Digital KOLLEG-FORUM with Prof. Andrew Stirling (Univ. of Sussex): From control to conviviality in technology governance

The Humanities Centre for Advanced Studies "Futures of Sustainability" kindly invites you to the upcoming digital KOLLEG-FORUM:

08 February 2023, 10:00 a.m.-12:00 noon (CET)
Digital KOLLEG-FORUM: Prof. Andrew Stirling, PhD (University of Sussex Business School, SPRU - Science Policy Research Unit): “From control to conviviality in technology governance: precaution and sustainability in pathways for transforming modernity”

Andrew Stirling is Professor of Science and Technology Policy at the Science Policy Research Unit in the Business School of the University of Sussex, where for 16 years he co-directed the ESRC STEPS Centre. Focusing especially on issues of power, uncertainty and diversity in science and society, he has served on UK and EU governmental regulatory bodies on energy policy, toxic substances, GM Crops, science advice and public engagement. He has worked with a variety of civil society organisations as well as commercial firms, including on the boards of Greenpeace UK and Greenpeace International. He has also served as an advisor for the Royal Society, Nuffield Council and European Science Foundation, UK Committee on Radioactive Waste Management and Canadian Nuclear Waste Management Organisation. A fellow of the UK Academy of Social Sciences, Andrew Stirling was a member of the ESRC Research Committee and the sociology sub-panel of the 2021 UK ‘Research Excellence Framework’. He is a lead author in the UN IPBES conservation assessment.

Publications (full list available here)

- R. Cairns, J. Onyango, A. Stirling, P. Johnstone, Imagining urban transformation in Kenya, Environmental Science & Policy, 135, 2022:86-95

- Scoones, A. Stirling, Uncertainty and the Politics of Transformation, introduction to I. Scoones, A. Stirling (eds) The Politics of Uncertainty: Challenges of Transformation, Taylor and Francis, London, 2020

- Stirling, Engineering and Sustainability: control and care in unfoldings of modernity, chapter in D. P. Michelfelder, N. Doorn (eds) Routledge Companion to Philosophy of Engineering, Routledge, London, 2020

- Stirling, Precautionary Appraisal as a Response to Risk, Uncertainty, Ambiguity and Ignorance, chapter 26 in C. Spash (ed), Routledge Handbook of Ecological Economics: Nature and Society, Routledge, London, 2017

Registration:

We kindly ask you to register for this digital event. If you would like to participate, please indicate the date of the event and register via:
zukuenfte.der.nachhaltigkeit@uni-hamburg.de