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8. CITO: STS Community Making with Cassidy R. Sugimoto and Rob Kitchin
01:08:21||Season 1, Ep. 8The STS Ireland unconference of 25 June 2024.Welcome by Kalpana ShankarProfessor Cassidy R. Sugimoto, chair of the School of Public Policy at Georgia Institute of Technology and Professor Rob Kitchin from the Social Sciences Institute at Maynooth University.(the unconference was held at the Museum of Literature Ireland (MoLI), St Stephen’s Green South, Dublin.)Why an unconference? An unconference is an event where the attendees help set the agenda and content. Rather than papers and panels, we want to use this opportunity to foster networking and discussion.The goal of this inaugural event was to acknowledge the specificities but also international connections/reach of STS (and the general implications of scientific research and policy here in Ireland) and bring researchers together for networking from different institutional and disciplinary homes. The unconference format included panel talks and small-group discussions to explore various facets of the socio-cultural study of technology, science, and medicine.Schedule:9:45 Registration10:30-10:40 Overview/welcome10:45-11:40 Keynotes11:50-12:40 Panel discussion - Cassidy, Rob, Kalpana (Moderator - Christo)12:50-1:50 Lunch1:50-2:45 Breakout 1 (1:50 - 2:30, then return and discuss)2:45-3:40 Breakout 2 (2:45 - 3:40)3:45-4:30 Debrief and next steps4:30-4:45 ClosingNotes, further reading:Organised by Kalpana (kalpana.shankar@ucd.ie); Christo (christo.jacob@ucdconnect.ie)The Website and registration link: https://stscommunityireland.wordpress.com/Supported by the European Association for the Study of Science and Technology (EASST) Network Fund and the University College Dublin Centre for Digital Policy.Museum of Literature Ireland - https://moli.ieAcknowledgementsMusic Title: CrazyMixArtist: Sandbox Korg AbletonSource: CrazyMix.aifLicense: : CC BY-NC-SA 4.0Cover Art Title: Inspired by Wordpress DefaultsArtist: Allen HigginsSource: CITO-podcast-STS.pptxLicense: CC BY-NC-SA 4.0Podcast LicenseDesign Talk (dot IE) CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 The license can be viewed at https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0By taking part you give permission for your voice to be recorded, for the recording to be edited, and for it to be posted and published as a podcast.6. CITO: Policy and European Economic Convergence
50:20||Season 1, Ep. 6In this seminar, Professors Frank Barry and Marcin Piątkowski contrast Ireland and Poland’s pathways to economic independence and growth, through the lens of industrial and economic policy. This, against the turbulence of world events straddling the 20th and 21st centuries. We look at the growth of these two European nations ex-post being constituent states of colonial empires.The seminar was chaired by Dorota Piaskowska, associate professor in strategy and international business at University College Dublin, Ireland.Frank Barry is Professor of International Business & Economic Development at Trinity Business School and a member of the Royal Irish Academy.And Marcin Piątkowski is Professor of Economics at Kozminski University, Warsaw, and Lead Economist at the World Bank.This talk was recorded in person with a live audience on April 8th, 2024, in the UCD Michael Smurfit Graduate Business School, Dublin, Ireland.The seminar was supported by the Embassy of the Republic of Poland in Dublin and the UCD College of Business.Location - Lecture Theatre N204 (followed by a reception in the Laurence Crowley Boardroom)UCD Michael Smurfit Graduate Business SchoolCarysfort Avenue, Blackrock, County Dublin Thank you for listening, please follow and share if you liked this episode.The musical elements used are from the ‘Adagio in G Minor’ released under a CC-BY 3.0 license.See the show-notes or the description for details.AcknowledgementsMusic Title: Adagio in G minorArtist: Remo Giazotto attributed to Tomaso AlbinoniSource: https://soundcloud.com/dick-de-ridder/adagio-in-g-minor-albinoniLicensed by Dick de Ridder: CC-BY 3.0Cover Art Title: GraphicsAndTextArtist: Allen HigginsSource: Collage/various (CITO-podcast-FrankMarcin.pptx)License: CC BY-NC-SA 4.0Podcast LicenseDesign Talk (dot IE) CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 The license can be viewed at https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0By taking part you give permission for your voice to be recorded, for the recording to be edited, and for it to be posted and published as a podcast.5. CITO: Phenomenology & Technology Part 2 - Lucas Introna
