| 06/2026 | “The (Dis)Order of Gendered Bodies: Ambivalent Demands on Materializations of Queerness,” Queer Lecture(s), (Bielefeld University). Speaker: Ann Kristin Augst. |
| 02/2026 | “The Body as Battery: The Role of Algorithmic Scores in Understandings of Health and Illness,” From Digitalization to Artificial Intelligence: New Scenarios for Health and Medicine, Joint Conference of AIS (Sociology of Health and Medicine Section) & STS Italia, (Trento). Speaker: Ann Kristin Augst. |
| 01/2026 | “Digital cultures of repair,” 10th Mid-Term Conference, Research Network 07, Sociology of Culture, European Sociological Association, (Rome). Presenter: Ronja Trischler. |
| 09/2025 | “Transitioning Bodies: Standardization of Ambiguous Gendered Bodies in and Through Medicine?”, 42nd Congress of the German Sociological Association, (Duisburg). Presenter: Ann Kristin Augst. |
| 09/2025 | “Online Repair Videos: Guiding ‘Tinkering’ with Everyday Objects,” Ad Hoc Group “Transitions on Rewind: Video Analyses of Transition Phenomena,” DGS Congress, (Duisburg-Essen). Presenter: Ronja Trischler. |
| 07/2025 | “Moderating Digital Societies,” 5th ISA Forum of Sociology, (Rabat). Presenter: Ronja Trischler. |
| 07/2025 | “Bodies, Technologies, and Time,” workshop “Ageing Materialities: Perspectives, Praxis, and Possibilities,” (Essen). Presenter: Cornelius Schubert. |
| 07/2025 | “Digital Mental Health Innovation: Key Points for a Future Research Agenda,” Symposium “Therapeutic Encounters with Chatbots: The Social and Ethical Implications of Artificial Therapeutic Agents,” (Essen). Presenter: Cornelius Schubert. |
| 05/2025 | “The ‘Pro-Innovation Bias’ of Social Innovations,” conference “Transformative (Social) Science? Opportunities, Limits, and Dangers of a Claim to Shaping the Future,” (Görlitz). Presenter: Cornelius Schubert. |
| 03/2025 | “Medical Critique in Hashtags? Chronic Health Conditions on Social Media,” Panel 22: STS Hub “Diffracting the Critical,” (Berlin). Presenters: Ann Kristin Augst, Bianca Jansky, Lisa Wiedemann. |
| 03/2025 | “Collaborating at and on Hackathons,” Authors-meet-critics, Sts-hub.de (Berlin). Speaker: Ronja Trischler. |
| 03/2025 | “Wrapping Up: Ending Discursive Practices.” Workshop “That’s It: Practices and Aesthetics of Ending,” (Institute for Cultural Studies, Essen). Speaker: Ronja Trischler. |
| 11/2024 | “Incoherent Bodies? Negotiations of Expertise in Medicine,” Mapping Situational Analysis, (Magdeburg). Speaker: Ann Kristin Augst. |
| 10/2024 | “Queer Corporealities: Gender at the Intersection of Pluralized Norms and Knowledge,” Lecture Series “Body and Gender from an Interdisciplinary Perspective,” (Otto von Guericke University Magdeburg). Speaker: Ann Kristin Augst. |
| 10/2024 | “The Body in Qualitative Research: A Methodological Reflection,” 6th Annual Conference of the Network “Qualitative Social Research in Sports Science,” (Marburg). Speaker: Ann Kristin Augst. |
| 10/2024 | “Materializing Digital Objects,” International Workshop on Ontologies and Epistemologies in Science and Technology Studies, ERC Project “Doing Digital Identities,” (Lüneburg). Presenter: Ronja Trischler. |
| 09/2024 | “Data Temporalities: Time-Adequacy in Online Ethnographic Research,” International Conference on Qualitative Digital Methods, (Ruhr University Bochum). Presenter: Ronja Trischler. |
| 08/2024 | “Tensions Around Expertise in Medicine? Laypeople and the Popularization of Health-Related Self-Measuring Devices,” 16th Conference of the European Sociological Association (ESA), (Porto). Presenter: Ann Kristin Augst. |
| 08/2024 | “What Makes a Digital Studio? Studying Sites of Cultural Production in the Digital Age,” 16th Conference of the ESA, (Porto). Presenter: Ronja Trischler. |
| 07/2024 | “‘I simply had no idea what I was allowed to do.’ Self-tracking as a popular method by and for patients to explore and understand their own chronic illness in more detail,” EASST/4S, (Amsterdam). Presenter: Ann Kristin Augst. |
