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Program of the STS Conference Graz 2014
Critical Issues in Science and Technology Studies
5-6 May 2014, Graz, Austria
Venue: Mozartgasse 3, 8010 Graz, Austria (http://goo.gl/maps/RF29A)
Monday, May 5
09:00Welcome Note:
09:15
Martina Schröck (Vice-Mayor of Graz) & Günter Getzinger (Managing Director of IAS-STS), Room 1
09:15Keynote 1: The New Geography of Food Security: Exploring the Potential of Urban Food Strategies
10:00
Roberta Sonnino (Cardiff University, Wales)
Chair: Sandra Karner; Room 1
10:00-10:15 Coffee Break
Room 1
Room A
10:1512:00
Morning
Sessions
Room B
SS5: Key Concepts of Agro-Food Studies (1)
SS7: The politics of ICTs (1)
CT: Life Sciences/Biotechnology (1)
(Chairs: Petra C. Braun, Ernst Langthaler &
Markus Schermer)
(Chair: Astrid Mager)
(Chair: Armin Spök)
-Inscriptions of Norms, Values and Hegemonies on
Different Technological Levels, Johanna Seyfrin &
Katarina L. Gidlund
-Escape identification? Responsibilities, agencies and
feminist opportunities within new developments of
information and communication technologies, Waltraud
Ernst
-The politics of indigenous ICTs: internet infrastructures
and services for First Nations communities in
Northwestern Ontario, Canada, Phillip Budka
-The Technological Trajectory of the Contemporary
Digital Music Industry: Why Do People Pay For Music?,
Hyojung Sun
-How concepts of ideology, hegemony and
sociomateriality frame the micro-politics of ICT design,
Doris Allhutter
-Re-installing ethics into bio-objects. Cultural meanings and
aporias of ethical stem cells, Lorenzo Beltrame
-Life Sciences between Engineering und Unified Sciences –
Questioning Social Embedding of Transdisciplinary Research,
Michael Funk
-Biotechnologies in reproductive medicine — Janus-faced
challenge, Eva Šlesingerová
-Tumordiagnostics: perspectives for genome research in clinical
practice?, Michaela Mayrhofer & Bernhard Wieser
-The Food Regime Concept: Strengths and
Weaknesses, Ernst Langthaler
-The embeddedness concept - mapping the
ecological embeddedness of food supply chains,
Marianne Penker
-Co-Production Beyond Alternative Food
Networks, Cristof Lammer
-Between grounding and imagination: Towards
a history of the concept of terroir, Rengenier C.
Rittersma
12:00-13:30 Lunch Break, hosted by the President of the Styrian Parliament, Franz Majcen
12:00-13:30 Poster Presentaion during Lunch Break
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Program of the STS Conference Graz 2014
Critical Issues in Science and Technology Studies
5-6 May 2014, Graz, Austria
Venue: Mozartgasse 3, 8010 Graz, Austria (http://goo.gl/maps/RF29A)
Monday, May 5
13:30-15:00
Afternoon
Sessions 1
Room 1
SS5: Key Concepts of Agro-Food Studies (2)
Room A
SS7: The politics of ICTs (2)
Room B
CT: Life Sciences/Biotechnology (2)
(Chairs: Petra C. Braun, Ernst Langthaler & Markus Schermer)
(Chair: Doris Allhutter)
(Chair: Bernhard Wieser)
-Transition in food systems: the case of the Austrian dairy
sector, Markus Schermer
-Reluctant Pioneers: Environmental NGOs and Food SelfProvisioning in Post-socialist Czech Republic, Evelien de
Hoop & Petr Jehlicka
-Food Gardens in Uganda/Africa – a model for a sustainable
local food system providing food and nutrition security and
food sovereignty?, Petra Braun
-Grassroots approaches to cope with global change on farmscale – Insights from farmer’s experiments and innovations
in Cuba, Friedrich Leitgeb, Susanne Kummer & Christian R.
