Category: Events

• May 13, 2025

  “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…
• October 26, 2024

  SKAT Sessions at ASA 2025

  Please see the full call here: https://www.asanet.org/2025-annual-meeting/call-for-submissions/papers-extended-abstracts/section-sessions/ Section on Science, Knowledge, and Technology Challenging epistemic institutions: Unruly knowledge, outlaw technology, and fringe-mainstream relations  We live in epistemically challenged, and challenging, times. The status of various forms of knowledge continues to be contested, as many social actors compete for epistemic authority. Institutions of knowledge production are…
• October 23, 2023

  Virtual Authors Meet Readers Event: Decolonize Self-Care

  Please join us for a SKAT Virtual Authors Meet Readers Event next month! The event will be held on Friday, November 17, 5:00pm-6:30pm ET (note updated time from the save-the-date announcement). The book: Decolonize Self-Care  Authors: Alyson Spurgas and Zoë Meleo-Erwin Readers: Kelly Moore, Sheena Sood, and Catherine Tan See our event website for additional…
• August 20, 2020

  SKAT @ ASA 2020 – Recap

  SKAT Open Panel Session Organizer:  John Parker Discussant:  Martine Lappe Panelists: Discourses and Practices of Race, Ethnicity, Ancestry, and Genomics in Hawaii Joan H. Fujimura and Ramya M. Rajagopalan Feminist, Generative Sociotechical Dissent: Seed Politics in Colombia Kelly Moore & Nathalia Hernandez Vidal Uncertainty and the Inconvenient Facts of Diagnosis Annemarie Jutel Discussant Remarks Martine Lappé…
• August 17, 2016

  SKAT sessions at #ASA16

  More detailed information about SKAT and SKAT-related sessions at ASA 2016 in Seattle: Reception: Saturday, August 20. 6:30-8 p.m. Location: The Grotto, the basement bar of Rendevous at the Jewelbox Theater (lots going on there): 2322 2nd Avenue, Seattle. Paper sessions and Roundtables 192 – Section on Science, Knowledge, and Technology Paper Session. Open Topic in Sociology…