Concluded

2023

21st Annual STS Conference "Critical Issues in Science, Technology and Society Studies"
May 8-10, 2023
Programme
Book of Abstracts
Proceedings


2022

20th Annual STS Conference "Critical Issues in Science, Technology and Society Studies"
May 2-4, 2022
Programme
Book of Abstracts
Proceedings


2021

19th Annual STS Conference "Critical Issues in Science, Technology and Society Studies“
May 3-5, 2021
Book of Abstracts
Proceedings


​2020

STS Conference Graz has been cancelled due to the Corona Virus Pandemic


2019

18th Annual STS Conference "Critical Issues in Science, Technology and Society Studies"
May 4-6, 2019
Book of Abstracts
Proceedings

 


2018

17th Annual STS Conference "Critical Issues in Science, Technology and Society Studies"
May 7-8, 2018
Proceedings


2017

16th Annual STS Conference "Critical Issues in Science, Technology and Society Studies“
May 8-9, 2017

 

IAS-STS Work-in Progress Workshop
April 19, 2017

Diffraction as Conceptual Framework and Analytic Tool in Ethnographic Fieldwork
Ellen K Foster

The Symphysis of Technoscience: A Bibliometric Study of Rice Research in India
Avinash Kumar

Renewable Energy Transition in Bulgaria: A Critical Perspective on Governance and Power
Tina Schivatcheva

Science-society Relations in the Context of Energy Transitions: How Scientist Working on Renewable Energy Technologies Perceive their Role in Society?
Luis Junqueira

The Transformative Potential of Responsible Research and Innovation (RRI)
Zoltán Bajmócy

 


2016

IAS-STS Work-in-Progress Workshop
November 16, 2016

15th Annual STS Conference „Critical Issues in Science, Technology“
May 9-10, 2016
Book of Abstracts

 

IAS-STS Work-in-Progress Workshop
March 9, 2016


2015

IAS-STS Work-in-Progress Workshop
December 2, 2015

14th STS Conference Graz 2015: "Critical Issues in Science, Technology and Society Studies"
May 11-12, 2015
Book of abstracts
Programme
Proceedings

 

IAS-STS Work-in-Progress Workshop
April 8, 2015


2014

IAS-STS Work-in-Progress Workshop
Dezember 10, 2014

IAS-STS Work-in-Progress Workshop
June 25 & 27, 2014

May 05-06, 2014
Programme
Proceedings
 

IAS-STS Work-in-Progress Workshop
March 19, 2014


2013

IAS-STS Work-in-Progress Workshop
December 11, 2013

 

12th IAS-STS Annual Conference: Critical Issues in Science and Technology Studies
May 6-7, 2013
Programme
Proceedings
 

Emissionen und Konzentrationen von strahlungswirksamen atmosphärischen Spurenstoffen (in Englisch)
Wilfried Winiwarter, Graz
26 February 2013

 

IAS-STS Work-in-Progress Workshop
28 February 2013


2012

IAS-STS Work-in-Progress Workshop
6 December 2012


11th IAS-STS Annual Conference: Critical Issues in Science and Technology Studies
May 7-8, 2012
Programme
Proceedings
 

IAS-STS Work-in-Progress Workshop
16 February 2012

Enacting the Social through City Lighting
Susanne Seitinger
19 December 2011

Sustainable consumption and production: the role of social norms, as means of environmental protection: Case study of Mahalla institutions in Uzbekistan
Erbol Anarbekov, Uzbekistan
16 November 2011

Co-Benefits from sustainable bioenergy systems
Yuliya Voytenko, Ukraine
18 October 2011

 

IAS-STS Work-in-Progress Workshop
13 October 2011

 

10th IAS-STS Annual Conference: Critical Issues in Science and Technology Studies
2-3 May 2011
Proceedings
Programme
Book of Abstracts

 

