Venue: Alpen‐Adria‐Universität Klagenfurt Date: 17-19 September 2018 The dynamics and interrelationships between innovation and social change are one of the key topics in STS (Science, Technology & Society Studies), as well as a key issue in the exploration of...
Venue: University of Bonn Date: 10-14 September 2018 Recent years have pointed to ever-growing interdependencies between science and politics. The mutual entanglement of both spheres manifests on many levels: In the face of complex societal challenges, ranging from...
Venue: University of Padova Date: 14-16 June 2018 The focal theme of this 7th STS Italia Conference is Technoscience from Below. By focusing on Technoscience from Below, the conference will be an opportunity to explore alternative co-productive paths of science,...
Venue: Copenhagen, Denmark Date: 23 November, 2017 Politics has been conceptualized in incredibly broad terms in STS (Brown 2015). At the same time, the more specific question of democratic politics has often been left under-explored, allowing notions such as public...
Venue: Technical University of Munich Study Center Raitenhaslach Dates: 6 – 8 July, 2017 In recent years, there has been renewed interest in political epistemology, the study of the epistemic norms and conditions under which political procedures operate. In the field...
Venue: Vienna, Austria Dates: 7 – 9 June, 2017 In the 2017 conference we want to pay special attention to changing practices and patterns of science, technology development and innovation (STI). Not least because of the influence of ICT-enabled novel methods, new ways...