| 05/2024 | “Transformations of Medical Knowledge Hierarchies? Physician-Patient Relationships in an Era of Increasing Digitalization and Popularization,” Expertise in Digital Transformation, Conference of the Research Group “Reorganization of Knowledge Practices” in cooperation with the DGS Section “Science and Technology Studies,” (Berlin). Speakers: Ann Kristin Augst, Cornelius Schubert). |
| 04/2024 | “Bodies in Politics, Theory, and Empiricism,” symposium “Body.Politics.Gender: A Journey Through Analysis and Practice of Political Education for Diversity and Democracy,” HochDrei e.V. (Potsdam). Speaker: Ann Kristin Augst. |
| 04/2024 | “Replace or Repair? Moderating Online Advice on How to Take Care of Broken Things,” RUSTlab & SFB 1567 Virtual Living Environments, (Ruhr University Bochum). Speaker: Ronja Trischler. |
| 03/2024 | “Theorizing and Technologizing: Knowledge Production at the Intersection of the Social Sciences and the Technical Sciences,” Conference on the Technologization of Knowledge, (Chemnitz University of Technology). Presenter: Cornelius Schubert. |
| 01/2024 | “Conducting Research with and within Gender Studies,” Institute for Sociology and Demography, (University of Rostock). Speaker: Ann Kristin Augst. |
| 11/2023 | “The Materiality of Practice: ‘Feasibility’ in Digital Film Productions,” conference on Materiality and Immateriality in Digital Capitalism: Art and Literature from the Perspectives of the Humanities, Social Sciences, Law, and Economics (Innsbruck). Speaker: Ronja Trischler. |
| 10/2023 | “Moderating Online Discussions,” Annual Conference of the Section on Media and Communication Sociology (Essen). Speaker: Ronja Trischler. |
| 07/2023 | “Queer Matter(s): Bodies and Gender as Spaces of Boundaries and Possibilities,” hybrid lecture series “Queer Series” (University of Augsburg). Speaker: Ann Kristin Augst. |
| 07/2023 | “Disempowerment for Participation,” World Congress of the International Sociological Association (ISA) in Panel 159 “Action Research for Participation and Empowerment” of RC 10 (Melbourne). Presenter: Julia Kurz. |
| June 2023 | “Patient-Generated Data as ‘Grey Data’,” Session: Enhancing the Dialogue between Science and Society: The Challenges of e-Health Care, XX ISA World Congress of Sociology (Melbourne). Presenter: Cornelius Schubert. |
| 06/2023 | “Cryopreserving Human Material: On Precautionary Freezing and the Good Life in the Context of Umbilical Cord Blood Storage,” 10 Minutes of Sociology: The Good Life, lecture series (University of Passau). Presenter: Isabelle Bosbach. |
| 06/2023 | “‘Heteronormativity’ by Default? Biases and Responsibilities in (Bio)Medical Research,” Symposium “Pride at MDC — From Awareness to Action,” Max Delbrück Center (Berlin). Speaker: Ann Kristin Augst. |
| 06/2023 | “Visibility Here and Now,” panel discussion at the 1st Rainbow Reception of the City of Augsburg (Augsburg City Hall). Speaker: Ann Kristin Augst. |
| 06/2023 | “Gender Medicine 2.0: Gender-Sensitive Healthcare Beyond Binarity,” workshop at the Weber* Conference on “Gender-Sensitive Medicine” organized by the Max Weber Program (Elite Network Bavaria & German National Academic Foundation), (Augsburg). Speaker: Ann Kristin Augst. |
| 05/2023 | “Hackathons as a Ritual in the Spirit of Digital Capitalism?”, OEGEKW Conference: Everyday Life and Cultures of Digitality (University of Klagenfurt). Speakers: Ronja Trischler, Matthias Wieser. |
| May 2023 | “Online Moderation: A Ritual Approach to Interactional Involvement,” session “Exploring Digital Interactions with Erving Goffman,” STS Conference Graz (Graz University of Technology). Speaker: Ronja Trischler. |
| 03/2023 | “Hospital Ethnography,” opening keynote at the conference “Field Research in Medicine: Added Value and Challenges of Ethnographic Approaches to Health” (Augsburg). Presenter: Cornelius Schubert. |
