Making the Future? TaSTI research seminar

Friday 29 November 2024, 10 am-2 pm, LINNA 5014

Traditionally, Science and Technology Studies (STS) scholars have challenged the ways how scientific facts or technological innovations are made in labs through tinkering, negotiations, discussions, interpretations, configurations and re-configurations. The interdisciplinary research field of STS has provided new insights into the interplay of science, technology, society and politics from the viewpoint of the humanities and the social sciences. STS explore the conditions and consequences of scientific and technological knowledge production and dissemination in radically technologized societies. 

The TasTI research seminar “Making the Future?” introduces cutting-edge empirical and theoretical research from the field of STS. We assume that the current pioneering STS research that embarks upon in the present can affect and shape the way how people approach to issues, such as climate change, (in)equality, global health threats and artificial intelligence in the future. In this seminar new ground-breaking STS research will be presented, which can serve as a beacon for the 2030s, providing new solutions to deal with wicked social problems.

 Program

10.15–11.30 Maria Temmes: One or multiple diseases? Conceptualization of endometriosis in increasingly personalized biomedical research

11.30–12.30 Lunch

12.30–13.45 Aleksi Hupli: Exploring psychedelic and cannabinoid-based therapies for alcohol use disorder. Preliminary horizon scanning of emerging technologies