Report from Space Science in Context 2023: Our efforts to bring STS approaches to Outer Space to a wider community
A conference report that shares ways to creatively and collectively rethink what it means to host an inclusive conference.
Leakage Revisited – Report from the inaugural conference of stsing
stsing board members and conference participants look back on the inaugural conference of stsing in March 2024.
Finnish Society for Science and Technology Studies 2024 Symposium ‘How to make a scientific contribution
Elis Jones, one of the attendants to the Finnish Science Studies Symposium that took place in Helsinki last June, explains how STS events, no matter the size, can be rich in content and contribute greatly to community building.
Capitalization and the Startup Economy: Critical Perspectives on Innovation, Entrepreneurship and Venture Capitalism
June 20-21 2024. University of LausanneWorkshop Report The author would like to thank Tanja Schneider and Loïc Riom for their assistance in producing this report. What do a secret music concert and a vertical farm have in common? The workshop on Capitalization and the Startup Economy1, led by Loïc Riom and Tanja Schneider at the […]
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 […]
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 […]
Traveling through the past and into the future of Socio-Technical Integration Research (STIR): Midpoint report on the 2022 STIR Seminar Series
by Mareike Smolka, Erik Fisher, Cynthia Pickering, Lyric Peate
The war in Ukraine and European (dis)integration: possible axes of change
by Ivan Tchalakov, Bilyana MIleva
Prestigious Holberg Prize goes to Sheila Jasanoff
by Hilde Reinertsen, Tone Druglitrø and Ana Delgado