| March 2023 | “Inside the Visual Effects Studio: Sociotechnical Practices of Digital Creative Work,” STS-Hub Circulations Panel: Circulations between STS and the Arts (Human Technology Center Aachen). Presenter: Ronja Trischler. |
| 03/2023 | “Field Research in Medicine: Added Value and Challenges of Ethnographic Approaches to Health” (University of Augsburg). Speakers: Ann Kristin Augst, Bianca Jansky. |
| 02/2023 | “Medical Records: The Relationship Between the Ephemeral and the Fixed,” Workshop Die Akte / n. 2 (Siegen). Presenter: Cornelius Schubert. |
| 02/2023 | “Moderated Online Evaluations,” conference of the working groups “Organization and Evaluation” & “Digitization and Organization” of the Sociology of Organizations Section of the German Sociological Association (DGS): Digitization – Organization – Evaluation (University of Bielefeld). Speaker: Ronja Trischler. |
| 01/2023 | “The (In)visibility of Transgender Identity in Medicine,” symposium marking the start of rehearsals for “Becoming Invisible,” Institute for Theatrical Future Research at the Tübingen Zimmertheater (Tübingen). Speaker: Ann Kristin Augst. |
| 01/2023 | “Queer Health: Perspectives on and within Medicine Sensitive to Inequality and Discrimination,” Department of Medicine (University of Augsburg). Speaker: Ann Kristin Augst. |
| 11/2022 | “Practices of Audience Construction,” lecture series: Systematics of Science and Current Research Topics in Media Studies (Ruhr University Bochum). Speaker: Ronja Trischler. |
| 11/2022 | “Gender = A Matter of Negotiation?! Transgender Identity as an Arena for the Debate on Pluralization,” Queer Department (University of Augsburg). Speaker: Ann Kristin Augst. |
| 11/2022 | “Freezing Organic Material—When Cryotechnologies Affect Temporal Boundaries,” Sociology Live: An HDR Conference, School of Sociology, Australian National University (Canberra). Speaker: Isabelle Bosbach. |
| 10/2022 | “Social (In)certainties: The Debate on Gender Self-Determination,” Current Reforms in Family Law: An Interdisciplinary Perspective, Bavarian Academy of Sciences (Munich). Speaker: Ann Kristin Augst. |
| 10/2022 | “Art and Digitality,” panel organized with Paul Buckermann and Andrea Glauser (event hosted by the Working Group on Digitized Art Worlds). Conference on “Plural Interconnections,” Working Group on the Sociology of the Arts of the Section on Cultural Sociology within the German Sociological Association (DGS) (Humboldt University of Berlin). Speaker: Ronja Trischler. |
| 09/2022 | “Technographic Futures: Observing Data, Models, and Practices,” workshop at PREGOV III—Towards Transdisciplinary Perspectives on Algorithmic Prediction & Decision-Making (Hamburg). Presenter: Cornelius Schubert. |
| 09/2022 | “Moderated Evaluations: A Theory of Practice in Digital Moderation,” Panel: Contested Classifications. Cultural-Sociological Perspectives on Evaluation Conflicts. Section event of the Cultural Sociology Section at the 41st DGS Congress (University of Bielefeld). Presenter: Ronja Trischler. |
| 09/2022 | “Digital Objects? Materialities in the Trans-Sequential Analysis of Digital Work,” Ad Hoc Group: Beyond Disciplinary Poles: Trans-Sequential Analysis and Its Potential for Transdisciplinary Comparability, 41st DGS Congress (University of Bielefeld). Presenter: Ronja Trischler. |
| 09/2022 | “Qualitative Research in Polarized Inter- and Transdisciplinary Projects,” Ad Hoc Group: Qualitative Research in Polarized Fields, DGS Congress “Polarized Worlds” (Bielefeld). Presenters: Julia Kurz, Cornelius Schubert. |
| 07/2022 | “Popular Data. How Patients and Doctors Deal with Digital Apps and Devices,” EASST Madrid, Panel: Co-design and Understanding (In) Digital Health Technologies with Future Users of All Ages. Presenters: Danny Lämmerhirt, Cornelius Schubert. |
