List of Panels

The Call for Abstracts for the STS Italia Conference 2025 is now closed and the process review has been completed. We are pleased to announce that we have received an outstanding number of over 770 abstracts across all panels.
This is a great success for STS Italia, but also a significant challenge in terms of organisational effort. The Convenors and the Scientific Committee have worked tirelessly to ensure that the conference panels are balanced and of a high standard and scientific quality. As a result, some of the panels have been rearranged. We are publishing an updated list of panels that are currently expected to be part of the conference programme.

Please note that registration is still open and some changes may be made. The final programme will be available on 12 May.

Imagination and Technoscience: Ethnography of Creative Connections

Convenors:

Maria Concetta Lo Bosco, Universidade de Lisboa

Pedro Carlessi, Politécnico de Lisboa

 

Expertise for the good? Experts and Technoscience Governance in Turbulent Times

Convenors:

Riccardo Emilio Chesta, Politecnico di Milano

Luigi Pellizzoni, Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa

 

Simondon and AI: A Collective Individuation in the Year of His Birth Centenary

Convenors:

Fabio Iapaolo, Politecnico di Milano

Susana Aires, King’s College London

Ludovico Rella, Durham University

 

Ageing in the Digital Age: The Technological Conundrum and its Implications for Active Elders

Convenors:

Arianna Radin, Università di Torino

Luisa Errichiello, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche

 

Quantum Social Science, Reflexivity and STS: Engaging with Agential Realism and Other Reals

Convenor:

Robert Braun, Institut für Höhere Studien, Wien

 

Constructing, Maintaining, and Caring for Technoscientific Heritage: Exploring Sociomateriality in Museums, Collecting, and Beyond

Convenors:

Roberta Spada, Politecnico di Milano

Stefano Crabu, Università di Padova

 

Who Cares About AI? Navigating the Challenges of AI in Health Practices

Convenors:

Veronica Moretti, Università di Bologna

Francesco Miele, Università di Trieste

 

Emerging Technologies: Negotiation and Transformation

Convenors:

Suania Acampa, Università di Napoli, Federico II

Biagio Aragona, Università di Napoli, Federico II

Francesco Amato, Università di Napoli, Federico II

 

Affective Technopolitics of Genocide

Convenors:

Stephen Hughes, University College London

Hania Tayara, University College London

 

Searching for the Metaverse. Mapping and Disentangling the Imaginaries of VR-MR

Convenors:

Paolo Bory, Politecnico di Milano

Stefano Bory, Università di Napoli, Federico II

Gianluigi Negro, Università degli Studi di Siena

 

Critical Hype Studies: Towards a Collaborative and Unified Approach

Convenors:

Vassilis Galanos, University of Stirling

Andreu Belsunces, Universitat Oberta de Catalunya

 

Coloniality, Technoscience, and the Margins: Spatial and Conceptual Topologies of Power

Convenors:

Alessandro Mongili, Università di Padova

Amit Prasad, Georgia Tech

Nil Uzun, Rheinisch-Westfälische Technische Hochschule Aachen

Alexandra Hofmänner, Universität Basel

 

Artificial Intelligence, Cultural Production and Media Consumption ‘for the Good’

Convenors:

Sergio Minniti, Università Mercatorum

Paolo Magaudda, Università di Padova

 

Education for Good. Affirmative Technoscientific Practices in the Educational Space

Convenors:

Leonardo Piromalli, Istituto di Ricerche Educative e Formative

Assunta Viteritti, Sapienza, University of Rome

 

Integrating Technology, Ethics, and Creativity in Healthcare

Convenors:

Orhan Önder, Universität Wien

Boris Abramovic, Universität Wien

 

From Efficiency to Entanglement: Rethinking Technology, Work, and Organisation

Convenors:

Francesco Bonifacio, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore

Cherry Jackson, Royal Holloway

 

What comes next for Feminist STS?

