Thanks to all of you taking part in the staff meeting. The presentation from this meeting as well as Kristin's introduction about TIK's educational portfolio for the Faculty Board last week are available here:
Disputation tomorrow
Remember Erlend's disputation tomorrow!
Trial lecture Auditorium 2, Eilert Sundts Hus, 10:15 - 11:00
Disputation Auditorium 2, Eilert Sundts Hus, 13:15 - 16:00
Disputation: Erlend Osland Simensen - TIK Centre for Technology, Innovation and Culture
Emergency preparedness
To follow up the first half of the staff meeting, here are some of the online resources mentioned:
- Stop the bleeding - e-learning course in first aid https://uio.instructure.com/courses/36480 (in Norwegian only, we will organize a physical first aid course in English at TIK)
- Checklist for fire prevention training /english/about/hse/fire/procedures/checklist-for-fire-prevention-training.docx
- A more extensive, 3 hours, course on how to act in an ongoing violent situation (in Norwegian) H?ndtering av p?g?ende livstruende vold -PLIVO - For ansatte - Universitetet i Oslo
- Sikresiden.no - Emergency info online - preventive training and advice on what to do in an emergency. Developed in collaboration between higher research and education institutions in Norway. Download the app on your telephone!
Welcome to our visiting guests!
Associate Professor Max Fochler is here this week, and Associate Professor Jeanne de la Croix, University of Bern, until 19 April. Please see from Susanne's presentation of Jeanne:
Jeanne will be staying at TIK for four weeks, as visiting scholar in the Anthropogenic Soils project. Beyond this, she is interested to exchange on energy infrastructures across STS, social anthropology, and innovation studies at TIK. You will find her in office ES 1020, close to TIK's lunch room.
Jeanne Féaux de la Croix holds a PRIMA research professorship at the University of Bern. As an environmental anthropologist, she pursues transdisciplinary research to support environmental justice around water and energy concerns. Jeanne currently leads the research project Social Ocean Energy: A Social Learning Approach to Global Marine Renewable Infrastructures (https://www.anthro.unibe.ch/research/einzelne_forschungsprojekte/social_ocean_energy_a_social_learning_approach_to_global_marine_renewable_infrastructures/index_eng.html ) and is building collaborations on Asian and American coasts.
She is the author of 'Iconic Places in Central Asia: the moral geography of pastures, dams and holy sites' (Transcript, 2017). Other recent publications include 'The Central Asian World' with Madeleine Reeves (Routledge 2023), and 'Environmental Humanities in Central Asia' (Routledge 2023) with Beatrice Penati. Current engagements include work with the Environmental Justice Network and the Alliance for Critical Scholarship in Solidarity.
Jeanne defended her PhD at the University of St. Andrews, then pursued a Postdoc at the Zentrum Moderner Orient (Berlin, 2010-13) and led several research groups at the University of Tübingen (2014-2022). She has also held teaching positions at the American University of Central Asia (Bishkek) and Humboldt University (Berlin). Jeanne has a particular interest in political ecology, technology and the development of intervention methods such as civic science that support an equitable human future on Earth. She has led multi-partner research on the Naryn and Syr Darya rivers as well as environmental movements.
There will also be a public talk by Jeanne on 9 April 13-15, as part of an Anthropogenic Soils workshop - more info to follow soon.
The two PhD students Sacha and Mónica that many of you have already met, have given us the following presentation of their work:
Sacha Frenay
"I’m Sacha, a Belgian PhD student who will be on a research stay here until the end of May. My background lies in STS, and my research seeks to address the transformation dynamics materialized in carbon capture, use, and storage (CCUS) projects in hard-to-abate industries. Building on CCUS promise of a technological solution to adjust - rather than replace - highly-emitting processes, I mobilize the notion of retrofit, conceptualized as a particular form of repair seeking to provide infrastructures with both a material and symbolic update. I look at projects in three countries aiming to promote CCUS developments and create a cross-border carbon value chain (Belgium, Denmark, and Norway). In this context, I chose to focus on the Brevik CCS project (world's first CO?-capture facility in the cement industry) as my Norwegian case study, and so I’m here mainly to do fieldwork."
Mónica Vanessa López De la O
"I am a Mexican Ph.D. student of Humanities Studies at ITESM CCM (Mexico City, Mexico).
Previously, I obtained a BA in International Relations, and a MA in Innovation Management (also from ITESM, please see Bio attached).
My line of research is Science, Technology and Society. Specifically, I aim to shed light on what is the role of social, cultural and institutional factors in National Innovation Systems -such as the Mexican one.
Research protocol abstract:
Within the context of a renewed regulatory arrangement in science and technology, and in an imminent change in the federal administration, the study aims to delve into the social, cultural and institutional aspects involved in the Mexican national innovation system. From the knowing that education, scientific research and technological development have been historically undervalued in Mexico, a working hipothesis is established as follows: the prevailing social, cultural and institutional factors in the Mexican national innovation system hinder the proactive collaboration between its members. The research method is mixed and involves the application of a cuantitative (survey) and a cualitative (interview guide) instrument to a simple of national and foreign researchers actively involved in knowledge generation in humanities, sciences, technologies and innovation. The research objective is to identify, relate and integrate the social, cultural and institutional factors as part of the Mexican national innovation system’s performance."
Upcoming events
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22 April
PhD midway seminar of Elisabeth Fosseli Olsen
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5 May, 15:00-17:00
Celebrating this year's master candidates, Kitchen area - 6 May
TIK publication lunch (more info TBA) - 16 May
Oil & Society network gathering: Oil and finance - See also the Science Studies Colloquium Series event calendar for upcoming talks by Vibeke Pihl and others.
PhD courses
There are still spots available at Fulvio's course on Innovation, welfare and policy: The case of automation and AI technologies in May (registration deadline: 23 April). The course is open for both PhDs and others interested, and it is possible to participate either physically or digitally, so please share this within your network!
Registration for this semester's T?yenseminar closes on 2 April, so be quick if you would like to participate.
Kristin and Helge Jordheim (IKOS/GLOBE) organize the PhD seminar Stakes of Democracy: Trust, Nature and Value in Times of Crises in Paris 15-17 October, more information about registration will follow.
Call for paper STS conference
The Spiral Research Centre at the University of Liège is celebrating its 30th anniversary in 2025. Created in 1995, Spiral has developed into a vibrant STS community practicing fundamental and applied research, methodological innovation and interdisciplinary conversation across the social sciences and humanities. An anniversary provides the occasion to pause and reflect on past, present and future; it is a moment of recollection and anticipation: to single out and emphasize what matters. Remembering, looking ahead, and celebrating work best in the good company of others, which is why Spiral is organizing a conference on “Radiant Futures” in Liège, Belgium, on October 9-10, 2025, and you are invited to participate by submitting an abstract.
We aim to bring together both friends and colleagues from the academic community around parallel sessions, a Making & Doing session, and keynote presentations by Kristin Asdal (University of Oslo), Hannah Landecker (University of California – Los Angeles) and Brice Laurent (CSI-Mines Paris-Tech). Of course, there will be plenty of time to celebrate!
A detailed description of the Radiant Futures theme and the three thematic and making & doing sessions can be found here.
Our call for papers is open until May 15, 2025 (see important dates in the detailed description linked above). Abstracts of max. 250 words should be submitted to radiant.futures2025@gmail.com.
Holmenkollstafetten
We still need one more runner for our team at Holmenkollstafetten on 10 May. Sign up here! ?