STS and politics: new encounters
STS and politics: new encounters by Ivana Damnjanović As its title made apparent, the last EASST conference in Toruń Situating solidarities proposed to focus on political issues. Being a political scientist who went astray and tumbled into STS, I was impatient to see how this major theme would translate into papers, and I was not […]
Technology and academic virtues in Ukraine
Technology and academic virtues in Ukraine. Escaping the Soviet path dependency by Olga Kudina More than twenty years after the collapse of the Soviet Union there still remain a lot of gaps in understanding how the societal transformation towards a postsocialist society occurred and what contributed to this process. Some aspects of this change were discussed […]
Postsocialism and STS. A subplenary at EASST
Postsocialism and STS. A subplenary at EASST Susanne Bauer, Marija Brajdić Vuković, Endre Dányi, Márton Fabók & Ivan Tchalakov The ‘Postsocialism and STS’ subplenary at this year’s EASST conference in Toruń grew out of an EASST-supported STS workshop held in Budapest in January 2014 (see Márton Fabók’s report in the previous issue of The EASST Review). […]
Editorial
Editorial By Ignacio Farías Recognize the picture on the cover? Our conference in Toruń. A beautiful medieval old town in Northern Poland. Catching up with good old friends. Making new friends. A timely conference theme: Situating Solidarities: social challenges for science and technology studies. Long lunch breaks in a sunny inner yard. Running into each other […]
A tale of one two conferences
Editorial by Ann Rudinow Saetnan
Workshop report “Doing Environments: Social Studies of the Techno-Managerial Enactment of Natures”
Workshop report “Doing Environments: Social Studies of the Techno-Managerial Enactment of Natures” Organised by the Environment, Management and Society Research Group, hosted by Tallinn University, 11-13th December 2013 Convenors: Ingmar Lippert (IT University of Copenhagen, National University of Singapore), Niklas Hartmann (Lancaster University), Franz Martin Krause (Tallinn University) We position the workshop “Doing Environment” amongst […]
The right to be forgotten and the need to remember
The right to be forgotten and the need to remember Editorial by Ann Rudinow Saetnan We are accustomed to thinking of memory as a positive skill, a blessing. A good memory is seen as something to be congratulated for. We are tested and rewarded for it (or sanctioned for lack of it) through our school […]
EASST and National STS Associations Strengthen Links and Discuss Collaborative Activities
EASST and National STS Associations Strengthen Links and Discuss Collaborative Activities On 25th November 2013 a meeting was held between EASST Council and National STS Associations in Europe. The meeting was hosted by the EASST President at Westminster University, London UK. Below is an account of that meeting which provides information on the national associations […]
Nordic STS – making ourselves relevant?
Nordic STS – making ourselves relevant? by Henrik Karlstrøm & Terje Finstad (Department for Interdisciplinary Studies of Culture, Norwegian University of Science and Technology) In April 2013, the first Nordic conference specifically oriented towards science and technology studies was arranged in Hell, Norway. The idea of the conference was to have a meeting place for […]
First Croatian STS Section Meeting (October 2013)
First Croatian STS Section Meeting (October 2013) by Marija Brajdic Vukovic This contribution aims to describe an event recently organised in Zagreb and supported by the European Association for the Study of Science and Technology (EASST), but also to provide the wider network of EASST members with an overview of the Croatian STS research community […]