Convenors:

Anna Jabloner, Universidad Instituto de Empressa

Danya Glabau, New York University

 

Technosciences in City-Making: How to tackle Urban Emergenc(i)es

Convenors:

Saskia Gribling, Politecnico di Torino

Tommaso Listo, Politecnico di Torino

Micol Rispoli, Politecnico di Torino

Francesca Moro, Politecnico di Torino/Tsinghua University

Shiila Infriccioli, Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule

Albena Yaneva, Politecnico di Torino

 

Good Technoscience for the Energy Transition? Dealing with Infrastructures Implementation and Renovation

Convenors:

Paolo Giardullo, Università di Padova

Ivano Scotti, Università di Napoli, Federico II

 

Perpetual Opacity of Repair and Maintenance: Histories of Technological Upkeep and Reparazione from Informal Economies to Political Resistance Movements

Convenors:

Dhritiman Barman, Virginia Tech

Alexander Nicholas Rewegan, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Lee Vinsel, Virginia Tech

 

Redefining Relationships: Human Vulnerability and AI driven Technologies

Convenors:

Maria Zanzotto, Università di Torino

Norberto Albano, Università di Torino

Laura Gorrieri, Università di Torino

 

Human-AI feedback Loops in Platformized Consumption

Convenors:

Massimo Airoldi, Università degli Studi di Milano

Alessandro Caliandro, Università di Pavia

Alessandro Gandini, Università degli Studi di Milano

Gabriella Punziano, Università di Napoli, Federico II

 

At the Borders of Biomedicine: How Health and Care are Reconfigured as Do-able Problems Beyond Biomedical Expertise

Convenors:

Stefano Crabu, Università di Padova

Caragh Brosnan, The University of Newcastle

Federico Neresini, Università di Padova

Pia Vuolanto, Tampereen Ammattikorkeakoulu

 

Dialoguing Species/Dialoguing Disciplines

Convenors:

Lara Giordana, Politecnico di Torino

Elisabeth Tauber, Libera Università di Bolzano-Freie Universität Bozen-Università Lieda de Bulsan

Alvise Mattozzi, Politecnico di Torino

Secil Ugur Yavuz, Libera Università di Bolzano-Freie Universität Bozen-Università Lieda de Bulsan

Micol Rispoli, Politecnico di Torino

Lisa Maria Zellner, Libera Università di Bolzano-Freie Universität Bozen-Università Lieda de Bulsan

 

Problematizing Science, Technology, and Culture through ‘Cultured Food’

Convenor:

Fatih Tatari, Politecnico di Milano

 

Transportation Ethics

Convenors:

Alessandro Piazza, Israel Institute of Technology

Fabio Fossa, Politecnico di Milano

 

Navigating the Grey: Assemblage Thinking and Digital Artifacts

Convenors:

Kevin Carillon, Université Catholique de Louvain

Lilo Meier, European University Institute

Viadrina François Lambotte, Université Catholique de Louvain

Silvia Gherardi, Università di Trento

 

The Intersection of STS and Video Game Studies: Exploring Recuperation, Reconfiguration, and Regeneration Within and Beyond the Social Through Video Games

Convenors:

José David Gómez-Urrego, Abertay University

Stefano De Paoli, Abertay University

 

AI & Democracy: A Discourse Demanding Plurality

Convenors:

Ilaria Mariani, Politecnico di Milano

Marzia Mortati, Politecnico di Milano

Francesca Rizzo, Politecnico di Milano

Marco Deseriis, Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa

 

Imaginaries of Green Technology, Data Enclaves, and Politics of Sustainability

Convenors:

Gianluigi Viscusi, Linköping Universitet

Claudio Coletta, Università di Bologna

Johanna Sefyrin, Linköping Universitet

 

Digital Inclusion and Disability: Theoretical, Methodological and Ethical Challenges

Convenors:

Fabiana Battisti, Sapienza, University of Rome

Lorenzo Dalvit, Rhodes University

 

The Good, the Bad, and the Neutral. Exploring the Materiality-Temporality Nexus of Large Technological Infrastructures

Convenors:

Lara Marziali, Politecnico di Milano

Ginevra Sanvitale, Trinity College Dublin

 

Technoscience for (Good) Ecological Transitions: What Spatial Justice?

