Skip to main content CONFERENCE TRACK TOPICS2. Innovation Power in the Making: Governance, Knowledge, and Technoscience Tom Barbereau, Ilina Georgieva and Tjerk Timan Keywords: power, innovation, governance, polycrisis3. Ethics and Technology in Practice Anne Bonvanie, Steven Dorrestijn, Verena Schulze Greiving and Wouter Eggink Keywords: ethics & technology, ethics in practice, tools, methods, design4: Scopes and Scapes of Science: Between Global Reforms and Local Confrontations Sven Ulpts and Alexander Schniedermann Keywords: metascience, epistemic diversity, science reform, open science, digital infrastructure5: Deep Learning and Culture Louis Ravn, Anna Schjøtt Hansen, Dasha Simons, Paula Helm and Tobias Blanke Keywords: deep learning, culture, artificial intelligence, data, frictions, deep culture6: Research Culture(s) in transition: Uncertainty, Reform, and the Politics of Change in Academic Research Melpomeni Antonakaki, Wolfgang Kaltenbrunner, Daniela Craciun, Maarten Derksen and Judit Varga Keywords: research culture, reform, academic norms, working conditions, accountability, power, academic communities7: Making Science Better? Bart Penders, Willem Halffman, Serge Horbach, Yağmur Öztürk and Yj Erden Keywords: research quality, peer review, scholarly communication, scientific error correction, research integrity, institutional corruption of science8: Comparing Theoretical Lenses for Studying Contemporary Science-Society Interactions Aisha So, Anestis Amanatidis, Jonathan Arentoft, Koen Beumer and Laurens Hessels Keywords: science-society interaction, participation, co-production, co-creation, representation, transdisciplinarity9: Rethinking Classifications: Exploring Approaches to (not) Categorize People in Data-intensive Healthcare and Research Mira Vegter, Ilse Dijkstra, Margot Vandenbroucke, Michel Vitale and Tessa van Rijssel Keywords: classification, low socio-economic status, data-intensive health research, data-driven, categorisation, health promotion, 'vulnerable' groups, algorithmic fairness, strategic essentialism, citizen science10: Resisting Rent-Seeking: Nonprofit Platforms and the Politics of Open Science in Scholarly Communication and Evaluation Tanya Lee and Alex Rushforth Keywords: platformization, scholarly infrastructures, rentiership, open science11: Rural-Urban Knowledge Infrastructures for Transformation Catherine Koekoek, Corelia Baibarac-Duignan, Steven McGreevy and Esther Turnhout Keywords: knowledge infrastructure, transformation, rurban, democratic, practices, spaces, imaginaries12: Implicit Infrastructures in Healthcare’s Crisis and Disaster Preparedness Celine Rooze and Shiwei Chen Keywords: infrastructures, infrastructural inversion, crisis, disaster, preparedness, knowledge production13: Strengthening the Soil Humanities: Cultivating (Re)generative Power Dienke Stomph and Marieke Meesters Keywords: soil, epistemic shifts, relational ontology, more-than-human ethics, (re)generation14: Evaluating Existential Threats, from Climate Change to AI and Gene Editing: STS Perspectives Elli Danae Vartziotis, Thomas Verra and Aristotle Tympas Keywords: existential threats, AI, environmental crisis, gene editing, STS15: Health and Care Shifts in Times of AI Susan van Hees, Claudia Egher, Wouter Boon, Karin van Leersum, Alexander Peine, Sally Wyatt, Flora Lysen, Mignon Hagemeijer, Jill van der Kamp, Lotte Krabbenborg, Mira Vegter, Shiwei Chen, Mareike Smolka and Dara Ivanova Keywords: health, care, AI, knowledge politics, innovation, implementation, transformations, participation, novel methodologies16: When the Public Goes Private: The Entanglement of Financialized Actors in Public Sectors Lucy van Eck, Fenna Nijboer, Marcello Aspria, Iris Wallenburg, Syb Kuijper and Eline Linthorst Keywords: financialization, assetization, valuation, public knowledge17: Digitalisation for Equity? Jessica Coetzer and Lea Lösch Keywords: health equity, digital health technologies, digital methods, STS making and doing18: Revisiting the Hydrogen Utopia: Failures, Reorientations, and