SCIENCE & DEMOCRACY 13th Annual Network Meeting Aula, Altes AKH, University of Vienna Spitalgasse 2-‐4, Hof 1, 1090 Vienna
June 30 – July 2, 2014
Conference Schedule
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9:30 Welcome and Opening Ulrike Felt (University of Vienna), Sheila Jasanoff (Harvard University)
10:15 – 10:30 Short Coffee break 10:30 – 12:30 Bioconstitutional Moments: Biomedicine and National Sovereignty
Chair: Steven Hilgartner (Cornell University) • Aarden, Erik (Harvard University/Maastricht University): Death, Big Data and the
Legibility and Management of a Population in India’s Million Death Study • Schuh, Daniela (University of Vienna): On the boundaries of dignity: Ontological
politics at the beginning of human life • Conley, Shannon N. (Arizona State University): Socio-‐technical Contracts and the
Governance of Assisted Reproductive Technologies in the United Kingdom • Pichelstorfer, Anna (University of Vienna): Austrian Reproduction: A (hi)story of
legal disputes over assisted reproductive technologies 12:30 – 14:15
Lunch break & discussion What social science for what democracy? Helga Nowotny (Chair, ERA Council Forum Austria) & Sheila Jasanoff (Harvard University)
14:15 – 15:45 Shifting Matters of Concern Chair: Brian Wynne (Lancaster University) • Levidow, Les (Open University): Agroecological practices in Europe: Conforming
or transforming the dominant agro-‐food regime? • Evans, Sam Weiss (University of California, Berkeley) & Frow, Emma (University
of Edinburgh): Making Trouble Practically Absent in Synthetic Biology • Curnutte, Margaret (Baylor College of Medicine): The Next Generation
Sequencing Industry: A Critique of the Policy-‐Lag Narrative 15:45 – 16:15 Coffee break 16:15 – 18:15 Biomedical Citizenship
Chair: Shobita Partharasarthy (University of Michigan) • Kahn, Jonathan (Hamline University): Privatizing Biomedical Citizenship • Saito, Hiro (University of Hawaii at Manoa): Experts and Citizens: Rethinking
Democracy in Post-‐Fukushima Japan • Hagendijk, Rob (University of Amsterdam): Rare diseases, orphan drugs and the
making of Europe: An Exercise in Coproduction. • Taussig, Karen Sue (University of Minnesota): Citizenship, Subjectivity, and the
Quest for a Molecular Medical Clinic
18:45 Welcome drink at the Department of Science and Technology Studies
Universitätsstrasse 7/Stiege (staircase) II/6th floor (see map 1)
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9:30 – 11:00 Energy Politics and Publics Chair: Daniel Barben (Alpen-‐Adria Universität) • Mohr, Alison (University of Nottingham): Making energy research more
responsive? Public dialogue as experiment • Matthews, Andrew S. (University of California, Santa Cruz): Modeling Forests
and Doing Biomass Energy Politics in Italy • Bhadra, Monamie (Arizona State University): Strategizing democracy from India's
nuclear energy imbroglio 11:00 – 11:30 Coffee break 11:30 – 13:00 Mediated Engagements: Collectives and Framings
Chair: Clark Miller (Arizona State University) • Felder, Kay (University of Vienna): Temporal sense-‐making, citizenship and “the
obesity phenomenon” • Bovet, Alain (Telecom Paristech), Reliue, Marc (Telecom Paristech) & Sormani,
Philippe (University of Vienna): “Come and play with the future of your city”. A serious game installation on participatory urban planning
• Mirmalek, Zara (Harvard University): “Telescience”: Telecommunication, Science and the Public
13:00 – 14:30 Lunch break 14:30 – 16:00 Seeing, Sensing, Sense-‐Making
Chair: Silke Beck (Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research) • Miller, Georgia (University of New South Wales): Visibility, ontological politics
and resistance: Controversy and nano-‐sunscreens • Born, Dorothea (University of Vienna): Imag(in)ing Polar Bears. The making of an
Icon for Climate Change Communication in Popular Science Magazines • Mahony, Martin (King’s College London): Climate change and the geographies of
objectivity: the case of the IPCC’s ‘burning embers’ diagram 16:00 – 16:30 Coffee break 16:30 – 18:00 Institutions and Discourses of Governance
Chair: David Winickoff (University of California, Berkeley) • Weichselbraun, Anna (University of Chicago): Inspections and verification: the
discursive production of technical authority at the International Atomic Energy Agency
• Pearce, Warren (University of Nottingham): Meaning reattached? Co-‐production of knowledge at the IPCC press conference.
• Allen, Barbara (Virginia Tech-‐National Capital Region): The Institutional Shaping of Environmental Ignorance in France and the US
19:00 Conference dinner Brandauer im Gerngross
Mariahilfer Strasse 42-‐48, 1070 Vienna (see map 2)
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9:30 – 11:30 Participation as a Social Practice Chair: Pierre-‐Benoît Joly (INRA SenS) • Ashmore, Malcolm (Loughborough University), Olga Restrepo Forero
(Universidad Nacional de Colombia): The document’s passage through the notary: Trust, formality and credibility in Colombia
• Pitts, Elisabeth A. (North Carolina State University): DIY, Deliberation and Democracy
• Pallett, Helen (University of East Anglia): Institutional experiments for democracy and learning: the case of Sciencewise, UK
• Laurent, Brice (Mines ParisTech), Voß, Jan-‐Peter (Technische Universität Berlin), Chilvers, Jason (University of East Anglia), Soneryd, Linda (University of Gothenburg), Felt, Ulrike (University of Vienna): Technologies of participation – a new analytics of political ordering
11:30 – 12:00 Coffee break 12:00 – 13:00
Wrap up; closing discussion
Map 1: Welcome drink at the Department of Science and Technology Studies
NIG – Neues Institutsgebäude Universitätsstrasse 7/Stiege (staircase) II/6th floor 1010 Vienna
We kindly welcome you after Monday’s final session to join us for a welcome drink at the STS Department. After this, we will stroll to the "Servitenwirt" for an informal get-‐together in the restaurant’s outdoor dining area and hope to enjoy your company!
Map 2: Conference Dinner, July 1, 2014, 19:00 Brandauer im Gerngroß Mariahilferstraße 42-‐48, 5th floor 1070 Vienna either with public transportation or by foot (about 25 minutes walk from the conference venue)
Option 1: Bus 13A departs from Skodagasse to Hauptbahnhof. Get off at Neubaugasse/Mariahilfer Str. Tickets are available on the bus (€ 2,20). Option 2: Take subway U2 from Schottentor to Volkstheater. Change to U3 and get off at Neubaugasse.