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TUESDAY, AUGUST, 18 001. Science and Technology Studies on Traditional,
Complementary and Alternative Medicine (TCAM). Session one, focus on TCM 10:00 to 11:40 am virPrague: VR 01 Participants:
Chinese Medicine as Boundary Object(s): Explaining TCM’s Integration into International Science Caragh Brosnan, University of Newcastle, Australia; Fran Collyer, University of Sydney; Karen Willis, La Trobe University; Tony Zhang, RMIT University
East Asian Experiences in the Modernization of Traditional Medicine on Western Medical Terms Hon-Ngen Kenneth Fung, UOW Malaysia KDU
Worlding Traditional Medicine – A Case from Thailand Iris Dzudzek, University Münster
Session Organizer: Jenny-Ann Brodin Danell, Umeå university, Department of Sociology
Chair: Jenny-Ann Brodin Danell, Umeå university, Department of Sociology
002. Choreographies: Rhythms and Movements in Research, part 1 10:00 to 11:40 am virPrague: VR 02 Participants:
Choreography of chronicity: assembling different rhythms of regional elderly care Nienke van Pijkeren, Erasmus University (Institute of Health Policy & Management); Iris Wallenburg, institute for Health Policy and Management; Roland Bal, Erasmus University Rotterdam
Exploring choreographies of responsibilities: Biotechnology research, farmed salmon, and public issues Heidrun Åm, Norwegian University of Science & Technology (NTNU)
Let’s dance. Choreographing research integrity in interdisciplinary research collaborations. Bart Penders, Maastricht University
Urban Living Labs as ‘jack of all trades devices’ - Choreographies of innovation, participation and transition Kevin Weller, MCTS Technical University Munich; Andrea Schikowitz, TUM
Choreographies of collaboration in the Francis Crick Institute Niki Vermeulen, University of Edinburgh
Session Organizers: Filip Vostal, Institute of Philosophy of the Czech Academy of Sciences Niki Vermeulen, University of Edinburgh Andrea Schikowitz, TUM
Chair: Filip Vostal, Institute of Philosophy of the Czech Academy of Sciences
003. Food, Biotechnology & New Meats 10:00 to 11:40 am virPrague: VR 03 Participants:
Genes, Food and Metabolic Health: Configuring Environment and Food in a Biotech Lab Stathis Arapostathis, National
and Kapodistrian University of Athens Replacing Unsustainable Food Cultures? How Meat
Alternatives Defend 'Good' (i.e. Meat-based) Food Malte B Rödl, The University of Manchester
We Are Eating Our Own Genius! Looking At »Clean Meat« Through Symbolical-Relational Lenses. Sandra Matthaeus, Chemnitz University of Technology
Session Organizer: Marketa Dolejsova, Aalto University
Chair: Danielle Wilde, University of Southern Denmark
004. Techniques of Resilience. Coping with the Vulnerabilities of Hybrid Bodies-1 10:00 to 11:40 am virPrague: VR 04 Participants:
Altered narratives, vulnerable testimonies: How does indeterminacy speak in the context of neurotechnological modulations? Marc Strotmann, MCTS TU München
Anxious Beauty : Plastic Surgery, Everyday Cyborg, and Feminist STS in South Korea So Yeon Leem, Sookmyung Women's University
Becoming Seen: Creating New Vulnerabilities and Resilience through Type 1-Diabetes Wearables Magdalena Eitenberger, University of Vienna, Department of Political Science
Everyday Cyborgs: Men with implanted/transplanted hair (and its Eigensinn) Melike Sahinol, Orient-Institut Istanbul; Burak Taşdizen, Orient-Institut Istanbul
BCI, BTBT, and Future TechnoBrainBodies: from a Posthumanist to a Posthumanities Perspective Sigrid Schmitz, HU Berlin
Session Organizer: Nelly Oudshoorn, University of Twente
Chair: Nelly Oudshoorn, University of Twente
005. New Multiples in STI policy? Understanding the entanglement of concepts, practices and identities 10:00 to 11:40 am virPrague: VR 05 Participants:
Interdisciplinary Research and Problem Solving: Analysing European Policy Discourses Isabel Fletcher, Science, Technology and Innovation Studies, The University of Edinburgh; Bianca Vienni Baptista, ETH Zürich
On the Origins of Research Funding Instruments: the Institutional Emergence of Strategic Research Susanna Vase, University of Helsinki
Public Engagement In STI Co-operation: Discussions On Potential Implementations In Turkey yagmur yildiz, Middle East Technical University Science and Technology Policy Studies
Research for Development - A concept and border issue between science and development politics Stefan Skupien, WZB Berlin Social Science Center
Session Organizer: Barbara Hendriks, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin and German Centre for Higher Education Research and Science Studies
Chairs:
Cornelia Schendzielorz, Deutsches Insitut für Wissenschafts und Hochschulforschung/Humboldt Universität zu Berlin Martin Reinhart, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Discussant: Tim Flink, Humboldt-Universitat zu Berlin
006. Making, Having, Thinking: Sex, Technology and Science (1) 10:00 to 11:40 am virPrague: VR 06 Participants:
Conflating Sex Practices and Sex Characteristics. Or, Do You Have to Have Sex to Have Sex? David Andrew Griffiths, University of Surrey
Coproduction, Multiplied: The Case of Sex as a Biological Variable Madeleine Pape, Northwestern University
"The Right to Identity": enacting sex as a matter of the State in Brazilian judicial cases Lucas Riboli Besen, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS/Brasil)
Session Organizer: David Andrew Griffiths, University of Surrey
Chair: David Andrew Griffiths, University of Surrey
007. Making Global Knowledge 10:00 to 11:40 am virPrague: VR 07 Participants:
How Randomized Controlled Trials construct Global Poverty Nassima Abdelghafour, Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Mines de Paris
International Energy Cooperation Through The APEC Platform: An Empirical Analysis Wan-Ching WANG, National Taiwan University; Yen-Chang WANG, Taiwan Economic Research Institute
The Epistemic Infrastructure of Global Aid: Working Through the Otherness of the Humanitarian Field Evan Fisher, CSI, Mines-ParisTech
Global Evidence and Local Invisibility Carolina Rau Steuernagel
Session Organizer: Nassima Abdelghafour, Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Mines de Paris
Chair: Felix BOILEVE, CSI MinesParisTech
Discussant: Andrew Barry, Department of Geography University College London
008. Reproduction in the Post-genomic Age 10:00 to 11:40 am virPrague: VR 08 Participants:
Maternal-foetal microchimerism and surrogacy: some ethico-legal implications Margrit Shildrick, Stockholm University
Microscopes and ‘scoping’: potentiality, IVF, and reproduction in the postgenomic age Tessa Moll, Deakin University
Revisiting Parenthood: Local Biology, Global Reproduction, and the Problem of Law Sonja Van Wichelen, University of Sydney
The racialising womb: refiguring surrogacy through epigenetics Jaya Keaney, Deakin University
Session Organizers: Jaya Keaney, Deakin University Sonja Van Wichelen, University of Sydney
Chair: Jaya Keaney, Deakin University
009. Collaborative and conflicting human-microbial cultural practices 10:00 to 11:40 am virPrague: VR 09 Participants:
From Deer Meat to Jibie: Industrialization of Hunting and Microbiopolitics in Southern Kyushu, Japan Shiaki Kondo
Technicalities of Boundary-Making: Entanglements of Microbial Communities and Dairy Technosciences in Northeastern Turkey Mehmet Fatih Tatari, University of California, Davis (UCD)
The paradox of food safety standards: exclusion from compliance. Cases from small-scale dairy producers in Brazil and Bolivia Georgina Catacora-Vargas, University of Bern / Centre for Development and Environment; Andréia Tecchio, Federal Univesity of Santa Catarina; Aymara Llanque, University of Bern / Centre for Development and Environment; Johanna Jacobi, University of Bern / Centre for Development and Environment
Global Pathogens, Local Pathologies: Social Movements and Scientific Knowledge in the Case of Xylella fastidiosa in Italy Christian Colella
Laboratory practices of vaccine development: the ethics of more-than-human enmeshments Roberta Pala, University of New South Wales, Sydney
Session Organizer: Mariko Yoshida, The Australian National University
Chair: Mariko Yoshida, The Australian National University
010. Who are the Publics of Outer Space? Imagining and Framing Publics 10:00 to 11:40 am virPrague: VR 10 Participants:
Grounding Space Science and Engaging Cosmic Fantasies: Public Outreach in Thailand Lauren Reid, Freie Universität
The Pyrotechnics of Promise: The Justification of the International Space Station as a Laboratory Paola A Castano
"There's a Starman Waiting in the Sky": Investigating SpaceX and its Social Media Publics Richard Tutton, University of York
Session Organizers: Richard Tutton, University of York Lauren Reid, Freie Universität
Chair: Lauren Reid, Freie Universität
011. The In/Visibility of Value and Relevance in the Evaluation Society 1 10:00 to 11:40 am virPrague: VR 11 Participants:
Between Collective Needs and Individual Qualifications: Valorising Doctoral Students’ Work in Large Research Collaborations Helene Sorgner, Alpen-Adria-Universität
Klagenfurt | Wien | Graz Visibility On Social Media To Create An Economy At Home:
Lacework Makers’ Instagram Accounts Nihan Bulsun Optics of Evaluation: Conceptualizing the Tools, Methods,
Practices, and Infrastructures of Visibility Hilde Reinertsen, The TIK-centre, University of Oslo
Session Organizers: Jochem Zuijderwijk, Center for Science and Technology Studies, Leiden University, the Netherlands Tjitske Holtrop, Center for Science and Technology Studies, Leiden University, the Netherlands
Chair: Jochem Zuijderwijk, Center for Science and Technology Studies, Leiden University, the Netherlands
012. Socialising the automation of flexible residential energy use 10:00 to 11:40 am virPrague: VR 12 Participants:
Out of Sync: Visons of flexibility capital among experts and householders Ingvild Firman Fjellså, NTNU, Dept. Of Interdisciplinary Studies Of Culture
Smart charging infrastructures and the socialization of flexible energy use Ida Marie Henriksen, Norwegian U. Of Science And Technology (NTNU); Marianne Ryghaug, Norwegian University of Science & Technology (NTNU); Tomas Moe Skjølsvold
Smart home technology and automated agency in changing everyday practices Line Kryger Aagaard, Aalborg University Copenhagen; Kirsten Gram-Hanssen, Aalborg University Copenhagen
A Social License to Automate Electricity Loads? Declan Liam Kuch, Institute for Culture & Society, Western Sydney University; Sophie Adams, University of New South Wales
Session Organizer: Sophie Adams, University of New South Wales
Chair: Sophie Adams, University of New South Wales
Discussant: Sophie Nyborg, Technical University of Denmark - DTU
013. Digitalizing Cities and Infrastructure Resilience 10:00 to 11:40 am virPrague: VR 14 Participants:
72 Hours Offline: Reliance of Real-time Information Access as Vulnerability in a Crisis Situation Magnus Eriksson, Lund University; Elisabet M. Nilsson, Malmö University
Am I smart enough to live in a smart city? Eunjeong Ma, Pohang University of Science and Technology
The banal dimensions of surveillance: A case study on the implementation of Automated License Plate Recognition (ALPR) systems in Northern Europe Gabriel Pereira, Aarhus University; Christoph Raetzsch, Aarhus University
When Data is Infrastructure: Future of Public Services in Smart London Gunes Tavmen, King's College London
Session Organizer: Sulfikar Amir, Nanyang Technological University
Chair: Magnus Eriksson, Lund University
014. Making science in public: 2 10:00 to 11:40 am virPrague: VR 15 Participants:
How Did Expertise Shape Citizen's Imagination Of Science During The Outbreak Of COVID-19 In China? Yiwei Pan, School of Health Humanities, Peking University
Popular Science Magazines as Hybrid Spaces of Science Communication Dorothea Born, University of Vienna
Mapping Capacity for Public Engagement in Anti-Pipeline Coalition Networks Kirk Jalbert, Arizona State University
What Does The Public Expect From Science Communication? Explorations Based On A Participatory Methodology Ana Delicado, Instituto de Ciencias Sociais, ULisboa; Jussara Rowland, ICS Ulisboa; João Estevens, ICS Ulisboa; Giuseppe Pellegrini; Andrea Rubin, Observa; Lubomir Sottnik, University of Travna; Dzhaner Ahmed, FyG Consultores
Session Organizers: Sarah Davies, University of Vienna Noriko Hara, Indiana University
Chair: Maja Horst, Technical University of Denmark - DTU
015. Veterinary anthropology - session 1 10:00 to 11:40 am virPrague: VR 16 Participants:
Introduction: Towards Veterinary Anthropology Ludek Broz, Institue of Ethnology of the Czech Academy of Sciences; Frédéric Keck, Laboratoire d’anthropologie socialem - CNRS
Biosecurity Undone: One Health from the Margins in India Laura Cecilia Murray
Research subject or companion? Ethics and euthanasia in rehoming and veterinary clinical trials Tess Skidmore, Geography and Environment, University of Southampton; Alexandra Palmer, University of Oxford
Veterinary Values: The More-than-human Biopolitics of Long Distance Cattle Transport Regulation Else Vogel, Department of Thematic Studies - Technology and Social Change, Linköping University
Virulent Animals Between Labs and Markets: Scapegoats for the Covid-19 Coronavirus in Wuhan, China Lyle Fearnley, Singapore University of Technology and Design
Session Organizer: Ludek Broz, Institue of Ethnology of the Czech Academy of Sciences
Chair: Frédéric Keck, Laboratoire d’anthropologie socialem - CNRS
016. Digital technologies shaping the politics of science and the science of politics 10:00 to 11:40 am virPrague: VR 17 Participants:
Enacting a non-positivist credibility in big ecology Selen Eren, University of Groningen
Contextualizing Ontology: Understanding Big Data in Context Onurhan Ak, Queen's University, Department of Sociology
Demanding the Impact of Science? Referring to Science in
Climate Activism Online Frauke Rohden, University of Oslo Session Organizers:
Florian Eyert, Weizenbaum Institute for the Networked Society Hannes Wuensche, Fraunhofer FOKUS
Chair: Florian Eyert, Weizenbaum Institute for the Networked Society
017. Economics/Economy, Governance and STS IV 10:00 to 11:40 am virPrague: VR 18 Participants:
Development of energy citizenship through proximate praxis: The case of OLNPP, Seoul Korea Sun-Jin Yun, Seoul National University
Where do land markets come from? Alexander Dobeson, Uppsala University
Revolving Door: Pure Science or Biomedical Rentiership Ayesha Umar, York University
Cripping Welfare Maintenance Regimes in New Deal America Leah Samples, University of Pennsylvania
Session Organizer: Alexander Dobeson, Uppsala University
Chair: Alexander Dobeson, Uppsala University
018. What science, technology and innovation, for which transformations? 10:00 to 11:40 am virPrague: VR 19 Participants:
Governing technology innovation processes for ethically “desirable” societal transformation Alexander Orlowski, International centre for ethics in the sciences; Cora Biess, International centre for ethics in the sciences; Maria Pawelec, Universität Tübingen
Benchmarking for Money: How German Municipalities Discovered Rankings to Press for Federal Funds Alina Marktanner
Where the Wind Blows - Tracing Global Environmental Governance in the Rise of Modern Wind Energy Thomas Harboell Schroeder, Division of History of Science, Technology and Environment, KTH Royal Institute of Technology
Session Organizers: Carla Alvial Palavicino Juan Felipe Espinosa, Universidad Nacional Andrés Bello Arne Maibaum, TU Berlin Zoe Robaey, WUR
Chair: Arne Maibaum, TU Berlin
019. Experimental Practices and Practical Experiments in an Uncertain World I 10:00 to 11:40 am virPrague: VR 20 Participants:
“Drawing Uncertain Lines”: Concerns and Practices of “Unbestimmtheit” in Tractography and Ethnography Maxime Le Calvé, Humboldt Universität zu Berlin
Focal shifts and generalizing from longitudinal ethnography of sociotechnical change Sampsa Hyysalo, Aalto University; Robin Williams, The University of Edinburgh; Neil Pollock,
The University of Edinburgh How to Use Socio-technical Imaginaries Framework and
Narrative Research to Co-create Virtual and Tangible Commons Lisa Klautzer, TEZO Analytics LLC; Rumy Narayan, Department of management, University of Vaasa, Finland; Seo Yeon Hong, Tezo Analytics LLC
Platforming the Social Scott Wark, University of Warwick Using iGEM as a venue to explore values and practices in
science Jake Finan, Athena Institute, VU Amsterdam; Pim Klaassen, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam; Megan Palmer, Center for International Security and Cooperation, Stanford University
Session Organizer: Maxime Le Calvé, Humboldt Universität zu Berlin
Chair: Maxime Le Calvé, Humboldt Universität zu Berlin
020. Filling the Gaps Between Observations With Data: Nature, Models and Human Agency 10:00 to 11:40 am virPrague: VR 21 Participants:
Algorithmic Absences: Constructing Something from Nothing Francis Lee, Chalmers University of Technology
Modelling Environmental Data Products Catharina Landström, Chalmers University of Technology
Nonhuman operators and vernacular photography: Google Clips camera and its failed search for a spontaneous and authentic record of everyday life Michal Šimůnek, Film and TV School of Academy of Performing Arts in Prague - FAMU
QATIPANA: Becoming and Individuation on the encounter between technical apparatuses and natural systems Renzo Christian Filinich, Universidad de Valparaiso
Session Organizers: Catharina Landström, Chalmers University of Technology Dick Kasperowski, University of Gothenburg
Chair: Dick Kasperowski, University of Gothenburg
021. Reexamining Narratives within Responsible Research and Innovation (RRI) 10:00 to 11:40 am virPrague: VR 22 Participants:
How Do We Shift Values In Practice? : The Case Of Norm-critical Innovation Linda Paxling, Lund University
How narratives of RRI is translated and contribute to nurture RRI ——Comparative Study Based on the Case of "Smart Pharmacy" in Shenzhen, China Yang Fei, Tsinghua University; Ping Li, Tsinghua University; Pusheng Wang, Tsinghua University
Marching to the Beat of a Different Drum: Neglected Narratives of Responsible Research and Innovation (RRI) and its Possible Futures Dani Shanley, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, Maastricht University, Maastricht, the Netherlands
Sculpting Responsibility? Historicising Nanoscience and Technology Development in Attendant Research and Innovation Ethics Practices Nicholas Surber, Chalmers University of Technology; Karl Palmås, Chalmers University of Technology; Rickard Arvidsson, Chalmers University of Technology
Session Organizers: Wouter Van de Klippe Ingeborg Meijer, Leiden University Roger Strand, University of Bergen Erich Griessler, Institute for Advanced Studies Anne Loeber, University of Amsterdam Ralf Lindner, Fraunhofer ISI
Chair: Wouter Van de Klippe
022. STS, Technoscience and How Discontinuation Matters II 10:00 to 11:40 am virPrague: VR 24 Participants:
Phasing out and in – policies of discontinuation in the German energy and lighting sector Martin David, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research - UFZ; Nona Schulte-Römer, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research - UFZ
Ending the coal energy production in Germany: doing discontinuation governance Peter Stegmaier, University of Twente
De-inscribing And Re-inscribing Legacy Technologies In The UK Public Sector Jessamy Perriam, IT University of Copenhagen
The ugly duckling. A never perfect innovation Stefania Sardo, Munich Center for Technology in Society, Technical University of Munich
The biofuel promise: examining policy expectations around liquid biofuels over twenty years Zora Kovacic, University of Bergen, Norway; Maddalena Ripa, Institute of Environmental Science and Technology, Autonomous University of Barcelona
Session Organizers: Peter Stegmaier, University of Twente phil johnstone, Science Policy Research Unit, University of Sussex Pierre-Benoit Joly, Lisis
Chair: phil johnstone, Science Policy Research Unit, University of Sussex
023. Can it Scale?: The scalability zeitgeist, entrepreneurial thinking, and the role of STS 12:00 to 1:40 pm virPrague: VR 01 Participants:
Blitzscaling or Responsible Transformation? Coming to terms with the scalability zeitgeist Sebastian Michael Pfotenhauer, Technical University Munich; Brice Laurent, ARMINES; Kyriaki Papageorgiou, ESADE Business & Law School; Jack Stilgoe, University College London
Activating STS through STS Sensibilities: The Scholarship in STS Making & Doing Gary Downey, Virginia Tech; Teun Zuiderent-Jerak, Athena Institute, VU Amsterdam
Scaling-up robot demand: Towards a comparative “ontographic” study Carlos Cuevas-Garcia, Technical University of Munich; Federica Pepponi, MCTS - Munich Center for Technology in Society (TUM); Cian O'Donovan, University College London
SthlmTech is a Unicorn Factory: How a fact about billion-dollar startups transformed Stockholm's entrepreneurial landscape Angela Kristin VandenBroek, Binghamton University
The economy of permanent experimentation. The market value of multiplying experimental sites. Mathieu Baudrin, CSI-Ecole Des Mines De Paris; Brice Laurent, ARMINES
Session Organizers: Makoto Takahashi, Technical University Munich Cian O'Donovan, University College London Gianluigi Viscusi, Imperial College Business School Brice Laurent, ARMINES Sebastian Michael Pfotenhauer, Technical University Munich
Chair: Makoto Takahashi, Technical University Munich
Discussants: Gianluigi Viscusi, Imperial College Business School Cian O'Donovan, University College London
024. Choreographies: Rhythms and Movements in Research, part 2 12:00 to 1:40 pm virPrague: VR 02 Participants:
Chronic com-position in ethnographic research Alexandra Endaltseva, L'École des hautes études en sciences sociales / Linköping University
Writing good economics: how texts ‘on the move’ perform the worlds and discipline of experimental economics Kristin Asdal, TIK, Centre for Technology, Innovation and Culture; Béatrice Cointe, CNRS
Critical horology, or developing clocks 'for the people' Michelle Bastian, University of Edinburgh
Internationalisation Dynamics At Play: Constructing And Diffusing Zebrafish As A Model Organism In Latin American Life Sciences Rodrigo Liscovsky Barrera, Science, Technology and Innovation Studies, The University of Edinburgh
Time Language in Sciences Helge Jordheim, University of Oslo; Filip Vostal, Institute of Philosophy of the Czech Academy of Sciences
Session Organizers: Filip Vostal, Institute of Philosophy of the Czech Academy of Sciences Andrea Schikowitz, TUM Niki Vermeulen, University of Edinburgh
Chair: Niki Vermeulen, University of Edinburgh
025. Standby. On sociomaterial modes of organizing. 12:00 to 1:40 pm virPrague: VR 03 Participants:
Stay tuned: Televised endurance as a standby-condition Alexa Faerber, Universität Wien
Quicksand: Understanding the city from its tenuous grounds Laura Kemmer, Center for Metropolitan Studies, TU Berlin; Frank Ingo Mueller, Institute of Geography, Technische Universität Dresden
Being on standby - On maintenance work in chronic disease management Lisa Wiedemann, Helmut Schmidt University Hamburg
Putting Data On Hold. Exploring the Sociomateriality of Standby Vanessa Weber, HafenCity University
On Standby for the Apocalypse: Botanic Gardens as
Infrastructures of Care in the Anthropocene Franziska Dahlmeier, Hamburg University
Sensing Standby. An audiovisual journey into infrastructural temporalities Annika Kuehn, University of Hamburg
Session Organizers: Annika Kuehn, University of Hamburg Laura Kemmer, Center for Metropolitan Studies, TU Berlin Vanessa Weber, HafenCity University Birke Otto, European-University Viadrina
Chair: Birke Otto, European-University Viadrina
Discussant: Joe Deville, University of Lancaster
026. Techniques of Resilience. Coping with the Vulnerabilities of Hybrid Bodies-2 12:00 to 1:40 pm virPrague: VR 04 Participants:
Living With a Transplanted Face. The Conflicting Meanings of Hybridization. Marie Le Clainche Piel, EHESS - Centre d'Etude des Mouvements Sociaux
“Push yourself, assert yourself !” : when amputees take risks to cope with and give meaning to their prosthetic body Valentine Gourinat, University Claude Bernard Lyon 1; Lucie Dalibert, University Claude Bernard Lyon 1
The Mutual Shaping Of ART And The Maternal Body Natalia Fernández Jimeno, University of Oviedo
Towards a Sociology of Resilient Cyborgs. Medical Implants as Body Companion Technologies Nelly Oudshoorn, University of Twente
Session Organizer: Nelly Oudshoorn, University of Twente
Chair: Nelly Oudshoorn, University of Twente
027. Making Things Flow: Value- and World-Making Practices in Biomedicine 12:00 to 1:40 pm virPrague: VR 05 Participants:
Animals and Animal Models: Flows and Fissures in the Biologies of Mice Carrie Friese, London School of Economics
From Data Flow, to Access and Beyond Aaro Tupasela, University of Helsinki
Value, mobility and stability in the tissue engineered skin market: Examining Big Tissue mobilities Neil Stephens, Brunel University London
In search of “extra data”: transforming human tissues into a common resource for personalized medicine Clemence Pinel, Center for Medical Science and Technology Studies, University of Copenhagen
Session Organizers: Clemence Pinel, Center for Medical Science and Technology Studies, University of Copenhagen Mette Svendsen, University of Copenhagen
Chair: Mette Svendsen, University of Copenhagen
028. Making, Having, Thinking: Sex, Technology and Science (2) 12:00 to 1:40 pm
virPrague: VR 06 Participants:
Data-driven intimacy: New biodigital technologies in the (re)making of sex Jacinthe Flore, RMIT; Kiran Pienaar, Deakin University
Designing our partners: emotional companionship and sexual fulfillment in human-doll/robot relationships Deborah Blizzard, Rochester Institute Of Technology
Dysphoria’s Dysphoria: Shifting Onto-Epistemologies of Gender Dysphoria Joshua Falek, York University
Sex, Gender and Sexual Orientation: Challenging Categorizations in Genomic Research and Knowledge Production Melanie Goisauf, BBMRI-ERIC; Kaya Akyüz, University of Vienna; Gillian Martin, University of Malta
Session Organizer: David Andrew Griffiths, University of Surrey
Chair: David Andrew Griffiths, University of Surrey
029. Making Global Government 12:00 to 1:40 pm virPrague: VR 07 Participants:
Constructing and Maintaining the World Bank as a Global Institution Felix BOILEVE, CSI MinesParisTech
Evidence-Based Development, Scaling Up, And Enmeshed Plans Fiona Gedeon Achi
Global Health is dead, long live global health! Robert Borst, Erasmus School of Health Policy and Management; Johanna Kostenzer, Erasmus University; Roland Bal, Erasmus University Rotterdam
Making the global look like it is big. Practices of the global, internationality and size-building in Universities. Alexander Mitterle, Martin-Luther-University Halle-Wittenberg, Germany
Session Organizer: Felix BOILEVE, CSI MinesParisTech
Chairs: Nassima Abdelghafour, Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Mines de Paris Evan Fisher, CSI, Mines-ParisTech
Discussant: Vololona Rabeharisoa, Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Mines de Paris
030. Radical and Radicalizing Workers In The Scientific Enterprise 12:00 to 1:40 pm virPrague: VR 08 Participants:
Radical Science Collectives in Italy in the 1960s and 1990s Sara Meloni, University of Pennsylvania
Tech Coolies: Indians on H-1B Roli Varma, University of New Mexico
Whose SharedPlans? Scripts, Collaboration, and Feminist AI Research Rachel Bergmann, Microsoft Research New England
Session Organizer: Yarden Katz, Harvard University
Chair: Kelly Holloway, University of Toronto
031. The political economy of food biotechnologies 12:00 to 1:40 pm virPrague: VR 09 Participants:
The never-ending controversy over GM wheat: a view from the South American arena Ana Maria Vara, National University of San Martín
Troubling Ecologies and Biocultural Opportunities of the Pacific Oysters Mariko Yoshida, The Australian National University
Connectivity Cafe: Prototyping the Dining Event Shomit Barua Determinants of Genetically Modified Food Crops Adoption in
India: A Structural Analysis Approach Krishna Tripathi, Centre for Studies in Science policy, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi; Vairaj Arjune, Centre for Studies in Science Policy, Jawaharlal Nehru University; Ashutosh Tiwari, Centre for Studies in Science Policy, Jawaharlal Nehru University
Session Organizer: Mariko Yoshida, The Australian National University
Chair: Mariko Yoshida, The Australian National University
032. Who are the Publics of Outer Space? Public Interventions and Contestations 12:00 to 1:40 pm virPrague: VR 10 Participants:
Reassembling the Cosmos: Space Exploration From a Perspective of Space Metal Scavengers Makar Tereshin, University of Tartu, Institute of Cultural Research
Making the Cosmos Accessible: Space Amateurs and Local Publics in Russia Denis Sivkov, Russian academy of national economy and public administration
Toy Stories During the Apollo Program Moon Race John McCamy Wilkes, WPI/retired professor
Challenging the government space science in USSR: the Complex Amateur Expedition for Studying the Tunguska Meteorite in Siberia Ivan H. Tchalakov, Dep. of Applied and Institutional Sociology, University of Plovdiv, Bulgaria; Irina Popravko, Laboratory for Social and Antgropological Research
Session Organizers: Richard Tutton, University of York Lauren Reid, Freie Universität
Chair: Richard Tutton, University of York
033. The In/Visibility of Value and Relevance in the Evaluation Society 2 12:00 to 1:40 pm virPrague: VR 11 Participants:
The evaluation of academics in the age of global competitions and its unintended consequences for university research Hee-Je Bak, Kyung Hee University; Do Han Kim, Kyung Hee University
Clusters of Dissent: Bibliometrics of Closed Research Networks Jonathan Grunert, SUNY Geneseo
Understanding Academic Ability through Numbers: Hensachi as a Double Ranking of People and Institutions Markus
Hoffmann, TU Berlin Session Organizers:
Jochem Zuijderwijk, Center for Science and Technology Studies, Leiden University, the Netherlands Tjitske Holtrop, Center for Science and Technology Studies, Leiden University, the Netherlands
Chair: Jochem Zuijderwijk, Center for Science and Technology Studies, Leiden University, the Netherlands
034. Grassroots Innovation: Hacking, Making, Hobby, Entrepreneurship 1 12:00 to 1:40 pm virPrague: VR 12 Participants:
Innovating at the forefront of the hardware/software collision MC Forelle, Cornell University
Uplifting Technological Appropriation: Reflecting on the integration of sociotechnical ideas. Martin Andrés Perez Comisso, SFIS - Arizona State University
User-platform Relationships: Scripting Community and Commercial Practices On a Live-Streaming Gaming Platform Kristine Ask, Dept. of Interdisciplinary Studies of Culture, NTNU; Hendrik Storstein Spilker, Norwegian U. Of Science And Technology (NTNU)
How to push back hegemonic search? Analyzing alternative imaginaries in search engine design and their potential to contribute to more open digital futures Astrid Mager, Austrian Academy of Sciences
Session Organizer: Chen-Pang Yeang, University of Toronto
Chair: Chen-Pang Yeang, University of Toronto
035. Race and Biomedicine Beyond the Lab Panel 1: Health and Disease 12:00 to 1:40 pm virPrague: VR 13 Participants:
Doing Difference in Indigenous Diabetes Care Maja de Langen, University of Amsterdam
Genetic Afflictions And The Other Within The Caste System: Situating Sickle Cell Disease In India Sanghamitra Das, Arizona State Univerity
Heritable Space-Time, Genetic Sensibilities: Sickle Cell Disease as Scaffolding for Racialization in Post-colonial Tanzania Rebekah M. Ciribassi, Cornell University
Pathogenic Racialization: Mobilizations Of Race And The Production Of Ignorance During The Coronavirus Outbreak Maggie Mang
The Microbiomisation of Race: (Individual) Capital, Food Cultures and Microbial Embodiment Andrea Núñez Casal, University of Oxford, UK
Session Organizers: Vivette Garcia Deister, UNAM Nadine Ehlers, University of Sydney Amade M'charek, University of Amsterdam - AISSR Anne Pollock, King's College London
Chair: Melissa Creary, University of Michigan, School of Public Health
036. Unpacking the Foundations of the Current Biometric Moment: Infrastructuring Biometrics Past and Present 12:00 to 1:40 pm virPrague: VR 14 Participants:
Seeing Through the Face: Understanding Theories and Practices in Facial Recognition Systems Design Benedetta Catanzariti, Science, Technology and Innovation Studies, The University of Edinburgh
Identity and Identification in the Age of Selfies and Automated Face Recognition – The Case of Clearview AI and Fawkes Heewon Kim, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)
Speaking likeness: technologies of vision in everyday practices of border control in Europe Ildiko Plajas, University of Amsterdam
Session Organizers: Michelle Spektor, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Ranjit Pal Singh, Cornell University
Chair: Ranjit Pal Singh, Cornell University
037. Making science in public: 3 12:00 to 1:40 pm virPrague: VR 15 Participants:
Innovation Communication – bridging Science Communication and RRI Maja Horst, Technical University of Denmark - DTU; Alan Irwin, Copenhagen Business School
“It is also a little bit liberating”: Scientists as activists Sarah Maria Schönbauer, Munich Center for Technology in Society, Technical University of Munich
The Science Gallery Effect: Evaluating Impacts of Art-Science Exhibitions on the Culture of Science Autumn Brown, Science Gallery Dublin
The Trickle-down of Political and Economic Control: Notes on the Organizational Suppression of Environmental Researchers Sampsa Saikkonen, University of Helsinki, Department of Social Research; Esa Tapani Väliverronen, University of Helsinki
Session Organizer: Sarah Davies, University of Vienna
Chair: Noriko Hara, Indiana University
038. Veterinary anthropology - session 2 12:00 to 1:40 pm virPrague: VR 16 Participants:
Disciplining and domestication: dogs, science and the Anthropocene J. Bernardo P. Couto Soares, University of Amsterdam - AISSR
Hinders To Smallholder Livestock Production In Northern Uganda: Moving Beyond The Threat Of Animal Disease Anna Arvidsson, The Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences; Klara Fischer, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
Towards A New Ethics Of Farm Veterinary Care: Exploring The Intersection Between Veterinary Science, Technologies And Farmed Animal Welfare Camille Bellet, University of Liverpool; Lindsay Hamilton, University of York; Jonathan
Rushton, University of Liverpool Biocultural species: Islam, meat science, and animal stress in
Malaysia En-Chieh Chao, National Sun Yat-sen University Session Organizer:
Frédéric Keck, Laboratoire d’anthropologie socialem - CNRS Chair:
Ludek Broz, Institue of Ethnology of the Czech Academy of Sciences
039. Governing Reproductive Bio-economies: Policy Frameworks, Ethics and Economics 1 12:00 to 1:40 pm virPrague: VR 17 Participants:
Alignments of State and Biomedicine within the Context of Reproductive Genetic Risk Governance in Turkey Maria Kramer, London School of Economics
Egg vitrification as routine: new challenges for European governance of reproductive bioeconomies Vincenzo Pavone, Consejo Superior Investigaciones Cientificas (CSIC); Nicky Hudson, De Montfort University; Cathy Herbrand, De Montfort University
Reproduction at the Intersection of Global, Regional and National Contexts: Challenging Reproductive Governance in Turkey Safak Kilictepe, Kirsehir Ahi Evran University
The story of one post-Soviet success: How Ukrainian fertility industry prospers, when everything else falls apart Polina Vlasenko, Indiana University
Session Organizers: Cathy Herbrand, De Montfort University Vincenzo Pavone, Consejo Superior Investigaciones Cientificas (CSIC)
Chair: Nicky Hudson, De Montfort University
040. Economics/Economy, Governance and STS I 12:00 to 1:40 pm virPrague: VR 18 Participants:
A market to whom? Christian Frankel, Copenhagen Business School
Defining risk in legal disputes: how STSers promote scientific understanding in the justice system Wen-Ling Tu, National Chengchi University; Hung-Yang Lin, Academia Sinica
From RCB to RCA: Epidemiologic Causation and Legal Mobilization in Taiwanese Toxic Torts Yi-Ping Lin, National Yang-Ming University
Session Organizer: Christian Frankel, Copenhagen Business School
Chair: Christian Frankel, Copenhagen Business School
041. ‘Not doing’ in times of crisis: agency and the urgency of pause and restraint 12:00 to 1:40 pm virPrague: VR 19 Participants:
Uncomfortable Knowledge and Non-Action as Ways to Care Roger Strand, University of Bergen; Thomas Völker, European Commission - Joint Research Centre; Zora Kovacic, University of Bergen, Norway
What Does ‘Doing Nothing’ Do When Talking About High-Risk Major Surgery? Gemma Hughes, University of Oxford, UK; Lucas Seuren, University of Oxford; Sara Shaw, University of Oxford
What follows on from “doing everything”? Disentangling patients from systems of support in UK intensive care units Annelieke Driessen, London School of Hygiene and Tropical medicine; Simon Cohn, LSHTM
Session Organizer: Annelieke Driessen, London School of Hygiene and Tropical medicine
Chair: Simon Cohn, LSHTM
Discussant: Joanna Latimer, SATSU, University of York
042. Experimental Practices and Practical Experiments in an Uncertain World III 12:00 to 1:40 pm virPrague: VR 20 Participants:
Researchers’ Implicit Associations With Questionable Research Practices Justus Maximilian Karl Rathmann, Universität Zürich; David Johann, Universität Zürich; Heiko Rauhut, Universität Zürich
Science Busking, Recursivity, and Zones of Awkward Engagement in a Large-Scale Research Project on Embodied Digital Technology Christian Pentzold, Chemnitz University of Technology; Ingmar Rothe, Institute for Media Research, Chemnitz University of Technology, Germany
Sociomaterial mediations and the politics of remote sensing in the Brazilian Amazon Theodore Vurdubakis, Lancaster University Management School; Raoni Rajão, Federal University of Minas Gerais (UFMG)
Women in Exact Sciences and Technology Careers: perspectives and challenges Gabriela Marino Silva, Universidade Estadual de Campinas, UNICAMP; Karoline Waitman de Barros, None
Session Organizer: Heiko Rauhut, Universität Zürich
Chair: Heiko Rauhut, Universität Zürich
043. Experiments with Algo-governance and Future-Making: STS Scholars as Designers I. 12:00 to 1:40 pm virPrague: VR 21 Participants:
Algo-governance and Future Making: Unraveling Responsible Design Gayathri Haridas, Singapore University of Technology & Design; Norakmal Hakim Bin Norhashim, Singapore University of Technology & Design
Democratic Control Over Algorithmic Governance: Posing the Problem that We Wish to Solve Ori Freiman, Bar-Ilan University
Prototyping Nature's Data Futures in Emerging Database Architectures hagit keysar, Museum für Naturkunde Berlin; Tahani Nadim, Museum fuer Naturkunde; Filippo Bertoni, Aarhus University; Felipe Mammoli, UNICAMP
Session Organizers: Denisa Reshef Kera, University of Salamanca
Galit Wellner, The NB School of Design & Tel Aviv University
Chair: Tincuta Heinzel, Loughborough University
Discussants: Judith Christine Igelsböck, MCTS, Technical University of Munich Josef Holy, MSD
044. On the Interplay of Images, Imaginaries and Imagination in Science Communication (Interdisciplinary Focus) 12:00 to 1:40 pm virPrague: VR 22 Participants:
Images, Imaginaries and Imagination in Metagenomics. Toward the Bridging of the ‘Molecular’ and of the ‘Ecosystemic’ Vision Roberta Raffaeta'
Imaging Human Computer Interface in Film: from HAL to The Matrix Naomi Mandel, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Concepts as Triggers of the Complex Triad of Imagination, Images and Imaginaries. A Philosophical Reflection German A Duarte
Session Organizer: Andreas Metzner-Szigeth, Free University of Bolzano
Chair: Andreas Böhn, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
Discussant: Luca Toschi, University of Florence
045. The tacit governance of decision-making in knowledge production 12:00 to 1:40 pm virPrague: VR 23 Participants:
Is Innovative Research Good Research? How ‘Innovation Demands’ Are Perceived And Put Into Practice By Researchers Ruth Falkenberg, University of Vienna
Career Decision-Making Among Astrophysicists Jarita Holbrook, University of the Western Cape
Epistemic Laundering: A Typology of Transformations Nicole C Nelson, University of Wisconsin Madison; Sergio Sismondo, Queen's University
Session Organizers: Ruth Falkenberg, University of Vienna Maximilian Fochler, University Of Vienna Ruth Müller, MCTS TU München Lisa Sigl, Research Platform Responsible Research and Innovation in Academic Practice, University of Vienna
Chair: Maximilian Fochler, University Of Vienna
046. STS, Technoscience and How Discontinuation Matters I 12:00 to 1:40 pm virPrague: VR 24 Participants:
A New Era: The French Nuclear Socio-Technical System Facing Discontinuation Martin Denoun, GSPR/EHESS
Why Is It So Hard To Discontinue Nuclear Power? Neglected Military And Democratic Considerations Andy Stirling, Science Policy Research Unit, University of Sussex; phil johnstone, Science Policy Research Unit, University of Sussex
Phasing out, not (dis)continuing: towards a nuanced and normatively inclusive understanding of infrastructure in transitions Aad Ferdinand Correlje, TU Delft; Toyah Rodhouse, Delft University of Technology; Eefje Cuppen, TU Delft
Strategic options for policy to discontinue of socio-technological regimes Stefan Kuhlmann, University of Twente; Peter Stegmaier, University of Twente
When phasing-out technology strikes back: A social practice theory exploration of cloud seeding Zahar Koretsky, Maastricht University; Harro van Lente, Maastricht University
Session Organizers: Peter Stegmaier, University of Twente phil johnstone, Science Policy Research Unit, University of Sussex
Chair: Pierre-Benoit Joly, Lisis
047. Bristol University Press - Meet the Editor | 18 August 1:40 to 3:00 pm virPrague: VR 01 Session Organizer:
Bahar Muller, Bristol University Press Chair:
Paul Stevens, Bristol University Press 048. STS Enters the Transnational Covidscape: The Political
Ecologies and Inequalities of COVID-19 3:00 to 4:40 pm virPrague: VR 00 Session Organizer:
Tereza Stockelova, Institute of Sociology of the Czech Academy of Sciences
Chair: Joan Fujimura, University Of Wisconsin-Madison
Discussants: Warwick Anderson, University of Sydney Anthony Ryan Hatch, Wesleyan University Duygu Kasdogan, İzmir Katip Çelebi University
049. Making Time 3:00 to 4:40 pm virPrague: VR 01 Participants:
Too big to fit: the coproduction of despair Gabriel Dorthe, IASS Potsdam / Harvard STS
The Making of a "Slow, Silent Genocide" Across Argentina's Soy Belt Geneva Smith
Fighting over time: Germany’s struggle to phase out coal Jens Marquardt, Department of Political Science, Stockholm University
Clocking Value in the Bioeconomy Tess Doezema, Arizona State University
Nuclear futures, Japanese pasts Makoto Takahashi, Technical University Munich
The Politics of Epochalism Kasper Hedegaard Schiølin, Harvard STS Program, Harvard Kennedy School
Session Organizer: Kasper Hedegaard Schiølin, Harvard STS Program, Harvard Kennedy School
Chair:
Stefan Schäfer, Institute for Advanced Sustainability Studies 050. Choreographies: Rhythms and Movements in Research,
part 3 3:00 to 4:40 pm virPrague: VR 02 Participants:
Bodies In Motion: Spatio-temporal Choreographies In The Study Of Physical Activity During Pregnancy Julie Bønnelycke, Roskilde Universitet; Astrid Jespersen, University of Copenhagen; Maria Larsen, University of Copenhagen the SAXO institute
Choreographies of making archaeological data Isto Huvila, Uppsala University
