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On October, 11 Konstantin Glazkov, a sociologist from the Higher School of Economics, gave a talk on issues of location-based games and player behavior in the public space ("What's wrong with location-based games, or as a radical art projects remained within the bounds of public decency?")

Registration is now open for a Strategic session of the STS Center at the European University in St. Petersburg in the framework of BarCamp ASI "national technological revolution 20.35".

30 October, 5.00 - 7.00 p.m. As part of the Regular seminar of the STS Center will be held the presentation by Alina Contareva: "How to analyze movement? Coding “glitches” in the game “Play the Knave”.

An article by Lilia Zemnukhova has been published at the first issue of "Urban studies and Practices" (Vol. 2 # 1, 2017)

16 - 18 October the scientific staff of the STS of Center Lilia zemnukhova and Nickolay Rudenko will take part in Moscow international forum for innovative development 2017 "Open innovations" in Technopark "SKOLKOVO".

25-27 October 2017, researchers of the Center STS Lilia Zemnukhova and Nickolay Rudenko will participate in the XVII annual international conference organized by the Aleksanteri Institute at the University of Helsinki.

Conference "the contours of the future". November, 2 STS Center present their research at the conference "the contours of the future: technology and innovation in cultural context", St.-Petersburg Polytechnic University.

Society for Social Studies of Science (4S) Call for Open Panels

The regular seminar of the STS Center: "Tinder: strategies of self-presentation and barriers to use." 23 October, 17.00-19.00 as part of the Regular seminar of the Center for STS will be Logunova Olga (sociologist, associate Professor, Department of sociology, HSE) "Tinder: strategies of self-presentation and barriers to use."

The regular seminar of the STS Center: "What's wrong with location-based games, or as a radical art projects remained within the bounds of public decency?" 11 Oct at 17:00 presentation by Konstantin Glazkov (Department of sociology, HSE, Moscow) with the theme: "What's wrong with location-based games, or as a radical art projects remained within the bounds of public decency?"

School rectors: Shared governance and Russian universities. September 28, SKOLKOVO, School Rectors - Head of the Center STS Olga Bychkova made a presentation on the topic of the management system of shared governance and the possibility of its use in Russian universities.

18 – Sep 22 Diana Kurkovski West took part in the summer school "The Importance of Interdisciplinary Collaboration to Tackle Societal Challenges" conducted by the International University of Venice (Venice International University PhD Academy).

Conference "Shared Governance or Mixed Government?," Mahindra Humanities Center, Harvard University, 8-9 September 2017

On June, 20 (17:00, Golden hall of EUSPb) within the workshop Data and society under socialism and beyond a lecture by Benjamin Peters (University of Tulsa) How Not to Network a Nation: The Uneasy History of the Soviet Internet

June, 21  - Thinking Algorithmically: From Cold War Computer Science to the Socialist Information Culture.  A lecture by Ksenia Tatarchenko (Geneva University, Global Studies Institute) within the Workshop Data and society under socialism and beyond 

We are undoubtedly living in a data society, but is it always global and is there a history to the kinds of data societies we imagine today? This workshop will address the topic of data and information from multiple vantage points, considering how the unique socialist and post-socialist experiences have formed specific discourses, practices, and imaginaries related to data and information.  Keynote speakers will include Ben Peters, the author of How Not to Network a Nation (MIT Press, 2016), Ksenia Tatarchenko (Geneva University, Global Studies Institute), Diana Kurkovsky West. The workshop will be multidisciplinary and we welcome submissions for 20 minute-long presentations from a number of perspectives.