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In Memory of Mario Biagioli (1956-2025)

30.05.2025
On May 22, 2025, Mario Biagioli passed away, a distinguished historian of science, one of the key figures in the international STS community, and one of the founders of the STS Center at EUSP. Mario was the author of classic works in the history of science, including his renowned book on Galileo. He taught at leading universities worldwide, including the European University at St. Petersburg, where his contribution cannot be overstated.
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Olga Bychkova: “I think that ethical discussions around the union of science and technology will never disappear”

19.09.2023
Olga Bychkova, Dean of the Faculty of Sociology, Director of the Center for Science and Technology Studies (STS Center) of the European University, told the RBC.Trends about the trends in the science of the future — the entry of digital technologies into science, interdisciplinarity, the gradual disappearance of fundamental research, etc.

"Migration Is not an Easy Thing…" — Why Scientists Can Be Migrants Too, or the Dark Side of Transnational Academic Mobility

10.01.2018
On January 15th, as part of the Regular seminar of the STS Center, Irina Antoschuk (STS Center, EUSP) will give a talk "'Migration Is not an Easy Thing…' — Why Scientists Can Be Migrants Too, or the Dark Side of Transnational Academic Mobility." The seminar will begin at 17:00 in room 210, 1 Shpalernaya St. 

Cultural history of electricity: the promotion and reception of technical innovations in the late nineteenth century

07.12.2017
On 14 December at 6.00 p.m. within the framework of the Regular seminar, STS Center hosts a presentation by Natalia Nikiforova (Polytechnic University of Peter the Great) "Cultural history of electricity: the promotion and reception of technical innovations in the late nineteenth century" (room 210, Shpalernaya street, 1).