01:12:42||Season 1, Ep. 5This ‘from the archives’ recording is the first part of the keynote from “ Triangular Conference 2008”.We were delighted to have Dermot Moran and Lucas Introna to talk about the value of conducting research in the phenomenological tradition and considerations when carrying out research into organisations, information systems and modern technology. Part 2In part two Lucas argues that Phenomenology offers deep insights into fundamental aspects of the human experience of technology and information systems, with implications for the sociology of Management and Organisation.The talk was recorded in-person with a live audience on Thursday June the 5th 2008 in the UCD Lochlann Quinn Undergraduate School of Business, Belfield, Dublin, Ireland.The conference was supported by the UCD School of Business Doctoral Studies Programme and hosted by the UCD Centre for Innovation, Technology & Organisation (CITO).Acknowledgements Music Title: Adagio in G minorArtist: Remo Giazotto attributed to Tomaso AlbinoniSource: https://soundcloud.com/dick-de-ridder/adagio-in-g-minor-albinoniLicensed by Dick de Ridder: CC-BY 3.0 Cover Art Title: Discussion at the conference dinnerArtist: Allen HigginsSource: Collage/various (podcast-MoranIntrona_01.pptx)License: CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 Podcast LicenseDesign Talk (dot IE) CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 The license can be viewed at https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0By taking part you give permission for your voice to be recorded, for the recording to be edited, and for it to be posted and published as a podcast.4. CITO: Phenomenology & Technology Part 1 - Dermot Moran
01:11:14||Season 1, Ep. 4This ‘from the archives’ recording is the first part of the keynote from “ Triangular Conference 2008”.We were delighted to have Dermot Moran and Lucas Introna to talk about the value of conducting research in the phenomenological tradition and considerations when carrying out research into organisations, information systems and modern technology. Part 1In part one Dermot introduces Phenomenology and argues for its continuing relevance to Philosophy and Science. The talk was recorded in-person with a live audience on Thursday June the 5th 2008 in the UCD Lochlann Quinn Undergraduate School of Business, Belfield, Dublin, Ireland.The conference was supported by the UCD School of Business Doctoral Studies Programme and hosted by the UCD Centre for Innovation, Technology & Organisation (CITO).Acknowledgements Music Title: Adagio in G minorArtist: Remo Giazotto attributed to Tomaso AlbinoniSource: https://soundcloud.com/dick-de-ridder/adagio-in-g-minor-albinoniLicensed by Dick de Ridder: CC-BY 3.0 Cover Art Title: Discussion at the conference dinnerArtist: Allen HigginsSource: Collage/various (podcast-MoranIntrona_01.pptx)License: CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 Podcast LicenseDesign Talk (dot IE) CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 The license can be viewed at https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0By taking part you give permission for your voice to be recorded, for the recording to be edited, and for it to be posted and published as a podcast.3. CITO: Investigate the frontline with Laura Lucia Parolin and Carmen Pellegrinelli
36:05||Season 1, Ep. 3This seminar is titled "Investigate the frontline: performing an affective ethnography in a theatre workshop" by Laura Lucia Parolin, University of Southern Denmark & Carmen Pellegrinelli, University of LaplandLaura is an ethnographer who uses the Latourian ANT approach, familiar with SCOT and HCI, Carmen is a theatre director, producer, and playwright. Their research is in the areas of materiality, affectivity and embodiment examining diverse empirical settings. They will present work-in-progress that on an affective ethnography of a theatrical laboratory organised for/by the hospital staff in Bergamo as a form of collective therapy. If you remember the hospitals in Bergamo were acutely affected during the Covid pandemic.Organised by the UCD Centre for Innovation Technology and Organisation (CITO) - The seminar took place in-person on Tuesday, February 21st, 16.00-17.00 - in the Q026 Angela Moore Boardroom, Quinn School, University College Dublin. Introduction by Donncha Kavanagh, Professor of Information & Organisation, UCD College of Business. AbstractIn March 2020, Bergamo was hit by the first wave of the pandemic. More than 6.000 people have died in the area, where the emergency facilities lived in a stressful situation for months. In January 2022, a group of ER doctors and nurses from the main hospital in Bergamo - the frontline in the crisis - wanted to reflect collectively on their experience with the pandemic. The group set up a one-year-long theatre workshop involving around thirty colleagues from the ER. The workshop also aimed to prepare a theatre show, "Giorni muti, notti bianche" (Silent days, sleepless nights), presented in Bergamo's main theatre. By participating in the theatre workshop, we conducted a collaborative affective ethnography to investigate the dimension of affect in ER professionals' work practices during the first wave of the pandemic. This contribution focuses on affective ethnography discussing the characteristics and potentials of this (post)qualitative