Date: 05 - 07 July 2022
Description: British Academy/Wellcome Trust Conferences bring together scholars and specialists from around the world to explore themes related to health and wellbeing.

ISS Meeting

Date: 22 June 2022
Location:: MS Teams
Description: Please email dimitris.papadopoulos@nottingham.ac.uk for more information.

ISS Intellectual Biographies: Alison Pilnick and Andrea Ghelfi

Date: 15 June 2022
Location:: MS Teams
Description: With Alison Pilnick and Andrea Ghelfi (University of Nottingham).

ISS Intellectual Biographies: Kate Millar and Alistair Anderson

Date: 11 May 2022
Location:: MS Teams
Description: With Kate Millar and Alistair Anderson (University of Nottingham).

ISS Seminar: Kathleen Salter (University of Nottingham)

Date: 27 April 2022
Location:: MS Teams
Description: With Kathleen Salter (University of Nottingham).

ISS Intellectual Biographies: Roda Madziva and Eleanor Hadley Kershaw

Date: 23 March 2022
Location:: MS Teams
Description: With Roda Madziva and Eleanor Hadley Kershaw (University of Nottingham).

ISS Intellectual Biographies: Carol Morris and Dimitris Papadopoulos

Date: 09 March 2022
Location:: MS Teams
Description: With Carol Morris and Dimitris Papadopoulos (University of Nottingham).

ISS Seminar: Interdisciplinary promise and expectation: Affect in cross disciplinary collaborations

Date: 23 February 2022
Location:: MS Teams
Description: With Ashley Lewis (University of Nottingham).

ISS Seminar: Socially-distanced science: how publics were imagined, modelled and marginalised in the UK's Covid-19 response

Date: 09 February 2022
Location:: MS Teams
Description: With Warren Pearce (University of Sheffield) and Chair: Murray Goulden (University of Nottingham).

ISS Meeting

Date: 26 January 2022
Location:: MS Teams
Description: Please email dimitris.papadopoulos@nottingham.ac.uk for more information.

ISS Intellectual Biographies: Brigitte Nerlich and Reiner Grundmann

Date: 24 November 2021
Location:: MS Teams
Description: With Brigitte Nerlich and Reiner Grundmann (University of Nottingham).

ISS Intellectual Biographies: Pru Hobson-West and Murray Goulden

Date: 17 November 2021
Location:: MS Teams
Description: With Pru Hobson-West and Murray Goulden (University of Nottingham).

ISS Meeting

Date: 10 November 2021
Location:: MS Teams
Description: Please email dimitris.papadopoulos@nottingham.ac.uk for more information.

2020/21

Conference - Mending Ecologies: Reparation in Social and Environmental Conflict

Date: 28 June - 02 July 2021
Location:: A01 and A02, Highfield House, University Park
Description: The conference brings together practices of mending damaged ecologies that exist precariously through various societal, environmental, material involvements and across diverse locations and geographies.

ISS Meeting

Date: 09 June 2021
Location:: Online
Description: Please email dimitris.papadopoulos@nottingham.ac.uk to receive access details to this online event.

ISS Seminar: Towards Net-Zero: Bioenergy with carbon capture and storage (BECCS) and fracking storylines in the context of the UK's low carbon transition

Date: 26 May 2021
Location:: Online
Description: With Karolina Trdlicova (University of Nottingham).

ISS Seminar: Scientific emergency or emergency for science? Alternative experts and civic dislocation in the UK's Covid-19 response

Date: 12 May 2021
Location:: Online
Description: With Warren Pearce (University of Sheffield).

ISS Seminar: Friction and folding: The Internet of Things and everyday life

Date: 28 April 2021
Location:: Online
Description: With Murray Goulden (University of Nottingham).

ISS Seminar: Controversies in human and animal vaccination

Date: 24 March 2021
Location:: Online
Description: With Pru Hobson-West (University of Nottingham).

