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Workshop with Maya Hey on 29 February 2024

Dr. des. L. Sasha Gora, project director of the international research group “Off the Menu: Appetites, Culture, and Environment” is delighted to invite its first guest researcher to the University of Augsburg: Maya Hey. As part of her visit to Bavaria, Maya Hey will present a public lecture at the Rachel Carson Center in Munich on Wednesday 28 February 2024 (at 16:30), organized together with the RCC Fermentation Group, and a workshop at the WZU at the University of Augsburg on Thursday 29 February 2024 (from 10:00 to 17:30).

 

Maya Hey is an expert on human-microbe relations in food settings, with degrees in dietetics, food studies, and communications. She is currently a postdoctoral researcher with the Centre for the Social Study of Microbes at the University of Helsinki.

Prof. Dr. Simone Müller makes it to the final of the Fleck Prize 2025 with her book “The Toxic Ship: The Voyage of Khian Sea and the Global Waste Trade”.
The Fleck Prize, first awarded in 1992, recognizes an outstanding book in the area of Science and Technology Studies. For the 2025 prize, the Committee reviewed more than 45 books and evaluated nominated books on their contributions to the field of Science and Technology Studies, their novelty, and their overall scholarly quality.

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