Matters of Emergenc/y: Breakdown, Crisis and the Production of Scientific Knowledge Stephanie Beth Jordan, Michigan State University
Session Organizers: Niki Vermeulen, University of Edinburgh Andrea Schikowitz, TUM Filip Vostal, Institute of Philosophy of the Czech Academy of Sciences
Chair: Andrea Schikowitz, TUM
Discussant: Charis M Thompson, Princeton / London School of Economics and Political Science
051. Building Digital Public Sector: Automated decision-making across countries 3:00 to 4:40 pm virPrague: VR 03 Participants:
Automating Welfare: Consequences of Automated Decision-making for Democratic Values Anne Kaun
A Datafied Norwegian Public Sector – The (Re)configuration of Data Driven Public Administration Lisa Marie Reutter, NTNU
Algorithmic Profiling of Job Seekers in Austria: How Austerity Politics Are Made Effective Gabriel Grill, University of Michigan; Fabian Fischer, TU Wien; Doris Allhutter, Austrian Academy of Sciences; Astrid Mager, Austrian Academy of Sciences; Florian Cech, TU Wien
The AMS-Algorithm In Austria: Questions Of Discrimination And Democratic Legitimacy Paola Lopez, University of Vienna
Session Organizers: Marta Choroszewicz, University of Eastern Finland Marja Alastalo, University of Eastern Finland
Chair: Marta Choroszewicz, University of Eastern Finland
052. Performative Futures: Fighting Reification Inertias through Open Anticipations 3:00 to 4:40 pm virPrague: VR 04 Participants:
Exploring the Interaction of Technological Futures, Science Fiction and Utopian Thinking Andreas Metzner-Szigeth, Free University of Bolzano
Futures Scenarios As Tools Of Participatory Science Communication In Ecosystem Management And
Governance Ludwig Weh, Freie Universität Berlin Modelling as anticipation: how computational models stabilize
ideas of risk governance Daniela Fuchs, Institute of Technology Assessment of the Austrian Academy of Sciences (ITA-OeAW); Anja Bauer, University of Klagenfurt; Titus Udrea, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Inst. of Technology Assessment (ITA); Leo Capari, Institute of Technology Assessment, Austrian Academy of Sciences
Opening Up Smart City Visions to Citizen Perspectives Through Art & Play Aafke Fraaije, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam; Frank Kupper, Athena Institute, VU University, Amsterdam
Opening Up Sociotechnical Entrenchments through Anticipations: Relational Quality and the Heuristics of Foresight Sergio Urueña, University of the Basque Country UPV/EHU; Hannot Rodríguez, University of the Basque Country UPV/EHU (Q4818001B); Andoni Ibarra, University of the Basque Country UPV/EHU
Session Organizers: Sergio Urueña, University of the Basque Country UPV/EHU Hannot Rodríguez, University of the Basque Country UPV/EHU (Q4818001B) Andoni Ibarra, University of the Basque Country UPV/EHU
Chair: Sergio Urueña, University of the Basque Country UPV/EHU
053. Global Prospects and Perspectives on Responsible Research and Innovation 3:00 to 4:40 pm virPrague: VR 05 Participants:
Institutional change for making responsible innovation a reality rene vonschomberg, European Commission
How would a theory of de facto responsible innovation account for pluralities in global perspectives? Sally Randles, Manchester Metropolitan University
Responsible Research and Innovation (RRI) and the classical view of responsibility of scientists: Prospects and Perspectives of RRI in Japan Yuko Fujigaki, University of Tokyo
Towards a Paradigm Shift in the Innovation Discourse: the epistemic, political, and conceptual challenge of Responsible Innovation Lucien von schomberg, Wageningen University
RRI in Quadruple Helix: how to practice co-responsibility in China's STI system Miao Liao, Changsha University of Science and Technology
Session Organizer: rene vonschomberg, European Commission
Chair: rene vonschomberg, European Commission
Discussant: J Britt Holbrook, New Jersey Institute of Technology
054. Constitutional moments: re-ordering science, democracy, and society 3:00 to 4:40 pm virPrague: VR 06 Participants:
(Re)framing Imaginaries: Exploring a constitutional moment in German AI governance Regula Valérie Burri, HCU - HafenCity University Hamburg
In A Constitutional Momentum? Fixing Innovation with RRI in Global Governance Nina María Frahm, Technical University Munich, Munich Center for Technology in Society
Imagining the Possible During Constitutional Moments: Revisiting the Rise of Personal Genomics Stephen Hilgartner, Department of Science & Technology Studies/ Cornell University
Envisioning „the digital“. Controversies about the Smart Home and the re-configuration of everyday life Friederike Rohde, Institute for Ecological Economy Research (IÖW) and TU Berlin
Reimagining sustainable transformation in a digital world: The vanguard vision of the German Advisory Council on Global Change Christine Polzin, UFZ Leipzig; Nele Kress, UFZ Leipzig; silke beck, UFZ Leipzig
Session Organizers: silke beck, UFZ Leipzig Regula Valérie Burri, HCU - HafenCity University Hamburg
Chair: silke beck, UFZ Leipzig
055. FLIPPED | Transnational STS: Theories, Practices, and Pedagogies (I) 3:00 to 4:40 pm virPrague: VR 07 Participants:
Science and Technology as a Global Challenge: Evaluation of Attitudes and Notes from the course “Global Innovations” Octavio Mucino-Hernandez, SFIS - Arizona State University; Annel Vasquez, Universidad de Guadalajara; Tomás Carrozza, Universidad Nacional de Mar del Plata; Jeanne Simon, Universidad de Concepcion; Martin Andrés Perez Comisso, SFIS - Arizona State University; Lindsay Adams Smith, Arizona State University; Mary Jane Parmentier, SFIS - Arizona State University
"Chinese Privilege": Teaching Race and Technology in Singapore Monamie Bhadra Haines
The Transnational Politics of the Wuhan Coronavirus Joji Kijima, University of Tsukuba; Ryosuke Ohniwa, University of Tsukuba
Illiberal science and STS: new directions in the studies of science in state dictatorships. The case of forensic science in Soviet Russia Volha Parfenchyk, Department of History and Art History, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands
Transnational Transformations: Daoism, The Neurosciences, And The Politics Of Knowledge Johanna Pokorny, University of Toronto
Session Organizers: Kim Fortun, University of California Irvine Noela Invernizzi, Universidade Federal do Parana Duygu Kasdogan, İzmir Katip Çelebi University Aalok Khandekar, Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad Angela Okune, University of California - Irvine
Chair: Angela Okune, University of California - Irvine
056. The ‘elsewhere’ of sociotechnical life at night 3:00 to 4:40 pm virPrague: VR 08 Participants:
Frontstaging nightlight - ALAN research as a ‘reflexive
elsewhere’ of socio-technical life at night Markus Rudolfi, Institute for Sociology, Goethe University, Frankfurt; Nona Schulte-Römer, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research - UFZ; Friederike Klan, Deutsches Zentrum für Luft und Raumfahrt; Helga Kuechly, GeoForschungsZentrum Potsdam; Christopher Kyba, GeoForschungsZentrum Potsdam
Seduction and violence in the vertical night Casper Laing Ebbensgaard, University of East Anglia
Timing Sleep: Arctic Sleep Devices And The “Sleep of Any time” Julie Sascia Mewes, Ruhr-Universität Bochum
How do we get everyone to space? Noah Etka, James Madison University; Kostas Thanos Polyzos, James Madison University; Brenda Trinidad, Insights El Paso
Session Organizer: Casper Laing Ebbensgaard, University of East Anglia
Chair: Casper Laing Ebbensgaard, University of East Anglia
057. Classic STS Papers: Session 1 3:00 to 4:40 pm virPrague: VR 09 Participants:
Analogy, Ontology, and Psychology: Revisiting Theoretical Sources of Bloor's 'Knowledge and Social Imagery' Andrei Kuznetsov, European Univeristy at St. Petersburg; ITMO University
Reintroduction to Cybernetic Primitivism William J Lockett, Massachusetts Institute for Technology (MIT)
Agre’s „Surveillance and Capture“ Today Jan C Dittrich; Lisa Conrad, Leuphana University
Relocating practices of production: the optical pulsar paper (Garfinkel et al., 1981) and its legacy. Laurent Camus
Session Organizers: Nicole C Nelson, University of Wisconsin Madison Sergio Sismondo, Queen's University
Chair: Nicole C Nelson, University of Wisconsin Madison
058. Exploring Otherworldly Ecologies 3:00 to 4:40 pm virPrague: VR 10 Participants:
An Ecology of a Smart Planet: Algorithms, Space Data and Sustainability Matjaz Vidmar, The University of Edinburgh
Why we need a cultural ecology of Environmental Research to conceptualise Climate Change as a emerging field of Transplanetary complexity Sigrun Strange, Berlin Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities
Nocturnal | Intertidal: On The Moon's Influence On Terrestrial Ecologies Tamara Alvarez, The New School
Simulating Spacesuits for Mars Veronika Nowak, University of Vienna, Department of Science and Technology Studies
Making (S)kin in Astrobiology: planetarity and beyond Alessandra Marino, The Open University
Session Organizers: Michael Clormann, Munich Center for Technology in Society, Technical University of Munich Matjaz Vidmar, The University of Edinburgh
Chair: Michael Clormann, Munich Center for Technology in Society,
Technical University of Munich 059. Alchemical Transformations 1: On Matters of Substance
and Change 3:00 to 4:40 pm virPrague: VR 11 Participants:
Alchemy, Vital Nature, and (Bio)Dynamic Matters: Preparations for Life Bradley Jones, Washington University in St. Louis
Soils of Remediation, Waters of Redemption: The Ambivalences of Ameliorative Alchemy in „Post“ Mining Landscapes Cynthia Browne, IASS Potsdam / Harvard University /Ruhr University
Genesis 3.0: Engineering Against Xoo Elaine Gan, New York University
Living Fossils: Care and Curation in the Afterlives of Unhatched Eggs Alison Laurence, Stanford University
Session Organizer: Bradley Jones, Washington University in St. Louis
Chair: Heather Paxson, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
060. Flows and overflows of personal data S1 3:00 to 4:40 pm virPrague: VR 12 Participants:
How Do Biomarkers Mark? Moran Levy; Elena Esposito, Bielefeld University
The promise and politics of AI-driven testing in healthcare: ‘dataveillance’ and the making of new health subjects Alan Petersen; Kiran Pienaar, Deakin University
When do human genomic ancestry datasets become biomedical datasets? Carlos Andrés Barragán, University of California, Davis; James Griesemer, University of California, Davis
**Evidence and conversation: some thoughts on pluralism, epistemic conflict and health platforms** Niccolò Tempini, University of Exeter, Egenis; David Teira, UNED
Session Organizer: Niccolò Tempini, University of Exeter, Egenis
Chair: Niccolò Tempini, University of Exeter, Egenis
061. Decentralisation and Distribution as Means of Change and Hegemony 3:00 to 4:40 pm virPrague: VR 13 Participants:
Blockchain Unpacked: An Agent-Based Model of Centralization of Computation and Its Implications for Technology Governance Joonhyeok Park, KAIST Graduate School of Science Technology Policy; Kibae Kim, KAIST (Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology); So Young Kim, KAIST STP
Building something new in the shell of the digital: The prefigurative politics of the Decentralized Web Daniel Staemmler, Freie Universität Berlin
Change the Web by Decentralizing Power: Resistance through Alternative Infrastructures Dawn Walker, Faculty of Information, University of Toronto
For A Material Semiotics Of The Cryptographic Token Pedro
Jacobetty, The University of Edinburgh Session Organizer:
Victoria Neumann, Lancaster University Chair:
Anna Adamowicz, Institute of Philosophy, Adam Mickiewicz University
062. Unpacking the Foundations of the Current Biometric Moment: Biometric Machinations of Belonging 3:00 to 4:40 pm virPrague: VR 14 Participants:
On Categorizing. Doing and undoing "refugees" in the aftermath of large scale displacement Andrea Behrends, Universität Bayreuth
A Biometric Double-Bind: Refugees and Digital Humanitarianism in Lebanon Jenna Harb, Australian National University; Kathryn Henne, Australian National University
Women and the Biometric State: A Case of Aadhaar and Welfare in India Bidisha Chaudhuri, International Institute of Information Technology Bangalore; Hartej Singh, IIIT Bangalore
Seeing Like An Algorithm: Facial Recognition Systems And The Politics Of Pattern Recognition Abigail Nieves Delgado, Ruhr University Bochum
Session Organizers: Ranjit Pal Singh, Cornell University Michelle Spektor, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Chair: Michelle Spektor, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
063. Inclusion in scientific communities I 3:00 to 4:40 pm virPrague: VR 15 Participants:
Endogenous and exogenous causes for constraints on inclusion Jochen Glaser, TU Berlin
The ambivalence of integrating African scholars into the world science system through PhD-training: Old issues, new approaches Stefan Skupien, WZB Berlin Social Science Center; Nelius Boshoff, Stellenbosch University
The Failed Revolution: Technological Determinism and the Global Production of Knowledge Marcel Knöchelmann, University College London/Yale University
Unemployment = exclusion? Susanne Wollin-Giering, TU Berlin; Markus Hoffmann, TU Berlin
Session Organizers: Jochen Glaser, TU Berlin Nelius Boshoff, Stellenbosch University
Chair: Nelius Boshoff, Stellenbosch University
064. Means And Ends Of STS (Part II): Trust, Knowledge And Social Media 3:00 to 4:40 pm virPrague: VR 16 Participants:
Governing the Median Estate: Hyper-Truths and Post-Truth in the regulation of digital innovations Kjetil Rommetveit, University of Bergen, Norway; Niels van Dijk, Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Hidden Virality: an Analysis of Epistemic Injustice and Online Movements Britt Paris, Rutgers University, School of Communication and Information
Tracing Networked Infrastructures for Post-Truth. Public Dissections of, and by Techno-Political Leviathans Niels van Dijk, Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Session Organizer: Rob Evans, Cardiff University
Chair: Johan Soderberg
065. FLIPPED Acknowledging Residues: the (un-)making of an environmental concern - I 3:00 to 4:40 pm virPrague: VR 17 Participants:
Sludge Stories – a journey into the indeterminate world of waste water residues Linus Ekman Burgman, Department of Thematic Studies - Technology and Social Change, Linköping University
Locating residues of concern. Scouting and mapping sites for Persistent Organic Pollutants in Dar es Salaam Franziska Klaas
The Making and Effects of “The World’s Largest E-waste Dump.” Grace Akese, University of Bayreuth
Closer to the Ground: Patchy Radiation, Children’s Body, and the Stakes of (Un)Knowing in Post-Nuclear Fukushima Jieun Cho, Duke University
Session Organizer: Franziska Klaas
Chair: Signe Mikkelsen, University of Oslo
Discussant: Susanne Bauer, University of Oslo
066. Economics/Economy, Governance and STS II 3:00 to 4:40 pm virPrague: VR 18 Participants:
Governance and Transition of the Electricity Sector to Sustainability The Case of Solar Energy in Brazil Jean Carlos Hochsprung Miguel, Federal University of São Paulo
"Let's Not Have the Perfect Be the Enemy of the Good": Social Impact Bonds, RCTs, and the Valuation of Social Services James Williams, York University
Assembling ‘plastic policy objects’ in EU regulatory spaces Artemis Papadaki-Anastasopoulou
Higher education governance: a moral economy of value Tamar Nir, King's College London
Session Organizer: James Williams, York University
Chair: James Williams, York University
067. More-than-Human Ethnographies of Global Health 3:00 to 4:40 pm virPrague: VR 19 Participants:
Hydrating in the Wake of Cholera: Bottled Water and Haunted Entanglements in Haiti Victoria Koski-Karell, University of Michigan
Re-imagining Outbreaks: Considering Posthuman Understandings of Cholera Through the Development of a Biosensor Paula Palanco, KU Leuven
Scale-making with microbes: global, local and other situated human-microbial engagements Jose A. Cañada, University of Helsinki
Towards a Viral Ecology: Virus Hunting and Strategic Predictions on ‘Emerging Mosquito-Borne Diseases’ in Brazil Tullio Dias da Silva Maia, University of Exeter
Moving Between Public and Global Health: Wolbachia-infected Mosquitoes across the City of Rio de Janeiro Luisa Reis Castro, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
Session Organizers: Jose A. Cañada, University of Helsinki Luisa Reis Castro, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
Chair: Jose A. Cañada, University of Helsinki
Discussant: Salla Sariola, University of Helsinki
068. Experimental Practices and Practical Experiments in Uncertain world IV 3:00 to 4:40 pm virPrague: VR 20 Participants:
Technologies of Resistance and Control in the 2019 Eurovision Song Contest Controversy Alexei Tsinovoi, University of Copenhagen; Anders Kristian Munk, Aalborg University
The Case for Intentional Language: Rhetoric and engagement in the museum space Pamela Camille Perrimon
The Desire to See: Binary System, Architectural Space and the Ontology of Being-with Yijun Sun, UMASS-Amherst
The erratic progress of science and technology in archaeology Mike Kelly, UNIVERSITY OF BRIGHTON
Session Organizer: Mike Kelly, UNIVERSITY OF BRIGHTON
Chair: Mike Kelly, UNIVERSITY OF BRIGHTON
069. Experiments with Algo-governance and Future-Making: STS Scholars as Designers II. 3:00 to 4:40 pm virPrague: VR 21 Participants:
Legal Aspects of Patterns Tincuta Heinzel, Loughborough University
Ventriloquist Ontology Afroditi Psarra, DXARTS, University of Washington
Feminist Hardware Workshop Stefanie Wuschitz, Academy of Fine Arts Vienna; Patricia Joan Reis, Academy of Fine Arts Vienna
Ecosystemic Value Mapping Marie Davidova, Welsh School of Architecture / Collaborative Collective
Session Organizer: Tincuta Heinzel, Loughborough University
Chairs: Galina Mihaleva, Nanyang Technological University Hannah Perner-Wilson, Kobakant collective
Discussants: Denisa Reshef Kera, University of Salamanca
Josef Holy, MSD 070. The Politics of Uncertainty; Visualizing, Quantifying, and
Fact-Checking Truth Claims in an Era of Polarized Politics 3:00 to 4:40 pm virPrague: VR 23 Participants:
“… a message that becomes apparent immediately” – When Uncertainty Is Opposed To Becoming Evident Rahel Estermann, University of Lucerne
What kind of a test is a fact-check? Noortje Marres, University of Warwick, UK; Liliana Bounegru, King's College London; Jonathan Gray, King's College London
Video (F)Acts: Audiovisuality and Public Truth sidar bayram, Koç University Sociology Department
Focusing on repair: Multiple truths, multiple journalisms Candis Callison, Unversity of British Columbia; Mary Lynn Young, University of British Columbia
“What’s Your Source?” Lay People’s Arguments And Expertise In Reaction To Vaccination (Mis)information On Facebook Manon Berriche, médialab Sciences Po
Session Organizer: Christopher Anderson
Chair: Christopher Anderson
071. Materiality, Knowledges, Inequalities: Multiplicity and Sovereignty in a Post-colonial World 3:00 to 4:40 pm virPrague: VR 24 Participants:
Colonial Body Archives: Epistemic Violence and Multiple Relations Christine Hanke, University of Bayreuth
The face as folded object: race and the problems with ‘progress’ in forensic DNA phenotyping Roos Hopman, Amsterdam Institute for Social Science Research, University of Amsterdam
Exploring the Scientific and Policy Questions of the French Anthropological Mission on West African Pharmacopoeia Natewinde Sawadogo, University of Ouaga II
Locating Controversy in Established Technoscience: Debating National DNA Databases in South Africa Noah Tamarkin, Cornell University
‘Cholets’ as Relational Multiplicity: Hyper-buildings and Decolonizing Aesthetics Marco Paladines, Technical University Berlin
Session Organizers: Uli Beisel, University of Bayreuth Katharina Schramm
Chair: Uli Beisel, University of Bayreuth
072. Making Time - follow-up discussion 4:40 to 6:00 pm virPrague: VR 01 Session Organizer:
Kasper Hedegaard Schiølin, Harvard STS Program, Harvard Kennedy School
Chair: Kasper Hedegaard Schiølin, Harvard STS Program, Harvard Kennedy School
073. 6S Open Meeting 4:40 to 6:00 pm virPrague: VR 02 Session Organizer:
Stephen Zehr, Univ. Southern Indiana 074. Fleck Book Prize
4:40 to 6:00 pm virPrague: VR 03 Session Organizer:
Lesley J F Green, University of Cape Town Chair:
Lesley J F Green, University of Cape Town 075. How social are the seeds?
4:40 to 6:00 pm virPrague: VR 04 Session Organizer:
OSCAR A. FORERO, AGROSAVIA; SOAS-UK Chair:
Erika Vanessa Wagner-Medina, AGROSAVIA, Colombia 076. Easy, Rapid and Transparent Publishing with Emerald
Open Research 4:40 to 6:00 pm virPrague: VR 05 Session Organizer:
Sallie Gregson, Emerald Publishing Chair:
Sallie Gregson, Emerald Publishing 077. Social Scientists In Outer Space (organised by the SSOS
Network) 4:40 to 6:00 pm virPrague: VR 10 Session Organizers:
A.R.E. Taylor, University of Cambridge Michael Clormann, Munich Center for Technology in Society, Technical University of Munich James Lawrence Merron, University of Basel Nina Klimburg Witjes, Vienna University Richard Tutton, University of York Denis Sivkov, Russian academy of national economy and public administration
Chair: Matjaz Vidmar, The University of Edinburgh
078. Lessons from Big Data in the Covid-19 pandemic: Significance and Agency of STS in contemporary datafication 6:00 to 7:40 pm virPrague: VR 00 Session Organizer:
Tereza Stockelova, Institute of Sociology of the Czech Academy of Sciences
Chair: Katja Mayer, Vienna University
Discussants: Alex Hanna, Google Stefania Milan, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands Christian Sandvig, University of Michigan
079. Old Academies and Emerging Worlds: Feminist Encounters 6:00 to 7:40 pm virPrague: VR 01
Participants: Gendered practices in multidisciplinary research and
innovation: The case of health technology Marja Vehviläinen, Tampere University
A Better World For Who? Giving Young People Agency To Shape Emerging Worlds Hannah Cowan, King's College London; Charlotte Kühlbrandt, King's College London
Conceiving an Epistemology of Egalitarianism Through Martin’s ‘The Egg and the Sperm’ Adam Peri, University of Chicago
Session Organizer: Marja Vehviläinen, Tampere University
Chair: Gabriele Griffin, Uppsala University
080. Artificial Africa: Seeing urban algorithms through infrastructure, labour, justice and aesthetics 6:00 to 7:40 pm virPrague: VR 02 Participants:
Health data systems in Zambia - mistranslations moving from rural to urban? Jennifer A. Liu, University of Waterloo
(Post)colonial AI Technologies at the Digital Gateway to Africa Andrea Pollio, Future Urban Legacy Lab - Polytechnic of Turin
The Globalization of AI and The Practice Turn in Africa Yousif Hassan
The Division of Biometric Work. For a regressive anthropology of technology from the Senegalese electoral administration. Cecilia Passanti, Université Paris Descartes (Ceped)
BRT systems in African cities and sustainable urban mobility Deborah Ogochukwu Ejim-Eze, Foundation for Sustainability Science in Africa/ Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife; Emmanuel Ejim-Eze, Institute of Engineering, technology and innovation Management
Session Organizers: Matthew Harsh, California Polytechnic State University Ravtosh Bal, Duke University
Chair: Kerry Holden, Queen Mary, University of London
081. Maintenance and its knowledges I 6:00 to 7:40 pm virPrague: VR 03 Participants:
Getting to know and learning to care for microalgae in an experimental wastewater treatment system Mandy de Wilde, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands; Fenna Smits, University of Amsterdam
Maintaining an Aboriginal Honeybee Population in Ukraine’s Transcarpathian Region Tanya Richardson, Wilfrid Laurier University; Emilia Keil, Prokopovych Institute of Beekeeping, Academy of Agrarian Sciences of Ukraine; Alla Kizman, Prokopovych Institute of Beekeeping, Academy of Agrarian Sciences of Ukraine; Stepan Kerek, Prokopovych Institute of Beekeeping, Academy of Agrarian Sciences of Ukraine; Viktor Papp, Prokopovych Institute of Beekeeping, Academy of Agrarian Sciences of Ukraine; Ivan Mertsyn, Prokopovych Institute of Beekeeping, Academy of Agrarian Sciences of Ukraine
"My store is a laboratory" Nicolas Nova, Geneva School of Art
and Design Maintenance in Time: Managing Time in Repair and
Maintenance Work Alex Reiss Sorokin, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Software as an Object of Shared Maintenance Knowledge Mace Ojala, IT University of Copenhagen; Marisa Leavitt Cohn, IT University Copenhagen
Session Organizers: Jérôme Denis, CSI - MINES ParisTech Fernando Dominguez, UC San Diego David Pontille, CNRS
Chair: David Pontille, CNRS
082. Cosmogrammatics. Nature(s) in planetary designs 6:00 to 7:40 pm virPrague: VR 05 Participants:
En Terre: Global Material Imaginaries of Sustainable Design and Earthen Architecture in Senegal Megan Wiessner, New York University
Mobility as Speculative Technics of Survivable Architectures Fadi Shayya, The University of Manchester
Speculating at the nation-state scale Michaela Büsse, FHNW HGK
"We Only Have One Landfill Left": The Planetary Imaginary of Semakau Landfill May Ee Wong
Session Organizers: Johannes Bruder, FHNW Academy of Art and Design Gökçe Günel, Rice University Selena Savic
Chair: Johannes Bruder, FHNW Academy of Art and Design
083. Proliferation and dispersal of (in)security actors and materialities (Proliferation, dispersal and (in)security #1) 6:00 to 7:40 pm virPrague: VR 06 Participants:
Distributed Sovereignty: “War Clouds” & The Digital Military-Industrial Complex Lauren E Bridges, Annenberg School of Communication, University of Pennsylvania
Imagining Europe at the intersection of innovation and insecurity Dagmar Rychnovska, IHS Vienna; Christian Haddad, Austrian Institute for International Affairs - oiip; Nina Klimburg Witjes, Vienna University
The Aesthetic Proliferation of Security Jonathan Austin; Anna Leander, Graduate Institute of International and Devleopemnt Studies, Geneva
Proliferation and dispersal of sensors as infrastructures of in/security Nina Klimburg Witjes, Vienna University
Criticalities Of Dispersed Data Sources In Birding And Predictive Policing Ann Rudinow Saetnan, NTNU; Rocco Bellanova, UVA
Session Organizers: Annalisa Pelizza, University of Bologna and University of Twente Claudia Aradau, King’s College London
Chair: Annalisa Pelizza, University of Bologna and University of Twente
084. FLIPPED | Digital Experiments in the Making I: Epistemological And Ethical Considerations 6:00 to 7:40 pm virPrague: VR 07 Participants:
Life In The Trading Zone Of Digital STS Torben Elgaard Jensen, Aalborg University Copenhagen; Anders Kristian Munk, Aalborg University
Code Ethnography And The Materiality Of Power In Digital Communication Infrastructures Fernanda R. Rosa, Annenberg School for Communication, University of Pennsylvania
Transforming Code Into Voice: Toward A Material Semiotic Critical Code Studies Of Weizenbaum’s ELIZA Program Jamie Steele, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Session Organizers: Lina Franken, University of Hamburg Kim Fortun, University of California Irvine Mike Fortun, University of California, Irvine Gertraud Koch, University of Hamburg
Chair: Gertraud Koch, University of Hamburg
085. FLIPPED | Sustainable Biofuels?: Redesigning Nature, Nation, and Growth 6:00 to 7:40 pm virPrague: VR 08 Participants:
Redesigning Growth: Sugarcane Biotechnology and Post-Petroleum Futures in São Paulo, Brazil Katie Ulrich, Rice University
Cultivating Energy, Fuelling Empire: The Making of Biofuels in a Colonized Present Jessica Caporusso, York University
From Invasive Species to Biofuel of the Future: Marabú’s Transformation into Cuba’s New Hope Lauren Nareau, UNC Chapel Hill
Fuelling Bodies: Phosphorus, Agriculture, and Energetic Relations Cameron Butler, York University
Fueling the Failure: Biofuels, Forests, and the Environmental State andrew douglas schuldt, University Of British Columbia
Session Organizers: Duygu Kasdogan, İzmir Katip Çelebi University Jessica Caporusso, York University Katie Ulrich, Rice University andrew douglas schuldt, University Of British Columbia
Chair: Duygu Kasdogan, İzmir Katip Çelebi University
Discussants: Nicole Labruto, Johns Hopkins University Andrew S. Mathews, UC Santa Cruz
086. Classic STS Papers: Session 2 6:00 to 7:40 pm virPrague: VR 09 Participants:
Designing with Latour. Using Bruno Latour's ‘‘Where Are the Missing Masses? The Sociology of a Few Mundane Artifacts’’ as a design tutorial. Alvise Mattozzi, Free University of Bolzano; tiziana piccioni, Università IULM
Resisting The Cyborg: The Case of Wearable Computers Ana
Viseu, Universidade Europeia Seamlessness – Postcolonial Folding of Thomas Hughes’s
Seamless Web Alexandra Hofmaenner, University of Basel Session Organizers:
Nicole C Nelson, University of Wisconsin Madison Sergio Sismondo, Queen's University
Chair: Sergio Sismondo, Queen's University
087. Strategies for Knowledge Coproduction in the Agrifood Sector - session 1 6:00 to 7:40 pm virPrague: VR 10 Participants:
Agroecological innovation: co-producing nature, society and socioenvironmental technologies Les Levidow, Open University
Are governmental strategies regarding seed provision adequate to advance resilience of agri-food systems in Colombia? Erika Vanessa Wagner-Medina, AGROSAVIA, Colombia; Adriana Marcela Santacruz Castro, Agrosavia; Claudia Patricia Rendón Ocampo, Agrosavia
Has Agro-food Research focus in supplying technology changed following government instructions to develop Territorial Innovation Systems? OSCAR A. FORERO, AGROSAVIA; SOAS-UK
Session Organizer: OSCAR A. FORERO, AGROSAVIA; SOAS-UK
Chair: OSCAR A. FORERO, AGROSAVIA; SOAS-UK
Discussant: Erika Vanessa Wagner-Medina, AGROSAVIA, Colombia
088. Alchemical Transformations 2: On Matters of Substance and Change 6:00 to 7:40 pm virPrague: VR 11 Participants:
Devil's Dust: The Alchemy of Rags Hanna Rose Shell, University of Colorado Boulder
Great Transmutations? Habitat, Care, and Operations Futures in San Pedro Bay Christina Dunbar-Hester, University of Southern California
Tracing Flows and Alchemical Transformations of “Phlogiston” in Contemporary Fire/Combustion Narratives Aadita Chaudhury, York University
From wasted energy to waste-to-energy Matt Barlow, The University of Adelaide
Session Organizer: Heather Paxson, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
Chair: Bradley Jones, Washington University in St. Louis
089. Grassroots Innovation: Hacking, Making, Hobby, Entrepreneurship 2 6:00 to 7:40 pm virPrague: VR 12 Participants:
The “Life Cycle” of Pioneer Communities: The Emergence and the Decline the Quantified Self and Maker Movements Andreas Hepp, University of Bremen
Carving a Space for China’s Computer Amateurs: CFido as a Chinese Cyberspace before the Internet Chen-Pang Yeang, University of Toronto; Wen-Ching Sung, University of Toronto; Zhixiang Cheng, University of Toronto
Extra-Institutional Science: A Closer Look at Community Laboratories Anna Verena Eireiner, University of Cambridge
Session Organizer: Chen-Pang Yeang, University of Toronto
Chair: Chen-Pang Yeang, University of Toronto
090. Political Data of the Digital Anthropocene: (Justice, Diplomacy and Negotiation) 6:00 to 7:40 pm virPrague: VR 13 Participants:
Approaching the Digital Anthropocene: Ethnographic Encounters & Conceptual Openings James Maguire, IT University Copenhagen; Astrid Andersen, Aalborg University; Rachel Douglas Jones, IT University Copenhagen
Energy-Data-Scapes. How to transform energy with data. Laura Kocksch, Ruhr University Bochum
Scales of Reason: Data Sharing and Climate Change in the Caribbean Sarah Vaughn, University of California, Berkeley
Rising Ocean Waves: Actual, Digital, North, South Stefan Helmreich, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
Session Organizers: James Maguire, IT University Copenhagen Astrid Andersen, Aalborg University Rachel Douglas Jones, IT University Copenhagen
Chair: Astrid Andersen, Aalborg University
Discussant: Jennifer Gabrys, University of Cambridge
091. Crafting Critical Methodologies in Computing: Theories, Practices and Future Directions (A) 6:00 to 7:40 pm virPrague: VR 14 Participants:
Queer Maximalism HyperBody Jiadong Qiang, Goldsmiths, University of London
Critically Systemic Design and the Myths of Computing Christoph Becker, University of Toronto
Examining How The Structure of Programming Languages Shapes Computer Scientists’ Worldviews Elizabeth Patitsas, McGill University
Using memory, materiality and affect to reconfigure practices of computing Doris Allhutter, Austrian Academy of Sciences
Session Organizers: Loren Britton, University of Kassel Claude Draude, University of Kassel, Germany Goda Klumbyte, University of Kassel
Chair: Juliane Jarke, University of Bremen
092. Making science in public: 1 6:00 to 7:40 pm virPrague: VR 15 Participants:
Analysis of Public Engagement with Science on Social Media for a Small Environmental Research Center Justin Paul Peters, Indiana University; Noriko Hara, Indiana University
Social Media Affordances for Climate Science communication: A Case Study of Mainstream Scientist-produced Climate Blogs Georgios Zoukas, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
Data Deluge: Negotiating Data-Driven Imaginaries of Sea-Level Rise on YouTube Simon David Hirsbrunner, Freie Universität Berlin
Session Organizers: Sarah Davies, University of Vienna Noriko Hara, Indiana University
Chair: Noriko Hara, Indiana University
093. Negotiating knowledge of harm through affects, embodiment and trust 1 6:00 to 7:40 pm virPrague: VR 16 Participants:
Quantifying Patients’ Affect: Decision Regret Scales and the Biomedicalization of Medical Harm Jacob Moses, Harvard University
Negotiate Pain During Childbirth as Resistance to Harm: An Analysis of Competing Institutionalized Models of Knowledge Production in Maternity Care Organization in France and in Canada Maud Arnal, EHESS, Cermes3/IRIS
Producing Expertise on Birth: analyzing the emotional context of the ignorance- knowledge nexus. Anna Durnova, Institute of Sociological Studies/ Faculty of Social Sciences; Eva Hejzlarova, Institute of Sociological Studies
Session Organizers: Anna Durnova, Institute of Sociological Studies/ Faculty of Social Sciences Venla Oikkonen, Tampere University
Chair: Venla Oikkonen, Tampere University
094. FLIPPED Acknowledging Residues: the (un-)making of an environmental concern - II 6:00 to 7:40 pm virPrague: VR 17 Participants:
The social conditions for visibility. Pesticide residues and occupational health in California and France Jean-Noël Jouzel, Center for the study of organizations
Scientific and sensory engagements with residue: ethnographic explorations of concern-making in Dar es Salaam Signe Mikkelsen, University of Oslo
The good, bad and ugly carbon: Everyday encounters with carbon Jenny Rinkinen, University of Helsinki; Galina Kallio, University of Helsinki
Residue Evil: Wrecks and Underwater Munitions as Matter of Concern and Care Sven Bergmann, German Maritime Museum
Session Organizer: Signe Mikkelsen, University of Oslo
Chair: Franziska Klaas
Discussant:
Susanne Bauer, University of Oslo 095. Economics/Economy, Governance and STS III
6:00 to 7:40 pm virPrague: VR 18 Participants:
Seeing the economy as a whole. How the state represents the economy with numbers Quentin Dufour, CNRS - I3 - CSI
Spectacles of/for assetization Tanja Schneider, University of St Gallen
The Fashion Cleanup: Analysis of Policy Mechanisms for Moving towards Socially and Ecologically Sustainable Textile Model Pratyusha Kiran, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Panita Chatikavanij, Science and Technology in Society, Virginia Tech
Unruly Users: Cycling Governance in Context Bernhard Wieser, TU Graz
Governance from Within. The Role of Scientific Societies in Defining Ethical Standards in the Field of Reproductive Medicine Michaela Scheriau, Research Platform Responsible Research and Innovation in Academic Practice, University of Vienna
Session Organizer: Bernhard Wieser, TU Graz
Chair: Bernhard Wieser, TU Graz
096. Universities, Universalities, Globalities I 6:00 to 7:40 pm virPrague: VR 19 Participants:
Hidden or Potential (HoP) Colleges in Larger Institutions Steve Elliott, Arizona State University; Kimberly A. Scott, Arizona State University
Knowledge Production and Epistemic Privilege In Transnational Social Science Research Collaboration Rachel Fishberg, Roskilde University
Socio-Cultural Context In STEM Education Research: Who And What Matters? Tanja Tajmel, Concordia University (Montreal, CANADA); Gita Ghiasi, Université de Montréal
STS and Engineering Education: A History of the Undergraduate Thesis at the University of Virginia Bryn Seabrook, University of Virginia
University Campus Living Labs – From Ivory Tower To Sandbox Sophie Nyborg, Technical University of Denmark - DTU; Cian O'Donovan, University College London; Mathieu Baudrin, CSI-Ecole Des Mines De Paris; Bozena Ryszawska, Wroclaw University of Economics; Gianluigi Viscusi, Imperial College Business School; Heidi Gautschi, EPFL; Makoto Takahashi, Technical University Munich; Meiken Hansen, Technical University of Denmark; Maja Horst, Technical University of Denmark - DTU
Session Organizer: Rachel Fishberg, Roskilde University
Chair: Rachel Fishberg, Roskilde University
097. Experimental Practices and Practical Experiments in an Uncertain World II 6:00 to 7:40 pm virPrague: VR 20 Participants:
Knowing-How Things Are Made Public Through Body Copy. Insights for Co-curation, Co-Design, & STS Collaboration Amanda Windle, Independent, plus 4S Council Member and Backchannels Editor
Listening as a Mechanism for Social Justice J Britt Holbrook, New Jersey Institute of Technology; Elliot Douglas, University of Florida
Nano-Cities: Creating Infrastructures Across Scales In Nanoscience Benjamin Philip Blackwell, The University of Manchester
Integrative Computational Architecture as Universal Discipline: Some Cybernetic Strategies Yana Boeva, University of Stuttgart
Session Organizer: J Britt Holbrook, New Jersey Institute of Technology
Chair: J Britt Holbrook, New Jersey Institute of Technology
098. Fakes and Legitimacy Reordering 6:00 to 7:40 pm virPrague: VR 21 Participants:
Inauthenticity And Natural History Reese Fulgenzi, The University Of Chicago
Thinking With Imposters Else Vogel, Department of Thematic Studies - Technology and Social Change, Linköping University; David Moats, Linköping University, Tema-T (Tema Technology and Social Change); Stephen Woolgar; Claes-Fredrik Helgesson, Centre for Integrated Research on Culture and Society (CIRCUS)
The Social Infrastructure of Misinformation That is Radicalizing the Right in Brazil David Nemer, University of Virginia
Communication or Idealization? Attempts to Go Beyond the Deficit Model in Institutions Popularizing Science Katarzyna - Tamborska, Institute of Sociology, Nicolaus Copernicus University, Toruń, Poland
Science and Rumor of Virus: the Politics of Information Legitimacy of Coronavirus in China Alex Jiahong Lu, University of Michigan; Yuchen Chen, University of Michigan; Youngrim Kim, University of Michigan
Session Organizer: Cristina Popescu, EHESS - Centre d'Etude des Mouvements Sociaux
Chair: Cristina Popescu, EHESS - Centre d'Etude des Mouvements Sociaux
Discussant: Stefan Nicolae, University of Trier
099. Online Campaigns and Digital Personhood in the Age of Datafication 6:00 to 7:40 pm virPrague: VR 22 Participants:
#SendNudes: The Rise of E-Girls Alice Fox, Science and Technology in Society, Virginia Tech; Sophie Fox, Ohio Northern University
Making Human Patient Simulation Count: Practices of Algorithm Tuning and Tinkering with Performance Data Ivana Guarrasi Guarrasi, University of California, San
Diego Zhaawanong - The Southern Direction of the Anishinaabe
Medicine Wheel: An approach to develop a Indigenous digital software bundle by/for/with Indigenous peoples in Tkaronto, Canada. ALEJANDRO MAYORAL BANOS, York University / Indigenous Friends Association
Session Organizer: Rajesh Sharma, University of Tartu
Chair: Christian Ritter, Tallinn University
100. Discursive Traps in Global Health: Neglect, Poverty, and Emergence: neglected diseases 6:00 to 7:40 pm virPrague: VR 23 Participants:
In the Search for a Magic Bullet: Biased Interests in Drug Development for Leishmaniasis Mady Malheiros Barbeitas, Sociology - CERMES 3/ Unité Inserm 988 - Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales - Paris)
Pacified Accounts of Science: The Neglect of War in Colombian leishmaniasis' Problem Framing Lina Beatriz Pinto Garcia, York University
Leishmaniases of the New World from a historical and global perspective Jaime L. Benchimol, Fundação Oswaldo Cruz
From the Vector, Straight to the Heart: Reframing Chagas Disease in Mexico Mariela Sanchez-Belmont Montiel, The University of Manchester
Making Maladies Mundane: Noncommunicable Diseases and the Social Determinants of Knowledge Jonathan David Shaffer, Boston University
Session Organizer: Mady Malheiros Barbeitas, Sociology - CERMES 3/ Unité Inserm 988 - Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales - Paris)
Chair: Mady Malheiros Barbeitas, Sociology - CERMES 3/ Unité Inserm 988 - Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales - Paris)
101. The Ontological Politics of the Anthropocene II 6:00 to 7:40 pm virPrague: VR 24 Participants:
Ontological politics in the colombian high mountains: the conflict around conservation and the Anthropocene Camilo Castillo, Department of Thematic Studies - Technology and Social Change, Linköping University
On the Technoecologies of Commoning Dagmar Lorenz-Meyer, Charles University In Prague
Temporalizing the Issue Emil Flatø, University of Oslo The Artistic Sympoiesis and Emerging Artworlds Lenka
Polčová Session Organizer:
António Carvalho, Centre for Social Studies - University of Coimbra
Chair: Dagmar Lorenz-Meyer, Charles University In Prague
102. Iteration, Speculation, Transportation, Instrumentation: The Logics of Time on the Periphery 8:00 to 9:40 pm
virPrague: VR 01 Participants:
The Affective Demands of Design Participation Paul Dourish, University Of Calilfornia Irvine
Speculation and the Design of Development Phoebe Sengers, Cornell University
Time From Away: Infrastructure and the Clash of Temporal Logics in Rural Newfoundland and Labrador Donny Persaud, Cornell University
Scaling for Salmon Sarah Catherine Inman, University of Washington
Session Organizer: Phoebe Sengers, Cornell University
Chair: Phoebe Sengers, Cornell University
103. Universals' Locales 8:00 to 9:40 pm virPrague: VR 02 Participants:
A Paraconsistent History: Mathematical Logic in a Paradoxical World Rodrigo Ochigame, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Soviet Mathematicians, the Academy of Sciences, and the Longue Duree in Soviet Computing Barbara Walker, University of Nevada, Reno
Bibliographic Globalization in the History and Historiography of Modern Mathematics Michael J Barany, University of Edinburgh
Session Organizer: Michael J Barany, University of Edinburgh
Chair: Michael J Barany, University of Edinburgh
104. Maintenance and its knowledges II 8:00 to 9:40 pm virPrague: VR 03 Participants:
Roads’ Clinical Medicine: Hints at a Semiotic Paradigm in Infrastructure Maintenance Roman Solé-Pomies, Center for the Sociology of Innovation - Mines ParisTech
When to Care. Predictive Maintenance and the Expertise of Maintenance Workers in Public Transport Tobias Röhl, University of Siegen
Illicit energy economies and the care of things Carlos Cuevas-Garcia, Technical University of Munich
Knowledge, Knowledgeability, and Acknowledgement in HVAC Maintenance Alain Bovet, Institute of Geography and Sustainability; Moritz F Fürst, Université de Lausanne; Tristan Loloum, Université de Lausanne
