The way the authors struggle with shifting the seemingly straightforward concepts of space and place from national registers of STS to..., well, something else, was very familiar, although the...Read more
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
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
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
The topic of the Second Semester Specialisation Program was “Building and Maintaining Life in Development Process” and the program offered the following courses in modules:
1. Module: Non -Western Modernities
(...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
In 2016, the Master’s Degree program in “Science, Technology, and Society” was launched under the Institute of Social Sciences at Istanbul Technical University (ITU) with the initiative of Prof. Dr. Mehmet Karaca (president of the university) and Prof. Dr....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 report was prepared by Ergun Turkcan during the establishment of TEKPOL at METU, and discusses the possibilities for collaboration with Science Policy Research Unit (SPRU) at Sussex University. It includes detailed notes of visit to the SPRU (28 September 1995). [text marked by Duygu...Read more
A document that notes "the condition" in the world and in Turkey as a rationale behind the establishment of a research center for science and technology policies at Middle East Technical University in Turkey.
This document is included in the analysis of the establishment of...Read more