Convenors:

Beatrice Galimberti, Politecnico di Milano

Simonetta Armondi, Politecnico di Milano

 

Reconfiguration of the City: Technology, Play, Art

Convenors:

Giulia Conti, Università degli Studi di Modena e Reggio Emilia

Federico Montanari, Università degli Studi di Modena e Reggio Emilia

 

Entangled Theories and Practices: Navigating Relational Ontologies In and Through Design, HCI, STS, and Philosophy of Technology

Convenors:

Chiara Di Lodovico, Politecnico di Milano/Università degli Studi di Milano

Elisa Giaccardi, Politecnico di Milano

Iohanna Nicenboim, Technische Universiteit Delft

Verena Fuchsberger-Staufer, Universität Salzburg

Virginia Tassinari, Technische Universiteit Delft

Grace Turtle, Technische Universiteit Delft

 

Data Flow Integration: Investigating the ‘Good’ of Interoperability

Convenors:

Dario Pizzul, Università di Pavia

Laurène Le Cozanet, European University Institute

Michele Veneziano, Università di Bologna

 

The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly: Designing and Reconfiguring Organizational and Work Processes through AI and Digitalization

Convenors:

Attila Bruni, Università di Trento

Lia Tirabeni, Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca

 

Sampling and the Making of Good Science: Examining Data Collection Practices and Their Implications

Convenors:

Victor Secco, Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia

Valentina Marcheselli, Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia

 

Building Trustworthy Infrastructures: Community-Based Resistance to Technological Intrusion

Convenors:

Joan Mukogosi, Data & Society Research Institute

Maia Woluchem, Data & Society Research Institute

Sareeta Amrute, The New School

 

Technoscientific Narratives and Social Inequalities: Rethinking Epistemic Justice in the Digital Age

Convenors:

Giulia Melis, Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca

Mino Novello, Politecnico di Milano

 

Is Constructivism Dead?

Convenors:

Martina Merz, Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt

Tarja Knuuttila, Universität Wien

 

Reconfiguring Scientific Publishing: Promoting More Fairness and Equity by new Technologies and Pluriversal Practices

Convenors:

Eleonora Lupo, Politecnico di Milano

Elena Formia, Università di Bologna

 

Decolonising Science and Technology Studies for Good?

Convenors:

Anwesha Chakraborty, Università di Urbino Carlo Bo

Christopher Lorenz Hesselbein, Politecnico di Milano

 

Classificatory Systems, Values, and Standards in the Context of Migration, Borders, and Security

Convenors:

Paul Trauttmansdorff, Technische Universität Munich

Maria Volkova, University of Exeter

Silvan Pollozek, Europa-Universität Viadrina Frankfurt (Oder)

 

STS and the History of Technoscience Diplomacy

Convenor:

Roberto Lalli, Politecnico di Torino

 

Algorithmic Imaginaries: Discourses on AI in Digital Media

Convenors:

Sahar Tavakoli, Università degli Studi di Milano

Lorena Cano-Orón, Universitat de València

Dafne Calvo, Universitat de València

 

Re-ordering Care: Algorithmic Transformations of Medical Knowledge, Practice, and Governance

Convenors:

Benedetta Catanzariti, University of Edinburgh

Natalia-Rozalia Avlona, Københavns Universitet

 

Infrastructuring AI. A view from the Global South

Convenors:

Iginio Gagliardone, University of the Witwatersrand

Stefania Milan, Universiteit van Amsterdam

 

The Good and the Beautiful: Visualizing Science in the (Post)-Digital Age

Convenor:

Valeria Burgio, Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia

 

Creating, Crafting, Designing, Fashioning, Moulding, Shaping, Fixing. Aesthetic Practices as Instaurative Practices: How to Account for Them and for the Good they Produce?

Convenors:

Alvise Mattozzi, Politecnico di Torino

Laura Lucia Parolin, Syddansk Universitet

Carmen Pellegrinelli, Università di Trieste

 

Caring for “Care”: Feminist STS Perspectives on Researching Robots and AI

Convenor:

Stevienna de Saille, University of Sheffield

 

Disentangling AI and Health/Healthcare: imaginaries, Narratives, Values

Convenor:

Elisabetta Locatelli, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore

 

Assemblages of the Broken World

Convenor:

Minna Vigren, Lappeenrannan-Lahden Teknillien Yliopisto

 

Public Sector, Public Interest?

