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Prof. Dr. Christian Holtorf

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Teaching and research areas

  • History of knowledge
  • Cultural studies

Functions at the university

  • Member of the WiKu Council
  • Member of the Standing Selection Committee for Research Professorships
  • Member of the Committee for Research and Young Scientists

Courses

  • Cultural and social sciences
  • Philosophy and philosophy of science
  • cultural and political education

Short vita

  • 2023: University prize for excellent teaching
  • 2022: Management of the interdisciplinary theme year “Technology and Sport” of the TechnologieAllianz Oberfranken
  • 2020: Visiting researcher at the Institute for Human Geography, Goethe University Frankfurt a.M.
  • 2019: “Creapolis Award for outstanding transfer” for the educational project “Sounds of the future.
    Artificial intelligence between perfection and responsibility”.
    Film report from itv coburg
  • 2018: Main prize from the Coburg University of Applied Sciences Innovation Fund for the exhibition project “Models that mean the world. How knowledge is created”.
  • 2016 – 2020: Dean of Studies of the Science and Culture Center, Coburg University of Applied Sciences.
  • 2015/16:  Visiting researcher at the Gotha Research Center, University of Erfurt.
  • 2011 – 2014: Head of of the Science and Culture Center, Coburg University of Applied Sciences.
  • Since 2011: Professor of Science Research and Science Communication, Coburg University of Applied Sciences.
  • 2010: Fellow of the Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. (USA).
  • 2009: Doctorate at the Institute for Cultural Studies, Humboldt University of Berlin.
  • 2000 – 2010: initially Scientific Officer, then Head of the Science Department, Deutsches Hygiene-Museum Dresden.
  • 1994 – 1998: Research assistant in the parliamentary office of Dr. Antje Vollmer, German Bundestag Bonn.
  • 1989 – 1994: Master’s degree in history, philosophy and psychology, Philipps-Universität Marburg and Freie Universität Berlin.
  • 1987: Abitur, Uhland-Gymnasium Tübingen.

Memberships

  • Society for the History of Science, Medicine and Technology
  • Association for the History of Science
  • Society for Historical Anthropology
  • Member of the Advisory Board of the Coburg Historical Society
  • Erfurt SpaceTime Research” working group
  • History and Theory” working group