STS Türkiye 2025 Winter School Program

It has been an honor to be part of STS Türkiye for more than four years. We could not get funding on time, so lecturers paid their own tickets to come and lecture in Ankara. Thanks to the Ministry of Youth, students could stay in a beautiful guest house!

Monday, February 3, 2025

12:00Arrival

13.00-14.00Lunch

14.00-14.45 Introduction

15.00-16.30 Anthropology of Artificial Intelligence

Prof. Dr. Erkan Saka, Istanbul Bilgi University, Department of Media

16:30 – 16:45Tea and coffee break

16.45-18:15 Artificial Intelligence and Medicine: Transformations at the Intersection of Technology and Society

Dr. Melike Şahinol – Orient Institute-Istanbul

18:30 Dinner

Tuesday, February 4, 2025

09.00-10.45 Art and Artificial Intelligence from the Perspective of Science and Technology Studies

Prof. Dr. Lecturer. Prof. Emre Sünter – Kadir Has University

10.45-11.00Tea and coffee break

11.00-12.45 Artificial Intelligence: Questioning New Ways of Understanding Humans and Their Relationships

Assoc. Prof. Dr. Çağatay Topal – Middle East Technical University

13.00-14.00Lunch

14.00-15.45 Artificial Intelligence, Robotics, Law

Prof. Dr. Lecturer. Prof. Volkan Mengi, Mimar Sinan University

15.45-16.15Tea-coffee break

16.15-17.45 Artificial Intelligence, Robots and the Future of Work

Prof. Dr. Lecturer. Prof. Gülşah Başkavak – Acıbadem University

18:15 Dinner

19:30 Creative Drama

Wednesday, February 5, 2025

09.00-10.45 Technology Assessment and Artificial Intelligence

Prof. Dr. Lecturer. Prof. Arsev Umur Aydınoğlu, Middle East Technical University

10:45-11.00 Tea and coffee break

11.00-12.45 Artificial Intelligence, Gender and Intersectionality with Ethnographic Method

Questioning

Prof. Dr. Lecturer. Prof. Dr. Şafak Kılıçtepe – Kırşehir Ahi Evran University

Prof. Dr. Lecturer. Gör. Emine Öncüler Yayalar – Bilkent University

13.00-14.00Lunch

14.00-15.45 Climate Change, Ecological Sustainability and Artificial Intelligence

Dr. Pınar Demircan – Independent Researcher

15.45-16.15Tea-coffee break

16.15-17.45 Transitions: Characterization and Modeling

Prof. Dr. İskender Gökalp, TÜBİTAK Marmara Research Center Gebze

18:15 Dinner

20.00 Movie screening

Thursday, February 6, 2025

09.00-10.45 Artificial Intelligence and Ethics

Prof. Dr. Gülizar Karahan Balya, Middle East Technical University

10.45:11.00Tea and coffee break

11.00-12.45 Student Research Presentations and Feedback – Session I

Facilitator Dr. Melike Sahinol

13.00-14.00Lunch

14.00-14.45 Feedback on Students’ Research Presentations – Session II

Facilitator Dr. Emine Öncüler Yayalar

15.00-15.45 STS and Artificial Intelligence Application Seminar I

Executive Prof. Dr. Şafak Kılıçtepe

15.45-16.15Tea-coffee break

16.15-17.45 STS and Artificial Intelligence Application Seminar II:

Artificial Intelligence without the Internet: Exploring Invisible Infrastructures (An Infrastructure Walk)

Executive Dr. Melike Sahinol

18:15 Dinner

20:00 Movie screening

Friday, February 7, 2025

09.00-10:45 Students’ Research Presentations and Feedback – Session III

Facilitator Dr. Gülizar Karahan Balya

10.45-11.00Tea and coffee break

11.00-12.45 Feedback on Students’ Research Presentations – Session IV

Facilitator Prof. Dr. Lecturer Member Arsev Umur Aydınoğlu

13.00-14.00Lunch

14.00-15.45 STS and Artificial Intelligence Application Seminar IV

Executive Director Prof. Dr. Lecturer Prof. Dr. Arsev Umur Aydınoğlu


Discover more from Erkan's Field Diary

Subscribe to get the latest posts sent to your email.

Leave a Reply

This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Learn how your comment data is processed.