Together with colleagues from Toyota Research Institute (USA), ESIC University (Spain), and the University of Groeningen (Netherlands), Dr. Lora Koycheva is co-convening a lab at the biennial European Association of Social Anthropologists (EASA) event in Poznań, Poland, at Adam Mickiewicz University.

Astrid Schwarz will deliver a keynote speech on the topic of "Sustainable Relationships" at the JTC-EU Networking Conference.

Astrid Schwarz is on stage as an AI-animated, speaking portrait in the performance of H.G. Wells’ *The Time Machine* (1895).

Together with a colleague from Aalborg University, Dr. Lora Koycheva is co-convening a panel at this year's DASTS conference in Aalborg University, Copenhagen, June 29-30, 2026. The panel is on the topic "The Interpretive Layer: Expertise as Infrastructure in Sociotechnical Systems"

The closed workshop, where Anca Claudia Prodan Ph.D., is participating, is organised by the Architecture-Theory-History Department at the RPTU University Kaiserslautern-Landau. The participants interrogate colonial power relations, hegemonic structures, and inequalities and exclusions in knowledge systems and educational practices and institutions.

Obituary

The IAS-STS in Graz, Austria, promotes the interdisciplinary investigation of the links and interactions between science, technology and society, as well as technology assessment and research into the development and implementation of socially and environmentally sound technologies.

With its early-career fellowship program, the Collegium Helveticum supports outstandingly promising academics and artists at a critical stage of their career. The program is designed to encourage work that cuts across and transgresses disciplinary boundaries in unconventional ways.