Press Release 034/2022

Colloquium Fundamentale: Politics in Science

This Summer’s Presentation Series at KIT Will Deal with the Purpose of Research in Modern Societies
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The societal benefit of research, political influence, and the freedom of science will be in the focus of this summer semester’s Colloquium Fundamentale. (Photo: Amadeus Bramsiepe, KIT)

Patron or steerer – which role does politics have towards science? This question will be in the center of the Colloquium Fundamentale “Politics in Science. On the Purpose of Research in Modern Societies.” The series of presentations of ZAK | Center for Cultural and General Studies of Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) will be opened by science historian Professor Michael Hagner on Thursday, April 28, 2022, 6.00 pm at the Redtenbacher-Hörsaal (Engelbert-Arnold-Str. 4, KIT Campus South, Building 10.91). Admission will be free.

For more information and dates (in German), click: https://www.zak.kit.edu/colloquium_fundamentale

Being “The Research University in the Helmholtz Association”, KIT creates and imparts knowledge for the society and the environment. It is the objective to make significant contributions to the global challenges in the fields of energy, mobility, and information. For this, about 10,000 employees cooperate in a broad range of disciplines in natural sciences, engineering sciences, economics, and the humanities and social sciences. KIT prepares its 22,800 students for responsible tasks in society, industry, and science by offering research-based study programs. Innovation efforts at KIT build a bridge between important scientific findings and their application for the benefit of society, economic prosperity, and the preservation of our natural basis of life. KIT is one of the German universities of excellence.

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