IAS-STS Work-in-Progress Workshop
3 March 2011


2010

IAS-STS Work-in-Progress Workshop
10 November 2010



9th IAS-STS Annual Conference: Critical Issues in Science and Technology Studies
3-4 May 2010
Programme
Proceedings

 

IAS-STS Work-in-Progress Workshop
28 January 2010

 

2009

IAS-STS Work-in-Progress Workshop
23 November 2009

 

8th IAS-STS Annual Conference: Critical Issues in Science and Technology Studies
4-5 May 2009
Programme
Proceedings


2008

IAS-STS Work-in-Progress Workshop
13 November 2008

'From Pap Classification to Bethesda 2001 - Relating the development of a Diagnostic lexicon to Triage
Amrita Mishra

 

Mozaik Colloquium 2008 - Eco social farms in Pomurje: A proper device to keep social integration of (rural) community during rapid social change?
12 June 2008, Region Prekmurje, Slovenia

 

Theorizing Research on Gender and ICT
Eileen Trauth, United States
9 June 2008

 

7th Annual IAS-STS Conference: Critical Issues in Science and Technology Studies
8-9 May 2008
Proceedings
Programme

 

IAS-STS Work-in-Progress Workshop
20 March 2008

Relationships of Local and Global Knowledges on Managing “Energy” at Sites of Agents of Ecological Modernisation
Ingmar Lippert

Floods as Social Events
Thomas Berger

People and Roads
Tatiana Safonova

Labour market segmentation vs desires for technology advancement, fresh knowledge circulation and sustainable development: insights from Slovenia
Anton Kramberger

Taking European Knowledge Society Seriously?
Agnes Fesus

A Research Framework for a Feminist Constructivist Analysis of Technology
Veronica Sanz

Basis for a Research Framework in Feminist Constructivist Analysis of Technology
Veronica Sanz

Constructing Digital Media – What are Digital Media and what is Constructing?
Isabel Zorn

Gender in infrastructures of the knowledge society: The case of semantic and intelligent Internet technologies
Corinna Bath

The development of biomarkers for cervical malignancies: Discourses of risk and gender in gynecological diagnostics
Amrita Mishra

The Reinvention of the Male: On the Construction and Medicalization of Men’s Bodies by Andrology
Torsten Wöllmann

'Patient Groups and Biobanks in Finland'
Aaro Tupasela

„Race/Ethnicity in the New Genetics. A Case Study about the German and Austrian Discourse about Breast Cancer Susceptability Genes (BRCA ) and the 'Ashkenazi Jewish' Population“
Andrea zur Nieden

 

Notions of Knowledge and Sociality in Social Epistemology and Social Software/Knowledge Technologies
Judith Simon, Austria
25 January 2008


2007

IAS-STS Work-in-Progress Workshop
22 November 2007

Theorizing the Dynamics of Discipline Building
Torsten Wöllmann

Digitally Remastered - The (Re) Construction of `Beauty`in Digitalised Images
Gabriele Dietze, Germany
31 May 2007

 

6th Annual IAS-STS Conference: Critical Issues in Science and Technology Studies
24-25 May 2007
Proceedings
Programme

 

IAS-STS Work-in-Progress Workshop
22 March 2007

Debating the Anthropogenic Water Cycle – The Destination of Rain Water
Steffen Koch

Coexistance or Contradiction? GM Crops versus Alternative Agricultures in Europe
Les Levidow, Open University, UK
2 March 2007

Online Gender and Power: A Rhetorical Comparative Analysis of the Visual and Discursive Metaphors on the Green Party USA and EuroGreen Websites
Tess Pierce, USA
22 January 2007

WTO agbiotech dispute: Transnational regulation as a legitimacy problem
Les Levidov, United Kingdom
15 January 2007

 


2006

IAS-STS Work-in-Progress Workshop
23 November 2006

 

Resetting the biological clock? The discursive construction of 'late motherhood'
Karin Sardadvar, Austria
14 June 2006
 

