This is a fairly large conference with social anthropologists from all over Europe, over 120 workshops crammed into three days. But lots of good stuff, also regarding critical perspectives on environmental management. Franz will participate in a workshop on "Water scenarios: Forecasting and liquid knowledge."
http://www.nomadit.co.uk/easa/easa2010/panels.php5?PanelID=668

I am spending two weeks focussing on writing up short accessible articles on two topics:

• Greenwashing: for the upcoming Encyclopedia of Green Culture,
• Carbon Dioxiode: for the upcoming Encyclopedia of Consumption and Waste.

Jointly organized by the Canadian Circumpolar Institute (Canada), the Thule Institute (Finland), the Stefansson Arctic Institute (Iceland) and the Northern Research Forum.

thanks to a neat little office at the Canadian Circumpolar Institute, the institute's lovely staff and the great resources of the U Alberta libraries, writing up my thesis is more fun than I thought. My hope is to get a draft version done before summer vacation, and before going back to Europe...

Two members of our group have been invited to present papers at the EASST conference 2010. See [1] [2].

References

1. Sustainability as a localised performance: The production of carbon credits in a developing country site,
   Anup San Ninan
   , EASST010 conference: Practicing science and technology, performing the social, 02/09/2010, Trento, Italy, (Submitted)
2. Capitalism in Constructing Carbon Emissions,
   Ingmar Lippert
   , EASST010 conference: Practicing science and technology, performing the social, 02/09/2010, (Submitted)

The German National Academic Foundation routinely carries out meetings of junior scholars in the social sciences. The foundation offers competitive scholarships to approximately 0.25 percent of the German university student population.

A member of our group, Ingmar Lippert, will be presenting the latest developments of how he puts actor-network theory (ANT) into practice as part of his analysis.

Finally, after a months of coding, and a couple of weeks of abstracting towards code families and themes, I decided about what to focus on as the core theme of my PhD: the social construction of carbon emissions.

The XVII. World Congress of Sociology, taking place in Sweden, July 2010, provides a platform for the international community of environmental sociologists as well.

As part of my ongoing STS ethnography, I am trying to narrow down the theme which I a(i)m to analyse in depth.
For analysis, I use TAMS. It's friendly developer, Matthew Weinstein, supported me already several times by implementing some of my requests.

Still new in the realm of research tools are social networking tools for researchers to connect. Academia.edu and Mendeley claim to offer new ways for researchers to find like-minded researchers, i.e. people with similar research interests.