Keynotes & Invited Talks (selection)

Keynote by Ulrike Felt at the European University Association Conference 2018 Conference: “Transforming European universities. Towards new understandings and practices of engagement and responsibility”, University of Zurich, 05.04.2018

Introduction and moderation of breakout session at the European University Association Conference 2018 Conference: Scientific integrity and ethics in European Universities, University of Zurich, 06.04.2018

Keynote by Ulrike Felt International Symposium “Innovation and the Role of the Public Sector”: Developing and implementing “Responsible research and innovation” in Europe, National Diet Library, Tokyo, 1.03. 2018 

Invited seminar by Ulrike Felt at the annual international Winterschool of the GRAPHENE Flagship project: “How to meet the challenges of research integrity in everyday research practice?“, Obergurgl, 07.02.2018

Keynote by Ulrike Felt at “s.net” (9^th international conference of the Society for the Study of New and Emerging Technologies), Emerging asynchronicities:
The challenges of rearticulating technoscience and democracy in contemporary timescapes, Arizona State University, 9-11.10.2017

Invited talk by Maximilian Fochler at the Liesel Beckmann Symposium 2017: “Of tulips and academic lives: Why fostering the diversity and sustainability of what we know needs diversity in what counts as good science”, TU Munich, 06.10.2017

Invited talk by Ulrike Felt at Post-Doc Retreat Umweltverbund: “From responsibility talk to responsibility in practice”, Lunz am See, 13.09.2017

Keynote by Ulrike Felt at the 3ª Conferência Rumos da Sociologia do Conhecimento, Ciência e Tecnologia em Portugal: “Academic line-ups: On life-lines, time-lines and trajectories towards the future”, Braga, 07.09.2017

Invited talk by Ulrike Felt at Forum Alpbach 2017: “Timescapes of the 21st century: asynchronicities, acceleration and time conflicts”, Alpbach, 16.-22.08.2017

Invited talk by Maximilian Fochler at MCTS/TU Munich: “How to fail better? A comparison of how researchers in academia and biotechnology companies experience and manage uncertainty”, Munich, 03.07.2017

Keynote by Ulrike Felt at the Third Nordic Science and Technology Studies Conference: “Anticipation as practice and culture: Academic work and the many futures that need to be cared for”, Gothenburg, 31-05.-02.06.2017

Keynote by Ulrike Felt at the “Digital Life Norway” - Annual Conference: “Collective experimentation: On the value of thinking and realizing our future together”, Oslo, 20.-21.03.2017

Invited talk by Ulrike Felt at Seminar Series CEMM (Research Center for Molecular Biology): “What you always wanted to know about informed consent in biomedical research”, Vienna, 15.03.2017

Invited talk by Ulrike Felt at DK+ and Wilhelm-Kühnelt Lecture Series: “Squeezing responsibility into rythms of academic life” Vienna, 17.01.2017

Invited talk by Ulrike Felt at the STS “Contro Corrente” Series (organised by the European Commission Joint Research Centre, Institute for Environment & Sustainability): “Academic Citizenship: What is a rightful place for society in science?”, Ispra, 09.03.2017

Invited talk by Maximilian Fochler at the Symposium Shut up and Contemplate: “Why don’t we shut up and contemplate more? How social and organizational changes in science restrict researchers’ space and capacity to reflect”, Vienna, 03.03.2017

Invited talk by Ulrike Felt at the University of Antwerp: “Living with temporal inconsistencies: Academic timescapes and changing research cultures”, Antwerp, 22.02.2017

Keynote by Ulrike Felt at Accelerated Academy Conference: “Valuing Time: Temporalities, Regimes of Worth and Changing Research Cultures”, Leiden, 30.11.2016

Invited talk by Ulrike Felt at the Network of Universities from the Capitals of Europe (UNICA): „Challenging responsibility: How to make RRI work in academic environments“, Vienna, 29.11.2017

Invited talk by Maximilian Fochler at the WTMC Annual Meeting 2016: „Implicated in the Indicator Game? An experimental debate“, Amsterdam, 25.11.2016

Keynote by Ulrike Felt at the RRI Tools – Final Conference: “Challenging responsibility: How to make RRI work in a sustainable manner”, Brussels, 21.-22.11.2016

Keynote by Ulrike Felt at the EFC Research Forum Conference: “Attention Deep Impact!? Rethinking knowledge-relations in contemporary experimental societies”, London, 17.10.2016