5th Annual IAS-STS Conference: Critical Issues in Science and Technology Studies
26-27 May 2006
Proceedings
Programme

 

Securing sustainable access to basic urban services: lessons from history and contemporary issues
Olivier Coutard, France
26 April 2006

 

IAS-STS Work-in-Progress Workshop
23 March 2006

 

The lessons of BSE for science-based risk governance
Erik Millstone, United Kingdom
16 March 2006

The Role of Human Resources in National Research and Development Strategy – some Policy Issues in Slovenia as a Country with a Small Research Community
Franc Mali, Slovenia
26 January 2006
 


2005

IAS-STS Work-in-Progress Workshop
15 December 2005

 

Research Issues Concerning the Micro-sociological Analysis of Software Design Processes
Alexandros Kyrtsis, Greece
13 December 2005

Innovation System Analysis
Jochen Makard, Switzerland
25 October 2005
 

Workshop: Innovations, Policies, Economics
18 October 2005
 

Science and security through international cooperation: Europe in a globalising world
Josephine Stein, UK

 
Women in Academic Science
Nina Toren, Israel
28 June 2005

Wissenschaftsordnung und Geschlechterordnung. Historische Zusammenhänge und techno-politische Perspektiven
Elvira Scheich, Germany
23 June 2005

Gene Technology and World Poverty
13 June 2005
Juha Räikkä, Finland

The importance of workplace support and work flexibility for civil engineers
9 June 2005
Valerie Francis, Australia

The perfect child
1 June 2005
Joan Rothschild, USA
 

4th Annual IAS-STS Conference "Critical Issues in Science and Technology Studies"
28 February - 1 March 2005
Programme
 


2004

IAS-STS Work-in-Progress Workshop
12 November 2004

Project NABU-Cameroon: The Case of Socio-enabling Computing
19 October 2004
Dennis Anderson, PhD, Pace University New York

Sustainability Foresight: Methoden zur Gestaltung von soziotechnischem Wandel und Anwendungserfahrungen in deutschen Versorgungssystemen
29 June 2004
Jan-Peter Voß, Öko-Institut, Berlin

Zur Rolle des Staates in der Innovationspolitik
18 June 2004
Johannes Weyer, Universität Dortmund

Institutionelle Analyse technischer Innovationen
25 May 2004
Raymund Werle, Max-Planck-Institut für Gesellschaftsforschung, Köln

 

IAS-STS Work-in-Progress Workshop
07 May 2004

 

3rd Annual IAS-STS Conference "Critical Issues in Science and Technology Studies"
23–24 February 2004
Programme

 

IAS-STS Work-in-Progress Workshop
12 January 2004

Colonization of Nature in Soviet Russia: Agents and Practices
Alla Bolotova

Concept of Crisis
Risto Eräsaari

The Darwinian Tension
Hajo Greif

The design process of environmental limit values with the integration of risk factors
Imre Kozak

Technological frames and politics of sustainability in energy production: forest fuel production in Finland
Taru Peltola

Spin-off Firms in National Innovation System (NIS): Social Consensus
Anna Pobol

Organizational innovations. Some reflections on the concept
Gerd Schienstock

 


2003

IAS-STS Work-in-Progress Workshop
22 May 2003

Freezing Social Relations: The Role of Technology in Structuring Knowledge about Health
06 May 2003
Ellen Balka, School of Communication, Faculty of Applied Science, Simon Fraser University

Why the Notion of Actor-Network is Not Enough: On Heterogeneous Micro-Communities in Science and Technical Systems
09 April 2003
Ivan Tchalakov, Department of Sociology, Bulgarian Academy of Science

Austrian Biosafety Policy - founded on 'Ignorance'?
18 November 2003
Adrian Ely, Doctoral Student, SPRU - Science and Technology Policy Research University of Sussex

Reinterpreting Sustainable Architecture
02 October 2003
Simon Guy, Director of the Centre for Urban Technology in the School of Architecture, Planning and Landscape, University of Newcastle

