ESC

Talks

Public Talks

  • SPACESHIELD SUMMIT — Energy Security and Nuclear Energy Panelists: Agnieszka Ślązak-Gwizdała, Tadeusz Rudek (UJ), Piotr Hytroś (Energopomiar), Mariusz Dąbrowski (NCBJ).

Invited Talks

  • Guest lecture: Sociotechnical Imaginaries of Energy Transition in China and Taiwan, Department of Social Anthropology, Université de Fribourg, Switzerland, 2023.
  • Guest lecture: Doing Sociotechnical Imaginaries Research in Taiwan, International College of Innovation, Taipei, 2023.
  • Panel: LEAP-RE Gender-Energy Nexus in the AU-EU #energytransition webinar, 2024.

Conference Panels & Presentations

2026

  • ESA Conference, Warsaw (2026). Rudek, T.J., Mandrela, O., Ludovico, N. (Groningen University) "Imagining the Baltic: Constructing Poland's Energy Future at Sea."
  • ESA Conference, Warsaw (2026). Wagner, A., Mandrela, O., Rudek, T.J., Selwa, E. "Enacting More-than-Human Futures of the Ocean: Persona Tool in Co-Design of Marine Technologies."
  • ESA Conference, Warsaw (2026). Srebrna, E., Rudek, T.J. "Unfolding Sociotechnical Imaginaries in a Local Community. Future in the Making — The Case of Energy Transition in Choczewo."
  • ESA Conference, Warsaw (2026). Panel organised and chaired: "Enacted and Contested Futures of the Ocean: Sea Societies, Marine Technologies, and Maritime Spaces" (JS_RN12_RN24).
  • ESA Conference, Warsaw (2026). Session chaired: "Imagining the Future" (RN12_T01_01).
  • EASST 2026 Conference, Kraków (2026). Combined-format open panel convened and chaired, with M. Wulz, A. Wagner, S. Pfotenhauer, A. Lytvynova, O. Mandrela, A. Wentland, M. Boenig-Liptsin: "Democracy on the Edge: Science, Technology and Political Promise in Central and Eastern Europe" (CF19).
  • EASST 2026 Conference, Kraków (2026). Huang, H.T. (Feng Chia University), Rudek, R., Rudek, T.J. "Rethinking Participation: When Global Energy Governance Encounters Indigenous Ecological Knowledge in Taiwan."
  • EASST 2026 Conference, Kraków (2026). Mandrela, O., Wagner, A., Rudek, T.J. "Beyond Engineering: Using VR and Personas of the Seas to Co-Create Maritime Futures in Project FAMOS."
  • 25th Science Democracy Network Conference, Potsdam (2026). Rudek, T.J. "Sea Society(ies): Constructing the Future of the Baltic Sea — Global, EU, National or Local? Assemblages of Futures Across Scales."

2025

  • ISA Forum, Morocco (10 June 2025). Rudek, T.J., Wagner, A. "Navigating the Currents of Decarbonisation: Embedding Justice in the Journey(s) Towards a Post-Transition World." Introduced the PANTHEON project and discussed justice-oriented approaches in global decarbonisation processes.
  • SSH Energy 2025 Conference, ETH Zurich (16–17 January 2025). Rudek, T.J., Wagner, A. "Agency and Reflexivity: The Role of Knowledge Production in Complex Energy Transitions." Presented PANTHEON's reflexive stakeholder engagement framework.

2024

  • EASST-4S Conference, Amsterdam (17 July 2024). Rudek, T., Wagner, A. "Gordian Knot: Unravelling Knowledge, Temporality and Change in STS and Sociology." Organised a thematic panel on reflexivity and knowledge production in STS and sociology.
  • Workshop on Constitutionalism in Digital and Environmental Transformation, ETH Zürich (March 2024). Rudek, T.J. "Indigenous, National, Global. Towards understanding digital transition in Taiwan and beyond."

2023

  • Re-claim: Agency and justice in a world out of joint. An Ethics & STS workshop, ETH Zürich (October 2023). Rudek, T.J. "Comparative analysis of STI of energy transition in China and Taiwan."
  • XX ISA World Congress of Sociology, Melbourne, Australia (June 2023). Rudek, T.J., Wagner, A., Polak, P., Świątkiewicz-Mośny, M. "Co-Producing Vaccine Hesitancy in the Pre- and Covid Discourses on Immunization: A Comparative Study."

2022

  • XVIII Ogólnopolski Zjazd Socjologiczny, Warsaw (September 2022). Rudek, T.J. "Po co nam Rada Medyczna? Civic Epistemologies a Covid-19 w Polsce."

2021

  • 15th ESA Conference, Barcelona (September 2021). Rudek, T.J., Rabiej-Sienicka, K., Wagner, A. "Quo Vadis Poland? Sociotechnical Imaginaries of energy transition in Poland."
  • 5th Energy and Society Conference, Trento (February 2021). Rudek, T.J. "Capturing Invisible. Sociotechnical Imaginaries of Energy."
  • 5th Energy and Society Conference, Trento (February 2021). Panel chaired: "How to navigate new waters."
  • Shifting the energy debate forward: innovations in SSH for Green Deal delivery, Trento (January 2021). Wagner, A., Rudek, T.J. "BeComing a Researcher.eu — How to make our research impactful."