Jul 22 2024
In a three-day conference at Colby College, faculty across the small liberal arts college shared their research, teaching, and partnerships in critical medical and health humanities. Their goal was to collectively define the field by connecting their work to critical keywords.
Jun 11 2024
Organisers report back from a recent workshop that invited scholars to explore the conceptual exchanges between STS and sociology.
Mar 20 2024
The global discourse on diseases and treatment is dominated by the positivistic approach of biomedicine, leaving little room for dialogue with other medical epistemes of the body. This post discusses the clinical approach of Ayurveda system of medicine in treating what is known as cancer today.
Mar 11 2024
In this exceptional collaboration, seven participants of the Posthuman Symbiosis Masterclass take us through a collective effort of (un)learning the ways we produce knowledge.
Feb 26 2024
Ludovico Rella (Durham University) reports on the 'Making Data, Making Worlds' workshop conducted in September 2023, hosted by the Royal Geographical Society in London. This report engages with the processes of world-making associated with Artificial Intelligence algorithms and large-scale simulation environments, refracted through the critical and analytic lens of the 'generative turn' that produces new articulations between algorithms, simulations, predictive modeling based on ‘real data...
Feb 12 2024
The Australasian Science and Technology Studies (AusSTS) Network held its inaugural conference, "What Is an Australasian STS Contribution?", at the University of New South Wales in Sydney on July 17 and 18, 2023. In this post, Carina Truyts, Jianni Tien, Dan Santos, and Ella Butler report back on the conference and examine the meaning of place-based STS.
Jan 8 2024
Dr. Richard Tutton et al reflect upon the Spaceports: Places, Promises, Politics symposium at the University of York (UK) that brought together scholars, researchers and representatives from two UK-based spaceports to explore the social, (geo)political and environmental ramifications of spaceport development.
Jan 17 2024
The Science and Technology Studies India Network (STS-IN) held its inaugural workshop titled “Pathways of STS: Where We Come From and Where We (Can) Go” at the Indian Institute of Technology, Hyderabad on December 14 and 15, 2023. Graduate students, researchers, and faculty members working on themes related to STS from across the country attended the workshop.
Dec 18 2023
In this post, Mariana Pitta Lima and Débora Allebrandt report back from the X Brazilian Symposium on Science, Technology and Society, the biannual meeting organised by the Brazilian Association for the Social Studies of Science and Technology.
Dec 4 2023
In this blog post, Gaurav Kapse and Shashank Deora reflect on a workshop about Regulating Biotech that happened in September 2023 in Mumbai and brought together scholars from India and Australia.