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Session 1: Public Knowledge, Contested Norms
Søren Riis with Kasper Schiølin (Roskilde University)
Researchers in Action: How Scientists Become Who They Are
Arthur Daemmrich (Arizona State University)
The Normative Restructuring of Science: Gold Standard or Gilt Science?
Justin Wong (Harvard STS)
Model Technician or (Un)Witting Spy: Sovereignty and Loyalty in Science, Law, and Race
Dan Affsprung (Arizona State University)
Prophets and their Problems: Threats to Accountability in AI Regulation Discourse
Session 2: Models In and Of Governance
Teresa Guadalupe de León Escobedo (Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, UNAM)
Performing new scales of climate governance through national scenarios
Jittip Mongkolnchaiarunya (George Washington University)
Epistemic Exclusion in Climate Science: Why We Grow the Wrong Trees in the Wrong Places
Irina Kalinka (Columbia University)
From ‘Mere’ Neutral Facilitators to ‘Socially-Responsible’ Governing Powers? The Rise of Tech-Corporate Governmentality
Lisa Claussmann with Brice Laurent (Centre de Sociologie de l’Innovation, Mines Paris-PSL)
The trouble with purity: making carbon matter
Session 3: Expertise, Progress and the Public Good
Jeroen Oomen (Utrecht University)
Captured Futures: Rethinking the Drama of Environmental Politics
Henry Austin (Harvard STS)
Subjects of Progress: Innovation and Configuring the Public Good
Lou Lennad (Harvard STS)
Behavioral science for public policy in the Anglo-American imaginary
Sebastian Pfotenhauer with Brice Laurent (Technical University of Munich)
States of Exceptions: Innovation experiments, public reason, and the re-making of the common good
Session 4: Technological Futures and the Politics of Prediction
T.J. Foley with Sascha Meinrath (McQuillan Institute for Science, Technology and the Human Future)
Predicting Power: Antitrust Law and the Constitutional Right to a Competitive Economic Order
Alberto Aparicio (University of Texas Medical Branch)
Regulatory Testbeds for Future Making: Longevity, Governance, and the New Frontier of Innovation
Alexander Wentland (Technical University of Munich)
Between Microchips and Memory: Spectral Imaginaries and Lost Futures in Europe’s Largest Microchip Hub
Conor McGlynn (Harvard STS)
The Problem of the Future in AI Safety
Session 5: Developmentalism Revisited – Views from the South
Seongkyung Lee (University of Southern California)
Developmentalism, Technocracy, and Democracy in the Age of AI: South Korea’s Dilemma
Aishani Aatresh (University of Oxford)
By and For the People? Comparing Regional Vaccine Production in India and Senegal
Pariroo Rattan (Harvard STS)
Problematizing Privacy and Surveillance from the Streets of Delhi
Anna M. Agathangelou (York University)
Digital Capitalism, Development and Democracy and the Global South
Session 6: Constitutionalism Beyond Borders: Technopolitics in a Global World
Hadrien Macq (SPIRAL – University of Liège)
Towards a constitutional approach to digital urban governance: Urban Digital Twins and the mutual constitution of problems, publics, and institutions
Leyatt Betre (Princeton University)
A Tale of Two Treaties: International Law and the Technopolitics of Nuclear War Effects Research
Margo Boenig-Liptsin (ETH Zürich)
“I don’t want to live in a society that does these sorts of things”: Digital constitutionalism seen through the life of Edward Snowden
Kaushik Sunder Rajan (University of Chicago)
Ethical Plateaus of Remedy and Redistribution: Injury, Law and Postapartheid Bioconstitutionalism
Session 7: The Political Work of Representation
Christopher Lawrence (Georgetown University)
Muscle Memories of Revelation: Extending the Imaginative Exercise
Makoto Takahashi (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)
Curating “from an STS perspective”: Representing the nuclear as co-creator, counter-expert, and collider
Rose Sebastian (Bharata Mata College)
Narrativizing the nation through science and technology: Instances from Indian science museums
Ben Hurlbut (Arizona State University)
The same river: how biotechnology represents progress