Location & approach

By Car

The campus of Dortmund University is located near the Dortmund West motorway junction, where the A45 Sauerland line crosses the B1/A40 Ruhr expressway. The Dortmund-Eichlinghofen exit on the A45 leads to the South Campus, the Dortmund-Dorstfeld exit on the A40 leads to the North Campus. The university is signposted at both exits.

By public transport

The "Dortmund Universität" S-Bahn station is located directly on the North Campus. From there, the S-Bahn line S1 runs every 15 or 30 minutes to Dortmund main station and in the opposite direction to Düsseldorf main station via Bochum, Essen and Duisburg. The university can also be reached by bus lines 445, 447 and 462. Timetable information can be found on the homepage of the Rhine-Ruhr Transport Association, and DSW21 also offer an interactive route network map.

By 'H-Bahn'

The H-Bahn, an elevated railway, is one of the landmarks of the TU Dortmund. Line 1 runs every 10 minutes between Dortmund Eichlinghofen and the Technology Centre via Campus South and Dortmund University S, while Line 2 commutes every 5 minutes between Campus North and Campus South. It covers this distance in two minutes.

By plane

From Dortmund Airport, it takes just over 20 minutes to get to Dortmund Central Station with the AirportExpress and from there to the university with the S-Bahn. Düsseldorf Airport, about 60 kilometres away, offers a wider range of international flight connections and can be reached directly by S-Bahn from the university station.

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Location & approach

By Car

The campus of Dortmund University is located near the Dortmund West motorway junction, where the A45 Sauerland line crosses the B1/A40 Ruhr expressway. The Dortmund-Eichlinghofen exit on the A45 leads to the South Campus, the Dortmund-Dorstfeld exit on the A40 leads to the North Campus. The university is signposted at both exits.

By public transport

The "Dortmund Universität" S-Bahn station is located directly on the North Campus. From there, the S-Bahn line S1 runs every 15 or 30 minutes to Dortmund main station and in the opposite direction to Düsseldorf main station via Bochum, Essen and Duisburg. The university can also be reached by bus lines 445, 447 and 462. Timetable information can be found on the homepage of the Rhine-Ruhr Transport Association, and DSW21 also offer an interactive route network map.

By 'H-Bahn'

The H-Bahn, an elevated railway, is one of the landmarks of the TU Dortmund. Line 1 runs every 10 minutes between Dortmund Eichlinghofen and the Technology Centre via Campus South and Dortmund University S, while Line 2 commutes every 5 minutes between Campus North and Campus South. It covers this distance in two minutes.

By plane

From Dortmund Airport, it takes just over 20 minutes to get to Dortmund Central Station with the AirportExpress and from there to the university with the S-Bahn. Düsseldorf Airport, about 60 kilometres away, offers a wider range of international flight connections and can be reached directly by S-Bahn from the university station.

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Presentations by the Dortmund School of the Sociology of Science and Technology at the 2026 DGS Conference

07/22/2026

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From September 28, 2026, through October 2, 2026, the DGS Congress “Futures of Society” will take place in Mainz. The Sociology of Science and Technology team will be represented with a variety of presentations at the 43rd Congress of the German Sociological Association.

Cornelius Schubert is organizing the panel in collaboration with Simon Egbert ( HSU Hamburg), Stefanie Raible (JKU Linz), and Julia Schubert (GU Frankfurt) “Knowledge of the Future” and Its Production in Science, Technology, and Society for the DGS Section on Science and Technology Studies. The focus is on the political and scientific implications of the production of “knowledge about the future” as well as the actors involved.

Ronja Trischler, together with Kevin Wiggert (TU Berlin), is organizing the Ad Hoc Group 77: Sociology of Repair. The ad hoc group brings together researchers to discuss the current sociological significance of repair as a theoretical concept and as a subject of empirical analysis.

Our department is particularly well-represented with two presentations on the panel Bodies (in) the Future organized by the DGS Section on Sociology of the Body and Sports: Ann Kristin Augst and Cornelius Schubert will present a joint talk titled “Popular Body Data: Apps and Devices as Embodiments of the Future in Healthcare,” Isabelle Bosbach will represent the department with her presentation “Cryopreserving the Reproductive Future—Multiple Bodies of Contemporary Futures.”

In addition, Cornelius Schubert was invited by the joint ethics committee of the DGS and BSiD to join five other sociologists in delivering a brief introductory presentation each, followed by a joint discussion on the topic of Research Ethics and AI in Sociology , each delivering a brief presentation followed by a joint discussion on current developments and research ethics challenges in dealing with generative artificial intelligence.