Centre for Science Studies

Human Ghosts in the Machine

Our Talking STS series resumes, with a dialogue between Paula Bialski and Carolyn Pedwell, focusing on the forms of relationality and sensi(a)bility that go into maintaining software infrastructures

An interdisciplinary roundtable exploring the consequences and ethical possibilities of the connections between the climate crisis and discourses of certainty, including guest speaker Prof. Hannah Knox

Being in the world!

Juliana Michelon Alvarenga reports on the 2023 Continental Philosophy of Technoscience course that she attended at the University of Wageningen in March 2023

Nuclear Futures battles the elements

A report from the organisers on part one of a three-part event series, in which the team and the participants had to adapt quickly in the face of severe weather

Speculative Machines and Us: Histories and Futures of AI

We warmly invite colleagues to join us for an in-person one-day symposium on Thursday 17th July 2025. To join, please register using the link below. The event is organised by the Centre for Science Studies in collaboration with ImaginationLancaster and

Human Ghosts in the Machine: A Talking STS seminar

The Centre for Science Studies is pleased to invite colleagues to join the latest in our ‘Talking STS’ series, in which two colleagues – one from Lancaster, one from a different institution – discuss an issue of shared concern. This

Uncertain Climates: An Interdisciplinary Roundtable

CSS, in collaboration with the Centre for Mobilities Research, is pleased to invite colleagues to join an interdisciplinary hybrid roundtable event on the topic of ‘Uncertain Climates’. The event will take place from 4pm to 5.15pm on Friday January 17th.

New STS encyclopedia featuring CSS contributors

Edward Elgar publishers have announced the publication of a major new encyclopedia, covering core approaches, ideas and concerns within Science and Technology Studies. The book features many former and current CSS colleagues, including Emma Cardwell, Joe Deville, John Law, Maureen

Data, information systems and decolonial justice futures

We are pleased to announce a research seminar, jointly hosted by the Centre for Science Studies and the Centre for Technological Futures, exploring how practices of decoloniality might contribute to just futures in relation to the digital and what questions

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