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Early-bird Registration Extended to May 7

Published On: Apr 30 2025

Just one week to go to register & receive an 🐥 early-bird rate for 4S Seattle 2025! 🐥 Same rates for online + in-person. Purchasing a membership gives you access to reduced rates, so be sure to become a member first. 4S is undertaking many steps to help and support our members during their visit to Seattle for the conference. We have given 100 registration fee waivers this year & we'...

Will the bubble burst? Thinking together about hype machines in the contemporary technoscience.

Published On: Apr 21 2025

Ola Michalec Ph.D. considers the collective excitement surrounding AI and the ways in which the 'hype machine' mobilises resources, enrols new actors, creates pressure to accelerate responses, clouds judgement, conceals power dynamics or detracts from crucial infrastructural work. How might we situate the buzz and buzzwords AI as integral to the hype machine of promotion, exaggerated claims, colle...

Sandra Harding Feminist Philosophy Memorial Fund

Published On: Apr 3 2025

Professor Sandra Harding was a path-breaking scholar in Feminist Philosophy and Science Studies, and her many books and contributions will inspire future scholars for decades to come. She was a founding associate editor for Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy and this fund is being managed by the non-profit Board of Hypatia together with the Society for Women in Philosophy (SWIP, Pacific Div...

CfP | Science as Culture Special Issue: Colonial Relations in Modern Techno-Securitisation

Published On: Nov 11 2024

Deadline: Apr 30, 2025

‘Security’ has become an increasingly dominant frame in recent decades, linking issues such as climate, biodiversity, borders, energy, food and military activities. Ever-more societal issues have been framed as security problems, even as existential threats. These frames seek to justify pre-emptive management through technoscientific expert systems, imagining control over everything an...

CfP | Special Issues in Science, Technology, & Human Values

Published On: Apr 13 2025

Deadline: Jun 21, 2025

The editorial group of Science, Technology, & Human Values is happy to announce the journal’s annual Call for Proposals for Special Issues. Since 1972, Science, Technology, & Human Values has provided a forum for cutting-edge research and debate in the field of Science and Technology Studies (STS). This is a collectively edited, peer-reviewed, transnational, interdisciplinary journ...

The Heartware approach: how cultural values drive sustainable socio-technical change

Published On: Apr 7 2025

Zeeda F. Mohamad explores the “Heartware approach” in sustainability science: a visualisation tool to enable community-based participation that emphasizes the integration of cultural values into environmental sustainability governance frameworks.

Interspecies Agencies: Controversies, Ontologies, and New Forms of Cohabitation (Part 3)

Published On: Apr 1 2025

This report on an EASST/4S 2024 panel is the third in a three-part series about interspecies agencies. Part Three rethinks STS through the lens of multispecies relations.

Editor(s), Open-Access Journal Engaging Science, Technology, and Society

Published On: Jan 17 2025

Deadline: Mar 31, 2025

The Publications Committee of the Society for Social Studies of Science solicits nominations and proposals for Editor(s) to lead the 4S-sponsored diamond open access journal, Engaging Science, Technology, and Society. ESTS is a vibrant peer-reviewed venue for addressing how science and technology infuse the world in which we live.
The journal publishes peer-reviewed content in both long-form an...

Interspecies Agencies: Controversies, Ontologies, and New Forms of Cohabitation (Part 2)

Published On: Mar 24 2025

This report on an EASST/4S 2024 panel is the second in a three-part series about interspecies agencies. Part Two highlights methodologies for studying multispecies relationships.

Hybrid Participation

Published On: Jan 24 2025

Deadline: Aug 20, 2025

An important update to the planning for the 4S Meeting in Seattle in September. In a change of course, we are planning to enable hybrid participation. This meeting will be predominantly in person, but with hybrid set-up to enable online participation as well. Submissions to the conference are due one week from today, on Friday January 31st: https://www.4sonline.org/meeting.php
 
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