Science and Technology Parks in Italy
Science and Technology Parks in Italy by Michela Cozza This contribution is aimed at summarizing a few theoretical considerations concerning the Italian Science and Technology Parks, drawing from my post-doctoral research (April, 1 2011-March 31, 2013). I have discussed these insights on the occasion of the 4S-EASST 2012 Conference (Copenhagen, Denmark, October 17-20 2012), in […]
Congratulations!
Congratulations! Editorial by Ann Rudinow Saetnan Hearty congratulations to Bruno Latour, to his colleagues and collaborators, and to the field of Science and Technology Studies as a whole. Bruno was recently awarded this year’s Holberg Prize. Ludvig Holberg (1684-1754), though probably best remembered as a playwright, also held professorships (plural!) in metaphysics and logic, Latin […]
SAME, SAME BUT DIFFERENT
SAME, SAME BUT DIFFERENT Review of EASST/4S Conference Track “Comparing and Connecting Concepts of Practice”1 by Stefan Laube, International Research Center for Cultural Studies, Vienna (IFK) and Katja Schönian, Institute for Advanced Studies, Vienna (IHS) The German language provides the term “Stammlokal”, a restaurant or pub where people go on a regular basis. In a […]
Bridging the gaps – Summer Schools on Climate Engineering
Bridging the gaps – Summer Schools on Climate Engineering by Nils Matzner and Miranda Böttcher As the study of climate engineering (CE) is an emerging field involving a wide range of disciplines, the summer schools described here aimed to bring young researchers together and help constitute a scientific community. Since Nobel Prize laureate Paul Crutzen […]
Prototyping an Academic Network: People, Places and Connections
Prototyping an Academic Network: People, Places and Connections Three Years of the Spanish Network for Science and Technology Studies by Adolfo Estalella, Rebeca Ibáñez Martín, Vincenzo Pavone How would an academic association look that doesn’t have the characteristics of a “typical association”? Which members would form the association? Which places would be its sites of […]
European Spring?
European Spring? Editorial by Ann Rudinow Sætnan It’s been just over two years now (www.guardian.co.uk/world/interactive/2011/mar/22/middle-east-protest-interactive-timeline) since Mohamed Bouazizi, in frustration/desperation/depression/fury over unemployment, corruption and tyranny self-immolated, triggering however inadvertently what came to be known as the Arab Spring. That Spring is still unfinished, still evolving, still a painful emergence of we know not what new […]
Dutch STIS Celebrates 25 Years
by Sally Wyatt, Academic Director WTMC
Questioning Marginalisation Within STS
by Juan F. Espinosa Cristia, Ingmar Lippert, and Samuel Tettner
Fred Jevons 1929 – 2012
by Fred Steward
Dr Brian Easlea – Obituary
Obituary by Erik Millstone, University of Sussex
