All Events
14 June 2013: Innovation in Governance Advisory Board
Schloss Ziethen
The advisory board of the Innovation in Governance Research Group meets for a “Final Review” of the groups ongoing work and to give advice on the finalization of products.
12-14 June 2013: Knowing Governance. Making models, making methods, shaping political reality
Schloss Ziethen
The Innovation in Governance Research Group hosts an authors workshop for the publication of collected papers on the above title.
28 May 2013: IiG seminar - Hal Colebatch, University of New South Wales - Participation, expertise and the construction of policy work
Technische Universität Berlin
Abstract:
Discussion of government in contemporary Europe often stresses the importance of participation as part of the ‘new governance’ in Europe. But there is an equal stress on ‘expertise’ which would seem to reduce the scope for wider participation in governing. How can these apparently-competing reform themes be accommodated in the policy process? In this seminar, we will explore the way in which policy practice is understood, how the theoretical framework adopted shapes the impact of these themes, and what recent research suggests about their meaning and significance in contemporary governing.
6 May 2013: The translocal circulation and standardisation of methods for technoscientific consensus building
Gothenburg, Sweden
Nina Amelung discusses her paper "transnational standards - rules or boundary objects?" in a workshop organized by Prof. Linda Soneryd at the department of sociology of the university of Gothenburg.
26 April 2013: Workshop “Challenging futures of citizen panels”
Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften
19 April 2013: Workshop “Challenging futures of biodiversity offsets and banking”
Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften
22 January 2013: IiG seminar - Peter Stegmaier, University of Twente
Technische Universität Berlin - Research Colloquium: Politics, Science and Technology - Wintersemester 2012/13
Peter Stegmaier will give a talk titled "The Art and Problem of Ending. The Governance of the Discontinuation of Incandescent Light Bulbs in the Netherlands and other examples".
18-19 January 2013: Interfaces and interplay, sociology of knowledge and science and technology studies
Technische Universität Berlin
Jan-Peter Voß presents a paper „Reification of politics: Policy instruments as interplay of ‘technoscientific’ and ‘social’ construction of political reality“ at a joint Workshop of the Sections for Sociology of knowledge and for Science and Technology Studies of the German Association of Sociology.
18 December 2012: IiG seminar - Javier Lezaun, University of Oxford
Technische Universität Berlin - Research Colloquium: Politics, Science and Technology - Wintersemester 2012/13
Javier Lezaun will give a tlka titled "The Experimentalization of Democracy by the Social Sciences".
12 December 2012: The social life of policy instruments
Social Science Research Center Berlin (WZB)
Jan-Peter Voß is invited to give a talk on innovation journeys of policy instruments to the Research Group of Science Policy Studies at the Social Science Centre Berlin.
11 December 2012: IiG seminar - Jan-Hendrik Passoth, TU Berlin
Technische Universität Berlin - Research Colloquium: Politics, Science and Technology - Wintersemester 2012/13
Jan-Hendrik Passoth will give a talk titled "Micro-Performing Macro-Actors. The (ongoing) re-assembling of modern stateness"
4 December 2012: IiG seminar - Endre Danyi, Lancaster University
Technische Universität Berlin - Research Colloquium: Politics, Science and Technology - Wintersemester 2012/13
Endre Danyi will give a talk titled "The things of the parliament".
3 - 4 December 2012: Citizenship and Knowledge Society
Lisbon, Portugal
Nina Amelung gives a presentation on "Inscriptions in design: the construction and coordination of standardized global citizen participation" at the conference “Citizenship and Knowledge Society” from the Centre for Philosophy of Science of the University of Lisbon.
27 November 2012: IiG seminar - Brice Laurent, Mines ParisTech
Technische Universität Berlin - Research Colloquium: Politics, Science and Technology - Wintersemester 2012/13
Brice Laurent will give a talk titled "From uncertain assemblages to technologies of democracy. Democratic experinces and experiments".
