Once we excavated the archives, we observed that STS formation in ITU (2000-2006) was influenced by multiple factors, some of which are listed below.
Integration of Turkey...Read more
1990s in the World and in Turkey
The following developments highlighted below shed light on the external conditions affecting the establishment of TEKPOL through the end of the 1990s:
Haldun Özaktaş is an academic in the field of electrical engineering who started to teach the course “Science, Technology, Society” at Bilkent University, in 1995. This course is the first introductory STS course given in a university in Turkey, and it is still on the engineering curricula as a...Read more
A note written by the sociologist Hasan Ünal Nalbantoğlu regarding why the center for science and technology policies needs to be established at the Middle East Technical University (27 October 1995) [text marked by Duygu Kaşdoğan].
This document is included in the analysis of the...Read more
This poster was created as part of An Archaeology of STS in Turkey, an STS Across Borders gallery collection at the 4S 2018 annual meeting in Sydney, Australia.
This poster helps to answer the shared ...Read more
This poster was created as part of An Archaeology of STS in Turkey, an STS Across Borders gallery collection at the 4S 2018 annual meeting in Sydney, Australia.
This poster helps to answer the shared ...Read more
I find this video clip particularly spoke to the value of channels of communication and debate for public (scientific) discussion and then the careful archiving (and "backing up") of those...Read more
This poster was created as part of An Archaeology of STS in Turkey, an STS Across Borders gallery collection at the 4S 2018 annual meeting in Sydney, Australia.
This poster helps to answer the shared ...Read more
This poster was created as part of An Archaeology of STS in Turkey, an STS Across Borders gallery collection at the 4S 2018 annual meeting in Sydney, Australia.
This poster helps to answer the shared ...Read more
An interview with Law and Society scholar Z. Umut Türem from Bogazici University, conducted by STS scholar Duygu Kaşdoğan on August 12, 2019. In this interview Türem reflects on his experiences in moderating a talk given by...Read more