All Events
18 – 19 November 2010: Albrecht-Daniel-Thaer-Colloquium
Heinrich-Böll-Foundation, Berlin, Germany
Carsten Mann presents a paper on "The fit of policy instruments and governance regimes: dynamics in nature conservation governance in the EU and the US."
10 – 12 November 2010: Carbon Markets and their Future: A Social Science Perspective
University of Hamburg, Germany
Jan-Peter Voß gives a course on “the making of carbon markets” at a Phd Course organized by the Cluster of Excellence Climate System Analysis and Prediction 'CliSAP' (EXC177)
October – November 2010: USDA Forest Service
California & Washington, D.C., USA
Carsten Mann spends three weeks with the USDA Forest Service Pacific Southwest Research Station, California, working on nature conservation policy. This stay is supplemented by further time in Washington, D.C., to carry out first explorative interviews with members from various administrations involved in environmental policy-making.
September – December 2010: Institute for Social and Economic Research and Policy
Columbia University, New York, USA
Arno Simons spends the Fall semester as visiting scholar at the Institute for Social and Economic Research, Columbia University, working with David Stark.
September – October 2010: Stockholm Centre for Organisational Research
Stockholm, Sweden
Nina Amelung spends six weeks as a visiting research fellow with the Stockholm Centre for Organisational Research (SCORE), working on the spread of deliberative procedures and standardisation.
8 – 9 July 2010: Perspectives for social studies of innovation and technology in Germany
University of Stuttgart, Germany
Jan-Peter Voß gives an input on perspectives for research on the governance of innovation processes at a strategy meeting of the Section of Science and Technology Studies at the German Sociological Society (DGS)
8 June 2010: Technologies of governing
University of Bielefeld, Germany
Jan-Peter Voß and Arno Simons give a presentation on “Technologies of governing – the emergence and expansion of policy instruments” at the Institute of Science and Technology Studies (IWT) of the University of Bielefeld
23 – 25 June 2010: Discourse and Policy Practices: Politics – Legitimacy – Power
Institute of Political Studies, SciencesPo Grenoble, France
The Innovation in Governance Research Group is present with five paper presentations at the 5th Conference on Interpretive Policy Analysis. Jan-Peter Voß presents a paper on "Professionalisation of policy making and emerging technologies of governing," Arno Simons on "Constructing carbon markets - an innovation network perspective," Nina Amelung on "Production of standards as stabilizer for deliberative policy instruments" and Carsten Mann on "An emerging paradigm for sustainably managing conservation areas - examples from Europe and the US." They present a joint paper on "Reflexive Governance. Accounting for a shift of perspective in emerging practices of governing."
15 – 16 June 2010: Knowledge in Politics and Politics of Knowledge
Technische Universität Darmstadt, Germany
Jan-Peter Voß is co-organiser of this year’s summer workshop of the Science, Politics and Technology Working Group at the German Political Science Association (DVPW)
30 May – 3 June 2010: Stakeholder participation for sustainable management
Wageningen University, The Netherlands
Carsten Mann presents his paper "An emerging paradigm for sustainably managing conservation areas - examples from Europe and the US" at the 5th International Conference on Monitoring and Management of Visitor Flows in Recreational and Protected Areas.
27–28 May 2010: Science and Technology Policy Research (SPRU) - DPhil Day
University of Sussex, UK
Nina Amelung presents her paper "Standards in the innovation process of deliberative policy instruments" at the 16th SPRU DPhil Day.
20 – 21 May 2010: First Berlin Forum Innovation in Governance
Berlin, Germany
Our research group will present a joint paper on "Innovation journeys of technologies of governance" at the upcoming First Berlin Forum Innovation in Governance. The Forum centres on the topic of "studying the emergence and development of new forms of governance."
14 – 18 April 2010, Carbon economy: assessing the impact of carbon markets and green jobs
Washington D.C.
Arno Simons and Jan-Peter Voß present their paper: "What drives the carbon economy?" during the Annual Meeting of the American Association of Geographers.
9 – 11 April 2010: Critical Perspectives in Science & Technology
Washington D.C.
Arno Simons participates in this meeting for graduate students in order to present ongoing work of his doctoral thesis. The meeting is part of the ST Global Consortium Conference on Innovating The Future.
22–27 March 2010, ECPR Joint Sessions: "Ideas, Policy Design and Policy Instruments: Casting Light on the Missing Link"
Westfälische-Wilhelms-Universität, Münster, Germany.
Arno Simons will make a paper presentation on the subject of "Innovation in Governance – Policy instruments and their constituencies". Details of the workshop can be found here.
25 – 26 February 2010: Energy transitions in an interdependent world
University of Sussex, Brighton, UK.
Arno Simons presents a paper by Jan-Peter Voß on the innovation journey of ‘transition management’ as a new policy instrument at a conference organised by the Sussex Energy Group.
13–14 February 2010: Transition Management for Sustainable Society – European Experience and Japanese context
University of Tokyo, Japan
Jan-Peter Voß is invited to a symposium organised by the Integrated Research System for Sustainability Science at the University of Tokyo to make a keynote presentation on the innovation journey of 'transition management' as a new policy instrument.
2 – 4 December 2009: Amsterdam Conference on the Human Dimension of Global Environmental Dimensions of Global Environmental Change
Nina Amelung participates in the Amsterdam Conference on the Human Dimensions of Global Environmental Change.
Nina Amelung participates in the Amsterdam Conference on the Human Dimensions of Global Environmental Change.
23 November – 1 December 2009: The Challenge of Adaptive Governance
Vrije Univeriteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Nina Amelung takes part in the International PhD Winter School on Earth System Governance offered by the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam.
Upcoming Events
September – December 2010: Institute for Social and Economic Research and Policy
Columbia University, New York, USA
10 – 12 November 2010: Carbon Markets and their Future: A Social Science Perspective
University of Hamburg, Germany
18 – 19 November 2010: Albrecht-Daniel-Thaer-Colloquium
Heinrich-Böll-Foundation, Berlin, Germany
