World of Robots: Child-Robot Interactions How do children interact with a robot? What features does a robot need to have to appeal to children? Will children help a robot complete a task? The project investigates child-root interactions- specifically how a robot's behavior will influence how a child responds. The designers which features should be included […]

"Eating and Resurrecting the Goats: Animal bodies, death, and Western cultural practices" According to Norse mythology, two male goats, Tanngrisnir and Tanngnjóstr, pull Thor's chariot. Once they have completed their labor, these animals can be eaten and resuscitated thereafter, in order to feed their god in an infinite loop of animal servitude. This myth epitomizes […]

Between Two Africas: "Nubia in the Ethnographic Imagination" This paper explores the region and anthropologized people, of Nubia, examining how they are produced as (inhabiting) a borderland between two Africas- North Africa and Africa "proper." By studying three museological movements in which the ethnographic appears and vanishes, together with two literary test animated by ethnographic […]

Ruth Mueller is a contract researcher at the Department of Social Studies of Science and a lecturer at the Faculty of Life Sciences and the Centre for Gender Studies at the University of Vienna. She will present: "Bound to Nothing but Science Itself?  Academic Life Science Careers and the Nomadic Disposable Research Scientist," at UCSC […]