XXXIX Session of the S.A. Kugel International School of Sociology of Science and Technology "The Humanistic Potential of Scientific Knowledge (Commemorating the 150th Anniversary of Albert Schweitzer's Birth)"

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                                               May 22-23, 2025

 XXXIX Session of the S.A. Kugel International School of Sociology of Science and Technology "The Humanistic Potential of Scientific Knowledge (Commemorating the 150th Anniversary of Albert Schweitzer's Birth)"

Organized by:

• St. Petersburg Branch of S.I. Vavilov Institute for the History of Science and

Technology, Russian Academy of Sciences

• St. Petersburg Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences

• Sociological Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences – Branch of the Federal

Center of Theoretical and Applied Sociology

• Faculty of Sociology, St. Petersburg State University

• RC23 Sociology of Science and Technology of the International Sociological Association

• Research Committee on Sociology of Science and Technology of the Russian Society of

Sociologists

• St. Petersburg Association of Sociologists

Conference Sections:

• Ethical Dimensions of Scientific Progress

• Science and Scientific Knowledge as Cultural Phenomena

• Social History of Science and Medicine

• Humanistic Foundations of University Education and Science

• Scientific Potential of BRICS Countries

• Artificial Intelligence: An Interdisciplinary Analysis

Working Languages: Russian and English

Format: Hybrid (in-person and online)

Venue: St. Petersburg Branch of S.I. Vavilov Institute for the History of Science and

Technology, Russian Academy of Sciences (SPbF IIET RAN) Address: 5B Universitetskaya

Embankment, St. Petersburg, Russia

Applications should be submitted by email only: [email protected]

Applications must be submitted by March 15, 2025.

Contact Information:

Email: [email protected]

Website: http://ihst.nw.ru/

Contact Persons:

Viktor A. Kupriyanov

Anna A. Fedorova