These are videos of presentations and discussion sessions held at the 17th Annual SDN Meeting in Munich, June 27-30, 2018.
Welcome (Sheila Jasanoff and Sebastian Pfotenhauer)
Session 1: Global Imaginations
Chair: Clark Miller (Arizona State University)
Martin Mahony (University of East Anglia) ‘The World, the Air and the Future’: Socio-technical Imaginaries and the Imperial Discovery of the Atmosphere
Jeroen Oomen (LMU/Deutsches Museum) Diverging Imaginations of Climate Engineering: How Different Scientific Communities Construct Climate Engineering Promises
Eleanor Hadley Kershaw (University of Nottingham) Co-Producing Future Earth: Polysemy and Reflexivity in Sustainability Science Governance
Allison Loconto, Eve Fouilleux, Guillaume Olivier, Stephane Bellon (Harvard STS/INRA) Definitions, Interests and Institutions: Exploring the Circulation of ‘Agroecology’ Knowledge in FAO’s Global Dialogue
Session 2: Energy Imaginaries — Past and Future
Chair: Alexander Wentland (TU Munich, MCTS)
Hilton Simmet (Yale University) “Power to Empower”: Seeing the Rural Through American Development
Jeremias Herberg, Dorota Stasiak, Giulia Molinengo (IASS Potsdam) Co-Creation Beyond Integration? Premises and Promises of Institutional Interstices in the German Coal-Phase Out
Stefan Aykut (Hamburg University) Reassembling Energy Policy: Models, Forecasts, and Policy Change in Germany and France
Jason Chilvers, Helen Pallett and Tom Hargreaves (University of East Anglia) Ecologies of Participation in the UK Energy System-as-Constitution
Session 3: Science, Policy and Responsible Innovation
Chair: Sebastian Pfotenhauer (TU Munich, MCTS)
Javiera Barandiaran (UCSB) Science and Environment in Chile: The Politics of Expert Advice in a Neoliberal Democracy
Franziska Engels, Sebastian Pfotenhauer (MCTS) Testing the Future? Interrogating “Test Beds” and “Living Labs” as an Emerging Innovation Paradigm
Pierre-Benoit Joly (LISIS, INRA) Re-imagining Innovation
Thomas Völker, Zora Kovacic, Roger Strand (Joint Research Centre, European Commission) Indicator Development as a Site of Collective Imagination? The Case of the EC Policies on the‘Circular Economy’
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Session 4: Re-imagining Sustainability
Chair: Silke Beck (Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research – UFZ Leipzig)
Mattijs Van Maasakkers (Ohio State University) Socio-Ecological Imaginaries: What Does “Green” Mean?
Alexander Wentland (TU Munich, MCTS) Realigning Visions of Sustainability: Exploring Agency, Multiplicity, and Scale in Sociotechnical Imaginaries of Sustainability
Les Levidow (Open University) and Sujatha Raman (Nottingham) Sociotechnical Imaginaries of Waste as a Resource: UK’s Techno-market Fixes as Conflicting Visions
Silke Beck (Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research – UFZ Leipzig) and Martin Mahony (University of East Anglia) The Politics of Anticipation: The IPCC and the Negative Emissions Technologies Experience
Day 3: Friday, June 29 — Munich School of Philosophy (Hochschule für Philosophie), Kaulbachstraße 31a, 80539 München
Session 5: Making Things (In)visible
Chair: Brian Wynne (Lancaster University)
Moa Karolina Carlsson (MIT) How to Conceal a 395-acre Oil Handling Terminal
Christopher Lawrence (Harvard STS) Heralds of Global Transparency: Remote Sensing, Nuclear Fuel-cycle Facilities, and the Modularity of Imagination
Dorothea Born (University of Vienna) Imaging and Imagining Nature in Climate Change Communication – A Comparison between the Two Popular Science Magazines GEO and National Geographic
