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                Dear colleagues, 

At the Belgian nuclear research center, we currently have an open position for a fully funded 4-year PhD project on circular economy practices in the field of NORM (Naturally Occurring Radioactive Materials) management, in collaboration with the University of Leuven.

Many industries generate residues and waste containing elevated concentrations of naturally occurring radioactive materials (NORM). The management of these materials presents technical, social, environmental and economic challenges. Yet, application of circular economy within NORM industries is under-researched, especially from a social scientific perspective. Such perspective would enhance our understanding of the complexities shaping circular economy practices in NORM management. Moreover, it would provide insights into the social sustainability of circular economy models which, as emphasized by recent studies, has  been addressed to a very limited extent in scholarly literature.

This PhD project will therefore explore actual circular economy practices in the NORM industries from a social scientific lens. Drawing on Science and Technology Studies (STS) and practice theory, it will examine how such practices get adopted and enacted, how they evolve with time, and what their social impacts are.

Deadline for application: March 25, 2025

More information: https://www.sckcen.be/en/thesis-and-internship-topics/adoption-circular-economy-practices-norm-management-5285

Best regards,
Robbe

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Today's Topics:

   1. symposium Planetary Experiments: Environments by Design
      (Michaela Buesse)
   2. Call for Applications: 100% (37h/week) PhD position in DigiBreak
      (Laura Anna Kocksch)
   3. Festschrift for Michael Lynch, Ethnographic Studies 20
      (philippe sormani)
   4. CFP: AI Agents: Artificial, Angelic, or Adversarial Intelligence?
      (Denisa Kera)
   5. REMINDER Today ---  Vital Elements Seminar Series with Pierre Louis du Plessis (Monday 24 February 15:00 - 17:00)
      (Amade M'charek)


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Date: Sat, 22 Feb 2025 13:48:11 +0000
From: Michaela Buesse 
Subject: [EASST-Eurograd] symposium Planetary Experiments:
	Environments by Design
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Dear colleagues,

On behalf of the organizing team, I am delighted to invite you to the annual symposium of the German Society for Design Theory and Research (DGTF). This year, in collaboration with the Chair of Digital Cultures at TU Dresden, we will critically engage with the theme: Planetary Experiments: Environments by Design

This symposium brings together diverse perspectives and practices in design research and theory to address the pressing ecological, social, and technological challenges of our time. Planetary Experiments aims to map the complexities of large-scale design interventions and critically examine the ethical, social, and ecological stakes of reimagining the planet as both a site of experimentation and a design.

📅 Date: June 13, 2025
📍 Location: TU Dresden (with online participation available)

For more details on the program and registration, please visit the conference website: https://planetary-experiments.dgtf.de/

We would be honored to have you join the conversation!

Kind regards,
Michaela Büsse

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Dr. Michaela Büsse
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Research Associate
Chair of Digital Cultures
Technische Universität Dresden

e-mail: michaela.buesse@tu-dresden.de
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Date: Sun, 23 Feb 2025 08:53:48 +0100
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Dear colleagues, 

 

We are hiring a PhD student for the project DigiBreak-Ethnographic Perspectives on Telecommunication Breakdowns and Cyberattacks in Denmark and Greenland. 

 

The candidate will undertake ethnographic fieldwork in North and West Greenland, investigating communities’ adaptation to unstable telecommunication and internet coverage. The PhD student will be embedded in the Techno-Anthropology Lab (TANTlab) at Aalborg University Copenhagen. 

 

The deadline for applications is April 22nd. Details can be retrieved here:
https://www.stillinger.aau.dk/phd-stillinger/vis-stilling/vacancyId/1219481

 

Best regards,

Laura Kocksch and Mette Simonsen Abildgaard

 

Dr. Laura Kocksch 

Assistant Professor in the Techno-Anthropology Lab (TANTlab) | Department of Culture and Learning 

T: (+45) 2382 4774 | Email:   laurak@ikl.aau.dk |  LinkedIn |  Google Scholar

Aalborg University Copenhagen | A. C. Meyers Vænge 15 | 2450 København SV | Denmark

 



 

Recent Publications: 

Kocksch, L. (2024) Fragile Computing – How To Live With Insecure Technologies. Palgrave Macmillan  Book

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Date: Sun, 23 Feb 2025 10:18:57 +0100
From: philippe sormani 
Subject: [EASST-Eurograd] Festschrift for Michael Lynch, Ethnographic
	Studies 20
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Out Now: Festschrift for Michael Lynch, *Ethnographic Studies* 20

The latest issue of *Ethnographic Studies*, a Festschrift for Michael Lynch edited by Oskar Lindwall, Douglas Macbeth and Dušan Bjelić can be found
here: https://www.ethnographicstudies.org/issue/view/734

*Ethnographic Studies* (ISSN 1366-4964) focuses on work in ethnography and ethnomethodology but it also provides a forum for sympathetic research in science and technology studies. The journal's homepage is here:
https://www.ethnographicstudies.org/ .


