2023
The pandemic return of the deficit model. Comparing Austria’s anti-GM and anti- vaccination movements. 21st Annual STS Conference Critical Issues in Science, Technology and Society Studies, Graz, Austria; 8. – 10.5.2023.
Some advice to social scientists acting as policy entrepreneurs, reformers and institution builders in the governance of science and technology. The experience with nanotechnology. 21st Annual STS Conference Critical Issues in Science, Technology and Society Studies, Graz, Austria; 8. – 10.5.2023.
2020
Nanotechnologie. Anatomie eines verschachtelten Hypes. Jahrestagung des VDI Ausschusses Technikgeschichte, TU Berlin, Germany; 28.2.2020 (invited, fully funded talk).
2019
Normativität, Narrativität, Selbstreflexivität und die normative Wende im Nanotechnologie Politikfeld. Jahrestagung der Gesellschaft für Wissenschafts- und Technikforschung „The politics of STS: Normative Prämissen der Wissenschafts- und Technikforschung auf dem Prüfstand“, TU Berlin, Germany; 7.11.2019.
Aktivitäten und Motive von Feldzerstörungsakteuren. Workshop „Genome Editing für die Landwirtschaft in Deutschland und Europa – Rahmenbedingungen für Feldforschung mit genomeditierten Pflanzen“, Universität Hannover, Germany; 10.5.2019 (invited, fully funded speech).
2018
Nanotechnology: democratizing a hyped-up technology? Science in Public 2018, Cardiff, U.K.; 17.- 19.12. 2018.
Explaining national variants of the European anti-GM movement. Tag der Politikwissenschaft, Innsbruck, Austria; 29.11. – 30.11. 2018.
Democratizing a hyped‐up technology? 2nd STS Austria Conference, Klagenfurt, Austria; 17. ‐ 19.9. 2018.
Panel Convenor & Chair: Public engagement with new and emerging technologies 4S, Sydney, Australia, 1.9.2018
Moving across national borders? The Europeanization of the Anti-Biotech Movement. Society for Social Studies of Science (4S), Sydney, Australia; 29.8. – 1.9. 2018.
Converging in dialogue? Nanotechnology as multi- and transnational field of democratic experimentation. European Association for the Study of Science and Technology (EASST), Lancaster, U.K.; 25. – 28.7. 2018.
Do national anti-GM movements converge in the long term? SNET 2018, Society for the Studies of New and Emerging Technologies, Maastricht, NL, 25.- 27.6. 2018.
Panel Convenor & Chair: Public engagement with new and emerging technologies. STS Conference, Graz, 7.5. 2018.
Europeanization of the Anti-GM Movement. 17th Annual STS Conference, Graz, Austria; 7. – 8.5. 2018.
2017
The Deliberative Turn in Nanotech Policy. S.NET Conference Phenix/Arizona/USA; 9.-11.10. 2017.
The Deliberative Turn in Nanotech Policy. 16th Annual STS Conference – Critical Issues in Science, Technology and Society, Graz, Austria; 8.-9.5.2017.
Die Gefahren der Gentechnik. Real? Aberglaube? Oder ist alles einfach nur sehr kompliziert? Workshop Die Skeptiker, Vienna, Austria; 13.2. 2017 (invited talk).
2016
The Deliberative Turn in Nanotech Policy Good Nano – Bad Nano: Who Decides? Forschungsplattform Nano-Norms-Nature. Universität Wien und Universität für Bodenkultur, Vienna, Austria; 2.12.2016 (invited speech).
2015
Measuring the Europeanization of the Anti-GM Movement. Evidence from Five EU Countries. 22nd International Conference of Europeanists. Paris, France; 9.7.2015.
2014
I’d go for collegiality rather than solidarity. The Social Sciences and Humanities in a crisis of credibility on top of all the other crises, paper presented at the workshop Researching under Neoliberal Conditions, Vienna, Austria, 15.11.2014.
National mobilization is the major lever. Measuring the anti-GM movement’s Europeanization. S.NET Annual Conference. ITAS Karlsruhe, Germany; 22.9.2014.
2013
National Variants of the European anti-biotech movement: a comparative study of Austria, Germany, France, Spain and the United Kingdom. Cornell University, NY State, USA; 1.11.2013. (invited, fully funded presentation).
National Variants of the European anti-biotech movement: a comparative study of Austria, Germany, France, Spain and the United Kingdom. S.NET Annual Conference” Boston/MA, USA; 29.10.2013.
