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Past Events

The ESDiT research consortium is regularly organizing events to discuss the ethics of disruptive technologies with other researchers and with stakeholders.

ESDiT Away Days 2025

Start date: June 19, 2025
End date: June 20, 2025
All-day event
Location: Hotel De Keizerskroon, Koningstraat 7, 7315 HR Apeldoorn
Academic event | ESDIT event by invitation only | Internal ESDIT event
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The ESDiT Away Days are only accessible for ESDiT fellows.

Socially Disruptive Technologies and the Buddha Dharma

Date: June 16, 2025
Time: 3:00 pm - 4:30 pm
Academic event | ESDIT event by invitation only | Intercultural Philosophy
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ESDiT intercultural philosophy track session from 15:00-16:30 CEST. Hybrid session (in-person TU/e campus Eindhoven, the Netherlands) 30 mins presentation, 60 mins discussion. Dr. Jason M. Wirth is professor of philosophy at Seattle University and works and teaches in the areas of Continental Philosophy, Buddhist Philosophy, Aesthetics, and Environmental Philosophy. His recent books include Nietzsche and […]

Synthesis Workshop: Transdisciplinarity

Date: May 7, 2025
Time: 10:00 am - 4:00 pm
Location: TU Eindhoven
Academic event | Art | ESDIT event by invitation only | STEM
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The ESDiT Synthesis Workshop Transdisciplinarity is only accessible for ESDiT Fellows.

ESDiT Research Day 2025

Date: March 27, 2025
Time: 9:30 am - 6:00 pm
Location: ECC Leiden, Haagse Schouwweg 10; 2332 KG Leiden
Academic event | ESDIT event by invitation only
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The ESDiT Research Day is only accessible for ESDiT fellows.

ISWV Course: De ethiek van technologie

Start date: February 17, 2025
End date: February 21, 2025
Time: 10:30 am - 12:30 pm
Location: Leusden
Relevant event by external organizer
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The ISVW – International School for Philosophy – will host a one-week course on the Ethics of Technology from 17 to 21 February 2025 in Leusden. The course aims for participants to gain knowledge about various urgent ethical issues within technology. The following themes will be discussed: technology and our daily lives, technology and relationships, […]

Workshop “Technologies of Prospection”

Date: November 6, 2024
Time: 9:00 am - 8:00 pm
Location: The Green House, Utrecht (3 min walk from Utrecht Centraal)
Academic event | All research lines | ESDIT event by invitation only
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This workshop is only accessible for ESDiT fellows.

ESDiT Art Exhibition at the University of Twente

Start date: October 2, 2024
End date: December 10, 2024
All-day event
Location: University of Twente
Academic event | Art | Public ESDIT event
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ESDiT Art Track’s Fellows are organizing the ESDiT exhibition, which will open during the ESDiT/4TUEthics “Rethinking Ethics—Reimagining Technology” conference on 2 October and close on 10 December. The exhibition, hosted by the University of Twente, approaches art as a form of philosophy of technology. Through the exhibition and related conference program, we’re investigating how art raises […]

ESDiT & 4TU Ethics Conference Rethinking Ethics – Reimagining Technology

Start date: October 2, 2024
End date: October 4, 2024
All-day event
Location: University of Twente
Academic event | All research lines | Public ESDIT event
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Join us at the Conference Rethinking Ethics – Reimagining Technology on 2-4 October 2024 at the University of Twente! Co-organized by ESDiT and 4TU Ethics (Centre for Ethics and Technology), the Conference aims to investigate what philosophy and ethics of technology mean today. It will gather scholars working on the philosophy and ethics of technology […]

AG-Eindhoven Summer Symposium: Technology with conscience?

Date: July 13, 2024
Time: 9:00 am - 4:30 pm
Relevant event by external organizer
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Artificial intelligence plays an increasingly important role in our society and this will only increase in the coming years. But where are the limits of ethical use of such a promising technology? Julia Hermann will give a talk on AI as a socially disruptive technology at the Zomersymposium organized by AG Eindhoven on 13 July […]

Workshop on Matt Congdon’s “Moral Articulation”

Date: June 26, 2024
Time: 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Location: TU Delft
Academic event | ESDIT event by invitation only | Internal ESDIT event
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Internal, invite-only Workshop

Our event calendar features:

  • Internal ESDIT events (just for ESDIT fellows)
  • ESDIT events that are by invitation only
  • Public ESDIT events aimed at various target groups
  • Selected events by external organizers

So please check the event info to see if an event is also meant for you!