Vorträge (seit 2005):
2005
- Innsbruck (January 28): Universität Innsbruck, Institut für Limnologie und Zoologie; Welche Geschichte der Limnologie und wozu? (invited paper and seminar session)
- Guelph (July 13 – 17): Biannual Conference of the International Society of the History, Philosophy and Social Sciences of Biology (ISHPSSB); Diagrams in ecology: aesthetics and transformations (invited paper)
- Montreal (August): ESA and INTECOL Conference 2005 in Montréal; Organization of the evening session Philosophy and History of Ecology: Their use and misuse; Presentation (together with Stewart Pickett): Why metaphors? A plea for metaphors in ecology. (paper)
- Darmstadt (September): Technisierung/Ästhetisierung – Technological and Aesthetic (Trans)Formations of Society. (Conference of the Graduiertenkolleg Technisierung der Gesellschaft, TU Darmstadt); About visual evidence in the field sciences (session organization and contributed paper)
2006
Darmstadt (SS 2006, lecture series): „Ecological knowledge and society“ (organization and contributed paper)
Basel (May 10): Colloquium of the Institute for science studies, Basel University; Morphology of borders. (invited paper)
Tübingen (June 24): Workshop „Nanovisions“ (oganized by the Ethics Center Tübingen); Metaphor, model, and constitution of objects (invited paper)
München (September 6-8): Conference „Alles Nano“, Interdisziplinäre Studiengesellschaft (ISG); Alles Science Fiction? Stanislaw Lems wilde und liederliche Naturen. (invited paper)
Cambridge (November 9): CRASSH, University of Cambridge, workshop “Locating emerging technologies”; Placing place in lab and field: Past and future forms of environmental innovation. (invited paper)
Oxford (November 10): Centre for the Environment, University of Oxford, workshop paper discussions (Shrinking the ecological footprint with NanoTechnoScience? Schwarz 2004
Berlin (November 24-25): Jahrestagung NUT (Frauen in Naturwissenschaft und Technik); Nanovisionen – Spagat zwischen gestern und morgen. (invited paper)
2007
Basel (May 3-5): Workshop „Deliberating future technologies: Identity, ethics, and governance of nanotechnology”; The Lure of the ‘Yes’ (invited paper, together with Alfred Nordmann)
Hofgeismar (June 1-3): Tagung Nanobio Evangelische Akademie; Magische In(ter)ventionen: Nanotechnologie und Science-fiction. (invited paper).
Bielefeld (July 6): Lab-field workshop RG Science in the context of application (organization)
Charleston (July 8-11): SPT biannual meeting (Society for Philosophy and Technology); Limits to growth – limits to space? (paper)
Exeter (July 25-29): ISHPSSB biannual meeting; Hybrids in Ecology: (Post-)Normal Science and the Interface of Interdisciplinary Practices (organisation of the session); Dirty and purified places: comparing lab and field sciences (contributed paper)
Tartu (July 31): International workshop, Baer House (Sabine Brauckmann) „Form of Space and its Visualization in the Sciences and Culture (1750 to 2000)“; Some thoughts about research sites and visualization (macro-, meso- and micro-level) (invited paper)
Wuppertal (September 28-30): DGGMNT Jahrestagung (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Geschichte, Medizin, Naturwissenschaft und Technik); Biodiversität zwischen Naturforschung und Biotechnologie (paper)
Toronto (October 24-28): Nature Matters Conference (organised by the Canada Research Chair in Sustainability and Culture, Faculty of Environmental Studies, York University); Limits to growth – limits of space? (invited paper)
Aarhus (November 2-3): Workshop Nano Ethics Network; Ecologizing Nanotechnology: Business as usual or new challenge? (invited paper)
Salzburg (November 13-15): Konferenz „Natürlich Kunst“ (Mozarteum, Universität Salzburg, Natürlich künstlich: Von Monstern, Cyborgs und Hybriden. (invited paper)
Madrid (November 14-17): EPSA conference (European Philosophy of Science Association); Commuting concepts and objects in scientific ecology (paper)
Frankfurt (November 23): Hessen Nanoforum; Greening Nanotechnology: Business as usual or new challenge? (invited talk)