Science and expertise as an action tool of the European anti-biotech movement. 8th Conference of Interpretative Policy Analysis, Vienna, Austria; 5.7.2013 (Session Convenor and Chair).
National Variants of the European anti-biotech movement: a comparative study of Austria, Germany, France, Spain and the United Kingdom. Protests as Events / Events as Protests: A one day symposium for academics and activists. Leeds, UK: 12.6.2013.
National Variants of the European anti-biotech movement: a comparative study of Austria, Germany, France, Spain and the United Kingdom. Critical Issues in Science and Technology Studies Graz, Austria; 6. – 7.,5.2013.
Warum und wie tragen Anti-Gentechnik-Bewegungen zur Demokratisierung der EU bei? Land(wirt)schaft, Demokratie und Agro-Gentechnik: Wer entscheidet, was auf Äckern und Tellern landet? Alfred Toepfer Akademie für Naturschutz, Schneverding, Germany 13.5.2013. (invited, fully funded talk).
National Variants of the European anti-biotech movement: a comparative study of Austria, Germany, France, Spain and the United Kingdom, Workshop, Social Movements, Wissenschafts Zentrum Berlin (WZB), Berlin, Germany; 13.2.2013.
2012
National Variants of the European anti-biotech movement: a comparative study of Austria, Germany, France, Spain and the United Kingdom. Keele University, 7.12.2012.
National Variants of the European anti-biotech movement: a comparative study of Austria, Germany, France, Spain and the United Kingdom. London School of Economics (LSE), Workshop Social Psychology, London, U.K.; 5.12.2012.
Diffusion and Policy Learning in Nanotechnology Policy. Movement Actors and Public Engagement in Germany and France. 2012 Conference of the Society for the Study of Nanoscience and Emerging Technologies (SNet), Twente, NL; 22. – 25.10.2012.
Social Movements and Converging Technologies. An exploration. Direct-To-Consumer and Do-It-Yourself Biotechnologies. Challenges to Researching, Engaging and Governing the Messiness of Convergence. Edinburgh, UK; 27. – 28.9.2012.
Austrian Pastoral: Rural Protest at the Margins of a Hegemonic Policy Landscape. Workshop: Rural Protest Groups and Populist Political Parties, Groningen, NL; 24. – 25.5.2012 (invited, fully funded talk)
2011
In Search of the Anti-Nanotech Movement. A Survey of Germany, the UK, and the International Arena. Third Annual Conference of the Society for the Study of Nanoscience and Emerging Technologies (S.SNET) Tempe, Arizona, USA; 7. – 10.11.2011.
Bio-Luddism in France, Germany, and Spain: uneven diffusion and context. Society for Social Studies of Science (4S) Annual Meeting 2011: Cleveland, Ohio, USA; 2. – 5.11.2011.
Bio-Luddism in France, Germany, and Spain: uneven diffusion and context. 10th Annual IAS-STS Conference Critical Issues in Science and Technology Studies Graz, Austria; 1. – 3.5.2011.
Upstream dialogue – upstream movement? Incipient anti-nano movements in Germany and the UK. From public engagement to participatory governance of nanotechnology: which role for civil society organisations? Workshop at University of Augsburg. Wissenschaftszentrum Umwelt (WZU)/ Environment Science Center (ESC), Augsburg, Germany; 24. – 25.2.2011.
2010
The European Union on the Road to Sustainability? 15 Years of Fight against agro-food Biotechnology. 15 Years of Ecological Policy Reform. Interactions and Contradictions. First International Conference on Social Economy and Sustainability, Maringá State University/Paraná, Brasil; 21. – 25.9.2010. (invited, fully funded talk).
Protest movements, citizen participation and (un-) responsive states: The case of the anti-biotech movement in four European countries. EASST Conference 2010, European Association for the Study of Science and Technology “Practicing Science and Technology, Performing the Social” University Trento, Italy, 2. – 4.9.2010.
2009
NIMBYs, laggards and anti-liberal insurgents: Rural opposition to GMOs in Austria, Spain and France. International Congress of the European Society for Rural Sociology, Vaasa, Finnland; 17. – 21.8.2009.
The debate on modern biotechnology in historical perspective: Lessons for nanotechnology? International Workshop “Nanotechnology Governance Compared”. Vienna, Austria; 16. – 17. 6.2009 (invited, fully funded talk).
2008
Zurück an den Start. Wenn der Konsens ausbleibt. Tagung der Sektion Wissenschafts- und Technikforschung der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Soziologie Zwiespältiger Fortschritt? Epistemische und legitimatorische Probleme praktisch wirksamer Wissenschaft, Augsburg, Germany; 26. – 27.6.2008.
