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On November 21st-22nd, 2014,  EUSP STS Center co-organizes a workshop titled Smart City Ground-Up, which aims to approach the issues of mobility and safety/security in a city from a multitude of viewpoints. The event will contain presentations of already realized projects, lectures by practicing architects and urban theorists, sociologists, anthropologists, as well as roundtables fostering conversations among the various practitioners and experts.

October 4-5, 2014, at KLUTCH space (2 Konyushennaya sq.) STS Center reserchers Alexandra Simonova and Lilia Zemnukhova will give talks at the International forum on collective actions in IT sphere, their types and challenges "Labourious actions"

On October 3, 2014, at 7 PM, in the EUSP Conference hall professor Mario Biagioli will give a talk Digital Pastures: Naturalizing and Reifying The Commons.

On June 18th and 19th, 2014, the EUSP’s Center for Science and Technology Studies hosted a conference titled “Explorers and Pirates: Digital Creators and the Creation of Value(s)”.

International conference "Garages, Kitchens, and Hackerspaces: Spaces and Narratives of the New Innovation" -- EUSP, September 26-27, 2014. Informal and often communal spaces of innovation like garages, kitchens and hackerspaces have recently eclipsed both the university and corporate laboratory in the eyes of a growing number of scholars and commentators, possibly pointing to important changes in the very notion of innovation and its practices.  They have also provided a corrective to a tendency to see innovation as migrating completely into cyberinfrastructure, leaving everything but keyboards behind. 

On June 18-19, STS Center is holding an international conference Explorers and Pirates: Digital Creators and the Creation of Value(s). The conference will take place at European University and Radisson Sonya Hotel. 

On May 28th, at 6pm in the Golden Hall Diana West (Princeton University) will give a talk Dreaming of "Big Data" in the Soviet Union: Territorial-Production Complexes and the Cybernetic Future of Planning.

On December 9 and 10, 2013, a panel of young Russian social scientists recently graduated from American and Russian institutions presented their research on the topic of computer science and innovation in the Russian context. In introduction and conclusion, Loren Graham and Lee Felsenstein presented their research findings on recent innovations trends.

On December 7-8, 2013, EUSP STS Center holds an international conference/workshop Crossbreeding STS and Innovation Studies. There are a number of centres, groups, departments that do STS as well as innovation studies. There are opportunities and challenges for such centres if they are to mean more than co-habitation under one roof. Exchanges between such centres, most often in the form of interactions of people, occur and could increase. We want to go a step further, and create an international network of Centres of STS and innovation studies. Building bridges between STS and innovation studies is important and timely, and making the linkages and overlaps institutionally visible will help us, as well as others, to work towards such a goal. Thus, our initiative has an intellectual as well as an institutional interest. The workshop "Crossbreeding STS and Innovation Studies" marks the start of the international network (IN) of Centres for STS and Innovation studies (IN).

On September 25, Mario Biagioli, a specialist of Galileo, early modern science, and the relationship between science, spectacle, and art, gave the lecture "Moving Images for Unstable Objects: Galileo's Pictorial Engagement with Change."

An international symposium at EUSP, September 18-19, 2013 -- In collaboration with the Center for Science and Innovation Studies, UC Davis. On September 18-19 the STS Center at EUSP held the first public event of "Russian Computer Scientists and their Diasporas" – a project sponsored by a Mega Grant from the Ministry of Education. In this first event we are presenting new research about the role of Internet entrepreneurs and activists in Russia, preliminary results of a comprehensive survey of publications by Russian computer scientists, and an analysis of business models of Internet firms operating in global markets.