Panels

The 9th STS Italia Conference welcomes paper proposals contributing to the effort of unpacking the ambiguous concept of "interest” from a more-than-human perspective. The conference is intended to provide a dynamic, equal and multidisciplinary context to present conceptual, methodological and analytical insights in the heterogeneous realm of social studies of science, technology and innovation.

List of panels

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Panel 2: The more-than-human politics of urban inequalities

Organizers: Rivke Jaffe (1); Francesca Pilo' (2)

1: University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands; 2: Utrecht University, The Netherlands

 

Panel 3: Sociotechnical assemblages and practices of crisis planning and preparation: Imaginaries of infrastructure breakdown and its governance

Organizers: Silvia Rief

University of Innsbruck, Austria

 

Panel 5: ‘Outbreak’: Science, governance, and responding otherwise to challenges to come

Organizers: Kari Lancaster (1); Tim Rhodes (1,2)

1: University of New South Wales, Australia; 2: London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine

 

Panel 6: The Sars-CoV-2 emergency narrative: A discursive-material approach

Chair: Barbara Saracino

University of Bologna, Italy

Abstract: Andrea Miconi (1); Simona Pezzano (1); Lorenzo Donghi (2); Alessandro Ricci (3); Sara Gandini (4)

1: IULM, Italy; 2: University of Pavia, Italy; 3: University of Bergamo, Italy; 4: European Institute of Oncology, Italy

 

Panel 7: Where’s the ‘intelligence’ in AI? Mattering, Placing and De-individuating AI

Organizers: Ludovico Rella (1); Fabio Iapaolo (2)

1: Durham University, United Kingdom; 2: Oxford Brookes, United Kingdowm

 

Panel 8: Where Sunstainable Plastic-transitions are going? Historical, Political and Social Lifes of plastic consumption and waste

Organizers: François Dedieu (1); stephanie Barral (1); Sebastien Dalgalarrondo (2); Tristan Fournier (2); Céline Pessis (3); Baptiste Monsaingeon (4); Laurent Pordier (2); Benjamin Raimbault (5)

1: Inrae, France; 2: Cnrs, France; 3: AgroParitech, france; 4: University of Reims-Champagne Ardenne, france; 5: ESIEE, france

 

Panel 10: Games, experiments and redesign – Testing STS multimodal approaches

Organizers: Lorenzo Olivieri; Annalisa Pelizza; Claudio Coletta

University of Bologna, Italy

 

Panel 12: The interfaces that inform security knowledge and practice

Organizers: Claudia Aanonsen (1); Rocco Bellanova (2); Georgios Glouftsios (3)

1: NUPI, Norway; 2: Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium; 3: Scuola di Studi Internazionali, Università di Trento, Italy

 

Panel 13: Artistic Intelligence? Making it together in the Multispecies World

Organizers: Silvia Casini (1); Gediminas Urbonas (2); Roberta Buiani (3); Philippe Sormani (4)

1: University of Aberdeen; 2: Massachusetts Institute of Technology; 3: ArtSci Salon; 4: University of Lausanne

 

Panel 15: Boundary struggles: truth, interest and epistemic authority in a changing world

Organizers: Luigi Pellizzoni (1); Giuseppe Tipaldo (2); Barbara Sena (3)

1: University of Pisa, Italy; 2: University of Turin, Italy; 3: Unitelma Sapienza, Italy

 

Panel 16: Developing a robust food system applying a transdisciplinary approach beyond academia

Organizers: Carl Walter Matthias Kaiser (1); Cordula Scherer (2); Agnese Cretella (3)

1: Centre for the Study of the Sciences and Humanities, University of Bergen, Norway; 2: Centre for Environmental Humanities, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland; 3: Department of Philosophy and Communication, University of Bologna, Italy

 

Panel 19: Imaginary organisations for reinvented professions. Technological expectations and the construction of the world.

