimitris Bormpoudakis / Listening to (green) energy: from contemporary Crete to England to interwar USA
3.2.2022 / Dimitris Bormpoudakis / Algorithms, machine learning, and nature-asinfrastructure
List of Lecturers:
Elia Apostolopoulou (PhD in Political Ecology and Human Geography, Aristotle University, 2009), Senior Research Fellow, University of Cambridge
Dimitris Bormpoudakis (PhD in Biodiversity Management, School of Anthropology and Conservation, University of Kent & School of Agriculture, Policy and Development University of Reading, 2016), Postdoctoral Research Associate, University of Kent
Zoi Christina Siamanta (PhD in Human Geography, Birkbeck, University of London, 2016), Postdoctoral Researcher, Department of History and Philosophy of Science, School of Science,
National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
Aristotle Tympas (PhD in History and Sociology of Technology, Georgia Tech, 2001), Professor, Department of History and Philosophy of Science, School of Science, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
Giorgos Velegrakis (PhD in Geography and Political Ecology, Harokopeio University, 2018), Adjunct Faculty, Graduate Program ‘Science, Technology, Society – Science and Technology Studies’, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens & Department of Surveying and Geoinformatics Engineering, University of West Attica
George L.Vlachos (PhD in Environmental History, Department of History and Civilization, European University Institute, 2019), Postdoctoral Researcher, National Hellenic Research Foundation/Institute of Historical Research & Department of History and Philosophy of Science, School of Science, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
Further Information:
The ‘2021-2022 Lecture-Discussion Series: Environment/Sustainability, Science, Technology’ are organized in the context of the NKUA Graduate Courses ‘Environment, Science, Technology’ (Graduate Program ‘History and Philosophy of Science and Technology, Fall Semester 2021-2022) and ‘Science, Technology, Society: Environment and Sustainability’ (Graduate Program ‘Science, Technology, Society—Science and Technology Studies’, Spring Semester 2021-2022). The program of the Spring Semester 2021-2022 Lectures-Discussions will be announced later in the academic year.
For information (and zoom link, for those who cannot attend in person), contact:
tympas@phs.uoa.gr, gvelegrakis@phs.uoa.gr
Program in PDF