research method for organisational scholars.Laura Lucia Parolin (parolin@sdu.dk) is Associate Professor of Organizational Communication at the University of Southern Denmark. She is interested in the relationship between knowledge, body, sensitivity, affect, care, materiality, and innovation in work practices. She is currently visiting UCD, having been awarded a Carlsberg foundation grant. Carmen Pellegrinelli (cpellegr@ulapland.fi) is finishing her PhD at Lapland University in the Faculty of Social Sciences. Her research interests are focused on creative practices, theatre and post-human philosophy. She is a professional playwright and director of theatre.AcknowledgementsMusic Title: Adagio in G minorArtist: Remo Giazotto attributed to Tomaso AlbinoniSource: https://soundcloud.com/dick-de-ridder/adagio-in-g-minor-albinoniLicensed by Dick de Ridder: CC-BY 3.0Cover Art Title: Digital IrisArtist: (no attribution)Source: digital_iris.pptxLicense: CC BY-NC-SA 4.0Podcast LicenseDesign Talk (dot IE) CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 The license can be viewed at https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0By taking part you give permission for your voice to be recorded, for the recording to be edited, and for it to be posted and published as a podcast.2. CITO: Towards a Firm for Our Time with JC Spender
45:13||Season 1, Ep. 2The seminar took place virtually on Friday March 5th, 2021AbstractThe widely accepted understanding of the firm is deeply flawed and is a serious impediment to policy-making. Indeed there seems to have been little advance in theory since 1937, when the youthful Ronald Coase tweaked economists, charging they could not explain why firms existed, let alone how they worked. Notions of managers making decisions 'scientifically' is not only narrow, it ends up erasing their practice's essential nature and socioeconomic significance. Spender revisits the nature of the firm and argues that managing might be more helpfully understood as entrepreneurship, a value-creating activity often supported by science's facts and reasoning but never 'dominated' by them. The human condition is one of uncertainty, of not-knowing and therefore questing for knowledge; Homo Inquirentes rather than Homo Sapiens. Taking this as the starting point, Spender goes on to explore the implications for the private sector firm and for managing.About the speaker: JC Spender is Research Professor at Kozminski University, Warsaw and Visiting Scholar at Rutgers University, New Jersey and Fordham University, New York. He served in RN submarines and worked with Rolls-Royce on nuclear propulsion, IBM on financial computing, and as an investment banker before earning a PhD at the Manchester Business School (UK). Retired in 2003 as Dean of the School of Business & Technology at FIT/SUNY (New York). He has published 8 books, and over 100 journal articles and book chapters. His most recent book is titled Business Strategy: Managing Uncertainty, Opportunity, and Enterprise (Oxford UP 2014) and is about managing a business's creative responses to uncertainty (‘business model innovation’). He also writes about the theory and ethics of the firm, business strategy, and the history of management education. He is Commissioning Editor for the Cambridge University Press Elements in Business Strategy. In 2014 he was awarded an honorary doctorate in economics by the Lund University School of Economics & Management. https://jcspender.com1. CITO: Meaningful Work and Hermeneutics with Todd Mei
22:28||Season 1, Ep. 1The seminar took place virtually on Wednesday December 9th, 2020AbstractMeaningful work is the idea that work holds an important role in the flourishing of societies and individuals. While there are many debates about what meaningful work is and whether we should take it seriously, this talk will focus on what I call the work-flourishing gap (WFG). Because work is a physical activity, there tends to be controversy as to how it can participate in those kinds of intellectual and imaginative activities we tend to associate with self-actualisation and flourishing. I will discuss how Paul Ricoeur’s hermeneutical theory of action (based on speech acts) can help dissolve the WFG by demonstrating how the activity of work bears features of linguistic meaning. This linguistic claim enables us to see work as more than just a bare physical phenomenon; it is communicative in the broad sense of being assertoric (locutionary), conventional (illocutionary), and transformative (perlocutionary). I will conclude with a reflection on some practical examples.About the speaker: Todd Mei is founder of the public philosophy and consultation organization Philosophy2u. He calls himself a `public philosopher’. It involves adapting abstract concepts and ideas from philosophy and employing them to frame new ways of understanding work as meaningful and virtuous beyond obligatory, functional or mere utilitarian views.
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