Organizers: Enrico Maria Piras (1); Roberto Lusardi (2)

1: Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Italy; 2: University of Bergamo

 

Panel 20: Extracting Humanness, Exploiting Labour: The Inhumane Face of Artificial Intelligence

Organizers: Fabio Morreale (1); Elham Bahmanteymouri (1); Brent Burmester (1); Matteo Pasquinelli (2)

1: University of Auckland, New Zealand; 2: University of Arts and Design Karlsruhe, Germany

 

Panel 21: A caring interest for the planet: making archives and readers *sensitive* in times of the new climatic regime

Organizers: Claudio Coletta (1); Paolo Giardullo (2)

1: University of Bologna, Italy; 2: University of Padua, Italy

 

Panel 22: How are STS interested in robotics?

Organizers: Letizia Zampino (1); Ilenia Picardi (2); Assunta Viteritti (3)

1: Sapienza, University of Rome, Italy; 2: University of Naples Federico II, Italy; 3: Sapienza, University of Rome, Italy

 

Panel 23: Unpacking the entanglements of governance with technoscience: is it an 'interesting' challenge in addressing good governance?

Organizers: Anwesha Chakraborty; Alice Fubini

University of Bologna, Italy

 

Panel 24: Questioning the material and infrastructural dimensions of social research: methods, tools and practices

Organizers: Attila Bruni (1); Paolo Magaudda (2)

1: University of Trento, Italy; 2: University of Padua, Italy

 

Panel 25: Interesting failures to come: history, actors, and scenarios in unsuccessful digital technologies projects

Organizers: Olga Usachova (1); Ginevra Sanvitale (2); Paul Edwards (3)

1: University of Padova, Italy; 2: Trinity College Dublin, Ireland; (3) Stanford University, USA

 

Panel 26: Interesting worlds as matters of caring and commoning

Organizers: Mariacristina Sciannamblo (1); Maurizio Teli (2); Giacomo Poderi (3)

1: Sapienza University of Rome, Italy; 2: Aalborg University; 3: IT University of Copenhagen

 

Panel 27: Critical posthumanism: interrogating cyborg imaginaries, practices and politics

Organizers: Erika Cudworth (1); Delia Langstone (2)

1: De Montfort University, UK, United Kingdom; 2: University of East London

 

Panel 28: The politicization of infrastructures. European transformations in the name of geopolitics, security, and crisis.

Organizers: Benedict Lang; Jan-Hendrik Passoth; Silvan Pollozek

European University Frankfurt (Oder), Germany

 

Panel 29: Materiality and research in museums of science, technology and medicine

Organizers: Simona Casonato

Museo Nazionale Scienza e Tecnologia Leonardo da Vinci, Milano, Italy

 

Panel 30: Algorithmic organizing and workers’ well-being

Organizers: PAOLO ROSSI; LIA TIRABENI

University of Milano Bicocca, Italy

 

Panel 31: Global Pathogens, Local Pathologies: Toward a more than human understanding of biosecurity

Organizers: Michele Bandiera (1); Christian Colella (2); Chiara Vacirca (3); Lucilla Barchetta (4); Pietro Autorino (5); Giulia Arrighetti (6); Enrico Milazzo (1); Jasmine Pisapia (7)

1: UNIPD; 2: CNR-IREA; 3: UNISALENTO; 4: UNIVE; 5: SNS; 6: UNITO; 7: SSHRC

 

Panel 32: Big politics of small things

Organizers: Andrzej Wojciech Nowak (1); Wiktoria Woźniak-Konieczka (2)

1: Adam Mickiewicz University, Faculty of Philosophy, Poland; 2: Adam Mickiewicz University, Doctoral School of Humanities

 

Panel 33: Technologies, devices and ways of engaging with citizen science in the context of research and innovation: co-producing knowledge, co-designing technologies and co-creating research to address sustainability challenges

Organizers: Helena Solman (1); Julia Kirch Kirkegaard (2)

1: Wageningen University, Netherlands, The; 2: Danish Technical University, Denmark

 

Panel 34: Earthly and otherworldly challenges. On the mutual shaping of imaginaries, practices and discourses about Earth and Outer space

Organizers: Valentina Marcheselli (1); Marco Serino (2); Chiara Vassillo (2)

1: University of Trento, Italy; 2: University of Naples Federico II, Italy

 

