Creating an Irish Science, Technology, and Society (STS) Community: an Unconference?
Summary On 25 June 2024, with the support of the EASST Network Fund and the University College Dublin Centre for Digital Policy, scholars from Ireland and elsewhere participated in a day-long hybrid (un)conference: Creating an Irish Science, Technology, and Society (STS) Community. This event, the first of its kind to take place in Ireland, brought […]
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Doing marine worlds: Marine STSing through Germany and beyond
The sea – A matter of concern for science and technology studies When we think of the sea and marine worlds, we often conjure up a variety of images, emotions, and associations. The sea has long captured the imagination of poets and writers, given its vastness and majesty and how it teems with diverse forms […]
Liveable Futures: a guiding concept for knowledge infrastructures
Liveable futures1 bring into question the conditions that make human and more-than-human lives possible and provide these with prospects. Such futures are made of multiple elements, including knowledge infrastructures (KIs). Knowledge infrastructures, by creating and recreating objects, categories and relations, make important contributions to frameworks that make some forms of life intelligible, and other forms […]
Friction Takes Center Stage in Science Communication: Theater Dialogues of Dissent
by Willemine Willems, Keje Boersma, Jaron Harambam, Tessa Roedema, Esther de Weger
Democratic Deficit of the Nuclear
Introduction: Democracy – thin or thick? Liberal representative democracies, as seen throughout Europe and other parts of the Global North, have been critiqued by deliberative democrats and STS researchers for both general and specific reasons. Generally, Dryzek (2000; 2013) claims liberal democracy is ‘thin’ with respect to who participates, the scope of the issues it […]
Beyond fun: Experiments in epistemic dizziness
Event: Epistemic Dizziness. Science & Technology Studies Movement WorkshopLocation: Excellence Cluster: Matters of Activity, Humboldt University of Berlin27. – 29. September 2023 Introduction What if we take dizziness not as a threat to orientation but as a means for epistemic enhancement? In our EASST-supported STS Movement workshop in Berlin, guests and contributors from across Europe […]
EASST-4S 2024 conference update: Making, Doing & Transforming
We used to feel that we belonged to a small, somewhat marginal field at the fringes of academia. Mostly overshadowed by the dominance of the life sciences, technologies, and medicines we studied, we thought of ourselves as bugs, parasites, and/or idiots. With the help of Serres, Deleuze and Stengers we felt relatively comfortable at these […]
Adele Clarke, 1946 – 2024
Introduction Adele Clarke, feminist science and technology studies (STS) scholar and women’s health activist, died on January 19, 2024 in San Francisco at the age of 78. In the course of a long and distinguished career, Clarke made important contributions to feminist STS, the history and sociology of medicine and qualitative research methods. In recognition […]