20 November 2012: IiG seminar - David Kocman, University of Kent
Technische Universität Berlin - Research Colloquium: Politics, Science and Technology - Wintersemester 2012/13
David Kocman will give a talk on "Re-inserting Latour to governmentality studies: intellectual devices and socio-material semiotics of policy worlds".
13 November 2012: IiG seminar - Friedbert Rüb, Humboldt Universität zu Berlin
Technische Universität Berlin - Research Colloquium: Politics, Science and Technology - Wintersemester 2012/13
Friedbert Rüb will give a talk on "Die Verletzlichkeit der Demokratie: Herausforderungen und Anpassungsmechanismen in einer globalisierten Welt".
30 October 2012: IiG seminar - Nicolas Baya-Laffite, Science Po Paris
Technische Universität Berlin - Research Colloquium: Politics, Science and Technology - Wintersemester 2012/13
Nicolas Baya-Laffite will give the talk "Moments in life (of policy instruments): EIA and BAT at trial".
17 – 20 October 2012: Annual Meeting of the Society for Social Studies of Science (4S)
Copenhagen, Denmark
At the Annual Meeting of the Society for Social Studies of Science (4S) and the European Association for the Study of Science and Technology (EASST) several members of the Innovation in Governance Research Group participated with a talk or by giving a panel.
Nina Amelung gave a presentation on "The (social) construction of nothing less than a "global public sphere": on designing and organizing transnational deliberation processes" in the workshop "Hearing and Heeding Citizen Voices: Designing and Evaluating Transnational Citizen Deliberations".
Jan-Peter Voß and Endre Danyi (visiting fellow) organised open panel no. 65.
Arno Simons, Lea Schick, Aleksandra Lis and Ingmar Lippert organised a panel on "Configuring Climates". Arno also gives a presentation on "The intertextual construction of emissions trading. The case of emissions trading" in the panel "Political Devices".
11 October 2012: IiG seminar - Michael Guggenheim, University of London
Technische Universität Berlin - Research Colloquium: Politics, Science and Technology - Wintersemester 2012/13
Michael Guggenheim gave the talk: "Bunkers and other Risk-Assessments. The Political Logic of (Im-)Material Disaster Preparedness."
27 September 2012: Vom Wirken der Dinge – Fakten und Funktionalitäten in politischer Praxis und Politikwissenschaft
Universität Tübingen
Jan-Peter Voß is co-organiser of a panel and presents a paper "Politikinstrumente und Politikindustrien – Verdinglichung und Delegation von Policy-Making" at this year's conference of the German Political Science Association.
31 July - 4 August 2012: 5th Annual International Ecosystem Services Partnership Conference
Portland, Oregon, United States
Carsten Mann and James Absher presented their paper "Strategies for creating fit of policy instruments to institutional, cultural and biophysical context conditions. The case of conservation banking in California"
5 – 7 July 2012: Transition Management and reflexive governance
Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
Jan-Peter Voß is invited to speak on the dynamics and politics of transition management and reflexive governance at an expert workshop organized by the Helmholtz Alliance Energy-Trans.
5 – 7 July 2012: 28th EGOS Colloquium
Helsinki, Finland
Nina Amelung presents a paper on "How much multiplicity transnational standards can withstand: The rise of a complex standard in the case of citizen panels" in the sub-theme "Multiplicity and Plurality in the World of Standards". The 28th EGOS Colloquium is organised by Aalto University & Hanken School of Economics, Helsinki, Finland.
5 – 7 July 2012: Interpretative Policy Analysis Conference (IPA)
Tilburg, Netherlands
Nina Amelung and Sonja van der Arend (Delft University of Technology) organise a roundtable on the "Facilitation in participatory governance: working for empowerment or disciplining citizens".
4 July 2012: Strategies for adjusting policies to institutional, cultural and biophysical context conditions: The case of conservation banking in California (and Germany?)
Dresden, Germany
Carsten Mann presents his paper "Strategies for adjusting policies to institutional, cultural and biophysical context conditions: The case of conservation banking in California (and Germany?)" at the Dresdner Planerforum im Leibniz-Institut für ökologische Raumentwicklung.
