14:15 – 15:00

Kristof van Laerhoven und Shadan Sadhegian (P05)

Soziale Interaktion im semi-automatisierten Straßenverkehr

15:00 – 15:45

Tahereh Aboofazeli (MGK)

A multimodal collective auto-ethnography by female carpet weavers in Iran

Themen können über die Statusvertretungen in die Vorstandssitzungen bis zu zwei Wochen vor der Sitzung eingebracht werden. Einladungen mit TOPs werden zwei Wochen vorher verschickt. Förderanträge müssen mind. 2 Wochen vorher über die Koordination (siehe Kevin Onland) inkl. Begründung, Kostenvoranschlag bzw. detailierte Kostenaufstellung und Programm eingereicht werden. Die Vorstandssitzungen enthalten Berichte, Themenpunkte und Verschiedenes, die für alle SFB Mitglieder öffentlich sind. Personenbezogene Anträge und Finanzen sind nicht öffentlich und werden nach dem öffentlichen Teil besprochen. Webex-Links für Online-Teilnahmen werden am vorherigen Freitag verschickt. Teilnahme vor Ort ist möglich. Digitale Protokolle des öffentlichen Teils werden über das Intranet/sciebo zur Verfügung gestellt.

Die Klausurtagung findet statt am 15. und 16. April 2024 am Campus Unteres Schloss in Siegen.

In Europa und darüber hinaus werden nur unzureichend politische Maßnahmen gegen die Klimakatastrophe, das massive Artensterben sowie die globale Vermüllung unternommen. In jüngster Zeit werden selbst solche Vereinbarungen und Maßnahmen noch aufgeweicht und untergraben. Diese Dynamik fällt mit dem Aufstieg rechter und rechtsextremer Kräfte zusammen, deren rassistische, antifeministische und LGBTIQ*-feindliche Politik auch verstärkt an der Delegitimierung und Diffamierung des Engagements für Klimagerechtigkeit arbeitet. Die Bedrohung einer pluralistischen Demokratie und unserer planetaren Lebensgrundlagen sind miteinander verschränkt. Beide werden durch Medienereignisse und -strategien katalysiert.

Vor dem Hintergrund dieser besorgniserregenden Entwicklungen wollen wir auch als (Medien-)Wissenschaftler:innen aktiv werden. Wir laden Klimaaktivist:innen, Wissenschaftler:innen und Journalist:innen und andere Interessierte zu einem gemeinsamen Wochenende ein, an dem wir uns dem kollaborativen Forschen und  kollektiven Organisieren widmen. Ziel ist es Koalitionen zwischen Wissenschaft, Journalismus und Aktivismus zu bilden und nachhaltige Strategien der Zusammenarbeit zu entwickeln. In mehreren Workshops, widmen wir uns u.a. der Delegitimierung von Klimapolitik und –aktivismus, den Strategien von Klimaklagen sowie der Medienarbeit von Wissenschaftler:innen und Aktivist:innen.

Datum: Freitag, 12.4.2024 bis Sonntag, 14.4.2024

Ort: Bochum

Genaue Informationen und ein detailliertes Programm werden den Teilnehmenden nach Anmeldung zugesendet.

Anmeldung bitte bis zum 15.03.2024 unter research-at-risk@gfmedienwissenschaft.de. 

Für Fragen und Unterstützung bei Reisekosten und Unterbringung schreibt uns bitte unter: research-at-risk@gfmedienwissenschaft.de.

Die Teilnahme steht allen offen,  Studierende sind ebenso willkommen wie erfahrenere (Medien-)Wissenschaftler:innen, Journalist:innen, Aktivist:innen, Künstler:innen oder einfach nur am Thema Interessierten. Die Arbeitssprachen sind Englisch und Deutsch.

Das Onboarding findet online statt.

Die Schulung führt in das technische Setup inkl. OSX, Webex, Mikrofoninierung und Präsentationsmodi für hybride Veranstaltungen (v.a. Ringvorlesungen, Tagungen) ein, die am Herrengarten (insb. in 217/218) oder US-C stattfinden. Für den Herrengarten liegt der Fokus zudem auf das noch bestehende Setup der Conference-Owl.

15:15 – 16:15 Uhr

Johannes Schick (Universität Siegen)

The Category Project of the Durkheim School

Christelle Gramaglia (Montpellier): Anthropology and/as Citizen Science III: Collaborative Sensing of Industrial Pollution in the Gulf of Fos (Marseille) – A Return to Common Sense?

All lectures take place in Cologne and also online.

