Below are video recordings of presentations and discussion sessions held at the 18th Annual SDN Meeting, which took place in Cambridge, MA in August 28-31, 2019.
Session 1: Futures of Promise, Futures of Despair
- Pierre-Benoit Joly and Claire Renard (LISIS)
- The past futures of techno-scientific promises
- Jeroen Oomen (University Utrecht)
- Techniques of Futuring, and the Imagining of Desirable Futures
- Geneva Smith (Harvard STS & University of New Mexico)
- The Law of the Land: Charting Exclusion Zones at the Limits of Argentina’s Soybean Futures
- Gabriel Dorthe (Université Catholique de Lille, Ethics EA 7446)
- Too Big to Fit: The Coproduction of Despair
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Session 2: Global Economies in Transition
- Chris Jones (Arizona State University)
- Growth Theory Contested: Economics and Epistemology Before Limits to Growth
- Nina Frahm (TU-Munich) and Tess Doezema (Arizona State University)
- Harmonizing Democracy: RRI and The New Governance of Global Markets
- Pierre Delvenne (University of Liege) and Erik Aarden (University of Vienna)
- Frictions in the Global Bioeconomy: Tracing Sociotechnical Connections in Agriculture and Biomedicine in Argentina and Singapore
- Stefan Schäfer (IASS-Potsdam) and Sheila Jasanoff (Harvard STS)
- Model, Molecule and Market: Global Public Reason in the Climate Regime
Session 3: New Climates of Citizenship
- Warren Pearce and James Wilsdon (University of Sheffield)
- Splintered Consensus: Climate change and the Making and Breaking of Scientific Authority at the Royal Society
- Jens Marquardt (Stockholm University)
- An Inconvenient Youth? How School Protests Challenge Established Climate Politics
- Anna Bridel (London School of Economics)
- Contesting Cyclones and Citizenship: The Politics of Risk Expertise Following Cyclone Ockhi in Kerala, India
- Myanna Lahsen (Wageningen University)
- Yellow Vests and Global Change Science: Paradoxical Balancing Acts and Delicate Questions
Roundtable: Teaching the Ethics of Technology
Margo Boenig-Liptsin (UC Berkeley), Nina Frahm / Sebastian Pfotenhauer (TU Munich), Ben Hurlbut (Arizona State University), Marc Saner (University of Ottawa), Melanie Smallman (University College London)
Session 4: Cross-Border Politics
- Lara Rodriguez (The George Washington University)
- The Emerging Knowledge and Regulatory Landscape of Induced Seismicity
- Samantha Fried (Tufts University)
- Landsat in Contexts: Deconstructing and Reconstructing the Data-to-Action Paradigm in Earth Remote Sensing
- Alessandro Allegra (University College London)
- Division of Expert Advisory Labour in Biotech Governance: Regulating Cloned Food in the European Union
- Christiane Gerblinger (Australian National University)
- The Language of the Rebuffed: A Critical Appraisal of how Policy Officials Communicate Expertise
SDN Manifesto
Memorial for Samuel Taylor-Alexander
Session 5: Changing Imaginaries of Self and Belonging
- Sujatha Raman (Australian National University), Roda Madziva (University of Nottingham), and Joan Leach (Australian National University)
- The Uses of Uncertainty: Communicating Expert Evidence of Radiological Age Assessment at the Border in the UK and Australia
- Paul Trauttmansdorff (University of Vienna)
- Imaginaries of Digital Border (In)security: The EU-LISA Agency and the Sociotechnical Assemblage of Border Surveillance
- Maximilian Mayer (University of Nottingham Ningbo China)
- The Convergence of Authoritarian Digitalization and the Post-Autonomous Individual
- Matthew Sample (McGill University; Institut de recherches cliniques de Montreal)
- Re-Imagining Science, Re-Defining the Person: Co-Productionist Inquiry as Philosophy by Other Means
Session 6: Body Counts and Uncounted Bodies
- Ingrid Metzler (University of Vienna)
- “What This is Really All About”: Prenatal Testing and Democracy in Contemporary Germany
- Abhinav Tyagi (IIT-Bombay)
- Evolution of Biotechnology in India: (Re) emergent Form of Bio-politics
- Samantha Vilkins (Australian National University)
- Forging Stable Numbers from Political Controversy: The Case of the 2017 Australia Marriage Equality Plebiscite
- Madisson Whitman (Purdue University)
- Ordering Student Bodies: Data Clustering and Institutional Projects of Identity
- Benjamin Wills (Hastings Center)
- Telepharmacies, Trust, and Biosociality in the Golden Age of DTC
Yaron Ezrahi: The Necessary Fictions of Science and Democracy
Sheila Jasanoff (Harvard Kennedy School), Ben Hurlbut (Arizona State University), Ingrid
Metzler (University of Vienna), Clark Miller (Arizona State University)
Session 7: Innovation and the Politics of Scale
- Pouya Sepehr and Ulrike Felt (University of Vienna)
- Reconfiguring ‘the Urban: Sociotechnical Imaginaries in the Making of “Smart Vienna”
- Monamie Haines and Sharlissa Moore (Nanyang Technical University)
- Energy Democracy as a Sociotechnical Proto-Imaginary and Its Implications for International Energy Development
- Volkan Sayman, Jan-Peter Voss, and Jannik Stritt (TU Berlin)
- Infrastructuring Knowledge Spaces of Politics: Designing Networks, Platforms, and Observatories for Translocal “Democratic Innovation”
- Sebastian Pfotenhauer (TU Munich), Brice Laurent (Mines ParisTech), Kyriaki Papageorgiou (ESADE) and Jack Stilgoe (UCL)
- Theorizing Scale in Innovation