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• St. Petersburg European University’s Nikolay Rudenko on Fixing the Divide Between Tech and Humanities

  ITMO University and the European University at St. Petersburg (EUSP) have launched an open lecture series as part of their new Master’s program Science and Technologies in Society. At these lectures, held throughout May and June of 2019 at the Soviet Arcade Machines Museum, scientists talk about various aspects of modern tech and science from high-tech entrepreneurship to online gaming and research, latest developments, and more. For the series’ first lecture, Nikolay Rudenko, a research fellow at EUSP’s Center for Science and Technology Studies, explained what makes humanities and hard sciences so different, what lies behind the terms techno-optimism and techno-pessimism, and how soft sciences can learn to embrace technological research.

  28.05.2019