| 07/2022 | “The troubles of data multiple. Visualizing patient data on a neurosurgical ward,” EASST Madrid, Panel: Transdisciplinary Research: How to Stay with the Trouble and Enable Co-Learning? (Madrid). Presenters: Julia Kurz, Cornelius Schubert. |
| 06/2022 | “Elias and Deepfakes.” Symposium on Norbert Elias and… Marking the 125th Birthday of a Social Science Classic (University of Passau). Presenter: Mirco Spiegel. |
| 06/2022 | “Cryotechnological (Pre)Care—Bodies Between the Present and the Future,” Conference: “Transgressive Bodies—Bodies That Cross Boundaries and Social Order,” Marie Jahoda Center for International Gender Studies (Ruhr University Bochum). Speaker: Isabelle Bosbach. |
| 06/2022 | “Queer(ing) Medicine?! Heteronormativity in Healthcare,” Campussommer, (University of Augsburg). Speaker: Ann Kristin Augst. |
| May 2022 | “Gender as a Category of Inequality,” Public Climate School workshop (University of Augsburg). Speaker: Ann Kristin Augst. |
| 04/2022 | “Women of the Underworld—The Augsburg Files,” staged reading/discussion, Staatstheater (Augsburg). Speakers: Ann Kristin Augst, Nicole Schneiderbauer, Tine Rahel Völcker. |
| 01/2022 | “Speaking Images or Silent Objects of Labor? Cooperative Practices of Digital Image Production.” Research Workshop on Institutional Communication (University of Duisburg-Essen, Institute for Cultural Studies, Essen). Speaker: Ronja Trischler. |
| 12/2021 | “The Materiality of Digital Visual Effects Production.” Science Systematics, (Ruhr University Bochum). Speaker: Ronja Trischler. |
| 11/2021 | “Coding Data in Software Design and in STS,” RUSTlab Lecture, online: Data Concepts: Key Terms in Experimentalist Data Studies. Speaker : Cornelius Schubert. |
| 11/2021 | “Digital Co-Creation: Where the Social and the Technical Meet,” closing conference of the DFG Research Training Group “Innovation Society Today,” online: Digital Innovation in the Innovation Society. Speaker: Cornelius Schubert. |
| 11/2021 | “Data multiples. Collaborative data practices in small interdisciplinary teams,” DZHW virtual workshop, online: Benefits and challenges of collaboration in research. Investigating the manifold aspects of mono-, inter-, and transdisciplinary collaboration. Speakers: Julia Kurz, Cornelius Schubert. |
| 10/2021 | “Digital Work Objects? Trans-Sequential Analysis in Organizations,” Organization Meets Digital Cultures. Synergies of Social and Cultural Science Perspectives, 4th Workshop of the Working Group on Digitalization and Organization of the Sociology of Organizations Section of the DGS (Lüneburg). Speaker: Ronja Trischler. |
| 08/2021 | “Hacking Social Problems: Practices of Problematization at Hackathons,” Ad Hoc Group “Practice of the Problem”: How Do Social Problems Arise and Take Effect? Joint DGS/ÖGS Sociology Congress (digital). Presenters: Ronja Trischler, Oliver Berli, Hannes Krämer, Diana Lengersdorf, Alexandra Manske, Matthias Wieser. |
| August 2021 | “Digital Repairability,” Ad Hoc Group on Digitalization and Sustainability. Joint DGS/ÖGS Sociology Congress. Speaker: Ronja Trischler. |
| May 2021 | “Infrastructure as Ritual,” Geomedia 4 – Off the Grid, (University of Siegen). Speaker: Ronja Trischler. |
| 10/2020 | “Gender Medicine,” [Interview] | TV Bayern Live. Speaker: Ann Kristin Augst. |
| 10/2020 | “Cryotechnologies & (Preemptive) Care,” PSP Annual Conference: Dimensions of Care, Haus Villigst (Schwerte). Speaker: Isabelle Bosbach. |
| 09/2020 | “The Dilemma of Participatory Technology Development: Sociological Contributions to the Design of Technology,” online presentation at the 2020 DGS Congress in the Science and Technology Studies section. Speaker: Julia Kurz |
| 05/2020 | “Trans*/Inter*—What Is the Relevance of This Topic for Health, Higher Education, and Everyday Life?”, [Podcast] | German Diversity Day 2020, (Technical University of Munich). Speaker: Ann Kristin Augst. |
