Upcoming conferences
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EASST council is waiting for applications from interested parties who would like to host the next EASST conference for the European STS community in 2026. Read the application guidelines and procedure, and submit your application by 1 December 2024.
Previous conferences
Making & Doing Transformations
EASST-4S 2024
Amsterdam, July 16-19, 2024
The 2024 quadrennial joint meeting of the European Association for the Study of Science and Technology (EASST) and the Society for Social Studies of Science (4S) was hosted by the Athena – Research and Education Institute at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (VU Amsterdam). The conference theme was Making & Doing Transformations. For more information, visit the conference website.
The Politics of Technoscientific Futures
EASST 2022
Madrid, July 6-9, 2022
The conference website is currently unavailable.
View the book of abstracts (PDF) and/or the Final Programme (PDF)
Locating and Timing Matters: Significance and agency of STS in emerging worlds
EASST-4S 2020
Prague HU & virtual from 18th-21st August 2020.
Browse the programme or view the conference website.
Meetings – Making Science, Technology and Society together
EASST2018
Lancaster UK from 25-28th July 2018.
Dowload the programme (PDF), browse the streams, panels or workshops or view the conference website
Science and Technology by Other Means – Exploring collectives, spaces and futures
Barcelona, Spain Aug 31 – Sept 3 2016.
Download the programme (PDF); conference tracks and plenaries
Situating Solidarities: social challenges for science and technology studies
EASST 2014
Torun, Poland, September 17-19 2014.
View themes, tracks & papers; download the programme (PDF / EPUB); conference website
Practicing Science and Technology, Performing the Social
EASST 2010
Trento, Italy, September 2-4 2010.
Abstracts of papers to the conference
Acting with Science, Technology and Medicine
4S-EASST 2008
Rotterdam, the Netherlands, August 20-23 2008
Abstracts of papers to the conference
Reviewing Humanness: Bodies, Technologies and Spaces
EASST 2006
Lausanne, Switzerland, August 23-26 2006.
Programme listing all papers to the conference
Public Proofs: Science, Technology and Democracy
4S-EASST Conference 2004
Paris, 25-28 August 2004.
Abstracts of papers to the conference
Responsibility under Uncertainty
EASST 2002
York, UK, 31 July-3 August 2002.
Programme listing all papers to the conference
Conferences 1992 – 2000
Worlds in Transition: Technoscience, Citizenship and Culture in the 21st Century, 4S-EASST Conference 2000 Vienna, September 27-30 2000.
Cultures of Science and Technology: Europe and the Global Context, EASST 1998, ISCTE, Lisbon, 30 September-3 October 1998.
Signatures of Knowledge Societies, 4S-EASST Conference 1996, Bielefeld, Germany, 10-13 October 1996.
Science, Technology and Change: New Theories, Realities and Institutions, EASST 1994, Budapest, Hungary, 28-31 August 1994.
Science, Technology and Development, 4S-EASST Conference, Gothenburg, Sweden, 12-15 August 1992