Panel 35: The obsession with techno-futures in education

Organizers: Paolo Landri (1); Leonardo Piromalli (2); Assunta Viteritti (2)

1: IRPPS-CNR; 2: "Sapienza" University of Rome, Italy

 

Panel 36: Diagnosis, prognosis, treatment - Towards fair and sustainable care provisions in health systems and pharmaceutical innovation

Organizers: Hadewych Honné (1,2); Conor Douglas (3)

1: University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom; 2: KU Leuven, Belgium; 3: York University, Canada

 

Panel 37: Interesting participatory processes in science, technology and innovation: conditions, challenges and prospects for bottom-up innovation

Organizers: Simone Arnaldi (1); Stefano Crabu (2); Paolo Magaudda (2)

1: University of Trieste, Italy; 2: University of Padua, Italy

 

Panel 39: Resistance in action. Understanding countersurveillance practices, imaginaries, and activities in a digitally dense environment

Organizers: Veronica Moretti (1); Alessandro Caliandro (2); Barbara Morsello (3)

1: University of Bologna, Italy; 2: University of Pavia, Italy; 3: University of Padova, Italy

 

Panel 40: Publish or perish reloaded: The matrix of contemporary scientific publishing facing institutional research arrangements and the marketization of academic environments

Organizers: Stefano Crabu; Federico Neresini

University of Padova, Italy

 

Panel 41: More-than-human medicine? Unpacking the use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies in healthcare settings

Organizers: Manuela Perrotta (1); Alina Geampana (2); Francesco Miele (3)

1: Queen Mary University of London, United Kingdom; 2: Durham University, United Kingdom; 3: University of Trieste

 

Panel 42: Revisiting identification and registration of humans and more-than-humans: long-term perspectives and implications

Organizers: Chiara Loschi; Annalisa Pelizza; Paul Trauttmansdorff

University of Bologna, Italy

 

Panel 43: Social Innovation: Forms, Evidence, and Perspectives

Organizers: JOSÉ FRANCISCO ROMERO-MUÑOZ

BENEMERITA UNIVERSIDAD AUTONOMA DE PUEBLA, Mexico

 

Panel 44: Exploring Promising Technologies in Neuroscience

Organizers: Barbara Morsello

University of Padova, Italy

 

Panel 45: Questioning institutional science and expertise supporting complementary, alternative, or refused knowledge

Organizers: Federico Neresini (1); Maria Carmela Agodi (2); Paolo Volontè (3)

1: University of Padova, Italy; 2: University of Napoli - Federico II; 3: Politecnico di Milano

 

Panel 46: Looking at borders through an infrastructural lens

Organizers: Timothy Raeymaekers; Noemi Bergesio; Anna Claudia Martini

UNIBO, Italy

 

Panel 47: Gender, sexuality, and digital media between challenges and reproduction of hegemony

Organizers: Cosimo Marco Scarcelli (1); Manolo Farci (2)

1: University of Padova, Italy; 2: University of Urbino, Italy

 

Panel 48: STS in Italy before STSItalia

Organizers: Gerardo Ienna (1,2); Alvise Mattozzi (3)

1: Università di Verona; 2: University of Maryland; 3: Politecnico di Torino

 

Panel 49: More than human decentered design: which competences, which methods, which tools for intersting worlds to come?

Organizers: Micol Rispoli (1,2); Gianluca Burgio (3); Alvise Mattozzi (1); Ramon Ernesto Rispoli (4)

1: Politecnico di Torino, Italy; 2: BAU, Centre Universitari d'Arts i Disseny; 3: Università degli Studi di Enna "Kore"; 4: Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II

 

Panel 50: Technologies of Discontinuation. Towards Transformative Innovation Policies

Organizers: Stefan Kuhlmann

University of Twente, The Netherlands

 

Panel 51: Agency: A Key Concept for a Political STS

Organizers: Giovanni Fava (1); Giulia Gandolfi (1,2); Pietro Daniel Omodeo (1); Francesca Putignano (1)

1: Università Ca' Foscari di Venezia, Italy; 2: Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne