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

New book published – Living Data: Making Sense of Health Biosensing

Does biosensing increase people’s control over their health, as it is often claimed? What is the connection between more data and health? Who is biosensing who? What is the relation between biosensing and people’s anxieties about their health? How do

Upcoming Nordic STS Conference

On June 13th-14th 2019, the binary Nordic STS Conference will be held in Tampere, Finland. Together with colleagues from the University of Gothenburg, Lisa Lindén from CSS is co-organising the session Care in STS – Objects, Transformations and Politics. It

2019 Feminist Technoscience Studies MA Module and Summer School

Meeting Frankenstein’s Companions Tuesday 28 – Friday 31 May 2019 The Centre for Gender and Women’s Studies at Lancaster University, UK, in cooperation with the Department of Sociology, Lancaster’s Centre for Science Studies, and the Centre for the Study of

Reflections on EASST 2018

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