13. 4. 2025
:::: Když jemnost vypadá jako bezmoc: O vědě a politice pod tlakem [When subtlety looks like helplessness: On science and politics under pressure]
Presentation at the EDO 2025, in Olomouc-Sluňákov
[in Czech only]
9. 9. 2024
:::: Zdeněk Konopásek: Angažovaná nezaujatost? Věda a politika v antropocénu [Committed disinterestedness? Science and politics in Anthropocene]
Presentation for the Summer school "Anthropocene: Contemporary world in a transdisciplinary perspective" organised by CTS in September 2024, Prague
21. 4. 2024
:::: What is at stake in politics? Many things simultaneously, always
Presentation at the EDO 2024, in Olomouc-Sluňákov
[in Czech only]
8. 9. 2023
:::: Zdeněk Konopásek: Angažovaná nezaujatost? Věda a politika v antropocénu [Committed disinterestedness? Science and politics in Anthropocene]
Presentation for the Summer school "Anthropocene: Contemporary world in a transdisciplinary perspective" organised by CTS in Sept. 4-8, 2023, Prague
21. 11. 2022
:::: Zdeněk Konopásek (with Petr Pokorný): Věda v politice, politika ve vědě; vědecky i politicky vzato [Science in politics, politics in science - scientifically and politically speaking]
Presentation for the CTS closed regular workshop
In Czech only
3. 6. 2022
:::: Zdeněk Konopásek: Mezi přírodou a kulturou, minulostí a přítomností, detailem a celkem, předpisem a praxí: Regulace stavění v CHKO [Between nature and culture, past and present, detail and whole, regulation and practice: Building regulation in PLA]
Presentation for the 24th workshop of the Biograf journal, Kněžice, June 3-5 2022
In Czech only
10. 1. 2022
:::: Zdeněk Konopásek: Jiříkovo vidění, Zdendovo tušení: K politickému rozměru „racionálních“ a geniálně jednoduchých řešení [Toward political aspects of "rational" and simple solutions]
Presentation for the CTS closed regular workshop
In Czech only
25. 9. 2021
:::: Zdeněk Konopásek, Jan Konvalinka, Václav Bělohradský a Tereza Stockelová: Does apolitical science exist? - discussion
Discussion of Salon at the Book World Prague 2021, September 25, 3pm
In Czech only
11. 11. 2020
:::: Zdeněk Konopásek: Antropocén, ožehavá věc [Anthropocene, a delicate thing]
Presentation for the online seminar of the Sociology Dept, Faculty of Social Sciences, Charles University in Prague
In Czech only
18. 8. 2020
:::: "Bad things" and the politics of being critical - cancelled
Paper intended for the EASST+4S conference, Prague, August 18-21, 2020; after the organizers announced that the conference would take place in a virtual, corona-virus-free space, i.e. completely online, I cancelled my participation
In our project “Vulnerable residents in fragile residences: An inquiry into tensions of residential care” we focus on a double object: people and buildings. More precisely, we study (a) caring of people and (b) maintenance of their residences IN RELATION. There are many reasons for such a focus. I want to discuss one specific motivation related to the politics of critique in STS. How to be effectively critical? How to confront “bad things” and help “good things” happen? To be critical of something, we often try to show it as obviously and objectively stupid, irrational, and absurd. If we eventually associate “bad things” (such as climate change denial, technocracy in politics or resistance toward humanization of residential care) with some rationality, meaningfulness, and relevance, we risk being accused of standing on the wrong side and of unacceptable “relativization”... I believe that this way of being critical is unfortunate, since it underestimates our enemies. It implies that “bad things” are based on weak fundaments. As social scientists we should instead try to support our warnings by showing “bad things” as making relatively good sense in a number of ways, being well-integrated into rather reasonable and routinely accepted arrangements – this is, after all, why they are such a difficult enemy: strong, widespread and persistent. Studying objects in relation, such as in our research, where divergent or even contradictory values are at stake, can be taken as a useful heuristic tool for being critical in this more effective way.
20. 6. 2020
:::: Zdeněk Konopásek: Latour o antropocénu: složité vztahy mezi intelektuálním a politickým radikalismem [Latour on anthropocene - complicated relationhsips between intellectual and political radicalism]
Presentation for the 57th outdoor workshop of CTS, June 19-21, 2020
In Czech only
5. 12. 2019
:::: Zelená totalita: Přichází? A poznáme to? [Green totalitarianism: Is it coming? How do we know?]
Participation in a discussion Enviro Meetup, organised by Paralel Polis, Dělnická 43, Praha 7; 18:30-20:00
30. 11. 2018
:::: Zdeněk Konopásek: Co je translace, sociologicky vzato [What is translation, taken sociologically]
Presentation for the conference of Czech Sociological Association, Hradec Králové, November 28-30. 2018
In Czech only
17. 3. 2016
:::: Debate on approaches to research on normalisation
Discussion meeeting organised by The Institute for the Study of Totalitarian Regimes, with participation of Petr Bílek (FFUK), Irena Reifová (FSV UK) and others. Praha, FF UK, Náměstní Jana Palacha 2, 17.30, room 201
11. 12. 2014
:::: Zdeněk Konopásek: Ztraceno v překladu: nové demokratické způsoby na postupu [Lost in translation: Spreading the new democratic procedures]
Presentation for Thursday seminars of CTS, Husova 4, Praha 1, 3rd floor (the seminar room)
(only in Czech)