Good Care, Bad Economy? The Role Of Economic Practices In Maintaining Suitable Care Processes Barbara Grimpe, University of Klagenfurt
Session Organizers: Jérôme Denis, CSI - MINES ParisTech Fernando Dominguez, UC San Diego David Pontille, CNRS
Chair: Jérôme Denis, CSI - MINES ParisTech
105. Future Histories of Data and Databases
8:00 to 9:40 pm virPrague: VR 04 Participants:
Seizure Aesthetics: Temporal Regimes and Medical Technology in Epilepsy Diagnosis Megh Marathe, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Historiographies of Computing History: A Meta-Review Charles Luke Alan Stark
Now We Know Then: IoT, the Present, and the Future Perfect John Seberger, Indiana University, Bloomington
Session Organizers: Oscar Lemus, Indiana University, Bloomington John Seberger, Indiana University, Bloomington
Chair: Charles Luke Alan Stark
106. ‘Another Science [Education] is Possible’: Science Education in the Anthropocene 8:00 to 9:40 pm virPrague: VR 05 Participants:
Let’s root for each other and grow: ‘Class Journeys’ Acknowledging the Interconnectedness (with)in Science Education Rachel Askew, Vanderbilt University
Creating magical research: Writing for a felt reality in a more-than-human world Nicole Bowers, Arizona State University
Decolonizing Healing within the Anthropocene Miranda Field, University of Regina
Anthropocene, Nature and a More-than-Human World Colin Hennessy Elliott
Session Organizer: Sara Tolbert, Te Whare Wananga o Waitaha University of Canterbury
Chair: Sara Tolbert, Te Whare Wananga o Waitaha University of Canterbury
107. Proliferation and dispersal at the border (Proliferation, dispersal and (in)security #2) 8:00 to 9:40 pm virPrague: VR 06 Participants:
Making up data: from migrant traces to border inscriptions Claudia Aradau, King’s College London; Sarah Perret, King's College London
Identification as Translation: Shiftings, Spokespersons and Interessement Devices at the Securitized Border Annalisa Pelizza, University of Bologna and University of Twente
EU border (in)security between infrastructural experimentation and collective imagination Paul Trauttmansdorff, Department of Science and Technology Studies; Ulrike Felt, University of Vienna, Department of Science and Technology Studies
Predictive Bordering: Frontex’s Drones As Actors Of Time Above The Mediterranean Anika Redmann, Europa-Universität Viadrina
Session Organizers: Annalisa Pelizza, University of Bologna and University of Twente Claudia Aradau, King’s College London
Chair:
Matthias Leese, ETH Zurich Discussant:
Lucy Suchman, Lancaster University, UK 108. FLIPPED | Digital Experiments in the Making II:
Collaborative Creation Of Infrastructures For STS Research 8:00 to 9:40 pm virPrague: VR 07 Participants:
Platforms For Experimental Collaborative Ethnography And STS Kim Fortun, University of California Irvine; Mike Fortun, University of California, Irvine; Tim Schuetz, UC Irvine; James Adams, University of California, Irvine; Lindsay Poirier, University of California Davis; Alison Kenner, Drexel University; Angela Okune, University of California - Irvine; Aalok Khandekar, Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad
Curating A Digital Platform, Researching The Knowledge Infrastructures Of Public Health Susanne Bauer, University of Oslo; Christine Holmberg, Brandenburg Medical School Theodor Fontane
Inhabiting The Algorithm. The Making Of A Smartphone App To Explore How People Became Habituated To Algorithmic Profiling And Recommendation Systems Matías Valderrama, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile; Martin Tironi; Celia Lury, University of Warwick; Scott Wark, University of Warwick; Andre Simon, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile; Denis Parra, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile
Doing Data Together: Intervening In Urban Planning With Digital Methods Anders Koed Madsen, Aalborg University
Session Organizers: Lina Franken, University of Hamburg Kim Fortun, University of California Irvine Mike Fortun, University of California, Irvine Gertraud Koch, University of Hamburg
Chair: Lina Franken, University of Hamburg
109. Health and Care Imaginaries 8:00 to 9:40 pm virPrague: VR 08 Participants:
Boxed-In & Beside: (Un)Situating Indigenous & Biomedical Health Infrastructures in Wall Mapu/La Araucanía, Chile Randall C Burson, Department of Anthropology, The University of Pennsylvania
Crisis-in-the-Making or Crisis-Making? Tales from a Regionalization of Elderly Care in the Netherlands Iris Wallenburg, institute for Health Policy and Management; Jitse Schuurmans, Erasmus University Rotterdam; Dara Ivanova, Erasmus School of Health Policy and Management; Roland Bal, Erasmus University Rotterdam
“Go to Chigonela!”: Locating ‘good care’ at a Tanzanian maternity waiting home Megan Cogburn, University of Florida
Implementation Over Time(s) and Across Context(s): Early Identification of Frailty in Alberta, Canada Meaghan Brierley, Alberta Health Services; Sara Mallinson, Alberta Health Services; Stephanie Hastings, Alberta Health Services; Rima Tarraf, Alberta Health Services
Tying Regions To Places Jitse Schuurmans, Erasmus University
Rotterdam Session Organizer:
Roland Bal, Erasmus University Rotterdam Chair:
Roland Bal, Erasmus University Rotterdam Discussant:
Martyn Pickersgill, University of Edinburgh 110. Classic STS Papers: Session 3
8:00 to 9:40 pm virPrague: VR 09 Participants:
"Nonorganic Life" as Classic Paper: Manuel Delanda and STS Alexander Jenseth, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute - STS
Susan Leigh Star's Allergy to Onions (subject to panel conventions) Aryn Martin, York University
The Durkheim Test: Reenacting Susan Leigh Star's "Structure of Ill-Structured Solutions" Sebastian Gießmann, University of Siegen, Germany
Tyranny and the Temporalities of Comparative Inquiry Matt Spencer
Session Organizers: Nicole C Nelson, University of Wisconsin Madison Sergio Sismondo, Queen's University
Chair: Nicole C Nelson, University of Wisconsin Madison
111. Means And Ends Of STS (Part I): STS As Theory And Practice 8:00 to 9:40 pm virPrague: VR 10 Participants:
Against Modernist Illusions: Why We Need More Democratic and Constructivist Alternatives to Debunking Contentious Contents Jaron Harambam, Institute for Media Studies - KU Leuven
“Fake News” In the Classroom: Critical Pedagogy As An Antidote To Post-Truth In Higher Education Shan Mohammed; Jessica Bytautas, University of Toronto; Quinn Grundy, Lawrence S. Bloomberg Faculty of Nursing, University of Toronto
A moment of post-truth for STS Johan Soderberg Session Organizer:
Rob Evans, Cardiff University Chair:
Kjetil Rommetveit, University of Bergen, Norway 112. Alchemical Transformations 3: On Matters of Substance
and Change 8:00 to 9:40 pm virPrague: VR 11 Participants:
The shapes of fog: Transforming atmospheric phenomena into water and theory machines Chakad Ojani, University of Manchester
Kodak Arcana: Alchemical Capitalism and the Material Transformation of Social Bonds Ali Feser, University of Chicago
Queer Alchemy and the Modern Mikveh Movement Cara Rock-Singer, University of Wisconsin-Madison
“Emeryville is Weird:” Cosmopolitics of Urban Renewal in San
Francisco Bay Area’s Biotech Corridor Annie Hammang, Arizona State University
Chasing The Philosopher's Stone: In Search Of Healing Practices After Austerity Kieran Cutting, Open Lab, Newcastle University
Session Organizer: Bradley Jones, Washington University in St. Louis
Chair: Bradley Jones, Washington University in St. Louis
Discussant: Heather Paxson, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
113. Disrupting Biomedicine: The Politics and Practice of Open Source and Biohacked Drugs and Devices 8:00 to 9:40 pm virPrague: VR 12 Participants:
Hybridity and Fluidity of Crowd Organising in Biomedicine Simeon Vidolov, University College Dublin; Emma Stendahl, University College Dublin; Susi Geiger, University College Dublin
Hacking Diabetes: Patient Activism, Open Source Medicine, and DIY Insulin Pumps Colleen Lanier-Christensen, Harvard University
"Trickiness All Around": Open Insulin and the Thickets of the Biocapital Landscape Andrew Ian Murray, University of California, Santa Cruz
Politically Engaged Research Within DIY/Biohacked Medicine Efforts: Opportunities and Challenges from the Open Insulin Project Nicole Foti, University of California, San Francisco
Innovative Bodies: An Ethnography Of Medical Device Hacking In Contemporary India Anisha Chadha, New York University
Session Organizers: Colleen Lanier-Christensen, Harvard University Nicole Foti, University of California, San Francisco
Chair: Nicole Foti, University of California, San Francisco
Discussant: Hélène Mialet, York University STS
114. Ways of Knowing the Digital Anthropocene (Sensing and Seeing) 8:00 to 9:40 pm virPrague: VR 13 Participants:
Engaging Environmental Data Justice to Conduct Civically Valid Air Monitoring with Oil&Gas Fenceline Communities Lourdes Annette Vera, Northeastern University
Making Sense of Urban Air Rasmus Tyge Haarløv, IT University Copenhagen
Does the Common Heritage Principle make any difference? The case of marine biodiversity in the digital age Alice Vadrot, University of Vienna, Department of Political Science; Arne Langlet, MARIPOLDATA / University of Vienna; Ina Tessnow von Wysocki, MARIPOLDATA / University of Vienna
Sensing Landscape as a Media Object: A Case Study in Kandahar, Afghanistan Saadia Mirza, The University Of Chicago
Session Organizers:
James Maguire, IT University Copenhagen Astrid Andersen, Aalborg University Rachel Douglas Jones, IT University Copenhagen
Chair: James Maguire, IT University Copenhagen
Discussant: Jennifer Gabrys, University of Cambridge
115. Crafting Critical Methodologies in Computing: Theories, Practices and Future Directions (B) 8:00 to 9:40 pm virPrague: VR 14 Participants:
Questioning practices of computing design, through the dialogue with testimonial textile crafting in Colombia Tania Pérez-Bustos, National University of Colombia; Laura Cortés-Rico, Universidad Militar Nueva Granada
Software Art Practice in Aesthetic Programming Winnie Soon, Aarhus University
Reenchanting the Fetish: Critical Rituals of Human-Machine Interaction Ceyda Yolgormez, Concordia University
Session Organizers: Loren Britton, University of Kassel Goda Klumbyte, University of Kassel Juliane Jarke, University of Bremen
Chair: Claude Draude, University of Kassel, Germany
116. Whose Dream House? 8:00 to 9:40 pm virPrague: VR 15 Participants:
The Electric Nursery Hannah Zeavin, UC Berkeley Smart Home Hauntings Tamara Kneese, University of San
Francisco Siri’s gendered labour Thao Phan, Deakin Univeristy The Entreprenurialization of Domesticity: Home Automation in
Co-Living Spaces Cansu Güner, Munich Center for Technology in Society (MCTS)
Session Organizers: Tamara Kneese, University of San Francisco Hannah Zeavin, UC Berkeley
Chair: Hannah Zeavin, UC Berkeley
117. (Afro)Future Texts: Black Critical Frameworks for Emerging Worlds 8:00 to 9:40 pm virPrague: VR 16 Participants:
Anthropology and Theatre: Forecasting for Black Lives? Ugo Felicia Edu, University of California Los Angeles (UCLA)
Afterlives of Deportation: The Eritrean Self and Technologies of Black Empire Sabine Mohamed, Institute of Anthropology at Heidelberg University
Affect without Borders?: Global and Local Campaigns against Maternal Mortality Adeola Oni-Orisan, UC San Francisco
Session Organizer: Adeola Oni-Orisan, UC San Francisco
Chair: Adeola Oni-Orisan, UC San Francisco
Discussants: Victoria M. Massie Holly Okonkwo, Purdue University
118. Locating & timing governing in STS and Universities I: Exploring university cultures and systems 8:00 to 9:40 pm virPrague: VR 17 Participants:
Between autonomy and dependency- exploring how university managements conceptualize researchers’ behaviour and motivations Lisa-Maria Ferent
Academic citizenship, the management of excellence, and the neo-liberal universities Knut H Sørensen, NTNU Norwegian University of Science and Technology
"I hate this place!" Algorithmic Governance of University Students, Faculty, and Staff Sharon Traweek, UCLA
Quantum Postdocs: Precarious Employment, Fragmented Careers and Marketized Mathematics in the Neoliberal University Milena Kremakova, Martin-Luther-University Halle-Wittenberg, Germany
Timing and Governance of International Mobility among Scientists. A cultural analysis of university politics, structural incentives and individual knowledge transfer. Helena Pettersson, Umeå University; Katarzyna Wolanik Boström, Umeå University; Magnus Öhlander, Stockholm University
Session Organizers: Knut H Sørensen, NTNU Norwegian University of Science and Technology Sharon Traweek, UCLA
Chair: Sandra Harding, Graduate Department of Education, UCLA
119. AI, cognition, posthumanism 8:00 to 9:40 pm virPrague: VR 18 Participants:
Beyond Heaven And Hell: Configuring Ethical AI Xaroula Kerasidou, Lancaster University
Cognitive technologies as scaffolding for scientific knowledge Melina Gastelum, UNAM
Constructing Faces: A Dialogue between ANT and AI Levi Checketts, Santa Clara University
Humanist Technology Understanding And The Promises Of Posthumanism Peter Danholt, Aarhus University
The Concepts of Biological Evolution in Artificial Intelligence Literature: Intelligent Design or Darwinian Theory? Shiang-Yao Liu, National Taiwan Normal University; Ying-Kai Liao, National Taiwan Normal University; Chen-Yung Lin, National Taiwan Normal University
Session Organizer: Levi Checketts, Santa Clara University
Chair: Levi Checketts, Santa Clara University
120. Universities, Universalities, Globalities II 8:00 to 9:40 pm virPrague: VR 19 Participants:
Engaged Scientists: Academic Climate Advocacy and Activism in 2020 Maxwell Boykoff, University of Colorado Boulder
The Citizen Science’s Democratic Turn : a sociological analysis of a ‘participatory science programme’ and its transformations Aymeric Luneau, INRAE, LISIS; Elise Demeulenaere, Centre Alexandre-Koyré; Romain Julliard, CESCO - MNHN; Stéphanie Duvail, PALOC - IRD; Frédérique Chlous, MNHN
What Do We Talk About When We Talk About Citizen Science? Michael Strähle, Wissenschaftsladen Wien - Science Shop Vienna; Christine Urban, Wissenschaftsladen Wien - Science Shop Vienna
Session Organizer: Ludwig Weh, Freie Universität Berlin
Chair: Ludwig Weh, Freie Universität Berlin
121. Experimental Practices and Practical Experiments in Uncertain world V 8:00 to 9:40 pm virPrague: VR 20 Participants:
Technologies of Huachicol: Informal/Illegal Knowledges in Crime Networks Articulation of the Triángulo Rojo Edmundo Meza Rodríguez, UNIVERSIDAD IBEROAMERICANA PUEBLA
The Value Of Being Invisible - Hotel Housekeeping And It`s Valuation Ville Savolainen, Tampere University
Is researching biodiversity worthwhile? conserving and extracting value of life: the case of Colombia Alberto Aparicio, Instituto de Investigación de Recursos Biológicos Alexander von Humboldt
Session Organizer: Ville Savolainen, Tampere University
Chair: Ville Savolainen, Tampere University
122. Re-animating the Sociocultural Life of Computer Graphics 8:00 to 9:40 pm virPrague: VR 22 Participants:
New Operations: Digital Images in Architectural Design Joel McKim, Birkbeck, University of London
Reconstruction, Emulation, Speculation: Methodological Provocations into the Socio-Technical History of Computer-Aided Design Daniel Cardoso Llach, Carnegie Mellon University
Unaccounted Work of Computational Simulation: A Case of Diffuse Objects Akshita Sivakumar, University of California at San Diego
Render This!: On Computational Architectures and Graphical Processing Ranjodh Singh Dhaliwal, University of California Davis
Session Organizers: Ranjodh Singh Dhaliwal, University of California Davis Akshita Sivakumar, University of California at San Diego
Chairs: Ranjodh Singh Dhaliwal, University of California Davis Akshita Sivakumar, University of California at San Diego
123. Discursive Traps in Global Health: Neglect, Poverty, and Emergence: emergent diseases 8:00 to 9:40 pm virPrague: VR 23
Participants: Making Non-Endemicity in the United States Bernardo Moreno
Peniche, UC Berkeley Care and inequalities in responses to the Zika virus epidemic
Jonatan Sacramento, State University of Campinas - UNICAMP; Maria da Costa, State University of Campinas
Emergency in Question: Colonialism, Philantropy and Modified Mosquitoes Claudia Rivera
On the Coloniality of Global Public Health Eugene T Richardson, Harvard Medical School
Session Organizer: Bernardo Moreno Peniche, UC Berkeley
Chair: Bernardo Moreno Peniche, UC Berkeley
124. The Ontological Politics of the Anthropocene I 8:00 to 9:40 pm virPrague: VR 24 Participants:
Crafting an ontology for the Anthropocene António Carvalho, Centre for Social Studies - University of Coimbra
Restating the political in the climate crisis: political ontology and knowledge politics in uncertain times Adam John Standring, Örebro University; Rolf Lidskog, Örebro University
Earth System / World Order: Notes Toward A Question Stefan Schäfer, Institute for Advanced Sustainability Studies; Cameron Hu
The Nomos of the Anthropocene Richard Randell, Webster University; Robert Braun, Institut für Höhere Studien Vienna
What We Talk About When We Talk About The “Anthropocene”: White Supremacy, Coloniality, & Environmental Destruction Jacob Barton, University of California, Berkeley
Session Organizer: António Carvalho, Centre for Social Studies - University of Coimbra
Chair: António Carvalho, Centre for Social Studies - University of Coimbra
WEDNESDAY, AUGUST, 19 125. Applied Interdisciplinary Energy and Buildings Research
8:00 to 9:40 am virPrague: VR 01 Participants:
Catching a black cat in a dark room. Making tenants contributing to sustainable housing Linda Soneryd S; Elena Bogdanova, University of Gothenburg
Messy practices: the design and construction of sustainable buildings Ruth Woods, Dept. of Interdisciplinary Studies of Culture, NTNU; Judith Thomsen, SINTEF Community
Realizing sustainability transitions through the (dis)integration of policy, business, and engineering cycles and time scales for sustainable energy: experiences from eastern Ontario, Canada Alexandra Mallett, Carleton University; Craig Merrett, Clarkson University
Session Organizer:
Antti Silvast Silvast, Dept. of Interdisciplinary Studies of Culture, NTNU
Chair: Ruth Woods, Dept. of Interdisciplinary Studies of Culture, NTNU
126. Politicization of Sociotechnical Futures 1: Future Assessment and Governance 8:00 to 9:40 am virPrague: VR 02 Participants:
Exploring And Shaping The Politicization Of Sociotechnical Futures Differently: Contextual Challenges For TA’s Vision Assessment Andreas Lösch, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT)/ ITAS
Assessing Scientific-Technological Narratives In Future-Oriented Research And Decision Making Michael Eggert, Chair of Sociology of Technology and Organization (STO) at RWTH Aachen University, Aachen/Germany; Axel Zweck, RWTH Aachen University – Institute of Sociology
General Data Protection Regulation: The Power and Value of Personal Data Lauren Lee Barrett, University of Colorado Boulder
Governmentalities of Sociotechnical Climate Strategies between Copenhagen and Paris Sean Low, Institute for Advanced Sustainability Studies (IASS); Miranda Boettcher, Institute for Advanced Sustainability Studies
Promises in the political economy of delay: Greenhouse Gas Removal as cultural climate fix Nils Markusson, Lancaster University; Duncan McLaren, Lancaster University; David Tyfield, Lancaster University; Rebecca Willis, Lancaster University; Bronislaw Szerszynski, Lancaster University; Andrew Jarvis, Lancaster University
Session Organizers: Maximilian Roßmann, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT)/ ITAS Andreas Lösch, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT)/ ITAS
Chair: Paulina Dobroc, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
127. The Life of Numbers 3: Counts, Consumptions, Patients 8:00 to 9:40 am virPrague: VR 03 Participants:
Becoming Countable: U.S. Cancer Policy and the Temporality of Numbers Deborah Lefkowitz
Numbers and eating disordering of (male) bodies. Piotr Maron, University of New South Wales
The making of a leprosy-free world: uncounted effects of enumeration Glaucia Maricato
Session Organizers: Kari Lancaster, University of New South Wales, Sydney Tim Rhodes, Centre for Social Research in Health, UNSW
Chair: Tim Rhodes, Centre for Social Research in Health, UNSW
128. Careful engagements 1 8:00 to 9:40 am virPrague: VR 04 Participants:
Artful Participation: ethics of intervening in a symphony orchestra Ties van de Werff, Maastricht University / Zuyd
University of Applied Sciences Exploring transdisciplinary co-design as an intra-active
engagement: Insights for STS scholars Karly Burch, University of Otago; Katharine Legun, University of Wageningen; Hugh Campbell, University of Otago
On the Dilemmas of Collaborating with Industries Tobias Drewlani, Munich Center for Technology in Society, Technical University of Munich
Tentative potential of performative experimentation: A case of collective memory-work in an exhibition space Tine Friis, CBMR and Medical Museion, University of Copenhagen
Session Organizers: Niels Christian Nickelsen, Aarhus University, School of Education Doris Lydahl, University of Gothenburg
Chair: Doris Lydahl, University of Gothenburg
129. Genontologies I 8:00 to 9:40 am virPrague: VR 05 Participants:
How to regulate the use of gene editing technology on human embryos—the Japanese context Minori Kokado, Kobe Pharmaceutical University, Japan
Politics of (Non)Belonging: Making Differences Between Publics Through Forensic Genetic Technologies Nina Amelung
Prenatal Testing in East Asia: Differences in Information Provision and Choice Hyunsoo Hong, Division of Bioethics, The Institute of Medical Science, The University o
Session Organizer: Nina Amelung
Chair: Nina Amelung
130. Matters of Integrity - Studying the Situated Practices of Producing Knowledge ‘Well’ 8:00 to 9:40 am virPrague: VR 07 Participants:
The Tone Debate in Psychology Maarten Derksen, University of Groningen - Theory & History of Psychology
Relationships and Social Practices as Matters of Integrity Florentine Frantz, University of Vienna, Department of Science and Technology Studies
Assembling Research Integrity Sarah Davies, University of Vienna; Katrine Lindvig, University of Copenhagen
Session Organizers: Florentine Frantz, University of Vienna, Department of Science and Technology Studies Sonja Jerak-Zuiderent, Amsterdam University Medical Centers
Chair: Florentine Frantz, University of Vienna, Department of Science and Technology Studies
131. Doctoral Research, Inventive Inquiry and Making New Spaces within and beyond the Academy - I 8:00 to 9:40 am virPrague: VR 08 Participants:
Solidarity Walks 0.1: Restitution of the Institution - A Working Methodology Megan Olinger, City University of Hong Kong
Solidarity Walks 0.1: Future Situations of Knowledge production Christine Maria Kaiser, School for Creative Media - City University Hong Kong
Solidarity Walks 0.1: The Collective as the Institution of Our Times + “Refugee” Residents Michael Leung, School of Creative Media; CHEN HUANG, City University of Hong Kong
Solidarity Walks 0.1: Altered and Alternate Spaces for Knowledge Production & Nongkrong Kay Mei Ling Beadman; Riar Rizaldi, City University of Hong Kong
Solidarity Walks 0.1: Transition, Transgression and now thus fear of viral Transmissions. Anton Dragan Maslic, City University of Hong Kong
Session Organizers: Lisa Lehner, Cornell University Jade Vu Henry, Goldsmiths, University of London
Chair: Jade Vu Henry, Goldsmiths, University of London
132. EASTS editorial meeting 8:00 to 9:40 am virPrague: VR 09 Session Organizer:
Hsin-Hsing Chen, Shih-Hsin University Graduate Institute for Social Transformation Studies
Chair: Wen-Hua Kuo, National Yang-Ming University
133. Aesthetic Interventions: Exploring Emerging Worlds Through Art I – Studying Artists & Epistemic Practices 8:00 to 9:40 am virPrague: VR 10 Participants:
Sci-art/Bio-art: Women in the Lab, Theory Materialized Merete Lie, NTNU - Norwegian University of Technology and Science, Trondheim
Sci-Art/Bio-Art: Ethics, Politics and Aesthetics of Care Nora S. Vaage, Philosophy Department, Maastricht University
The mode of making art: A study on the production of the VR-artwork “Palo Alto” Mariya Dzhimova, Munich Center for Technology in Society, Technical University of Munich
Session Organizers: Regula Valérie Burri, HCU - HafenCity University Hamburg Joseph Dumit, UC Davis
Chair: Regula Valérie Burri, HCU - HafenCity University Hamburg
134. Health, care, (dis)abilities I 8:00 to 9:40 am virPrague: VR 11 Participants:
Autoconstructing Care: the Quest for Assisted Living Facilities for Adults with Intellectual Disabilities in South Brazil Helena Fietz, UFRGS
Blood Safety Standards: Values and Technologies in Vital Infrastructures Aikaterini Vlantoni, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
Godzilla vs King Kong. Studying Pro-Science and Alternative Health Discourses Across the Web in Times of Information Chaos Magdalena Halina Góralska, Koźmiński University in
Warsaw HIV Prevention, Seasons of Risks, and the Rise of the Gay
Clinic in Thailand Poyao Huang Session Organizer:
Magdalena Halina Góralska, Koźmiński University in Warsaw Chair:
Magdalena Halina Góralska, Koźmiński University in Warsaw 135. Lost in the Dreamscapes of Modernity? Theorizing Agency,
Multiplicity, and Scale in Sociotechnical Imaginaries 1 8:00 to 9:40 am virPrague: VR 17 Participants:
Imagining Transformations To Sustainability In Energy, Agriculture, And Cities: Plurality, Diversity, And Multiplicity In Sociotechnical Imaginaries Research. phil johnstone, Science Policy Research Unit, University of Sussex; Andy Stirling, Science Policy Research Unit, University of Sussex; Rose Cairns, Science Policy Research Unit, University of Sussex; Joel Onyango, African Centre For Technology Studies
Visions as Make-believe: How Models and Narratives Represent Sociotechnical Futures Maximilian Roßmann, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT)/ ITAS
Scaling Geographical Imaginaries and Infrastructures of Development Aybike Alkan, Koc University
Session Organizer: Alexander Wentland, Technical University of Munich
Chair: Alexander Wentland, Technical University of Munich
136. Making & Doing - Wednesday show 8:00 to 6:00 pm virPrague: VR M&D Participants:
Ancient Passages: Echos of Prague 2121 Shomit Barua The Atlas of Research on Research: tracing how ideas, priorities
and practices move Helen Woods, University of Sheffield; James Wilsdon, University of Sheffield; Sarah de Rijcke, Centre for Science and Technology Studies (CWTS); Ludo Waltman, Centre for Science and Technology Studies (CWTS); Thomas Franssen, Centre for Science & Technology Studies (CWTS), Leiden University; Ismael Rafols, Centre for Science & Technology Studies (CWTS), Leiden University; Vincent Traag, Centre for Science and Technology Studies (CWTS)
Drawing spatial and bodily sensitivities – a training kit Ulrike Scholtes, UVA; Marlies Vermeulen, RESEARCH CENTRE FOR ARTS, AUTONOMY AND THE PUBLIC SPHERE
Un/Doing human-microbiological coexistence in time of Covid-19 Lukáš Senft, Institute of Sociology of the Czech Academy of Sciences; Tereza Stockelova, Institute of Sociology of the Czech Academy of Sciences; katerina kolarova, Institute of Sociology of the Czech Academy of Sciences
Poking Holes in Borders with Tiny Machines Evan Light, Glendon College, York University
The Gig Lane Pradyumna Taduri; Janaki Srinivasan, International Institute of Information Technology - Bangalore
Maintaining CS Loren Britton, University of Kassel; Helen Pritchard, Goldsmiths University of London
Crafting Medicine: A Sensory Exhibit of Three Medical Schools Rachel Vaden Allison, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, Maastricht University,; Anna Harris, Maastricht University; John Nott, Maastricht University; Andrea Wojcik, Maastricht University
Crash Theory Adam Fish, University of New South Wales Exploring Ethical Decision Making in Video Games
Maximilian Reiner, Technische Universität München; Maximilian Braun, Technische Universität München; Matthias Gabriel, Technische Universität München; Clara Valdés-Stauber, Technische Universität München; Xinghan Liu, Technische Universität München; Sarah Eidam, Technische Universität München
For Novelty Use Only: DIY Methods of Assessing Sexual Health Microbiomes Hazelle Lerum, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; Runa Archer, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; Xen Riccardi, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Is Another World Possible? Imagining a Post-Automobility Future Through an Anti-Motor Show Richard Randell, Webster University; Robert Braun, Institut für Höhere Studien Vienna
“Making and Doing TopEndSTS – on country… and online?” Michaela Spencer, Charles Darwin University; Cathy Bow, Charles Darwin University; Yasunori Hayashi, Charles Darwin University; Leonie Norrington, Charles Darwin University; Simon West, Charles Darwin University; Jennifer Macdonald, Charles Darwin University
Robocops, flowers and stones: technologies and arts of repression, resistance and protest Henry Chavez, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Ecuador / CTS-Lab FLACSO / Divergence; Denis Ismael Chavez Ordoñez, PUCE; José Egas, EHESS
Emoji technology assessment: experiments in sociotechnical engagement lauren Keeler, SFIS - Arizona State University; Sean McAllister, SFIS - Arizona State University; Joshua Loughman, SFIS - Arizona State University; Steven Weiner, SFIS - Arizona State University; JP Nelson, SFIS - Arizona State University; Jan Cordero, SFIS - Arizona State University; Elma Hajric, SFIS - Arizona State University; Martin Andrés Perez Comisso, SFIS - Arizona State University
Chair: Ludek Broz, Institue of Ethnology of the Czech Academy of Sciences
137. Social Dynamics in Interdisciplinary Energy Projects 10:00 to 11:40 am virPrague: VR 01 Participants:
Doing cross-disciplinary research as affective engagement. An apprenticeship in urban hydrology silvia bruzzone, Mälardalens högskola
Measuring Interdisciplinarity in Climate Change Research Mallory Fallin, Northwestern University; Antonio Nanni, Northwestern University
Session Organizer: Antti Silvast Silvast, Dept. of Interdisciplinary Studies of Culture, NTNU
Chair: Ruth Woods, Dept. of Interdisciplinary Studies of Culture, NTNU
138. Politicization of Sociotechnical Futures 2: De- and Re-Politicizations 10:00 to 11:40 am virPrague: VR 02 Participants:
Sociotechnical weapons: AI myths as national power play Jascha Bareis, Institute for Technology Assessment and Systems Analysis; Thomas Christian Bächle, Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society
The Depoliticization of Gene Editing Technologies, Narratives and Practices Tomiko Yamaguchi, International Christian University
Metropolis in Flux: Mobility and Mobilization in the Transport Debate Aleksandra Kazakova, Gubkin Russian State University of Oil and Gas, Bauman Moscow State Technical University
Place-based Forms and Motives of Concerns: Futures of the French Seine-Northern Europe Canal Gabrielle Bouleau, INRAE, LISIS
Session Organizers: Maximilian Roßmann, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT)/ ITAS Paulina Dobroc, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
Chair: Andreas Lösch, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT)/ ITAS
139. Identification, Datafication and Data-Diven Governance 10:00 to 11:40 am virPrague: VR 03 Participants:
Precision Global Health, or the Segmentation of the World Against Disease Vincent Duclos, Drexel University
The Public-Private Welfare State : constructing a data-driven governance in the Global South Marine Al Dahdah, French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS)
Population Data Innovations for “Real-Time” Decision Making in Ghana Alena Thiel, Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg
Making the Disabled Body Legible: Biometrics, Documentary Evidence and the Indian State Kim Fernandes, University of Pennsylvania
Session Organizers: Alena Thiel, Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg Richard Rottenburg, University of the Witwatersrand
Chair: Alena Thiel, Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg
140. Careful engagements 2 10:00 to 11:40 am virPrague: VR 04 Participants:
Modeling and the Competence in Care Morten Nissen, Aarhus University
Too detached - too close. Engaging in care ethics Niels Christian Nickelsen, Aarhus University, School of Education
The Academic Struggle for the Common Eve Seguin, UQAM Theorizing figuration as engagement – deceptions and
problematizations Esben Langager Olsen, Copenhagen Business School, IOA
Session Organizers: Niels Christian Nickelsen, Aarhus University, School of
Education Doris Lydahl, University of Gothenburg
Chair: Doris Lydahl, University of Gothenburg
141. Locating Care 10:00 to 11:40 am virPrague: VR 05 Participants:
Enacting Mental Healthcare Online: Young People’s Experiences of Intimacy, Trust, Harm, and Self-Knowledge Susanna Trnka, University of Auckland
From the Urban Brain to the Rural Psyche: Place, Personhood and Rural Mental Health Martyn Pickersgill, University of Edinburgh
Place Made Manifest: Affect and hormones in choosing a birth place Andrea Ford, The University of Edinburgh
Reconfiguring place in a place. Insights from quality of life-initiatives in Austrian nephrology practices Anna Mann, University of Copenhagen
White-Robed Angels Necessary Across the Taiwan Strait : Transregional Migrations of Chinese Nurses to Taiwan, 1945-1970s Shu-ching Chang, Chang Gung University
Session Organizer: Dara Ivanova, Erasmus School of Health Policy and Management
Chair: Iris Wallenburg, institute for Health Policy and Management
142. Proliferation and dispersal in security communities of practice (Proliferation, dispersal and (in)security #3) 10:00 to 11:40 am virPrague: VR 06 Participants:
Science, technology, security: towards critical collaboration Samuel A Weiss Evans; Dagmar Rychnovska, IHS Vienna; Matthias Leese, ETH Zurich
Shadowy Conjunctions in the War on Terror Katja Lindskov Jacobsen, Copenhagen University
The Everyday Cultures of (Cyber)Security Ashwin Jacob Mathew, King's College London
Session Organizers: Annalisa Pelizza, University of Bologna and University of Twente Claudia Aradau, King’s College London
Chair: Claudia Aradau, King’s College London
Discussant: Anna Leander, Graduate Institute of International and Devleopemnt Studies, Geneva
143. STS Perspectives on Innovation: Significance and Agency in Emerging Worlds - 1 10:00 to 11:40 am virPrague: VR 07 Participants:
China’s R&D policy in the dynamic between the central government and the local government Cong WANG, University of Warwick, UK
Emerging worlds, emerging sustainabilities in China Julia Kirch Kirkegaard, Department of Organization, Copenhagen
Business School; Mikkel Dehlholm, Copenhagen Business School, IOA
Exploring innovations in local context: Creativity, inspiration and love for unfinished products in Russia Olga Bychkova, European University at St.Petersburg
The MAIS Approach: a New Tool for Analyzing and Facilitating Innovation Takuji Hara, Kansai University
Session Organizers: Alan Irwin, Copenhagen Business School Jane Bjørn Vedel, Copenhagen Business School
Chair: Jane Bjørn Vedel, Copenhagen Business School
144. Editing future life and biotechnological utopias/ Bio-political materialization and potentialities of CRISPRcas9 _ 01 session 10:00 to 11:40 am virPrague: VR 08 Participants:
CRISPRcas9. Designing future life and agricultural promises Virginie Tournay, SciencesPo; Guillaume Levrier, Sciences Po; Anaïs degache, INRAE/PACTE
GMOs and complex collectivity: a discourse analysis of public debate on Norway’s Gene Technology Act Sigfrid Kjeldaas
Why Intellectual Property Mechanisms Are Not The Best Way To Encourage Progress of CRISPR-Cas9 Technology in Academic Sector Franc Mali, University of Ljubljana - Faculty of Social Sciences
Session Organizer: Eva Slesingerova, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic
Chair: Eva Slesingerova, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic
145. Engineering Extinction: Prospects, Uncertainties, and Responsibilities in Planned Extinction 10:00 to 11:40 am virPrague: VR 09 Participants:
Reinventing life and death on a molecular scale: the technobiopolitics of planned extinction Josef Barla, Goethe University Frankfurt
German experimental multi-species Governmentality or: The environmentally friendly local eradication of the Asian tiger mosquito Kevin Hall, Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany
The Mosquito as a Tool: Insect Entanglements in Malaria Control Marianne Mäkelin, University of Helsinki
Session Organizer: Josef Barla, Goethe University Frankfurt
Chair: Josef Barla, Goethe University Frankfurt
146. Forms, Protocols, and Artefacts of Resistance 10:00 to 11:40 am virPrague: VR 10 Participants:
Everything Under Control? On Access Control, Privacy and Security of Blockchain Technologies in Health Care Victoria Neumann, Lancaster University
Experimental Media Infrastructure As A Laboratory For Communication Practices Aleksandra Skowronska, Adam Mickiewicz University
The rise of federation in secure messaging: technological
compromise or ideological choice? Ksenia Ermoshina, CNRS; Francesca Musiani, CNRS
Session Organizer: Victoria Neumann, Lancaster University
Chair: Victoria Neumann, Lancaster University
Discussant: Anna Adamowicz, Institute of Philosophy, Adam Mickiewicz University
147. Health, care, (dis)abilities II 10:00 to 11:40 am virPrague: VR 11 Participants:
How Can a Patient’s Personal Account of Illness not be a Boundary Object? William Leeming, OCAD University
Implications of Adaptive Frameworks for Reproductive Regularity Case Study: Emily Martin’s Thought Experiment Ashley Teodorson-Taggart
(In)Fertile relations amongst reproductive experts: the practice of producing and circulating knowledge Sandra Patricia Gonzalez-Santos, Universidad Anahuac
Innocent Technology? A Emperical Study on User’s View about the Relations of Information Communication Technology(ICT) and HIV Infections Bu Kai, The School of Health Humanities, Peking University Health Science Center
Designing precision oncology: an ethnographic study of experimenting and organizing Jessica Polk, McGill University; Peter Keating, University of Quebec at Montreal; Jonah Campbell, McGill University; Alberto Cambrosio, McGill University; Pascale Bourret, AIX-MARSEILLE UNIVERSITE / UMR SESSTIM
Session Organizer: William Leeming, OCAD University
Chair: William Leeming, OCAD University
148. Value in Biomedicine: Value creation of emerging technologies 10:00 to 11:40 am virPrague: VR 12 Participants:
How data gain a quasi-monopoly: DNA methylation and the “streetlight effect” in the value production processes of biomedical research lola auroy, Université Grenoble-Alpes (UGA), France
Making Clinical And Commercial Value: Examples From The Translation of Biomodifying Technologies Michael Morrison
Silicon Valley’s Knights in Shining Armour: How Digital Therapeutics Came to Save the Planet’s Mental Health Susi Geiger, University College Dublin
Session Organizer: Katharina Kieslich, University of Vienna
Chair: Katharina Kieslich, University of Vienna
149. Making Home, With Care: (Imaginary) Geographies 10:00 to 11:40 am virPrague: VR 13 Participants:
Home making in elderly care as relational/material practice Bernike Pasveer, Maastricht University; Ingunn Brita Moser, Det norske Diakonhjem; Oddgeir Synnes, VID Specialized University Oslo, Norway
Staying/Leaving Home as a Care Continuum: Home-making within European Temporary Migration Marianne van Bochove, Erasmus School of Health Policy and Management; Dara Ivanova, Erasmus School of Health Policy and Management
The Home is Moving Out – Caring for the Home in a Social Sustainable City District Maria Eidenskog
When Is A House (Not) A Home? Querying The Power At Stake In Negotiations Of Home And Care Gunhild Tøndel, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU); Ingvill Stuvøy, NTNU; Ann Rudinow Saetnan, NTNU
Session Organizer: Bernike Pasveer, Maastricht University
Chair: Oddgeir Synnes, VID Specialized University Oslo, Norway
150. The (In)Visible Labour Of Translation: Creating Value In Translational Medicine I 10:00 to 11:40 am virPrague: VR 14 Participants:
In search of the paperless clinical trial? How digital technology is reshaping hidden work practices in contemporary clinical research Alex Rushforth, University of Oxford; Trisha Greenhalgh, University of Oxford, UK; Chrysanthi Papoutsi, University of Oxford; Sara Shaw, University of Oxford
Who Knows, Who Cares?: Making visible the labour of clinical research delivery Rachel Faulkner-Gurstein, King's College London
Invisible practices in translational medicine: the case of clinician scientists Barbara Hendriks, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin and German Centre for Higher Education Research and Science Studies; Cornelia Schendzielorz, Deutsches Insitut für Wissenschafts und Hochschulforschung/Humboldt Universität zu Berlin; Martin Reinhart, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
'Miscellaneous Care': More-Than Scientists, Doctors and Nurses in CAR T-Cell Therapy in China Isabel Briz Hernandez, Chinese University of Hong Kong
Making Data Work Visible Barbara Prainsack, Department of Political Science, University of Vienna; Alena Buyx, Technical University Munich; Amelia Fiske, Kiel University
Session Organizers: Rachel Faulkner-Gurstein, King's College London Clemence Pinel, Center for Medical Science and Technology Studies, University of Copenhagen David Wyatt, King's College London
Chair: Clemence Pinel, Center for Medical Science and Technology Studies, University of Copenhagen
151. Exploring the Configuration of the Public in Innovation 10:00 to 11:40 am virPrague: VR 15 Participants:
Co-creation with whom? Configuring ‘the public’ in innovation procurement between co-design, democracy, and the market
Benjamin Lipp, Technical University Munich; Shelly Tsui, Eindhoven University of Technology; Federica Pepponi, MCTS - Munich Center for Technology in Society (TUM); Carlos Cuevas-Garcia, Technical University of Munich; Mathieu Baudrin, CSI-Ecole Des Mines De Paris; Magdalena Rozwadowska, Wroclaw University of Economics and Business
Imagining and infrastructuring publics in the making of Smart City Vienna Pouya Sepehr; Ulrike Felt, University of Vienna, Department of Science and Technology Studies
Interest-based Participation in Co-creation of Renewable Energy Innovations Lene Gjørtler Elkjær, Technical University of Denmark - DTU; Maja Horst, Technical University of Denmark - DTU; Sophie Nyborg, Technical University of Denmark - DTU
Old Wine in New Bottles? Tracing Co-creation in the European Policy Discourse Anja Kathrin Ruess, Munich Center for Technology in Society, Technical University of Munich; Ruth Müller, MCTS TU München; Sebastian Michael Pfotenhauer, Technical University Munich
Session Organizers: Shelly Tsui, Eindhoven University of Technology Anja Kathrin Ruess, Munich Center for Technology in Society, Technical University of Munich Benjamin Lipp, Technical University Munich Meiken Hansen, Technical University of Denmark Magdalena Rozwadowska, Wroclaw University of Economics and Business
Chair: Benjamin Lipp, Technical University Munich
152. Methods in Studying Data/Natures 10:00 to 11:40 am virPrague: VR 16 Participants:
ROCK REPO: Trans*feminist scanning practices for geocomputation Helen Pritchard, Goldsmiths University of London; Jara Rocha, The Underground Division; Femke Snelting, Independent Researcher
Ethnography and Data Natures Agata Jalosinska, Newcastle University
Designing Multimodal Artifacts For Exploring Urban Life. An Experimental/Ethnographic Proposal By Times Square And I Santiago Orrego, Technical University Munich (TUM)