Darmstadt (December 19): lecture series of the Dept. of Philosophy „Naturforschung zur Sprache gebracht“ (organizer); Jacob von Uexküll (paper)
2008
- Benediktbeuren (March 4): Workshop „Theorie in der Ökologie“ (organized by Gesellschaft für Ökologie); Probleme und Herausforderungen einer Ökotechnologie (invited paper)
- Monte Verità (March 6): Conference „nanoECO“ (organized by EMPA and ETH Zürich); Greening Nanotechnology – new challenge or business as usual? (paper) http://www.empa.ch/plugin/template/empa/*/60627/---/l=1
- Columbia (May 19-20): Workshop „Nanotechnology in society: Network to society“; Potential politics: the greening of nanotechnology in a world without limits (invited paper)
- Freiburg (July 25): Conference „Visualization and materiality“; Images of a technoscience. Between visualism and voyeurism. (invited paper)
- Rotterdam (August 20-23): Conference 4S and EASST; Shared pleasures in eco- and nanotechnology (paper)
- Alsfeld (September 22–26): Summer school „converging technologies“; Green dreams of reason (invited lecture, faculty member)
- Potsdam (October 10 – 11): Conference „visualization as translation“, organized by Institut für Künste und Medien der Universität Potsdam and Institut für Kulturforschung Heidelberg; Pictorial nomads – cartographies in field and lab (invited paper)
- Aarhus (October 31 –November 1): Third Nano Ethics Workshop “Questions of Justice in Nanotechnological Development(s)”, organized by the Center for Bioethics and Nanoethics University of Aarhus; Opening intervention: spaces of promises and visions (invited contribution)
- Berlin (November 28-29): Workshop „Experimentalization of the political“, organized by Universität Wien, PhD-Net: Das Wissen der Literatur – Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, ICI Berlin; Shifting from lab- to real-world experiments: Reassesment and re-evaluation in science and society (invited paper)
2009
- Milano (March 22-24): Workshop “Benefits and futures of nanotechnologies”, EU-project NanoCap; Roadmaps and other literary styles of telling a story about nanotechnology’s future (paper presentation and moderation)
- Dublin (June 15-17): Finalizing Workshop, EU-project NanoCap; Discussion on the NanoCap methodology (presentation and moderation)
- Stade (July 3-5): Zweiunddreißigste Jahrestagung der Lichtenberg Gesellschaft; Mit Messkunst gegen Einbildungskraft: Die Austreibung der Monster aus der Wasserwüste (invited paper)
- Brisbane (July 13-17): Biannual conference of the International Society of the History, Philosophy and Social Sciences of Biology (ISHPSSB); Ecological language games and concepts for innovation (session organizer and paper).
Additionally this same paper was given at the GET-group located at Queensland University of Technology. The group is interested in the conceptual underpinnings of using the ecosystem model outside of ecology.
- Canberra (July 22): Workshop “Converging Technologies: some pressing ethical issues”; It is all about greenness – social experimentation with nanotechnologies (invited paper)
- Oldenburg (September 28-30): Jahrestagung der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Limnologie (DGL); Wie kommen limnologische Objekte in die Welt? (invited lecture)
- Paris (October 5-6): Workshop “Imag(in)ing the Nanoscale“ at the Maison des Sciences de l’Homme; invited to participate in the development of a research project
- Washington (October 27-31): Conference of the Society for Social Studies of Science (4S), Session organized by Clark Miller “Sustainability III: Sustainability and Emerging Technologies“; Sustainable development and transgression of limits – an essential tension? (invited paper)
- Mannheim (November 11): Vortragsreihe “forum Mannheim” Landesmuseum für Technik und Arbeit; Grüne Nanotechnologie – möglich, glaubwürdig, wünschenswert? (invited lecture)
- Berlin (December 1-2): Forum Wissenschaftskommunikation (BMBF, PUSH); Session “Nichtwissenskommunikation” (moderation)
- Paris (December 7): Seminaire “Science, technique et valeur“ by Prof. B. Bensaude-Vincent; invited to present and discuss the paper “Green Dreams of Reason”