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Fields of InterestPosthumanism |
Academic Education
09/2019 | Master of Arts Master Thesis: Roboter bauen. Die Arbeit an der Mensch-Maschine-Differenz. Engl.: Building robots. The work on the human-machine-differentiation. |
2017-2019 | Studies of Sociology (Master of Arts), Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz |
10/2016 | Bachelor of Arts Bachelor Thesis: Die Bedeutung sozialer Anerkennung in gesellschaftlichen Unterwerfungsprozessen. Engl.: The meaning of social recognition in in social processes of subjugation. |
2011-2016 | Studies of Sociology and Ethnologie (Bachelor of Arts), Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz |
Professional / Academic Positions
since 2022 | Member in the DFG Collaborative Research Center: Studies in Human Categorization. Project: Mechanical Human Differentiation. |
since 2019 | Research Assistant at the Institute of Sociology, Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz |
2017-2019 | Graduate Assistant at the Institute of Sociology, Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz |
Publications
Link, Hannah (2023): Robotermaterial und ‘Künstliche Intelligenz‘. Posthumanistische Potenziale der Robotik In: Richard Groß/ Rita Jordan (Hg.): KI-Realitäten. Modelle, Praktiken, Topologien maschinellen Lernens. Bielefeld: transcript. S. 143-167.
Link, Hannah/Kalthoff, Herbert (2023): Die Naturalisierung des Roboters. Zu einer Soziologie technischen Wissens [The Naturalization of the Robot. Towards a Sociology of Technical Knowledge]. In: Torsten Cress/Oliwia Murawska/Annika Schlitte (eds.): Jenseits des Menschen. Neue Perspektiven auf Natur/Kultur. [Beyond the Human. New Perspectives on Nature/Culture]. Paderborn: Fink/Brill (forthcoming in august).
Kalthoff, Herbert/Link, Hannah (2021): Zukunftslaboratorien. Technisches Wissen und die Maschinenwesen der Robotik [Laboratories of the Future. Technical Knowledge and Machine Beings of Robotics]. In: Dilek Dizdar/Stefan Hirschauer/Johannes Paulmann/Gabriele Schabacher (eds.): Humandifferenzierung. Disziplinäre Perspektiven und empirische Sondierungen [Human Differentiation. Perspectives and Empirical Exploration]. Weilerwist: Velbrück, p. 314-341.
Invited Lectures and Conference Papers
Upcoming (28.06.-30.06.2023): Matter of Intelligence. The Technoscientific Production of Posthuman Sociality, University of Bologna and Italian Society of Science and Technology Studies, Bologna (with Herbert Kalthoff).
Testing as Relating. Getting a Sense of a Humanoid Robot, STS-Hub.de 2023 “Circulations”, Human Technology Center, Aachen, March 17, 2023 (with Herbert Kalthoff).
Verschaltungsintensität. Von der Autarkie zur Relationalität von Intelligenz im Feld der Robotik. [Interconnection Intensity. From Autarky to Relationality of Intelligence in the Field of Robotics.] Interdisciplinary Conference of the Schaufler Kolleg Dresden: Artificial Intelligence as a Humanities & Social Science Concept, TU Dresden, December 1, 2021.
Die Maschinenwesen der Robotik. [The Machine Beings of Robotics.] Conference of the Forum Human Differentiation: Human Differentiation. Disciplinary Perspectives and Empirical Exploration, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, June 26. 2020 (with Herbert Kalthoff).
Humanoide Roboter. Zur Ambiguität von Maschinenwesen. [Humanoid Robots. On the Ambiguity of Machine Beings.] 4th Mainz Symposium of Social and Cultural Sciences at the Research Center SoCum: Beyond the Human. Posthuman Perspectives on Nature/Culture, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz; September 20, 2019 (with Herbert Kalthoff).
Teaching Experience
Sociology of Knowledge
Seminar | Sociology of Sociomateriality and Cybernetics (summer term 2023) |
Seminar | Sociomateriality (summer term 2022) |
Qualitative Methods
Seminar | Qualitative Methods (winter term 2022/23) |
Seminar | Research Workshop II (Ethnography) (winter term 2021/2022) |
Seminar | Research Workshop I (Ethnography) (summer term 2021) |
Sociology of Education
Seminar | Equality and Difference (SoSe 2020, WiSe 2020/21) |
Seminar | Communication and Interaktion (regularly since WiSe 2019/20) |
Memberships
German Sociological Association (Section Wissenssoziologie)
Gutenberg Graduate School of the Humanities and Social Sciences (GSHS)