The birth of the Belgian Network for Science, Technology and Society (BSTS network)
The birth of the Belgian Network for Science, Technology and Society (BSTS network) By Pierre Delvenne and François Thoreau, for the Belgian STS network Overview The inaugural conference of the Belgian STS Network took place on September 30, 2011 at the Royal Academy for Arts and Sciences (Brussels, Belgium). Before getting into the details of […]
What Works Where and for Whom?
What Works Where and for Whom? Notes of the workshop Science Technology and Development, held 12-14 December 2011 at the University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands By Rob Hagendijk, Harro Maat and Annapurna Mamidipudi A global map of scholarly activity in STS will show spots on all continents but undoubtedly the larger dabs are in the […]
Organising STS
Organising STS Editorial By Estrid Sørensen, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, EASST Council member Increasingly often scholars who are working in the larger STS centres are visited and interviewed by younger colleagues who are interested in mapping the scholarly history of STS. Our field has reached a stage where there is a need to define it, not only […]
Reconsidering uncertainty, a brief note on track 06: Uncertainty as an asset? Neoliberalized technoscience and the manufacture of world and the self
Reconsidering uncertainty, a brief note on track 06: Uncertainty as an asset? Neoliberalized technoscience and the manufacture of world and the self by Renata Brandimarte, University of Bari Here I would like to present some observations on the debate of track 06 at the 2010 EASST conference. The debate took place in a session nurtured by a variety of empirical and theoretical approaches, which significantly enriched the discussion. Numerous […]
Does […] matter?
Does […] matter? Editorial: Ann R. Sætnan Readers are invited to fill in the title’s blank with whatever they wish, but in my end-of-sabbatical musings I am inclined to think “out loud” as it were about three candidate terms – truth, place, and time – each of which have been proclaimed by some to be […]
The Brain, the Person, and the Social. How Can STS Deal with Neuroscience Objects and Practices?
The Brain, the Person, and the Social. How Can STS Deal with Neuroscience Objects and Practices? Report on Track 19: STS Approaches to Neuroscience Objects and Practices. EASST 010, Trento, 1-4 September 2010 Johannes Bruder (eikones NCCR Iconic Criticism, University of Basel; Graduate School of Social Sciences, University of Lucerne) Incorporating the general theme of […]
First they cut the humanities …
First they cut the humanities … Ann R. Sætnan The academic news picture these days is not bright. Tuition hikes, budget cuts, program closures, research funding reductions … Perhaps I should find some other theme for this editorial. Perhaps you’re all tired of this one from endless and helpless conversations at department lunches and coffee […]
Cities, Infrastructures, Networks
Cities, Infrastructures, Networks A short report of the First STS Italia Summer School by Attila Bruni (University of Trento) and Claudio Coletta (University of Padoa) STS Italia Summer School “Cities, Infrastructures, Networks” took place in Alghero (Sardinia, Italy) from June 28th to July 1st 2011. It was the first summer school in Italy on Science […]
The EASST Awards
The EASST Awards by Fred Steward, EASST President NOTE: This article relates to the launch of our awards in 2011. For information on 2014 awards please refer to our home page. The tension between the recognition of individual achievement and the appreciation of collective contribution is a long observed dilemma of the academic endeavour. Although […]
Farewell, Michel!
Farewell, Michel! One of the founding fathers of actor-network theory retires by Morgan Meyer “Have you heard that Michel Callon is retiring?” When he heard this question, Hervé Dumez, a researcher at the Ecole Polytechnique in Paris, realised one important thing. At least for him, a sentence like this is not performatif. That is, these […]
