{"id":110,"date":"2017-06-01T15:28:58","date_gmt":"2017-06-01T15:28:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/sciencestudies\/?p=110"},"modified":"2017-06-01T15:31:19","modified_gmt":"2017-06-01T15:31:19","slug":"easts-council-lancaster-visit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/sciencestudies\/2017\/06\/01\/easts-council-lancaster-visit\/","title":{"rendered":"EASST Council: Lancaster Visit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Vicky Singleton and Richard Tutton report &#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>The Centre for Science Studies welcomed the EASST Council to Lancaster University 22-23 May for their biannual meeting.<\/p>\n<p>This was also a chance for the new President Professor Ulrike Felt and other <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-111 alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/sciencestudies\/files\/2017\/06\/EASTSLancasterVisit201705A-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/sciencestudies\/files\/2017\/06\/EASTSLancasterVisit201705A-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/sciencestudies\/files\/2017\/06\/EASTSLancasterVisit201705A-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/sciencestudies\/files\/2017\/06\/EASTSLancasterVisit201705A-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/sciencestudies\/files\/2017\/06\/EASTSLancasterVisit201705A.jpg 1599w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>recently elected Councillors to get to know each other and to meet the Local Organizing Committee for next EASST Conference, which CSS is hosting from 25-28 July 2018.<\/p>\n<p>We had a fantastic meeting with the Council, relating our thinking for the conference theme (soon to be revealed on our conference website which\u00a0will launch next month!) and keynote speakers.<\/p>\n<p>The Council also enjoyed a \u2018show-round\u2019 of our different conference venues and facilities. They were particularly impressed by the Great Hall and the LICA building, which will serve as venues for plenary sessions and the conference hub.<\/p>\n<p>All of us at CSS are really excited at the prospect of having many old and new academic friends from Europe and beyond come to Lancaster next year.<\/p>\n<p>As we are learning, conference organization is itself a fascinating exercise in what our colleague Professor John Law calls <em>heterogeneous engin<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-112 alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/sciencestudies\/files\/2017\/06\/EASTSLancasterVisit201705B-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/sciencestudies\/files\/2017\/06\/EASTSLancasterVisit201705B-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/sciencestudies\/files\/2017\/06\/EASTSLancasterVisit201705B-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/sciencestudies\/files\/2017\/06\/EASTSLancasterVisit201705B-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/sciencestudies\/files\/2017\/06\/EASTSLancasterVisit201705B.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>eering<\/em>!<\/p>\n<p>We have an enthusiastic team of colleagues involved from all four faculties\u00a0at the University. They are, in full: Brian Bloomfield, Dawn Goodwin (co-chair of Programme Committee), Adrian Mackenzie, Nils Markusson, Maggie Mort, Celia Roberts, Vicky Singleton (co-chair of Local Organizing Committee), Bron Szerszynski, Richard Tutton (co-chair of Local Organizing Committee), Gordon Walker (co-chair of Programme Committee), Claire Waterton, and Lisa Wood.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vicky Singleton and Richard Tutton report &#8230;. The Centre for Science Studies welcomed the EASST Council to Lancaster University 22-23 May for their biannual meeting. 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