Programme of the 10th Annual IAS-STS Conference

"Critical Issues in Science and Technology Studies"

Graz, Austria, Schlögelgasse 2
Sunday, May 1, 2010

19:00 Casual pre-conference meeting of early arriving participants at "Eschenlaube"

Monday, May 2, 2010

Welcome Note
9:00 – 9:15 Günter Getzinger (Managing Director of IAS-STS, Graz), Christine Wächter (Director of IFZ, Graz)

Transdisciplinarity in sustainability studies: Theoretical debates – methodological challenges and empirically gained experiences
9:15 – 10:00 Irmgard Schultz, Institute for Social-Ecological Research (ISOE), Germany (Meeting Room I)
Chair: Ulrike Seebacher

10:00 – 10:15 BREAK

The Concept of ‘Heteronormativity’ and its
Information and Communication Technologies 1 Trans-disciplinarity in sustainability studies 1
Methodological Implications
(Meeting Room I) (Meeting Room III)
(Meeting Room II)
Chair: TBC Chair: Sandra Karner
Chair: Torsten Wöllmann
The Problem Multiple – Constructing ‘the
Issues of hierarchy and control built into the
Research Problem’ in TD Project Contexts
10:15 – 10:45 software’s architecture
Ulrike Felt, Judith Igelsböck, Andrea Schikowitz,
Katja Schönian
Thomas Völker

Informatized Work and its socio-cultural Participatory modelling and sustainability

10:45 – 11:15 implications research
Caroline Roth-Ebner Barbara Smetschka, Viktoria Gaube
Workshop (registration required)
Technological visions and Open Government Responsivity as a transdisciplinary research
11:15 – 11:45 Data principle
Axel Kittenberger Ulli Vilsmaier

Integrating research and teaching by inter- and

Open source software development: “GNU
transdisciplinary case-studies
11:45 – 12:15 communities” and the social face of ICT
Alfred Posch, Ralf Aschemann, Karin Dullnig, Karl
Rositsa Dikova
Reiter, Ulrike Seebacher

12:15 – 13:30 LUNCH: Reception at Hotel Gollner hosted by the President of the Styrian Parliament, Ing. Manfred Wegscheider

How do you manage? Unravelling the situated

Information and Communication Technologies
practice of environmental management 1 "Sustainable behavior at work and in private
(Meeting Room I)
(Meeting Room II) life" (Meeting Room III)
Chair: TBC
Chair: Anna Schreuer

Trusting Diversity: Exploring Diversity-Based Dimensions of Limits to Environmental

13:30 – 14:00 Recommendations in Research Management: STS Reflections
Judith Simon Ingmar Lippert

An STS approach to the design of Online Carbon as an Object of Management: Insights

Reputation: The Assemblage Theory compared from an Offset Site Final conference - in German
14:00 – 14:30 (registration required)
with current state-of-the-art Anup Sam Ninan
Stefano De Paoli

Digital Civic Engagement among Anarchist Environmental research and management

14:30 – 15:00 Activists in Poland rationalities - who figures whom?
Lisiunia A. Romanienko Niklas Hartmann

15:00 – 15:15 BREAK

How do you manage? Unravelling the situated
Energy and Climate: Organizations and practice of environmental management 2 "Sustainable behavior at work and in private
Consumers (Meeting Room I) (Meeting Room II) life" (Meeting Room III)
Chair: TBC
Chair: TBC

Organizational development of renewable Making room for water. Managed-retreat as local

15:15 – 15:45 energy practice
Marfuga Iskandarova Silvia Bruzzone

Unbundling of District Heating Co-operations in Rivers, reservoirs and riparians: The multiple
15:45 – 16:15 Stockholm? dimensions of flood control
Dick Magnusson Franz Krause
Final conference - in German
(registration required)
Patterns of energy use in energy-aware ‘Environmental citizenship’ in energy-related
16:15 – 16:45 households community projects
Lisa Bohunovsky, Sigrid Grünberger Anna Schreuer

Energy Poverty: a sociological case study in A tale of Two Communities: Mutual and
16:45 – 17:15 Austria Overlapping, or Divergent and Confused?
Thomas Berger Gerald Aiken

17:15 – 17:30 BREAK

Socio-technical transitions towards sustainable energy systems - some conceptual issues

