Selected Talks and Activities

September 2026: Talk (with Nane Pelke) “Resilient marine ecosystems? Marine biodiversity research between technosolutionist expectations and knowledge integration” at the EASST-Conference “More than Now – Exploring resilient Futures” in Krákow, Poland 8-11 September 2026.

June 2026: Lunch-Talk (with Nane Pelke) “Beyond ‘value’ and ‘consciousness’ – A pragmatist exploration of interdisciplinary Field-Sciences in the Anthropocene”. Leibniz Center for Science and Society, Leibniz University Hannover, 23 June 2026.

May 2026: „Natur und Gesellschaft erfahren. Soziologie des Meeres im Anthropozän“, Inauguration conference, chair for Macro-Sociology and Sociological Science Studies, Institute for Sociology, Leibniz-University Hannover, 8 May 2026.

May 2026: Talk “Sociology of the sea – Opportunities and challenges for socio-marine transformation in the Anthropocene” at the Helmholtz Institute for Functional Marine Biodiversity (HIFMB) Oldenburg, 7 May 2026.

March 2026: Input on interdisciplinary methodologies (natural, engineering & social sciences) at the Syn Com Flex Workshop Picturing Our Future, organized by the Helmholtz Centre Alfred-Wegener-Institute for Polar and Marine Research & the Helmholtz Centre for Geosciences Potsdam, 10 & 11 March 2026.

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.