Monday 23 March 2026 (10:15-13:45), Linna 5014
This TaSTI seminar focuses on concepts. For theoretically-driven researchers, concepts are the bread and butter of academia, while for researchers doing more empirically-focused work, concepts form the ultimate bridge between empirical reality and theoretical abstraction. Concepts can help crystallise our fledgling ideas or focus sprawling research questions; they can open doors to entire worldviews; but they can also evade and confuse us. In this workshop, researchers working on topics engaging with science and technology studies are asked to write no more than 1-2 page-long papers on the key concept(s) that either fire your work and give it wings, or that you currently find yourself stuck with in your writing. The papers should
- introduce the concept,
- briefly mention the theoretical lineages from which you draw to define the concept,
- provide a brief example of how you operationalise the concept to do analytical work within your research.
Researchers interested in presenting their work at the workshop are asked to register their interest by sending an email to Henni Alava henni.alava@tuni.fi by 9 March. Papers should be submitted by 16 March, after which they will be shared with all participants, who are asked to read them prior to the seminar. The seminar continues the series of early career researcher seminars organised by TaSTI.
Workshop convenors: Academy Research Fellow Henni Alava (henni.alava@tuni.fi) and Associate Professor Venla Oikkonen (venla.oikkonen@tuni.fi)