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• Conference: 7th International Conference in Interpretive Policy Analysis (IPA) 2012, 5-7 July Understanding the Drama of Democracy. Policy Work, Power and Transformation

• Panel: Prompters and Curtain-Pullers: Policy advisers in Practice;

Interdisciplinary workshop 29 May to 2 June 2012, Germany (Bielefeld University: Center for Interdisciplinary Research).

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Call for Papers

People manage their environments, all of us in everyday life, and some more specifically as professionals. Many of the decisions we take and activities we practice, both in everyday life and in professional roles, have multiple and heterogeneous consequences for our environments. Yet, often a particular set of practices is delineated as environmental management and assumed to contribute to "sustainability". In this workshop, however, we will discuss environmental management as a practice, as a situated unfolding of social relationships, desires, routines, and materials. Thereby, we aim to gain insight into some of the processes by which sustainability and unsustainability are being produced (Blühdorn and Welsh 20071).

• 1. Blühdorn, Ingolfur, and Ian Welsh. "Eco-politics beyond the Paradigm of Sustainability: A Conceptual Framework and Research Agenda." Environmental Politics 16 (2007): 185-205.

I will be visiting Lancaster University in its Lent term 2011 to work with Lucy Suchman of the Centre for Science Studies (CSS) and staff of the Centre for the Study of Environmental Change (CSEC), including Claire Waterton, to unpick the practices of corporate agents of ecological modernisation involved with carbon accounting.

Several members of our group have been invited to present papers at the EASST conference 2010.

While Anup Sam Ninan will present results of his research on the production of carbon credits, Ingmar Lippert prepared a paper on the construction of carbon emissions. See 1 2.

• 1. Ninan, Anup Sam. "Sustainability as a localised performance: The production of carbon credits in a developing country site." In EASST010 conference: Practicing science and technology, performing the social. Trento, Italy, 2010.
• 2. Lippert, Ingmar. "Capitalism in Constructing Carbon Emissions." In EASST010 conference: Practicing science and technology, performing the social. Trento, Italy, 2010.

Society for Social Studies of Science (4S) is the oldest and largest scholarly association devoted to understanding science and technology.

At the annual meeting 2009 one of our group members has been invited to present his work: Anup Sam Ninan 1.

• 1. Ninan, Anup Sam. "In Carbon they Swear! Materiality and Sustainability in Climate Change." In 4S 2009 Annual Meeting of the The Society Society for Social Studies of Science., 2009.

The first UK Postgraduate Science and Technology Studies (PSTS) conference will be held at the Institute for Science and Society at the University of Nottingham on the 28th and 29th July 2009. If you are engaged in research in science, technology and society and related fields, then the event will provide a key forum in which to present on-going research and build networks within the UK STS community. The conference is organised by postgraduate students and is intended for postgrads at all stages of research.

Keynote Speakers

Initiator and Founding member of the Environment, Management and Society Research Group.

Since August 2012, Ingmar Lippert is contributing to the cluster of STS and Climate Change researchers at Tembusu College, National University of Singapore and is member of the Faculty of Arts & Social Sciences' STS Cluster. Focused on Science and Technology Studies, Ingmar did his PhD Enacting Environments on Agents of Ecological Modernisation and their practices of enacting carbon emission realities supervised by the Chair for Sociology, Christoph Lau, of Augsburg University (Germany) and Lucy Suchman from Lancaster University's Centre for Science Studies. He did his undergraduate studies at Brandenburg University of Technology (Germany) and Bosporus University (Turkey) and graduated in Environmental and Resource Management.