Keynote by Ulrike Felt at Nachwuchstagung für Wissenschafts- und Technikforschung:  Wissens-werte und Wissens-beziehungen: Über den ‘Stoff’, aus dem Wissensgesellschaften gemacht werden, Munich, 07.10.2016

Invited talks by Ulrike Felt at the WTMC Summer School - Time and STS: “Who owns time”, “Modes of temporal ordering”, “Time and STS: Thinking through, with, about time”, “Temporal encounters in academia” & “Citizenship and participation in technoscientific worlds”, Ravenstein, 25.-22.-26.08.2016

Keynote by Ulrike Felt at Producing and experimenting with publics in new political economies: “Living in an Experimental Society: Reconfiguring Innovation, Collectives and Societal Challenges”, Liège, 28.06.2016

Invited talk by Lisa Sigl at the Forschungskolloquium des Institut für empirische und angewandte Soziologie: “Modes of Coping" mit Unsicherheitserfahrungen. Ein Diskussionsbeitrag zur "Tacit Governance" akademischer Arbeitskulturen”, Bremen, 01.02.2016

Invited talk by Lisa Sigl at the STS Colloquium at Maastricht University: “Embodied Anxiety. On Experiences of Living, Working and Coping with Conditions of Precarity in Research Cultures of the Academic Life Sciences”, Maastricht, 06.01.2016

Conference Presentations 2018 (selection)

EASST Conference (European Association for the Study of Science and Technology), presentation by Ulrike Felt and Florentine Frantz, How institutions think: governing research integrity in university environments, Lancaster/UK, 25.-28.07.2018

EASST Conference (European Association for the Study of Science and Technology), presentation by Ulrike Felt, Maximilian Fochler, Lisa Sigl, Anticipation as a normative practice. Life science researchers' anticipatory practices between care and managerialism, Lancaster/UK, 25.-28.07.2018

4S Conference (Annual Meeting of the Society for Social Studies of Science), Ulrike Felt is convenor of a panel on ‘Doing Time’: Temporal Imaginaries, Performances, Practices, Infrastructures (together with Filip Vostal), and presents a paper “Academic waiting games: A paradox in an accelerated academy?, Sydney, 29.08.-01.09.2018

PRINTEGER European Conference on Research Integrity, presentation by Ulrike Felt and Florentine Frantz, The shifting “self” in discourses on “self-regulatory capacities” of science. Reflections on who should care for research integrity, Bonn, 05.-06.02.2018

Conference Presentations 2017 (selection)

Symposium “Editing Genomes with CRISPR” (organised by the Research Platform RRI in Academic Practice), presentation by Ulrike Felt: “Food for thought: Voices from the public”, Vienna, 20.10.2017

EU-SPRI (Annual Conference of the European Forum for Studies of Policies for Research and Innovation), Vienna, 07.-09.06.2017, presentation by Katja Mayer

4S Conference (Annual Meeting of the Society for Social Studies of Science), Boston, 30.08.-02.09.2017; organisation of 2 sessions and 2 presentations by Ulrike Felt, Maximilian Fochler and Lisa Sigl

GRAPHENE Week 2017 (organised by GRAPHENE Flagship Project), Athens, 25-29.09.2017; organisation of a session on RRI; Ulrike Felt, together with Bernadette Bensaude-Vincent (Paris I) and Phil MacNaghten (Wageningen, NL)

PSF MLE Open Science, European Commission, Brussels, 27.02.2017, presentation by Katja Mayer

Workshop ‘Community and Identity in Contemporary Techno-Sciences’, Vienna, 16.-18.02.2017, presentations by Ulrike Felt and Lisa Sigl

Incubator-Workshop „Re-Organizing Universities – Transforming Academia“, Munich, 07.04.2017, presentation by Lisa Sigl

Conference Presentations 2016 (selection)

STS Conference Graz, 9.-10. May 2016, Session von Katja Mayer

4S/EASST Conference „Science and Technology by Other Means“, Barcelona, 31. August – 03. September 2016; insgesamt 3 Beiträge von Ulrike Felt, Maximilian Fochler, Katja Mayer und Lisa Sigl

Oead-Hochschultagung „Responsible Science“, Leoben, 17.10.2016, presentation by Lisa Sigl

Open Access Tage München (LMU), Munich, 10.-11.10.2016, presentation by Katja Mayer

8th Annual S.Net Meeting: The Co-Production of Emerging Bodies, Politics and Technologies, Bergen, 12.-14.10.2016, presentation by Ulrike Felt