Marine Stsing

Marine Science & technology Studies

Marine Wissenschafts- & Technikforschung

Reading Group – Lesegruppe

Marine stsing offers a place for exchange and collaboration. Among our multiple activities we regularly organize reading sessions along diverse STS topics.

Marine stsing bietet einen Raum des Austauschs und der Zusammenarbeit. Unter anderem organisieren wir eine regelmäßig Lesegruppe zu verschiedenen STS-Themen.

Current Programme SUMMER semester 2025

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Exploring Marine STS
We have designed a reading group where we discuss published (“classic”) texts and case studies as well as empirical data (short manuscripts, fieldnotes, articles) produced by our participants. The material participants share with the group is discussed in view of submission to journals/edited volumes/parts of dissertations, or used for exchange about  methodology, approaches, epistemology etc. Furthermore, scholars from natural sciences occasionally join to and offer thought-provoking guest contributions. Join us, too!

Marine STS erkunden
In der Lesegruppe besprechen wir einerseits bereits veröffentlichte („klassische“) Texte und Fallstudien und tauschen uns über empirisches Material (Kurzmanuskripte, Feldnotizen, Artikel) von Teilnehmer*innen der Lesegruppe aus. Das Material wird im Hinblick auf die Einreichung bei Zeitschriften/ Sammelbänden/Teilen von Dissertationen besprochen, oder in Bezug auf Methodik, Ansatz, Epistemologie usw. diskutiert. Zudem gab und gibt es spannende Gastbeiträge von Kolleg*innen aus den Naturwissenschaften. Machen Sie gerne mit!

ARCHIVE – Past Speakers & topics

Winter 2024/ 2025

23.10.2024, Giulia Champion, University of Southampton, UK: „Decarbonisation Beyond Extraction: Envisioning ‚Just‘ Energy Transitions Beyond Deep-Sea Mining.“

11.12.2024, Merdeka Argus Saputra, Helmholtz Institute for Functional Marine Biodiversity at the University of Oldenburg (HIFMB): „Benthic geopolitics off the Bangka and Belitung islands: Go offshore go deeper.“

08.01.2025, Tanja Bogusz, CAU, Kiel, Germany: „Marine STS and Marine Social Sciences and Humanities: Intersections, Institutionalizations, and Critique.“

6.01.2025, Kristin Asdal, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway: „Cod and Capital: Co-modifications and versions of economizing the ocean.“

23.01.2025, Alix Levain, CNRS / AMURE, Brest, France: „About a dying ocean: preliminary reflections on the contemporary construction of limits to absorption, digestion, dilution and oblivion.“

29.01.2025, Jakkrit Sangkhamanee, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand: „Diving into Underwater Anthropocene: Vital Materiality and the Becoming of a Shipwreck.“

Summer 2024

  • 02.05.2024, Jörn Behrens, Professor of Numerical Methods in Geosciences at Hamburg University, sharing insights into „End-to-end Tsunami Warning under Uncertainty – a Mathematical and a Pragmatic Perspective“, followed by a joint discussion.
  • 20.06.2024, Fanny Barz and Tobias Lasner (Thünen Institute, Rostock/ Bremerhaven) presenting their work titled „Where did the Fish go? – a Socological Perspective on Transformation of German Fisheries in North Sea and Baltic Sea.“
  • 02.07.2024, Rapti Siriwardane-de Zoysa (BCDSS) and Cahya Gemilang (Legal Lab) sharing their work on „Buoyant life: Floating Urbanities Adrift in the Archipelagic Imaginary.“

Winter 2023/ 2024

  • 24.10.23, coming together and exchange on our research and the future of our group.
  • 12.12.23, Tanja Bogusz (member, Hamburg University) sharing a (Preprint) Paper titled „Valuating Marine Knowledge: Heterogeneous Collaborations at the Marine Concarneau Station.“
  • 09.01.24, Tülin Fidan (member, Humboldt Universität zu Berlin) sharing her work in „Making the Sea knowable – the role of Buoys in the Knowledge Production of Climate Change.“
  • 06.02.24: Nane Pelke (member, Hamburg University) introducing her work on „Waiting: a Gateway to Fieldwork Realities in transitional Oceanic and Coastal Zones.“

Summer 2023

  • 26.04.2023, Text Discussion: Antony Adler – Neptune’s Laboratory
  • 14.06.2023, Discussion with Jose Cañada (member, University of Exeter): Notion of plant agency in marine conservation using the conservation of Posidonia oceanica in the Balearic Islands as a study case
  • 23.06.2024, input from Kimberley Peters (Universität Oldenburg) on STS and Marine Environments
  • 05.07.2024, Irina Rafliana (member, IDOS): Tsunami early warning system in Indonesia and Germany

Winter 2022/ 2023 – 2nd round: Doing marine stsing: Fieldnotes, manuscripts, articles 

  • 26.10.2022, inputs from Stefan Helmreich & Casper Bruun Jensen – “STS meets Marine Environments, Part 1“
  • 15.11.2022, Anja Klein (member, Humboldt Universität zu berlin) – on the role of water within practices of modeling human-environment relationships
  • 13.12.2022, inputs from Isabelle Simpson and Ashley Carse – “STS meets Marine Environments, Part 2”.
  • 17.01.2023, Laura Mcadam Otto (member, Goethe Universität Frankfurt) – discussing fieldwork notes collected in a laboratory in mexico
  • 07.02.2023, Indrawan Prabaharyaka (member, Humboldt Universität zu Berlin & Indonesian Research & Innovation Agency) – sharing fieldwork notes from a project which deals with gender relations (human – human, human – non-human, spatial) in marine knowledge production
  • 14.02.2023, Ramona Haegele (member, German Institute for Developement and Sustainability (IDOS) & University of Würzburg) – sharing a draft of a paper on the interaction of autonomous submersible buoy for marine carbon observations and scientists

Summer 2022 – 1st round: Discussing marine-related STS-papers 

  • 07.06.2022: discussing Law, John (2008): On Sociology and STS. The  Sociological Revue 56/4, pp. 623‐649
  • 14.06.2022: discussing Callon, Michel (1986): Some elements of a  sociology of translation: domestication of the scallops and the fishermen of St Brieuc Bay. First published in J. Law, Power, action and belief: a new sociology of knowledge? London, Routledge, 1986, pp. 196-223.
  • 21.06.2022: discussing Bruun Jensen, Casper (2017). Amphibious  Worlds: Environments, Infrastructures, Ontologies. Engaging Science, Technology, and Society 3 (2017), 224-234.
  • 05.07.2022: discussing Ratté, Stephanie (2019). (Un)seen Seas: Technological Mediation, Oceanic Imaginaries, and Future Depths. Environment and Society, 10(1), 141-157
  • 12.07.2022: discussing Carse, Ashley (2012). Nature as  infrastructure: Making and managing the Panama Canal watershed. Social Studies of Sciences 42(4): 539–563