PROGRAM
Thursday, 8 December, 2016
from 9:30 a.m. Registration
10:15–10:30 a.m. Opening and welcome
10:30–11:30 a.m. Keynote I
Noortje Marres (Warwick): Infrastructuring publics or societies? On street trials as experiments in interpretation
11:30–12:00 a.m.
Erhard Schüttpelz (Siegen): Infrastructural Media and Public Media. Keeping the Binocular in Focus
12:00–01:30 p.m. Lunch
01:30–03:30 p.m.
Panel 1 - In/Transparency
Stefanie Averbeck-Lietz (Bremen): Still a “Public Sphere”? A Systematic-Historical View on Transparency and Responsibility as Communication Values
Dominique Linhardt (EHESS/CNRS Paris): Following the Key-Track: Some Insights into the Political Sociology of Encryption Technologies
Mundo Yang (Siegen): Civic Engagement Projects for Social Ecological Transformation and the Question of Publicity
Hagen Schölzel (Erfurt): Modes of establishing publics: The cases of the GuttenPlag-Wiki activism and the Communication Controlling concept
03:30–04:30 p.m. Coffee break
04:30–06:30 p.m.
Panel 2 - Work/Places
Ann-Sophie Lehmann (Groningen): “…their artworks”. Cooperative Making in Contemporary Art Production
M. Six Silberman (IG Metall, Frankfurt): Crowd-Workers, Mitbestimmung and Infrastructures of In/Visibility
Julia Moos & Julia Kurz (Siegen): Making Cooperation Visible
Katharina Kreuder-Sonnen (Siegen): How do Large Construction Sites Work? Constructing Infrastructures and Infrastructuring Construction
from 07:30 p.m. Conference dinner
Friday, 9 December 2016
9:30–10:00 a.m.
Martin Zillinger (Köln): Graduated Publics. Scaling Common Situations through Artful Mediation
10:00–11:00 a.m. Keynote II
Paul Kockelman (Yale): Witchful Thinking: Experimental Publics, Cooperative Thought, and Mediated Renderings of the Real
11:00–11:15 a.m. Break
11:15–12:15 a.m. Panel Discussion:
Christopher Le Dantec (Georgia Tech), Helena Karasti (Oulu/Luleå), M. Six Silberman (IG Metall, Frankfurt): Infrastructuring Publics
12:15–01:30 p.m. Lunch
01:30–03:30 p.m.
Panel 3 - Mobilities
Christopher Le Dantec (Georgia Tech): Infrastructures of Digital Civics: Transportation, Advocacy, and Mobile Computing
Gabriele Schabacher (Weimar): Staged Wrecks. The Railroad Crash between Infrastructural Lesson and Amusement
Tobias Röhl (Siegen): Making failure public: Communicating breakdowns in public transport
Carolin Gerlitz (Siegen): Moving Data: On the Dis/continuity of Form and Value in App Ecologies
03:30–04:30 Coffee break
04:30–06:30 p.m.
Panel 4 - Standardizations
Christian Henrich-Franke (Siegen): Standardizing Telecommunication Infrastructures: Culture(s) of Standardization in the Monopoly Era
Elke Wagner (Würzburg): Disorderly Lists and Disorderly Publics 2.0
Sebastian Gießmann (Siegen): Net Neutrality: Anatomy of a Controversy
Wolfgang Reißmann (Siegen): Sorting Things into Infrastructures: Fan Fiction and Practices of Classifying
from 07:30 p.m. Reception, Museum für Gegenwartskunst Siegen
Saturday, 10 December 2016
9:30–11:30 a.m.
Panel 5 - Academia
Tanja Bogusz (Kassel): Public Concerns in Sustainability Research: An Experimental Approach
Jürgen Richter (Köln): Paleo-Cabinetology: The Cabinet Maker´s Impact on Infrastructures of Archaeological Reasoning
Rob Procter (Warwick): What is Social Data Science and what are its Methodological and Practical Challenges?
Christian Erbacher (Siegen): Making Wittgenstein Available: Philosophical Remarks as Media of Cooperation
11:30–11:45 a.m. Break
11:45–01:15 p.m. Final Round-Table Discussion [in German]:
Volker Wulf (Siegen), Sigrid Baringhorst (Siegen), Wolf-D. Bukow (FoKoS/Siegen): Was tun? Herausforderungen an Infrastrukturen und Öffentlichkeiten
01:15–02:30 p.m. Closing and refreshments