Xaq Frohlich (Auburn University) The Rise (and Fall) of the Food-Drug Line: Classification, Gatekeepers, and Spatial Mediation in Food and Health Market)
Session 6: Co-producing Regulatory Objects
Chair: Ben Hurlbut (Arizona State University)
Carlos Cuevas Garcia (MCTS) Situating Three-dimensional Cell Microenvironments in their Institutional and Regulatory Macroenvironment: The Challenge of Regulating Regulatory Objects
Gili Vidan (Harvard) Checks and Balances: Privacy, Payments, and the Public Interest in the Development of 1970s US Electronic Funds Transfer Systems
Eva Krick (University of Oslo) How to Bridge the Epistemic-Democratic Divide: Institutional Innovations of Coupling Experts, Civil Society and the Government During Policy Development
Margarita Boenig-Liptsin (Harvard STS/UC Berkeley) Co-productionist Data Ethics
Session 7: Biopolitics and Inequality
Chair: Steve Hilgartner (Cornell University)
Samuel Taylor-Alexander (Monash University)
Bureaucratic Disorders: Biomedical Nationalism, Pharmaceutical Citizenship and Access to Drugs for Rare Diseases in the United Kingdom
Daniela Schuh (University of Vienna) Cross-border Surrogacy and Public Policies: Challenges to Legal Descent and the Constitutional Protection of the Family in Germany and France.
Tito Carvalho (UCSD/Harvard STS) From Race to Racism: Theodosius Dobzhansky and Richard Lewontin on the Problem of Race and the Ethos of Science
Kaushik Sunder Rajan (University of Chicago) The Breather as Patient and Plaintiff: Biopolitics, Labor and the Judicialization of Tuberculosis
Policy Roundtable: “Building Norms and Institutions Responsibly: Engaging STS in Policy Settings”
David Winickoff (OECD and LISIS), Nina Frahm (MCTS, TU Munich) OECD Neurotech & Responsible Innovation
Iris Eisenberger (BOKU Wien), Brice Laurent (Mines-Paritech), Sabine Maasen (TU Munich), Uli Meyer (TU Munich) Ruth Müller (TU Munich), Kyriaki Papageorgiou (ESADE), Sebastian Pfotenhauer (TU Munich), Melanie Smallman (UCL), Jack Stilgoe (UCL)
SCALINGS: A policy roadmap for scaling up co-creation in Europe?
Sheila Jasanoff (Harvard), Ben Hurlbut (ASU), Krishanu Saha (U Wisconsin) A global observatory for gene editing
Jim Dratwa (European Commission and Woodrow Wilson Center) ChangeS: ‘Changing the system from within’
Day 4: Saturday, June 30th- Munich School of Philosophy (Hochschule für Philosophie), Kaulbachstraße 31a, 80539 München
Session 8: Citizenship and Representation
Chair: David Winickoff (OECD and LISIS)
Steven Druker (Alliance for Bio-Integrity) How Eminent Scientists and Scientific Institutions Have Been Misrepresenting the Facts About GMOs: A Major but Under Recognized Threat to the Integrity of Science
Shobita Parthasarathy (Michigan) The Politics of the Sanitary Pad as a Pro-Poor Technology: Understanding the Implications for Girls, Women, and Development Governance
Samantha Vanderslott (University of Oxford) Mainstream Counter-activism: Pro-vaccine Activists in Australia and the United States
John Carson (Michigan) The Unsound of Mind and the Ambiguities of Citizenship
Session 9: Participatory Models
Chair: Jack Stilgoe (University College London)
Laurie Waller (MCTS) ‘Re-visioning’ Participation: Devices of the Public in Controlled Environment Innovation
Stefan Schäfer, Robert D. J. Smith, Michael J. Bernstein (Harvard STS Program and Institute for Advanced Sustainability Studies) Institutionalizing Intervention: STS in the Age of Impact
Pierre Delvenne, Hadrien Macq, Céline Parotte (University of Liege) Participation as a Lab and a Democratic Experiment
Jan-Peter Voß, Sina Birkholz, Volkan Sayman (TU-Berlin) Doing Mini-Publics: Innovating Democracy, Circulating Models, Technologizing Politics?