SCS Conference 2025 and International Staff Training Week Programme
This schedule outlines the events for the 2nd International Conference on Social Contexts of Science and the International Staff Training Week (ISTW) 2025
Conference & Staff Week Programme (Days 1-2)
Monday, 12 May 2025: Confernece Day 1
Location Note: Building H-14 - All sessions, including coffee breaks and lunch will take place in this building.
09:00 - 10:00
Registration
10:00 – 10:30
Welcome and Inauguration
10:30 – 11:15
Keynote / ISTW intro-lecture
by Rainer Hegselmann
“Modelling public discourse: A computational approach to polarisation, radicalisation,and truth seeking under disinformation”
11:15 – 11:30
Coffee break
11:30 – 13:30
Conference/ISTW Scientific Session 1
13:30 - 14:30
Lunch
14:30 – 15:15
Keynote
by Serge Galam
“A Daring Strategy for Fake News: No Bans, No Fact-Checking, BUT Sequestration”
15:15 - 17:15
Conference/ISTW Scientific Session 2
17:15 – 19:00
Wrocław City Walking Tour (Starting Point TBA)
Tuesday, 13 May 2025: Conference Day 2
Location Note: Building H-14 - All sessions, including coffee breaks and lunch will take place in this building.
09:00 – 9:45
Keynote
by Armin Grunwald
“Technology assessment in and for the digital transformation”
9:45 – 11:15
Conference/ISTW Scientific Session 3
11:15 – 11:30
Coffee break
11:30 – 12:15
Keynote
by Joanna Różyńska
“The ethics of paying research participants: a moral obligation or a necessary evil?”
12:15 – 14:00
Conference/ISTW Scientific Session 4
14:00 - 14:45
Lunch
14:45 – 15:30
Keynote
by Bettina-Johanna Krings
“Becoming an Academic Discipline in Germany: TA from policy advice to problem-oriented research”
15:30 – 16:00
Panel discussion on Social Context of Science
Panel Members: TBA
Moderator: Yash Chawla
16:00 - 16:30
Closing
19:00 – 21:30
Gala dinner (Location TBA)
Staff Week Programme Continues (Days 3-5)
Wednesday, 14 May 2025: All day trip
Focus: ISTW Participants Only
08:00 - 19:00
All-day trip in Lower Silesia region
Location: Meeting point building H-14
Thursday, 15 May 2025: ISTW Workshop Day
Focus: ISTW Participants Only
8:45 – 10:00
ISTW workshop
(By Lisa Mittischek)
Title: TBA
Location: TBA
10:15 – 12:30
ISTW workshop II
(By Katarzyna Jach)
Title: TBA
Location: Tyflolaboratory Wrocław Tech
12:30 – 12:45
Coffee break
Location: TBA
12:45 – 14:15
ISTW workshop III
(By Lucyna Róg- Wolska and PhD eng. Maciej Mulak)
How to talk about science - tips & tricks
Location: TBA
14:15 – 15:00
Lunch
Location: TBA
15:00 – 16:15
Lab tour and Campus Visit for ISTW participants
Location: TBA
Friday, 16 May 2025: ISTW workshop and Individual Day
08:00 - 10:00
ISTW workshop
Location: TBA
10:00 – 11:00
Networking/Wrap-up session
Location: TBA
All Day
Individual meetings day for ISTW participants*
Location: N/A
* Additional, as per individual request