Vogl
-Fighting with Vidyo for common Goals! Virtue and vice of
communication technologies in team-oriented knowledge
production of high-energy physics, Anne Dippel
-Screens that dis/connect: On the ambivalences of
implementing intranet software, Katja Schönian
-Translating Governmentality
An ANT-Informed Analysis of the Digitization of
Governmental Information Flows, Annalisa Pelizza
-Google media coverage in the context of EU data
protection reform, Astrid Mager
-Towards societal embedding of synthetic
biology by organizing a fruitful science society
dialogue, A.W. Betten
-Agricultural Biotechnology Regulation: New
issues and Challenges, Krishna Ravi Srinivas
-Anticipatory Governance of Synthetic Biology:
some Challenges for Slovenia as a Country with
weak Steakholder Networks, Franc Mali & Toni
Pustovrh
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15:00-15:30 Coffee Break
15:30-17:00
Afternoon
Sessions 2
Room 1
SS9: From STS to SSH: Translating STS
concepts for the study of social
sciences and humanities (SSH) (1)
(Chairs: Matthias Duller & Rafael
Schögler)
-The Subject-Object-Relationship in the
Social Sciences – The Epistemic
Participation of the Analyzed, Werner
Reichmann
-The Risk of the Social Sciences, Martin
Savransky
-Prospects for the science and
technology studies concept ‘boundarywork’ in studies of social sciences and
humanities, Pia Vuolanto
-Wandering off the Beaten Path: An STS
Study of Sociology, Emils Kilis
Room A
SS8: Inside the Parliament (1)
(Chairs: Endre Dányi, Stefan Laube
& Thomas Scheffer)
-The Labs of the Parliament:
Making Use of Laboratory Studies
for Investigating Political Work,
Stefan Laube
-Discovering Materiality in
Political Issue-Formation, Jennifer
Brichzin
-On the trail of the Calculator
Boys, Emil Urhammer
-Inside a transnational Parliament
in Action, Alejandro Esguerra
Room B
SS2: Energy systems in transition –
strategies of incumbent actors (1)
(Chair: Gerhard Fuchs)
-Large incumbent organizations
engagement to field changing
innovations, Eeva-Lotta Apajalahti &
Armi Temmes
-Grid operators under pressure. Coping
strategies of incumbent energy companies, Maibaum, Kiehl & Weyer
-German incumbents’ strategy of
legitimating fossil power plants,Sandra
Wassermann
-The Leading German Energy Providers
and the Transformation of the German
Energy System, Gregor Kungl
Room C
SS4: Foodscapes Beyond the
Alternative/Conventional Food Networks
Binary (1)
(Chairs: Ulrich Ermann, Annalisa Colombino,
Renate Renner)
-The Social Life of Wheat, Samantha Foster
-From conventional to developmental food
networks, and back again? Fragile articulations
of global fresh produce chains in Northern
Tanzania, Johanna Herrigel
-Convention and alterity in terroir: a regional
perspective, Rory Hill
-Testing transitions: from promising practices to
living laboratories for more sustainable eating,
Laura Devaney & Anna Davies
Program of the STS Conference Graz 2014
Critical Issues in Science and Technology Studies
5-6 May 2014, Graz, Austria
Venue: Mozartgasse 3, 8010 Graz, Austria (http://goo.gl/maps/RF29A)
Monday, May 5
17:15 –
18:45
Afternoon
Sessions 3
Room 1
SS9: From STS to SSH: Translating STS
concepts for the study of social
sciences and humanities (SSH) (2)
(Matthias Duller & Rafael Schögler)
-Horizons of Social Sciences and
Humanities in European Research
Funding – a story of multiple
enactments, Katja Mayer
-Europeanizing Social Science - The case
of the European Social Survey, Kristoffer
Kropp
-Explanation of prejudice in
contemporary Hungarian sociology. A
case study, Judit Gárdos
-The Actor-Network of Television
Ratings, Matthias Wieser
19:00-19:45
Room A
Room B
SS8: Inside the Parliament (2)
SS2: Energy systems in transition – strategies of incumbent actors (2)
(Chairs: Endre Dányi, Stefan Laube
& Thomas Scheffer)
(Chair: Gerhard Fuchs)
-Technology, Law and Forms of
Government at the National
Assembly of Quebec: An
Anthropologist’s Perspective,
Samuel Shapiro
-Ghosts and ghostbusters:
phantom hunting in times of
participatory democracy, Guillem
Palà Nosàs
-Politics beyond words: The
curious relationship of the Holy
Crown of Hungary and the
Hungarian Parliament, Endre
Dányi
-Final discussion, chaired by
Thomas Scheffer
-Involving Incumbent Actors in Local Strategies for Energy System Transformations.