17:30 – 18:15 Harald Rohracher, IFZ, Austria (Meeting Room I)
Chair: TBC

Tuesday, May 3, 2010

 What can STS do for sustainability?
9:00 – 9:45 Michael Ornetzeder, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Austria (Meeting Room I)
Chair: Harald Rohracher

9:45 – 10:00 BREAK

Ethical, Legal and Social Aspects of Agricultural

Sustainable Consumption, Work and Private Energy and Climate: Issues of Regional
Biotechnology 1
Life (Meeting Room II) Development (Meeting Room III)
(Meeting Room I)
Chair: TBC Chair: TBC
Chair: TBC

Governing Agrobiotechnology in Developing Transition to Bioenergy Systems in Transition

Sustainable consumption beyond the market
10:00 – 10:30 Countries: the Case of South-East Asia
Corinna Vosse
Economies: Case of Ukraine
Gloria Adduci Yuliya Voytenko

Working within and beyond the market – Urban batteries/incubators: recognizing and
Policy impacts of ethical advisory bodies on the
Individual and societal recognition for using the energetic potential of small urban and
10:30 – 11:00 societal regulation of biotechnology
sustainable work rural areas of Vojvodina region
Franc Mali, Toni Pustovrh, Blanka Groboljesk
Linda Nierling Ivan Simic

Balancing the Commercialization and ELSI of Green work-life-balance – a new concept of Urban future on tria: Creative response(s) to
11:00 – 11:30 the Biopharmaceutical Innovation promoting sustainable lifestyles climate change
ShihHsin Chen, DuenKai Chen Viola Muster, Ulf Schrader Aleksandra Stupar

11:30 – 13:30 LUNCH: Reception by the Mayor of Graz, Mag. Siegfried Nagl, in the City Hall, Hauptplatz

Ethical, Legal and Social Aspects of Agricultural

Sustainable Consumption and Production Issues of Inclusion and Exclusion in Web 2.0 1
Biotechnology 2
(Meeting Room II) (Meeting Room III)
(Meeting Room I)
Chair: TBC Chair: Christine Wächter, IFZ
Chair: TBC

Bio-Luddism: uneven diffusion and national Informal learning with social media and its
What does it take to be ecological?
13:30 – 14:00 context
Luísa Reis de Castro
potential for a democratisation of education
Franz Seifert Anita Thaler

Discursive aspects of GMO risk policy in Latvia Eco ideas – Way to sustainable future Reflecting the individual use of Web2.0 tools
14:00 – 14:30 Zane Linde Katarina Knafelj Jutta Pauschenwein, Anastasia Sfirin

“Overcoming Leviathan”: Setting up alternative

Accessing Banked Treasure agro-food systems in Eastern Europe: network Gender Struggles in Web 2.0
14:30 – 15:00 Michaela Theresia Mayrhofer Tanja Carstensen
theory perspective
Wojciech Goszczyński

15:00 – 15:15 BREAK

Trans-disciplinarity in sustainability studies 2 Issues of Inclusion and Exclusion in Web 2.0 2

Postersession (Meeting Room I)
(Meeting Room II) (Meeting Room III)
Chair: TBC
Chair: Ulrike Seebacher Chair: Julian Anslinger

Integrating research and stakeholder’s

Towards a feminist ethics of knowledge
perspective in research on alternative agro-food
15:15 – 15:45 modeling for the future Web 3.0
networks
Corinna Bath
Sandra Karner, Nicoleta Chioncel

Trans-disciplinary Methods for Researching and Revitalizing East Asia’s Old Virtue of Filial Piety
15:45 – 16:15 Supporting Ecological Entrepreneurship in 21st Century Informational City
Hart Nadav Feuer On-Kwok Lai

A plea for the self-aware sustainability

researcher
16:15 – 16:45
Felix Rauschmayer, Tell Muenzing, Johannes
Frühmann

Integrated participatory development and

assessment of new demand response
16:45 – 17:15 technology
Michael Ornetzeder

17:15 – 17:30 BREAK

Web 2.0 & Diversity: Gender and Technology in Action
17:30 – 18:15 Heike Wiesner,Berlin School of Economics and Law, Germany (Meeting Room I)
Chair: Anita Thaler

Closing Remarks (Meeting Room I)

18:15 – 18:30 Günter Getzinger (Managing Director of the IAS-STS, Graz)

Departure to 'Buschenschank' –
18:45
Reception of the Governor of Styria Mag. Franz Voves
Sponsored by the Research Council with financial
ressources of the Kärntner Wirtschafts Fonds
(KWF)