Changing Worlds: Ideologies, Utopias and Ambitions in Science and Technology
Donnerstag, 20. November 2014 - 12:00 Uhr
Universität Wien
Thursday, 20 November
12.00 – 13.00 Registration
13.00 – 13.15 Welcome note
13.15 – 14.15 Keynote: Els Rommes
14.15 – 14.45 Coffee break
14.45 – 16.15 Panel 1: Engaging Worlds – Researchers and Epistemologies
Lindsay Poirier: Informating the Social Sciences: Thought Styles, Standpoints and Politics
Chiara Carrozza & Andrea Gaspar: Digital humanism and epistemological utopias
Martin Savransky: Adventures of Inquiries: Caring for Knowledge in a World of Events
16.15 – 16.45 Coffee break
16.45 – 18.15 Panel 2: Assessing Worlds – Governmentality and Neoliberalism
Lisa Sigl: (Self-)Governance of Academic Work Cultures by Embodied Anxiety: Self-exploitation & Spaces of Freedom in Precarious Times
Boka En & Agnes Fülöp: Not Excellent Enough: Norms, Risks and Optimisation in the Quantified Self Movement
Deobojyoti Das: Panoptical and State Power: Citizen Refugees, Political Prosecution and Tigers in the Sundarbans
19.00 Conference dinner
The conference dinner will include vegan and vegetarian options.
The location will be announced soon.
About the Conference
Changing Worlds is a transdisciplinary conference that brings together non-/academics and early-career researchers from various backgrounds to foster discussion about how the worlds we inhabit change and change us, and how we as their inhabitants, researchers and activists change them. We want to provide a forum for young thinkers and doers to engage with each other and share findings, thoughts and ideas about the ideologies, utopias and ambitions that permeate today’s science, technology and society.
Changing Worlds will take place from 20 to 22 November 2014 at the University of Vienna and will feature talks, panel discussions and workshops as well as social events.
We hold the understanding that neither our own nor others’ positions can ever be neutral but that we all see the world through metaphorical lenses which have different shapes depending on how the world engages with us and how we engage with the world. Against this background, we believe that only by bringing together these different views on the world can we gain a more fine-grained and detailed understanding of and therefore better capacity for action in the worlds which we live in.
We encourage participation especially by advanced students and early-career researchers. If would like to present your work at our conference you are invited to read our call for contributions and submit your abstract by 15 August 2014.
The conference language is English.
If you have any questions, please feel free to contact us.
Keynote speakers
Alan Irwin, Copenhagen Business School
Els Rommes, Radboud University Nijmegen
Important dates
Deadline for abstract submissions: 15 August 2014
Notification about abstract acceptance: 15 September 2014
Conference: 20-22 November 2014