Reimagining Disease Modelling and Outbreak Analysis: A Report on the "Critical Social Science Approaches to Epidemic Intelligence" Workshop

Jan 20 2025

In this post, Rachel Yang reports on the "Critical Social Science Approaches to Epidemic Intelligence" workshop held at the University of Sydney on 21 and 22 March 2024.

Changing toolkits in sustainability research – a perspective on transformative and transforming methods

Dec 23 2024

In this post, Anja Klein, Catharina Lüder and Britta Acksel consider what it is that research methods in sustainability science seek to "transform" and how those methods might themselves be transformed along the way

ST&HV Summer School 2024: Reflections on academic generosity and doing STS in Singapore

Oct 3 2024

Lauren Kelly reports back from the STS Summer School in Singapore in June 2024, sponsored by Science, Technology and Human Values

Congress report/Relatório de evento/Reporte de congreso: XV ESOCITE 2024

Aug 14 2024

In this trilingual post, Jorge Alexander Daza Cardona reflects on his experiences at the XV Latin American Conference on Social Studies of Science and Technology (ESOCITE 2024), organized by the Latin American Association for the Social Studies of Science and Technology (ESOCITE)

Keywords in the Critical Medical Humanities: A Model for Research and Teaching

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.

Re:Constructs | Exchanges between STS and Sociology

Jun 11 2024

Organisers report back from a recent workshop that invited scholars to explore the conceptual exchanges between STS and sociology.

The Scope of Ayurveda Oncology

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.

Posthuman Symbiosis Masterclass: [Un]learning with Donna Haraway and Rosi Braidotti

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.

Making Data, Making Worlds: The Consequences of the Generative Turn in Big Data and AI

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...

Recapping AusSTS 2023 (Sydney) - Conversations in, and with, Place

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.

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