Accounting for Society? Extreme Event Attribution and
the Struggle over the 'Human Scale'.Presentation
in the Colloquium of the Sociology of Science and Technology Group, TU Munich.
January 2026.
2025
Das Publikumsproblem der
Klimawissenschaften. Kolloquium des
Arbeitsbereiches Mediensoziologie und Gesellschaftstheorie, Universität Mainz.
November 2025. (invited talk).
Die Soziologisierung der Klimaforschung: Oder wie die Attributionsforschung begann, sich für das Wetter zu interessieren. Gemeinsame Sektionsveranstaltung der Sektionen „Soziologische Theorie“ sowie „Wissenschafts- und Technikforschung“ auf dem 42. Kongress der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Soziologie. September 2025.
The Sociology of a 'Bad Idea': Science-State Alliances and the Making of Climate Engineering. Colloquium Series of the Department of Sociology at the University of Chicago. April 2025. (invited talk).
2023
Science Meets
Politics: The Rise of Climate Engineering. Kolloquium für Atmosphäre und Klima. Institute for Atmospheric and Climate Science. ETH Zurich. December
2023. (invited talk).
Why Climate Communication Has Gotten Worseand How Science (Studies) Might Help. Together with Youssef Ibrahim (Hamburg) at
RRC and c:o/re international conference: Nowhere(to)land? What Science Studies
Contribute to Science Communication. University of Bonn. June 2023.
The Emergence of SRM: The Science-Politics Interface.Governance
Workshop on Solar Radiation Modification (SRM). Umwelt Bundesamt. March 2023.
(invited talk)
2022
Zurück in die Zukunft: Menschliche Klimamodifikation
zwischen Geoengineering und Global Warming. Workshop „Aufgaben Historischer Soziologie“,
Zentrum für Interdisziplinäre Forschung, Universität Bielefeld, April 2022.
2021
Engineering the Climate: Science,
Politics, and Visions of Control. Book Talk at the Climate Social Science
Network (CSSN), December 2021.
State-Science Relations and the Rise of
Climate Engineering. Geographies of Knowledge Lunchtime Series,
University of Cambridge, February 2021. (invited talk).
2019
Engineering the Climate. The Career of an Unlikely
Innovation? Society for Social Studies of Science Annual Meeting, September 2019,
New Orleans (USA).
Climate Engineering: How a
Curious Scientific Idea Became Serious Politics.Evening Lecture, Colby College, September 2019, Waterville, Maine
(USA). (invited talk).
2018
Expert Infrastructures in Grand Challenges. The Case
of Geoengineering in the US. Higher Seminar Series - Spring 2018, Division
of the History of Science, Technology, and Environment, KTH Royal Institute of
Technology, Stockholm. (invited talk).
2017
Addressing Climate Change as an
Engineering Challenge. Scientific Expertise in U.S. Geoengineering
Politics. Noontime Seminar at the Center for Science and Technology Policy, CIRES
at the University of Colorado at Boulder, CO (USA). (invited talk).