Best wishes,

Philippe Sormani
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Message: 4
Date: Mon, 24 Feb 2025 11:21:58 +0200
From: Denisa Kera 
Subject: [EASST-Eurograd] CFP: AI Agents: Artificial, Angelic, or
	Adversarial Intelligence?
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IACAP/AISB-25, July 1 to 3
*AI Agents: Artificial, Angelic, or Adversarial Intelligence?*

If you’ve ever suspected your LLM is a demon in disguise or that prompt engineering might be a form of neo-scholastic summoning, this is the symposium for you!
Do Contemporary AI Agents Exemplify or Reinterpret Forgotten Debates on Angelic Intellects, Demonic Adversaries, and Phantasmata?

📅 Abstract Submission Deadline: March 15, 2025

 📜 Abstracts: 300–500 words

 📍 Conference Details: https://iacapconf.org/2025symposia/reimaginingAI

 📧 Submit via: algorithms.automation@gmail.com

🔗 CFP & More Info https://iacapconf.org/2025symposia/reimaginingAI

This symposium explores Artificial Intelligence (AI) as a catalyst for rethinking foundational debates in agency, ontology, epistemology, and ethics. Contemporary AI systems—whether seen as radically externalized, affective, distributed, simulated, or emergent—have striking precedents in medieval scholastic inquiries into non-human intelligences. Angelic intellects, demonic adversaries, and phantasmata (machines of illusion) were central figures in premodern ontologies, raising enduring questions about the nature of intelligence, will, and moral accountability.

Does AI revive these medieval frameworks, or does it demand their radical reconfiguration? How do historical theories of agency and knowledge—once applied to incorporeal beings—illuminate AI's epistemic, ethical, and ontological status? Might contemporary AI agents be seen as technological heirs to the Scholastic tradition, or do they instead mark a decisive break from premodern conceptions of intelligence and causality?

We invite contributions from scholars in philosophy, intellectual history, theology, AI ethics, and related fields. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

   - AI and medieval debates on intellect, will, and non-human agency
   - Theological and metaphysical models of distributed or simulated
   intelligence
   - Phantasmata, machinic illusions, and AI-generated realities
   - The ethical implications of AI as adversary, assistant, or oracle
   - The continuity (or rupture) between Scholastic and contemporary
   theories of agency
   - AI’s role in reshaping ontological categories beyond humanist
   frameworks

For submission details, please visit:
*https://sites.google.com/view/aiagentsymposium/call-for-papers?authuser=0
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Message: 5
Date: Mon, 24 Feb 2025 10:45:38 +0000
From: Amade M'charek 
Subject: [EASST-Eurograd] REMINDER Today ---  Vital Elements Seminar
	Series with Pierre Louis du Plessis (Monday 24 February 15:00 - 17:00)
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We are pleased to invite you to the second edition of the (hybrid) Vital Elements Seminar Series. This time with Pierre du Plessis.

In his talk “From Shadow Ecologies to Infrastructural Cascades: The emergence of a beef reserve and its ecological effects”, Pierre explores the social-historical emergence of Botswana as a beef reserve that feeds Europe and the resultant ecological effects that continue to ripple across Kalahari Desert landscapes.

Though Pierre will be speaking in Amsterdam (Room B5.12, Common room: 15:00h-17:00h), the event will also be in a hybrid format (https://uva-live.zoom.us/j/83333263586).

All welcome both ways.

For more details see attached flyer.



About the series:

The Vital Elements Seminar Serie, is part of the ERC project Vital Elements, Postcolonial Moves. The project aims at understanding migrant death in relation to, and in the context of, sources of life that we call vital elements. These are materialities that are crucial for life or spur on death in their absence, think of water, phosphate, salt, oil, seeds, fish or sea sponges. The project focuses mainly on the south of Tunisia and explores how these essential resources are connected to major global challenges - not only migration, but also pollution, environmental crises, climate change and colonial relations. It brings together researchers from around the world to discuss these critical issues. The seminar is a space for experimenting and conversing about these complex questions across worlds. Crucially, given the nature of these issues the seminar attends to how we know; it attends to our methods of research. We thus hope to open up conversations about methodology and epistemology in relation to the issues we study. The Vital Elements Seminar Series is a moving seminar, travelling between the universities of Sousse, Gabès, Sfax, Gafsa and Amsterdam. While sessions are mainly in English, questions can be asked in French or Arabic.



Hartelijks,

Vital Elements Team






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