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STS Austria Early Career Awardees 2023
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STS Austria Conference 2023: Digging Where We Stand: Activism, Community and the Politics of STS
The STS Austria Conference took place from 27 – 29 November 2023 at the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Dr. Ignaz Seipel-Platz 2, 1010 Vienna.
Conference Programme
The conference started on Monday, November 27, 2023, at 1:00 p.m. and ended on Wednesday, November 29, 2023, at 5:30 p.m.
Public Keynote: Threshold Infrastructures: Pedagogies of Entangled Topographies
Monday, 27 November, 2023
17:30-19:00 Sitzungssaal (open to the public)
Pelin Tan, Batman University
Chair: Monika Halkort
Structural violence and inter-colonial memory are deeply integrated with the landscapes and topographies of local communities where fragments of layered geontologies operate. Continue reading
Public Keynote: Impossible ‘Choices’ — Activism in the Academy
Tuesday, 28 November, 2023
18:00-19:30 SE1 (open to the public)
Katta Spiel, TU Wien
Chair: Juliane Jarke
Sign Language Translator: Antonia Maier, Anja Pfneisel
The shaping of our socio-technical environment is predominantly the privilege of a comparatively homogeneous group of people, mainly white, mainly western, mainly within an age range of 20-40 years old, mainly cis-male; with not just amusing, annoying or irritating, but also deadly consequences for anyone else. Continue reading
Keynote: Doing Engaged Research on Data and Algorithms: politics, pitfalls, open questions
Tuesday, 28 November, 2023
09:30-10:30 Sitzungssaal
Stefania Milan, University of Amsterdam
Chair: Katja Mayer
We know by now that the advance of the datafied society alters and even erodes citizen agency. Studying grassroots practices of engagement with data and algorithms as well as communities at the margins calls for an approach to research in the sociotechnical that takes sides. Continue reading
The Politics of Open Infrastructures
Session 2a
Tuesday, 28 November, 2023
11:00-12:30 Sitzungssaal
In her 1999 STS ethnographic studies, Susan Leigh Star insightfully argued that infrastructures are not only relational and ecological but also material constructs made by humans, revealing their complexity only when they fail. Continue reading
Call for the STS Austria Early Career Award 2023
To support the research and visibility of early career researchers in Science and Technology Studies, STS Austria will, for the second time, award a prize for the best publications by young
researchers in 2023. The award addresses published academic writings by early career
researchers demonstrating the relevance, productivity, and critical potential of Science and Technology Studies research. In particular, we are searching for publications that excel in one or several of the following categories: societal relevance, quality of writing, and theoretical or methodological innovativeness.