Intersectional Gender-Responsibility in Arctic Knowledge Production Mervi Aulikki Heikkinen, University of Oulu
Session Organizer: Tahani Nadim, Museum fuer Naturkunde
Chair: Ingmar Lippert, IT University of Copenhagen
153. Lost in the Dreamscapes of Modernity? Theorizing Agency, Multiplicity, and Scale in Sociotechnical Imaginaries 2 10:00 to 11:40 am virPrague: VR 17 Participants:
Experiencing and Imagining the City on Two Wheels: A Phenomenological Approach to the Sociotechnical Imaginary Bernhard Isopp, Munich Center for Technology in Society, Technical University of Munich
Future Imaginaries In The Making And Governing Of Digital
Technology: Multiple, Contested, Commodified Christian Katzenbach, Alexander von Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society (HIIG); Astrid Mager, Austrian Academy of Sciences
How Does A Traveling Sociotechnical Imaginary Land? From Grand Challenge To Human Brain Project Jongheon Kim, University of Lausanne, Faculty of Social and Political Sciences
Session Organizer: Alexander Wentland, Technical University of Munich
Chair: Alexander Wentland, Technical University of Munich
154. Governing Reproductive Bio-economies: Policy Frameworks, Ethics and Economics 2 10:00 to 11:40 am virPrague: VR 18 Participants:
Academic Capitalism and the Normalization of Genome Editing Santiago J Molina, University of California Berkeley
In the Name of Innovation: Law and the Political Economy of Reproductive Future Jennifer Denbow, California Polytechnic State University
Reproductive Futures: Transgender Youth, Fertility Preservation, and Cross-Border Governance Erin Heidt-Forsythe, Pennsylvania State University; Hil Malatino, Penn State University
Session Organizers: Nicky Hudson, De Montfort University Vincenzo Pavone, Consejo Superior Investigaciones Cientificas (CSIC)
Chair: Cathy Herbrand, De Montfort University
155. Growing old in a more-than human world: Materialities of care and interspecies entanglements I 10:00 to 11:40 am virPrague: VR 20 Participants:
Considering more-than-human participation in co-design with older adults: Implications for a material gerontology Helen Manchester, University of Bristol; Juliane Jarke, University of Bremen
Alexa, Care Worker Platforms, and Emergent Precarious Technologies of Care in the UK James Wright, The University of Sheffield
Socio-material arrangement by 'invisible users' - the constitution of ageing in digitalised society Signe Yndigegn, Design Department, IT University, Copenhagen
Care Practices Among Older People: Collective Constitutions On The Boundaries Between Formal/Informal Care Elin Siira, Gothenburg University; Signe Yndigegn, Design Department, IT University, Copenhagen; Bertil Rolandsson, Department of Sociology and Work Science, Gothenburg University, Gothenburg; Axel Wolf, Institute of Health and Care Sciences, Gothenburg University, Gothenburg; Helle Wijk, Institute of Health and Care Sciences, Gothenburg University, Gothenburg
Pharmaceutical care; polypharmacy and eldercare in contemporary Denmark Sofie Rosenlund Lau, Department of Public Health, University of Copenhagen
Session Organizer: Nete Schwennesen, Copenhagen University
Chair: Nete Schwennesen, Copenhagen University
156. Social Sciences and Humanities in Energy Research: STS perspectives 12:00 to 1:40 pm virPrague: VR 01 Participants:
Future Directions for Sociotechnical Energy and Climate Research: A Critical Review and Research Agenda Benjamin Sovacool; David J Hess, Vanderbilt
The Role of Social Sciences and Humanities in Norwegian Environment-friendly Energy Research and Innovation Antti Silvast Silvast, Dept. of Interdisciplinary Studies of Culture, NTNU
In search of a sustainable urban future: Experiences and reflections from an interdisciplinary research project Michael Ornetzeder, Austrian Academy of Sciences; Gloria Rose, Austrian Academy of Sciences
Session Organizer: Antti Silvast Silvast, Dept. of Interdisciplinary Studies of Culture, NTNU
Chair: Ruth Woods, Dept. of Interdisciplinary Studies of Culture, NTNU
157. Politicization of Sociotechnical Futures 3: Rhetorics and Discourse Dynamics 12:00 to 1:40 pm virPrague: VR 02 Participants:
Visions as cultural techniques. Cultural semiotic reflections on future visions Paulina Dobroc, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
Un/doing Future – Air Taxis As Technologies Of The Future Staged As Present Futures Marcel Woznica, Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz | Institut für Soziologie
“Listen to the Science” - The Use of Scientific Knowledge in Environmental Movements as Re-Politicization of the Climate Debate? Christopher Pavenstädt, Hamburg University; Simone Rödder, University of Hamburg
Lithium exploration in the North of Portugal: notes on the importance of long-term perspectives Emilia Araujo, universidade do minho
Session Organizers: Paulina Dobroc, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology Andreas Lösch, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT)/ ITAS
Chair: Maximilian Roßmann, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT)/ ITAS
158. Frameworks of Agency and Dis/Media. The Significance of Current Digital Technologies and Dis-/Abling Media Practices 12:00 to 1:40 pm virPrague: VR 03 Participants:
Rethinking Hearing: Techno-mediated music hearing Beate Ochsner, Universität Konstanz
Playing with (In)Accessibility. The Microsoft Adaptive Controller as a Ludic Experimental System for alternative
Bodily and Technosensory Configurations of Digital Gaming Markus Spöhrer, Universität Konstanz
The constitutive work of non-humans at the development of a (self)-tracking technology: A reconstruction from the actor-network-theory Mandy Scheermesser, Zurich University of Applied Sciences, School of Health Professions
Dis/media assemblages surrounding the care for street cats of Istanbul Burak Taşdizen, Orient-Institut Istanbul
Disclosing the Entanglement of Life, Humans and Social Accountability While Interacting with Social Robots Diego Compagna, Hochschule München
Reconfiguring Life Under the Techno-Political Condition.The Cases of Social Robotics and Neuro-Engineering Benjamin Lipp, Technical University Munich; Sabine Maasen, MCTS, Technical University of Munich
Talking with a synthesized voice: co-constructing meaning in conversations with Ivan Bakaidov (video-analysis) Sasha Aleksandra Kurlenkova, New York University
Range Anxiety? Questioning Mobile Dis/Abilities Robert Stock, University of Konstanz
Session Organizers: Melike Sahinol, Orient-Institut Istanbul Robert Stock, University of Konstanz
Chair: Melike Sahinol, Orient-Institut Istanbul
Discussants: Vasilis Galis Michael Schillmeier, University of Exeter
159. Careful Engagements 3 12:00 to 1:40 pm virPrague: VR 04 Participants:
Unsettling usefulness within? Doris Lydahl, University of Gothenburg
Collaborative Anecdotalization Alicia Smedberg, Malmö University
Comics as a strategy to rethink visual tools in STS and Feminist Theory and practice Federica D'Andrea, Utrecht University
Session Organizers: Doris Lydahl, University of Gothenburg Niels Christian Nickelsen, Aarhus University, School of Education
Chair: Niels Christian Nickelsen, Aarhus University, School of Education
160. Dilemmas in the production of advisory science - Session 1 12:00 to 1:40 pm virPrague: VR 05 Participants:
Between Uptake and Rigor: Dilemmas of Open Science Stefan Reichmann, ISDS; Bernhard Wieser, TU Graz
Bringing Models Home: External versus In-house Modelling Expertise within the EU Commission’s Trade Sustainability Assessments Titus Udrea, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Inst. of Technology Assessment (ITA); Anja Bauer, University of Klagenfurt; Leo Capari, Institute of Technology Assessment, Austrian Academy of Sciences; Daniela Fuchs, Institute of Technology Assessment of the Austrian Academy of Sciences (ITA-OeAW)
Certainty in locality: citizen science, observation and agency Dick Kasperowski, University of Gothenburg; Niclas Hagen, University of Gothenburg, Dpt of Philosophy, Linguistics& Theory of Science
The Validation and Accountability of Indigenous and Local Knowledge at IPBES James White, Örebro University; Rolf Lidskog, Örebro University
Session Organizer: Sebastian Linke, University of Gothenburg
Chair: Sebastian Linke, University of Gothenburg
161. Doctoral Research, Inventive Inquiry and Making New Spaces within and beyond the Academy - II 12:00 to 1:40 pm virPrague: VR 06 Participants:
Inventing a future: what life looks like after a heart transplant Nadine Tanio, University of California, Los Angeles
Socialization Experience of Doctoral Students in Disciplinary and Interdisciplinary Departments of Indian Universities Modho Govind, Centre for Studies in Science Policy, School of Social Sciences -1,JNU, New Delhi
Session Organizers: Lisa Lehner, Cornell University Jade Vu Henry, Goldsmiths, University of London
Chair: Lisa Lehner, Cornell University
162. China, Technology, Planetary Futures: Lessons for a World in Crisis? 1) Governance, Big Data 12:00 to 1:40 pm virPrague: VR 07 Participants:
Knowledge Construction in an “Infodemic:” Roles of Social Media in Chinese People’s Life during Coronavirus Outbreak Rui Zhou, Georgia Institute of Technology
Financial Inclusion In The Age of Digital Finance: Opening Black-boxes Of Digital Lending In China Mats Frank, Edinburgh University
Privacy? or quantified collective-selves in China's pandemic Xiaobai Shen, University of edinburgh
Session Organizer: David Tyfield, Lancaster University
Chair: David Tyfield, Lancaster University
163. Editing future life and biotechnological utopias/ Bio-political materialization and potentialities of CRISPRcas9 _ 02 session 12:00 to 1:40 pm virPrague: VR 08 Participants:
Biotechnological Utopias_DNA recombinant and techno-imagination Eva Slesingerova, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic
Gene drives for Nature conservation – technological interventions and the ideal of non-human nature Rosine Kelz, Institute for Advance Sustainability Studies (IASS) Potsdam
Editing future life and biotechnological utopias in the Nordic countries Kristofer Hansson, Malmö University; Andréa Wiszmeg, Dept. of Public Health and Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, Copenhagen University
CRISPR States: Genome Editing As A Biopolitical Means Guillaume Levrier, Sciences Po; Virginie Tournay, SciencesPo
Session Organizer: Eva Slesingerova, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic
Chair: Eva Slesingerova, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic
164. Broken and Livable Futures with Automated Decision-Making – I 12:00 to 1:40 pm virPrague: VR 09 Participants:
Deep automation bias: how to tackle a wicked problem of AI and automated decision-making? Stefan Strauß, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Inst. of Technology Assessment (ITA)
Judgment Time: On Normative Dimensions of Algorithmic Speed Daniel Susser, Penn State University
Knowing Algorithmic Governance Beyond Fairness And Transparency Florian Eyert, Weizenbaum Institute for the Networked Society
The Problem with AI Ethics David Moats, Linköping University, Tema-T (Tema Technology and Social Change)
Session Organizers: Tuukka Lehtiniemi, University of Helsinki Minna Ruckenstein, University of Helsinki
Chair: Tuukka Lehtiniemi, University of Helsinki
165. Re-emerging Psychedelic Worlds: Altered States, Altered Subjects, Altered STS? (1) 12:00 to 1:40 pm virPrague: VR 10 Participants:
Contextualizing the Renaissance of Psychedelics Vera Borrmann, Vienna; Christopher Coenen, KIT-ITAS
Between Indigenous Rituals and Pharmaceutical Thought Styles: Imaginaries of a Potentially Legal Psychedelic Future Maram Mazen, Munich Center for Technology in Society (MCTS)
Beyond medicalization: Socio-psychedelic imaginaries in the United States Claudia Schwarz-Plaschg, University of Vienna
Tracing Psilocybin in India :STS perspective on home grow and foraging practices of entheogenic fungi. Nagesh Anand, Woodpeckers Initiative Foundation
Session Organizers: Claudia Schwarz-Plaschg, University of Vienna Tehseen Noorani, Durham University
Chair: Tehseen Noorani, Durham University
166. Health, care, (dis)abilities III 12:00 to 1:40 pm virPrague: VR 11 Participants:
Making the Measuring Body Anna Harris, Maastricht University
Transcending experiences, limiting concepts: How to rethink ‘recovery’ in a non-standard comparative study? Aysel Sultan
Feeling out of the box: Unmaking chronicity through immunostimulation in Brazil Márcio Vilar, Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany
Reflecting on “disaster prone areas” in Freetown, Sierra Leone Lorenz Gosch, Martin-Luther-University Halle-Wittenberg, Germany
Securitizing Global Health: Global Health Politics Between Preparedness, Security And Economy Mara Linden, Goethe-University Frankfurt, Germany
Session Organizer: Aysel Sultan
Chair: Aysel Sultan
167. Flows and overflows of personal data S2 12:00 to 1:40 pm virPrague: VR 12 Participants:
Imagining health data flows: everyday life, sensors, and a data platform Robin Rae, University of Vienna, Department of Science and Technology Studies
Electronic Health Records and the Diffracted Matterings of Primary Care Data for Real-World Research Paraskevas Vezyridis, University of Nottingham; Stephen Timmons, University of Nottingham
Data Oceans and the Commercialization of Health Inequity Mary Ebeling, Drexel University
Session Organizer: Mary Ebeling, Drexel University
Chair: Mary Ebeling, Drexel University
168. Making Home, With Care: (Moral) Materialities 12:00 to 1:40 pm virPrague: VR 13 Participants:
Repotting the home: Utilizing personal items in creating a sense of home in nursing homes Hanna Stalenhoef, Erasmus School of Health Policy and Management; Jitse Schuurmans, Erasmus University Rotterdam; Iris Wallenburg, institute for Health Policy and Management; Roland Bal, Erasmus University Rotterdam
Ageing In A Healthcare Smart Home: Home Is Where The Smart Is? Rachel Creaney, University of St Andrews/ James Hutton Institute
Invoking the 'Home and Hearth' in Care: An Exploration of Home-Based Palliative Care in India Nishanth Kunnukattil Shaji, Department of Science and Technology Studies, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Session Organizer: Bernike Pasveer, Maastricht University
Chair: Bernike Pasveer, Maastricht University
169. The (In)Visible Labour Of Translation: Creating Value In Translational Medicine II 12:00 to 1:40 pm virPrague: VR 14 Participants:
More-Than-Cryogenic Worlds: Maintaining And Transforming Biobanks In Spain Violeta Argudo-Portal, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
Social determination in spaces of translational medicine and diagnosis Jean Harrington, University of Exeter
Bioeconomies of contraceptive risk: moving towards a user-centered risk assessment Alina Geampana, Aston University
Session Organizers: Rachel Faulkner-Gurstein, King's College London Clemence Pinel, Center for Medical Science and Technology Studies, University of Copenhagen David Wyatt, King's College London
Chair: David Wyatt, King's College London
170. The Era of Voice: STS and Emerging Healthcare Activism around Science, Politics and Markets 12:00 to 1:40 pm virPrague: VR 15 Participants:
Engaging with Vaccination Controversy: A Role for STS. Tarryn Abrahams, Virginia Tech
Becoming Victims of Nuclear Power Plants and making voices to the public sphere Kim Woo-Chang; Sun-Jin Yun, Seoul National University
Young People’s “Voice” – Discussing Healthcare Matters Online On Their Own Terms Martyna Gliniecka, Institute for Culture & Society, Western Sydney University
Reconfiguring Healthcare for Capital Accumulation: “Neoliberal Activism” in Financialised Pharmaceutical Firms and Precision Medicine Théo Bourgeron, University College Dublin; Ilaria Galasso, University College Dublin
Session Organizers: Ilaria Galasso, University College Dublin Théo Bourgeron, University College Dublin Sonja Erikainen, University of Edinburgh
Chair: Ilaria Galasso, University College Dublin
171. Sensing In/Security. Sensors as Transnational Security Infrastructures 12:00 to 1:40 pm virPrague: VR 16 Participants:
Infrastructural Coercion: Mobile Security Vulnerability and Stingrays Evan Light, Glendon College, York University; Fenwick Mckelvey, Concordia University
Visual Vignettes: writing images, drawing words Mascha Gugganig, Technical University Munich; Rachel Douglas-Jones, IT University of Copenhagen
Social sensing: roles and functions of occult evidence in industries of prediction Katja Mayer, Vienna University; El Iblis Shah, Aden Academy of Science
Hacking Satellites: A Conversation on Security and Response-abilities Jan-Hendrik Passoth, Technische Universität München
Session Organizers: Nikolaus Pöchhacker, University of Graz Nina Klimburg Witjes, Vienna University
Chair: Nina Klimburg Witjes, Vienna University
Discussant: Geoffrey C. Bowker, University of California, Irvine
172. Lost in the Dreamscapes of Modernity? Theorizing Agency,
Multiplicity, and Scale in Sociotechnical Imaginaries 3 12:00 to 1:40 pm virPrague: VR 17 Participants:
Sociotechnical Imaginaries Of A Circular Economy: Place And Scale In Desired Futures Abe Hendriks, University of Groningen
The rise of hyper-speculation in post-conventional energy futures Magdalena Kuchler, Uppsala University; Gavin Bridge, Durham University
Urban Energy Transition Policy Work Practices And Imaginaries. The Role Of Local Policy Workers Towards Sustainable Futures Stefano Magariello, Anglia Ruskin University
Session Organizer: Alexander Wentland, Technical University of Munich
Chair: Alexander Wentland, Technical University of Munich
173. Governing Reproductive Bio-economies: Policy Frameworks, Ethics and Economics 3 12:00 to 1:40 pm virPrague: VR 18 Participants:
Egg Donation Practice in Iran: a Feminist Study of Under-Regulation in Assisted Reproductive Technologies Tiba Bonyad, The University of Manchester
Reproductive Sisterhood? The Marketing and Regulation of ‘Altruistic’ Egg Donation in Europe Nicky Hudson, De Montfort University
Selecting women, taming bodies? Body ontologies in egg donation practices in Spain Laura Perler, University of St. Gallen; Anna Molas Closas, Monash University (Australia)
Silences, omissions, and over-simplifications: the UK debate on mitochondrial donation Cathy Herbrand, De Montfort University
Session Organizers: Nicky Hudson, De Montfort University Cathy Herbrand, De Montfort University
Chair: Vincenzo Pavone, Consejo Superior Investigaciones Cientificas (CSIC)
174. Governing Assisted Conception in Asia 12:00 to 1:40 pm virPrague: VR 19 Participants:
The History of Japanese Follow-up Surveys of Children Conceived by Artificial Insemination by Donor (AID) Hideki Yui, The Health Care Science Institute (Japan)
The Making and Unmaking of Relatedness through Third-Party ARTs in India Mizuho Matsuo, National Museum of Ethnology (Japan)
Increasing ART through Public Financing and the Unexpected Negative Results Jung-Ok Ha, National Museum of Korean Contemporary History
The Socio-cultural Context of Coping with Infertility in Vietnam, Myanmar, and the Philippines Chiaki Shirai, Shizuoka University
Liable Care: Miscarriage Prevention from Antai to Defensive Medicine Wen-Ching Sung, University of Toronto
Anticipatory Regimes of IVF: Success, Failure, and/or Health Risk Chia-Ling Wu, National Taiwan University
Session Organizer: Chia-Ling Wu, National Taiwan University
Chair: Wen-Ching Sung, University of Toronto
175. Growing old in a more-than human world: Materialities of care and interspecies entanglements II 12:00 to 1:40 pm virPrague: VR 20 Participants:
Interspecies entanglements and politics of relationship in care homes Nete Schwennesen, Copenhagen University; Daniel Lopez Gomez, Universitat Oberta de Catalunya
Delivering Silent Care: Training Assistance Dogs For Veterans. Mara Miele, Cardiff University; Harriet Smith, Cardiff University; Nickie Charles, Warwick University; Rebekah Fox, Warwick University
Geriatric Ex-Dairy Cows: Caring for Otherwise Expendable Life Juno Salazar Parrenas
Session Organizer: Nete Schwennesen, Copenhagen University
Chair: Nete Schwennesen, Copenhagen University
176. The politics of progress 12:00 to 1:40 pm virPrague: VR 21 Participants:
Anachronistic Progress? User Notions of Lie Detection in the Juridical Field in Germany Bettina Paul, Universität Hamburg; Larissa Fischer, RWTH Aachen University; Torsten H Voigt, RWTH Aachen University
Politics of Progress and the Social Sciences Jan Schank, Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg, Centre for Security and Society
Techno-Optimism on the Defensive: Digital Innovation for (What Kind of) Good? Jurate Kavaliauskaite, Vilnius University
The Bioeconomy agenda between Legal Pragmatism and a General Ecology of Law: Settler Colonialism and transnational law in the relations between extraction and life. alex stingl
Session Organizers: Torsten H Voigt, RWTH Aachen University Larissa Fischer, RWTH Aachen University Bettina Paul, Universität Hamburg
Chair: Bettina Paul, Universität Hamburg
177. Speculative Futures and the Biopolitics of Populations: Session 1 12:00 to 1:40 pm virPrague: VR 22 Participants:
Reproducing Russia. Crisis talk and the technological promises of IVF Veronika Siegl, University of Bern
'Bare branches', 'leftover women', DINKs and rising infertility: demographic speculation in China today Ayo Wahlberg, University of Copenhagen
Embryo culture as knowledge production: the politics of knowing and not-knowing through technology Elina Helosvuori, University of Helsinki; Riikka Homanen, University of Tampere
#No Babies, Greener Planet? Feminist Speculations Beyond “Population” Geographies Susanne Huebl, University Münster
Session Organizers: Mianna Meskus, Tampere University Ayo Wahlberg, University of Copenhagen
Chair: Mianna Meskus, Tampere University
178. Frameworks of Agency and Dis/Media. The Significance of Current Digital Technologies and Dis-/Abling Media Practices - follow-up discussion 1:40 to 3:00 pm virPrague: VR 03 Session Organizer:
Melike Sahinol, Orient-Institut Istanbul Chair:
Melike Sahinol, Orient-Institut Istanbul 179. Governing Assisted Conception in Asia - follow-up
discussion 1:40 to 3:00 pm virPrague: VR 19 Session Organizer:
Chia-Ling Wu, National Taiwan University Chair:
Chia-Ling Wu, National Taiwan University 180. Book Publishing drop in with Emerald - Exhibits Weds A
1:40 to 3:00 pm virPrague: VR 23 Session Organizers:
Jen McCall, Emerald Publishing Sallie Gregson, Emerald Publishing
Chairs: Jen McCall, Emerald Publishing Sallie Gregson, Emerald Publishing
181. Bristol University Press - Meet the Editor | 19 August 1:40 to 3:00 pm virPrague: VR 24 Session Organizer:
Bahar Muller, Bristol University Press Chair:
Paul Stevens, Bristol University Press 182. Science as a Site of Inequality: Theoretical, Empirical and
Reflexive Insights From STS 3:00 to 4:40 pm virPrague: VR 01 Participants:
Inequality in Science as Subject of Scholarly Debate: A Multi-disciplinary Research Synthesis Susanne Koch, Technical University of Munich
Power relations and the construction of a sociotechnical future in rice in Uruguay Santiago Alzugaray, Universidad de la República, Uruguay
A comparative study of career trajectories and epistemic living spaces among men and women professors in Norway and
Japan Guro Korsnes Kristensen, Norwegian University of Science and Technology; Vivian Anette Lagesen, NTNU; Siri Øyslebø Sørensen, Norwegian University of Science & Technology (NTNU)
Session Organizer: Susanne Koch, Technical University of Munich
Chair: Nelius Boshoff, Stellenbosch University
183. Decentring datacentres: their politics, energy, waste and epistemics 3:00 to 4:40 pm virPrague: VR 02 Participants:
Bogs, Storage, and the Temporalities of Repair Patrick Brodie, Concordia University (Montreal, CANADA); Patrick Bresnihan, Maynooth University
Making the politics of data centers visible. Experts reports, local protests and trials in France clement marquet, IFRIS, Costech
Chasing standardization: Everyday data work in a research data centre Katharina Kinder-Kurlanda, GESIS - Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences
Managing Data-Centres: infrastructuring university “small tech” Estrid Sørensen, Ruhr University Bochum; Laura Kocksch, Ruhr University Bochum
Digital Pollution: Exploring epistemic material and normative challenges of knowledge production and circulation. Federica Lucivero, The Ethox Centre, University of Oxford; Gabby Samuel, King's College London /Lancaster University
Session Organizers: Laura Kocksch, Ruhr University Bochum Stefan Laser, Ruhr University Bochum Estrid Sørensen, Ruhr University Bochum
Chair: Stefan Laser, Ruhr University Bochum
184. On the Interplay of Images, Imaginaries and Imagination in Science Communication (Transdisciplinary Focus) 3:00 to 4:40 pm virPrague: VR 03 Participants:
Visualizing Perspectives on Arizona Helium Extraction Noa Bruhis, Arizona State University; Kirk Jalbert, Arizona State University
Images, Imaginaries And Imagination In Communicating Dementia Through Narrative Picturebooks For Children Elizabeth Caldwell, Lancaster University
The Ambiguous Power of Visual Communication in Healthcare Viola Davini; Matteo Coppi; Ilaria Marchionne, Universy of Florence; Eugenio Pandolfini; marco sbardella, University of Florence
From Cell to Ecological Pyramid: How Centralized Thinking and Dominance Hierarchy Pervade in Biological Discourse Charudatta Navare, Homi Bhabha Centre for Science Education, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research
Participatory Data Physicalization as a way to design publics through images, imagination and bodily interactions. Alvise Mattozzi, Free University of Bolzano; Matteo Maria Moretti, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano; Sheldon Studio
Session Organizer:
Andreas Metzner-Szigeth, Free University of Bolzano Chair:
Luca Toschi, University of Florence Discussant:
Andreas Böhn, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology 185. Social Justice in Climate Adaptation Policies
3:00 to 4:40 pm virPrague: VR 04 Participants:
Adaptation’s Unruly Subjects: The Remaking of Climate Change Adaptation Projects in the Ecuadorian Highlands Megan Mills-Novoa, University of Arizona; Rutgerd Boelens, Wageningen University; Jaime Hoogesteger, Wageningen University; Jeroen Vos, Wageningen University
Controversies about softening borders between fresh- and salt water in the Dutch Delta Lieke Brackel, Delft University of Technology
Fluid Environments and Fixed Borders: Risk Reduction Misalignment and Social Justice Shortcomings Craig E Colten, Louisiana State University
Session Organizer: Sara Vermeulen, TU Delft, Department of Values, Technology and Innovation
Chair: Sara Vermeulen, TU Delft, Department of Values, Technology and Innovation
186. Genontologies II 3:00 to 4:40 pm virPrague: VR 05 Participants:
Fragile Configurations: Contested Reproductive Bio-economies Within A Small, Catholic, European Union Island Nation Shannon N. Conley, James Madison University
Anonymize This: Donor Conception, Direct-to-Consumer Genetic Tests, and Privacy in Canada Janelle Curry, University of Toronto
Who’s On The Bus? - Metaphors In Deliberation About Ethical And Societal Issues Pertaining Synthetic Cells Bettina Graupe, Radboud University Nijmegen
Session Organizer: Janelle Curry, University of Toronto
Chair: Janelle Curry, University of Toronto
187. Inhabiting Warming Worlds - Transforming Climate Knowledge 3:00 to 4:40 pm virPrague: VR 06 Participants:
Seeking the integration of local knowledge in the observation of social and environmental changes related to global warming: the experimentation of a participatory mapping workshop in Khamagatta (Eastern Siberia). TRICOT Anne, CNRS et UMR ESPACE Aix Marseille Université; JEAN-JACQUES Marquisar, Université de Guyane; BALLAIS Jean-Louis, UMR ESPACE et Aix-Marseille-Université (AMU); GADAL Sébastien, UMR ESPACE et Aix-Marseille-Université (AMU); ZAKHAROV Moisei, Aix-Marseille-Université (AMU) et Northern Eastern University (NEFU)
Knowledge Production Amidst the Volatile Space-Time of the
Halley VI Antarctic Research Station Spencer Adams, University of California at Berkeley
Contextualising Environmental Activists’ Knowledge Practices on Climate Change Adaptation in a German City Catharina Lueder, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munich
‘What Can I Do To Address Climate Change?’: Ethical Dilemmas In A Warming World Anshu Ogra, King's College London
Session Organizers: Celine Granjou, University Grenoble Alps Coralie Mounet, University Grenoble Alps Séverine Durand, University Grenoble Alpes
Chair: Celine Granjou, University Grenoble Alps
188. STS Perspectives on Innovation: Significance and Agency in Emerging Worlds - 2 3:00 to 4:40 pm virPrague: VR 07 Participants:
Innovation at the Margins: Lived Conceptualizations of Technoculture in Havana Michaelanne Dye, School of Information at University of Michigan
Innovation observed: How world views co-produce emerging worlds Nona Schulte-Römer, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research - UFZ
Reconciling the demand side for calculative practices around uncertainty Denis Fischbacher-Smith, University of Glasgow
Trouble along the S-curve: innovation studies, the acceleration of sustainability transitions and potential modes of engagement for STS Tomas Moe Skjølsvold
Ways of seeing: on the borderlands of STS and Innovation Studies Alan Irwin, Copenhagen Business School
Session Organizers: Alan Irwin, Copenhagen Business School Jane Bjørn Vedel, Copenhagen Business School
Chair: Jane Bjørn Vedel, Copenhagen Business School
189. Strategies for Knowledge Coproduction in the Agrifood Sector - session 2 3:00 to 4:40 pm virPrague: VR 08 Participants:
Consuming Anthropocene: Transformations of Not-so-human Food Giovanni Orlando
Macaúba As An Internationalizable Object: Connecting Diverse Socio-technical Imaginaries Daniela Alves de Alves, Universidade Federal de Vicosa, Brazil; Victor Luiz Alves Mourao, Federal University of Viçosa (UFV-Brazil)
Capturing knowledge in a neoliberal vacuum. Power struggle around the datafication of agriculture in Kenya GIANLUCA IAZZOLINO, London School of Economics and Political Science; Laura Mann, London School of Economics
Session Organizers: OSCAR A. FORERO, AGROSAVIA; SOAS-UK Erika Vanessa Wagner-Medina, AGROSAVIA, Colombia
Chair: Erika Vanessa Wagner-Medina, AGROSAVIA, Colombia
Discussant: OSCAR A. FORERO, AGROSAVIA; SOAS-UK
190. Broken and Livable Futures with Automated Decision-Making – II 3:00 to 4:40 pm virPrague: VR 09 Participants:
Discursive Patterns Created Through Co-occurrence Of Hashtags On #Goodlife Instagram Posts: Implications For Sustainable Futures Anastasia Loukianov, University of Surrey; Kate Burningham, University of Surrey; Tim Jackson, University of Surrey
Epistemic Responsibility: The Machine Learning Entanglements Of Ten Mental Healthcare Organizations Marthe Stevens, Erasmus University Rotterdam; Anne Beaulieu, University of Groningen
Level up or Game over: Labour in the platform economy Funda Ustek-Spilda, Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford; Fabian Ferrari, Oxford Internet Institute; Mark Graham, Oxford Internet Institute; Alessio Bertolini, Oxford Internet Institute; Adam Badger, Oxford Internet Institute
Providing control or freedom or both? Developing customer relationship in the not-yet market of behaviour-based insurance Maiju Tanninen, Tampere University; Turo-Kimmo Lehtonen, Tampere University; Minna Ruckenstein, University of Helsinki
Session Organizers: Tuukka Lehtiniemi, University of Helsinki Minna Ruckenstein, University of Helsinki
Chair: Minna Ruckenstein, University of Helsinki
191. Coping with moral ambiguities 3:00 to 4:40 pm virPrague: VR 10 Participants:
The Dirty Work of Optimization in Contemporary Rating Schemes Malte Ziewitz, Cornell University
Wealth of Networks or Gain of Data Economies? Optionality vs. Predictivity on a Fitness Platform Carsten Ochs, University of Kassel
Of intimate narratives and superficial measurements: affective computing, intention recognition, identity estimation Henning Mayer, TU Munich
Dancing with shackles: a brief study of constraints of traffic data users Zheng Li, National Academy of Innovation Strategy, CAST; Di Liu, College of Metropolitan Transportation, Beijing University of Technology; HUI LUO, National Academy of Innovation Strategy,CAST; Zhengfeng Li, Institute of Science, Technology and Society, Tsinghua University
Session Organizer: Kevin Mellet, Orange Labs
Chair: Kevin Mellet, Orange Labs
192. Health, care, (dis)abilities IV 3:00 to 4:40 pm virPrague: VR 11 Participants:
Unintended Pregnancy and Contraceptive Programs and Policies As Poverty Regulation Devices in the U.S.: A Genealogy Kelsey Wright, University of Wisonsin, Madison
"Whatever Works". Building Psychotherapeutic Style in Private Practice Elsa Forner-Ordioni, EHESS (Paris, France)
Look at the Numbers: Charting Surgical Practice in China Bonnie Odelia Wong
There Must be Something in the Water – On the Socio-Technical-Therapeutic Infrastructures of Mineral Springs Sandra Lang, MCTS Technical University Munich
Session Organizer: Sandra Lang, MCTS Technical University Munich
Chair: Sandra Lang, MCTS Technical University Munich
193. Building Digital Public Sector: Drivers behind digitalization 3:00 to 4:40 pm virPrague: VR 12 Participants:
Co-detecting and Co-defining Clients with AI within Health and Social Care Juha Koivisto, Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare
Promising Too Much? Using “Situation Room” As A Policy Instrument In Building Data-drivenness In Finland Marja Alastalo, University of Eastern Finland; Marta Choroszewicz, University of Eastern Finland
Toward an Anticipatory and Personalized Treatment Plan: A Glimpse into Datafication of Healthcare Fused in Practice Ilpo Helén, University of Eastern Finland; Heta Tarkkala, University of Eastern Finland
Acceleration Tactics, Transparency Requirements: Technology’s Impacts On Definitions Of Family In Brazilian Law Sara Munhoz, Universidade Federal de São Carlos (UFSCar)
Session Organizer: Marta Choroszewicz, University of Eastern Finland
Chair: Marta Choroszewicz, University of Eastern Finland
194. Collective Forms of Governance 3:00 to 4:40 pm virPrague: VR 13 Participants:
Civic Engagement and the Visual Imperative Joanna Sleigh, ETH Zurich
Technocratic frontstage, democratic backstage? Participatory practices in the production of poverty indicators in developing countries Justyna Bandola-Gill, University of Edinburgh
The Fabric Of The Public In Current Debates About Genome Editing Morgan Meyer
Civic Engagement in Science in the Context of Democratization: Evolution and Typology of Citizen Science in Taiwan Hui-shih FANG, National Taiwan Museum; Tze-Luen Lin, National Taiwan University
Communicating Coronavirus: Public Panic and Rapid Response Anna Muldoon, Arizona State Univerity
Session Organizers: Alessandro Blasimme, ETH Zurich Madeleine Murtagh, Policy, Ethics & Life Sciences Research Centre, Newcastle University Barbara Prainsack, Department of Political Science, University of Vienna
Chairs:
Alessandro Blasimme, ETH Zurich Madeleine Murtagh, Policy, Ethics & Life Sciences Research Centre, Newcastle University
195. Sharing and Re-using Scientific Data: Situated Practices, Comparative Views 3:00 to 4:40 pm virPrague: VR 14 Participants:
Formulating and Using Instructions for Data Re-use Goetz Hoeppe, University of Waterloo
Data, Exposed: Clinical Data, Machine Readability, and the Drive Towards (Disease) Agnosticism Andrew Staver Hoffman, iHub, Radboud University Nijmegen
Collection Development as Organizational Strategy: Institutional Practices and Social Science Data Archives Kalpana Shankar, University College Dublin; Kristin Eschenfelder, University Of Wisconsin-Madison
Field-Specific Forms of the Scientific Reception Process and Reuse Decisions Nathalie Schwichtenberg, German Center for Higher Education Research and Science Studies
A Comparative Approach to Field-Specific Forms of Sharing Theresa Velden, German Center for Higher Education Research and Science Studies; Nathalie Schwichtenberg, German Center for Higher Education Research and Science Studies
Session Organizers: Theresa Velden, German Center for Higher Education Research and Science Studies Goetz Hoeppe, University of Waterloo
Chair: Goetz Hoeppe, University of Waterloo
Discussant: Grit Laudel, TU Berlin
196. Commodifying Environmental Data 3:00 to 4:40 pm virPrague: VR 15 Participants:
Weather Data Commodification, From Low Cost Stations To Consulting Services For Farmers Jeanne Oui, EHESS
Epidemiological Knowledge, Environmental Data and Public Health Management of Agriculture Fiona Panziera, INRAE, LISIS
Rainfall-based Agricultural Index Insurance: Measurement, Matter and Meaning Luisa Hoffmann, Goethe University Frankfurt
Early Commodification of Satellite Images in Agriculture and Failure to Market New Services (France, 1975-1990) Sylvain Brunier, CNRS - Centre de Sociologie des Organisations
Latent Earth Science & Financial Service Networks in Southeast Asia Andrew Moon, The New School for Social Research
Session Organizer: Aguiton Angeli Sara, EHESS CAK Centre Alexandre Koyré
Chairs: Sylvain Brunier, CNRS - Centre de Sociologie des Organisations Jeanne Oui, EHESS
197. RRI Beyond Growth: Can a Case be Made for Responsible Stagnation?
3:00 to 4:40 pm virPrague: VR 16 Session Organizer:
Stevienna de Saille, University of Sheffield Chair:
Stevienna de Saille, University of Sheffield Discussants:
Effie Amanatidou, University of Manchester Timothy Birabi, University of London Michiel Van Oudheusden, University of Cambridge
198. Dying At The Margins: Emerging Material-Discursive Perspectives On Death And Dying 3:00 to 4:40 pm virPrague: VR 17 Participants:
On Contested Ground: Emergent Ontologies of Soil in Alternative Body Disposal Practices Hannah Gould; Michael Arnold, The University of Melbourne; Tamara Kohn, The University of Melbourne
Postmortem Imaging:Trouble On The Border Between Life and Death Celine Schnegg, Haute Ecole de Sante Vaud; Severine Rey, Haute Ecole de Sante Vaud; Alejandro Dominguez, Haute Ecole de Sante Vaud
Regulating Technologies Of Death And Dying At The Beginning Of Life In Denmark Stine Willum Adrian, Aalborg University; Laura Louise Heinsen, Aalborg University; Anna Sofie Bach, Aalborg University Copenhagen; Annika Frida Petersen, Faculty of Law, Copenhagen University; Janne Rothmar Herrmann
Constructing Palliative Care in Norway Ida Sofie Rettedal Skjaeveland, University of Oslo
Dying Data: Complicating Networked Nonhuman Death Maya S Livio, University of Colorado / Media Archaeology Lab
Session Organizers: Natashe Lemos Dekker, Centre for Social Science and Global Health, University of Amsterdam Jesse Peterson, History of Science, Technology and Environment, KTH Philip R Olson, Virginia Tech
Chair: Jesse Peterson, History of Science, Technology and Environment, KTH
199. Sociotemporalities 3:00 to 4:40 pm virPrague: VR 18 Participants:
Pitching as a translation: reconfiguring innovations for the Public Ilkka Arminen, University of Helsinki
Sociotechnical Imaginaries of Supercomputers and the Global Hierarchies of Acceleration Nil Uzun Weidner, Rutgers University
The socio-technical temporalities of children´s game worlds Emilie Moberg, Stockholm University
The temporal dynamics of technology promises in digital innovation: the case of the Copyright Hub Gian Marco Campagnolo, University of Edinburgh; Hung The Nguyen, Science, Technology and Innovation Studies, The University of Edinburgh; Robin Williams, The University of Edinburgh
Session Organizer:
Emilie Moberg, Stockholm University Chair:
Emilie Moberg, Stockholm University 200. The Configurations of 'The Public' in Innovation
3:00 to 4:40 pm virPrague: VR 19 Participants:
Popular Technologies: Expertise, Organization and Production in Civic Tech Toronto Curtis W McCord, University of Toronto
Interactive Expertise – How Interdisciplinarity and Digitalisation Reshape the Agency of Expertise Silvio Suckow, WZB (Berlin Social Science Center)
Inside/Outside. The Social Positioning of Citizens in Citizen Science Sascha Dickel, Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz
Session Organizers: Shelly Tsui, Eindhoven University of Technology Benjamin Lipp, Technical University Munich Anja Kathrin Ruess, Munich Center for Technology in Society, Technical University of Munich Meiken Hansen, Technical University of Denmark Magdalena Rozwadowska, Wroclaw University of Economics and Business
Chair: Magdalena Rozwadowska, Wroclaw University of Economics and Business
201. The “Contemporary Synthesis” of Race and Biotechnology in Emerging/Developing Worlds 3:00 to 4:40 pm virPrague: VR 20 Participants:
Same, Same but Different: Indian Drug Trials between Race Science and Pharmaceutical Capitalism Sibille Merz, Brandenburg Medical School Theodor Fontane
Discourses and Practices of Race, Ethnicity, Ancestry, and Genomics in Hawaii Joan Fujimura, University Of Wisconsin-Madison; Ramya M. Rajagopalan
Reject scientific recruitment: Biopolitical Citizenship and Identity Politics among Taiwan's Indigenous Peoples Yu-yueh Tsai, Institute of Sociology, Academia Sinica
Session Organizer: Tien Dung Ha, Cornell University
Chair: Sibille Merz, Brandenburg Medical School Theodor Fontane
202. Materials, Symbols, and Power in Science and Technology 3:00 to 4:40 pm virPrague: VR 21 Participants:
The Quantification of Humanity and its Discontents: Cases from Self-driving technologies Yu-cheng Liu, Nanhua University
Technologies of work and the re-production of power asymmetries Klara-Aylin Wenten, Munich Center for Technology in Society, Technical University of Munich
Conceiving Machine Intelligence: Gender, Data and The Genesis of The “Geek Mystique” Coleen Carrigan, California Polytechnic State University
Citations as Infrastructure: Developing an Analytic Framework
For The Politics of citations Asura Enkhbayar, Simon Fraser Univeristy
Session Organizer: June Jeon, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Chair: June Jeon, University of Wisconsin-Madison
203. Speculative Futures and the Biopolitics of Populations: Session 2 3:00 to 4:40 pm virPrague: VR 22 Participants:
The Speculative Turn in IVF: Reconstructing Fertility, Prediction and Power in the New Reproductive Bioeconomies Lucy van de Wiel, University of Cambridge
Change with Time? Taiwanese Women’s situatedness of being Single and Childless LI-WEN SHIH, Taipei Medical University
Family Planning in Times of Climate Crises. A Norwegian Case-Study Guro Korsnes Kristensen, Norwegian University of Science and Technology; Malin Noem Ravn, NTNU
Environmental Relations in Shaping Uncertain Biopolitical Futures: The Biology of Ageing under Climate Change Mianna Meskus, Tampere University
Climate Crises and Reproductive Foreclosures: Young People, Speculative Futures, and Reproductive (Im)Possibility Jade Sasser, University of California, Riverside
Session Organizers: Ayo Wahlberg, University of Copenhagen Mianna Meskus, Tampere University
Chair: Ayo Wahlberg, University of Copenhagen
204. Special Session: Bernal Prize Lecture 4:40 to 6:00 pm virPrague: VR 00 Session Organizer:
Stephen Zehr, Univ. Southern Indiana Chair:
María Belén Albornoz, FLACSO Latin American Social Studies Faculty
Discussants: Sharon Traweek, UCLA Langdon Winner
205. Plenary with Ulrike Felt (EASST) and Joan Fujimura (4S) 6:00 to 7:40 pm virPrague: VR 00 Session Organizer:
Tereza Stockelova, Institute of Sociology of the Czech Academy of Sciences
Speakers: Ulrike Felt, University of Vienna, Department of Science and Technology Studies Joan Fujimura, University Of Wisconsin-Madison
THURSDAY, AUGUST, 20 206. Science and Technology Studies on Traditional,
Complementary and Alternative Medicine (TCAM). Session three, focus on translation of knowledge.
