Events

In this final seminar, Hanne Castberg Thee Tresselt will present the draft of her PhD thesis titled “Precision Vaccines and Educated Immune Systems: The shaping of immune systems through immunological practices”

IST 2024 is hosted by the TIK Centre for technology, innovation and culture at the University of Oslo, in collaboration with SINTEF,  the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), the INTRANSIT and NTRANS research centers and the Western Norway University of Applied Sciences.

Cecilia Rikap (University College London) will hold a seminar on intellectual monopoly and corporate power. 

John Law (Professor Emeritus at the Open University) and Lucy Suchman (Professor Emerita at Lancaster University) will participate in an open dialogue on whether there is a particular STS in the Nordics, and their collaborative work with people from TIK and UiO.

Ulrike Felt's (University of Vienna) presentation will focus on the 'twin transition' as a buzzword in European policy discourse, and draw on the research project Innovation Residues - Modes and Infrastructures of Caring for our Longue-durée Environmental Futures. 

Ulrike Felt (University of Vienna) will visit TIK to present her work on the left-behinds of innovation activities such as nuclear waste, microplastcis and data/digital waste, and invites us to think about responsible innovation from the perspective of the residues and our capacities to care for them.

Johan Söderberg (University of Gothenburg) will visit TIK on the occasion of his and Maxigas recent book, Resistance to the current: The dialectics of hacking (MIT Press, 2022).

In this final seminar, Kjersti Aalbu will present the draft of her PhD thesis titled “Data politics in the governance of greenhouse gas emissions from international shipping”

Professor Milena Nikolova (University of Groningen) will present her research on worker motivations, work meaningfulness, and work orientations. 

Following Koray Çalışkan's (The New School, Parsons School of Design) talk on "How to Make Money with Data?", he will be joined by José Ossandón (Copenhagen Business School). Together, they will present and discuss the book Nature-Made Economy (Asdal and Huse 2023) and its contributions to the study of economization.

Associate Professor Koray Çalışkan (The New School, Parsons School of Design) will give a lecture on the occasion of his new book "Data Money: Inside Cryptocurrencies, Their Communities, Markets, and Blockchains" (Columbia, 2023). Drawing on his award winning research, Çalışkan will present a radical insider view of how cryptocurrencies are created and traded on the ground, analyzing the emergence of the third fiat money in world history: Data Money.

In this talk, Associate Professor Tommaso Venturini (Center for Internet and Society) will discuss his current research, which focuses on the attention economy, its acceleration in online media and internet subcultures. 

Master in Applied Information Technology with Specialisation in Learning and Communication Frauke Gerdes Rohden will be defending her dissertation "Exploring online conversations around science – data practices of informal online knowing spaces"

Master in Technology and Society (STS) Sylvia Irene Lysgård will be defending her dissertation: "Statoil in the Canadian Oil Sands: Tar versus Oil and the Trouble of Storytelling". 

Master in Political Sociology Tércio Ávila Pinho Filho will be defending his dissertation: "Contracting and Innovation in Megaprojects".

On the occasion of Kristin Asdal and Tone Huse’s new book with MIT Press, Nature-Made Economy: Cod, Capital and the Great Economization of the Ocean, TIK is hosting a launch and lounge seminar.

Kristina Lyons visits the STS methods lab seminar 19th October

At this weeks innovation lunch, Professor Emeritus Jan Fagerberg will give a talk which reflects work in progress on a chapter for Oxford Handbook on Greening of Economic Development.

Exhibition presented by the Norwegian Bioart Arena.