Understanding Process: First Encounters with Meaning-Making in Large STS Spaces (and Wondering Where the Planes Went)
In this article, Eva Gray reflects on her first experience at an EASST-4S conference and how things come together through academic meaning-making and its clash with world live events.
Affective Ties of Academia: Belonging, Learning, and Community at EASST-4S
Benjamin Hoffmann from Goethe University in Frankfurt discusses what it was like to attend his first large conference and the importance of academic community.
What Does the University Feel Like?
The EASST-4S panel “Affects, Power, and the University” at the EASST-4S conference last summer brought together STS researchers concerned with the emotional aspects, pleasures and pressures of academic work.
Editorial
In the opening piece, the editors look back at this years conference in Amsterdam and remind of the difficult political situation in Europe and beyond.
News from the Council: The future of the EASST-4S joint conference
The chairs of the local organising committee reflect on what it took to bring together the largest gathering of STS scholars at a single conference.
From Pretoria to Amsterdam: Discussing Decolonial Practices at EASST-4S?
Lara Dal Molin shares her experience of attending EASST-4S, and discusses the urgency and challenges of decolonial practices at STS conferences.
Presenting the winners of EASST’s second creative writing competition
This is the introductory piece to the creative writing competition, where the organisers inform us about the background and the main presentation event during a lovely summer night.
Report from Space Science in Context 2023: Our efforts to bring STS approaches to Outer Space to a wider community
A conference report that shares ways to creatively and collectively rethink what it means to host an inclusive conference.
Leakage Revisited – Report from the inaugural conference of stsing
stsing board members and conference participants look back on the inaugural conference of stsing in March 2024.
Finnish Society for Science and Technology Studies 2024 Symposium ‘How to make a scientific contribution
Elis Jones, one of the attendants to the Finnish Science Studies Symposium that took place in Helsinki last June, explains how STS events, no matter the size, can be rich in content and contribute greatly to community building.
