At the general assembly on December 17, 2024, a new STS Austria board was elected featuring representatives of several Austrian institutions and three early-career researchers. Juliane Jarke was elected as president, and Astrid Mager was newly elected as vice-president. Christian Dayé newly joined as treasurer, Jahan Hadidi and Ronja Borgmästars as student representatives. We thank our outgoing board members and president for their service and are looking forward to the new board’s activities in 2025-2026!
Great Success of the 3rd Early Career Workshop “STS: Skills, Career Trajectories and Stories”
21.11.2024 at ÖAW
“How did you prepare for your job interview to convey the expertise you bring from STS?”
The reply to this question sparked my favorite moment: “Not at all, I only attended this Workshop a couple of year ago.”
The 3rd Early Career Workshop organized by STS Austria explored job opportunities for graduates in STS and was a resounding success. How can graduates apply academic knowledge? What non-academic career paths offer exciting fields of activity? And what does career development look like across various fields?
Annual General Meeting 2024
Dear Members of STS Austria,
We would like to invite you to the 2024 STS Austria Annual General Meeting and our Collaborative Futures Session on STS (in) Austria.
Both takes place on December 17, 15:00-17:00 in Seminarraum 2/Campus of the Austrian Academy of Sciences (ÖAW), Bäckerstrasse 13, 1010 Vienna. Please find the meeting agenda attached.
Workshop Invitation “STS: Skills, Career Trajectories and Stories” #3
We warmly invite you to the third instalment 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 at the Austrian Academy of Science on Thursday, Nov 21st, 2024, 15:00 – 18:00.
Funding Support for STS Events
Are you organising an event in 2024? STS Austria will again financially support 1–2 academic events this year. A total of € 1500 is available for this purpose. Only members of STS Austria are eligible to apply, but potential co-organisers of the event do not need to be members. We will fund different kinds of events (workshops, conferences, lectures, roundtable discussions, working groups) supporting the mission of STS Austria. In particular, we invite applications for events which a) address early-career researchers, b) involve cooperation between different institutions and/or c) take place outside of Vienna.
STS Austria Early Career Awardees 2023
We are proud to present this year’s Early Career Awardees and their excellent contributions on our website.
STS Austria Conference 2023: Digging Where We Stand: Activism, Community and the Politics of STS
The STS Austria Conference took place from 27 – 29 November 2023 at the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Dr. Ignaz Seipel-Platz 2, 1010 Vienna.
Conference Programme
The conference started on Monday, November 27, 2023, at 1:00 p.m. and ended on Wednesday, November 29, 2023, at 5:30 p.m.
Public Keynote: Threshold Infrastructures: Pedagogies of Entangled Topographies
Monday, 27 November, 2023
17:30-19:00 Sitzungssaal (open to the public)
Pelin Tan, Batman University
Chair: Monika Halkort
Structural violence and inter-colonial memory are deeply integrated with the landscapes and topographies of local communities where fragments of layered geontologies operate. Continue reading
Public Keynote: Impossible ‘Choices’ — Activism in the Academy
Tuesday, 28 November, 2023
18:00-19:30 SE1 (open to the public)
Katta Spiel, TU Wien
Chair: Juliane Jarke
Sign Language Translator: Antonia Maier, Anja Pfneisel
The shaping of our socio-technical environment is predominantly the privilege of a comparatively homogeneous group of people, mainly white, mainly western, mainly within an age range of 20-40 years old, mainly cis-male; with not just amusing, annoying or irritating, but also deadly consequences for anyone else. Continue reading