10:00 to 11:40 am virPrague: VR 01 Participants:
Autheniticity: Five Paths of Ayurveda Wesley Shrum, Louisiana State University
“Riddle Down Underground Medicine” : Ethnography, Theory Building And Medical Research On CAM In The U.S. Geoffroy Carpier, DySoLab Université de Rouen - DEPT/Triangle Université Jean Monnet
Between Omniscience and Objectivity: Situated “Reasoning” (yukti) and Boundary-making in Contemporary Ayurvedic Medicine Lisa Allette Brooks, University of California Berkeley
Session Organizer: Jenny-Ann Brodin Danell, Umeå university, Department of Sociology
Chair: Pia Vuolanto, University of Tampere Research Centre for Knowledge, Science, Technology and Innovation Studies
207. Negotiating independence in academic careers 10:00 to 11:40 am virPrague: VR 02 Participants:
How do different career systems enable researchers to become independent? Grit Laudel, TU Berlin
Scientific leadership and Research Evaluation. The Case of Chemistry University Departments in Spain Carmen Corona, INGENIO (CSIC-UPV); Carolina Cañibano, Ingenio (CSIC-UPV) Universitat Politècnica de València
‘It Is My Project and I Am the Boss’: power relationship and authorship in Chinese academic project teams Lianghao Dai, University of Göttingen, Germany
Gender Bias In Scientific Authorship? Evidence From Factorial Survey Experiments Justus Maximilian Karl Rathmann, Universität Zürich; Antonia Velicu, Universität Zürich; David Johann, Universität Zürich; Heiko Rauhut, Universität Zürich
The ‘problem children’: What constrains Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences participation in inter- and transdisciplinary research? Bianca Vienni Baptista, ETH Zürich; Isabel Fletcher, Science, Technology and Innovation Studies, The University of Edinburgh
Session Organizers: Grit Laudel, TU Berlin Ed Hackett, Brandeis University
Chair: Grit Laudel, TU Berlin
208. Be(com)ing industrial: objects, scales, and power dynamics at play-1 10:00 to 11:40 am virPrague: VR 03 Participants:
From Domestic to Industrial: Municipal Waste at Scale Elizabeth Duncan, University of Sydney
Industrial ecological engineering: uprooting soils and soil biology. Germain Meulemans, Aberdeen University/Universite de Liege
The Follies of Scaling-up Processed Foods in India Barkha Satish Kagliwal, Cornell University, Department of S&TS
How to make a living being an industrial object: attempts to produce phagotherapy in France Jessica Pourraz, Université de Bordeaux
Laboratory Life Facing Health & Environmental Risks: The Case of 3D Metal Printing Lise Cornilleau, Ecole Normale Supérieure Paris-Saclay
Session Organizer: Benjamin Raimbault, Institute For Research and Innovation in Society
Chair: Benjamin Raimbault, Institute For Research and Innovation in Society
209. Fossil Legacies – Projects, Protests and Promises of Phasing Out Coal 10:00 to 11:40 am virPrague: VR 04 Participants:
E/valuations here/elsewhere: re-assembling worth in the coal phase-out Susann Wagenknecht, TU Dresden
Restoring a broken landscape? A ‘Pioneering Model’ From The Ruhr Valley, A Former Coal Mining Hub Stefan Laser, Ruhr University Bochum
Regional exnovation. Structural change and sociotechnical imaginaries in Lusatia and the Ruhr area Alexander Wentland, Technical University of Munich; Jeremias Herberg, Institute for Advance Sustainability Studies (IASS) Potsdam
Session Organizers: Jeremias Herberg, Institute for Advance Sustainability Studies (IASS) Potsdam Thomas Turnbull, Max Planck Institute For the History of Science
Chair: Jeremias Herberg, Institute for Advance Sustainability Studies (IASS) Potsdam
210. Theorizing in STS 10:00 to 11:40 am virPrague: VR 05 Participants:
Critical Theory Of Technology, Non-Knowledge And Algorithms: Conceptualising Power In The Digital Age Konstantin Macher
Research trajectories. When interdisciplinary collaboration tries to come a long way Cornelius Schubert
Where are the Missing Masses in the Missing Masses? Attending to the Centrality of Problems in Inquiry; a Lesson from Modern Cosmology Adrien De Sutter, Goldsmiths, University of London
Session Organizers: Sebastian Dahm, Bielefeld University Tim Seitz, Technical University Berlin
Chair: Sebastian Dahm, Bielefeld University
211. Dilemmas for science and policy - Session 2 10:00 to 11:40 am virPrague: VR 06 Participants:
The dilemmas of regulatory science in the case of the assessment of Health Claims Noemi Sanz Merino, University
of Balearic Islands; José Luis Luján, University of Balearic Islands; Oliver Todt, University of Balearic Islands
The regulative perspective of interactions among multiple Science-Policy Interfaces—a case study of wetland conservation in Taiwan Chen-Guang Lee, National Taiwan University
Changes In Formalisation And Separation Of Scientific Advice For Policy: The Case Of ICES Kåre Nolde Nielsen, UiT - The Arctic University of Norway; Sebastian Linke, University of Gothenburg; Petter Holm, UiT - The Arctic University of Norway
Making Science Relevant: Comparing Science Advisory Organisations in Climate and Marine Governance Göran Sundqvist, Department of Sociology, University of Gothenburg; Sebastian Linke, University of Gothenburg
'Policy relevant but not policy prescriptive': experiences of bridging science and policy from three international advisory organizations Matteo De Donà, University of Gothenburg; Sebastian Linke, University of Gothenburg
Session Organizer: Sebastian Linke, University of Gothenburg
Chair: Sebastian Linke, University of Gothenburg
212. Borders in the Anthropocene: Transformations of Climates, Human and Nonhuman Mobility, and the Politics of the Earth 10:00 to 11:40 am virPrague: VR 07 Participants:
A posthumanist political ecology of Alpine migrant (im)mobility Polly Pallister-Wilkins, University of Amsterdam
Deadly border landscapes: Tracing back accountability in the Anthropocene Estela Schindel, Europa-Universität Viadrina
Telling Multispecies Worlds: Traces of a Counter-Concept to Speciesism Michelle Westerlaken
Session Organizer: Huub Dijstelbloem, University of Amsterdam
Chair: Huub Dijstelbloem, University of Amsterdam
213. Affects, emotions, and feelings in data, analysis, and narrative 10:00 to 11:40 am virPrague: VR 08 Participants:
From Affect to Action: Choices in Attending to Disconcertment in Interdisciplinary Collaborations Mareike Smolka, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, Maastricht University; Erik Fisher, Arizona State University; Alexandra Hausstein, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
Title: I don’t have one. Writing affect out of (and back into?) writing Cristian Ghergu, Department of Health, Ethics & Society, Research School for Public Health and Primary Care, Universi
Affective spaces of doing sameness and difference together Line Hillersdal, Department of Anthropology, University of Copenhagen; Birgitte Bruun, Copenhagen Academy for Medical Education and Simulation
Feeling Techniques: feelings done in practice, words and drawings Ulrike Scholtes, UVA
So Fracking Emotional: Using Affective Practice to Explore the Politics of Emotion in a Sociotechnical Controversy Stephen Hughes, Science and Technology Studies, University College London
Doing collaboration in societal innovations: Affects, positionalities, and affective labor Gili Yaron, Health Services Research, Faculty of Health, Medicine and Life Sciences, University Maastricht
Session Organizers: Mareike Smolka, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, Maastricht University Ricky Janssen, Department of Health, Ethics & Society, CAPHRI, Maastricht University Cristian Ghergu, Department of Health, Ethics & Society, Research School for Public Health and Primary Care, Universi
Chair: Ricky Janssen, Department of Health, Ethics & Society, CAPHRI, Maastricht University
Discussant: Christopher Coenen, KIT-ITAS
214. The Discard Multiple 10:00 to 11:40 am virPrague: VR 09 Participants:
Agbogbloshie: contribution to a sustainable circular economy or “the largest e-waste dump in the world”? Maja van der Velden, University of Oslo; Christian Peter Medaas, University of Oslo, Dept. of Social Anthropology; Martin Oteng-Ababio, University of Ghana
Labelling and Living with Waste: How Terminology and Boundary Objects Shape Waste Reduction in the City of Sydney Jarnae Leslie, Faculty of Transdisciplinary Innovation, University of Technology Sydney
Plastic time(s): Moralities of duration Laura Bomm, University of Vienna, Department of Science and Technology Studies; Ulrike Felt, University of Vienna, Department of Science and Technology Studies
What do WEEE know? Knowledge production on e-waste flows in the EU Mateusz Pietrzela, Leipzig University
Session Organizer: Samwel Moses Ntapanta, University of Oslo, Department of Social anthropology
Chair: Samwel Moses Ntapanta, University of Oslo, Department of Social anthropology
Discussant: Thomas Hylland Eriksen, University of Oslo
215. Re-evaluating the high-tech and the low-tech: ideals and ideologies of the material 10:00 to 11:40 am virPrague: VR 10 Participants:
Health equity: mundane challenges and ambivalent alignments Nele Jensen, King's College London
Demand the impossible! Creating utopias through participatory film with young people Charlotte Kühlbrandt, King's College London; Hannah Cowan, King's College London
Old Bodies, old Buildings: Tinkering with/in Countryside Architectures Dara Ivanova, Erasmus School of Health
Policy and Management; Iris Wallenburg, institute for Health Policy and Management; Roland Bal, Erasmus University Rotterdam; Jitse Schuurmans, Erasmus University Rotterdam; Nienke van Pijkeren, Erasmus University (Institute of Health Policy & Management)
Dilating Health, Healthcare, and Well-Being: A Case Study in Medical Device Design Montita Sowapark, SOAS
Session Organizers: Hannah Cowan, King's College London Charlotte Kühlbrandt, King's College London Natassia Brenman, The University of Cambridge
Chair: Charlotte Kühlbrandt, King's College London
Discussants: Hannah Cowan, King's College London Natassia Brenman, The University of Cambridge
216. China, Technology, Planetary Futures: Lessons for a World in Crisis? 2) BRI, Infrastructure, Environment 10:00 to 11:40 am virPrague: VR 11 Participants:
Cyclical Crossings: Easternised Planetary Futures Jamie Allen, Critical Media Lab
Research on Smart City as Engineering Imaginary Cao May, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences
The geo-sociotechnical imaginary of the Belt and Road Andrew Chubb, Lancaster University
Session Organizer: David Tyfield, Lancaster University
Chair: David Tyfield, Lancaster University
217. Why empowerment matters in co-creation of innovation 10:00 to 11:40 am virPrague: VR 13 Participants:
De-centering the user. From empathy to accountability Isabel Lafuente; Marcos Silbermann; Wilson Prata, SIDIA
Empowering Users in the Debate about Google’s Data Practices Ivan Veul, ISiS, Radboud University
Opening Tools For Opening Science: Lessons From Global Open Science Hardware Initiatives In Africa And Latin America Julieta Arancio, Centro de Investigaciones para la Transformación (CENIT-UNSAM); Valeria Arza, Centro de Investigaciones para la Transformación (CENIT-UNSAM); Mariano Fressoli, Centro de Investigaciones para la Transformación (CENIT-UNSAM)
Research on the Co-Creation of Innovation in Platform Ecosystems: A Multiple Case Study from the Empowerment Theory Perspective Yaqi Liu, National Academy of Innovation Strategy, CAST
Session Organizers: Shelly Tsui, Eindhoven University of Technology Erik Laes, Eindhoven University of Technology Makoto Takahashi, Technical University Munich Sophie Nyborg, Technical University of Denmark - DTU Cian O'Donovan, University College London
Chair: Sophie Nyborg, Technical University of Denmark - DTU
218. Codifying Knowledge or Disembodying Work? Cases of
Work Practice from India 10:00 to 11:40 am virPrague: VR 14 Participants:
Workers’ agency in a codified workplace: The case of a home service platform in Delhi, India Urvashi Aneja, Tandem Research; Mawii Zothan, Tandem Research
The creativity of ‘routine’ work: The case of data labellers in Bangalore, India Janaki Srinivasan, International Institute of Information Technology - Bangalore; Bidisha Chaudhuri, International Institute of Information Technology Bangalore
The tacit dimension of data entry operators' work in a Public Work scheme in West Bengal, India Dipanjan Saha, University of Liverpool
The Codification of Empowerment: The working of Gender Policies in Bihar and Karnataka, India Niveditha Menon, Centre for Budget and Policy Studies, Bangalore; Jyotsna Jha, Centre for Budget and Policy Studies, Bangalore
Session Organizers: Janaki Srinivasan, International Institute of Information Technology - Bangalore Bidisha Chaudhuri, International Institute of Information Technology Bangalore Soumyo Das, International Institute of Information Technology, Bangalore
Chair: Janaki Srinivasan, International Institute of Information Technology - Bangalore
219. The Life of Numbers 1: Models, Qualculations and Futuring 10:00 to 11:40 am virPrague: VR 15 Participants:
Excitable models in the evidence-making of infection control Tim Rhodes, Centre for Social Research in Health, UNSW; Kari Lancaster, University of New South Wales, Sydney
„I just want a number“– Science-Policy Interactions in Energy System Modelling Leo Capari, Institute of Technology Assessment, Austrian Academy of Sciences; Anja Bauer, University of Klagenfurt; Daniela Fuchs, Institute of Technology Assessment of the Austrian Academy of Sciences (ITA-OeAW); Titus Udrea, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Inst. of Technology Assessment (ITA)
Representing the Future as an Eternal Present: An Examination of Mortgage Credit Enumerations Alexandra Ciocanel, University of Manchester
The Persistence of Rational Action in Agent-Based Fisheries Modelling Helge Peters, University of Oxford, School of Geography and the Environment
Session Organizers: Kari Lancaster, University of New South Wales, Sydney Tim Rhodes, Centre for Social Research in Health, UNSW
Chair: Tim Rhodes, Centre for Social Research in Health, UNSW
220. Engaging Health Activism, Sexual Politics and STS 3 10:00 to 11:40 am virPrague: VR 16 Participants:
Beyond the prep user: engaging the figure of the non-user. Adam Christianson
WhatsApp, Who’s Missing Out And Where’s The Sex?: Cervical Cancer Activism On A Shoestring In Indonesia Belinda Rina Marie Spagnoletti, The University Of Melbourne, Australia; Linda Rae Bennett, Nossal Institute for Global Health, University of Melbourne
A Tale of Two Labs in the 1970s: Women, Junior Scientists, and Epistemic Justice in the Discovery of RNA Splicing. Pnina Geraldine Abir-Am, Brandeis University
Bodies and Space: Biotechs and relationship between gender, ethics and resistance in south Maria da Costa, State University of Campinas
Session Organizers: Lisa Lindén, Departement of Sociology and Work Science, University of Gothenburg Emily Jay Nicholls, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
Chair: Emily Jay Nicholls, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
221. Futures Past, Futures Present 10:00 to 11:40 am virPrague: VR 17 Participants:
Comfort Is Paradise: Late Socialist and Neoliberal Sociotechnical Imaginaries in Czechoslovakia between Nature and Future Martin Babicka, University Of Oxford
Competent older adults: acknowledged health deficits are not at odds with clear future expectations Ulrike Bechtold, Institute of Technology Assessment of the Austrian Academy of Sciences; Natalie Stauder, University of Vienna, Research Group Human ecology; Marcel Seifert, University of Vienna, Human Ecology Research Group; Martin Fieder, University of Vienna, Department for Evolutionary Anthropology; Harald Wilfing, University of Vienna, Human Ecology Research Group
Fuzzy Futures?: Implementing Nuclear Waste Disposal in Finland Marika Hietala
Justifying Mining Futures Tobias Olofsson, Uppsala University Session Organizer:
Marika Hietala Chair:
Marika Hietala 222. Governing desired and undesired futures
10:00 to 11:40 am virPrague: VR 18 Participants:
Insurance and the new datafication of uncertainty Turo-Kimmo Lehtonen, Tampere University
Incorporating long-term socio-ecological path-dependencies in urgent decision-making with simulation exercises Janne I. Hukkinen, University Of Helsinki; Jussi T Eronen, University of Helsinki; Nina Janasik, University of Helsinki; Sakari Kuikka, University of Helsinki; Annukka Lehikoinen, University of Helsinki; Peter Lund, Aalto University; Helmi Räisänen, University of Helsinki; Mikko J Virtanen, Tampere University
Social collapse and its ethics in public climate change scenarios Christine Hentschel, Universität Hamburg
Session Organizers:
Turo-Kimmo Lehtonen, Tampere University Limor Samimian-Darash, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Chair: Turo-Kimmo Lehtonen, Tampere University
223. International Scientific Collaboration: Knowledge Infrastructures and the Role of STS Scholars 10:00 to 11:40 am virPrague: VR 19 Participants:
Formal and Informal Infrastructures of Collaboration in the EU's Human Brain Project Christine Aicardi, King's College London; Tara Mahfoud, University of Essex
Time is Running Out…- Narrating a Global Infrastructure for Biodiversity Data Henk Koerten, Vrij Universiteit
Knowledge Co-production in an International Consortium: The Role of STS in an Interdisciplinary Project Anshu Ogra, King's College London; Amy Donovan, University of Cambridge; George Adamson, King's College London
Transnational Collaborations: Inquiring Into the Epistemic Transitions and Dynamics. Abhinav Tyagi, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay
Session Organizer: Richelle Boone, Leiden University
Chair: Simcha Jong, Leiden University
224. Institutionalization and Social Appropriation of RRI: A Remaining Challenge? (1) 10:00 to 11:40 am virPrague: VR 20 Participants:
B-RRI-Exit? Institutionalisation of RRI in the EU and the UK Philip Inglesant, University of Oxford, Department of Computer Science; Jun Zhao, University of Oxford, Department of Computer Science; Marina Jirotka, University of Oxford, Department of Computer Science
Has responsible research and innovation disseminated across the Ethics Ecosystem? A case study of AI population health research in the UK and Canada Gabby Samuel, King's College London /Lancaster University; Gemma Derrick, Lancaster University; Jenn Chubb, York University
Organisational institutionalisation of responsible innovation Phillip Macnaghten, Wageningen University; Richard Owen, Bristol University; Mario Pansera, Bristol University; Sally Randles, Manchester Metropolitan University
Social labs as a cost-effective solution for mainstreaming RRI? The case of the University of Novi Sad Raúl Tabarés, TECNALIA, Basque Research and Technology Alliance (BRTA); Ezekiela Arrizabalaga, Fundación TECNALIA Research & Innovation; Petar Vrgovic, University of Novi Sad; Mila Grahovac, University of Novi Sad
Session Organizers: Raúl Tabarés, TECNALIA, Basque Research and Technology Alliance (BRTA) Vincent Blok, Wageningen University & Research Mika Nieminen, VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland Robert Braun, Institut für Höhere Studien Vienna
Chair: Robert Braun, Institut für Höhere Studien Vienna
225. (Transnational) research infrastructures as sites of
technopolitical transformations I 10:00 to 11:40 am virPrague: VR 21 Participants:
Exploring the Outer Space – Infrastructuring Europe: the ESA case Zinaida Vasilyeva, MCTS, TU München
Imaginaries as Infrastructures at CERN Kamiel Mobach, University of Vienna
Making MYRRHA: a techno-political history at SCK CEN 1995-2020 Hein Brookhuis, KU Leuven, Cultural History; SCK CEN
Between infrastructuration and projectification: The case of Laserlab Europe Oguz Özkan, MCTS Technical University Munich
What Are European Research Infrastructures (For)? Calibrating Scale And Purpose In The Biobanking Network BBMRI-ERIC. Erik Aarden, University of Vienna
Session Organizer: Erik Aarden, University of Vienna
Chair: Erik Aarden, University of Vienna
226. Logics of Food Consumption, Choice and Politics on Digital Media 10:00 to 11:40 am virPrague: VR 22 Participants:
Social Media and Emerging Patterns of Food Taste. Maria Giovanna Onorati, UNIVERSITY OF GASTRONOMIC SCIENCES IN POLLENZ
Platforming pickiness: The digitally mediated enactment of childhood eating Joe Deville, University of Lancaster
Emerging logics of digital eating: choice, care, or careful choice? Karin Eli, University of Warwick; Jeremy Brice, London School of Economics and Political Science; Tanja Schneider, University of St Gallen
Session Organizers: Jeremy Brice, London School of Economics and Political Science Karin Eli, University of Warwick Tanja Schneider, University of St Gallen
Chairs: Jeremy Brice, London School of Economics and Political Science Tanja Schneider, University of St Gallen
227. Making & Doing - Thursday show 10:00 to 9:40 pm virPrague: VR M&D Participants:
It’s A Comic Life For Me: The Use Of Comics And Storytelling In The Teaching Of Risk And Resilience Denis Fischbacher-Smith, University of Glasgow
Recombinant Bodies Andrea Ford, The University of Edinburgh; Giulia De Togni, University of Edinburgh; Sonja Erikainen, University of Edinburgh
Embroidering the Times of Listening: Testimonial Digital Textiles for Reconciliation in Colombia Jaime Patarroyo, Universidad de Los Andes; Nasif Rincón, Universidad de Los Andes; Camila Padilla, Universidad de Los Andes; Laura Cortés-Rico, Universidad Militar Nueva Granada;
Tania Pérez-Bustos, National University of Colombia Algorithm inventarium "method-athon" Enric Senabre Hidalgo,
Austrian Academy of Sciences Learning While Doing: Vlogs About Digital Inequality Nicole
Sylvia Goedhart, Athena Institute, VU University, Amsterdam; Teun Zuiderent-Jerak, Athena Institute, VU Amsterdam; Christine Dedding, Metamedica, Amsterdam UMC-location VUmc; Jacqueline E.W. Broerse, Athena Institute, VU Amsterdam
Chair: Ludek Broz, Institue of Ethnology of the Czech Academy of Sciences
228. 'What Is The Worth Of A Nature-Paper When The Climate Is In Crisis?' 12:00 to 1:40 pm virPrague: VR 01 Participants:
FluidKnowledge: Exploring evaluation at the science-society interface in light of climate crisis Jacqueline Ashkin, Center for Science and Technology Studies, Leiden University, the Netherlands; Sarah Rose Bieszczad, Centre for Science & Technology Studies (CWTS), Leiden University; Guus Dix, Center for Science and Technology Studies, Leiden University, the Netherlands; Sonia Mena Jara, Centre for Science and Technology Studies (CWTS), Leiden University; Sarah de Rijcke, Centre for Science and Technology Studies (CWTS); Judit Varga, Centre for Science & Technology Studies (CWTS), Leiden University
Big Problems, Small Experiments? How Researchers Deal with Complexities in Research Practices in Environmental Sciences Lisa Sigl, Research Platform Responsible Research and Innovation in Academic Practice, University of Vienna; Maximilian Fochler, University Of Vienna
Decarbonising Research Mobility in an Era of Climate Crisis: Challenges and Opportunities Clare Shelley-Egan
‘Good’ Science in the Anthropocene: Environmental Activism and Epistemic Capitalism Thomas Franssen, Centre for Science & Technology Studies (CWTS), Leiden University
Session Organizers: Thomas Franssen, Centre for Science & Technology Studies (CWTS), Leiden University Kristin Asdal, TIK, Centre for Technology, Innovation and Culture Maximilian Fochler, University Of Vienna Sarah de Rijcke, Centre for Science and Technology Studies (CWTS) Lisa Sigl, Research Platform Responsible Research and Innovation in Academic Practice, University of Vienna Ruth Falkenberg, University of Vienna
Chair: Thomas Franssen, Centre for Science & Technology Studies (CWTS), Leiden University
Discussant: Kristin Asdal, TIK, Centre for Technology, Innovation and Culture
229. Experimenting With Inclusive Technologies: Saying No By Saying Let’s I 12:00 to 1:40 pm virPrague: VR 02 Participants:
Fun, Engaging, And Easily Shareable? Exploring The Value Of Co-creating Vlogs With Citizens From Disadvantaged Neighbourhoods Nicole Sylvia Goedhart, Athena Institute, VU University, Amsterdam; Eva Lems, Athena Institute, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam; Teun Zuiderent-Jerak, Athena Institute, VU Amsterdam; Carina A.C.M. Pittents, Athena Institute, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam; Jacqueline E.W. Broerse, Athena Institute, VU Amsterdam; Christine Dedding, Metamedica, Amsterdam UMC-location VUmc
The gender digital gap in Argentina: inclusion means more than bootcamps Solange Martinez Demarco, International Centre for Ethics in the Sciences and Humanities (IZEW)
Reflecting on STS in Action: Micro-credentialing as collaborative epistemo-political work Michaela Spencer, Charles Darwin University
Session Organizer: Teun Zuiderent-Jerak, Athena Institute, VU Amsterdam
Chair: Teun Zuiderent-Jerak, Athena Institute, VU Amsterdam
230. Be(com)ing industrial: objects, scales, and power dynamics at play-2 12:00 to 1:40 pm virPrague: VR 03 Participants:
Industrial Identity Shifts: The E-Cigarette's Rebranding of Nicotine Caroline Clark, James Madison University
Preparing for the Future of Energy Systems. The Production of Expectations in a “Power–to-gas” Demonstration Project Jean-Baptiste Chambon, Centre de Sociologie de l’Innovation-i3 – Mines Paristech PSL University; Madeleine Akrich, Centre de Sociologie de l’Innovation-i3 – Mines Paristech PSL University; Alexandre Mallard, Centre de Sociologie de l’Innovation-i3 – Mines Paristech PSL University
The sun ‘reaches’ the earth: materials, knowledge and funding in the European PV industry Efi Nakopoulou, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens; Stathis Arapostathis, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
STS Theory for Engineers: Technologies of Entanglement Robin Ann Downey, Bilkent University; Emine Onculer Yayalar, Bilkent University
Session Organizer: Benjamin Raimbault, Institute For Research and Innovation in Society
Chair: Benjamin Raimbault, Institute For Research and Innovation in Society
231. Building Digital Public Sector: Collaboration and public-private partnership 12:00 to 1:40 pm virPrague: VR 04 Participants:
Notes on the Political Economy of Welfare AI Gernot Rieder, Universität Hamburg; Catharina Rudschies, University of Hamburg
Data System as a Boundary Object: Interprofessional Collaboration in Building Data-Driven Public Healthcare in Finland Marta Choroszewicz, University of Eastern Finland; Marja Alastalo, University of Eastern Finland
When to Collect Demographically Identifiable Information? Framework for Balancing Human Rights in the AI Era Anna Lenhart, University Of Maryland College Park
Session Organizer: Marja Alastalo, University of Eastern Finland
Chair: Marja Alastalo, University of Eastern Finland
232. (Re)Producing Power in Co-creation 12:00 to 1:40 pm virPrague: VR 05 Participants:
Co-creation As Potential Practice Of Infrastructuring (Dis)Empowerment Susanne Oechsner, University of Vienna
Low Powering: Challenges In The Co-Creation Of Local Community Radio Stations Roberto Cibin, Madeira Interactive Technologies Institute (M-ITI); Mariacristina Sciannamblo, Sapienza University of Rome; Nicola J. Bidwell, University College Cork; Maurizio Teli, Aalborg University
Who Cares for Co-Creation? On Invisibilized Work and Forms of Empowerment at Workplaces of Technology Development Alev Coban, Goethe University Frankfurt; Klara-Aylin Wenten, Munich Center for Technology in Society, Technical University of Munich
Session Organizers: Shelly Tsui, Eindhoven University of Technology Erik Laes, Eindhoven University of Technology Makoto Takahashi, Technical University Munich Sophie Nyborg, Technical University of Denmark - DTU Cian O'Donovan, University College London
Chair: Cian O'Donovan, University College London
233. Value in Biomedicine: Value in Health Care Systems 12:00 to 1:40 pm virPrague: VR 06 Participants:
Anti-capitalist and Economic Value embedded in Post-Soeharto Indonesian Health Insurance Daiki Ayuha, The University of Tokyo
Articulating Value: Value as Enacted in European Value-based Healthcare Discourse Siemen Vanstreels, Centre for Sociological Research, KU Leuven; Gert Meyers, KU Leuven; Lander Vermeerbergen, KU Leuven; Geert Van Hootegeml, KU Leuven; ine van hoyweghen, University Leuven
Broadening the Concept of Value: A Scoping Review on the Option Value of Medical Technologies Giulia Fornaro, Bocconi University - SDA Bocconi School of Management; Carlo Federici, SDA Bocconi School of Management; Carla Rognoni, SDA Bocconi School of Management; Oriana Ciani, SDA Bocconi School of Management; College of Medicine & Health, University of Exeter
Session Organizer: Katharina Kieslich, University of Vienna
Chair: Katharina Kieslich, University of Vienna
234. Taking Data Into Account 1 12:00 to 1:40 pm virPrague: VR 07
Participants: The Uncounted: Politics of Data in Global Health Sara L.M.
Davis, Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva
Functional versus epistemic Linda Sīle, University of Antwerp "Data" Science on the Run: Studying practices upon database
technologies as an infrastructural inversion Yoehan Oh, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Session Organizer: Burcu Baykurt, University Of Massachusetts Amherst
Chair: Burcu Baykurt, University Of Massachusetts Amherst
235. Commercial and Temporal Logics of Digital Food 12:00 to 1:40 pm virPrague: VR 08 Participants:
Authentic Food from the Others’ Kitchen: Immigrant Women Small-Scale Entrepreneurs Working in the Growing Nordic Platform Economy Qian Zhang, Stockholm University; Natasha A. Webster, Stockholm University
Food Delivery Apps as Hunger Saviours: Constructing Neoliberal Temporalities in Urban India Pallavi Laxmikanth, The University of Adelaide; Megan Warin, University of Adelaide
Work and embodied vulnerabilities: An exploration to the platformization of food and the (in)formal-digital economy in Bogotá. Derly Sanchez, Derly Sánchez
Curating (Un)fairness and (Ir)responsibility: Digital Food Marketplaces and their Regulatory Logics Jeremy Brice, London School of Economics and Political Science
Session Organizers: Jeremy Brice, London School of Economics and Political Science Karin Eli, University of Warwick Tanja Schneider, University of St Gallen
Chairs: Karin Eli, University of Warwick Tanja Schneider, University of St Gallen
236. Waste Encounters in Blasted Landscapes 12:00 to 1:40 pm virPrague: VR 09 Participants:
Collecting Waste: Negotiating Dirt and Danger in M-dong James Jang, The University of Queensland
Off- Grid Wastewater practices: tinkering with global and local dichotomies in a more than human world. Fenna Smits, University of Amsterdam; Rebeca Ibáñez Martín, Humanities Cluster, Dutch Academy of Science (KNAW)
Re-Valuing E-waste: Material Appropriation, Circularity, and Temporal Negotiations in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. Samwel Moses Ntapanta, University of Oslo, Department of Social anthropology
The waste multiple: The socio-technical enactment of radioactive wastes Robbe Geysmans, SCK-CEN; Marika Hietala
Waste Ecologies: Finding Life within Extraction in Chile Patricio Flores, University of Warwick, UK; Sebastian Ureta, Universidad Alberto Hurtado
Session Organizer:
Samwel Moses Ntapanta, University of Oslo, Department of Social anthropology
Chair: Christian Peter Medaas, University of Oslo, Dept. of Social Anthropology
237. Situating Co-creation: Innovation between Local Specificity and Scalable Standardization 12:00 to 1:40 pm virPrague: VR 10 Participants:
Co-Creation Of City Futures In Three Policy Labs In Berlin, Dortmund And Munich Luise M Ruge, TU München
From Co-creation to Participation: Fostering a Community Information Platform through Meshing Petra Zist, Madeira Interactive Technologies Institute (M-ITI); Chris Csíkszentmihályi, Madeira Interactive Technologies Institute (M-ITI)
Sharing Situatedness and Scaling-up: The Case of the Community of Practice « Strategies for Sustainable Gender Equality » in the ACT Project Anne-Sophie Godfroy, République des savoirs (CNRS, École Normale Supérieure, Collège de France); Areti Damala, ENS
Session Organizers: Anja Kathrin Ruess, Munich Center for Technology in Society, Technical University of Munich Federica Pepponi, MCTS - Munich Center for Technology in Society (TUM) Kyriaki Papageorgiou, ESADE Business & Law School Ruth Müller, MCTS TU München Benjamin Lipp, Technical University Munich Carlos Cuevas-Garcia, Technical University of Munich
Chair: Anja Kathrin Ruess, Munich Center for Technology in Society, Technical University of Munich
238. Organizing Technoscientific Capitalism: Assets, Rents, and Values - 1 12:00 to 1:40 pm virPrague: VR 11 Participants:
Cutting Jobs With Molecular Scissors – Understanding Labor Implications of CRISPR Koen Beumer, Copernicus Institute of Sustainable Development, Utrecht University
Public Private Partnerships and the Provision of Healthcare in Australia John Grant Gardner, Monash University, Australia
The formal Market José Ossandón, Copenhagen Business School; Christian Frankel, Copenhagen Business School
Session Organizers: Jane Bjørn Vedel, Copenhagen Business School Kean Birch, York University John Grant Gardner, Monash University, Australia
Chair: Jane Bjørn Vedel, Copenhagen Business School
239. Flows and overflows of personal data S3 12:00 to 1:40 pm virPrague: VR 12 Participants:
When Is Data? The Enablement Of A National Research Population Francisca Nordfalk, University of Copenhagen
Detecting value(s): moral economies of digital innovation in
early disease detection Alessia Costa; Richard Milne, University of Cambridge
Digital Health Data as a Global Public Good? Julian Eckl, University of St. Gallen
The Tyranny of the ‘Civic’ in data sharing? Reciprocation, Frustration and Creativity in Data-as-Gift Relations Tamar Sharon, iHub, Radboud University Nijmegen; Lotje Siffels, Radboud University Nijmegen; Andrew Staver Hoffman, iHub, Radboud University Nijmegen
Session Organizer: Tamar Sharon, iHub, Radboud University Nijmegen
Chair: Tamar Sharon, iHub, Radboud University Nijmegen
240. Locating & Timing Governance in STS and Universities II: Gender issues 12:00 to 1:40 pm virPrague: VR 13 Participants:
The Sole Engineering Geni(e)us: Changing University Culture Kai Lo Andersson, Chalmers University of Technology
A comparative study of co-productions of gender and gender balance work on local levels Ivana Suboticki, Norwegian University of Science and Technology; Vivian Anette Lagesen, NTNU
Performing passion: Affective aesthetics in computer science education Samantha Breslin, University of Copenhagen
Knowledge in demand? University and industry debating, resisting or developing collaborative teaching practices Helen Josok Gansmo, STS/NTNU
Feminizing innovation: Challenges in STS Gabriele Griffin, Uppsala University
Session Organizers: Knut H Sørensen, NTNU Norwegian University of Science and Technology Sharon Traweek, UCLA
Chair: Sharon Traweek, UCLA
241. How Can STS Support A Multiplicity Of Practices In Citizen Science? 12:00 to 1:40 pm virPrague: VR 14 Participants:
The "next level" of participation: can the professionalization of Citizen Science be used creatively? Andreas Wenninger, bidt
Over-identification as Ethnographic approach for challenging the contradictions of Citizen Science Christian Nold, University of the Arts London
Bottom-up Meets Top-Down: Mapping Grassroots Citizen Science Trajectories in Environmental Pollution Monitoring Michiel Van Oudheusden, University of Cambridge; Yasuhito Abe, Komazawa University
The social life of citizen science: Citizen Social Science as a reflexive practice in participatory STS Alexandra Albert, UCL
Civic Engineering At The Grid Edge: Infrastructures, Social Movements And The Politics of Expertification Hanno Moegenburg, University of Konstanz
Session Organizers: Christian Nold, University of the Arts London
Alexandra Albert, UCL Chair:
Alexandra Albert, UCL 242. The Life of Numbers 2: Targets, Promises, Policies
12:00 to 1:40 pm virPrague: VR 15 Participants:
90-90-90 and the 'End of AIDS': How Targets and Enumerations Afford Viral Eliminations Kari Lancaster, University of New South Wales, Sydney; Tim Rhodes, Centre for Social Research in Health, UNSW
Counting Towards the ‘End of AIDS’: The Speculative Futures of the UNAIDS’ 90-90-90 Targets Tony Sandset, University of Oslo
Enumerating the Temporal Politics of Leprosy Elimination Campaigns Laura A. Meek, University of Hong Kong
Guided by Numbers. The Domestication of Quantitative Information by Norwegian Climate and Energy Policymakers susanne jørgensen; Knut H Sørensen, NTNU Norwegian University of Science and Technology; Marianne Ryghaug, Norwegian University of Science & Technology (NTNU)
Numbering Microsimulation Models for Future Social Policies Isalyne Stassart, Université de Liège / Institut Wallon de l'évaluation, de la prospective et de la statistique
Session Organizers: Kari Lancaster, University of New South Wales, Sydney Tim Rhodes, Centre for Social Research in Health, UNSW
Chair: Kari Lancaster, University of New South Wales, Sydney
243. Digital Technologies in Policing and Security - Session 1 12:00 to 1:40 pm virPrague: VR 16 Participants:
“Part Man, Part Machine, All Cop”: Automation in Policing Angelika Adensamer, Vienna Centre for Societal Security; Lukas Daniel Klausner, St. Pölten University of Applied Sciences
(Re-)Defining swarm ontologies in military technological thinking Goetz Herrmann, Paderborn University; Jutta Weber, Paderborn University
Sociotechnical practices and the formation of online markets for illicit goods Meropi Tzanetakis, University of Vienna, Department of Political Science
Session Organizer: Simon Egbert, Technische Universität Berlin
Chair: Nikolaus Pöchhacker, University of Graz
244. Guidelines, Effects and Determinants of Recruitment 12:00 to 1:40 pm virPrague: VR 17 Participants:
Institutional Regulation and Evaluation Practices in Chilean Academy Claudio Ramos Zincke, Universidad Alberto Hurtado
The perseverance of traditional recruitment procedures in the German Geisteswissenschaften Lena M. Zimmer, Deutsches Zentrum für Hochschul- und Wissenschaftsforschung, Hannover
The Valuation of Docent Merits in Swedish Academia Erik Joelsson, University of Borås; Gustaf Nelhans, University of Borås
Session Organizers: Marie Sautier, University of Lausanne/Sciences Po Paris Julian Hamann, Leibniz Center for Science and Society
Chair: Marie Sautier, University of Lausanne/Sciences Po Paris
245. Making Chemical Kin part 1 12:00 to 1:40 pm virPrague: VR 18 Participants:
Carbon kin Karolina Sobecka, fhnw Chemical Childhoods Veronica Pacini-Ketchabaw, Western
University; Mindy Blaise, Edith Cowan University Compassionate Metabolism: Art, Jellyfish, and Chemical Kin-
making in Polluted Worlds Susanne Pratt, University of Technology, Sydney
Drugged kin: The art of living with/out drugs Fay Dennis, Goldsmiths, University of London
Session Organizers: Angeliki Balayannis, University of Exeter Emma Garnett, King's College London
Chair: Emma Garnett, King's College London
Discussant: Michelle Murphy, University of Toronto
246. Charismatic Technology 1 12:00 to 1:40 pm virPrague: VR 19 Participants:
AI and the mystique of super-knowers in healthcare Annamaria Carusi, Inter//change Research and University College of London; Peter Winter, The University of Sheffield
Magical Analytics: Performativity and Social Power of Data in Analytics Companies Salla-Maaria Laaksonen, University of Helsinki
The Emerging Quantum Divide: How the Digital Divide is Translating into the Quantum Technologies Era and Its Expected Social Impacts Zeki Seskir, Middle East Technical University
Using Technology To Settle Controversy? The Case Of Protesters Counting In France Emile Provendier, LISIS, UPEM
Session Organizer: Francis Lim
Chair: Annamaria Carusi, Inter//change Research and University College of London
247. Institutionalization and Social Appropriation of RRI: A Remaining Challenge? (2) 12:00 to 1:40 pm virPrague: VR 20 Participants:
The drama of Responsible Research and Innovation (RRI): the ups and downs of a funding policy Robert Braun, Institut für Höhere Studien Vienna; Erich Griessler, Institute for Advanced Studies; Magdalena Wicher, IHS (Institute for
Advanced Studies, Vienna); Merve Yorulmaz, Fraunhofer ISI Towards Mainstreaming RRI In Education And Research -
Experiences From A Dutch University Kornelia Konrad, University of Twente; Verena Schulze Greiving, Saxion Hogeschool, University of Twente
Making a difference?! Nanotechnology and the quest for Responsible Innovation Bart Walhout
Session Organizers: Raúl Tabarés, TECNALIA, Basque Research and Technology Alliance (BRTA) Vincent Blok, Wageningen University & Research Mika Nieminen, VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland Robert Braun, Institut für Höhere Studien Vienna
Chair: Raúl Tabarés, TECNALIA, Basque Research and Technology Alliance (BRTA)
248. (Transnational) research infrastructures as sites of technopolitical transformations II 12:00 to 1:40 pm virPrague: VR 21 Participants:
Openness, identity, and hybridity: Evolving imaginaries of ‘openness’ in Europe’s Knowledge and Innovation Communities (KICs), 2005-2020 Kyriaki Papageorgiou, ESADE Business & Law School; Sebastian Michael Pfotenhauer, Technical University Munich
Building Responsible Research and Innovation into Transnational Research Infrastructures: Opportunities and Challenges Inga Ulnicane, De Montfort University; Simisola Akintoye, De Montfort University; Damian Eke, De Montfort University; William Knight, De Montfort University; George Ogoh, De Montfort University; Achim Rosemann, University of Warwick, UK; Bernd Carsten Stahl, De Montfort University
Connected histories: the inequality politics of “sustainability/ies” in transcontinental palm oil and soy infrastructures Evelien de Hoop; Erik van der Vleuten, Eindhoven University of Technology
Session Organizer: Erik Aarden, University of Vienna
Chair: Erik Aarden, University of Vienna
249. Non-Human Vision 12:00 to 1:40 pm virPrague: VR 22 Participants:
Visions of Justice: Competing Perspectives in the Visual Documentation of Police-Citizen Encounters Jessica Chapman, Carleton University
Images and invisualities of (the) arXiv Anna Munster, University of New South Wales; Adrian Mackenzie, Australian National University
Drone Vision and the Nonhuman Witnessing of War Michael Richardson, University of New South Wales
Vegetal Images. An experimental media archaeology of nonhuman vision Abelardo Gil-Fournier, FAMU, Prague; Jussi Parikka, University of Southampton and FAMU, Prague
Keeping Autonomous Driving Alive: An Ethnography of
Visions, Masculinity & Fragility Goede Both, HU Berlin Session Organizer:
Adam Fish, University of New South Wales Chair:
Adam Fish, University of New South Wales 250. Latin America meet East Asia: future initiatives
1:40 to 3:00 pm virPrague: VR 01 Session Organizer:
Leandro Rodriguez Medina, Universidad de las Americas Puebla
Chair: Wen-Hua Kuo, National Yang-Ming University
251. Publishing a book - a guide for ECRs - Exhibits Thurs A 1:40 to 3:00 pm virPrague: VR 03 Session Organizers:
Jen McCall, Emerald Publishing Sallie Gregson, Emerald Publishing
Chairs: Jen McCall, Emerald Publishing Sallie Gregson, Emerald Publishing
252. Journal editors' meeting: Science & Technology Studies 1:40 to 3:00 pm virPrague: VR 04 Session Organizer:
Salla Sariola, University of Helsinki Chair:
Heta Tarkkala, University of Eastern Finland 253. STS-MIGTEC network meeting
1:40 to 3:00 pm virPrague: VR 05 Session Organizers:
Nina Amelung Silvan Pollozek, MCTS, Technical University of Munich
Chair: Nina Amelung
254. Affects, emotions, and feelings in data, analysis, and narrative - follow-up discussion 1:40 to 3:00 pm virPrague: VR 08 Session Organizer:
Mareike Smolka, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, Maastricht University
Chair: Mareike Smolka, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, Maastricht University
255. Bristol University Press Pre-launch Webinar: Slow Computing: Why We Need Balanced Digital Lives 1:40 to 3:00 pm virPrague: VR 23 Session Organizers:
Bahar Muller, Bristol University Press Alistair Fraser, Maynooth University
Chair: Rob Kitchin, Maynooth University
256. stsing - doing STS in the German research landscape 1:40 to 3:00 pm
virPrague: VR 24 Session Organizer:
Ingmar Lippert, IT University of Copenhagen Chair:
Estrid Sørensen, Ruhr University Bochum 257. The temporal fabric of technoscientific worlds
3:00 to 4:40 pm virPrague: VR 00 Session Organizer:
Tereza Stockelova, Institute of Sociology of the Czech Academy of Sciences
Chair: Ulrike Felt, University of Vienna, Department of Science and Technology Studies
Discussants: Carlo Caduff, King’s College London Filip Vostal, Institute of Philosophy of the Czech Academy of Sciences Judy Wajcman, LSE
258. Global Imaginaries of Precision Science 1: Diversity, Inclusion and Justice 3:00 to 4:40 pm virPrague: VR 01 Participants:
Precision in practice: Negotiating diversity and inclusion in precision medicine research Sandra Soo-Jin Lee, Columbia University; Emily Vasquez, Columbia University; Melanie Jeske, University of California, San Francisco; Michael Bentz, Columbia University; Stephanie Malia Fullerton, University of Washington; Aliya Saperstein, Stanford University; Janet K. Shim, University Of California, San Francisco
Categories of Diversity in Precision Medicine and Epidemiology – Contrasting Germany and the US Andrea zur Nieden, Institute of Sociology, University of Freiburg, Germany; Isabelle Bartram, Institut of Sociology, University of Freiburg, Germany
“SweGen” – Ethno-national fantasies of Genomic Medicine Sweden Anna Bredström, Linköping University, Institute for Research on Migration, Ethnicity and Society; Shai Mulinari, Lund University
The Uses of Diversity: Managing Race and Representation in Law, Politics, and the Biosciences. Jonathan Kahn, Northeastern University
Session Organizers: Sandra Soo-Jin Lee, Columbia University Janet K. Shim, University Of California, San Francisco
Chair: Janet K. Shim, University Of California, San Francisco
259. Experimenting With Inclusive Technologies: Saying No By Saying Let’s II 3:00 to 4:40 pm virPrague: VR 02 Participants:
Scripting Inclusive Technologies Mike Grijseels, Athena Institute, VU University, Amsterdam; Teun Zuiderent-Jerak, Athena Institute, VU Amsterdam; Barbara Regeer
Linking Citizens and Social Workers: a Case study of a Digital Platform for Work inclusion Anne Wullum Aasback,
Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) Makeathons As Research Method: Experimenting With 3D-
Printing In Prosthetics David Seibt, Technical University of Berlin
Rethinking personhood and inclusive technologies: Biomusic as relational effect Rossio Motta-Ochoa, McGill University; Matthew Sample, Institut de recherches cliniques de Montréal; Annette Leibing, University of Montreal; Eric Racine, Institut De Recherches Cliniques De Montréal; Stefanie Blain-Moraes, McGill University
Session Organizer: Teun Zuiderent-Jerak, Athena Institute, VU Amsterdam
Chair: Teun Zuiderent-Jerak, Athena Institute, VU Amsterdam
260. Windows of Opportunity?: Critical Understanding of ELSI/ELSA at Different Moments 3:00 to 4:40 pm virPrague: VR 03 Participants:
The transition of governmental ethical regulations on genome research in Japan Jusaku Minari, Kyoto University
Not Ready Yet: A New Model of Public Dis-Engagement? Koichi Mikami, Keio University
Collaborative Development of Responsible AI Governance Arisa Ema
Practice for RRI: a case of Real-Time Technology Assessment of emerging science Ryuma Shineha, Osaka Univerisity; Ken Kawamura, Osaka Univerisity; Daisuke Yoshinaga, Waseda University; Go Yoshizawa, Oslo Metropolitan University; Mikihito Tanaka, Waseda University
A high school curriculum on the ethics of AI Renato Russo Session Organizer:
Koichi Mikami, Keio University Chair:
Koichi Mikami, Keio University Discussants:
Samuel A Weiss Evans Robert David Jonathan Smith, University of Edinburgh
261. Resources for renewable energies 3:00 to 4:40 pm virPrague: VR 04 Participants:
Equilibrium States and the Lithium Fix Andrea Marston, Rutgers University, New Brunswick
Extracting Lithium: In and on the Uyuni Salt Flat with Bolivian Scientists Jonas Köppel, The Graduate Institute Geneva
Extracting The Light: Sensing Lithium Through Landsat Imagery In Bolivia’s Salar De Uyuni, 1972 - 1980 Caroline Celeste White-Nockleby, Massachusetts Institute for Technology (MIT)
Session Organizers: Alena Bleicher, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research - UFZ, GmbH Roopali Phadke, Macalester College Abby Kinchy, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Chair: Roopali Phadke, Macalester College
262. STS for a post-truth age: comparative dialogues on
reflexivity (I) 3:00 to 4:40 pm virPrague: VR 05 Participants:
Living in (post)Truth in the Anthropocene Michael J Kilburn, Endicott College
Challenging Disinformation in the Platform Age Erkan Saka, İstanbul Bilgi University
Science as a gatekeeper for trust and collective responsibility in the post-truth era João Estevens, ICS Ulisboa; Ana Delicado, Instituto de Ciencias Sociais, ULisboa; Jussara Rowland, ICS Ulisboa
Session Organizers: Melike Sahinol, Orient-Institut Istanbul Emine Onculer Yayalar, Bilkent University
Chair: Emine Onculer Yayalar, Bilkent University
263. Modes of Futuring between Care and Control: Engaging with the Conservation of Endangered More-Than-Human Life I 3:00 to 4:40 pm virPrague: VR 06 Participants:
Caring For Wilder Futures Edda Starck Between Disappearance And Invasion: Trajectories Of Insect
Control And Loss Uli Beisel, University of Bayreuth; Carsten Wergin, Heidelberg University
“Nature Divided, Scientists United”: Emerging Multispecies Futures in the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands Meg Perret, Harvard University
Animals locked in time, or how to speculatively design futures for a more-than-human world clemens driessen, Wageningen University
The thickening of futures Li Jönsson, Malmö University; un/making studio, Malmö University / Linneaus University
Session Organizers: Franziska von Verschuer, Goethe University Frankfurt/Main Franziska Dahlmeier, Hamburg University
Chair: Markus Rudolfi, Institute for Sociology, Goethe University, Frankfurt
264. FLIPPED | Transnational STS: Theories, Practices, and Pedagogies (II) 3:00 to 4:40 pm virPrague: VR 07 Participants:
Challenges for Inter-Asia STS in the Collaboration between Victim’s Advocacy Group in the Samsung Leukemia Case in South Korea and the RCA Case in Taiwan Hsin-Hsing Chen, Shih-Hsin University Graduate Institute for Social Transformation Studies
Are we eating the cannibal? Provincializing STS from Latin America Pablo Kreimer, CONICET
Transnational Community: A buzzword or a keyword for STS? Duygu Kasdogan, İzmir Katip Çelebi University
Transnationalizing Critical Drug Studies Nancy D. Campbell, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Session Organizers: Kim Fortun, University of California Irvine
Noela Invernizzi, Universidade Federal do Parana Duygu Kasdogan, İzmir Katip Çelebi University Aalok Khandekar, Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad Angela Okune, University of California - Irvine
Chair: Angela Okune, University of California - Irvine
265. Scientific fields and communities in (re-)formation I 3:00 to 4:40 pm virPrague: VR 08 Participants:
Surviving Neoliberal Academia: The Non-Death of UK Heterodox Economics Regina Kolbe, University of Cambridge
Ecological Economics: Scientific Journals and the Identity of Environmentalist Fields Jakob Lundgren, University of Gothenburg, Dpt of Philosophy, Linguistics& Theory of Science
How to understand a field through its research materials? The case of Historical Climatology Kris Decker, University of Lucerne
Studying advanced life sciences. The fluid matrix of co-produced practices Christine Hauskeller, University of Exeter; Anja Pichl, Berlin Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities
Session Organizers: Michael Penkler, Technical University of Munich Sarah Maria Schönbauer, Munich Center for Technology in Society, Technical University of Munich
Chair: Sarah Maria Schönbauer, Munich Center for Technology in Society, Technical University of Munich
266. Hacker Cultures Session 1: Objects of Hacking 3:00 to 4:40 pm virPrague: VR 09 Participants:
“I didn’t sign up for this”: The Invisible Work of Maintaining Free/Open-Source Software Communities R. Stuart Geiger, University of California, San Diego; Dorothy Roe Howard, UC San Diego Department of Communication & Design Lab; Lilly Irani, University of California, San Diego
Computing Libraries: Knowing Interfaces, Ignoring Operations -- Theano's Mediations Between Neural Networks and Graphical Processors Jeremy Grosman
Hacker Culture and Practices in the Development of Internet Protocols Stephane Couture, Université de Montréal
Hacking infrastructures: understanding capabilities of OT security workers Ola Michalec, University of Bristol; Sveta Milyaeva, Goldsmiths, University of London; Dirk Van Der Linden, The University of Bristol; Awais Rashid, The University of Bristol
Securing by hacking: maintenance regimes around an end-to-end encryption standard Sylvain Besençon, University of Fribourg
Session Organizers: Paula Bialski, Leuphana University Luneburg Mace Ojala, IT University of Copenhagen
Chair: Paula Bialski, Leuphana University Luneburg
267. Contesting and moralizing data economies
3:00 to 4:40 pm virPrague: VR 10 Participants:
Coding cultures: The poetics and politics of Big Data Martin Tremcinsky, Charles University In Prague
Scaling Influence: Exploring How Influencer Marketing Platforms Moralize the Data Economy Thomas William Lewis MacDonald, Queen's University
Algorithmic allocation: untangling rival conceptions of fairness in data-driven research management Guus Dix, Center for Science and Technology Studies, Leiden University, the Netherlands
Moralising music data economy: how to remunerate fairly in the music data maze Hyojung Sun, Ulster University
Data Economy Interfaces: Mediating Relations in Fluid Assemblages Heather Wiltse, Umeå Institute of Design, Umeå University
Session Organizer: Kevin Mellet, Orange Labs
Chair: Kevin Mellet, Orange Labs
268. Organizing Technoscientific Capitalism: Assets, Rents, and Values - 2 3:00 to 4:40 pm virPrague: VR 11 Participants:
When Citizen Science is Public Relations: Unpacking the Value of Participatory Research for Polluting Industries Sarah Blacker, York University, Toronto; Abby Kinchy, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; Aya Hirata Kimura, University of Hawaii
Assetizing Flexibility: Mobilizing Capital for a New Electric Power System Daniel Breslau, Virginia Tech
Temporal tensions of dynamic capabilities: The integration of external resources and the implications of assetization for non-profit hybrid organizations Jane Bjørn Vedel, Copenhagen Business School; Kean Birch, York University
Digital Infrastructures as Rent Infrastructures: Understanding New Pathways of Capital Accumulation and Structural Transformation within Contemporary Digital Capitalism(s) Laura Mann, London School of Economics
The Derivativization of Everyday Life, or the Moral Worlds of Informal Financial Markets Kirk Fiereck, Independent Scholar, formerly University of Pennsylvania
Session Organizers: Jane Bjørn Vedel, Copenhagen Business School Kean Birch, York University John Grant Gardner, Monash University, Australia
Chair: John Grant Gardner, Monash University, Australia
269. Interventions with, through and in ethnography 3:00 to 4:40 pm virPrague: VR 12 Participants:
Designing medical visualisations through ethnographic interventions Julia Kurz, Universität Siegen; Cornelius Schubert
“Seeing music”: Discovering material practices of music production through visual ethnography Katja Sara Pape de
Neergaard, Katja de Neergaard Ethnographic Interventions with, through and in Visual STS
Maxime Harvey, Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM) Reflexive Methodology: Ethnographic Research based
Intervention in a Collaborative Research Centre Antje Kahl, FU Berlin
Session Organizers: Kathrin Eitel, Goethe-University Frankfurt, Germany Laura Otto, Goethe University, Frankfurt Martina Klausner, Goethe University Frankfurt
Chair: Martina Klausner, Goethe University Frankfurt
270. Prototyping Urban Futures 1 3:00 to 4:40 pm virPrague: VR 13 Participants:
Automating Urban Futures: From Prototypes To Practice? Meri Jalonen, Aalto University School of Business; Sari Yli-Kauhaluoma, Aalto University, School of Business
Democratic Legitimation or Naturalized Evolution? How Prototyping Urban Futures Risks Democratic Participation of Urban Stakeholders Anitra Baliga, London School of Economics and Political Science; Maximilian Roßmann, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT)/ ITAS
Prototyping alternative urban futures in collaborative housing in Vienna Andrea Schikowitz, TUM
Prototyping The Resilient City Sabrina Huizenga, Erasmus University Rotterdam; Lieke Oldenhof, Erasmus University, Institute of Health Policy and Management; Hester van de Bovenkamp, Erasmus University Rotterdam; Roland Bal, Erasmus University Rotterdam
When innovation goes down the drain: Co-creating robot prototypes for sewer inspection and maintenance Carlos Cuevas-Garcia, Technical University of Munich; Federica Pepponi, MCTS - Munich Center for Technology in Society (TUM)
Session Organizer: Sascha Dickel, Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz
Chair: Marcel Woznica, Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz | Institut für Soziologie
Discussants: Andrea Schikowitz, TUM Kevin Weller, MCTS Technical University Munich
271. Making Futures by Freezing Life I 3:00 to 4:40 pm virPrague: VR 14 Participants:
Thinking about the Future: Social Egg Freezing, Anticipation and Power Relations Michiel De Proost, RHEA/HARP; Gily Coene, Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Vitrification as a game changer in an oocyte-fuelled bioeconomy within a context of reproductive (un)certainties Sara Lafuente-Funes, Institute for Sociology, Goethe University, Frankfurt
Bumpy Valorizations, or What Happens When ‘Frozen’ Matter Does Not Quite Come to Matter Ruzana Liburkina, Goethe University Frankfurt
Varieties of Freezing in Breast Milk Preservation Pablo
Santoro, Universidad Complutense de Madrid; Carmen Romero-Bachiller, University Complutense of Madrid (Spain)
Frozen Assets: Egg Freezing, Sperm Banks and the (Re)Negotiation of Future Motherhood Zeynep Gurtin, UCL
Session Organizer: Veit Moritz Braun, Goethe University Frankfurt/Main
Chair: Veit Moritz Braun, Goethe University Frankfurt/Main
272. Digital Technologies in Policing and Security - Session 2 3:00 to 4:40 pm virPrague: VR 16 Participants:
Ethnographic Simulation Modelling in Policing: From Agent to Action vanessa dirksen, Open University of the Netherlands; Martin Neumann, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz; Ulf Lotzmann, University of Koblenz-Landau
Ontologies Enacting Alterity Wouter Van Rossem, University of Twente; Annalisa Pelizza, University of Bologna and University of Twente
Predictive Analytics and the Defuturization of Insecure Futures: Combining STS and Time Studies Simon Egbert, Technische Universität Berlin
Session Organizers: Simon Egbert, Technische Universität Berlin Nikolaus Pöchhacker, University of Graz
Chair: Sarah Young, Erasmus Universiteit Rotterdam
273. Personhood in more-than-human worlds: reflections from the borderlands of anthropology and STS 3:00 to 4:40 pm virPrague: VR 17 Participants:
Accounts of more-than-human but Less-than-person: clinical interventions when life is fragile Simon Cohn, LSHTM
Precision Patients: Fit for tailored medicine Mie Seest Dam, University of Copenhagen; Sara Green, University of Copenhagen; Mette Svendsen, University of Copenhagen
Things Like This Like People Like You: the Parallax Projections of Personalization Celia Lury, University of Warwick
Organisms and partial human personhood Amy Hinterberger Donors, Data and Disposable Bodies. Dignity and Personhood
in Organ Transplant Technologies Anja Marie Bornø Jensen, University of Copenhagen
In/Animacy at the Margins: Cyborg, Actant, Person Julienne Obadia
Care and the Cowboy Boot: Interspecies Responsibility and the Boundaries of Personhood in Animal Lab Research LESLEY A Sharp, Barnard College, Columbia University
Doing Health Economics in US Clinical Practice Marieke van Eijk, University of Washington
Counting on the people: on the subject of population in Uganda Tyler Zoanni, University of Bayreuth
Session Organizers: Tyler Zoanni, University of Bayreuth Mette Svendsen, University of Copenhagen
Chair: Tyler Zoanni, University of Bayreuth
Discussant: Karen-Sue Taussig, Univ. Minnesota
274. Making Chemical Kin 2 3:00 to 4:40 pm virPrague: VR 18 Participants:
Genital( * )Panic Mary Maggic, Hackteria Pesticide contaminated waterscapes: entanglements that shape
uneven chemical geographies. Maria Soledad Castro, Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona; Diana Barquero, ICTA/UAB
Toxic Entanglements. Reconfiguring Toxicity in Environmental Epigenetic Research Sophia Rossmann, MCTS, Technical University of Munich; Ruth Müller, MCTS TU München
Session Organizers: Angeliki Balayannis, University of Exeter Emma Garnett, King's College London
Chair: Angeliki Balayannis, University of Exeter
Discussant: Michelle Murphy, University of Toronto
275. Charismatic Technology 2 3:00 to 4:40 pm virPrague: VR 19 Participants:
Charismatic Electricity: Electrification and Technological Faith in Historical Perspective Samantha Wesner, Cornell University
Relocating Renewable Energy Annika Marie Hirmke, Earlham College
“It made no sense”: Charisma, HPV vaccines and post-vaccination injuries in Colombia Natalia Lozano, Erasmus Universiteit Rotterdam
Techno-Solutionism in Education Reform: A case study on Thailand’s one laptop per child Panita Chatikavanij, Science and Technology in Society, Virginia Tech; Pratyusha Kiran, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
Session Organizer: Francis Lim
Chair: Samantha Wesner, Cornell University
276. Marxist STS 2 (History) 3:00 to 4:40 pm virPrague: VR 20 Participants:
Misplacement of the Critiques of Technology: The Frankfurt School in China Xiaoyi LI, Peking University
Science Accidental: Has STS morphed into a 21st Century version of Technoscience, Controlled Opposition Richard B Duque, George Washington University
Science, Technology and Socialism: the Soviet Engineering Studies Elena Gavrilina, Bauman Moscow State Technical University; Aleksandra Kazakova, Gubkin Russian State University of Oil and Gas, Bauman Moscow State Technical University
Session Organizer: Davide Orsini, Mississippi State University
Chair:
Ed Hackett, Brandeis University 277. Gendersexualities, Race/ism and The Postcolonial: STS
treatments I 3:00 to 4:40 pm virPrague: VR 21 Participants:
Gender (Dis)Parity in Computing: India vs West Deepak Kapur, University of New Mexico; Roli Varma, University of New Mexico
Infrastructures of Inequality: An Examination of Detroit’s Project Green Light Megan M Rim, University of Michigan
Desire in Sight: The Aesthetics of Knowledge Organization Melissa Adler, Western University
Social Circus and disability - a possible approach of inclusion Consuelo Vallandro Barbo, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS/Brasil)
Session Organizer: Megan M Rim, University of Michigan
Chair: Megan M Rim, University of Michigan
278. Hormonal paradoxes: circulations, access, exposures 3:00 to 4:40 pm virPrague: VR 22 Participants:
Open Molecular Coop. maddalena fragnito, Centre for Postdigital Cultures, Coventry University, UK
Retrospective Exposure: Tracing Narratives of Chemically-Induced Transgressions Jacquelyne Luce, Mount Holyoke College
Rhythms — Flows — Pains — Desires Lenka Veselá, Brno University of Technology, Faculty of Fine Arts
Session Organizers: Mariana Rios Sandoval Olivia (Roger) Fiorilli, IFRIS, Cermes3
Chair: Mariana Rios Sandoval
Discussant: Susanne Bauer, University of Oslo
279. Health Made Digital - II 3:00 to 4:40 pm virPrague: VR 23 Participants:
Digital Health: The role of regulatory boundary organizations in shaping the health/lifestyle demarcation Elisa Lievevrouw, Centre for Sociological Research, KU Leuven; Luca Marelli; ine van hoyweghen, University Leuven
Perceptions of Actionability in Clinical Genomic Sequencing Kellie Owens, University of Pennsylvania
Technological Interventions in Indian Healthcare : Knowledge-making and the Promise of Digital Transformations Nishtha Bharti, Indian Institute of Technology, New Delhi
The Absence of Genetic Data: An Analysis of Direct-to-Consumer Genetic Test Policy Hined A Rafeh, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Session Organizers: Hined A Rafeh, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Danya Glabau, NYU Tandon School of Engineering
Chair:
Danya Glabau, NYU Tandon School of Engineering 280. The Cultures of New and Old Technomedia I
3:00 to 4:40 pm virPrague: VR 24 Participants:
Global Pokémon Culture: Constructing A Culture Of Knowledge And Expertise Through Play Allen Kempton, Faculty of Information, University of Toronto
Homelessness and the Digital City: The Role of Technology, Institutions, and People in the Search for Free Internet Access Will Marler, Northwestern University
Social Construction of Mobile Phones in the Classroom: An STS case study on the relationship between the use of mobile phones and English language development of ab-initio pilots Saadet Tikac, Ozyegin Universitesi
Session Organizer: Goede Both, HU Berlin
Chair: Goede Both, HU Berlin
281. Meet with NSF STS Program Officer 4:40 to 6:00 pm virPrague: VR 02 Session Organizer:
Fred Kronz, The National Science Foundation Chair:
John Parker, National Science Foundation 282. META PANDEMIC: Working on pandemics pre- and post-
Corona 4:40 to 6:00 pm virPrague: VR 03 Session Organizers:
Carolin Mezes, Philipps-University Marburg Sven Opitz, Philipps-University Marburg
Chair: Carolin Mezes, Philipps-University Marburg
283. Hackers, Maintainers, Programmers and Geeks 4:40 to 6:00 pm virPrague: VR 09 Session Organizer:
Paula Bialski, Leuphana University Luneburg Chair:
Mace Ojala, IT University of Copenhagen 284. Comm Scholars in STS - Making it work as an
interdisciplinary scholar 4:40 to 6:00 pm virPrague: VR 15 Session Organizer:
MC Forelle, Cornell University Chair:
Jeremy Hunsinger, Wilfrid Laurier University 285. Personhood in more-than-human worlds: reflections from
the borderlands of anthropology and STS - follow-up discussion 4:40 to 6:00 pm virPrague: VR 17 Session Organizer:
Tyler Zoanni, University of Bayreuth Chair:
Tyler Zoanni, University of Bayreuth 286. The Politics of Explanation
6:00 to 7:40 pm virPrague: VR 00 Session Organizer:
Tereza Stockelova, Institute of Sociology of the Czech Academy of Sciences
Chair: Joan Fujimura, University Of Wisconsin-Madison
Discussants: Laura Forlano, Illinois Institute of Technology Joan Fujimura, University Of Wisconsin-Madison Noortje Marres, University of Warwick, UK Ismael Rafols, Centre for Science & Technology Studies (CWTS), Leiden University
287. Integrating Stakeholders From the Beginning – But (How) is that possible? #1 6:00 to 7:40 pm virPrague: VR 01 Participants:
Let's talk with our hands: a phenomenological approach to multidisciplinary work Laura Cortés-Rico, Universidad Militar Nueva Granada; Tania Pérez-Bustos, National University of Colombia
From Stakeholder to Collaborator: Critical Reflections of Stakeholder Integration Annie Y Patrick, Virginia Tech
Valuation practices in the co-creation of better futures for ageing in place Susan van Hees, Utrecht University; Carla Greubel, Utrecht University; Alexander Peine, Utrecht University
‚Configuring The User As Somebody?’ A Transdisciplinary Technology Design Approach Anita Thaler, IFZ - Interdisciplinary Research Centre for Technology, Work and Culture
Session Organizers: Andreas Bischof, University of Technology Chemnitz Arne Maibaum, TU Berlin
Chair: Arne Maibaum, TU Berlin
288. Building Digital Bioethics: Transformations In Theory And Applied Practice 6:00 to 7:40 pm virPrague: VR 02 Participants:
Building a Digital Bioethics of HIV Surveillance: Centering the Lived and Living Experiences of People Living with HIV Martin French, Concordia University, Montreal, Canada
Defining missing links: MSSNG and Modern Eugenics Rua Mae Williams, University of Florida; Katta Spiel, University of Vienna
Intimate Invasions: (The Lack of) Digital Bioethics in Residential Care Katta Spiel, University of Vienna; Vero Vanden Abeele, KU Leuven
Theorizing from Monstrous Flesh: On Sex Offenders, Data and Personhood Jenny Brian, Arizona State University
The road to digital bioethics: a conceptual framework Manuel Schneider, ETH Zürich; Effy Vayena, ETH Zürich; Alessandro Blasimme, ETH Zurich
Session Organizers:
Mustafa Ibraheem Hussain, University of California Irvine Victoria Neumann, Lancaster University Stephen Molldrem, University of California - Irvine
Chair: Mustafa Ibraheem Hussain, University of California Irvine
289. Health, care, (dis)abilities V 6:00 to 7:40 pm virPrague: VR 03 Participants:
Navigating Uncertainty: Evidence-Based Medicine in Russian Healthcare Ekaterina Borozdina, European University at St.Petersburg; Siberian State medical University
Articulating knowledge and bringing forward good ideas: visualizing mental healthcare at a distance Annemarie van Hout, Hogeschool Windesheim; Nynke Boonstra, NHL Stenden University of Applied Science
The whole milk seems to be alive: a symbiopoietic perspective on breast milk donation Carmen Romero-Bachiller, University Complutense of Madrid (Spain); Pablo Santoro, Universidad Complutense de Madrid
"Veteran Disorder" and the Evidence of Compliance Kenneth MacLeish, Center for Medicine, Health and Society, Vanderbilt University
Session Organizer: Ekaterina Borozdina, European University at St.Petersburg; Siberian State medical University
Chair: Ekaterina Borozdina, European University at St.Petersburg; Siberian State medical University
290. Geoethics 6:00 to 7:40 pm virPrague: VR 04 Participants:
Geoethics – A New Concept to Foster Responsible Mining? Diana Ayeh, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research GmbH - UFZ; Alena Bleicher, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research - UFZ, GmbH
Nickel in New Caledonia: Interweaving Mineral Sovereignty, Decolonisation and Lithium Batteries Nicole Gooch, School of Communication, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, University of Technology Sydney
Potential successes and pitfalls of co-producing research with stakeholders: empirical notes from a sustainable mining workshop in Northern Brazil Marko Alves Monteiro, State University of Campinas - UNICAMP; Angelina Bellamy, Cardiff University; Roberto Greco, University of Campinas; Isabela Noronha, University of Campinas; Maria Cristina Oliveira Souza, UNICAMP; Maria Jose Mesquita, University of Campinas; Lambert-Smith James, Cardiff University; Diego Ducart, University of Campinas; Ricardo Perobelli Borba, University of Campinas; Rosana Icassatti Corazza, Unicamp; Alfredo Borges de Campos, University of Campinas; Guilherme Primo, University of Campinas; Carlos Xavier Araujo, University of São Paulo; Guilherme Nascimento Gomes, University of Campinas; Ernest Chi Fru, Cardiff University
"Responsible mining" contested: water scarcity as a "matter of concern" and the new agencies of coal extraction in Colombia Susana Carmona, Universidad de Los Andes/ Ruhr University Bochum
Making Rocks Matter: Subsurface Geoscience and Life Politics in Oklahoma’s “Frack-quakes” Debates Lara Rodriguez, George Washington University
Session Organizers: Alena Bleicher, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research - UFZ, GmbH Roopali Phadke, Macalester College Abby Kinchy, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Chair: Alena Bleicher, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research - UFZ, GmbH
291. STS for a post-truth age: comparative dialogues on reflexivity (II) 6:00 to 7:40 pm virPrague: VR 05 Participants:
Understanding emotions around science denial and post-truth: toward an emotionally reflexive science? Anna Durnova, Institute of Sociological Studies/ Faculty of Social Sciences
Truth is an activity: alethurgy and speculative objects in an evidence-based governmental scenario. Jorge Castillo-Sepúlveda, University of Santiago de Chile
‘Trying To Lock The Barn Door After The Horse Has Already Bolted’: Bounded Democratization’s Limitations Kinley Gillette, Department of Philosophy + Science and Technology Studies, University of British Columbia, Vancouver
Session Organizers: Melike Sahinol, Orient-Institut Istanbul Emine Onculer Yayalar, Bilkent University
Chair: Emine Onculer Yayalar, Bilkent University
292. Modes of Futuring between Care and Control: Engaging with the Conservation of Endangered More-Than-Human Life II 6:00 to 7:40 pm virPrague: VR 06 Participants:
Knowledge Infrastructures for Conservation as Matters of Care Anne Beaulieu, University of Groningen
Seeding Futures/ Saving Worlds: Seed Banking as a Relational Practice? Marleen Boschen, Goldsmiths College, University of London
Rewilding Patagonia Maria Soledad Altrudi, University of Southern California
Killing as Care – The Biopolitics of Wolf Conservation in Washington State Robert Anderson, University of Washington
Session Organizer: Markus Rudolfi, Institute for Sociology, Goethe University, Frankfurt
Chairs: Franziska von Verschuer, Goethe University Frankfurt/Main Franziska Dahlmeier, Hamburg University
293. Global Imaginaries of Precision Science 2: Diversity, Inclusion and Justice 6:00 to 7:40 pm virPrague: VR 07 Participants:
‘Harnessing Little White Cells’: Inclusions And Exclusions Provoked By Immunotherapy Treatments In Precision Cancer Medicine Julia Swallow, University of Edinburgh
Postgenomics and Education: The Intersections of Evolution and Educational Theory, Practice and Policy Chessa Adsit-Morris, University of California, Santa Cruz
The Polygenic Score and Social Genomics: The Making of a Research Field or Genomized Socialities? Kaya Akyüz, University of Vienna
STS meets forest genomics: Co-producing just and equitable environments in a climate altered world Gwendolyn Blue, University Of Calgary
Sowing the Seeds of Bias: Hidden Agendas of "Precision Agriculture" Rian E Wanstreet, University of Washington
Session Organizers: Sandra Soo-Jin Lee, Columbia University Janet K. Shim, University Of California, San Francisco
Chair: Sandra Soo-Jin Lee, Columbia University
294. Scientific fields and communities in (re-)formation II 6:00 to 7:40 pm virPrague: VR 08 Participants:
Library Information Science and Memory Practices: The (re)formation of Librarianship in the Information Age. Caroline Mason, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute - STS
The transformation of academic labs in the era of commercialization: From PI as bench scientist to PI as multiple-grant entrepreneur Annalisa Salonius, Independent Scholar, formerly University of Pennsylvania
Scientists on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown Alexis Turner, Harvard University
Session Organizers: Michael Penkler, Technical University of Munich Sarah Maria Schönbauer, Munich Center for Technology in Society, Technical University of Munich
Chair: Michael Penkler, Technical University of Munich
295. Hacker Cultures Session 2. People Who Hack 6:00 to 7:40 pm virPrague: VR 09 Participants:
Throwback Culture: The Role of Nostalgia in Hacker Worlds Morgan G. Ames, CSTMS/School of Information, UC Berkeley
Do-It-Together: Feminists Redefining the Hacker Community Christina Haralanova
Hacker Culture Is Everything You Don't Get Paid For In the Information Security Industry Alex Dean Cybulski, University of Toronto
'Forget about the learning'. On (digital) creativity and expertise in hacker-/makerspaces Annika Richterich, University of Sussex
In the grey zone of hacking? Two cases in the political economy of software and the Right to Repair Minna Saariketo, Stockholm University; Barry Brown, Stockholm University; Mareike Glöss, Stockholm University
Session Organizers: Mace Ojala, IT University of Copenhagen
Paula Bialski, Leuphana University Luneburg Chair:
Mace Ojala, IT University of Copenhagen 296. Governing data economies
6:00 to 7:40 pm virPrague: VR 10 Participants:
The Legitimacy of Data Infrastructure Dan Bouk, Colgate / Data & Society; danah boyd, Microsoft Research / Data & Society
Is consent a relevant model for digital markets regulation? Thomas Beauvisage, Orange Labs; Kevin Mellet, Orange Labs
Making Governments Smart: Dashboards and Analytics in Local Governance Burcu Baykurt, University Of Massachusetts Amherst
“What is a market?” and other problems of legibility and logistics Norma Tamaria Möllers, Queen's University (Kingston, Canada)
Session Organizer: Kevin Mellet, Orange Labs
Chair: Kevin Mellet, Orange Labs
297. Organizing Technoscientific Capitalism: Assets, Rents, and Values - 3 6:00 to 7:40 pm virPrague: VR 11 Participants:
From “Data Protection” to “Data Donation”: Conceptualizing the Reuse of Personal Data in Policy Responses to Big Data Anna Artyushina, York University
Moral Economies of Open Data Platforms Ryan Burns, Department of Geography; Preston Welker, University of Calgary
Anchored to Machine: Regulating Algorithms in Financial Markets Bo Hee Min, Copenhagen Business School
Valuing Views, (Re)viewing Value: Platform Capitalism and the Derivative of Attention Jacob S. Hagelberg, University of California - Davis
Where is Monopoly in STS? Techno-rents and Big Tech in an Age of the ‘Techlash’ Kean Birch, York University; Callum Ward, UCL
Session Organizers: Jane Bjørn Vedel, Copenhagen Business School Kean Birch, York University John Grant Gardner, Monash University, Australia
Chair: Kean Birch, York University
298. FLIPPED | Digital Experiments in the Making III: Researching Methods, Tools, And Platforms Within The Datalogical Turn 6:00 to 7:40 pm virPrague: VR 12 Participants:
Locating And Timing Matters Of Attention Through Wikipedia: Technical, Epistemological And Political Considerations Nicolas Baya-Laffite, STSLab, Université de Lausanne; Ogier Maitre, STSLab, Université de Lausanne; Boris Beaude, STSLab, Université de Lausanne
Knowing Infrastructure: Critically Engaging The Wayback Machine As Source For STS Research Jessica Ogden, University of Southampton; Ed Summers, University of Maryland; Shawn Walker, Arizona State University
New Perspectives In Digital Platform Governance: Qualitative Studies Of Open Access Platforms Luis Ignacio Reyes-Galindo; Clement Bert-Erboul, Université Libre de Bruxelles
Session Organizers: Lina Franken, University of Hamburg Kim Fortun, University of California Irvine Mike Fortun, University of California, Irvine Gertraud Koch, University of Hamburg
Chair: Mike Fortun, University of California, Irvine
299. Prototyping Urban Futures 2 6:00 to 7:40 pm virPrague: VR 13 Participants:
Facilitating Collaborative Processes In Transformative Transdisciplinary Research – Design Prototyping As A Creative Intervention Daniela Peukert, Leuphana University of Lueneburg; David P. M. Lam, Leuphana University Lueneburg; Andra I. Horcea-Milcu, University of Helsinki; Daniel J. Lang, Leuphana University Lueneburg
Reconstructing DISCOURSE: Rules and Data Structure Reconfiguring Urban Planning Work in the 1960s MIT Emek Erdolu, Carnegie Mellon University; Daniel Cardoso Llach, Carnegie Mellon University
Commercial motorcycle as sustainable mode of transportation Emmanuel Ejim-Eze, Institute of Engineering, technology and innovation Management; Elizabeth Omimakinde, National Centre for Technology Management
Mapping the rhizome of smart city performances Harsh Mittal, Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad
Session Organizer: Marcel Woznica, Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz | Institut für Soziologie
Chair: Kevin Weller, MCTS Technical University Munich
Discussants: Sascha Dickel, Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz Andrea Schikowitz, TUM
300. Making Futures by Freezing Life II 6:00 to 7:40 pm virPrague: VR 14 Participants:
Potential Value. Producing Knowledge And Commercial Value In Natural Product Chemistry Klaus Angerer, University of Tübingen, Germany
“Cattle Banks”: Preserving Nordic Exceptionalism and Future Human-Cattle Relations. Charlotte H. Kroløkke, University of Southern Denmark
Frozen Futures: Crafting Natural History in a Genomic Age Adrian Van Allen, California Academy of Science / Smithsonian Institution
Remind Me when I Wake Up: Memory and Recollection in Animal Cryobanks Veit Moritz Braun, Goethe University Frankfurt/Main
What's disappearing? The constitution of microbiota banks at
the time of their alteration. Alexis Zimmer, Centre Alexandre Koyré
Session Organizers: Sara Lafuente-Funes, Institute for Sociology, Goethe University, Frankfurt Ruzana Liburkina, Goethe University Frankfurt
Chair: Sara Lafuente-Funes, Institute for Sociology, Goethe University, Frankfurt
301. States of Planetary Environmental Knowledge I 6:00 to 7:40 pm virPrague: VR 15 Participants:
Gas Guzzling Gaia Leah Aronowsky, Columbia University Territorializing the Atmosphere: International Politics of an Air
Quality Survey in East Asia Sungeun Kim, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)
Timing an Anthropocene ocean: Temporality and environmental knowledge in the Deep Sea Drilling Project 1968-1983 Erik Isberg, Division of History of Science, Technology and Environment, KTH Royal Institute of Technology
What’s in a Footprint? Rival models of Communication and Materiality in Environmental vs. Carbon Footprinting Techniques Anne Pasek, New York University
Can Planetary Knowledge be Decolonized? Jerome Whitington, New York University
Session Organizers: Jenny Elaine Goldstein, Cornell University Leah Aronowsky, Columbia University
Chair: Jenny Elaine Goldstein, Cornell University
302. Digital Technologies in Policing and Security - Session 3 6:00 to 7:40 pm virPrague: VR 16 Participants:
Calculating Fairness. Enacting statistical justice in the case of risk recidivism Nikolaus Pöchhacker, University of Graz; Peter Müller, Technical University Munich
EVINCING SHADOWS: How Forensics Turns Digital Data into Evidence of Indecency Brian Rappert, University of Exeter
Prediction, Production, and Disintegration: Corporate-Government Partnerships and the Need for Expertise Sarah Young, Erasmus Universiteit Rotterdam
Session Organizer: Nikolaus Pöchhacker, University of Graz
Chair: Simon Egbert, Technische Universität Berlin
303. They’re Just Guidelines: Operationalizing AI Ethics - Session 1 (Considering Context) 6:00 to 7:40 pm virPrague: VR 17 Participants:
A Case Study in Operationalizing AI Principles in Large Enterprise Es Braziel, Microsoft; Emily McReynolds
AI Ethics Principles: International Practices Versus Local Implementation In Taiwan Yin-Ling Wei, National Taiwan
Normal University; Cheng-Hsing Chang, National Taiwan Normal University; Li-Yun Chang, National Taiwan Normal University; En Chao, National Taiwan Normal University; Tony Szu-Hsien Lee, National Taiwan Normal University
On Algorithmic Opacity and Moral Certainty Oleg Litvinski, CIRST UQAM
Session Organizer: Anna Lenhart, University Of Maryland College Park
Chair: Anna Lenhart, University Of Maryland College Park
304. Locating Psychoanalysis in STS Terrains 6:00 to 7:40 pm virPrague: VR 18 Participants:
Critical Attachments: The Strange Situation Procedure as a Primal Mis-En-Scene for Feminist STS Eric Taggart, UC Davis Anthro/STS/Performance Studies
Psychoanaĺisis, pharmaceuticalization and subjectivity Andrea Clara Bielli, Universidad de la República; María Pilar Bacci, Universidad de la República; Gabriela Lilián Bruno, Facultad de Psicología de la Udelar Uruguay
Psychoanalysis And Its Boundaries: A STS Approach. Santiago Navarro, Universidad de la República, Uruguay
Voyeurism with Sympathy: The Cuteness of Online Animal Celebrities Tsz Lam Ngai, University of Michigan
Session Organizers: Misria Shaik Ali, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Aftab Mirzaei, York University STS
Chair: Jamie Steele, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
305. Disgust 6:00 to 7:40 pm virPrague: VR 19 Participants:
Yucky today, okay tomorrow? The embodied rationality of rejecting recycled water in spite of Arizona’s water crisis Marisa Manheim; Christy Spackman, SFIS - Arizona State University
Enacting Good Shit: Choreographies of Fecal Microbiota Transplants Sabine Biedermann C, Technical University Berlin
Shit! Tau Ulv Lenskjold, University of Southern Denmark; Danielle Wilde, University of Southern Denmark
Session Organizers: Jose A. Cañada, University of Helsinki Salla Sariola, University of Helsinki Luisa Reis Castro, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
Chair: Luisa Reis Castro, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
306. Marxist STS 1 (Theory) 6:00 to 7:40 pm virPrague: VR 20 Participants:
Class Struggle in Technology: The Dialectical Unity of Forces and Relations of Production Josh Lalonde
Feminist Technoscience And Marxism: Contemporary
Entanglements Towards Novel Conceptual Lenses Mariacristina Sciannamblo, Sapienza University of Rome; Natalia-Rozalia Avlona, National Technical University of Athens
How Marxism and the Social Construction of Technology Might Benefit Each Other Owen Marshall
Techno-Luxury in Marxist Political Thought: Theorizing Excess in the Age of Automation and the Anthropocene Maximilian Curtis, University of Cambridge
Session Organizer: Johan Soderberg
Chair: Ed Hackett, Brandeis University
307. Gendersexualities, Race/ism and The Postcolonial: STS treatments II 6:00 to 7:40 pm virPrague: VR 21 Participants:
“It’s Over”: Involuntarily celibate men’s perception of women, social media, and the masculine order Michael Halpin, Dalhousie University; Kayla Preston, University of Toronto; Finlay Maguire, Dalhousie University
Mobile Cyborgs: subverting the myth of the ‘other’ en route to Europe through digital technologies VASILIKI MAKRYGIANNI, ITU Copenhagen
Teaching Technoscience Infrastructures of Care Kalindi Vora, University of California Davis
The Return of the (Plastic) Indian Jennifer Hamilton, Amherst College
Session Organizer: Michael Halpin, Dalhousie University
Chair: Michael Halpin, Dalhousie University
308. Grotesque Epistemologies: Processes 6:00 to 7:40 pm virPrague: VR 22 Participants:
Deliberate Decay: Multispecies Ethics in Emergent American Deathcare Kristin Gupta, Rice University, Department of Anthropology
The ‘living’ room: an ontological site for exploring decay at the museum Martin Grünfeld, CBMR and Medical Museion, University of Copenhagen
The Smooth, the Absorbing and the Broken – Encountering the abject body in medical practice Helene Scott-Fordsmand, Medical Museion, University of Copenhagen
Repairing the Newtown Creek with Cemeteries and Bacteria Liviu Chelcea, University of Bucharest
Doing the Dead with Cariño and Tears. Postmortem Examinations, Cadaveric Fauna, and the War in Colombia. Julia Morales Fontanilla, Rutgers University - New Jersey, USA
Session Organizer: Lee Nelson, RPI
Chair: Kristin Gupta, Rice University, Department of Anthropology
Discussant: Joanna Radin, Yale University
309. Health Made Digital - I 6:00 to 7:40 pm virPrague: VR 23 Participants:
Aiming at the “Proper” Body: Therapeutic Challenges with Exoskeletal Devices Denisa Butnaru, University of Konstanz
Biomonitoring as Self-Fashioning: Data, the Self, and the Culture of Wellness Heather Nolan, University of California - Davis
Older Adults Perception on Health Data and Personal Tracking Devices Cora Van Leeuwen, Free University of Brussels (VUB); Ine van Zeeland, VUB; An Jacobs, VUB; Jo Pierson, VUB; Myriam Sillevis Smitt, imec-VUB-SMIT; Julie Doyle, DKIT; Patricia Sheridan, DKIT; Suzanne Smith, DKIT; Lorraine Tompkins, TCD; James Sheerin, Home Instead; Mary Galvin, Maynouth University; Emma Murphy, TCD; John Gerard Dinsmore, TCD
Patient No More: Recoding Expertise Through Diabetes Technology Paige Edmiston, University of Colorado Boulder
The Ethos of Care in Self-tracking Imge Ozcan, Research Group on Law, Science, Technology and Society, Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Session Organizers: Hined A Rafeh, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Danya Glabau, NYU Tandon School of Engineering
Chair: Hined A Rafeh, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
310. The Cultures of New and Old Technomedia III 6:00 to 7:40 pm virPrague: VR 24 Participants:
Disconnection Movements: From Nature versus Technology to TechnoNatureCultures Paula Helm, University of Tuebingen
Smart Phone Usage, Social Networks, Food Choices, and Well-Being in Urban and Rural Kenya Mark J Joseph Schafer, LSU AgCenter; Wesley Shrum, Louisiana State University; Matthew Harsh, California Polytechnic State University
The Social Life of Dowse: Ethics and Invisibility in IoT Ester Fritsch, IT University of Copenhagen
Tuning in to Gender, Technical and Information Management Work in the Radio and Telephone Industries, 1930-1950 Carolyn Birdsall, Media Studies at the University of Amsterdam; Elinor Carmi, Liverpool University, UK.
Session Organizer: Wesley Shrum, Louisiana State University
Chair: Wesley Shrum, Louisiana State University
311. Integrating Stakeholders From the Beginning – But (How) is that possible? #2 8:00 to 9:40 pm virPrague: VR 01 Participants:
Citizen Science and Participatory Water Resource Management: Possibilities and Limits Sarita Albagli, IBICT Brazilian Institute for Information in Science and Technology; Luana Mendonça Pinto Rocha, IBICT - Brazilian Institute of Information in Science and Technology
Public engagement in design of wind turbines- the premises and
the limits of user-centred design of sustainability technologies and their landscapes Helena Maria Solman
Explainable Software For Skilled Workers. Collaboratively Designed And Accountable For Its Users Annelie Pentenrieder, Institute for Innovation and Technology
Human Demands Of Sustainable Aviation: Integrating Residents’ And Passengers’ Demands Into Engineers’ Knowledge Bases Sandra Buchmüller, TU Berlin / TU Braunschweig, Germany; Julia Stilke, Technische Universität Braunschweig
Session Organizers: Andreas Bischof, University of Technology Chemnitz Arne Maibaum, TU Berlin
Chair: Arne Maibaum, TU Berlin
312. Global Imaginaries of Precision Science 3: Diversity, Inclusion and Justice 8:00 to 9:40 pm virPrague: VR 02 Participants:
Air pollution and the productive limits of precision science Emma Garnett, King's College London
Uncertain Subjects and Imprecise Medicine: Discussing Food, Bodies and Direct to Consumer Microbiome Tests Sandra Widmer, York University, Canada
Bacteria, Genes And Scientists: An Approach From Global History of Science Marco Ornelas-Cruces, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
Magic materials and the promise of precision tumour targeting Matthew Kearnes, Environmental Humanities Progarmme, School of Humanities and Languages, University of New South Wale; Declan Liam Kuch, Institute for Culture & Society, Western Sydney University
Session Organizers: Sandra Soo-Jin Lee, Columbia University Janet K. Shim, University Of California, San Francisco
Chair: Sandra Soo-Jin Lee, Columbia University
313. Polities of European Science 8:00 to 9:40 pm virPrague: VR 03 Participants:
Classification and Standardization in a Europe of Knowledge: The Role of Executive Agencies Sarah Glück, Zeppelin Universität gemeinnützige GmbH
Constructing Social Minds Cameron Brinitzer, History & Sociology of Science, University of Pennsylvania
Innovation Constrained: How the ERC Synergy Grant Funding Scheme Came Into Being Thomas König, Institute for Advanced Studies, Vienna
Session Organizers: Thomas König, Institute for Advanced Studies, Vienna Sarah Glück, Zeppelin Universität gemeinnützige GmbH
Chair: Cameron Brinitzer, History & Sociology of Science, University of Pennsylvania
Discussant: Richard Rottenburg, University of the Witwatersrand
314. Emerging uses of underground space
8:00 to 9:40 pm virPrague: VR 04 Participants:
BECCS And Fracking Discourses: A Comparative Case Study Karolina Trdlicova, University of Nottingham
Environmental Impacts of Deep Seabed Mining: Between Knowledge and Ignorance Bruno Gabriel Costelini, Durham University
Pushed, Opposed, Cancelled!? – The Fates of Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) Projects across Europe Danny Otto, Department of Urban and Environmental Sociology, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research-UFZ
The Role Of Vocabulary For Governance Of The Urban Subsurface Loretta von der Tann; Marilu Melo, UNSW
The spatiality of low-carbon geo-energy: Bringing subterranean matters to the surface Olivier Ejderyan, D-USYS TdLab, ETH Zürich
Session Organizers: Alena Bleicher, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research - UFZ, GmbH Roopali Phadke, Macalester College Abby Kinchy, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Chair: Abby Kinchy, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
315. Re-emerging Psychedelic Worlds: Altered States, Altered Subjects, Altered STS? (2) 8:00 to 9:40 pm virPrague: VR 05 Participants:
Ayahuasca, Incarceration, And The Healing Of Dialectics In A Brazilian-Amazonian Prison NGO Zach Levine, Duke University
Traditionalizing global forms: ethics in mind-altering vegetalista practices of the Peruvian Amazon Olivia Rose Marcus, University of Connecticut
What Drugs, What Uses? Uri Shwed, Ben Gurion University of the Negev
Digital Methods and the Evidence for Psychedelic Medicine: A Historical and Epistemological Review Emma Stamm, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
Session Organizers: Tehseen Noorani, Durham University Claudia Schwarz-Plaschg, University of Vienna
Chair: Claudia Schwarz-Plaschg, University of Vienna
316. Conceptualization and Evidence of Social Innovation: Frameworks, Experiences, Practices and Application 8:00 to 9:40 pm virPrague: VR 06 Participants:
Concepts and experiences of social innovation: a literature review José Francisco Romero-Muñoz, Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla - Dirección de Innovación y Transferencia de Conocimiento
In Which Ways Do Makerspaces Contribute to Social Innovation? Öykü Sorgun
Social Innovation in the framework of Social and Solidarity Economy under the Community Economies perspective Effie Amanatidou, University of Manchester; Georgios Gritzas,
Aristotle University of Thessaloniki; Eirini-Eryfili Tzekou, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Session Organizer: José Francisco Romero-Muñoz, Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla - Dirección de Innovación y Transferencia de Conocimiento
Chair: José Francisco Romero-Muñoz, Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla - Dirección de Innovación y Transferencia de Conocimiento
317. Taking Data Into Account 2 8:00 to 9:40 pm virPrague: VR 07 Participants:
On the Genealogy of Datasets as a Field of Inquiry and Practice Emily Denton, Google; Alex Hanna, Google; Andrew Smart, Google; Hilary Nicole, Google; Razvan Amironesei, University of San Francisco
Measurement and Counting are Two Different Things, Goddammit! An Epistemology of Quantitative Data. Petter Grytten Almklov, Norwegian U. Of Science And Technology (NTNU)
Politics, Pathos, and Power: Community Mobilizations of Data Roderic Crooks, Informatics, UC Irvine; Lucy Pei, University of California, Irvine
The need to introduce contextual factors for assessing innovation processes Veronica Paulina Morales Arevalo, Escuela Politécnica Nacional
Session Organizer: Burcu Baykurt, University Of Massachusetts Amherst
Chair: Burcu Baykurt, University Of Massachusetts Amherst
318. Infrastructures of Care: Independence, Self, Exteriority 8:00 to 9:40 pm virPrague: VR 08 Participants:
Synchronizing Autonomies: Study Of An Independent Living Service For People With Down Syndrome In Spain Joan Moyà-Köhler, Open University of Catalunya; Israel Rodríguez-Giralt, Fundació per la Universitat Oberta de Catalunya
Self-Care In Disabling Times – A Disability Studies Perspective On Young People’s Narratives Between Work And Welfare Inga Julia Reichelt, University of Leeds
Thresholds of the ab/normal: Ethnography of movement in residential institution Radek Carboch, Faculty of Humanities, Charles University
Claiming Autonomy in Relations of Interdependency: Ritual, Precious Objects, and Uncharted Engagements Patrick Devlieger, KU Leuven; Christine Verbruggen, KU Leuven; Mar Gil Alvarez, KU Leuven; Laurence De Backer, KU Leuven
Session Organizers: Laura Mauldin, University of Connecticut Emily Lim Rogers, New York University Helena Fietz, UFRGS
Chair: Helena Fietz, UFRGS
319. STS Approaches to Social Epigenetics and the
Developmental Origins of Health and Disease 8:00 to 9:40 pm virPrague: VR 09 Participants:
Charting the Political Epistemologies of Epigenetics and DOHaD Luca Chiapperino Chiapperino, University of Lausanne, Faculty of Social and Political Sciences; Francesco Panese, University of Lausanne, Faculty of Social and Political Sciences
Living with Well Trauma: Centering Resilience in the Epigenetics of Early Life Adversity Martha Kenney, San Francisco State University; Ruth Müller, MCTS TU München
From cellular memory to the memory of trauma: Social epigenetics and its public circulation Michel Dubois, Gemass - CNRS - Sorbonne; Catherine Guaspare, Gemass - CNRS
Struggling with Biosocial Complexity: How Researchers in the Field of Developmental Origins of Health and Disease Engage with the Social Aspects and Implications of their Research Michael Penkler, Technical University of Munich
Unsettling the Singularity of Postgenomic Time in the Australian Colonial Context Henrietta Byrne, The University of Adelaide; Megan Warin, University of Adelaide
Session Organizer: Megan Warin, University of Adelaide
Chair: Charles Dupras, McGill University
Discussant: Martine Lappe, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo
320. Aesthetic Interventions: Exploring Emerging Worlds Through Art II – Explorations & Collaborations 8:00 to 9:40 pm virPrague: VR 10 Participants:
Sharing Embodied Perspectives, Exploring Interacting Minds Andreas Roepstorff; Dorte Bjerre Jensen, Aarhus University; Anna Engberg, Studio Olafur Eliasson; Sophie Erlund, Studio Olafur Eliasson; Andreas Løppenthin, Copenhagen University; Cordula Vesper, Aarhus University; Joseph Dumit, UC Davis
Semiotic Provocations of Olfactory Art Ksenia Fedorova, Humboldt University Berlin; Natalia Fedorova, St. Petersburg State University
Exhibiting the Anthropocene: a contract between the Anthropocene Working Group and the Haus der Kulturen der Welt in Berlin Alexander Damianos, London School of Economics; Clémence Hallé, Ecole Normale Supérieure
Multiplicity and Space for the Unspeakable: Art, Lifeworld, and the Limits of Narrative in Psychosis Suze Berkhout, University of Toronto; Eva-Marie Stern, University of Toronto
Session Organizers: Regula Valérie Burri, HCU - HafenCity University Hamburg Joseph Dumit, UC Davis
Chair: Regula Valérie Burri, HCU - HafenCity University Hamburg
321. Animals and their Humans 8:00 to 9:40 pm
virPrague: VR 11 Participants:
Multispecies Memory: Alzheimer’s, Pets, and Capital Brad Bolman, Harvard University
The Domestication Triangle. How Humans, Animals And Technology Shape Each Other In Automated Milking Systems Terje Finstad, Dept. of Interdisciplinary Studies of Culture, NTNU; Margrethe Aune, NTNU
The Logic of Diagnostic Practices: Drivers of the Use of Rapid Diagnostics to Reduce Antimicrobial Use in Animal Farming in the UK Kin Chan, University of Exeter; Henry Buller, University of Exeter
322. Teaching interdependent agency I: Feminist STS approaches to STEM pedagogy 8:00 to 9:40 pm virPrague: VR 12 Participants:
Accept Only: Framing the Compulsory, Citations as Syllabus in Trans- Feminist and Queer Data Studies T.L. Cowan, University of Toronto
Building Feminist Science Pedagogies: Reflections on Teaching the Power of Metaphors in STEM Research on Mars Maya Cruz, University of California - Davis
Curriculum as Futurism: Towards a Liberatory Computing Education Sanaa Khan, UC San Diego
Refusing Settler Coloniality in Queer Design Jasmine Rault, Faculty of Information, University of Toronto
Thriving and Struggling Towards Decolonial Futures: The Technoscience Research Unit’s Lab Guide Kristen Bos, University of Toronto; Lindsay LeBlanc, University of Toronto
Session Organizer: Kalindi Vora, University of California Davis
Chair: Kalindi Vora, University of California Davis
323. Transformations And Tensions In Academic Publishing - Part I 8:00 to 9:40 pm virPrague: VR 13 Participants:
Managers or Gatekeepers? Competences and Work of Editors in Chemistry Journals Marianne NOEL, Université Paris-Est
The Courage to Continue: The Division of Reading Labor at an American University Press and the Social, Emotional Dimensions of Reading Intellectual Works-in-Progress Joshua Silver, The University Of Chicago
Infrastructuring “openness”: Key tensions in building an Open Access world in academic publishing Elena Šimukovič, University of Vienna
Standardizing STS? Academic Publishing as a Form of Research Coordination Wolfgang Kaltenbrunner, Centre for Sciencs & Technology Studies (CWTS), Leiden University; Kean Birch, York University; Thed van Leeuwen, Leiden University
Session Organizer: Wolfgang Kaltenbrunner, Centre for Sciencs & Technology Studies (CWTS), Leiden University
Chair: Wolfgang Kaltenbrunner, Centre for Sciencs & Technology
Studies (CWTS), Leiden University 324. Crafting Critical Methodologies in Computing: Theories,
Practices and Future Directions (C) 8:00 to 9:40 pm virPrague: VR 14 Participants:
Software-As-Process: Using Design Documents For Critical Software Studies Irina Zakharova, University of Bremen; Juliane Jarke, University of Bremen
Infrastructure and Imagination: pursuing alliances in practices and studies of computational capacity building Eric Snodgrass, Department of Thematic Studies - Technology and Social Change, Linköping University
Patterns of re-cognition Waltraud Ernst, Johannes Kepler University Linz
Speaking Nearby: the forgotten past of black computational thought Romi (Ron) Morrison
Session Organizers: Goda Klumbyte, University of Kassel Claude Draude, University of Kassel, Germany Juliane Jarke, University of Bremen
Chair: Loren Britton, University of Kassel
325. States of Planetary Environmental Knowledge II 8:00 to 9:40 pm virPrague: VR 15 Participants:
Scaling the Planetary: Environmental Knowledge, Resistance, and Governance of Outer Space, 1958-1977 Lisa Ruth Rand, Science History Institute
Developing Nature: The World Bank as an Agent of the Global Environment Gloria Marthalena Samosir, KTH Royal Institute of Technology
Flows of Global Climate Finance Knowledge to the Local: Epistemic Implications and STS Kirsty Anantharajah
Peat and the plantationocene: Postcolonial techno-science and the politics of expertise in Southeast Asia’s oil palm economy Jenny Elaine Goldstein, Cornell University
Scaling up indigenous knowledges? forest monitoring programs and indigenous autonomy in the Amazon basin Sylvia Rocio Cifuentes, University of California, Santa Barbara
Session Organizers: Jenny Elaine Goldstein, Cornell University Leah Aronowsky, Columbia University
Chair: Leah Aronowsky, Columbia University
326. Contextualizing Algorithms in Time and Space 8:00 to 9:40 pm virPrague: VR 16 Participants:
Algorithmic time regimes: From chronological real-time to kairological right-time Taina Bucher
Data Orientalism: On the Algorithmic Construction of the Non-Western Other Dan M. Kotliar, Department of Communication, Stanford University
Optimizing for personalization: Ordering people’s behavior to create a personal experience Elinor Carmi, Liverpool University, UK.
