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stsing e.V. is an association (“Verein”) doing Science and Technology Studies (STS) in and through Germany, established in 2020. STS is an interdisciplinary field of research and activity interested in how science and technology are practically done and socially embedded. The association stsing is informed by international discussions and receives attention from plenty of senior and early career researchers. We are currently in the process of preparing and implementing fresh modes for gathering.
Check our Satzung (statutes) to learn more about the association.
Last update: August 2023.
Aims
We value creative and experimental formats. Even though this might translate into an affinity towards certain topics, stsing has no narrow thematic or disciplinary focus. We appreciate and foster diversity as well as international collaboration. This is also why we understand stsing as a multilingual project. Starting with an English setup of the website (the lingua franca of STS), we plan translations in German and other languages. stsing organized itself as a rhizomatic organization that is essentially member-driven. Members can form working groups and local hubs to get and work together on STS-related issues from the grassroots. Bond by German law, as a registered association, apart from its working groups, stsing also has a formal and elected board. More than anything else, the board understands itself as a facilitator of member activities.
Please do reach out with general questions regarding stsing e.V. via board@stsing.org
History
The association's founding goes back to an intensive discursive exchange, i.e. several meetings during larger conferences and an event in spring 2019 declared as organising. Afterwards, also due to the Covid-19 crisis, the organisation was advanced online and officially inaugurated at the Leakage conference in Dresden 2024.
Some reports on these events and where stsing is heading:
- STS in Germany: Ve vill go on! (DESTS, 2018)
- Still “in its infancy”? Afterthoughts on the relevance of STS anchors in Germany (EASST, 2018)
- Doing STS in Germany: on meetings, workshops and basic conditions (4S Backchannel, 2019)
- #stsing – but how? An open workshop on possible organisation forms of STS-in-Germany (Open article, 2019)
- "stsing" – Towards inclusive forms of STS-in-Germany (EASST, 2019)
- stsing. Doing STS In, Through And Beyond the German Academic System (Open article, 2021)
- Staying with the troubles of infrastructuring stsing: between assemblage and “Verein” (EASST, 2021)
- The Cosmology of stsing (EASST, 2021)
The stsing Board
The board legally represents the stsing association (‘eingetragener Verein’ in Germany). It takes care of the administrative and financial issues of the association and facilitates communication between members, working groups and local hubs. Board members are elected by stsing members for a period of two years.
Get in touch with the board via board@stsing.org
Members of the current board (2023-2025):
The stsing Ombudsgroup
stsing has an ombudsgroup, which currently consists of five members. It decides on matters concerning the accessibility of the association, the reduction of discrimination within the association, the cooperation of all members within the association, and the behaviour of members in other professional functions.
Ombudsgroup members are elected by stsing members for a period of two years.
If you encounter any situations that requires counseling or action by the ombudsgroup, please reach out to us via ombudsgroup@stsing.org. We aim to get back to you within 3 work days.
Members of the current ombudsgroup (2024-2026):
- Melina Antonakaki
- Laura Kocksch
- Ingmar Lippert
- Tahani Nadim
- Alexander Schniedermann
The ombudsgroup works on the basis of our statues and stsings's code of conduct. Find out more about it and the Code of Conduct here.
Founding Members
Founding members of stsing:
- Tanja Bogusz, University of Kassel
- Baldeep Grewal, University of Potsdam
- Simon Hirsbrunner, Freie Universität Berlin
- Ingmar Lippert, Brandenburgische Technische Universität Cottbus-Senftenberg; IT University of Copenhagen
- Petra Lucht, Technische Universität Berlin
- Jörg Niewöhner, Humboldt Universität Berlin
- Martina Schlünder, Max Planck Institute for the History of Science (MPIWG)
- Estrid Sørensen, Ruhr-Universität Bochum
- Jan-Peter Voß, Technische Universität Berlin
Past stsing Boards
Members of the second board (2021-2023):
- Tanja Bogusz
- Matthias Kloft
- Laura Kocksch
- Stefan Laser
- Julie Mewes
- Alexander Schniedermann
- Estrid Sørensen