The EASST 2018 conference and its host, Centre for Science Studies, welcomed 950 colleagues to Lancaster University this summer. It was the biggest EASST conference to date. We’ve gathered some reflections on the conference from people at Lancaster University. Gordon
When Worlds Meet
Endre Dányi, Department of Sociology, Goethe University, Frankfurt am Main, Germany, shares his thoughts on the conference theme of ‘Meetings’ for EASST 2018 at Lancaster University, 25-28 July 2018. As I’m writing this, alone in the office, I’m already looking
Mis/translation
‘Traduttore traditore’: s/he who translates betrays. Literally and figuratively. Words are embedded in social and material practices, and often, in the mismatches between languages, there is domination. STS is substantially, perhaps largely, written in English. What does this imply for
Thinking with Meetings: On the theme of EASST 2018
Lucy Suchman is Professor of the Anthropology of Science and Technology at the Centre for Science Studies at Lancaster University, and was the President of the Society for Social Studies of Science (4S), 2016-17. ‘The politics of meetings is not a choice
EASST 2018 Conference theme: ‘Meetings’
The 2018 EASST conference theme is: Meetings: Making Science, Technology and Society Together. Here’s an excerpt from the call for papers: ‘the politics of meetings is not a choice between doing or not doing relations, but rather to think about which actors