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TaSTI Newsletter 2/2025

Tampere Centre for Science, Technology and Innovation Studies (TaSTI) is looking forward to a busy spring and summer of conferences, seminars and workshops. This newsletter lists some of the key events and publications by the TaSTI research community – for more information on TaSTI activities, please visit the TaSTI website: https://research.tuni.fi/tasti-en/. Under “Research” on the website, you can find the four thematic areas and the researchers involved in each theme.

Upcoming events

  • The TechPhilo research group organizes a reading group workshop (in Finnish) on David Golumbia’s book Cyberlibertarianism. The Right-Wing Politics of Digital Technology on 23 May 2025. https://research.tuni.fi/techphilo/tapahtuma/mita-on-kyberlibertarianismi/
  • TaSTI organizes a networking event for PhD and postdoctoral researchers working on science, technology, and innovation studies at Tampere University on 6 June 2025. The event offers a chance for early career researchers to discuss their research interests in an informal and relaxed setting and get acquainted with fellow scholars. Registration by 30 April 2025: https://research.tuni.fi/tasti-en/news/tasti-networking-seminar-for-early-career-researchers-6-june-2025/. 
  • The WasteMatters project organizes a conference on Waste Matters: The Many Afterlives of Junk in Helsinki on 12-13 June 2025. The conference will include keynotes by Gay Hawkins (Western Sydney University), Joshua Reno (Binghamton University) and Steve Woolgar (Linköping University). https://projects.tuni.fi/wastematters/news/call-for-papers-waste-matters-the-many-afterlives-of-junk-conference-12-13-june-2025-in-helsinki-finland/
  • Gendered Chronic Disease, Embodied Differences and Biomedical Knowledge (GenDis) project at TaSTI organises an international symposium Gender and Chronic Illness: Exploring Clinical Practices, Health Activism and Lived Experience on 26-27 August 2025. The symposium asks how gender as a category is mobilised across clinical settings, health activism and lived experiences in chronic conditions such as endometriosis, migraine, fibromyalgia, HIV and ADHD. More information: https://research.tuni.fi/tasti-en/event/symposium-gender-and-chronic-illness-tampere-university-26-27-august-2025/
  • The Finnish Society for Science and Technology Studies (FSSTS) 40th anniversary event will take place on 18-19 September 2025 at the University of Helsinki. There will be a celebratory lecture by Jane Calvert (University of Edinburgh) on 19 September and a PhD workshop on 18 September. TaSTI participates in organizing the event.
  • TaSTI research seminar Studying animals from social science perspectives on October 2-3, 2025, at Tampere University, will delve into the human-animal intersections and explore questions related to animal experimentation, ethics of human-non-human relations, animal rights and human-animal welfare. The seminar includes presentations drawing from multispecies studies, post-humanist thinking, and new materialism, among others. Pru Hobson-West (Professor of Science, Medicine and Society, University of Nottingham, UK) will give a keynote lecture on “Vaccines, veterinarians, and the entanglement of human and animal healthcare”. https://research.tuni.fi/tasti/uutinen/tasti-research-seminar-studying-animals-from-social-science-perspectives-2-3-october-2025/ 
  • TaSTI will organize a research seminar for doctoral researchers on 21 November 2025. More information in the next newsletter.

Upcoming courses in science, technology and innovation studies

Recent publications by the TaSTI research community

  • Alava, H., Lindroos, J. & Pihlman, A. (2025) Finland’s New Children’s Hospital and resurgent charity in a Nordic post-welfare state. Medical Humanities. https://doi.org/10.1136/medhum-2024-013128
  • Lepistö, E. & Pyyhtinen, O. (2025) Affective encounters with waste: The role of affects in trash activism. Ethnography. https://doi.org/10.1177/14661381251316133
  • Oikkonen, V., Helosvuori, E., Ganesh, A. & Rokkonen, L.A. (2025) Entangled illnesses: Embodied experiences of managing multimorbidity. Sociology of Health and Illness 47: e70006. https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9566.70006
  • Parviainen, J. (2025) Big Tech’s capitalization of Al ethics: Reflections on the politicization of Al ethics. In: Proceedings of the 7th Conference on Technology Ethics (TETHICS2024), November 6-7, 2024, Tampere, Finland, pp. 129-134, http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-3902/
  • Parviainen, J., Koski, A., Eilola, L., Palukka, H., Alanen, P. & Lindholm, C. (2025) Building and eroding the citizen-state relationship in the era of automated decision-making: Towards a new conceptual model of institutional trust. Social Sciences 14(3), 178 https://doi.org/10.3390/socsci14030178
  • Pyyhtinen, O., Onali, A. & Zavos, S. (2025) Waste as posthuman critique. In H. Corvellec (ed.) Waste as a Critique. Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/9780198907077.003.0006
  • Reinekoski, T. (2025) Governing as if the future obliged the present: A scenario exercise in prefigurative climate policy. Political Studies. https://doi.org/10.1177/00323217241311352

News and other activities

Calls for papers

  • Psykedeelit 2025: The 3rd Finnish Interdisciplinary Conference on Psychedelics (Turku 2.–4.10.2025). Submission deadline: April 30, 2025. https://psyty.fi/psykedeelit2025/

The next TaSTI newsletter will be published in May. If you have news that would be of interest to the TaSTI community, please contact Venla Oikkonen venla.oikkonen@tuni.fi