Examples from three Case Studies, Pia Laborgne
-The place of risk in the visions of shale gas governance in Poland, Aleksandra Lis & Piotr
Stankiewicz
-Fracking in Austria - and beyond, Alexander Lang
-Conflicts over the extension of the German electricity grid, Mario Neukirch
Keynote 2: Bodily agencies: Materialities, Technologies, and Meanings from a feminist STS perspective
Sigrid Schmitz (University of Vienna, Austria)
Chair: Birgit Hofstätter ; Room 1
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Program of the STS Conference Graz 2014
Critical Issues in Science and Technology Studies
5-6 May 2014, Graz, Austria
Venue: Mozartgasse 3, 8010 Graz, Austria (http://goo.gl/maps/RF29A)
Tuesday, May 6
09:00-9:45
10:0012:00
Morning
Sessions
Keynote 3: Strategic Public Procurement – Rationales and Realities
Angelika Tisch & Steffen Wirth (IFZ/STS, Graz, Austria )
Chair: Günter Getzinger; Room 1
09:45-10:00 Coffee Break
Room 1
CT: Gendered careers and disciplinary cultures in
science and technology (1)
Room A
SS4: Foodscapes Beyond the
Alternative/Conventional Food Networks Binary (2)
(Chairs: Susanne Kink, Jennfier Dahmen, Daniela Freitag)
(Chairs: Ulrich Ermann, Annalisa Colombino, Renate Renner)
-How much Gender Equality Policies fits into the
university? A case study at a German University, Susanne
Achterberg & Jennifer Dahmen
-Investigating gender-neutral and gender-sensitive
academic recruiting strategies, Larissa Müller et al.
-Work roles, career orientation and sucess of researchers in
new research organisations, Ana Fernández-Zubieta & Inés
Andújar Nagore
-Entanglements of gender cultures and disciplinary cultures
in physical sciences: Resonances and divergences, Erlemann
Martina
-Women and crystals in the laboratory: a look into
crystallography from the feminist critiques of science, Sara
D. M. Gutiérrez & Juan S. F. Frasse
-Gardeners, cooks, sailors and quantumists: how lines of
research in chemistry careers at the National University of
Colombia are generated, Diana Farías , Claudia Rubiano &
Alexandro Escudero
-Contrastive Perspective on Gendered Academic Cultures in
the Natural Sciences, Kink Susanne
-Rethinking or mainstreaming food networks? – the case
of the Aalborg foodscapes, Bent Egberg Mikkelsen
-Food Boxes - a sustainable means of responding to local
food demands and for nutritional needs locally?, Eifiona
Thomas Lane, Sian Pierce & Dave Beck
-From Cracker Jack to Fun-da-Middles: Children’s food
products and the packaging and marketing of play,
Charlene Elliott
-Meal Cultures: cooking and the kitchen as missing links,
Parto Teherani-Krönner
-From Cracker Jack to Fun-da-Middles: Children’s food
products and the packaging and marketing of play,
Charlene Elliott
Room B
SS1: Social justice and Diversity (1)
(Chairs: Thomas Berger & Birgit Hofstätter)
-Materiality and the Governing of Neighbourhoods:
commercial areas, communities and sustainability,
Yvonne Rydin
-Socio-technological job search and recruitment in
a segregated labour market: Inclusion, exclusion
and opportunities, Andreas Schadauer & Benedikt
Springer
-Human Rights for All in the Globalization Project
@ New Media Spaces? Interfacing Social Justice
and Larger Freedom in the Information Age, OnKwok Lai
-Locating disease and inequity: Vaccines, cancer
and politics of prevention in Colombia, Oscar J. M.