31 May – 1 June 2012: Third Berlin Forum Innovation in Governance
Technische Universität Berlin, Germany
The Innovation in Governance Research Group is pleased to host the third event in its Forum series. Click here for more information.
10 – 12 May 2012: Policy foresight approach
Sommerhausen, Germany
Carsten Mann presents the policy foresight approach at the Annual Meeting of the DGH (German Society for Human Ecology) "Transdisziplinarität für Nachhaltigkeit – Erfordernis und Herausforderung".
16 – 17 April 2012: Lässt sich sozial-ökologischer Wandel gestalten?
Harnack Haus, Berlin
The Innovation in Governance Research Group presents mid-term results of its research at a status seminar for junior research groups within the social-ecological research initiative at the German Ministry of Research and Education (BMBF). Arno Simons and Nina Amelung present "Innovationsprozesse in der Politik: Was können wir aus der Entwicklung von Umweltmärkten und Bürgerbeteiligungsverfahren lernen?", Carsten Mann presents "Policy Foresight: Szenarien zur zukünftigen Entwicklung von Politikinstrumenten als Ansatz zur Gestaltung von Politikinnovationen".
28 – 30 March 2012: World Wide Views on Biodiversity Training Seminar
Copenhagen, Denmark
Nina Amelung participates in the training seminar for the planned global citizen deliberation process "World Wide Views on biodiversity" organised by the Danish Board of Technology as part of her field studies.
13 – 14 March 2012: Beyond Efficiency - Exploring the Political and Institutional Dimensions of Market-based Instruments for Ecosystem Services
Evangelische Bildungsstätte, Berlin, Germany
Carsten Mann presented his paper "Strategies for creating fit of policy instruments to implementation contexts - The case of Mitigation Banking in the U.S. and in Germany" at this international conference. The conference is organised jointly by the Öko-Institut e.V., Berlin and the Berlin-Brandeburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities.
1 March 2012: Lunch seminar - Richard Freeman, University of Edinburgh (UK)
12.00 – 1.30pm, Room 5.17, Hardenbergstr. 16-18, 10623 Berlin
Assemblage, alignment, articulation: the project in/of EU governance
The project, and by extension the programme, is a key instrument of European governance. The function of the project is to draw heterogeneous sets of actors together, to generate connections between them. What are created as a result are assemblages: amorphous, unstable and multidimensional organizational forms. Assemblages endure to the degree of alignment they achieve among the actors of which they are composed: this paper identifies 'articulation practices' as a critical component of European governance.
22 – 24 February 2012: Climate policy innovation
VU University Amsterdam, the Netherlands
Jan-Peter Voß is invited to present his paper "The making of policy instruments, dynamics of supply push in the innovation of climate policy" at the workshop 'Climate Policy Innovation: Sources, Patterns and Effects' organised by Dave Huitema (VU University Amsterdam, NL) and Andrew Jordan (University of East Anglia, UK).
6 February 2012: Opening lecture: Governance in the making. An empirical turn on political science and technology
Berlin, Germany
On the occasion of his appointment as Junior Professor for Sociology of Politics at the Department of Sociology, Technische Universität Berlin, Jan-Peter Voß cordially invites you to his opening lecture, "Governance in the making. Eine empirische Wende auf Politikwissenschaft und -technik".
1 February 2012: Lunch seminar - Kristin Asdal, University of Oslo (NO)
Technologies of politics: Between governmental rationalities and "the device"
The last decades a huge body of literature has contributed to transform the issue of what it is to govern. Governmentality studies in the tradition from Foucaults´ so called "governmentality lectures" in the 1970s contributed to link knowledge practices with the art of government whereas science studies authors in the actor-network-theory or material semiotic tradition have pointed to the importance of the material objects that take part in an enable action. In my talk I will discuss the notion of technologies of politics with a point of departure in these two, partly connected, strands of research. The talk however, is not a "literature talk" as such, as I will develop the notion and the approach to "technologies of politics" through a series of snap-shots from my own work on the making of politics of nature in the post-war era. These will range from the emergence and institutitonalization of a politics of pollution to the coming into being of climate quotas and the principle of joint implementation.
