stsing 2026 Conference
Before Ruins invites you to Ruhr University Bochum, March 25–27, 2026, to explore the Ruhr area as a living laboratory for Science and Technology Studies in times of endings and beginnings. The conference asks how STS can become response-able – caring, collaborative, and situated. Through on-site case work, keynotes, a panel, papers, and social events, the event invites participants to probe just responses to change from climate to (de)growth and decolonization.
Date: March 25–27, 2026
Place: Ruhr University Bochum, Buildings HGB and GABF, Universitätsstraße 150, 44801 Bochum, North Rhine-Westphalia
About the conference: https://stsing.org/before-ruins/the-stsing-vibe-thinking-through-cases
Program: https://stsing.org/before-ruins/programme
Accepted papers: https://stsing.org/before-ruins/papers
Organisers: The stsing 2026 conference is organized by RUSTlab, the Ruhr area STS lab and node of the stsing e.V. This includes: Sandra Abels, Leman Çelik, Ruth Eggel, Laura Kocksch, Stefan Laser, Mace Ojala, Kerstin Parasidis, Fabian Pittroff, David Schupp and Estrid Sørensen.
