Established in 1981 EASST is the organization which represents academics and researchers in the broad field of science, technology and innovation studies. It brings together a variety of disciplines and many of its members have qualifications in both natural science/engineering and social sciences. Read more about EASST.
EASST Review: Volume 42(2) December 2023
Many thanks for all the contributions over the last years: the EASST Review is really made by our STS community and every time I have been positively surprised by the variety of perspectives brought together in our issues. Also in this edition you will find engagend and critical contributions, continuing our reflections on Research Cultures; paying tribute to Evelyn-Fox Keller; presenting groups in Exeter and Helsinki; and discussing workshops that took place in the past year. We are also presenting a preview of the 2024 EASST-4S conference to which we all look forward!
The Call for Abstracts for the EASST-4S 2024 conference in Amsterdam closed on February 12. The conference received an unprecedented amount of abstracts, presenting the organisers with an enormous logistical challenge and delaying the results of the Call.
Since the submissions closed, the organizing committee has been working diligently to try to accommodate as many participants as logistical constraints allow. This requires involving the central university levels to ensure the conference will be a successful event given these large numbers.
Are you considering attending the conference? Book your stay as soon as possible. We have arranged some exclusive discounted hotel rates for EASST-4S conference visitors. Booking via this link is optional, so feel free to also have a look on other platforms.
For more information, visit the conference website.
Questions? Please send an email to the local organizing team via conference(at)easst4s2024.net
EASST-4S 2024 conference: 16 – 19 July 2024, Amsterdam
EASST Awards
Since our 2012 conference in Copenhagen, EASST has been celebrating collaboration and cooperation in our field through a set of awards. In 2024 the awards will be presented at the EASST-4S conference in Amsterdam in July 2024. The call for nominations is open until 15 January 2024.
Call for nominations – EASST Awards 2024
Deadline 15 January 2024 Since our 2012 conference in Copenhagen, EASST has been celebrating collaboration and cooperation in our field through a set of awards.
2022 Amsterdamska Award winner: Making & Doing
Making & Doing: Activating STS through Knowledge Expression and Travel edited by Gary Lee Downey and Teun Zuiderent-Jerak was awarded the EASST Olga Amsterdamska Award
2022 Ziman Award winner: Picturing the Invisible
The public engagement project Picturing the Invisible, organised by European researchers and aimed at engaging European publics (specifically, publics in Germany and the UK), was
2022 Freeman Award winner: Responsibility Beyond Growth
Responsibility Beyond Growth – A Case for Responsible Stagnation, by Stevienna de Saille, Fabien Medvecky, Michiel van Oudheusden, Kevin Albertson, Effie Amanatidou, Timothy Birabi and
EASST Fund
EASST Fund aims to promote national and cross-national community building within EASST, advance new questions, topics and perspectives in science and technology studies, as well as enable collaboration with non-academic actors publicly engaged in science and technology.
EASST Fund supports: RUMOS 2024 | “Building bridges in times of crises” – Autumn School & Workshop of the Thematic Section on Knowledge, Science and Technology of the APS, Portugal
With the support of the EASST Fund, RUMOS 2024 entitled “Building bridges in times of crises” takes place between the 18th and 22nd of November 2024 at NOVA FCSH, in Lisbon, Portugal. The event is composed of an autumn school targeting early career scholars and a conference with an open call for papers. RUMOS is a biannual event organized by the Thematic Section on Knowledge, Science and Technology of the Portuguese Sociological Association.
EASST Fund supports: Creating an Irish Science, Technology, and Society (STS) Community, hybrid unconference 2024, Ireland
With the support of the EASST Fund and the University College Dublin Centre for Digital Policy, we will be holding a day-long hybrid unconference in early summer 2024: Creating an Irish Science, Technology, and Society (STS) Community. This event, the first of its kind to take place in Ireland, will bring together STS researchers while also welcoming scholars from other countries who are interested in the Irish STS context.
EASST Fund supports: Leakage, inaugural conference stsing e.V. at TU Dresden, Germany
The conference themed “Leakage” takes place at TU Dresden between March 19-22 2024 and inaugurates stsing e.V., an association doing Science and Technology Studies in and through Germany, established in 2020.
Call for applications
Deadline for this round: 1st November The EASST Fund supports a range of activities such as the organisation of conferences, network meetings, seminars, workshops, etc.
EASST’s international, peer reviewed, online journal Science & Technology Studies has four issues a year. It is fully open access with EASST members being emailed when a new issue is published. To view the latest issue view the journal site.