29 – 30 November 2011: Internal Policy Foresight workshops
Berlin, Germany
The Innovation in Governance research group will take place in a two-day internal Policy Foresight workshop to produce scenarios that describe distinct, plausible pathways of development for the policy instruments "Biodiversity Credit Trading" and "Citizen Panels".
17 – 18 November 2011: Politics, science and technology
Technische Universität Berlin, Germany
Jan-Peter Voß, in his function as speaker of the Working Group "Politics, Science and Technology" of the German Association of Political Science (DVPW), is co-organising an open workshop for young researchers in this area. During the workshop, Nina Amelung presents a paper on "The emergence and formation of transnational governance designs – The case of citizen panels" and Arno Simons gives a paper on "Telling oneself and others in and forward: A discursive account of the innovation of emissions trading".
10–11 November 2011: Knowledge and Expertise in Public Policy and Administration,
University of Administrative Sciences, Speyer, Germany
Jan-Peter Voß presents a paper "The making of policy instruments" at a workshop under the auspices of the Section "Policy analysis and administrative sciences" of the German Association for Political Science (DVPW), hosted by Sabine Kuhlmann and Sabine Kropp at the German University of Administrative Sciences in Speyer.
September – October 2011: IET Research Centre, Faculty of Sciences and Technology
Universidad Nova de Lisboa, Portugal
Nina Amelung spends six weeks as a visiting research fellow at the IET Research Centre, working with Professor Antonio Moniz and other candidates of the "Technology Assessment" PhD programme (PDAT).
25–27 August 2011: 6th ECPR General Conference
Reykjavik, Iceland
Carsten Mann gives a presentation on "Policy Foresight - Conceptual ideas on how to engage with dynamics of policy instrument design" in the panel 'Policy Instruments and Radical Change'.
18 July – 13 August 2011: Fieldwork
Santiago, Chile
Sebastian Ureta will carry out fieldwork in the city of Santiago (Chile) involving expert interviews and the collection of material from archives and libraries.
30 June – 2 July 2011: Science and Democracy Network
Harvard University, Boston, USA
Jan-Peter Voß gives a paper on "The power of instruments in governance" at the Annual Meeting of the Science and Democracy Network. The meeting will be held at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University.
23–25 June 2011: Sixth International Conference on Interpretive Policy Analysis
Cardiff, United Kingdom
Arno Simons and Aleksandra Lis (Central European University) host a panel on "Environmental Market Space(s): Discourse, Power, and Legitimacy".
23 – 25 June 2011: Sixth International Conference on Interpretive Policy Analysis
University of Cardiff, UK
Sebastian Ureta will present the paper entitled "... Because in Chile markets work!; Some early thoughts on the performance of a tradable permits system to control air pollution in Santiago, Chile" at the panel "Environmental Market Space(s): Discourse, Power, and Legitimacy" hosted by Arno Simons (Innovation in Governance Research Group) and Aleksandra Lis (Central European University).
21 June 2011: Lunch seminar – Eleftheria Vasileiadou, VU University Amsterdam
Technische Universität Berlin
20 June – 31 July 2011: USDA Forest Service, Riverside
California, USA
Carsten Mann visits the USDA Forest Service's Urban Ecosystems and Social Dynamics Programme, Riverside, California to develop further his conceptual framework for the analysis of fit between policy instruments and implementation contexts.
20 June 2011: TA'11 Participation in questions of technology - legitimate hope or just an illusion?
Vienna, Austria
Nina Amelung and Louisa Grabner are invited to make a presentation on "Die Enstehung und Gestaltung von Instrumenten zur Bürgerbeteiligung" (The emergence and design of instruments for citizen participation). The conference, which will be held in German, is hosted by the Austrian Academy of Sciences.
