Thursday, March 14th 2024

1:05 pm: Welcome Address: Volker Epping (Leibniz University Hannover (LUH)); Metin Tolan (University of Göttingen (UGOE))

1:15 pm: Introduction Talk: Nils Hoppe (LUH) & Silke Schicktanz (UGOE/University Medical Center Göttingen (UMG))

1:45 pm: Keynote Lecture I: Sabina Leonelli (University of Exeter)
“Open Science and the Ethics of Research: A Troubled Relationship”

2:45 pm: Coffee Break and Interactive Poster Discussion

Session I: Open Science/Digitalisation
Chair: Jochem Rieger (Carl von Ossietzky Universität of Oldenburg (UOL))
3:30 pm: Katie Shilton (University of Maryland)
“Awareness, Participation, and Power: Navigating Digital Data Ethics in the Age of AI”
3:50 pm: Catrin Misselhorn (UGOE)
“Ethics by Chat? Large Language Models and Machine Ethics”
4:10 pm: Panel Discussion with Sabina Leonelli, Katie Shilton & Catrin Misselhorn

4:30 pm: Coffee Break

Session II: Science Communication/Public Engagement
Chair: Christoph Hönnige (LUH)
4:45 pm: Anne-Sophie Behm-Bahtat (Wissenschaft im Dialog, Berlin)
“Communicating Scientific Uncertainties: A Matter of Trust?”
5:05 pm: Mark Schweda (UOL)
“Same Same but Different? Perspectives and Pitfalls of Ethics Communication”
5:25 pm: Panel Discussion with Anne-Sophie Behm-Bahtat & Mark Schweda

5:45 pm: End of Meeting

Friday, March 15th 2024

9:00 am: Welcome Nils Hoppe & Silke Schicktanz

9:05 am: Keynote Lecture II: Eric Meslin (Council of Canadian Academies, Ottawa)
“Whom, What and Why We Should Trust: Ethical Prerequisites for
Good Governance in Science”

10:05 am: Coffee Break

Session III: Policy Advise/Governance
Chair: Simon Fink (UGOE)
10:30 am: Dovile Rimkute (Leiden University)
“Risk Regulation in the European Regulatory State: Science-Based
or Reputation-Sourced”
10:50 am: Philippe van Basshuysen (LUH)
“Managing Performative Science”
11:10 am: Panel Discussion with Eric Meslin, Dovile Rimkute & Philippe van Basshuysen

11:30 am: Interactive Poster Discussion

12:15 am: Lunch

Session IV: Epistemic (In)justice/Pluralism
Chair: Margarete Vöhringer (UGOE)
1:15 pm: Harish Naraindas (Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi)
“Ayurgenomics, Epigenetics and P4 Medicine: Toward an
Epistemic Democracy?”
1:35 pm: Birgit Abels (UGOE)
“Multi/Plural: Changing the Intellectual Climate?”
1:55 pm: Panel Discussion with Harish Naraindas & Birgit Abels

2:15 pm: Coffee Break

2:30 pm: Discussion/Lessons learned

3:30 pm: Closing remarks: Silke Schicktanz & Nils Hoppe

3:40 pm: End of Meeting