Selected Talks and Activities

January 2026: Honoring Michel Callon (1945-2025). Public discussion on Callon’s seminal study “Some elements of a sociology of translation: Domestication of the scallops and the fishermen of St Brieuc Bay” (1984) with Kristin Asdal (Oslo), Endre Dányi (Munich), Jörg Niewöhner (Munich), Cornelius Schubert (Dortmund), Estrid Sørensen (Bochum). Chair: Tanja Bogusz (Hannover). Organized by the Marine STS group – online, 22 January 2022.

October 2025: “Setzt die Segel!” Input and Discussion Panel with Antje Boetius, Boris Herrmann and more on the topic “Ocean” at the Harbor Front Literature Festival (20.9.-19.10.2025) in cooperation with the Museum for Maritime History, Hamburg, 11 October 2025.

September 2025: Critic at the Panel “Author Meets Critics: New publications on polarisation and populism (Nils C. Kumkar / Kolja Möller)” (in German) at the 42nd Congress of the German Sociological Association, Duisburg-Essen, 24 September 2025.

April 2025: Talk “Valoriser des collaborations hétérogènes. La Station Marine de Concarneau entre science et société”. Research Group “Scientific Outposts“ (ANR/CNRS), Sorbonne Nouvelle Paris, 4 April 2025.

March 2025: Talk “The pitfalls of STS’s academic success: How to address social disparities as a ‘normal science’”, Panel 32: STS teaching as a promise of democratic development at the STS Hub Berlin Diffracting the Critical, Berlin, 12 March 2025.

July 2024: Talk “Translating world-makings and ground-truthing through FIELDS or: The political dimensions of pragmatist methodologies”, panel Worldmaking and pragmatism: Research practices in dialogue at the EASST / 4S Amsterdam Conference ‘Making and doing Transformations’, 16-19 July at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam.