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

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: Important Deadlines

Here are the deadlines for the EASST 2018 Conference: 08/11/2017: Deadline for panel (and workshop) proposals 08/12/2017: Communication of accepted panels, opening of CFP 14/02/2018: Deadline for individual paper abstract submissions (end of CFP) 14/03/2018: Accepted papers published on the website

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

EASST 2018 Conference: Theme Announced

It’s now been announced: the theme of the 2018 EASST Conference at Lancaster will be Meetings: Making Science, Technology and Society Together More details about the conference theme will be available shortly. And please visit our dedicated EASST Lancaster