Emerging Visions Alison Lesdos and Filip Rozborski Keywords: hydrogen, visions, futures, sociotechnical imaginaries19: STS Research into Interdisciplinarity Annemarie Horn, Jochem Zuijderwijk, Luisa Cortesi, Rachel Prentice Keywords: interdisciplinarity, epistemic cultures, epistemic plurality, knowledge integration, infrastructures, scholarly identity, expertise, education, science policy20: Ctrl+Shift+Lab: Living Labs as Value-Based Research Infrastructures for Goal-oriented Change in Times of Global Crises Britta Acksel, Julia Backhaus, Gudrun Rohde, Luca Vadacca, Marta Martorell Camps, Fatima Canseco-Lopez and Viviana Perez Clausen Keywords: transdisciplinarity, real-world experimentation, value-based methodologies, technological justice, digital SDGs, global cooperation, impact assessment21: Orbiting and Hovering – Critical Remote Sensing and Volumetric Regimes Fran Meissner and Michael Nagenborg Keywords: critical remote sensing, critical sensing, earth observation, sensing networks, volumetric regimes, modulating space, technocratic transitions22: Unpacking Entanglements between Science and New Forms of Geopolitic s Jarno Hoekman, Esther Baar, Gaston Heimeriks and Anna Gall Keywords: geopolitics, research security, open science, research collaboration, academic freedom, strategic autonomy23: Fixing the Split of Knowledge and its Ownership: In search of Material and Technological Decolonisations Annapurna Mamidipudi, Vivek S. Oak and Gauri Nori Keywords: knowledge ownership, craft knowledge, embodied knowledge, knowing and doing, decolonising knowledge24: Making Futures Tangible? Sociomaterial Practices of Prediction Ingmar Mundt, Jana Heim and Kevin Wiggert Keywords: sociomaterial practices, futuring, anticipation, prediction, knowledge production, artefacts25: When Futures Get Stuck: The “Captivity” of Collective Futuring in Transitions Filip Rozborski, Mareike Smolka and Harro van Lente Keywords: futures, expectations, sociology of expectations, imaginaries, sociotechnical transitions26: What If We Talk Politics a Little - More? Abe Hendriks, Jeroen Oomen, Job Zomerplaag and Timo Maas Keywords: democracy, political theory, futures27: Act Now! On Obstructing, Envisioning and Enacting Radical Change for Just and Liveable Futures Marije Miedema, Guus Dix, Anne Beaulieu Keywords: radical change, obstruction, envisioning, enacting, global ecological crisis, liveable futures, activism, climate change28: European AI: Towards Digital Sovereignty and Alternative Approaches to AI Technology Andreas Liesenfeld, Frederik Zuiderveen Borgesius, Mark Dingemanse, Dick Blankvoort, João Gonçalves, Bart van der Sloot, Nityaa Kalra, Fieke Jansen, Malvina Nissim Keywords: European AI, digital sovereignty, alternative approaches to AI, technology assessment, technological dependencies, EU and Dutch AI policy29: Normative Sense-Making about Artificial Intelligence Technologies Peter Stegmaier, Imad Ibrahim and Gabrielle Canalli Keywords: AI technologies, socio-legal, sense-making, normativities, co-emergence30: Landing Ethnography Sung-Hoon Hong, Jae-hong Song and Se-young Kim Keywords: land, ground, field, lines of force, recursion, ethnography31: Navigating the Digital–Science Nexus: Science and Technology Studies, Emerging Digital Technologies, and the Future of Knowledge Laurens Hessels, Kutoma Wakunuma, Serge Horbach, Martin Sand, Shamira Ahmed Keywords: foresight and digital futures, responsible research and innovation, science technology and innovation governance, artificial intelligence, research culture, integrity, technological dependence32: Histories in Times of Global Shifts Evelien de Hoop, Andreas Weber, Sjamme van de Voort, Efi Nakopoulou Keywords: history, futuring, transformation, transdisciplinarity33: Denial and Discontinuation: Dealing with Interpretive Diversity on the Way to Renewable Socio-Technical Systems Ewert Aukes and Peter Stegmaier Keywords: denial, discontinuation, renewables, technologies, sustainable transitions, use and non-use, resistance34: Open Track 35: Posters