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Book Announcement: AI, Sacred Violence, and War — The Case of Gaza by Chris Hables Gray

Published On: Feb 20 2025

Chris Hables Gray’s book AI, Sacred Violence, and War — The Case of Gaza has just dropped. Open Access and Free! If you would like this very important book to remain on open access, support the Kickstarter by the start of Spring (March 20).
Chris is currently based in California but might be travelling to Europe and New York in the Spring. They are also happy to speak on this sad a...

4S Palestine Forum | Contributions Call

Published On: Jul 30 2024

The 4S Palestine Forum, launched earlier this year as the initial project of the Working Group on War and Genocide that was initiated at 4S Honolulu in 2023, is welcoming further contributions.

Please submit new short blog-style entries, as well as references to published work, syllabi, and other resources by writing info@4sonline.org.

View the Palestine Forum in its entirety here:...

Hybrid Participation

Published On: Jan 24 2025

Deadline: Aug 20, 2025

An important update to the planning for the 4S Meeting in Seattle in September. In a change of course, we are planning to enable hybrid participation. This meeting will be predominantly in person, but with hybrid set-up to enable online participation as well. Submissions to the conference are due one week from today, on Friday January 31st: https://www.4sonline.org/meeting.php
 
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Animals, STS, and the Problem of Humanity in Gaza

Published On: Aug 21 2024

This blog post asks, how can STS respond to dehumanization?

Editor(s), Open-Access Journal Engaging Science, Technology, and Society

Published On: Jan 17 2025

Deadline: Mar 31, 2025

The Publications Committee of the Society for Social Studies of Science solicits nominations and proposals for Editor(s) to lead the 4S-sponsored diamond open access journal, Engaging Science, Technology, and Society. ESTS is a vibrant peer-reviewed venue for addressing how science and technology infuse the world in which we live.
The journal publishes peer-reviewed content in both long-form an...

Bee smellscapes: olfactory relations in urban everyday ecologies

Published On: Nov 11 2024

In this post, Ceall Quinn describes multispecies smellwalking, a method for attuning to olfactory pollinator relations in urban ecologies.

Excremental Hauntings, or the Waste of Modern Bodies

Published On: Nov 4 2024

What does our growing obsession with shit and bodily leakage tell us about being modern, enlightened, and objective? Can we think without the dialectic of the sphincter, that alternation between containment and discharge, sovereignty and submission?

Border leakages: counting deaths in the Mediterranean

Published On: Oct 28 2024

In this post, Bruno Magalhães elaborates the concept of "leakage" as a lens through which to examine the hidden costs of externalized border controls. The concept allows us to address that which both escapes and reshapes containment.

‘Voicing Places’ at EASST/4S

Published On: Oct 14 2024

This report generates new insights to the concept of 'voicing' through a summary of panel discussions held during the EASST/4S meeting in Amsterdam to ask: What politics becomes possible through diverse and distributed practices of voicing attuned to soundings, and how do these politics translate into STS knowledge work?

CfP | Medical and Health Humanities: Global Perspectives 2025

Published On: Oct 4 2024

Deadline: Dec 15, 2024

The 3rd international conference on Medical and Health Humanities: Global Perspectives 2025 in Doha, Qatar on February 7-8, 2025 invites abstracts for oral presentations and posters on the topics of: narrative medicine, medical sociology, philosophy of medicine, medical ethics and narrative ethics, literature and medicine, arts therapies and arts-in-health, healthcare communication, the history of...

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