Convenor:

Philip Boucher, European Commission

 

Technoscience and the Self: Emotions, Identities, and Self-knowledge

Convenors:

Jacopo Domenicucci, Dartmouth College

Serena Ciranna, Institut Jean Nicod

 

Addressing Scientism through the Lens of STS

Convenors:

Marianna Musmeci, Politecnico di Milano

Alessandro Ricotti, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore

 

Designing Worlds, Worlding Design: The Ethics and Politics of Value Creation in Digital Health and Health Data Integration

Convenors:

Joseph Donia, Università degli Studi di Milano

Luca Marelli, Università degli Studi di Milano

 

More-than-(Just)-Human Politics of Relating

Convenors:

Elisa Giaccardi, Politecnico di Milano

Valentina Rognoli, Politecnico di Milano

Emma Sicher, Humboldt-Universität Berlin

Francesco Nappo, Politecnico di Milano

Francesco Vergani, Politecnico di Milano

Laura Forlano, Northeastern University

Martín Tironi, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile

 

Making and Undoing BS Digitalization

Convenors:

Jessica Coetzer, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam

Teun Zuiderent-Jerak, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam

Minna Ruckenstein, Heslingfors Universitet

 

Infrastructural Perspectives on Sufficiency Practices and Policies: Exploring the Materialities and Politics of ‘Doing with Less’

Convenors:

Olivier Coutard, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique

Daniel Florentin, École Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées

Claire Le Renard, École Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées

 

Mapping Public Space through Participatory Data Narratives and Cartographies

Convenors:

Sonia Bergamo, Università degli studi di Milano-Bicocca

Enrico Petrilli, Università di Torino

Francesca Valsecchi, Tongji University

Briones Rojas María De Los Angeles, Politecnico di Milano

 

Ethics of Imagination in the Age of Technology

Convenor:

Somreeta Paul, University of California Santa Cruz

 

Hacking as an Interface of Imaginaries

Convenor:

Ozan Güngör, Schule für Gestaltung Basel

 

Regulation, innovation and materiality in technological transition: a socio-technical comparative perspective

Convenors:

Alessandro Sciullo, Università di Torino

Claudio Marciano, Università degli Studi di Genova

 

Where Sociomateriality Lies: Re-Thinking the Synergies Between STS and Information Infrastructure Studies in the Age of Datafication

Convenors:

Annalisa Pelizza, Università di Bologna/Aarhus University

Claudio Coletta, Università di Bologna

Chiara Loschi, Università di Bologna

Lorenzo Olivieri, Università di Bologna

 

Reimagining More-Than-Human Intimacies: From Disenchantment to Technologies for Connection

Convenors:

Cosimo Marco Scarcelli, Università di Padova

Sander De Ridder, Universiteit Antwerpen

Stefanie Duguay, Concordia University

Skyler Wang, McGill University

 

From ‘Digital Technology’ to ‘AI’: Emerging Challenges in the Making

Convenor:

Annapaola Ginammi, Politecnico di Milano

 

Technoscience in War and Peace: (Dis-)entangling Ethics and Technoscientific Knowledge in Conflicts’ (de)Construction

Convenors:

Fabio Fossa, Politecnico di Milano

Andrea Barca, Politecnico di Milano

Ilenia Piccardi, Università di Napoli, Federico II

Maria Carmela Agodi, Università di Napoli, Federico II

 

Interventionist STS and Futures: Reflecting on and Renewing Forward-Looking Approaches, Methods, and Practices for ‘Better’ Socio-Technical Governance

Convenors:

Sergio Urueña, Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea-Universidad del País Vasco/Universiteit Twente

Lorenzi Olivieri, Università di Bologna

Arianna Ferrari, Austrian Institute of Technology

Annalisa Pelizza, Università di Bologna/Aarhus University

Cansu Güner, Technische Universität München

Renata Mandzhieva, Austrian Institute of Technology

Dana Wasserbacher, Austrian Institute of Technology

 

Technoscience and the Future of Agricultural Ecosystems

Convenors:

Marco Serino, Università di Napoli, Federico II

Eleonora Ciscato, Università degli Studi di Milano

Eleonora Dallagiacoma, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore