Category: Announcements
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50th Anniversary of STS at Vassar College
The STS program at Vassar College celebrated its 50th anniversary. To mark the occasion we organized a conference on “Science and the Culture Wars,” April 3-5, 2025 held at the Vassar Institute for the Liberal Arts. Naomi Oreskes gave the keynote address, the Pauline Newman ’47 Distinguished Lecture, “From Anti-Government to Anti-Science and Back Again”.…
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New Workshop: Theory and Analysis in Science, Knowledge, and Society (TASKS)
Theory and Analysis in Science, Knowledge, and Society (TASKS) is a workshop based at City College, CUNY for CUNY and New York City researchers. We discuss working papers circulated by members and visitors and provide feedback. Topics of interest amongst TASKS members include: technologies and reproductive health, state-expert relations, the use of scientific evidence in…
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“Revisiting Biomedicalization” (Feb 28-March 1, 2025)
On February 28 and March 1, Alka Menon (Yale) and Melanie Jeske (Baylor College of Medicine) led a convening at Yale University titled “Revisiting Biomedicalization: Toward a Technology-Focused Approach.” Under the rubric of medicalization and biomedicalization, substantially developed by Peter Conrad and Adele Clarke, medical sociologists and STS scholars have characterized shifts in the landscape…
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2024 Giving Tuesday Campaign
In 2020, our section founded two awards—the Wells-Duster and Emancipatory Practice Awards—which are intended to foster and elevate essential work in our subfield. The first recognizes outstanding scholarship from early-career scholars that advances understanding of Black, African American, or Indigenous intersections with science, knowledge, and technology. The second recognizes anti-racist social action within our subfield…
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New Publications from Section Members (2024-2025)
This is a running list of recent publications from SKAT Section members from Fall 2024 to Summer 2025. To submit an announcement for the Fall 2024 Newsletter, please use this Google Form: https://forms.gle/Jrd9Uodeg5KA3wvz6 To send an announcement out to the Listserv, please email: skatchairasa@gmail.com Articles Gil Eyal, Larry Au, and Cristian Capotescu 2024. “Trust is a Verb!:…
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New Special Collection: A Sociology of AI
Congratulations to Kelly Joyce and Taylor M. Cruz, and all contributing authors, for putting a special collection on “A Sociology of Artificial intelligence: Inequalities, Power, and Data Justice” in Socius: Sociological Research for a Dynamic World. To access the special collection, click here: A Sociology of Artificial Intelligence: Inequalities, Power, and Data Justice The special…
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New Zine: Bits in the Machine
Bits in the Machine: A Time Capsule of Worker’s Stories in the Age of Generative AI By Collective Action in Tech, DAIR Institute, Collective Action School and Data & Society Download here: https://collectiveaction.tech/2024/bits-in-the-machine/ Description: “Gathered during the Generative AI hype cycle, this collection of worker perspectives is a window into the complex relationship between workers and the Artificial Intelligence…
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CfP: The Handbook on the Sociology of Artificial Intelligence
The Handbook on the Sociology of Artificial Intelligence from Emerald Publishers seeks submissions that offer an in-depth overview of the major trends in the field, addressing both the societal causes and effects of artificial intelligence. It aims to systematically explore AI’s sociological dimensions, to feature a theory-driven review of recent research, presenting approaches to investigating artificial…
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New Publications from Section Members (2023-2024)
The following are new publications submitted by ASA SKAT Section members to be included in the Fall 2023, Spring 2024, and Summer 2024 newsletters. Please feel free to reach out to us (lau1@ccny.cuny.edu) to be included on this list if we missed you! See also our New Books Q&A series where we conduct interviews with…
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#SKAT650 Membership Drive 2023-2024
From the SKAT Membership Committee: Emma Brandt, Madeleine Pape (Chair), Argun Saatcioglu, Torsten Voigt Can SKAT be a 650-member section? We think it can! The SKAT section is currently only 40 members short of the magic threshold of 600 members, which would give the section four sessions at the ASA Annual Meeting in San Francisco…
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