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The 2026 conference of stsing e.V.
25.–27. March 2026, Ruhr University Bochum
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Explore the exciting Before Ruins programme here with keynotes, panel, paper presentations, film screening, visit, social programme, and the entire day of casework.
The stsing vibe: Thinking through cases
Our conference cultivates a sensibility attuned to the entanglements of knowledge, practice, and place. Read about the conference concept.
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Conversing across differences, for finding hope in small similarities, and for being together in good faith.
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Keynotes and the opening panel
Opening by Anne Pasek, Uli Paetzel, Sandra Maß, Tina Asmussen, Jörg Niewöhner and Katia Schwerzmann. Closing by Endre Dányi.
Papers
Three dozen papers will be presented in six panels during the conference. Find them here.
Booklet
The conference booklet is now available for download. Hard copies will be available on site.
Registration
The conference registration is now closed.
Toxic Heritage Ruhr
Tina Asmussen, Frederike Lange, Carlina Rossée, Peter Oakley
Before the Ruins of Speed - The Transrapid as an Abandonment of a Sociotechnical Future
Juri Nitzling, Patrick Mackens
Poetic place-making amidst coal’s multiple afterlives: A laboratory of social dreaming in Recklinghausen Süd
Ute Eickelkamp, Axel Schuch
Anarchive of time – remembering and imagining before ruins
Stefan Gebhard, Johanne Hoppstock
Digital Twins before Ruins
Randi Heinrichs, Armin Beverungen
Artistic approaches to aluminium extraction in the Ruhr Valley
Ruby Reding
Doing feminist and anti-colonial science - art and stories at the kitchen table as intervention
Freyja Wang, Asli Atasoy, Johanna Kretschmer, Paula Kaskel, Sarvin Jebreilzadehkaregar, Nara Hagh
Duisburg Ruhrort – From an industrial to a sustainable and just neighborhood
Sonja Knobbe
Empowering Map Collection Research with Digital Tools
Diego Siqueira, Nina Straub, Selina Luedecke
What is participation in your case? – A workshop to methodographically analyse and jointly reflect on the opportunities and challenges of participatory research approaches as a case in and for STS
Julie Sascia Mewes, Dana Mahr, Hoai Truong, Britta Acksel, Claudia Göbel
Post-Coal Futures in Lusatia and beyond: Mobility and Communication Infrastructures as Sites of Structural Transformation
Helena Cermeño Mediavilla, Max Langner
Archives of (In)action: German academic complicity from South Africa to Palestine
Tahani Nadim, Stella Weitkamp, Baldeep Kaur, Nabil Hamdan
From Friction to Cooperation: Rethinking Heterogeneous Positions in Collaborate Experiences
Tanja Bogusz, Camino Eck, Lucie Fortun, Alix Levain, Joanne Clavel, Céline Jacob, Claire Macher
Who and What Tells the Future? Re-storying Deindustrialised Places Across Europe through Everyday Objects
Fiona Schrading, Andrei Mihail, Hannah Spruce, Rozemarijn de Kwaasteniet, Anamaria Depner
Sorting Biographies in Ruins and Fragments: Computational Methods as a Promising Approach for STS?
Lina Franken, Dennis Möbus
2nd stsing conference at Ruhr-University Bochum: Before Ruins
We are excited to welcome you to the 2nd conference of the stsing e.V. It will take place March 25–27 2026 at Ruhr-University Bochum.