Ecologies of AI Residues: In/Visibility and the Politics of Digital Sustainability
STS for Resilient Futures 2026
Bangkok, 23-24 July 2026
Residual Futures: Governing Temporal Misalignments in Innovation Societies
Conference Presentation @ Swedish STS Conference, Cross-Pollination, Contamination, Collaboration, Malmö University
Malmö, Sweden, 10-11 June 2026
Making the Invisible Knowable: Assembling Data, Infrastructures, and Collaborations
Invited Talk @ Colloquy SFB2158, Technical University of Munich
Munich, Germany, 1 June 2026
Research Cultures and Their Temporal Infrastructures: Between Repair, Maintenance and Resistance
Keynote @ Conference Transforming Research Cultures: Collaboration, Co-location and Challenges, University of Glasgow Advanced Research Center
Glasgow, Scotland, 14 May 2026
Successful Externalisations!? Innovation between Promises and its Environmental Residues
Invited Talk @
Edinburgh,Scotland, 12 May 2026
Measuring a ‘Good’ AI Model: Accounting for Environmental Futures in Artificial Intelligence
Conference Presentation @ Conference: Algorithms, Data and Democracy (ADD): Controversies of AI
Copenhagen, Denmark, 9-10 April 2026
Rechnen mit Konsequenzen: Ökologie der KI und eine Ethik begrenzter Ressourcen
Invited lecture @ Universität Augsburg, Interdisziplinäre Perspektiven auf KI und Ethik
Augsburg, Germany, 20 January 2026
Die ignorierten Rückstände von Innovation: Nachhaltigkeit, Verantwortung und die Unsichtbarkeit des Offensichtlichen
Invited talk @ KU Eichstätt-Ingolstadt
Eichstädt, Germany, 8 December 2025
Between Memory and Forgetting: Following the History of Nuclear Residues in two French sites
Talk @ SafeND, Berlin
Berlin, Germany, September 16-19, 2025
The Residues of Innovation: Caring for Environmental Futures
Talk @ ECH Retreat
Bad Vöslau, Austria, 2-3 October 2025
Innovation Residues: Modes and Infrastructures of Care for environmental futures
Invited Talk @ VI STS Summer School, CTS Lab, FLASCO
Quito, Ecuador, June 17, 2025
Twinning the green and the digital transition. How digital residues challenge this imaginary
Invited Talk @ VI STS Summerschool, CTS lab, FLASCO
Quito, Ecuador, June 17, 2025
Mikroplastik: Der lange Schatten einer bahnbrechenden Innovation
Wiener Vorlesung @ Radiokulturhaus
Vienna, Austria, February 17, 2025
INNOVATION RESIDUES: Extending our understanding of responsible innovation
Lecture @ Insttitut d’Etudes Avancées de Paris
Paris, France, May 2, 2025
Classification in action:Shaping microplastics as epistemic and regulatory object
Talk @ STS Hub Conference 2025, Diffracting the Critical
Berlin, Germany, March 11-14, 2025
Assembling sustainability: Citizens engaging with the left-behinds of innovation-driven societies
Talk @ STS Hub Conference 2025, Diffracting the Critical
Berlin, Germany, March 11-14, 2025
THE LINGERING TRACES OF INNOVATION: Exploring residual journeys through society
Invited talk @ SPIRAL
Universitét de Liège, Belgium, February 20, 2025
AU-DELÀ DU VISIBLE : L’art à percevoir une catastrophe nucléaire autrement
Invited talk @ Liège in the context of the exhibition “Picturing the invisible”
Liège, Belgium, February 19, 2025
Is it possible to be a “non-nuclear” nation in a re-nuclearizing world?
Invited talk @ TEMA Technology and Social Change high seminar
Linköpig, Sweden, December 4, 2024
The time(s) we live in/by: Blind spots, responsible foresight and the messiness of the science-policy nexus when caring for the environment
Talk @ AFINO International Conference
Oslo, Norway, August 28-20, 2024
Whose problems, whose solutions?: Adressing tensions between digital transformation and environmental sustainability
Keynote @Taking stock of three decades of of interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary research for social transformations: fostering justice, pluralism and sustainability
Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium, November 28, 2024
Navigating regulatory complexity: Challenges and shifting problem framings in turning microplastics into a European policy object
Talk @ MICRO2024 International Conference
Arife, Lanzarote, Spain, September 23-27, 2024
How to engage with the invisible left-behinds of innovation?
Talk @ EASST/4S Conference, “Making and Doing Transformations”
Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands, July 17, 2024
Collateral Transitions: Reassembling Societies, Data Centers and the Twin Transition
Talk @ EASST/4S Conference, “Making and Doing Transformations”
Vrije University Amsterdam, The Netherlands, July 18, 2024
“Data for the Public Good”? Expanding Data Practices Confront Environmental Concerns
Keynote @ Workshop “The Ends of Data”
University of Copenhagen, Denmark, June 12, 2024
The environmental limits to digital solutionism: Challenging the European Commission’s “Twin Transition” imaginary
Invited talk @ TIK Science Studies Colloquium
University of Oslo, Norway, May 29, 2024
Thinking innovation in reverse: Broadening the notion of responsible innovation
Invited talk @ TIK Seminar Series
University of Oslo, Norway, May 28, 2024
Datafication and its Discontents: Investigating Digital Innovation Societies Through Emerging Controversies About Data Centers in Austria, France, and Ireland
Paper presented at STS Austria 2023
Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna, November 28, 2023
“Data waste/wasting” – How to think about digital practices and the lives of data from an environmental perspective
Paper presentation at the 4S conference
Honolulu, Hawaii, November 10, 2023
Of wasting and valuing – Reading the development of innovation societies through its residues
Paper presentation at the SHOT 2023 Conference
Los Angeles, USA, October 26-29, 2023
The afterlives of innovations: Understanding innovation societies through following its residues
Invited lecture
STS Department, TU Munich, June 21, 2023
Podiumsdiskussion “Sind wir noch zu retten?”
Participation in a panel discussion on the question of the semester
Festsaal, Universität Wien, June 19, 2023
