Amsterdam and After. Experiments in Conferencing
There’s something truly special about STS scholars coming together. This year’s EASST/4S saw a mix of new and familiar faces from across the globe gathering in Amsterdam for four jam-packed days of collective learning. During the opening plenary, we were amazed by the number of hands that went up when we asked how many people […]
“Transformation” : How soon is now?
As the problems we collectively face grow in size, complexity, and urgency, transformation is now the name of the game. Perhaps, then indicative of the zeitgeist, it was also the theme of the EASST-4S Conference, hosted by the department where I work, the Athena Institute at the Vrije Universiteit. After the event was over and […]
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
Introduction: Navigating My First Large Conference As a master’s student in the Science and Technology program at Goethe University, I was delighted to attend this year’s EASST-4S conference “Making and Doing Transformations.” This was my first large conference, and it turned out to be an academic and personal journey. Specialising in environmental infrastructures in coastal […]
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.
From Pretoria to Amsterdam: Discussing Decolonial Practices at EASST-4S?
On Monday the 15th of July, I reached Amsterdam with an overnight flight from Cape Town. I had just attended the 2024 Global Humanities Institute in Design Justice AI: a two-week “summer” school (but actually the dead of winter in the Southern hemisphere) at the University of Pretoria, South Africa, centred around community-oriented and decolonial […]
