conference

As part of the annual conference of the Association of Social Anthropologists of the UK and Commonwealth (ASA), this panel discusses the relations between humans and water, and how the precious vitality of water is constituted, negotiated and strategically used.

The general conference theme is "Vital powers and politics: human interactions with living things" and therefore very relevant for critical approaches to environmental management.

At the 10th Annual IAS-STS Conference Critical Issues in Science and Technology Studies (May 2-3, 2011 at the Institute for Advanced Studies on Science, Technology and Society - Graz, Austria) we have brought together several researchers to discuss the study of situated practices of managing environments: For that we have designed a session in which Ingmar Lippert, Silvia Bruzzone, Franz Krause, Anna Schreuer and Gerald Aiken contributed analytically and empirically to the topic.

At Panel 38 “Environmental Market Space(s): Discourse, Power, and Legitimacy” of the Interpretive Policy Analysis (IPA) conference, two members of our group will present papers in the session "Environmental markets as socio-technical arrangements".

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.

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.

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

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 a role-play on the "Corporate Construction of Carbon Emissions".

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