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RUSTlab Bochum
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The RUSTlab is a collective of academics from the Ruhr University doing Science and Technology Studies. Ruhr-Valley driven. We organise hybrid talks, publish comments, and rethink academia through lab coding. https://rustlab.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/
Join us on Wednesday, Nov 19th, from 14-16 hrs (German time) for the second RUSTLab lecture of this winter term. Goda Klumbytė will present her work on “Matters of Explanation: Feminist and New Materialist Reorientations of Explainability in... https://rustlab.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/?p=3031
November 11, 2025 at 10:20 AM
In Cooperation with the Platform for Experimental Collaborative Ethnography (PECE), Dr. Tim Schütz (University of California, Irvine) will be our first RUSTlab Speaker this winter term. PECE has been a digital research infrastructure developed by... https://rustlab.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/?p=3021
November 4, 2025 at 11:06 AM
Come and join us for the RUSTlab Lectures this winter term. With four fantastic guests, we'll hear about new materialist perspectives on AI, digital platforms for collaborative ethnography, game-making for a world we can live in, and the energy future... https://rustlab.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/?p=3008
November 4, 2025 at 8:53 AM
The event is designed to locate STS research explicitly within practical contexts, enabling participants to contribute and develop their research in relation to current issues in the Ruhr area. We will put a focus on engaging with concrete, situated... https://rustlab.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/?p=2993
October 8, 2025 at 3:50 PM
The event is designed to locate STS research explicitly within practical contexts, enabling participants to contribute and develop their research in relation to current issues in the Ruhr area. We will put a focus on engaging with concrete, situated... https://rustlab.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/?p=2993
October 8, 2025 at 3:38 PM
Join us on Thursday, Jul 24th, from 14-16 hrs (German time) for the last RUSTLab lecture of this summer term. Mace Ojala will present his work on “Wow, PDF is such an assemblage: Let’s talk about network like, rhizomatic and unstable aspects... https://rustlab.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/?p=2986
July 24, 2025 at 8:04 AM
Unfortunately, Jeanette Pols's talk on Thursday, July 17th, has to be postponed. We hope to find an alternative date during the winter term. You will find additional resources and information on this term’s guiding theme Drawing Together here on... https://rustlab.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/?p=2980
July 8, 2025 at 12:49 PM
Join us on Thursday, Jun 26th, from 14-16 hrs (German time) for the second RUSTLab lecture of this summer term. Maxime Le Calvé will present his work on “An Anthropology of/with Virtual Reality. Digital Ethnographic Experiments with Active... https://rustlab.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/?p=2973
June 23, 2025 at 11:57 AM
Join us on Thursday, May 22nd, from 14-16 hrs (German time) for the first RUSTLab lecture of this summer term. Anna Gonzalez Suero will present her work on “From Drawing to Storying: A Feminist Authoethnograhy of Artistic Identity”. This... https://rustlab.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/?p=2953
May 20, 2025 at 7:50 AM
This summer term 2025 we present to you our 13th round of RUSTlab Lectures. Come and join us for these exciting talks and discussions around this term’s guiding theme Drawing Together on four dates in the summerterm – online and on site. The... https://rustlab.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/?p=2940
October 28, 2025 at 8:54 AM
Join us on Thursday, January 30th, from 14-16 hrs (German time) for the last RUSTLab lecture of this winter term. Paula Bialski will present her work on “Good Enoughing at Middle Tech: An Ethnography of Corporate Software Culture”. In this... https://rustlab.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/?p=2922
January 26, 2025 at 8:07 PM
Join us on Thursday, January 23th, from 14-16 hrs (German time) for the third RUSTLab lecture of this winter term. Stefanie Büchner will present her work on “Who cares about data? Data Care Arrangements as Accomplishments in Everyday... https://rustlab.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/?p=2920
January 19, 2025 at 7:01 PM
Join us on Wednesday, December 11th, from 14-16 hrs (German time) for the second RUSTLab lecture of this winter term. Hannah Schmedes will present her work on “Reweaving Knowledge. Feminist Interventions and Infrastructural Biases in... https://rustlab.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/?p=2898
December 4, 2024 at 10:34 AM
Comment by Mace Ojala Fabian Pittroff, a fellow RUSTlab member, presented insights from his ongoing work as an “infrastructure-ethnographer-insider” (my term) at a large conglomerate of humanities researchers. The core premise is that Humanities,... https://rustlab.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/?p=2889
December 3, 2024 at 8:28 AM
Join us this Thursday, November 14th, from 14-16 hrs (German time) for the second RUSTLab lecture of this winter term. Fabian Pittroff will present his work on “Data Spirits: On the Fabrication of Geist in the Humanities”. Even within the... https://rustlab.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/?p=2882
November 11, 2024 at 10:13 AM
+++NEW DATE: Hannah Schmedes's Lecture had to be cancelled in October due to illness. We're looking forward to her new lecture date in December.+++ Join us on Wednesday, December 11th, from 14-16 hrs (German time) for the second RUSTLab lecture of... https://rustlab.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/?p=2831
December 3, 2024 at 8:40 AM
Join us on Thursday for the third RUSTLab lecture of this summer term. Robert Queckenberg will present his work on "Replacing Theories? Scraping Theoretical Debates in the Digital Humanities." #sts

The lecture will be followed by the RUSTlab's opening celebration!
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June 12, 2024 at 8:54 AM
Reposted by RUSTlab Bochum
What type of reader are you? We read everyday, but the literature hardly engages with the practice of reading. The @rustlab.bsky.social identifies three modes of reading: about, around and about. Read the new paper here: www.on-culture.org/journal/pers...
Please Go Away… We’re Reading
1_Introduction The Danish verb for reading, læse, also means studying: I study anthropology = jeg læser antropologi. Similar is the Finnish “luen,” as in luen antropologiaa. On the other hand, the Fin...
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June 10, 2024 at 7:45 AM
Lecture by Femke Snelting on “Counter Cloud Imaginaries”.

Join us this Thursday, February 1st, from 14-16 hrs (German time) for the last RUSTLab lecture on “Counter Cloud Imaginaries”.

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Lecture by Femke Snelting on “Counter Cloud Imaginaries”
Join us this  Thursday, February 1st , from  14-16 hrs  (German time) for the last RUSTLab lecture of this winter term.  Femke Snelting &nbs
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January 31, 2024 at 8:35 AM
Our #sts lab in Bochum is soon moving on campus.

More to follow. A lovely new home for our lab. An event. And independent, open, POSSE-style blogging on top.

Here's a snapshot from a recent underground trip we did. This is very close to our new home. As seen from below.
January 12, 2024 at 7:15 AM