This Lecture Series explores dynamics of sensing and sense making, and thus takes up a topic that is at the center of interdisciplinary work at the CRC “Media of Cooperation” (Siegen/Cologne). At the same time, it introduces the research of the CRC to researchers at the University of Cologne and various international working groups in and on the Mediterranean by using the well-established “60 Minutes” in Ethnography, Theory, Anthropology as a forum.

The increasing spread of sensor technologies and the equipping of smart devices with sensors restructures forms of perception, sensing and knowledge making. Sensors measure movements in the city, record air quality, temperatures and energy consumption, control production and logistics processes in interaction with algorithms and learning systems, track the behavior and well-being of people, recognize people in images and video recordings or re-organize (digital) terrains. Sensor data, their collection, analysis, and integration with other data formats, and their interaction with various forms of practice are constitutive not only of sensing, but also of sense making.

In this series of talks, we are interested in forms of sensing and sense making vis-à-vis major dynamics of socio-political and environmental crises in and beyond the Mediterranean, in particular (1) mobility and related border regimes, (2) growing environmental crises and their (non)management, and (3) forms of social mobilization (activism) and their control. All three areas are characterized by specific forms of socio-technical sensing and the engagement with it – sense making, both distributed among multiple actors, including humans, machines, and the environment itself. Sensor media are becoming increasingly ubiquitous, and come with a number of ethical and political challenges – such as the erosion of privacy, new forms of surveillance, and socio-technical proliferation of prejudices and various forms of bias. Often they are perceived as both – as drivers of, but also as possible solutions for different forms of social, political, technical and environmental crises.

In this lecture series, Sensing and Sense Making will be explored praxeologically – and thus in its various forms and formats. Part I will investigate forms of sense making in the context of deadly borders regimes, in hazardous environments and as part of social activism. Part II will look at the challenges and opportunities of ethnographic research and public interventions to engage with situations of crises and collaborative knowledge production.

Organized by Nina ter Laan, Carla Tiefenbacher and Martin Zillinger for the CRC “Media of Cooperation” Siegen/Cologne and the Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology (DoSCA), University of Cologne.

15:15 – 16:15 Uhr

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Erella Grassiani (Amsterdam): Anthropology and/as Citizen Science II The Tree as Weapon: (non) state securitization of trees in the Negev/Naqab

All lectures take place in Cologne and also online.

This Lecture Series explores dynamics of sensing and sense making, and thus takes up a topic that is at the center of interdisciplinary work at the CRC “Media of Cooperation” (Siegen/Cologne). At the same time, it introduces the research of the CRC to researchers at the University of Cologne and various international working groups in and on the Mediterranean by using the well-established “60 Minutes” in Ethnography, Theory, Anthropology as a forum.

The increasing spread of sensor technologies and the equipping of smart devices with sensors restructures forms of perception, sensing and knowledge making. Sensors measure movements in the city, record air quality, temperatures and energy consumption, control production and logistics processes in interaction with algorithms and learning systems, track the behavior and well-being of people, recognize people in images and video recordings or re-organize (digital) terrains. Sensor data, their collection, analysis, and integration with other data formats, and their interaction with various forms of practice are constitutive not only of sensing, but also of sense making.

In this series of talks, we are interested in forms of sensing and sense making vis-à-vis major dynamics of socio-political and environmental crises in and beyond the Mediterranean, in particular (1) mobility and related border regimes, (2) growing environmental crises and their (non)management, and (3) forms of social mobilization (activism) and their control. All three areas are characterized by specific forms of socio-technical sensing and the engagement with it – sense making, both distributed among multiple actors, including humans, machines, and the environment itself. Sensor media are becoming increasingly ubiquitous, and come with a number of ethical and political challenges – such as the erosion of privacy, new forms of surveillance, and socio-technical proliferation of prejudices and various forms of bias. Often they are perceived as both – as drivers of, but also as possible solutions for different forms of social, political, technical and environmental crises.

In this lecture series, Sensing and Sense Making will be explored praxeologically – and thus in its various forms and formats. Part I will investigate forms of sense making in the context of deadly borders regimes, in hazardous environments and as part of social activism. Part II will look at the challenges and opportunities of ethnographic research and public interventions to engage with situations of crises and collaborative knowledge production.

Organized by Nina ter Laan, Carla Tiefenbacher and Martin Zillinger for the CRC “Media of Cooperation” Siegen/Cologne and the Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology (DoSCA), University of Cologne.