16 – 17 June 2011: Future of Science and Technology in Society
University of Twente, Enschede, the Netherlands
Jan-Peter Voß gives a presentation "The making of policy instruments – an emerging science and technology of governance?" at the symposium "Future of Science and Technology in Society in Honour of Arie Rip", organised by Stefan Kuhlmann and Nelly Oudshoorn at the University of Twente.
9 June 2011: Technology Assessment Doctorate Conference
Lisbon, Portugal
Nina Amelung is invitied to make a presentation on "Professionalization in Participation. A case study on promises and risks of citizen panels". The conference takes place at the IET Research Centre, Faculty of Sciences and Technology at the Universidad Nova de Lisboa, Portugal
19 – 20 May 2011: Second Forum Innovation in Governance
Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities, Berlin, Germany
The Second Berlin Forum Innovation in Governance takes place under the title of "Knowing governance: The making of governance knowledge and the transformation of politics". More information available here.
18 May 2011: Mid-term review of Innovation in Governance research group
Technische Universität Berlin, Germany
The Innovation in Governance Research Group meets with its international advisory board to review the progress of the group's work half way through the project's duration.
28 April 2011: Lunch seminar – Detlef Sack, Universität Bielefeld
Technische Universität Berlin, Germany
14 – 15 April 2011: Practice of interpretive political studies of knowledge and science
Hamburg, Germany
The Innovation in Governance research group is co-sponsor of a workshop on the "practice of interpretive political studies of knowledge and science". The workshop takes place at the Hafen City University Hamburg and is organised by Jannes Fröhlich and Alejandro Esguerra Portocarrero for the Working Group "Politics, Science and Technology" of the German Association for Political Science (DVPW).
12 – 17 April 2011: Effects of Participatory Innovations – Different Processes and Different Output
University of St Gallen, Switzerland
Nina Amelung presents a paper on "Professionalized communities and standards along participatory and deliberative instruments – the making of 'democratic innovation' " in the ECPR Joint Sessions of Workshops.
7 April 2011: Lunch seminar – Peter Wehling, Universität Augsburg
Technische Universität Berlin, Germany
1 April 2011: Market-based instruments for Ecosystem Services and Nature Protection
Potsdam, Germany
Arno Simons will present recent findings on "Policy Instruments and their constituencies: The case of environmental markets" and Carsten Mann on "Policy Foresight – How to engage with dynamics of policy instrument design?"
24 March 2011: Lunch seminar – Ross Beveridge, Institut für Regionalentwicklung und Strukturplanung
Technische Universität Berlin, Germany
10 March 2011: Lunch seminar – Dieter Plehwe, Social Science Research Centre Berlin (WZB)
Technische Universität Berlin, Germany
17 February 2011: Lunch seminar – Alexander Görsdorf, IWT, Universität Bielefeld
Technische Universität Berlin, Germany
10 February 2011: Lunch seminar – Enrico Gualini, Technische Universität Berlin
Technische Universität Berlin, Germany
28 February 2011: Social innovation in the transformation towards sustainable development
ISOE, Frankfurt am Main
Jan-Peter Voß is invited to give a presentation on "innovations in governance" at an expert workshop organized by ISInova (Institut für Sozialinnovation) on behalf of the German environmental agency (UBA)
6 – 8 January 2011: Policy instruments: theoretical perspectives
Centre d'études européennes, Sciences Po Paris, France
Jan-Peter Voß is invited to give a presentation on "Policy instruments as
technologies of governance" at an international conference organized by
Charlotte Halpern, Pierre Lascoumes, and Patrick Le Galès
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). Arno Simons presents from his ongoing PhD research with a paper on "What drives carbon trading? Outline of a historical sociology of policy instruments and their constituencies.
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
6 May 2013: The translocal circulation and standardisation of methods for technoscientific consensus building
Gothenburg, Sweden
28 May 2013: IiG seminar - Hal Colebatch, University of New South Wales - Participation, expertise and the construction of policy work
Technische Universität Berlin
12-14 June 2013: Knowing Governance. Making models, making methods, shaping political reality
Schloss Ziethen