Technoscientific Optimism, Anti-Aging Medicine and Engineered Negligible Senescence
17 June 2003
Courtney Everts Mykytyn

 

IAS-STS Work-in-Progress Workshop
13 March 2003

 

Bodies in Technology
12 March 2003
Don Ihde, Department of Philosophy, State University of New York at Stony Brook Technology Studies in Perspective: An International Synopsis
 


2002

2nd Annual IAS-STS Conference "Critical Issues in Science and Technology Studies"
15 November 2002
Programme

 

Unternehmen Technik. Akteure, Interaktionsmuster und strukturelle Kontexte der Technikentwicklung: ein Theorierahmen.
Edition Sigma 2002.
14 November 2002
Buchvorstellung von U. Dolata

 

IAS-STS Work-in-Progress Workshop
26 June 2002

Attracting Women into Engineering through Regional Technology Programmes
Christine Waechter

Austria in the World: A Case Study in Globalization
Franz Seifert

Initiating a Dialogue about Safety of Cosmetic Products
Manfred Klade

Societal Aspects of Information Technologies Development in Russia
Dmitri Efremenko

Brief Presentation of CNRS´ Activities in ITC and Law
Daniele Bourcier

 

A New Dimension of Technology Assessment in the e-Society: A Russian Perspective on Technocratic Thinking
12 June 2002
Vitaly Gorokhov, Institute for Philosopy, Russian Academy of Science

The Relevance of Risk Concept
17 May 2002
Risto Erasaari, University of Helsinki, Department of Social Policy

 

IAS-STS Work-in-Progress Workshop
20 March 2002


2001

IAS-STS Work-in-Progress Workshop
10 December 2001

 

IAS-STS Work-in-Progress Workshop
21 June 2001

Technology Assessment and Public Participation
Dmitri Efremenko

Technological progress and social movements - further insights and reflections II.
Annette Ohme-Reinicke

Tidying up loose ends: Theoretical and Practical Issues Related to Women’s Participation in Technological Design
Ellen Balka

Genetic Engineering and the Media
Bernhard Wieser (project presentation!)

Frames[i], Framing and Reframing In, and Through, the Mass-media:Reflection of Protracted Environmental Disputes in the Press
Ariella Vraneski

Info-War. Term and Phenomenon
Doris Wallnöfer

 

1st Annual IAS-STS Conference "Critical Issues in Science and Technology Studies"
7-8 June 2001
Programme

 

Technology Assessment in Austria: State of the Art and ITA Research Activity
16 May 2001
Walter Peissl, Institute for Technology Assessment / ITA, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Wien

Critical Analysis of the VDI Guideline "Technology Assessment. Concepts and Foundations"
16 May 2001
Dmitri Efremenko, Institute for Advanced Studies on Science, Technology and Society Graz

Technischer Fortschritt und Opposition
25 April 2001
Johannes Agnoli, vormals Professor für politische Theorie am Otto Suhr-Institut, Berlin

Technische Zivilisation, Ideologie, und Theorie
25 April 2001
Helmut Reinicke, Professor für Philosophie, Flensburg

 

IAS-STS Work-in-Progress Workshop
8 March 2001

Technologies of Perception in the Context of the Cold War
Doris Wallnöfer

The Architecture of Science: The Establishment of the Institute for Radium Research in Vienna in 1910
Maria Rentetzi

Technology Assessment as an Instrument of Environmental Policy. A Case of Climate Change Policy
Dmitri Efremenko

Social Movements and Technology - further reflections and insights
Annette Ohme-Reinicke

Competition, Cooperation and Networking in Biotechnology
Ulrich Dolata

Women Users: Re-Gendering Technology
Ellen Balka

 

2000

IAS-STS Work-in-Progress Workshop
16 November 2000

 

IAS-STS Work-in-Progress Workshop
21 September 2000
Programme

 

IAS-STS Work-in-Progress Workshop
26 June 2000