In my presentation based on recent theoretical work, I offer a navigational matrix for interface critique based on three orientations: identifying traps and enclosures, surfacing asymmetries and augmenting alternatives. Aiming to bridge a range of practices and conceptual contributions from HCI, media art, vernacular critique and practitioner-based design, this framework nevertheless is elaborated mainly in terms of experiments with the specific design-abilities of apps, social media platform infrastructures and the web.

This workshop invites participants to consider how this conceptual matrix, along with related work in the interdisciplinary field of interface critique, can be extended and refined through exploration of other forms of interface relation, including, for example, idioms of voice interfaces, capture of gestures, conversational design of chatbots, immersion of virtual and augmented reality consumer devices, and onto-epistemologies of environmental sensors, among others. What are the changing stakes for testing user-experience design as it proliferates into settings of urban design, healthcare, automobiles, money or the cognitive assemblages of machine-learning systems? How have forms of criticism and critique been elaborated in such contexts? What (extra)disciplinary forms of expertise are mobilized, and what kinds of collective critical knowledge, concepts and methods might be established in support of new common literacies, technologies and infrastructures?

Michael Dieter will be in Siegen

Register here*

*As the workshop is an internal event, external guests please contact Dr. Johannes Schick by email for registration, indicating their academic title, full name, their institution, their official email address and the title of the event they wish to attend.

This talk will discuss how to understand the role of critique in relation to the increasing proliferation of interfaces across everyday life from apps to sensors. While theorizations of interface critique can be readily be found in HCI proposals such as reflexive design or humanistic HCI, or broadly within the interdisciplinary field of media art, these cases are not always considered within broader ecologies of practice or ‚critical technical cultures‘ from industry practitioners to vernacular subcultures that also grapple with the asymmetries and exploitative aspects of interaction design.

Drawing from software studies and media theoretical accounts of the interface as a techno-fluid milieu, I offer a navigational matrix to contextualize modes of interface critique at large, namely specifying traps and enclosures, surfacing asymmetries and augmenting alternatives. I argue that these orientations provide an invitation to develop new metacritical theories and common capacities, particularly through the possibilities of grappling with systems of domination otherwise built to prefigure our experiences of them.

Michael Dieter will be in Siegen.

Register here

Frances Pope (Birmingham): Anthropology and/as Citizen Science I: Air of the Anthropocene

All lectures take place in Cologne and also online.

This Lecture Series explores dynamics of sensing and sense making, and thus takes up a topic that is at the center of interdisciplinary work at the CRC “Media of Cooperation” (Siegen/Cologne). At the same time, it introduces the research of the CRC to researchers at the University of Cologne and various international working groups in and on the Mediterranean by using the well-established “60 Minutes” in Ethnography, Theory, Anthropology as a forum.

The increasing spread of sensor technologies and the equipping of smart devices with sensors restructures forms of perception, sensing and knowledge making. Sensors measure movements in the city, record air quality, temperatures and energy consumption, control production and logistics processes in interaction with algorithms and learning systems, track the behavior and well-being of people, recognize people in images and video recordings or re-organize (digital) terrains. Sensor data, their collection, analysis, and integration with other data formats, and their interaction with various forms of practice are constitutive not only of sensing, but also of sense making.

In this series of talks, we are interested in forms of sensing and sense making vis-à-vis major dynamics of socio-political and environmental crises in and beyond the Mediterranean, in particular (1) mobility and related border regimes, (2) growing environmental crises and their (non)management, and (3) forms of social mobilization (activism) and their control. All three areas are characterized by specific forms of socio-technical sensing and the engagement with it – sense making, both distributed among multiple actors, including humans, machines, and the environment itself. Sensor media are becoming increasingly ubiquitous, and come with a number of ethical and political challenges – such as the erosion of privacy, new forms of surveillance, and socio-technical proliferation of prejudices and various forms of bias. Often they are perceived as both – as drivers of, but also as possible solutions for different forms of social, political, technical and environmental crises.

In this lecture series, Sensing and Sense Making will be explored praxeologically – and thus in its various forms and formats. Part I will investigate forms of sense making in the context of deadly borders regimes, in hazardous environments and as part of social activism. Part II will look at the challenges and opportunities of ethnographic research and public interventions to engage with situations of crises and collaborative knowledge production.

Organized by Nina ter Laan, Carla Tiefenbacher and Martin Zillinger for the CRC “Media of Cooperation” Siegen/Cologne and the Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology (DoSCA), University of Cologne.

14:15 – 15:15 Uhr

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15:15 – 16:15 Uhr

Yijun Sun (MGK) (Universität Siegen)

The Invention of Electronic Visuality: From Vacuum Tube to Computer Screen  (online)