4S News
President’s Message, 15 April, 2020
04/15/2020
Fleck Prize announced. ESTS editorial change. Virtual meeting update.
(...more)4S/EASST Conference to Go All Virtual
04/04/2020
Given future scenarios of the current pandemic and related restrictions in global mobility, we concluded that it is not reasonable any longer to (techno)optimistically keep organizing the physical event in Prague. From the three options on the table – to cancel, postpone or go virtual, we decided on the third option. We will migrate the event to the virtual timespace and it will take place in the planned dates of August 18-21, 2020.
(...more)New: Technoscience Podcast
03/20/2020
Listen to the first of a new series of STS podcasts with Andrea Ballestero (Rice University) being interviewed by Alison Kenner (Drexel University).
Andrea Ballestero's new book, A Future History of Water, is available open access here. See Andrea's keynote lecture for the 2020 Anthro in Transit conference at the University of California Irvine here (titled "Surrendering to the Pull: Aquifers, Models and the Cultivation of Volumetric Awareness").
Link to the podcasts here:
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(...more)President’s Message, 15 March 2020
03/15/2020
Dear STSers,
I am writing only about COVID-19 today. Our Wisconsin governor has canceled all schools K-12, public and private. The university is still teaching and meeting, but only online. All the students who can leave have left. We have no face-to-face faculty meetings, job interviews, etc. All university-sponsored travel is canceled.
Many countries, including the U.S., have closed their/our borders to travel. Like South Korea, Japan, Taiwan, and China, many European countries have...
(...more)President’s Message, January 2020
01/20/2020
Dear STSers,
Thank you all for your nominations of books and scholars for 4S Prizes!
MORE DEADLINES: 4S/EASST joint meeting in Prague, the Czech Republic, August 18-21, 2020. The deadline for Closed Panels and Individual Paper Submissions is February 29, but please do not wait too long to submit. Here is the website with all the relevant information: https://www.easst4s2020prague.org
The 2019 4S meetings in New Orleans had participants from more nations across the globe and across the...
(...more)Call for Submissions opens for Prague meeting
12/19/2019
EASST and 4S Joint Meeting
Locating and Timing Matters: Significance and Agency of STS in Emerging Worlds
18-21 August, 2020
Submissions Close 29 February
The general call for EASST+4S 2020 is now open! We invite submissions of single papers, closed panels and Making and Doing interventions. Please visit the conference website to find out more information on the different ways you can engage.
For the meeting in Prague, we especially welcome inquiries into longer term continuities and...
(...more)Resolution to Expand 6S Voting Rights
09/25/2019
The proposed change gives Council voting privileges to 2nd and 3rd year 6S representatives. The proposed change was approved unanimously by the 4S Council and unanimously, with a small amendment, at the 4S Business Meeting. Please vote by 4 October.
(...more)4S President’s Message – September 2019
09/20/2019
Thanks to all September Annual Meetings in New Orleans so successful. Acknowledging outgoing officers and council members—and in with the new!
(...more)Making & Doing Awards Announced at New Orleans Meeting
09/20/2019
The Making and Doing session at the New Orleans meeting was a grand success. The Prize committee, consisting of Endre Dányi, Laura Forlano, Gwen Ottinger, Martin Perez Comisso, Wen-Ling Tu, and Teun Zuiderent-Jerak, selected three STS Making and Doing awards and two projects deserving an honourable mention, out of 43 contributions.
The STS Making and Doing awards 2019 are given to three equally exceptional projects:
Dust: Communicating Indeterminacy (Akshita Sivakumar, UC San Diego), for its...
(...more)President’s Message – August 2019
09/03/2019
4S Prize announcements. New Orleans updates. Call for STS organizations to affiliate with 4S. STS Archiving and Research Infrastructure. Event ethics policy.
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