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A recent workshop organized by the editorial team of the Contradictions journal highlights dissident concepts that are based on non-liberal-minded intellectual traditions. See our YouTube channel.…
The spread of the Covid-19 virus has in many cases significantly affected the usual mode of scientific work. It has also produced new challenges for the existing "rules" for the development and use of technologies. The aim of thematic issue of the Theory of Science journal is to address the question of what is an "emergency situation" in relation to science and to do so from the perspective of studies of in science and technology. Call for papers.…
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Have you held an international conference in uncertain Covid times? Have you challenged a sequence of decisions whether to move it online or cancel it? Then you had to quickly re-order all the organizational ordering and to give a hard thought how to “translate normal physical conference“ into a virtual meeting of hundreds of people…?! Share experiences of your colleagues in a reflection written by Filip Vostal who talks about the preparations of this years´ conference entitled “Locating and Timing Matters: Significance and Agency of STS in Emerging Worlds.”…
CONTRADICTIONS, billingual journal dedicated to professional research and discussions about history and presence of critical social thought in Central and Eastern Europe was included in Scopus, the largest index database of reviewed literature. The Scopus brings a complex overview of world´s research outcomes in science, technology, medicine, social sciences and humanities.…
Continuous online reading from the works of John Amos Comenius called “Reading Comenius Universally”, which starts on Saturday night, is an original way of commemorating 350 years since this thinker’s death. Academics and enthusiasts promised to support this 24-hour initiative by their reading. Passages from Comenius’s philosophical and educational treatises but also personal correspondence will be read in 17 languages, thus accentuating this thinker’s world-wide renown.
A full-day marathon will launch on 14 November at midnight CET in Prague. Each fifteen minutes, the relay will be…
