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Session 1: Public Knowledge, Contested Norms<\/strong> <\/h2>\n\n\n\n

S\u00f8ren Riis <\/strong>with Kasper Schi\u00f8lin (Roskilde University)
<\/strong>Researchers in Action: How Scientists Become Who They Are<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Arthur Daemmrich <\/strong>(Arizona State University)
The Normative Restructuring of Science: Gold Standard or Gilt Science?<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Justin Wong <\/strong>(Harvard STS)
Model Technician or (Un)Witting Spy: Sovereignty and Loyalty in Science, Law, and Race<\/em><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dan Affsprung<\/strong> (Arizona State University)
<\/strong>Prophets and their Problems: Threats to Accountability in AI Regulation Discourse<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Session 2: Models In and Of Governance<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Teresa Guadalupe de Le\u00f3n Escobedo<\/strong> (Universidad Nacional Aut\u00f3noma de M\u00e9xico, UNAM)
Performing new scales of climate governance through national scenarios<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jittip Mongkolnchaiarunya <\/strong>(George Washington University)
Epistemic Exclusion in Climate Science: Why We Grow the Wrong Trees in the Wrong Places<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Irina Kalinka<\/strong> (Columbia University)
From \u2018Mere\u2019 Neutral Facilitators to \u2018Socially-Responsible\u2019 Governing Powers? The Rise of Tech-Corporate Governmentality<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lisa Claussmann<\/strong> with Brice Laurent (Centre de Sociologie de l\u2019Innovation, Mines Paris-PSL)
The trouble with purity: making carbon matter<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Session 3: Expertise, Progress and the Public Good<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Jeroen Oomen<\/strong> (Utrecht University)
Captured Futures: Rethinking the Drama of Environmental Politics<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Henry Austin<\/strong> (Harvard STS)
Subjects of Progress: Innovation and Configuring the Public Good<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lou Lennad<\/strong> (Harvard STS)
Behavioral science for public policy in the Anglo-American imaginary<\/em><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sebastian Pfotenhauer<\/strong> with Brice Laurent (Technical University of Munich)
States of Exceptions: Innovation experiments, public reason, and the re-making of the common good<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Session 4: Technological Futures and the Politics of Prediction<\/strong><\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

T.J. Foley<\/strong> 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<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Alberto Aparicio<\/strong> (University of Texas Medical Branch)
Regulatory Testbeds for Future Making: Longevity, Governance, and the New Frontier of Innovation<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Alexander Wentland<\/strong> (Technical University of Munich)
Between Microchips and Memory: Spectral Imaginaries and Lost Futures in Europe\u2019s Largest Microchip Hub<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Conor McGlynn<\/strong> (Harvard STS)
The Problem of the Future in AI Safety<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Session 5: Developmentalism Revisited – Views from the South<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Seongkyung Lee<\/strong> (University of Southern California)
Developmentalism, Technocracy, and Democracy in the Age of AI: South Korea’s Dilemma<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Aishani Aatresh<\/strong> (University of Oxford)
By and For the People? Comparing Regional Vaccine Production in India and Senegal<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Pariroo Rattan<\/strong> (Harvard STS)
Problematizing Privacy and Surveillance from the Streets of Delhi<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Anna M. Agathangelou<\/strong> (York University)
Digital Capitalism, Development and Democracy and the Global South<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Session 6: Constitutionalism Beyond Borders: Technopolitics in a Global World<\/strong> <\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Hadrien Macq<\/strong> (SPIRAL – University of Li\u00e8ge)
Towards a constitutional approach to digital urban governance: Urban Digital Twins and the mutual constitution of problems, publics, and institutions<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Leyatt Betre<\/strong> (Princeton University)
A Tale of Two Treaties: International Law and the Technopolitics of Nuclear War Effects Research <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Margo Boenig-Liptsin<\/strong> (ETH Z\u00fcrich)
\u201cI don’t want to live in a society that does these sorts of things\u201d: Digital constitutionalism seen through the life of Edward Snowden<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kaushik Sunder Rajan<\/strong> (University of Chicago)
Ethical Plateaus of Remedy and Redistribution: Injury, Law and Postapartheid Bioconstitutionalism<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Session 7: The Political Work of Representation<\/strong><\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Christopher Lawrence<\/strong> <\/em>(Georgetown University) 
Muscle Memories of Revelation: Extending the Imaginative Exercise<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Makoto Takahashi<\/strong> <\/em>(Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)
Curating \u201cfrom an STS perspective\u201d: Representing the nuclear as co-creator, counter-expert, and collider<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Rose Sebastian<\/strong> (Bharata Mata College)
Narrativizing the nation through science and technology: Instances from Indian science museums<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ben Hurlbut<\/strong> (Arizona State University)
The same river: how biotechnology represents progress <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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