Programme
Monday 05 June
- from 9 am - Registration
- 9.30 - 9.45 am - Welcome, Greetings and Introduction
- 9.45 - 11.15 am - Opening Keynote
- 11.15 - 11.45 am - Coffee Break
- 11.45 am - 1.15 pm - Session I "Democracy and Policy"
The Politics of the Unknown and the Threat of Nuclear War in Britain, 1979-85 - Christoph Laucht (Swansea University)
Performing the “human side” of politics: Empathy and affect in governing (under) uncertainty - Marlon Barbehön (Heidelberg University)
Framing the democratic present as an uncertain one. Emotions as a Political Resource of Right-Wing Women's Organisations at the End of the Weimar Republic - Birte Förster (Bielefeld University)
- 1.15 - 2.30 pm - Lunch break
- 2.30 - 4 pm - Session II "Prediction"
Navigating Uncertainty caused by Viruses: Preparing for Future Pandemics - Wiebke Lisner (Hannover Medical School)
Prediction for Planning: Scientific Experts and Earthquake Risk in Modern Japan - Julia Mariko Jacoby (University of Duisburg-Essen)
Navigating the Uncertainties of Climate Change: Preparing the Society for a Different Future - Massih Zekavat (University of Groningen)
- 4 - 4.30 pm - Coffee break
- 4.30 - 6.30 pm - Session III "Uncertainty Communication"
Expressing and Attributing Uncertainty – Linguistic Insights into Uncertainty Communication - Lisa Rhein (TU Darmstadt)
How does the communication of scientific uncertainty affect trust in the communicator? - Charlotte Dries (Harding Center for Risk Literacy)
Theories of uncertainty communication: an interdisciplinary literature review - Wouter Lammers (KU Leuven)
How the structure of scientific communities and communication channels impact the public understanding of science - Sacha Ferrari (KU Leuven)
- from 6.30 pm - Reception at ZiF-Cafeteria
Tuesday 06 June
- 9.30 - 11 am - Session IV "Migration and Minorities"
Social navigation and citizenship in the context of criminalization of solidarity towards migrants - Jérémy Geeraert (CESDIP, CNRS)
Uncertainty, Posttraumatic Stress, and Return Intentions of Displaced Persons - Peter Onah Thompson (Appalachian State University)
Prolonged uncertainty as quest for survival: Maritime refugees in the Andaman sea - Antje Missbach (Bielefeld University)
Governing exclusion through uncertainty. Negotiating health care restrictions for asylum seekers in Germany - Sandra Ziegler (Universitätsklinikum Heidelberg) - Co-Author: Kayvan Bozorgmehr (Bielefeld University)
- 11 - 11.30 am - Coffee Break
- 11.30 am - 1pm - Lightning Talks + Poster-Presentation
Populist Protest Movements in Latin America. The uncertainty of the Right-Wing - Jorge Eliecer Chaparro Mariño (Bielefeld University)
Facing Uncertainty in German Real Estate Lending. - Jacob Bohé (Bielefeld University)
Being Chinese Online – Discursive (Re)production of Internet-Mediated Chinese National Identity - Zhiwei Wang (University of Edinburgh)
On imagining the future despite uncertainty: Krenak Quadrilogy and the densities of indigenous insurgent knowledge in Brazil - Carolina Falcão (Rural Federal University of Pernambuco)
Testing Future Solutions Framework (TFSF) - František Kalvas, Jan Váně (University of West Bohemia in Pilsen)
Decoding the Meaning of Democracy: Digitally assisted Analysis of Newspaper Discourses in the Weimar Republic - Christian Wachter (Bielefeld University)
The Role of Uncertainty in the Support for Government Policies about Crises - Elif Sandal Önal, Jens Hellmann & Andreas Zick (Bielefeld University)
- 1 - 2 pm - Lunch break
- 2 - 3.30 pm - Session V "Economic Effects of Uncertainty"
Firm risk and the banking accelerator - Tommaso Gasparini (University of Mannheim)
Sustainability and uncertainty in Thailand’s innovation policy discourse: ideas, institutions, and politics - Wasin Punthong (University of Manchester)
Consumer inflation uncertainty – assessment methods and differentiation in the society - Jaroslaw Janecki (Warsaw School of Economics)
- from 3.30 pm - Coffee Break and hike to the "Sparrenburg"
- 5:00 pm - Tour
- from 6 pm - Reception and Conference Dinner
Wednesday 07 June
- 9 - 10.30 am - Session VI "Narratives and Practices"
War-caused uncertainty in Ukraine’s narratives - Hanna Hromova (Institute of Social and Political Psychology, Ukraine; Center of Prejudice Research, University of Warsaw)
Uncertain Peace: Communications from a Conflict - Shalini Chaudhary (Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur)
‘Before entering a shop, I counted the people already in there.’ How Covid-19 made people translate uncertainty into modified social practices - Anna-Lisa Müller (co-authors: Leonie Tuitjer, Gesine Tuitjer) (Bielefeld University)
- 10.30 - 11 am - Coffee Break
- 11 am - 12.30 pm - Session VII "Environment and Climate"
Stages of uncertainty: From technology to social and biological consequences - Benjamin Johnson (Max Planck Institute for Chemical Energy Conversion)
Pollution Abatement Investment under Financial Frictions and Policy Uncertainty - Chi-Yang Tsou (University of Manchester)
Which climate change mitigation policy pathways are socio-politically feasible?
Teresa Lackner (University of Graz) (co-authors: Luca Eduardo Fierro (Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna Pisa, International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA) Laxenburg), Patrick Mellacher (University of Graz))
- 12.30 - 1.30 pm - Lunch break
- 1.30 - 2.30 pm - Session VIII "Uncertainty Concepts"
- 2.30 - 3 pm - Coffee Break
- 3 - 4.30 pm - Concluding keynote and discussion