Keynote Speaker 2022
Alexander Bogner
Biography
Alexander Bogner is a sociologist at the Institute for Technology Assessment of the Austrian Academy of Sciences (ÖAW) and lecturer at the University of Vienna. After his studies he worked as a research assistant at the Institute for Advanced Studies (IHS) in Vienna. Research stays at the Academy of Sciences took him to the University of Basel, the California State University in Sacramento and the LMU Munich. From 2017 to 2019 he was Professor of Sociology at the University of Innsbruck. Since 2019 he has been President of the Austrian Society for Sociology (ÖGS). His work focuses on science and technology research, general sociology and qualitative methods (expert interviews). Current book: “The Epistemization of the Political. How the power of knowledge threatens democracy” (Reclam 2021).
Talk
Dare More Rationality? Science and Democracy in the Coronavirus Crisis
(Talk will be given on site)
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Naomi Oreskes
Biography
Naomi Oreskes is the Henry Charles Lea Professor of the History of Science and Affiliated Professor of Earth and Planetary Sciences at Harvard University. She is an internationally renowned earth scientist, historian, and author of both scholarly and popular books and articles on the history of earth and environmental science, including most recently, Why Trust Science? (2019) and Science on a Mission: How Military Funding Shaped What We Do and Don’t Know about the Ocean (2021). Her opinion pieces have been published in leading media outlets around the globe, including The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Times (London), and the Frankfurter Allgemeine. In 2015, she wrote the Introduction to the Melville House edition of the Papal Encyclical on Climate Change and Inequality, Laudato Si.
Professor Oreskes is a leading voice on the reality on anthropogenic climate change and the history of efforts to undermine climate action. Her 2004 essay “The Scientific Consensus on Climate Change” (Science 306: 1686) has been widely cited, including in the Royal Society’s publication, “A Guide to Facts and Fictions about Climate Change,” and in the Academy-award winning film, An Inconvenient Truth. Her 2010 book with Erik M. Conway, Merchants of Doubt, has been translated into nine languages, sold over 100,000 copies, and made into a documentary film. She is an elected fellow of the Geological Society of America, the American Geophysical Union, the American Academy for the Advancement of Sciences, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the American Philosophical Society. In 2018, she became a Guggenheim Fellow, and in 2019 was awarded the British Academy Medal for “her commitment to documenting the role of corporations in distorting scientific findings for political ends.” Her new book, with Erik Conway, The Big Myth: How American Business Taught Us to Loath Government and Love the Free Market, will be published by Bloomsbury Press in 2022.
Talk
Challenges in Agnotology
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Sabina Leonelli
Biography
Sabina Leonelli is Professor in Philosophy and History of Science at the University of Exeter, where she co-directs the Centre for the Study of the Life Sciences and leads the governance strand of the Institute for Data Science and Artificial Intelligence. Her research concerns the epistemology, history and governance of research, and particularly: data-intensive science, plant research, open science and related evaluation systems in the global – and highly unequal – research landscape, and modelling integration across the biological, environmental and health sciences. This year she is finishing a book on the philosophy of Open Science and investigating the epistemic roles of diversity within scientific practice at the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin. She is a Fellow of the Alan Turing Institute, Royal Society of Biology, Academia Europaea and Académie Internationale de Philosophie de la Science; Editor-in-Chief of History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences; and Associate Editor of the Harvard Data Science Review. She has a strong interest in science policy and served as expert for national and international bodies including the European Commission. She currently leads the Alan Turing Institute project “From Local Fields to Global Indicators” (www.datastudies.eu) and the ERC project “Philosophy of Open Science for Diverse Research Environments” (www.opensciencestudies.eu). Her books include the award-winning Data-Centric Biology: A Philosophical Study (2016), Data Journeys in the Sciences (2020, with Niccolo Tempini), La Ricerca Scientifica Nell’Era dei Big Data (2018, translated in French and Portuguese) and Data and Society: A Critical Introduction (2021, with Anne Beaulieu).
Talk
Open Science Beyond ‘Sharing’
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