2007
Konsensuelle NIMBYs und kämpferische NIABYs. Bäuerlicher Widerstand gegen die Gentechnik in Österreich und Frankreich im Vergleich. Bundesanstalt für Bergbauernfragen, Vienna, Austria; 16.11.2007.
Austrian NIMBYs, French NIABYs, Different National Contexts for Peasant GMO Opposition and Their Impacts on Modern Biotechnology. Conference Tailoring Biotechnologies Kyoto Conference 2007. Reconstructing Agro-Biotechnologies for Development, Kyoto, Japan; 3. – 5.11.2007 (invited, fully funded talk).
National recalcitrance and scientific risk-assessment. The case of Austria’s GMO-policy. Paper presented at the ESA conference 8, in Glasgow, U.K.; 3. – 6.9.2007.
Worlds apart. Explaining diverging patterns of rural GMO-resistance in Austria and France. Proceedings of the 6. IAS-STS- conference Critical Issues in Science and Technology Studies, Graz, Austria; 25.5.2007.
2006
Divided we stand: The EU as dissonant player in the global governance of agro-food biotechnology. First International Forum of Agricultural GMOs. Beijing, P.R. China; 21-28.2006 (invited, fully funded talk).
Effects of the EU’s tightened biotechnology policy on the rest of the world, European Association of Science and Technology Studies, EASST, Conference in Lausanne, Switzerland; 26.12.2006.
Divided we stand. The EU as dissonant player in the global governance of agro-food biotechnology. United Nations University – Institute of Advanced Studies, UNU-IAS, Yokohama, Japan; 27.6.2006 (invited, fully funded talk).
2005
Global governance of biotechnology amidst controversy: Europe and beyond. United Nations University – Institute of Advanced Studies, UNU-IAS, Yokohama, Japan, 7.12.2006 (invited, fully funded talk).
Regional GM opposition as multilevel challenge? The case of Upper Austria. Paper presented at the 21st ESRS Congress “ A Common European Countryside? Change and Continuity, Diversity and Cohesion in the Enlarged Europe, Keszthely, Hungary; 22. – 27.8.2005.
2004
The European anti-biotech wave as a case of European public opinion? Public Understanding of Science Seminars, LSE Institute of Social Psychology, UCL Science and Technology Studies, LSE BIOS CENTRE, London School of Economics, London, UK; 8.12.2004.
The Transatlantic Conflict over Biotechnology and the Hegemony of Physical Risk. Paper prepared for the 45th Annual ISA Convention Hegemony and its Discontents, Montreal, Quebec, Canada; 17. – 20.3.2004.
2003
Zur Fabrikation von Konsens in der Wissensgesellschaft. Eine österreichische Fallstudie. Das Verbindende der Kulturen, Sektion sozialverträgliche Wissenschaftskulturen. Institut zur Erforschung und Förderung österreichischer und internationaler Literaturprozesse, Vienna, Austria; 7.-9.11.2003
2002
Biotechnology – The Public – Democracy. Presentation at the “Fourth International Summer Academy of Technology Studies” Deutschlandsberg, Austria; 7.- 12.7.2002.
2000
The emergence of a European public? The case of biotechnology. Presentation at the 4S/EASST Conference 2000: Worlds in Transition: Technoscience, Citizenship and Culture in the 21st Century, Vienna, Austria; 27.-30.9.2000.
1999
Wie demokratisch ist die österreichische Gentechnologiekontroverse? Eine Aufforderung zur Diskussion. Agora Sektion Demokratieforschung, Österreichische Gesellschaft für Politikwissenschaft, IHS, Vienna, Austria; 23.3.1999.
1998
Öterreichs Gentechnikkonotroverse als Mehrbenenenkonflikt. Jahrestagung des Arbeitskreises Politik und Technik der Deutschen Vereinigung für Politische Wissenschaft Biotechnologie – Globalisierung – Demokratie. Formierungsprozesse und Perspektiven einer Zukunftstechnologie WZB, Berlin, Germany; 15.-17.10.1998.
1997
Convenor, organizer, chair Natur in der politischen und wissenschaftlichen Kontroverse, Symposium of the Austrian Society of Political Science, Institute of Advances Studies Wien (IHS), Vienna Austria 14-15.11.1997
1995
Die Bewertung der Bio- und Gentechnologie in Österreich und der EU. Symposium Sozialverträgliche Gentechnik. Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna, Austria; 4.4.1995.