At the general assembly on December 6, 2022, a new STS Austria board was elected featuring representatives of several Austrian institutions and three early-career researchers. Doris Allhutter was elected as president, and Erik Aarden will resume his position as treasurer. We thank our outgoing board members and president for their service and are looking forward to the new board’s activities in 2023-2024!
We warmly invite you to our upcoming business meeting!
Um die Sichtbarkeit und den Austausch bzw. die Vernetzung von STS Forschung in Österreich voranzutreiben, hat STS Austria die Möglichkeit, 1-2 Veranstaltungen, die im Kalenderjahr 2023 durchgeführt werden sollen, finanziell zu unterstützen. Insgesamt stehen dafür 1500 EUR zur Verfügung. Wir laden daher STS Austria Mitglieder ein, Anträge zur Förderung von Veranstaltungen einzubringen. Antragsberechtigt sind alle Mitglieder von STS Austria, eventuelle Mitorganisator:innen müssen nicht Mitglied sein. Gefördert werden können unterschiedliche Arten von Veranstaltungen (z.B. Workshops, Konferenzen, Vorträge, Diskussionsrunden, Arbeitsgruppen), welche die Vereinsziele von STS Austria unterstützen.
We warmly invite you to a second installment of STS Austria’s workshop “STS: Skills, Career Trajectories and Stories” on career orientation and different professional paths for STS graduates. The workshop will take place ONLINE on Wednesday, Nov 24th, 2021, 14:00 – 17:00, via Zoom.
The final program for our workshop “Digital Living, Digital Infrastructuring”, 13–15 September 2021 in Graz is now available!
Call for Papers: “Digital Living, Digital Infrastructuring”
Workshop STS Austria, 13-15 September 2021, Graz
Science and Technology Studies has repeatedly shown that the social, cultural, technological and political conditions of research, knowledge production and innovation processes are being re-shaped through the digitization of data, the virtualization of communication and collaboration, and the design of underlying infrastructures.
Von 29. Juni bis 1. Juli findet am Institut für Höhere Studien das interdisziplinäre Symposium “Leben mit Corona” statt, zu dem Sozialwissenschafter*innen verschiedener Disziplinen eingeladen wurden, um ausgehend von aktuellen Forschungsergebnissen im Dialog mit Vertreter*innen öffentlicher Institutionen zu diskutieren, wie sich das Leben in Österreich mit Corona gestaltet und welche weiteren Forschungsfragen sich in Bezug auf gegenwärtige und zukünftige Herausforderungen der Pandemie stellen.
After a successful two-year period in which STS Austria held its second conference and launched several initiatives supporting students and early career researchers in STS, a new board was elected at the annual business meeting on February 25, 2020.
Max Fochler and Karen Kastenhofer will step down from their positions as president and treasurer after four years of board membership, in accordance with STS Austria’s bylaws. Florentine Frantz and Erich Grießler will also leave the board after this period. We wish to thank all of them for their initiative and dedication in helping to further establish STS Austria during the past years. We are also pleased that a number of new members are taking over positions on the board this year. The members of the newly elected board are:
Erik Aarden (Uni Wien): Kassier/ treasurer
Doris Allhutter (ITA)
Daniel Barben (AAU, Klagenfurt): Obmann/ president
Petra Schaper-Rinkel (Uni Graz): Stv. Obfrau / vice-president
Helene Sorgner (AAU, Klagenfurt): Schriftführerin/ secretary
Shauna Stack (Uni Wien/IHS): Nachwuchswissenschaftlerin/ junior scientist
Florian Winkler (UniWien/IHS): Nachwuchswissenschaftler/ junior scientist
This year’s annual business meeting ended with the celebration of the excellent scholarship of young researchers in STS, as the first STS Austria Prize for Early Career Publications was awarded to Ruth Falkenberg, Nils Matzner and Andrea Schikowitz.
You can read more about their work and other outstanding publications by early career researchers in STS here.
One of the missions of STS Austria is to support and promote events which improve scholarly communication and exchange in the field and integrate junior researchers in STS.
If you have an idea for an event or an initiative supporting these goals, let us know!
To showcase the excellent work of young members of the STS Austria community and increase the visibility of research involved in PhD and MA theses, we will feature selected early career publications on this site.
New posts arriving every month!