Algorithms and their discontents: making the global work locally Anna Jobin, Université de Lausanne
Session Organizers: Dan M. Kotliar, Department of Communication, Stanford University Elinor Carmi, Liverpool University, UK.
Chair: Dan M. Kotliar, Department of Communication, Stanford University
327. Categories of Hatred: Unearthing algorithmic cultures of hate groups, marginalization, and surveillance of minorities 1 8:00 to 9:40 pm virPrague: VR 17 Participants:
‘A Unique Educational Experience’: Logics of Security and Vulnerability in the University of Farmington Case Levin Kim, The Information School, University of Washington; Anna Lauren Hoffmann, The Information School, University of Washington
The Devil in the Default: Structural racism in research systems Jasmine McNealy, University of Florida
The Pronouns Project: Developing Software for Sharing and Tracking Personal Pronoun Data Tristan Gohring, Indiana University - Bloomington; Mary L. Gray, Microsoft Research/Indiana University; Es Braziel, Microsoft
Policing the Body: The Effects of Trump Administration Policies on Transgender People in the United States Isabel Krakoff, York University
Session Organizers: David Nemer, University of Virginia Melissa Adler, Western University
Chair: David Nemer, University of Virginia
328. Maintaining and (Re)Making Sociotechnical Worlds I 8:00 to 9:40 pm virPrague: VR 18 Participants:
Everyday life and the army headquarters culture: Two regimes of maintenance/knowledge practices in an asylum Michal Synek, Univerzita Karlova, CTS; Dana Hradcová, Faculty of Humanities, Charles University; Radek Carboch, Faculty of Humanities, Charles University
Explorations and recompositions: the lively alchemy of urban maintenance Jérôme Denis, CSI - MINES ParisTech; David Pontille, CNRS
Hacking vs. Maintenance: Epistemic Practice, Technology and the Emergence of the New Sebastian Dahm, Bielefeld University
Session Organizer: Michal Synek, Univerzita Karlova, CTS
Chair: Michal Synek, Univerzita Karlova, CTS
329. Ethea Alternativa: Undoing Capital’s Techno-Economic, Exploitative Thrall over the Earth 8:00 to 9:40 pm virPrague: VR 19 Participants:
Treaty Praxes with Crows, Coyotes, Humans, Genomes: Inter-Peoples / Inter-Species Relations and Making Other
Practices Matter Brian Noble, Dalhousie University Learning to live well together: Redefining sustainable
community development by centering locally-based understandings of wellbeing Marisol Campos-Navarrete, Trent University; Asaf Zohar, Trent University
Regenerating Decolonial Computing Futures S. Rose O'Leary, University of California, Irvine; Benedict John Turner, University of California, Irvine
Macroscopy of a massive intervention in the south of Mexico Agustín Mercado, UAM Cuajimalpa
Session Organizer: Brian Noble, Dalhousie University
Chair: Brian Noble, Dalhousie University
330. Marxist STS 3 (Case) 8:00 to 9:40 pm virPrague: VR 20 Participants:
Precarious Academics As "Cognitariat": On The Political Economy Of Academic Labour Vlad Schüler-Costa, University of Manchester
Indicators and Metrics in the Social Sciences and Humanities: How Quantification Shapes SSH Research Florian Bayer, University of Vienna, Department of Science and Technology Studies
Pedagogies of abstraction: learning, coding and outsourcing in Cluj Oana Mateescu, University of Bergen, Norway
Do Money Have Politics? Technocracy And The Future Of Money Adam Marcisz, Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań
Making worlds with value Assembling partial connections for social-economic worlds Dennis Eckhardt
Session Organizer: . Maxigas, University of Amsterdam & Lancaster University
Chair: Vlad Schüler-Costa, University of Manchester
331. Governing Natures by Data 8:00 to 9:40 pm virPrague: VR 21 Participants:
Governing What Exists In a (Modelled) Forest: Darwinian Demons and the Algorithmic Life of Numbers Felipe Mammoli, UNICAMP
Architectonic Studies of Radio Signals: Reorganizing Archives of Data/Natures In Their Own Terms Selena Savic
Experimenting with the Social Life of Homes: Sensor Governmentality and Mundane Frictions Martin Tironi; Matías Valderrama, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile
On Arctic microbes and augmented promise: The digital turn in bioprospecting Ana Delgado, Ana Delgado/ TIK-centre, University of Oslo
Session Organizer: Ingmar Lippert, IT University of Copenhagen
Chair: Tahani Nadim, Museum fuer Naturkunde
332. Grotesque Epistemologies: Institutional Locations 8:00 to 9:40 pm
virPrague: VR 22 Participants:
Exemplary Decay: Saprophytes and the Chemical Cycles of Life Charles A. Kollmer, Princeton University
Decomposing Computing Benedict John Turner, University of California, Irvine
Tropicalizing the Portable Radio: Air, Fungal Deterioration, and Media Technologies in World War II Boyd Ruamcharoen, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
Session Organizer: Lee Nelson, RPI
Chair: Charles A. Kollmer, Princeton University
Discussant: Joanna Radin, Yale University
333. Science, Technology and Sport 8:00 to 9:40 pm virPrague: VR 23 Participants:
The Hidden Curriculum of Athletic Data Daniel Greene, University of Maryland
(Trans)gendering Science: Examining World Athletics’ 2019 Transgender Athlete Eligibility Policy Anna Posbergh, University of Maryland, College Park
Gamification as a Socio-technical Synchronization Effort Matthias Bottel, TU Berlin
“She’s Got Game”: The WNBA and NBA 2K20 Mary McDonald
The Proof is in the Patents: De/Constructing the Algorithmic Sublime in Sport Jennifer Sterling, University of Iowa
Session Organizers: Mary McDonald Gian Marco Campagnolo, University of Edinburgh
Chair: Jennifer Sterling, University of Iowa
334. The Cultures of New and Old Technomedia II 8:00 to 9:40 pm virPrague: VR 24 Participants:
The Technology We Choose to Create: Human Rights Advocacy and Anthropology in Internet Governance Corinne Cath-Speth, Oxford Internet Institute
Put yourself in their shoes: moral and affective frameworks in the gig-economy Simiran Lalvani; Noopur Raval
In-formatization of architecture and construction: which visions come to matter? Kathrin Braun, University of Stuttgart; Cordula Kropp, University of Stuttgart
Contesting Modern Nature: Sonic Artefacts and Acoustic Hyperreality in the Practices of Acoustic Ecology Anna Kvíčalová, Centre for Theoretical Study, Charles University/Czech Academy of Sciences
Session Organizer: Corinne Cath-Speth, Oxford Internet Institute
Chair: Corinne Cath-Speth, Oxford Internet Institute
FRIDAY, AUGUST, 21 335. Science and Technology Studies on Traditional,
Complementary and Alternative Medicine (TCAM). Session two, focus on politics, legal aspects and knowledge production. 8:00 to 10:00 am virPrague: VR 01 Participants:
European Politics of Complementary and Alternative Medicine Jenny-Ann Brodin Danell, Umeå university, Department of Sociology
Through Thick And Thin: Semantic Abstraction And Contextualisation In The World Health Organization's Discourse On 'Traditional Medicine' Fabian Winiger, University of Zurich
Gendered boundary work within the Finnish scepticism movement Pia Vuolanto, University of Tampere Research Centre for Knowledge, Science, Technology and Innovation Studies; Marjo Kolehmainen, Tampere University
Session Organizer: Jenny-Ann Brodin Danell, Umeå university, Department of Sociology
Chair: Caragh Brosnan, University of Newcastle, Australia
336. Maintaining and (Re)Making Sociotechnical Worlds II 8:00 to 10:00 am virPrague: VR 02 Participants:
Makeshift Engineering: Developing Design Rules-of-Thumb while Maintaining and Repairing Locally Manufactured Small Wind Turbines Kostas Latoufis, National Technical University of Athens; Aristotelis (Aristotle) Tympas, National and Kapodistrian U. of Athens
Middle Class Creativity, Post-repair Subjectivity and Motorcycles of Late Capitalism Gabriel Jderu, University of Bucharest
The Art of Film Maintenance: Patchworks of Care at Tate London Dirk van de Leemput, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, Maastricht University
Session Organizer: Gabriel Jderu, University of Bucharest
Chair: Gabriel Jderu, University of Bucharest
337. Digital Phenotyping II: Unpacking Intelligent Machines For Deep Medicine And A New Public Health 8:00 to 10:00 am virPrague: VR 12 Participants:
Personalised anti-retroviral treatment for HIV as example of artificial intelligence in medicine Renate Baumgartner, Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen
From risk factors to big data: sensing the social, managing value and measuring risk in public health Rachel Rowe, University of New South Wales, Sydney
Drawing the Body: Skill, Embodiment, and the Senses in Anatomy Training Rachel Vaden Allison, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, Maastricht University,
Session Organizers: Ger Wackers, UiT The Arctic University of Norway
Lukas Engelmann, University of Edinburgh Chair:
Ger Wackers, UiT The Arctic University of Norway 338. Defining the Patient In Biomedicine- Part I (Redefining and
Redefining) 8:00 to 10:00 am virPrague: VR 13 Participants:
Curb your enthusiasm: The patient in the context of surgical simulation Cecilie Våpenstad; Jenny M Bergschöld
The social shaping of a diagnosis in Next Generation Sequencing Janneke M.L. Kuiper, KU Leuven - CeSO; Pascal Borry, KU Leuven; Danya Vears, KU Leuven; ine van hoyweghen, University Leuven
Six Patients in Search of a Disease: Medically Unexplained Symptoms and Autonomic Imbalance in Taiwan Jia-shin Chen, Institute of Science, Technology and Society, National Yang-Ming University
Session Organizer: Gareth A. F. Edel, New Jersey Institute of Technology
Chair: Jia-shin Chen, Institute of Science, Technology and Society, National Yang-Ming University
339. Articulating and Relating to Different Forms of the Good in Bad Situations I 8:00 to 10:00 am virPrague: VR 14 Participants:
Affirming The Possibility Of Excess: Might HIV Be More Than Just ‘Bad’? Bryan Lim, Goldsmiths, University of London
(Un)making of infelicitous objects: Enacting “mental impairment” in institutional dining Michal Synek, Univerzita Karlova, CTS
From Mattering to Mattering More: Performative Relations between Multiple ‘Goods’ and ‘Bads’ in Ageing Carla Greubel, Utrecht University
Session Organizer: Sonja Jerak-Zuiderent, Amsterdam University Medical Centers
Chair: Sonja Jerak-Zuiderent, Amsterdam University Medical Centers
340. Situating antimicrobial resistance (AMR) 1: locations, spaces and borders 8:00 to 10:00 am virPrague: VR 17 Participants:
Can stories of microbe’s actor networks reassemble antibiotic prescription practices? Ida Lillehagen, University of Oslo
Clinicians’ And Older Adult Patients’ Narratives Of Chaos And Control: The Affective Dimension Of Oversprescribing Of Antibiotics For Urinary Tract Infections Paula Saukko, Loughborough University; Emily Rousham, Loughborough University
Optimising Antibiotics: protocols for antimicrobial stewardship in Spain Cristina Moreno Lozano, University of Edinburgh
Session Organizers: Iona Walker, University of Edinburgh Cristina Moreno Lozano, University of Edinburgh
Alena Kamenshchikova, Maastricht University Chair:
Catherine Marijke Will, University of Sussex 341. Making & Doing - Friday show
8:00 to 8:00 pm virPrague: VR M&D Participants:
Making Food Futures Accessible Across Ages: Emerge 2020 – Eating at the Edges Christy Spackman, SFIS - Arizona State University; David Guston, Arizona State University; Ed Finn, Arizona State University; Cynthia Selin, Technical University of Denmark; Jake Pinholster, ASU; Ruth Wylie, Arizona State University; Bob Beard, Bob Beard; Stephen Christensen, ASU; Joey Eschrich, Arizona State University; Nina Miller, ASU; Eliza Robinson, ASU; Rebecca Pringle, ASU; Melissa Waite, ASU; Diana Ayton-Shenker, Leonardo/ISAST; Cindy Ornstein, Mesa Arts Center
Sustainability Futures of Innovation using TRIZ ‘9-windows’ tool Vairaj Arjune, Centre for Studies in Science Policy, Jawaharlal Nehru University; Krishna Tripathi, Centre for Studies in Science policy, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi
Open Educational Resources for STEM: Stimulating Reflection on Gender in Science and Technology Goede Both, HU Berlin; Smilla Ebeling, HU Berlin; Sigrid Schmitz, HU Berlin
Technologies for inclusive employment; from technical prostheses to the transformation of work Mike Grijseels, Athena Institute, VU University, Amsterdam; Teun Zuiderent-Jerak, Athena Institute, VU Amsterdam; Barbara Regeer
Data session on policy and business Pitching Ilkka Arminen, University of Helsinki
Materialities of Post-Evidence-Based Practice Morten Sager, Department of Philosophy, Linguistics and Theory of Science; Isabella Pistone, Department for Philosophy, Linguistics and Theory of Science, University of Gothenburg; Allan Lidström, Department for Philosophy, Linguistics and Theory of Science, University of Gothenburg; Teun Zuiderent-Jerak, Athena Institute, VU Amsterdam; Thomas Schneider, Bräcke Diakoni and Jönköping University; Lena Eriksson, Department for Philosophy, Linguistics and Theory of Science, University of Gothenburg; Ingemar Bohlin, University of Gothenburg
Detecting and Communicating Responsible Innovation Practices Robin Ann Downey, Bilkent University; Lutz Peschke, Bilkent University
STS Strategies for Instituting: Sustainability in Academia and STS Associations David Zavoral, Czech Academy of Sciences; Ingmar Lippert, IT University of Copenhagen
Lab From A Chip Ross Dalziel, Lancaster University, UK Chair:
Ludek Broz, Institue of Ethnology of the Czech Academy of Sciences
342. Living In The Laboratory - Session 1: The Spectrum Of Experimental Zones 10:00 to 11:40 am virPrague: VR 01 Participants:
Crowd dynamics, Co-creation, and Values in technology
innovation: A case study in robotics facilities Gianluigi Viscusi, Imperial College Business School
Leaving the laboratory: Making replication in and of European smart cities Claudia MENDES, MCTS, Technical University of Munich
Life in Laboratory Urbanism: Repression, Suspension and the Politics of Innovation Karl Palmås, Chalmers University of Technology
Time Interferences between Experimental Urbanism And The Climate Change Agenda Claudio Coletta, University of Antwerp
Making Futures Plausible: How Living Labs (De-)stabilize Smart Energy Pioneers Julia Renninger, Munich Center for Technology in Society, Technical University of Munich
Session Organizer: Thomas Buocz, University of Graz
Chair: Arzu Sedef, TU Wien
343. Alignment Work in/for the Distribution and Localization of Knowledge 10:00 to 11:40 am virPrague: VR 02 Participants:
Between Standards and Voluntariness in Maternity Care Jenny Gleisner, Department of Thematic Studies - Technology and Social Change, Linköping University
Aligning for Profitability: Occupational Health Services on the Market Hannah Grankvist, Department of Thematic Studies - Technology and Social Change, Linköping University
Aligning Epistemic Cultures – Laboratory Standards and Crime Scenes Corinna Kruse, Linköping University
Session Organizers: Corinna Kruse, Linköping University Jenny Gleisner, Department of Thematic Studies - Technology and Social Change, Linköping University Hannah Grankvist, Department of Thematic Studies - Technology and Social Change, Linköping University
Chairs: Lena Eriksson, Department of Public Health Sciences, Stockholm University Jenny Gleisner, Department of Thematic Studies - Technology and Social Change, Linköping University Hannah Grankvist, Department of Thematic Studies - Technology and Social Change, Linköping University
344. Dilemmas relating to use, uptake, and views of science and scientific expertise - Session 3 10:00 to 11:40 am virPrague: VR 03 Participants:
Public Officials and the ‘Imaginary Publics’ in Science Policy: A Study of Advisory Committees Tadafumi Kubota, Science and Technology Studies, University College London
The Ascending and Fading of a Progressive and Science-Based Policy Instrument: the Climate Change Factor in Southern Germany Melani Pelaez Jara, Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg,University College Freiburg
Majority of German and US citizens support policy advocacy by climate researchers Viktoria Cologna, ETH ZURICH; Reto Knutti, ETH Zurich; Naomi Oreskes, Harvard
University - History of Science; Michael Siegrist, Institute of Environmental Decisions
Researchers’ dealings with dilemma’s: navigating reflexive aspirations and institutionalized traditional logics on policy evaluation Hilde Brouwers, Athena Institute, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam; Evelien de Hoop; Lisa Verwoerd, Athena Institute, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam; Barbara Regeer
Expert Involvement and Competition between Science and Politics in Post-Disaster Response: A Case Study of the Korean Humidifier Disinfectant Disaster Jinyoung Christine Park, Seoul National University, Republic of Korea; Sun-Jin Yun, Seoul National University
Session Organizer: Sebastian Linke, University of Gothenburg
Chair: Sebastian Linke, University of Gothenburg
345. Politics of Anticipation: entanglements between STS and climate modeling 10:00 to 11:40 am virPrague: VR 04 Participants:
Who gets to claim “residual emissions”? Wim Carton, Lund University Center for Sustainability Studies (LUCSUS); Holly Jean Buck, University at Buffalo
Geopolitics, geopower and geofutures: power and pathways in Earth systems governance Duncan McLaren, Lancaster University
Climate Modelling as a Technique of Futuring Jeroen Oomen, University of Utrecht
Scientific assessment practices in-the-making: Carbon Dioxide Removal in IPCC’s SR15 Felix Schenuit, Center for Sustainable Society Research & CLICCS, University of Hamburg
How do policymakers use climate mitigation scenario information? Erlend Hermansen, CICERO Center for International Climate Research; Bård Lahn, CICERO Center for International Climate Research Oslo
Session Organizer: silke beck, UFZ Leipzig
Chair: silke beck, UFZ Leipzig
346. Engaging Health Activism, Sexual Politics and STS 2 10:00 to 11:40 am virPrague: VR 05 Participants:
Viral Entanglements: Disease Paradigms, HIV/AIDS, and the Emergence of a Contested Illness Emily Lim Rogers, New York University
Wearing a Liberatory Body: The Politics of Tampons and Doing Feminism in Contemporary Urban China Liting Ding, Cornell University
Session Organizers: Lisa Lindén, Departement of Sociology and Work Science, University of Gothenburg Emily Jay Nicholls, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
Chair: Lisa Lindén, Departement of Sociology and Work Science,
University of Gothenburg 347. Institutionalizing more participatory science: a cross-case
reflection from the field of regulatory science 10:00 to 11:40 am virPrague: VR 06 Participants:
Engaging citizens in the complexity of food risk, engaging scientists in the complexity of citizens: reflections on participative methods in the UK FSA Michelle Patel, Food Standards Agency; Joanna Disson, Food Standards Agency; Laura Laura Broomfield, Food Standards Agency
Engaging citizens through consensus conferences: legitimacy evaluations of a German consensus conference on genome editing Leonie Dendler, German Federal Institute for Risk Assessment, Department Risk Communication
Heterogeneity in models of opening to society in French regulatory agencies: identifying institutional change clues Lucile Ottolini, UMR Lisis
Session Organizer: Leonie Dendler, German Federal Institute for Risk Assessment, Department Risk Communication
Chair: Leonie Dendler, German Federal Institute for Risk Assessment, Department Risk Communication
Discussant: Pierre-Benoit Joly, Lisis
348. No Time to Not Know. Bottom-up Expertise, Grass-root Authorities, and Agency in the Age of Digital Knowledge 10:00 to 11:40 am virPrague: VR 07 Participants:
"Taking Charge of your Fertility”: Practices of Knowing and Caring of Users of Fertility-Tracking Technologies Ellen Algera, Amsterdam Institute for Social Science Research, University of Amsterdam
Body hacking. Identifying a health-related sense-making practice between the 'quantified self' and 'the qualified others. Ane Kathrine Gammelby, Aarhus University
Digital Self-knowledge – cybernetic subjectivities in self-tracking Eryk Noji, FernUniversität in Hagen
Session Organizers: Magdalena Halina Góralska, Koźmiński University in Warsaw Ane Kathrine Gammelby, Aarhus University
Chair: Ane Kathrine Gammelby, Aarhus University
349. Ethnography of legitimate knowledges 10:00 to 11:40 am virPrague: VR 08 Participants:
Law-in-action as a Technology of Government: An Ethnography of the Implementation of Nationality Law Djordje Sredanovic, Université Libre de Bruxelles
Making and Unmaking Expert Knowledge in Design Sarah Owens, Zurich University of the Arts
Science and the Ethnographic Gaze Fatima Elfitouri, King's College London
Session Organizer: Cinzia Greco, University of Manchester
Chair: Cinzia Greco, University of Manchester
350. Locating & Timing Governance in STS and Universities III: Challenges in university knowledge making 10:00 to 11:40 am virPrague: VR 09 Participants:
Synergy and Interdisciplinarity in Extra-scientific Collaborations Loet Leydesdorff, University of Amsterdam, ASCoR
Relying on Relay: Norwegian biotechnology scientists struggling with ideas of convergence Maria Bårdsen Hesjedal, Institute for Interdisciplinary Studies of Culture. NTNU; Heidrun Åm, Norwegian University of Science & Technology (NTNU); Knut H Sørensen, NTNU Norwegian University of Science and Technology
“If I’m the First Author, I Don’t Care about the Rest...”: Junior Researchers Ascribing Worth to their Contributions Vera Ulmer, Research Platform Responsible Research and Innovation in Academic Practice, University of Vienna
Mapping and Diagnosing Mental Health in/and the UK University Sector Leon Rocha, University of Lincoln; Felicity Callard, Birkbeck, University of London; Philip Garnett, University of York; Dimitra Kotouza, University of Lincoln
Session Organizers: Knut H Sørensen, NTNU Norwegian University of Science and Technology Sharon Traweek, UCLA
Chair: Knut H Sørensen, NTNU Norwegian University of Science and Technology
351. Disciplining The Senses 2 10:00 to 11:40 am virPrague: VR 10 Participants:
Underground Exploration: Measurements, Distances and Embodied Engagements Producing Geological Knowledge in Chilean Andes Martín Fonck, Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society
From Traces to Patterns for Subsurface Fire Prediction Cindy Lin, 201 N. Ashley St.
Refining tuning forks and ears: Building a network of precision in early twentieth-century phonetics Fanny Gribenski, CNRS-IRCAM; David Pantalony, Ingenium: Canada's Museums of Science and Innovation; Pavel Šturm, Charles University, Institute of Phonetics
Session Organizers: Sandra Calkins, Free University of Berlin Marianna Szczygielska, Max Planck Institute for the History of Science
Chair: Sandra Calkins, Free University of Berlin
Discussant: Helen Verran, Charles Darwin University
352. Digital Phenotyping I: Unpacking Intelligent Machines For Deep Medicine And A New Public Health 10:00 to 11:40 am virPrague: VR 12
Participants: Casting long shadows: phenotyping dementia and the making of
the digital ageing subject Natassia Brenman, The University of Cambridge; Alessia Costa; Richard Milne, University of Cambridge
Deep Medicine and Total Pathology Lukas Engelmann, University of Edinburgh
Fitness trackers of the mind: digital phenotyping from biology to psychoinformatics Ger Wackers, UiT The Arctic University of Norway
Towards automating human doctors? Contested futures of artificial intelligence in healthcare David Kampmann, London School of Economics and Political Science
Session Organizers: Ger Wackers, UiT The Arctic University of Norway Lukas Engelmann, University of Edinburgh
Chair: Wilson Engelmann, Universidade do Vale do Rio dos Sinos
353. Defining the Patient In Biomedicine- Part II (The Marginal and Special Case) 10:00 to 11:40 am virPrague: VR 13 Participants:
Insist on making it complicated: psychiatry and the narrative of disorder Gemma Lucy Smart, University of Sydney
Knowing Patients: Discourses of Knowledge in the Post-Weight-Loss-Surgery Community Katherine A. Tyrol, New Jersey Institute of Technology
New Patient’s Definition Shaped by Preventive Properties of HIV Drugs Noëllie Genre, STSLab, Université de Lausanne
Patient organizations and the biomedicalization of substance use in Norway isa dussauge, University of Oslo
Session Organizer: Gareth A. F. Edel, New Jersey Institute of Technology
Chair: Gemma Lucy Smart, University of Sydney
354. Articulating and Relating to Different Forms of the Good in Bad Situations II 10:00 to 11:40 am virPrague: VR 14 Participants:
Science as collaboration: interactive care in the chemical lab Jonna Brenninkmeijer, Amsterdam UMC
Entanglements of good care and harm: An ethnography of pressure ulcer prevention Els Roding, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
Doing wickedness. Disoriented behavior in the Netherlands Violet Petit-Steeghs, Erasmus School of Health Policy and Management; Roland Bal, Erasmus University Rotterdam; Hester van de Bovenkamp, Erasmus University Rotterdam
Different Versions Of ‘Doing Good’ iCBT: Stories From The Field Stine Rath Hansen, Aarhus University, Denmark
Machines as doctors: the goods and bads of AI in Personalized medicine Dick Willems, Amsterdam UMC
Session Organizer: Sonja Jerak-Zuiderent, Amsterdam University Medical Centers
Chair: Sonja Jerak-Zuiderent, Amsterdam University Medical
Centers 355. Democracy in the Making I: Practices of Doing Democracy
10:00 to 11:40 am virPrague: VR 15 Participants:
In search of a good demos: inquiry into two large scale experiments in democratizing science and technology Lotte Krabbenborg, ISiS, Radboud University
Making Neighbourhoods: Enacting Relational Identities Between Assemblies And Associations Andy Yuille, Lancaster University
Citizen engagement in an urban park: performing street-level democracy Sanne Raap, Maastricht University, the Netherlands
Whose publics, what (energy) democracies? Diverse and co-constructed publics in the Dutch heat transition Toyah Rodhouse, Delft University of Technology; Udo Pesch, Delft University of Technology; Eefje Cuppen, TU Delft; Aad Ferdinand Correlje, TU Delft
Towards a Theory of Appropriate Collaboration for Urban Energy Transitions Silver Sillak, Technical University of Denmark - DTU
Session Organizers: Jan-Peter Voß, Berlin University of Technology Jason Chilvers, University of East Anglia
Chair: Jan-Peter Voß, Berlin University of Technology
356. Experimental Food Design Methods 10:00 to 11:40 am virPrague: VR 16 Participants:
What if everything was edible? Danielle Wilde, University of Southern Denmark
Datafication on the Farm: The Emerging Role of the Precision Agriculture Software Platform Sarah Marquis, University of Guelph
“It’s about mass production”: Making Sense of CRISPR-CAS9 Food Futures in Bavaria Amy Louise Clare, MCTS, Technical University of Munich; Ruth Müller, MCTS TU München; Julia Feiler, Technical University Munich (TUM)
Session Organizer: Ferran Altarriba Bertran, UC Santa Cruz
Chair: Denisa Reshef Kera, University of Salamanca
357. Situating antimicrobial resistance (AMR) 2: locations, spaces and borders 10:00 to 11:40 am virPrague: VR 17 Participants:
How International Bacterial Transmission Challenges the Notion of National Borders? Alena Kamenshchikova, Maastricht University
Scenes From The Many Lives Of Escherichia coli. A Play In Five Acts Mark Erickson, University of Brighton; Catherine Marijke Will, University of Sussex
Reimagining AMR: Ethnographic Methods for Microbial Entanglements Iona Walker, University of Edinburgh
Antimicrobial Resistance as a Problem of Values?
Responsibility, Opportunity, Solidarity Katherine Kenny, The University of Sydney
Session Organizers: Iona Walker, University of Edinburgh Catherine Marijke Will, University of Sussex Alena Kamenshchikova, Maastricht University
Chair: Cristina Moreno Lozano, University of Edinburgh
358. Accommodating A Plurality Of Values When Engaging Emerging Technologies In Sustainability Transitions – On Designing For Safety And Security In A Warming World I 10:00 to 11:40 am virPrague: VR 18 Participants:
Ambiguous & Wicked: Integrating energy, adaptation, and climate Intervention governance Elisabeth Graffy, Arizona State University
Diversity in Climate Engineering Research Nils Matzner, Technical University of Munich; Andrew Lockley, University College London; Cory Clark, Durham University
Facilitating Value Discussions in Multidisciplinary Research: A Case Study of Vertical Farming Essi Ryymin, Häme University of Applied Sciences; Laura Lamberg, Häme University of Applied Sciences; Sami Paavola, University of Helsinki; Annukka Pakarinen, Häme University of Applied Sciences; Libov Vetoshkina, University of Helsinki
Governance of geoengineering in the face of normative uncertainties Behnam Taebi, Delft University of Technology and Harvard University; Udo Pesch, Delft University of Technology; Ibo van de Poel, Delft University of Tecnology
Session Organizer: Megan Palmer, Center for International Security and Cooperation, Stanford University
Chair: Pim Klaassen, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
359. Living In The Laboratory - Session 2: Focus On Mobility 12:00 to 1:40 pm virPrague: VR 01 Participants:
Experimental Sprawl and Negotiating Public Good: Laboratory Expansion with the Development of Connected & Automated Vehicles Lieselotte Nilce Niebch, MCTS Technical University Munich; Mathieu Baudrin, CSI-Ecole Des Mines De Paris
Local development of regulatory sandboxes for sustainable (urban) mobility in Germany Juliane Haus, Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin für Sozialforschung
The city, an exquisite corpse? Mobility experiments with and within cities Bård Torvetjønn Haugland, Norwegian University of Science & Technology (NTNU)
Session Organizer: Arzu Sedef, TU Wien
Chair: Thomas Buocz, University of Graz
360. China, Technology, Planetary Futures: Lessons for a World in Crisis? 3) Building Ecological Civilisation 12:00 to 1:40 pm virPrague: VR 02 Participants:
The Social Life of a Chinese Bike Highway Thea Marie Valler, Norwegian University of Science & Technology (NTNU)
Terraforming Beautiful China: Island-Building and Chang’E Lunar Exploration in the Making of the Chinese State Jonathan Galka; Laurence Bashford
Will China deliver urban 'ecological civilisation'? David Tyfield, Lancaster University
Session Organizer: David Tyfield, Lancaster University
Chair: David Tyfield, Lancaster University
361. Robotics Innovation in Care: Ethical Considerations_Session 1 12:00 to 1:40 pm virPrague: VR 03 Participants:
More Monitoring, Less Interaction? Social Robots and Reconfiguration of Care in South Korea Heesun Shin, KAIST (Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology)
Improving Inclusivity in Robotic Design: An Experiment in Co-production Stevienna de Saille, University of Sheffield; Eva Kipnis, University of Sheffield; Stephen Potter, University of Sheffield; Richard Gold, Vision4Health; Kate Halliwell, Community Philosophy Project; Lyuba Alboul, Sheffield Hallam University; Andy Bell, Advanced Manufacturing Research Centre, Sheffield; David Cameron, University of Sheffield; Peter O'Neill, Sheffield Hallam; Andrew Stratton, University of Sheffield; Calum Webb, University of Sheffield; Peter Winter, The University of Sheffield
Roboticists' Sociotechnical Visions Of Robots In Care And The Good Death Alexander Lang, Institut für Höhere Studien – Institute for Advanced Studies Vienna
Imagining care fragmentation with robotics in daily life Núria Vallès-Peris, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona; Miquel Domenech, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
Structural and disciplinary constraints in interdisciplinary care robotics research – Experiences from the ReThiCare project Philipp Graf, Technische Universität Chemnitz; Lena Frnzkowiak, Bauhaus Universität Weimar
Session Organizer: Núria Vallès-Peris, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
Chair: Núria Vallès-Peris, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
Discussant: Miquel Domenech, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
362. Epistemologies of Performance: “Re-Methods” in Arts, Crafts and Research 12:00 to 1:40 pm virPrague: VR 04 Participants:
How Site and Makers Matter: Epistemologies of RRR Research Practices Sven Dupré, Department of History and Art History, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands
Architect As Craftsman, Artist And Researcher: How Are The Voices Of The Inhabitants Involved? Terezie Lokšová
On a Material Ethics of Conservation: Knowledges In-between Performance and Object Helia Marcal
Learning with Others: an entangled, performative account of knowledge production Ingrid Commandeur, Piet Zwart
Institute, Rotterdam University; Irina Shapiro Session Organizer:
Sven Dupré, Department of History and Art History, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands
Chair: Henk Borgdorff, Leiden University
Discussant: Peter Peters, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, Maastricht University, Maastricht, the Netherlands
363. Engaging Health Activism, Sexual Politics and STS 1 12:00 to 1:40 pm virPrague: VR 05 Participants:
Body Literacy through Collective Tech Spaces Marie Dietze, Weizenbaum Institute for the Networked Society; Marie Kochsiek, Bloody Health Collective & Heart of Code
Sexual Risks and Pleasures: Gynaecological Cancer Activism and its Politics of Care Lisa Lindén, Departement of Sociology and Work Science, University of Gothenburg
The Cunnilingus-Analingus Modification Project Anisha Gupta, King's College London; Carly Billing, Independent Researcher
Molecular Technologies, Risk and Bodies - An Ethnographic Comparative Perspective Between The Combined Oral Contraceptive Pill And the Pre-exposure Prophylaxis Marlyse Deberghh
Session Organizers: Lisa Lindén, Departement of Sociology and Work Science, University of Gothenburg Emily Jay Nicholls, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
Chair: Emily Jay Nicholls, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
364. AMR in Globalized Economies - Knowledge, Regulation, Markets 12:00 to 1:40 pm virPrague: VR 06 Participants:
Structures, Practices, Understandings: Confronting agricultural Antimicrobial use practices in the UK, Thailand and Tanzania Henry Buller, University of Exeter
Generics Across the Ocean: A Framework for Exploring South-South Antibiotic Trajectories Lise Bjerke, University of Oslo
The Pivotal Role of Veterinarians in the Animal Drug Market. Towards an Economic Anthropology of Veterinary Medicines. Nicolas Fortané, INRA - IRISSO, Université Paris-Dauphine; Florence Hellec, INRAE; Amandine Gautier, INRAE
Who carries the burden of translation labor in antimicrobial resistance research and policy? Gisle Solbu, Norwegian University of Science and Technology
Session Organizers: Henri Boullier, INRA - IRISSO, Université Paris-Dauphine Nicolas Fortané, INRA - IRISSO, Université Paris-Dauphine
Chair: Henri Boullier, INRA - IRISSO, Université Paris-Dauphine
365. Race and Biomedicine Beyond the Lab 2: Bio/medical Technologies
12:00 to 1:40 pm virPrague: VR 07 Participants:
Life’s Continuation: Mobilizing Race and Biogenetic Affinity in Repro-tech Nadine Ehlers, University of Sydney
Serena Williams' Birth Story: Questioning Surveillance, Demanding Care Anne Pollock, King's College London
Strategic mobilizations of forensic genetics in Mexico Vivette Garcia Deister, UNAM
Session Organizers: Anne Pollock, King's College London Melissa Creary, University of Michigan, School of Public Health
Chair: Emma Kowal, Deakin University
366. Ethnography of medical knowledge 12:00 to 1:40 pm virPrague: VR 08 Participants:
Ethnography in Biomedical Contexts: Between Legitimate and Subjective Knowledge Cinzia Greco, University of Manchester
Whose Side Are You On? Studying Contentious Legitimate Knowledge Simon Carmel, University of Essex
The ethnographers positionality vis-à-vis legitimate knowledge in science Séverine Marguin, Technische Universität; Cornelia Schendzielorz, Deutsches Insitut für Wissenschafts und Hochschulforschung/Humboldt Universität zu Berlin
Session Organizer: Fatima Elfitouri, King's College London
Chair: Fatima Elfitouri, King's College London
367. Hegemony, counter-hegemony and ontological politics 12:00 to 1:40 pm virPrague: VR 09 Participants:
Ont* – Data Politics – a Theoretical Sociology of Verran's Ontics, Mol's Ontologies and Barad's Apparatuses Ingmar Lippert, IT University of Copenhagen
Ontological politics of (in)visibility and dialectic of position and maneuver. Learning from “war on gender, “LGBT-free-zones” and other hegemonic struggles in Poland. Andrzej Wojciech Nowak, Philosophy Institute Adam Mickiewicz University
Articulating Politics with Design and Technology: Public Space, Computation and Commoning Selena Savic; Shintaro Miyazaki, Institute for Experimental Design and Media Cultures, FHNW, Basel
Whose infrastructural breakdown? Grassroots practices of infrastructural inversion Guillen Torres, University of Amsterdam
Session Organizers: Andrzej Wojciech Nowak, Philosophy Institute Adam Mickiewicz University Christian Nold, University of the Arts London
Chair: Andrzej Wojciech Nowak, Philosophy Institute Adam Mickiewicz University
Discussant:
Krzysztof Abriszewski 368. Disciplining The Senses 1
12:00 to 1:40 pm virPrague: VR 10 Participants:
Arts of handling and seeing: molecular biology in Uganda Sandra Calkins, Free University of Berlin
Knowing from the surface: haptic articulations of sameness and difference in craniofacial identification practices Lisette Jong, Amsterdam Institute for Social Science Research, University of Amsterdam
Learning to be Moved: On the Affective Entanglements of Touch in Medical Education Andrea Wojcik, Maastricht University
Learning To See The Teeth Through The Odontogram In Dentistry Training Jorge Daza, Fundación Universitaria Autónoma de las Américas; Juliana Vargas, Fundación Universitaria Autónoma de las Américas; María Guapacha, Fundación Universitaria Autónoma de las Américas
Sensing Neuvo-Pangaea: Multi-species biologies through the transnational Banu Subramaniam, University of Massachusetts Amherst
Session Organizers: Sandra Calkins, Free University of Berlin Marianna Szczygielska, Max Planck Institute for the History of Science
Chair: Marianna Szczygielska, Max Planck Institute for the History of Science
Discussant: Paul Wenzel Geissler, University of Oslo
369. Changing Regimes of Biomedical Knowledge Production: the Changing Face of Clinical Trials 12:00 to 1:40 pm virPrague: VR 11 Participants:
Clinical Trials in the Second Half of the Twentieth Century: USSR in the Global Context Pavel Vasilyev, HSE University St. Petersburg
Classification and pharmaceuticalization of affects: navigating and reproducing affliction in healthcare settings Arbel Griner, Princeton University
Pregnancy, Expertise and RCT: Growing Together. Julie Bønnelycke, Roskilde Universitet; Astrid Jespersen, University of Copenhagen; Maria Larsen, University of Copenhagen the SAXO institute
Surgical placebo-controlled trials (SPTs) in regenerative medicine Kayo Takashima, Kyoto University; Jusaku Minari, Kyoto University
The Pragmatic Turn and the Rise of the Real-world Paradigm in Clinical Trials Olga Zvonareva, Maastricht University, Netherlands
Session Organizers: Olga Zvonareva, Maastricht University, Netherlands Anna Geltzer, University of Notre Dame
Chair: Anna Geltzer, University of Notre Dame
Discussant: Anna Geltzer, University of Notre Dame
370. Recruitment in the Making : Practices, Politics and Theory 12:00 to 1:40 pm virPrague: VR 12 Participants:
Recruiting and Assessing Academics Across Geographical Borders : A Catch 22 ? Marie Sautier, University of Lausanne/Sciences Po Paris
The Top 5 as Judgement Device: Valuation Practices and Disciplinary Boundaries in Swedish Economics Anders Hylmö, Lund University
The Order of Evaluation in Professorial Recruitment: The Case of German Higher Education Organizations Bernd Kleimann, German Centre for Higher Education Research and Science Studies
Session Organizer: Marie Sautier, University of Lausanne/Sciences Po Paris
Chair: Julian Hamann, Leibniz Center for Science and Society
Discussant: Julian Hamann, Leibniz Center for Science and Society
371. Negotiating knowledge of harm through affects, embodiment and trust 2 12:00 to 1:40 pm virPrague: VR 13 Participants:
Scientific Literature in Service of the State: Knowledge Production Surrounding Childhood Thyroid Cancer after Fukushima Elicia Mayuri Cousins, Northeastern University
Trusting Addicts: The Knowledge Politics of Harm Reduction in Safer Injection Facilities Derek Taylor Parrott
The politics of harm and knowledge in vaccine-associated narcolepsy Venla Oikkonen, Tampere University
Session Organizers: Venla Oikkonen, Tampere University Anna Durnova, Institute of Sociological Studies/ Faculty of Social Sciences
Chair: Eva Hejzlarova, Institute of Sociological Studies
372. Articulating and Relating to Different Forms of the Good in Bad Situations III 12:00 to 1:40 pm virPrague: VR 14 Participants:
Moral Passages and ‘Good’ Science: Women ‘in’ and ‘of’ Mathematics Sonja Jerak-Zuiderent, Amsterdam University Medical Centers
Hospital Ethnography in Low Resource Settings and Complicated "Goods" Adrienne E Strong, University of Florida Department of Anthropology
“Cooking” as to explore good care and bad surprises when living with sickle cell disease Clément Dréano, University of Amsterdam - AISSR
Producing the Good(s): Art Works and Academic Writing Catelijne Coopmans, Department of Thematic Studies - Technology and Social Change, Linköping University
Session Organizer: Sonja Jerak-Zuiderent, Amsterdam University Medical Centers
Chair:
Sonja Jerak-Zuiderent, Amsterdam University Medical Centers
373. Democracy in the Making II: Sciences and Technologies of Democracy 12:00 to 1:40 pm virPrague: VR 15 Participants:
Competing Versions of Trust in Infrastructuring Democracy Christopher Gad, IT-University of Copehagen
Deliberative democracy in the making: An ethnography of the emerging translocal expert community of mini-public promoters Jannik Schritt, Berlin University of Technology; Volkan Sayman, Berlin University of Technology; Jan-Peter Voß, Berlin University of Technology
Politics at distance: Infrastructuring transocal knowledge flows for doing ‘mini-publics’ Jan-Peter Voß, Berlin University of Technology; Jannik Schritt, Berlin University of Technology; Volkan Sayman, Berlin University of Technology
Session Organizers: Jan-Peter Voß, Berlin University of Technology Jason Chilvers, University of East Anglia
Chair: Jason Chilvers, University of East Anglia
374. Extractivism Revisited: STS Perspectives 12:00 to 1:40 pm virPrague: VR 16 Participants:
Contested Regimes of Safety at a Chinese-Operated Coal Mine in Zambia Justin Lee Haruyama, University of California - Davis
Extractive Infrastructures: Exerting Power and Making Political Claims Through Networks of Coal Technologies in Australia Samuel Jude Gaffney, UC San Diego Department of Communication & Design Lab
What they don’t see don’t annoy them - The Imaginary of an Unruly Public and the Invisibilization of Mining Technologies Alena Bleicher, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research - UFZ, GmbH; Henriette Rutjes, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research - UFZ; Martin David, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research - UFZ
Building and Recycling of Nanjido Landfill Sanghee Catherine Bae, Seoul National University, Republic of Korea
Session Organizers: Giorgos Velegrakis, Department of History and Philosophy of Science, NKUA Aristotelis (Aristotle) Tympas, National and Kapodistrian U. of Athens
Chair: Aristotelis (Aristotle) Tympas, National and Kapodistrian U. of Athens
375. Challenges of Surveillance Technologies in Police and Criminal Justice Systems 2 12:00 to 1:40 pm virPrague: VR 17 Participants:
Google Ayosh: AnyVision and Big Data’s Shadow Archive Sophia Goodfriend, Duke University
Disruptive Security Technologies: Time, Change, Imagination
Raluca Csernatoni, Insitute of European Studies - VU Brussels; Bruno Martins, PRIO
Social Credit System at Play: The Encounters of Blacklisted Defaulters on China's Online Lending Platforms Yichen Rao
Session Organizer: Sara Matos, University of Minho
Chair: Ryanne Bleumink, Amsterdam Institute for Social Science Research, University of Amsterdam
376. Welfare After Digitalisation: Siting values, affordances, and politics 12:00 to 1:40 pm virPrague: VR 18 Participants:
Patients as infrastructure: The case of MyChart Cæcilie Sloth Laursen, IT University of Copenhagen
Tackling unemployment digitally? The Jobnet Platform Konstantinos Floros, IT University of Copenhagen
Technological literacy and critical thinking in public schools: The case of “Understanding technology” Simy Kaur Gahoonia, IT University of Copenhagen
District heating as welfare: Rearrangements of public infrastructure ownership Caroline Anna Salling, IT University of Copnehagen
Predictive policing: The case of POL-INTEL Vasilis Vlassis, IT University of Copenhagen
Session Organizer: Vasilis Galis
Chair: Brit Ross Winthereik, IT University of Copenhagen
Discussant: Jeannette Pols, Amsterdam UMC/University of Amsterdam
377. Digital Platforms, Knowledge Democracies and the Remaking of Expertise 2 12:00 to 1:40 pm virPrague: VR 19 Participants:
Remodelling Platform Publics: Analysing Twitter Debates About Greenhouse Gas Removal with Climate Researchers Laurie Waller, University of East Anglia
Inadequate Interaction and Unbalanced Power between Scientist Community and the Public in Chinese Online Public Scientific Discussion Process——Based on Social Network Analysis Zheng Yang, The University of Sheffield
The Plataformisation of Scientific Knowledge: Affects and Effects on Publics Strategies and Perceptions Jussara Rowland, ICS Ulisboa; João Estevens, ICS Ulisboa; Ana Delicado, Instituto de Ciencias Sociais, ULisboa
Hacking, humanitarian apps and platformisation Tobias Blanke, University of Amsterdam
Session Organizer: Warren Pearce, Department of Sociological Studies, University of Sheffield
Chair: Laurie Waller, University of East Anglia
378. Pharmaceutical and diagnostic futures: innovation, governance and practice #2 12:00 to 1:40 pm
virPrague: VR 20 Participants:
Patient engagement in scientific advice: moving towards reflexive governance of medicines? Callum Gunn; Tjerk Jan Schuitmaker-Warnaar, Athena Institute; Barbara Regeer
The ‘orphanisation’ of the biopharmaceutical sector: implications for patients, policy and healthcare Paul Martin, Department of Sociological Studies, University of Sheffield
Exploring why global health needs are unmet by research efforts: the potential influences of geography, industry, and publication incentives Alfredo Yegros, Centre for Science and Technology Studies (CWTS), Leiden University; Wouter Van de Klippe; Ismael Rafols, Centre for Science & Technology Studies (CWTS), Leiden University
Session Organizer: Paul Martin, Department of Sociological Studies, University of Sheffield
Chair: Paul Martin, Department of Sociological Studies, University of Sheffield
379. Postphenomenology and Computing: AI, Robotics, and the Digital 12:00 to 1:40 pm virPrague: VR 21 Participants:
Perception as Material Hermeneutics in Emerging Worlds Cathrine Hasse, Aarhus University, Department of Education
Emplotment and the Story of Artificial Intelligence Esther Keymolen, Tilburg University, TILT
On the Digital Revolution: from a (Post)Phenomenological Viewpoint Shoji Nagataki, Chukyo University
AI Beyond the I-Technology-World Formula Galit Wellner, The NB School of Design & Tel Aviv University
Session Organizer: Kirk Besmer, Gonzaga University
Chair: Kirk Besmer, Gonzaga University
380. Social Practices Perspectives on (Un)sustainable Urban Transformations (2) 12:00 to 1:40 pm virPrague: VR 22 Participants:
The Networked City: How the Blanka Tunnel Extended Beyond its Boundaries Demetra Kourri, The University of Manchester
The Materialisation of (un)sustainable Values: Imaginaries, Obduracy and the Reproduction of (un)sustainable Practices in the Built Environment Willow Leonard-Clarke, Cardiff University
Peace piece: Dissonance and the stabilising of local innovations in urban design Stefan Molnar, RISE / Chalmers University of Technology; Karl Palmås, Chalmers University of Technology
Session Organizer: Marc Dijk, Maastricht University
Chair: Marc Dijk, Maastricht University
381. 4S Business Meeting and Prize Announcements 1:40 to 3:00 pm virPrague: VR 02 Session Organizer:
Stephen Zehr, Univ. Southern Indiana 382. Bristol University Press - Meet the Editor | 21 August
1:40 to 3:00 pm virPrague: VR 23 Session Organizer:
Bahar Muller, Bristol University Press Chair:
Paul Stevens, Bristol University Press 383. Locating matters
3:00 to 4:40 pm virPrague: VR 00 Session Organizer:
Tereza Stockelova, Institute of Sociology of the Czech Academy of Sciences
Chair: Alan Irwin, Copenhagen Business School
Discussants: Tania Pérez-Bustos, National University of Colombia Gergely Mohacsi, Osaka University Tereza Stockelova, Institute of Sociology of the Czech Academy of Sciences
384. Mutagenic Legacies and Future Living 3:00 to 4:40 pm virPrague: VR 01 Participants:
The Metagenomics of Colonialism. Tracing Ruderal Pathogens in South-East Cameroon Guillaume Lachenal, médialab Sciences Po
Trampling on Plastics : Plastic Mutations in a Broader Politics of Caste-work Tridibesh Dey, University of Exeter
Mutagenic Residues of Senegal’s Peanut Export Economy Noemi Tousignant, University College London
Session Organizers: Miriam Hanna Ancilla Waltz, Aarhus University Paul Wenzel Geissler, University of Oslo Noemi Tousignant, University College London
Chair: Paul Wenzel Geissler, University of Oslo
Discussant: Thomas Widger, Durham University
385. Contesting the ‘migration/border control machine’: entanglements of information and surveillance infrastructures with the making of publics/’non-publics’ 3:00 to 4:40 pm virPrague: VR 02 Participants:
“Becoming migrants at home”: controversies around infrastructures of post-Brexit migration control Fredy Mora-Gámez, Linköping University, Tema-T (Tema Technology and Social Change)
Knowledge and Legitimacy in Asylum Decision-making: The making of non-publics in relation to Country of Origin Information Jasper van der Kist
Migrant Technologies: On the Border of Security and Human
Rights Lindsay Adams Smith, Arizona State University Session Organizer:
Nina Amelung Chair:
Silvan Pollozek, MCTS, Technical University of Munich Discussant:
Huub Dijstelbloem, University of Amsterdam 386. Robotics Innovation in Care: Ethical
Considerations_Session 2 3:00 to 4:40 pm virPrague: VR 03 Participants:
Care in a Can Ingrid Meintjes, Dept of Gender, Sexuality & Feminist Studies, Duke University
Mapping Robots Caring for Humans Ludovica Lorusso, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona; Cecilio Angulo, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya; Fabio Bacchini, University of Sassari; Miquel Domenech, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
ROBOETHICS: Ethical Concerns with the Use of Socially Assistive Robotics in Health and Social Care Giulia De Togni, University of Edinburgh
Session Organizer: Núria Vallès-Peris, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
Chair: Cecilio Angulo, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya
Discussant: Ludovica Lorusso, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
387. Counter-hegemonic Knowing Spaces: Criticisms, Evaluations and Pedagogies 3:00 to 4:40 pm virPrague: VR 04 Participants:
Enhancing the Science System - The Case of Research Evaluations and University Repositories Henk Borgdorff, Leiden University
Counter-hegemonic Visual Arts: Anti-Empire as Method Adam Kola, Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń, Poland
Opportunities for STEAM in Out-of-School-Time Spaces Christopher Leslie, South China University of Technology and Zhejiang Hexin Group
Session Organizer: Henk Borgdorff, Leiden University
Chair: Peter Peters, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, Maastricht University, Maastricht, the Netherlands
Discussant: Sven Dupré, Department of History and Art History, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands
388. Infrastructures of Care: Renegotiating “choice” (values, logics, and practices) 3:00 to 4:40 pm virPrague: VR 05 Participants:
Cared-For Caring For: Relational Autonomies and Inter/Dependencies in Direct-Funded Attendant Services Erika Katzman
Towards supporting flexible choice and care in deaf diagnostic
and intervention practices in Ontario Tracey Edelist, York University
Tinkering As Collective Practice: The Case of Community Housing Services Marjolijn Heerings; Hester van de Bovenkamp, Erasmus University Rotterdam; Mieke Cardol, University of Applied Science Rotterdam; Roland Bal, Erasmus University Rotterdam
Caring Digitally: Beyond embodied practices of care. Sara Loftus, West Virginia University
Subject Positioning: Assistive Infrastructures and Instantiations of Agency Peter Fuzesi, University of Sheffield
Session Organizers: Emily Lim Rogers, New York University Helena Fietz, UFRGS Laura Mauldin, University of Connecticut
Chair: Laura Mauldin, University of Connecticut
389. Teaching interdependent agency II: Feminist STS approaches to STEM pedagogy 3:00 to 4:40 pm virPrague: VR 06 Participants:
Activating Context: disruptive data pedagogies and smart infrastructure Beth Coleman, Faculty of Information, University of Toronto
Teaching “Situatedness” without Haraway Myriam Raboldt, TU Berlin, Germany
Transforming the Classroom or Laboratory into a Feminist Science Shop Sara Beth Giordano, Kennesaw State University
Using Writing Pedagogy to Foster Inclusive, Responsible Scientific Subjectivities: The STEM Ed Op-Ed Marisa R Brandt, Michigan State University
Session Organizer: Kalindi Vora, University of California Davis
Chair: Kalindi Vora, University of California Davis
390. FLIPPED | Transnational STS: Theories, Practices, and Pedagogies (III) 3:00 to 4:40 pm virPrague: VR 07 Participants:
Infrastructuring Transnational STS Kim Fortun, University of California Irvine
Publishing Latin American STS Studies Outside the Region: Visibility, Themes and Theoretical Perspectives Noela Invernizzi, Universidade Federal do Parana
Transnational STS in Engaging Science, Technology, and Society (ESTS) journal Aalok Khandekar, Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad
Session Organizers: Kim Fortun, University of California Irvine Noela Invernizzi, Universidade Federal do Parana Duygu Kasdogan, İzmir Katip Çelebi University Aalok Khandekar, Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad Angela Okune, University of California - Irvine
Chair: Angela Okune, University of California - Irvine
391. AI through an education perspective: concerns, potentials,
and trade-offs - Session 1 3:00 to 4:40 pm virPrague: VR 08 Participants:
AI and learning in higher education: 2 future visions from the past Király Gábor, Budapest Business School; Zsuzsanna Géring, Budapest Business School
Concerns about the Promises of AI Tutors: A Case Study of MATHia Aditya Anupam, Georgia Institute Of Technology; Shubhangi Gupta, Georgia Institute of Technology; Nassim Parvin, Georgia Tech
Making Data in Higher Education Madisson Whitman, Columbia University
Reconfiguring the Student: Stabilizing the optimisable biosocial subject Kevin Witzenberger, University of New South Wales, Sydney
Upon Opening the AI Ethics Blackbox…And Finding It Difficult to Teach Michelle Ausman, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute - STS
Session Organizer: Rodrigo Barbosa e Silva, Lemann Center for Educational Entrepreneurship and Innovation in Brazil at Stanford
Chair: Ana Carolina Goes Machado, Stanford University
392. Transformations And Tensions In Academic Publishing - Part II 3:00 to 4:40 pm virPrague: VR 09 Participants:
How to Allocate Authorship? Tensions between Research Practice and Editorial Policies Cornelia Schendzielorz, Deutsches Insitut für Wissenschafts und Hochschulforschung/Humboldt Universität zu Berlin; Felicitas Hesselmann, German Centre for Higher Education Research and Science Studies
‘This Paper Has Been Withdrawn.’ An Empirical Analysis of arXiv Withdrawals Ewa Zegler-Poleska, Indiana University Bloomington
Contracting In The Open Access Age Unboxing “Big Deals” In Academic Publishing. Quentin Dufour, CNRS - I3 - CSI; David Pontille, CNRS; Didier Torny, CSi, I3, PSL Research University, CNRS UMR 9217 (France)
The editorial process; How and why do commercial publishers innovate? Serge Pascal Johannes Maria Horbach, Radboud Universiteit; Willem Halffman, Institute for Science in Society (ISIS)
Session Organizer: Wolfgang Kaltenbrunner, Centre for Sciencs & Technology Studies (CWTS), Leiden University
Chair: Wolfgang Kaltenbrunner, Centre for Sciencs & Technology Studies (CWTS), Leiden University
393. Rare Disease Policies: From Exceptionalism Towards a ‘New Normal’? Session 1 3:00 to 4:40 pm virPrague: VR 10 Participants:
Social Pharmaceutical Innovation for Unmet Medical Needs Conor Douglas, York Univeristy
Enacting biological citizenship in Chile: Developing a national rare disease and orphan drug policy Carlos Novas, Carleton University
“Begging for orphan drugs“: pharmaceutical innovation, patient involvement and bioeconomics Paul Just
Just Access: On the Work of Separating Costs and Care in the Clinic Sarah Wadmann, The Danish Center for Social Science Research; Amalie Martinus Hauge, The Danish Center for Social Science Research; Laura Emdal Navne, The Danish Center for Social Science Research
Session Organizer: Conor Douglas, York Univeristy
Chair: Rob Hagendijk, University of Amsterdam
394. Asymmetrical Confluence: Justice, Inclusion, and the Quest for Health Equity 3:00 to 4:40 pm virPrague: VR 11 Participants:
Bounded Justice and the Limits of Health Equity Melissa Creary, University of Michigan, School of Public Health
Big Data, Social Justice and Race in Precision Medicine Shirley Sun, Nanyang Technological University
Can the Subaltern Interoperate?: Rethinking U.S. Health Equity for the Era of Digital Biomedicine Stephen Molldrem, University of California - Irvine
Intersectionality, prevention of Alzheimer's disease and women's health: what does Brazilian medical-scientific production have to tell us? Erica Renata De Souza, Unicamp - Universidade Estadual De Campinas; Marko Alves Monteiro, State University of Campinas - UNICAMP
Session Organizers: Sarah Blacker, York University, Toronto Melissa Creary, University of Michigan, School of Public Health
Chair: Sarah Blacker, York University, Toronto
395. Towards A Critical Medical STS - I: Challenging Hegemonic Ideas in Biomedical Establishment 3:00 to 4:40 pm virPrague: VR 12 Participants:
Breaking Down the Gate: Depathologizing Trans* Health through Informed Consent? Christoph Hanssmann, San Francisco State University
“Critical” Means “Power”: Notes on Whiteness in Patient Activism Danya Glabau, NYU Tandon School of Engineering
Problematising Opioid “Withdrawal” in Interventions for Pain Management Anne Fredrickson, University of New South Wales, Sydney
Queer Experiments and Sovereign Limits: The Case of PrEP use in Bangkok Tim Quinn, Rice University, Department of Anthropology
Towards a Critical Pedagogy in Biomedical Education: Challenging Cultural Competency Rebecca Hester, Virginia Tech
Session Organizers: Hined A Rafeh, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Yesmar Semaj Oyarzun, Rice University Rebecca Monteleone, SFIS - Arizona State University
Chair: Yesmar Semaj Oyarzun, Rice University
396. Doing STS amid the Procession of Disaster 3:00 to 4:40 pm virPrague: VR 13 Participants:
Distrust for Human Judgment Part II: How to Break through “Grass-roots” Technological Hubris Kohta Juraku, Tokyo Denki University; Shin-etsu SUGAWARA, Central Research Institute of Electric Power Industry
“Marauding Masses”: Mythologies of Societal Breakdown in the Climate Change Imaginaries Natalie Danielle Baker, Sam Houston State University
Institutional interdependencies and resilience Changdeok Gim, University of California, Irvine; Clark Miller, Arizona State University
Session Organizer: Steve G. Hoffman, University of Toronto
Chair: Steve G. Hoffman, University of Toronto
397. When and how does life end? When and how should it? How do we know? 3:00 to 4:40 pm virPrague: VR 14 Participants:
Creating “Death”: Organ Donation and New Forms of Death in China FAN ZHOU, Tsinghua University; Pusheng Wang, Tsinghua University
Saving life or saving death? Interrogating dying subjectivities and troubling the denial of endings Amanda van Beinum, Carleton University
Thanato-technics: temporal horizons of death and dying Dylan Thomas Lott, Center for Healthy Minds/University of Wisconsin-Madison
Therapeutic Spaces between Life and Death: Making Sense of Non-Biomedical Therapeutics in Hospice Care Wen-Hua Kuo, National Yang-Ming University
Session Organizers: Amanda van Beinum, Carleton University Dylan Thomas Lott, Center for Healthy Minds/University of Wisconsin-Madison
Chair: Amanda van Beinum, Carleton University
398. Democracy in the Making III: Imaginaries of Democracy Enacted 3:00 to 4:40 pm virPrague: VR 15 Participants:
Representation of Members, Representation of Facts Staffan Edling, Lund University
Platform Regulation and Liberal Democracy Laura Fichtner, Universität Hamburg
Platformised Identities in the 2019–2020 Hong Kong’s Anti-Extradition Bill Protests Chih-wei Yeh
Categorisation Work And Relationship Building In Extremism Prevention Yannik Porsché, Bundeswehr University Munich
Democratic Situations Andreas Birkbak, Aalborg University Copenhagen; Irina Papazu, IT University of Copenhagen
Session Organizers: Jan-Peter Voß, Berlin University of Technology Jason Chilvers, University of East Anglia
Chair: Jan-Peter Voß, Berlin University of Technology
399. How to “make a better world” for humans with technologies? Part A 3:00 to 4:40 pm virPrague: VR 16 Participants:
Strong Design: Engineers, Marginalized Users and Strong Objectivity Logan Dawn April Williams, Inclusive Research by Design SM
When Design is an Invitation to non-Engineers: Engineers and Engineering in International Development Robert Krueger, Worcester Polytechnic Institute; Yunus Dogan Telliel, Worcerster Polytechnic Institute
The Development Imagination Of Czech Civil Engineers Jan Werner, Charles University In Prague
Reciprocal Social Innovation – Reimaging university service-learning enterprises Joshua Loughman, SFIS - Arizona State University
Session Organizer: Martin Andrés Perez Comisso, SFIS - Arizona State University
Chair: Martin Andrés Perez Comisso, SFIS - Arizona State University
400. Challenges of Surveillance Technologies in Police and Criminal Justice Systems 1 3:00 to 4:40 pm virPrague: VR 17 Participants:
Destined to be a criminal: Biometrics, race and predictions of criminality Jona Zyfi, University of Toronto
Genetic Racial Profiling: Discriminatory Consequences of Forensic DNA Phenotyping and Biogeographical Ancestry Tino Pluemecke, Institute for Sociology, University of Freiburg, Germany; Isabelle Bartram, Institut of Sociology, University of Freiburg, Germany; Susanne Schultz, Frankfurt University
DNA, Citizenship, and the Biometric Governance of Migration in the U.S. Meredith Van Natta, Duke University; Nita Farahany, Duke University
The Biolegal Coproduction of India’s National DNA Database Manpreet Singh Dhillon, Jawaharlal Nehru University
Session Organizer: Filipa Queirós, University of Minho
Chair: Aaron Amankwaa, Science & Justice RIG, Northumbria University
401. STI, science diplomacy and international knowledge asymmetries 3:00 to 4:40 pm virPrague: VR 18 Participants:
The 'matter' of science diplomacy Mitchell Young, Charles University Prague
An updated taxonomy of science diplomacy Charlotte Rungius, German Centre for Higher Education Research and Science Studies (DZHW)
Science diplomacy as a transformative interaction space Ewert Aukes, University of Twente (the Netherlands); Sanaz Honarmand Ebrahimi, University of Twente; Gonzalo Ordonez-Matamoros, Universidad Externado de Colombia; Stefan Kuhlmann, University of Twente
After Brexit, UKRI if you want to: ambition, ambiguity and active self-harm in UK science diplomacy James Wilsdon, University of Sheffield
Session Organizer: Ewert Aukes, University of Twente (the Netherlands)
Chair: Stefan Kuhlmann, University of Twente
Discussants: Gonzalo Ordonez-Matamoros, Universidad Externado de Colombia Sanaz Honarmand Ebrahimi, University of Twente Tim Flink, Humboldt-Universitat zu Berlin
402. Digital Platforms, Knowledge Democracies and the Remaking of Expertise 1 3:00 to 4:40 pm virPrague: VR 19 Participants:
Scaling a “global music platform”: secret gigs, live music and the platform metaphor Loïc Riom, Centre de Sociologie de l'Innovation
Peacebuilding Construction Through Participative Monitoring in Conservation Areas of the Tropical Andes (Colombia) Rodolfo Andres Hernandez, Independent Researcher; Giovanna Garzón, Universidad de Cundinamarca
“Created by Experts, Backed by Science”: The Mobilization of Scientific Credibility in Mental Health Apps Sarah MacLean, Carleton University
Formation of Experts and Knowledge on Chinese Social Media Platforms during Public Health Crises Yiran Gao, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Session Organizer: Warren Pearce, Department of Sociological Studies, University of Sheffield
Chair: Sarah MacLean, Carleton University
403. Pharmaceutical and diagnostic futures: innovation, governance and practice #1 3:00 to 4:40 pm virPrague: VR 20 Participants:
A market for quasi-diagnostics in the making? An engagement with the emergence of cell free fetal DNA testing Ingrid Metzler, University of Vienna, Department of Science and Technology Studies
Assessing thrombotic susceptibility test, questioning the safety of the pill Mauro Turrini, Consejo Superior Investigaciones Cientificas (CSIC)
Global intermediaries, agendas and standards: designing diagnostics for global health Nora Engel, Maastricht University; Harro van Lente, Maastricht University
Testing the Nation: diagnostic development capacity and
universal access to healthcare in Brazil Koichi Kameda de Carvalho, Centre Population & Développement, IRD, and Institute for Research and Innovation in Society, IFRIS
Session Organizer: Paul Martin, Department of Sociological Studies, University of Sheffield
Chair: Paul Martin, Department of Sociological Studies, University of Sheffield
404. Postphenomenology and the Mediated Self 3:00 to 4:40 pm virPrague: VR 21 Participants:
‘To Be Or Not To Be’ – Hermeneutic Relations Through Technology in Cancer Prevention Anette Forss, Karolinska Institutet, Sweden
Scoping the Endoscope: a Postphenomenological Use Case Stacey O Irwin, Stacey Irwin
Optimization and the Affordances of Self-tracking Technologies: an ethnographic study of gym cultures in Denmark Dorthe Kristensen, University of Southern Denmark; Signe Banke, University of Southern Denmark; Alev Pinar Kuruoglu, University of Southern Denmark
Interpreting Fitness: Self-tracking with Fitness Apps through a Postphenomenology Lens Li Zheng, Georgia Institute of Technology
Session Organizer: Robert Rosenberger, Georgia Institute of Technology
Chair: Robert Rosenberger, Georgia Institute of Technology
405. Social Practices perspectives on (Un)sustainable Urban transformations (1) 3:00 to 4:40 pm virPrague: VR 22 Participants:
Connecting The Logic Of Scientific Inquiry With The Logic Of Local Government Action Christopher Joseph Barton, School for Future of Innovation in Society, Arizona State University; Qingqing Wang, Arizona State University School of Public Affairs; Derrick Anderson, Arizona State University School of Public Affairs; Drew Callow, Greater Phoenix Economic Council
Transforming mobility practices in Maastricht (1950-1980) Marc Dijk, Maastricht University; Anique Hommels, Univ Of Maastricht; Manuel Stoffers, Maastricht University
Between stability and change: Tensions in the Norwegian electric mobility transition Martin Anfinsen, Norwegian University of Science and Technology
Session Organizer: Marc Dijk, Maastricht University
Chair: Marc Dijk, Maastricht University
406. Citing the South: Infometrics and Open Science for Sustainable Development in the Global South 3:00 to 4:40 pm virPrague: VR 23 Participants:
Knowledge Mapping from Open Access to Open Science: Challenges and Changes Lei Huang, Chinese Academy of
Science and Technology for Development Pattern and Trend of Scientific Knowledge Production in North
Korea Jungwon Yoon, Hanyang University Indian Academia.Inc Omkar Nadh Pattela; Sobin George,
Institute for Social and Economic Change Session Organizer:
Julian David Cortes Sanchez, School of Management, Universidad del Rosario
Chair: Julian David Cortes Sanchez, School of Management, Universidad del Rosario
407. Mutagenic Legacies and Future Living - Follow-up Discussion 4:40 to 6:00 pm virPrague: VR 01 Participants:
Tuberculosis Computer Aided Diagnosis in Global Health: The Promise to Erase Biological and Social Mutagenicity? Pierre-Marie David, Université de Montréal
Colonial Agricultural Interventions and Toxic Exposure in Western Kenya Miriam Hanna Ancilla Waltz, Aarhus University
Layers of Epidemy. The Lively Residuals of Late Colonial Disease Control in 21st Century Western Kenya Paul Wenzel Geissler, University of Oslo; Ruth Jane Prince, University of Oslo
Session Organizer: Miriam Hanna Ancilla Waltz, Aarhus University
Chair: Noemi Tousignant, University College London
Discussant: Thomas Widger, Durham University
408. Sustainable Academy 6:00 to 7:40 pm virPrague: VR 00 Session Organizer:
Tereza Stockelova, Institute of Sociology of the Czech Academy of Sciences
Chair: Knut H Sørensen, NTNU Norwegian University of Science and Technology
Discussants: Maria do Mar Pereira, University of Warwick Sharon Traweek, UCLA Harro van Lente, Maastricht University
409. New Technologies of Risk: Bioeconomies of Prediction and Therapeutic Prevention 6:00 to 7:40 pm virPrague: VR 01 Participants:
PrEP Science and the Emergence of Queer Risk Data as a Material Commodity Amaya Perez-Brumer, University of Toronto, Dalla Lana School of Public Health
Saving Your (Statistical) Life: Genetic Counseling and the Politics of Previval Shannon Cram, University of Washington Bothell
Under Surveillance or Early Intervention: How Institutional Practices Steer the Biomedicalization of Psychosis Michael Halpin, Dalhousie University
A tale of two technologies: Making diabetes risk knowable in Mexico Emily Vasquez, Columbia University
Session Organizers: Emily Vasquez, Columbia University Amaya Perez-Brumer, University of Toronto, Dalla Lana School of Public Health
Chair: Emily Vasquez, Columbia University
410. Nocebos, Nocebo Studies, and STS: Meaning-Making and Recalcitrance 6:00 to 7:40 pm virPrague: VR 02 Participants:
Cures, Harms & Medical Authority: Animating Side-Effects As Modes Of Resistance In Hepatitis C-Treatments Lisa Lehner, Cornell University
Effects of Placebo Effect: Anthropology evidences by interviewing participants during a clinical trial Mário Eugênio Saretta Poglia
Negativity and Nocebos: Currents of Responsibility and Blame in Placebo Studies Phoebe Friesen, McGill University
Nocebos and the Recalcitrance of Affect Ada Jaarsma, Mount Royal University
Session Organizers: Suze Berkhout, University of Toronto Ada Jaarsma, Mount Royal University
Chair: Suze Berkhout, University of Toronto
Discussant: Khadija Coxon, Khadija Coxon
411. Holding it Together? Data and Disasters 6:00 to 7:40 pm virPrague: VR 03 Participants:
Civic Data for the Anthropocene: Visualizing Taiwan's Formosa Plastics Tim Schuetz, UC Irvine
From living the disaster to becoming a dataset: untangling science’s tentacles Ben Epstein, UCL
Monitoring Radiation in Fukushima: (Re)Constructing The Invisible Louise Elstow, Lancaster University
Session Organizer: Louise Elstow, Lancaster University
Chair: Louise Elstow, Lancaster University
412. Doing Arts and Design: Knowledge Making, Methods, and Public Deliberation 6:00 to 7:40 pm virPrague: VR 04 Participants:
Learning to be a Good Idiot: Not-knowing in Collaborative Classical Music Experiments Veerle Spronck, Maastricht University; Denise Petzold, Maastricht University; Benschop Ruth, Zuyd University of Applied Sciences
Art’s Work in the Age of Biotechnology: STS and Art in Practice Hannah Rogers, Science, Technology and Innovation Studies, The University of Edinburgh; Elizabeth Pitts, University of Pittsburgh
Orchestral cognition in the wild: symphonic rehearsals as
musical knowing spaces Peter Peters, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, Maastricht University, Maastricht, the Netherlands
Session Organizer: Peter Peters, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, Maastricht University, Maastricht, the Netherlands
Chair: Sven Dupré, Department of History and Art History, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands
Discussant: Henk Borgdorff, Leiden University
413. Peripheral States: Public Uses and Misuses of Big Data Technologies 6:00 to 7:40 pm virPrague: VR 05 Participants:
Examining the role of big data in smart city management: unpacking the public transport data dispositif in Santiago de Chile Ignacio J Perez, University of Oxford
The Technological Infrastructure Trajectory of SRI: A Socio-Technical Approach María Belén Albornoz, FLACSO Latin American Social Studies Faculty
Big data technologies and the Public sector: a bibliometric analysis Henry Chavez, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Ecuador / CTS-Lab FLACSO / Divergence
Penetration of big data in the Ecuadorian public sector through an extended United Nations e Government Development Index Fernando Martin Mayoral, FLACSO Ecuador
The big data academic community in Ecuador. An explanation from network analysis and interpretive flexibility Fernando Herrera, Escuela Politécnica Nacional; Anderson Castro, FLACSO Ecuador; Isarelis Pérez P. Ones, FLACSO - Ecuador
Session Organizers: Henry Chavez, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Ecuador / CTS-Lab FLACSO / Divergence María Belén Albornoz, FLACSO Latin American Social Studies Faculty
Chair: María Belén Albornoz, FLACSO Latin American Social Studies Faculty
414. Teaching interdependent agency III: Feminist STS approaches to STEM pedagogy 6:00 to 7:40 pm virPrague: VR 06 Participants:
Classrooms as Safe and Autonomous Spaces: The Feminist Data Manifest-No and Student Rights of Refusal Tonia Sutherland, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa
Greased Objects: How Concept Maintenance Undermines Feminist Pedagogy and Those Who Teach It in Computer Science Audrey Beard, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; James Malazita, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Humanitarian Engineering and Science: Opening Space for Multiplicity Elizabeth A. Reddy, Colorado School Of Mines; Jessica Mary Smith, Colorado School of Mines
Using the Feminist Data Manifest-NO to Transform Information Studies Pedagogy Marika Cifor, The Information School, University of Washington
Session Organizer: Kalindi Vora, University of California Davis
Chair: Kalindi Vora, University of California Davis
415. Author meets Critics: Carson Book Prize session 6:00 to 7:40 pm virPrague: VR 07 Session Organizers:
Roopali Phadke, Macalester College Daniel Aldana Cohen, UPenn
Chair: Roopali Phadke, Macalester College
Discussants: Candis Callison, Unversity of British Columbia Lucy Suchman, Lancaster University, UK Sara Wylie, Northeastern University
416. AI through an education perspective: concerns, potentials, and trade-offs - Session 2 6:00 to 7:40 pm virPrague: VR 08 Participants:
Creating the Optimal Student - Socio-technical Imaginaries of Characters and Subjects in Behavioral Platforms in Schools Hemy Ramiel, Ben Gurion University of the Negev
Defining the “Stakes” in AI System Development: From Stakeholders to Protected Publics Roel Dobbe, Delft University of Technology; Thomas Gilbert
"No cost" technology: how governments contract dominant internet companies and ignore students' rights Rodrigo Barbosa e Silva, Lemann Center for Educational Entrepreneurship and Innovation in Brazil at Stanford
Session Organizer: Rodrigo Barbosa e Silva, Lemann Center for Educational Entrepreneurship and Innovation in Brazil at Stanford
Chair: Ana Carolina Goes Machado, Stanford University
417. They’re Just Guidelines: Operationalizing AI Ethics - Session 2 (Classic Ethics) 6:00 to 7:40 pm virPrague: VR 09 Participants:
Rawls vs Google and Facebook: How teleology and prediction stands in the way of tech industry ethics Morten Bay, University of Southern California, Annenberg School for Communication & Journalism
On Becoming agile: The transformation from Waterfall to Agile in the Danish Tax Authority Irina Papazu, IT University of Copenhagen
Producing Credible Quantum Futures: Planning the Transition from Science Fiction to Institutional Fact Susannah Glickman, Columbia University
Technologies to Repair Victims in the Colombian Armed Conflict. Analysis of the Ethical Implications juan carlos moreno, Santo Tomas University; Sara Guzman, Universitè de Grenoble
Session Organizer: Anna Lenhart, University Of Maryland College Park
Chair: Anna Lenhart, University Of Maryland College Park
418. Rare Disease Policies: From Exceptionalism Towards a ‘New Normal’? Session 2 6:00 to 7:40 pm virPrague: VR 10 Participants:
Zolgensma: The Multiple and Conflicting Valuation of Advanced Therapies for Rare Diseases Vololona Rabeharisoa, Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Mines de Paris; Liliana Doganova, Mines ParisTech
A case study on the tensions between personalization and regulatory harmonization in regenerative medicine Christine Hauskeller, University of Exeter; Jean Harrington, University of Exeter
Innovation in distributed forms of medicine production: the case of in-hospital production of orphan medicines Jarno Hoekman; Rob Hagendijk, University of Amsterdam; Ellen Moors, Copernicus Institute of Sustainable Development, Utrecht University; Wouter Boon, Copernicus Institute of Sustainable Development, Utrecht University
Creating DNA biocollection for reference population of Western France: a case study using STS approach Lindzy Tossé, Centre de Recherche Médecine, Sciences, Santé, Santé Mentale et Société (cermes3), Paris
Session Organizer: Rob Hagendijk, University of Amsterdam
Chair: Conor Douglas, York Univeristy
419. Locating South Asia in Social Studies of Science and Technology 6:00 to 7:40 pm virPrague: VR 11 Participants:
Decoloniality and social justice as motives for STS in the Global South: reflections from an ethnography of research on human difference in India Thiago Pinto Barbosa, Universität Bayreuth
An ‘Elephant’s Gestation’: Rebuilding Madras City’s Water Infrastructure 1904-1919 Viswanathan Venkataraman, King's College London
Locating Delhi's air Prerna Srigyan, University of California - Irvine
Photovoltaics, Pasture, And Puffed Rice: The Production Of Low-Carbon Infrastructure In India’s Smart Cities Ankit Bhardwaj, New York University
An Ethnography of Edison, New Jersey: Tech Expansion in an International State Kinjal Dave, Annenberg School of Communication, University of Pennsylvania
Session Organizer: Ranjit Pal Singh, Cornell University
Chair: Misria Shaik Ali, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Discussant: annapurna mamidipudi, Max Planck Institute for the History of Science
420. Towards A Critical Medical STS - II: Perspectives Of the Body In Biomedicine 6:00 to 7:40 pm virPrague: VR 12 Participants:
Building a Science of the Post-Colonial Body in Egypt Jennifer L Derr, University of California, Santa Cruz
“Deep Inside, We're All Just Pink”: Skin of Color, Dermatology, and Antiracism Yesmar Semaj Oyarzun, Rice University
Knowing Normality, Learning Disease: Material Epistemologies and Embodied Standards in Medical Education John Nott, Maastricht University; Anna Harris, Maastricht University
PrEP at the After/Party: The ‘Post-AIDS’ Politics of Frank Ocean’s “PrEP+” Benjamin Joseph Fleminger Weil, University College London; Chase Ledin, University of Edinburgh
Session Organizers: Hined A Rafeh, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Yesmar Semaj Oyarzun, Rice University Rebecca Monteleone, SFIS - Arizona State University
Chair: Hined A Rafeh, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
421. Inclusion in scientific communities II 6:00 to 7:40 pm virPrague: VR 13 Participants:
Lithuanian Researchers and Policymakers Regarding the Inclusion into Global Knowledge Production: the Publishing of Books Eleonora Dagiene, Centre for Science & Technology Studies (CWTS), Leiden University
Fieldwork in the internationalization of the social sciences Leandro Rodriguez Medina, Universidad de las Americas Puebla
Individual Grants, Collective Benefits? A Case Study Of The Canada Excellence Research Chairs Program Marc-André Simard, Université de Montréal; Gita Ghiasi, Université de Montréal; Vincent Lariviere, Université de Montréal
The Role of Science Novels in the Study of the Autonomy and Social Responsibility of Science Fabian Hempel, University of Bremen
Session Organizers: Jochen Glaser, TU Berlin Nelius Boshoff, Stellenbosch University
Chair: Jochen Glaser, TU Berlin
422. How should we “preserve” the dead? What is the role of ritual and memory in modern death? 6:00 to 7:40 pm virPrague: VR 14 Participants:
Death Interrupted: How Facebook "In Memoriam" Pages Redefine Dying Sara Bimo, York University
"Everything Seems so Illogical": Constructing Missingness' Narratives in the Cultural Space between Life and Death Ori Katz, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
Re(e)valuating Plastinated Bodies Dimitrios-Karolos Kaloulis Commemoration of the Dead by Technology: A Future for
Material Avatars? Kirsten Brukamp, Protestant University of Applied Sciences
Session Organizers: Amanda van Beinum, Carleton University Dylan Thomas Lott, Center for Healthy Minds/University of
Wisconsin-Madison Chair:
Amanda van Beinum, Carleton University 423. Situating Artificial Intelligence (AI): Medicine, Green
Energy, & Justice 6:00 to 7:40 pm virPrague: VR 15 Participants:
Artificial Intelligence, “the most revolutionary technology for green energy”: “Artificial Lines” as “Phantom Circuits” Konstantinos Sakalis, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens; Konstantinos Konstantis; Aristotelis (Aristotle) Tympas, National and Kapodistrian U. of Athens
“Black Box Justice”: Robot Judges in China’s Court System Nu Wang, Virginia Tech
Averting AI Doomsday: The Legacy of Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility Colin Garvey, Center for International Security and Cooperation, Stanford University
Session Organizer: Colin Garvey, Center for International Security and Cooperation, Stanford University
Chair: Colin Garvey, Center for International Security and Cooperation, Stanford University
424. How to “make a better world” for humans with technologies? Part B 6:00 to 7:40 pm virPrague: VR 16 Participants:
Entangled Engagement: Making Up Publics and Moralizing Gene Drives Christian H. Ross, Arizona State University
Doing Good With Data – Bottom-up And Instrumentalist Notions Of Data In The UK Non-profit Sector Ville Aula, London School Of Economics & Political Science
The Brazilian experience on Social Technology: lessons and policy implications Rafael de Brito Dias, University of Campinas
Session Organizer: Martin Andrés Perez Comisso, SFIS - Arizona State University
Chair: Martin Andrés Perez Comisso, SFIS - Arizona State University
425. Categories of Hatred: Unearthing algorithmic cultures of hate groups, marginalization, and surveillance of minorities 2 6:00 to 7:40 pm virPrague: VR 17 Participants:
The Assimilation Of Atheist YouTubers Into The Alt-Right Brian Pleasants Harper, Indiana University Bloomington
A Cult of Technoscience? Rhetorical Devices, Narratives and Sociotechnical Visions in Transhumanist Political Party Programmes Sophie Marie Huber, University of Vienna, Department of Science and Technology Studies
Justifying “Anxiety”: Development Of The Notion Of “Right of Evacuation” In Fukushima Nuclear Disaster Hideyuki Hirakawa, Osaka University
Session Organizers: David Nemer, University of Virginia Melissa Adler, Western University
Chair: Melissa Adler, Western University
426. Accommodating A Plurality Of Values When Engaging Emerging Technologies In Sustainability Transitions – On Designing For Safety And Security In A Warming World II 6:00 to 7:40 pm virPrague: VR 18 Participants:
On Crosses and Early Warning Systems: Coping with Extreme Water Events through Heterogeneous World Arrangements Tomás José Usón Pizarro, Humboldt University of Berlin; Macedonio Villafán Broncano, Universidad Nacional Santiago Antunez de Mayolo & IPEAN, Peru; Rufa Olortegui Mariño, Universidad Nacional Santiago Antunez de Mayolo & IPEAN, Peru
From Clean Stove to Rural Vitalization:The Anti-Politics Machine in China Wei Hong, Tsinghua University
Social Acceptability Of Virus-based Biotechnological Innovation During COVID-19 Epidemic Emergence: A Focus-group Study in Italy Roberto Carradore, University of Milan-Bicocca; Paolo Grigis, University of Milan-Bicocca; Riccardo Rella, University of Milan-Bicocca
Session Organizer: Pim Klaassen, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Chair: Megan Palmer, Center for International Security and Cooperation, Stanford University
427. Science Technology & Innovation (STI) Roadmaps and the SDGs 6:00 to 7:40 pm virPrague: VR 19 Participants:
Co-production of knowledge for attainment of sustainable goals in developing countries: A focus on Africa Emmanuel Ejim-Eze, Institute of Engineering, technology and innovation Management
International development through women’s empowerment in science: implications for inclusive innovation Gita Ghiasi, Université de Montréal; Matthew Harsh, California Polytechnic State University; Vincent Lariviere, Université de Montréal
Bibliometric evidence on Innovation for Sustainability in the Global South Julian David Cortes Sanchez, School of Management, Universidad del Rosario
The Absence of a Justice Matrix in Japan's STI for SDGs Policy Society 5.0 Ayşe Şehnaz Kart
Session Organizer: Emmanuel Ejim-Eze, Institute of Engineering, technology and innovation Management
Chair: Emmanuel Ejim-Eze, Institute of Engineering, technology and innovation Management
428. Pharmaceutical and diagnostic futures: innovation, governance and practice #3 6:00 to 7:40 pm virPrague: VR 20 Participants:
Another Type of Precision Oncology? Knowledge Production within a Platform of Cancer Immunotherapy in Switzerland
Nils Graber, STS Lab, University of Lausanne; Luca Chiapperino Chiapperino, University of Lausanne, Faculty of Social and Political Sciences; Francesco Panese, University of Lausanne, Faculty of Social and Political Sciences
Health inequities and ethical conflicts in the implementation of precision medicine oncology in Brazil Jorge Alberto Bernstein Iriart, Instituto de Saúde Coletiva da Universidade Federal da Bahia
Innovating the post-pharmaceutical future: processes, problematizations, practices Christian Haddad, Austrian Institute for International Affairs - oiip
Emerging Implants: Shaping Governance Saheli Datta Burton, King's College London
On the technological enhancement of human performance by the use of psychotropic drugs and its ethical implications Lauren Predebon, Universidad de la República (Uruguay)
Session Organizer: Paul Martin, Department of Sociological Studies, University of Sheffield
Chair: Paul Martin, Department of Sociological Studies, University of Sheffield
429. Postphenomenology and the Built Environment 6:00 to 7:40 pm virPrague: VR 21 Participants:
“Straight outta South Harbour:” Postphenomenological Reflections on Urban Design and Development Lars Botin, Aalborg University Copenhagen
Architecture, Power and Multistability Inger Berling Hyams, Roskilde University
“Water, Water Everywhere”: Perception of a Utility Infrastructure in the Background Stanley C Kranc, University of South Florida
Building Dwelling and the End of Thinking Søren Riis, Roskilde University
Hostile Public Spaces and the Case of Security Camera Surveillance Robert Rosenberger, Georgia Institute of Technology
Session Organizer: Kirk Besmer, Gonzaga University
Chair: Kirk Besmer, Gonzaga University
430. Vulnerabilities, Technological Environments, and Material Ontologies 6:00 to 7:40 pm virPrague: VR 22 Participants:
Why Did the Glow-worm Cross the Book? Juan Felipe Guevara Aristizabal, Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana-Cuajimalpa, México
Involving Vulnerabilities: Experimental Wastewater Systems in a Damaged Planet. Rebeca Ibáñez Martín, Humanities Cluster, Dutch Academy of Science (KNAW)
Interfaces, Changes, and the Rationale of Vulnerability: Translation Machines in Context. Nuria Valverde Pérez, Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana-Cuajimalpa
Session Organizer:
Nuria Valverde Pérez, Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana-Cuajimalpa
Chair: Nuria Valverde Pérez, Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana-Cuajimalpa
431. Aesthetic Interventions: Exploring Emerging Worlds Through Art III – Methods 6:00 to 7:40 pm virPrague: VR 23 Participants:
Installation Ethnography: Curation, Aesthetics, Experiments James Adams, University of California, Irvine; Tim Schuetz, UC Irvine
The hyperbola stories: A collaborative narrative methodology for enacting sociomateriality Horst Rachel, The University of British Columbia; Susan Sechrist, The University of British Columbia
Navigating creative approaches to wayfinding research in STS Rebecca Noone, University of Toronto
Face Dance Ekaterina Zharinova, UC Davis Session Organizers:
Regula Valérie Burri, HCU - HafenCity University Hamburg Joseph Dumit, UC Davis
Chair: Joseph Dumit, UC Davis
432. STS Continuities and Discontinuities in Moving Past Modernity’s Gender and Sexuality. 6:00 to 7:40 pm virPrague: VR 24 Participants:
Gender Mainstreaming in Development Research and Feminist STS Wenda K Bauchspies, MSU, GenCen
Locating Narratives of Artificial Intelligence Across Africa Laura Foster, Indiana University - Bloomington
The Political Potentiality of Molecular Feminism in Mexican Marginalized Groups: The Case of Santa Muerte. Luisa Fernanda Grijalva Maza, International Relations Department, UPAEP Universidad
Engaging with Gender and Sexuality Formations in Latin America: Recent STS issues Sandra Harding, Graduate Department of Education, UCLA
Session Organizer: Sandra Harding, Graduate Department of Education, UCLA
Chair: Sandra Harding, Graduate Department of Education, UCLA
Discussant: Sharon Traweek, UCLA