ISS Seminar: 'Back to China': a study of Chinese students' experience in the UK and its impact on their pro-environmental attitudes and behaviours after return

Date: 10 March 2021
Location:: Online
Description: With Roger Tyers (University of Nottingham).

ISS Seminar: New peasantries in Italy: Eco-commoning, agroecology and food communities

Date: 24 February 2021
Location:: Online
Description: With Andrea Ghelfi (University of Nottingham).

ISS Seminar: The rise of social science in UK natural environment organisations

Date: 10 February 2021
Location:: Online
Description: With Carol Morris (University of Nottingham).

ISS Seminar: Post-work and ecology

Date: 27 January 2021
Location:: Online
Description: With Luigi Pellizzoni (Università di Pisa).

Conference - Responsible Innovation: Industrial Biotechnology and Engineering Biology

Date: 25 January 2021
Location:: Online
Description: The Carbon Recycling Network, the Nottingham BBSRC/EPSRC Synthetic Biology Research Centre, the ENGICOIN project, and the Institute for Science and Society, University of Nottingham, are delighted to invite you to an online event.

ISS Seminar: Constructing environmental deviance: A criminological approach to controlling air pollution from residential stoves

Date: 02 December 2020
Location:: Online
Description: With James Heydon (University of Nottingham).

ISS Seminar: Waging a war against pests and diseases: Responsible communication and 'gene drive' metaphors in the American, British and Australian press, 2015-2019

Date: 18 November 2020
Location:: Online
Description: With Aleksandra Stelmach (University of Exeter), Brigitte Nerlich (University of Nottingham) and Sarah Hartley (University of Exeter).

ISS Meeting

Date: 04 November 2020
Location:: Online
Description: Please email dimitris.papadopoulos@nottingham.ac.uk to receive access details to this online event.

ISS Seminar: Covid and climate: Two tales of expertise

Date: 21 October 2020
Location:: Online
Description: With Reiner Grundmann (University of Nottingham).

2019/20

ISS Research Seminar: Improvising the smart home: Overcoming the standardised smart home through improvisations-in-practice

Date: 10 June 2020
Location:: Online
Description: With Lewis Cameron (University of Nottingham).

ISS Research Seminar: Covid-19, public discourse and scientific expertise

Date: 20 May 2020
Location:: Online
Description: With Brigitte Nerlich and Reiner Grundmann (University of Nottingham).

ISS Research Seminar: The outer space utopias of Silicon Valley

Date: 29 April 2020
Location:: Online
Description: With Richard Tutton (University of York).

ISS Research Seminar: Militarising Nature/Naturalising militarisation: designing deception in the desert war 1940-1943

Date: 25 March 2020
Location:: D08, Teaching and Learning Building, University Park
Description: With Isla Forsythe (University of Nottingham).

ISS Research Seminar: Experimenting in Infrastructural Downscaling: Speculative Activism in the Fab Lab and Transition Movements in Japan

Date: 04 March 2020
Location:: A01, Highfield House, University Park
Description: With Atsuro Morita (Osaka University).

ISS Paper Seminar

Date: 22 January 2020
Location:: A4, Law and Social Sciences, University Park
Description: With Nick Stevenson and Murray Goulden (University of Nottingham).

CANCELLED ISS Research Seminar: Militarising Nature/Naturalising militarisation: designing deception in the desert war 1940-1943

Date: 04 December 2019
Location:: A02, Highfield House, University Park
Description: With Isla Forsythe (University of Nottingham).

STS4C Mobile Seminar: More-than-human? Ecology, Society and Interspecies Worlds

Date: 19 November 2019
Location:: Council Room, Trent Building A21, University Park
Description: With Eva Giraud, Eleanor Hadley Kershaw, Richard Helliwell & Gregory Hollin; Pru Hobson-West; Anna Krzywoszynska; Carrie Friese & Joanna Latimer; Warren Pearce.