Castañeda
-The Construction of Race in Pharmacogenomics: A
Study of the Researchers’ Perspective in the United
Kingdom, Gayathri Haridas
- Systematic inequalities in medically assisted
reproduction in Hungary – the patients’
perspective, Zsófia Bauer
12:00-14:00 Lunch Break, hosted by the Mayor of Graz, Mag. Siegfried Nagl
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Program of the STS Conference Graz 2014
Critical Issues in Science and Technology Studies
5-6 May 2014, Graz, Austria
Venue: Mozartgasse 3, 8010 Graz, Austria (http://goo.gl/maps/RF29A)
Tuesday, May 6
Room 1
14:00-15:30
Afternoon
Sessions 1
Room A
Room B
SS6: Bodies – Technologies – Gender
CT: Towards Low-Carbon Energy Systems (1)
(Chair: Lisa Scheer)
(Chair: Daniel Barben)
SS2: Social justice and Diversity (2)
(Chairs: Thomas Berger & Birgit Hofstätter)
-Technological transformation, gender and labouring
bodies: Exploring socio-technical interactions in System
of Rice Intensification (SRI) taking cases from Odisha,
India, Sabarmatee
-Bodies in Time: assisted reproduction and the attempt
at a timely analysis,Lisa Lehner
-Online harassment and online solidarity: the role of
technology in a culture of misogyny, AnitaThaler
-Video remix and political participation: A concept for
critical media education, Birgit Hofstätter
-Thinking, Planning and Making Futures: Towards a
Better Understanding of Energy Scenarios in
Interdisciplinary Research Settings, Bärbel Keysselitz
-Dynamics in the Governance of Electricity Regimes,
Present and Future, Stefan T. Wagner & Peter
Biegelbauer
-Barriers, Success Factors and Policy Measures for the
Decarbonisation of Neighbourhoods across Europe,
Markus Winkelmann, Andrea Immendörfer & Volker
Stelzer
-The transition to distributed electricity generation:
An agent-based model of interdependent household
investment decisions, Roman Seidl et al.
-Responsibility and Governance of Climate
Engineering, Nils Matzner
-How is energy implicated in a minimally decent life?
Socio-technical change and social justice, Neil Simcock,
Rosie Day & Gordon Walker
-Rural health electrification –organizational and socio
economic implementation supported by recurring
monitoring, Tania Berger
-Policy instruments to combat energy poverty:
Accuracy of governmental regulations and acceptance
by affected households, Christoph Manuel Steiner &
Sebastian Seebauer
-Reduction of Energy Poverty by Building Renovation
under Tennants’ Participation (RedEn!), Andrea Höltl et
al.
-Energy poverty as a socio-technological configuration,
Thomas Berger
15:30-16:00 Coffee Break
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Program of the STS Conference Graz 2014
Critical Issues in Science and Technology Studies
5-6 May 2014, Graz, Austria
Venue: Mozartgasse 3, 8010 Graz, Austria (http://goo.gl/maps/RF29A)
Tuesday, May 6
Room 1
16:00-17:45
Afternoon
Sessions 2
SS3: Energy Consumption in Organizational Settings
(Chairs: Magdalena Wicher & Wibke Tritthart)
-A model describing user satisfaction in green office buildings,
Magdalena Wicher
-Knowledge transfer in design and energy operation of
building projects. Achieving sociotechnical transitions towards
Zero Emission Buildings through learning, Helen Gansmo
-Employees’ energy cooperatives: hybrid organizational
structures for greening companies from within, Judith Rognli
-Beyond switching-off the lights: A conceptual model for
explaining employees’ green extra-role behaviors in
companies, Anja Gräf
-Using agent-based modelling for indoor thermal comfort
assessment, Wibke Tritthart
18:00-18:45
18:45
19:15
(back in Graz
at midnight)
Room A
CT: Towards Low-Carbon Energy
Systems (2)
Room B
CT: Sustainable Food Systems
(Chair: Sandra Karner)
(Chair: Jürgen Suschek-Berger)
-Breaking the resource curse: Case of
Brunei Darussalam, Jade Yee LIM
-Political framing of renewable
energy in Portugal, Ana Delicado
-The Transferability of Sustainable
Design Concepts, the Case of Masdar,
Ahlam Ammar Sharif
-The hare & the tortoise: Who will prevail? Knowledge, power &
rationality in the contested transition to sustainable food
cultivation & consumption, Elisabeth Bongert & Stephen Albrecht
-Organic transition in the Danish jail system, Mette Weinreich
Hansen & Niels Heine Kristensen
-Between ‘urban gardening’ and villages. Warsaw suburb
gardens, Katarzyna Ewa Król
-Ethical Consumption as a Reflexive Project: Negotiation of
Consumer Identities through Ethical Labelling, Yana Manyukhina
-Coffee, Certification Schemes and the reshaping of
Sustainability, Derly Sánchez Vargas
-Democratising the Governance of Food Systems, Sandra Karner
Keynote 4: Rethinking energy efficiency in the built environment as dynamic relation between moving targets
Thomas Berker (NTNU Trondheim, Norway)
Chair: Magdalena Wicher; Room 1
Closing Remarks: Günter Getzinger (Managing Director of the IAS-STS; Room 1)
Departure to social event. Bustrip to a traditional Styrian tavern; Reception by the Governor of Styria, Mag. Franz Voves
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