| 11/2019 | “Men* from a Different Perspective — Male Perspectives on Diversity,” International Men’s Day 2019, Employment Agency (Augsburg). Speaker: Ann Kristin Augst. |
| July 2019 | “The Big Picture: The Trans-Situational Cooperative Making of Digital Moving Images for Film and Television,” IIEMCA19 Practices Conference, (University of Mannheim). Speaker: Ronja Trischler. |
| 06/2019 | “Blinded by the Shot: Digital Design as a Conditionally Creative Process,” workshop “Living with Machines: On the (Sensory) Creativity of Human-Machine Interactions,” (Düsseldorf Academy of Fine Arts). Speaker: Ronja Trischler. |
| 06/2019 | “Welcome and Introduction: Refugees as the Subject of Documentary Film,” Discussion Forum: Refugee Issues in the Focus of Research, Protestant University of Applied Sciences RWL (Bochum). Speaker: Isabelle Bosbach. |
| 03/2019 | “Beyond the Binary. Rethinking Gender(ed) Care Considering Trans Patients’ Needs,” Blurring Boundaries: Rethinking Gender and Care, (Augsburg). Speaker: Ann Kristin Augst. |
| 12/2018 | “From ‘All About My Mother’ to ‘XXY.’ Gender(s) and Sexuality(ies) in Film and Television,” Frauensicht (Augsburg Adult Education Center). Speaker: Ann Kristin Augst. |
| November 2018 | “Sexuality and Masculinities,” International Men’s Day 2018, (Zeughaus Augsburg). Speakers: Ann Kristin Augst, Jelena Büchner. |
| June 2018 | “All About Gender? The Curious Influence of Gender-Related Representations in Film and Television,” CineUni, CinemaxX (Augsburg). Speakers: Ann Kristin Augst, Heike Krebs. |
| 06/2018 | “Ambiguous: Gender in the Discussion,” [panel discussion] | German Diversity Day 2018 (University of Augsburg). Speakers: Ann Kristin Augst, Ann-Kathrin Bürger, Heike Krebs, Nicole Lühring, and Jeanne Riedel. |
| 05/2018 | “Cryonics—Life Beyond Death?”, Conference on Body, Knowledge, Death: Social Science Approaches Between the Lifeworld and Transcendence (University of Passau). Speaker: Isabelle Bosbach. |
| May 2018 | “Embrace — You Are Beautiful,” [Discussion/Movie Night] | German Diversity Day 2018 (University of Augsburg). Speakers: Ann Kristin Augst, Debora Frommeld. |
| March 2018 | “'Gender Disorder' in the Healthcare System? On the Care Situation for Genderqueer and/or Non-Binary Trans People,” Congress on Poverty and Health (Berlin). Speaker: Ann Kristin Augst. |
| 01/2018 | “Genders and Sexualities in Film and Television—On the Normalization and Exoticization of ‘the Other’,” Lecture Series: Que(e)r Across All Disciplines (University of Augsburg). Speaker: Ann Kristin Augst. |
| 11/2017 | “Mind the Gap! (Bodily) Gender Diversity and the German Health Care System,” 8th Congress of the International Society for Gender Medicine, Sendai (Japan). Speaker: Ann Kristin Augst. |
| June 2017 | “Men Show Films & Women Show Their Breasts,” [Film Night/Discussion] | German Diversity Day 2017 (University of Augsburg). Speakers: Ann Kristin Augst, Matthias Roche. |
| March 2017 | “Effective Advertising: Affect in Digital Animation.” Annual Conference of the Society for Cinema & Media Studies (SCMS), (Chicago). Presenter: Ronja Trischler. |
| 12/2016 | “Making Cooperation Visible,” conference “Infrastructures of Publics – Publics of Infrastructures” hosted by the SFB Media of Cooperation (Siegen). Speakers: Julia Kurz |
| 04/2016 | “'Now I Just Have to Get My Period.' On Physical, Technical, and Ethical Prerequisites and Limits in Researching Intimate Everyday Practices,” Annual Conference of the DGS Section “Sociology of the Body and Sport.” Presenter: Ann Kristin Augst. |
| 02/2015 | “Improving Study Conditions Through Academic Advising? Presentation of Research Findings and Evaluation Options,” Spring Conference of the Early-Career Network of the German Society for Evaluation (DeGEval). Presenter: Julia Kurz |