ISS Project Seminar

Date: 06 November 2019
Location:: C11, Teaching and Learning Building, University Park
Description: With Murray Goulden, Eleanor Hadley Kershaw and Dimitris Papadopoulos (University of Nottingham).

Research Seminar: On not being a bioethicist: normativity, otherwising and synthetic biology

Date: 23 October 2019
Location:: A02, Highfield House, University Park
Description: With Jane Calvert (University of Edinburgh).

Responsible Research and Innovation Conference 2019

Date: 22 October 2019
Location:: East Midlands Conference Centre, University Park
Description: The conference is organised by the Graduate School and Institute for Science and Society, School of Sociology and Social Policy.

2018/19

The Good Drone: How social movements democratize surveillance

Date: 19 June 2019
Location:: Council Room A21, Trent Building, University Park
Description: Seminar with Austin Choi-Fitzpatrick, University of Nottingham.

Microbe work: More-than-human relations in a synthetic biology centre

Date: 12 June 2019
Location:: C15, Teaching and Learning Building, University Park
Description: Research seminar with Carmen McLeod and Eleanor Hadley Kershaw (University of Nottingham).

STS INVOLVED

Date: 16 May 2019
Location:: A01, Centre for Advanced Studies, Highfield House, University Park
Description: Institute for Science and Society Forum with Claire Waterton (Lancaster), Dimitris Papadopoulos (Nottingham), Javier Lezaun (Oxford), Joanna Latimer (York), Kate O'Riordan (Sussex), Maria Puig de la Bellacasa (Warwick), Mike Michael (Exeter), Noortje Marres (Warwick), Paul Martin (Sheffield), Vicky Singleton (Lancaster).

A comparative study of discourses Surrounding fracking and bioenergy in the UK - A short introduction into future research

Date: 08 May 2019
Location:: C10, Teaching and Learning Building, University Park
Description: Research seminar with Karolina Trdlicova (University of Nottingham).

Environmental imaginaries and the environmental science of Antimicrobial Resistance

Date: 10 April 2019
Location:: A2, Law and Social Sciences Building, University Park
Description: Research seminar with Richard Helliwell (University of Nottingham), Sujatha Raman (Australian National University) & Carol Morris (University of Nottingham).

Escaping the impact and social media machines: Individual and collective solutions?

Date: 27 March 2019
Location:: A2, Law and Social Sciences Building, University Park
Description: Marc Carrigan (University of Cambridge and The Sociological Review).

STS4C mobile seminar: Living with machines: AI, robots and IoT in everyday life

Date: 26 March 2019
Location:: Interdisciplinary Centre of the Social Sciences, University of Sheffield
Description: This is the first the first STS 4 Cities Consortium (Nottingham, Sheffield, Leeds, York) mobile seminar in our 'More than human?' series of events.

Critical theory in the Anthropocene: Marxism, ecology and the commons

Date: 13 March 2019
Location:: A2, Law and Social Sciences Building, University Park
Description: Research seminar with Nick Stevenson (University of Nottingham).

The vet in the lab: Exploring the position of animal professionals in non-therapeutic roles

Date: 30 January 2019
Location:: A21, Trent Building, University Park
Description: Research seminar with Vanessa Ashall (University of Nottingham).

The animal research nexus: Reflections on the process, promise and pitfalls of a large collaborative project

Date: 12 December 2018
Location:: A02, Highfield House, University Park
Description: Research seminar with Pru Hobson-West (University of Nottingham).

The sins of the fathers: Men and new reproductive imaginaries in discourses of epigenetics

Date: 28 November 2018
Location:: A02, Highfield House, University Park
Description: Research seminar with Aleksandra Stelmach (University of Nottingham).

Two windows on the smart home: Political economy and interpersonal privacy

Date: 07 November 2018
Location:: C10, Teaching and Learning Building, University Park
Description: Research seminar with Murray Goulden (University of Nottingham).

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