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Emma Kowal
@profemmakowal.bsky.social
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Anthropology/STS/genomics/colonialism. Deputy Director @Deakin_ADI. Past President @4sWeb. New book out with DUP #hauntingbiology surname pron. Koval

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Emma Kowal is an Australian cultural and medical anthropologist, physician and scholar of science and technology studies. She is most well known for her books Trapped in the Gap: Doing Good in Indigenous Australia, and the co-edited volumes of Force, Movement, Intensity: The Newtonian Imagination in the Humanities and Social Sciences, Cryopolitics: Frozen Life in a Melting World. .. more

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Emma Kowal @profemmakowal.bsky.social · 17d
A few weeks ago I was lucky enough to be at a @wennergrenorg.bsky.social
seminar in Austria on 'Biocultural Anthropology for the 21st century'. Three days of wonderful conversation in a summer resort town imagining the future of biocultural anthropology @danilynrutherford.bsky.social

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Emma Kowal @profemmakowal.bsky.social · Sep 21
I'm really excited to be in conversation with colleagues at Aarhus University very soon!

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Emma Kowal @profemmakowal.bsky.social · Sep 4
I wrote this short piece about the time when I was a ghost. Part of a special forum I edited with Amanda Domingues for Anthropology Theory Commons - thanks @mdicenta.bsky.social for the thread and for your awesome contribution!
mdicenta.bsky.social Mara Dicenta @mdicenta.bsky.social · Aug 28
The Anthropologist as ghost, by Emma Kowal @profemmakowal.bsky.social
In 1999, at the age of 23, I completed my first independent research project as part of my Honours year of my Arts degree at the University of Melbourne. For six weeks I was based in a villa...

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The Anthropologist as ghost
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Mara Dicenta @mdicenta.bsky.social · Aug 28
The Anthropologist as ghost, by Emma Kowal @profemmakowal.bsky.social
In 1999, at the age of 23, I completed my first independent research project as part of my Honours year of my Arts degree at the University of Melbourne. For six weeks I was based in a villa...

www.at-commons.com/pub/givlpi3v...
The Anthropologist as ghost
www.at-commons.com

Reposted by Emma Kowal

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Mara Dicenta @mdicenta.bsky.social · Aug 28
Ghostly Lessons: New Forum at Anthropology Theory Commons @anthrotheory.bsky.social led by Emma Kowal & Amanda Domingues

Right on time before the 2025 AAA Meeting on "Ghosts" in November @americananthro.bsky.social

Essays are short but deep (including mine)! www.at-commons.com/ghosts
Ghostly Lessons · Anthropological Theory
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Reposted by Steven French, Roger Burrows, Emma Kowal

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Warwick Anderson @wombatscholar.bsky.social · Aug 6
Delighted to learn that Dr Thao Phan is awarded the 2025 Max Crawford medal, Australia's major prize for early-career humanities researchers! Pleasantly surprised it went to an STS scholar for the first time too. Such good news!
@thaophan.bsky.social @humanitiesau.bsky.social #STS
Dr Thao Phan wins 2025 Max Crawford Medal
Dr Thao Phan has won the 2025 Max Crawford medal for her work investigating dynamics of race and gender in algorithmic culture.
humanities.org.au

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Emma Kowal @profemmakowal.bsky.social · Jul 31
Here you go! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Bioethics for the planet
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Emma Kowal @profemmakowal.bsky.social · Jul 31
I'm very proud to be part of this groundbreaking publication just out in the Lancet, arguing for a bioethics as planetary health ethics. Includes seven practical steps for putting the 'bios' back into bioethics. #bioethics #planetary #STS
wombatscholar.bsky.social Warwick Anderson @wombatscholar.bsky.social · Jul 30
So glad to see this published in the latest @thelancet.com Trying to embed planetary care in human health care - making climate action less vulnerable to ideological delusions. Bioethics should be planetary health ethics too!
#bioethics #planetary #STS
@nam.edu @humanitiesau.bsky.social

Reposted by The Lancet, Emma Kowal, Bruno J. Strasser

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Warwick Anderson @wombatscholar.bsky.social · Jul 30
So glad to see this published in the latest @thelancet.com Trying to embed planetary care in human health care - making climate action less vulnerable to ideological delusions. Bioethics should be planetary health ethics too!
#bioethics #planetary #STS
@nam.edu @humanitiesau.bsky.social

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Emma Kowal @profemmakowal.bsky.social · Jul 28
Very much looking forward to hosting Aalok Khandekar from IIT-Hyderabad for a @deakinssn.bsky.social seminar on Community-based climate adaptation. With two fabulous discussants, Sujatha Raman and Robert Faggian. Join us in the city or online!
deakinssn.bsky.social Deakin Science and Society Network @deakinssn.bsky.social · Jul 22
Our next #SSNseminar deals in responses to extreme heat, examining the rift between policy and everyday realities, the gendered nature of heat vulnerability and possibilities and challenges thereto. Join the SSN and Aalok Khandekar, Thursday 7 August www.eventbrite.com.au/e/ssn-semina...
SSN seminar: 'Toward Community-Based Heat Adaptation' with Aalok Khandekar
Join the SSN for a hybrid seminar "Cooling in a Fractal Grid: Towards Community-Based Heat Adaptation in Hyderabad’s Informal Settlements"
www.eventbrite.com.au

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Deakin Science and Society Network @deakinssn.bsky.social · Jul 22
Our next #SSNseminar deals in responses to extreme heat, examining the rift between policy and everyday realities, the gendered nature of heat vulnerability and possibilities and challenges thereto. Join the SSN and Aalok Khandekar, Thursday 7 August www.eventbrite.com.au/e/ssn-semina...
SSN seminar: 'Toward Community-Based Heat Adaptation' with Aalok Khandekar
Join the SSN for a hybrid seminar "Cooling in a Fractal Grid: Towards Community-Based Heat Adaptation in Hyderabad’s Informal Settlements"
www.eventbrite.com.au

Reposted by Emma Kowal

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Warwick Anderson @wombatscholar.bsky.social · Jul 12
Speaking on noise and the insurrection of subjugated unknowables.... or something like that. Hauntology and #STS. At @aussts.bsky.social 2025 meeting in Melbourne (Narrm). A very interesting meeting....
@tdneale.bsky.social @sthv.bsky.social

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Elizabeth Stephens @elizabethstephens.bsky.social · Jul 10
Thanks to the @aussts.bsky.social team for the invitation and opportunity to share my work on the strange history of public incubator shows!
aussts.bsky.social AusSTS @aussts.bsky.social · Jul 9
We're at Deakin Downtown for day 2 of #AusSTS25 and it's a full house for our keynote on "Noisy Experiments: the strange history of incubator baby shows" from Elizabeth Stephens #signalsandnoises

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Emma Kowal @profemmakowal.bsky.social · Jul 9
Day 2 of #AusSTS25 is underway! If you can’t be with us at Deakin Downtown, you can listen along to @elizabethstephens.bsky.social’s fascinating keynote now on YouTube (link below)
aussts.bsky.social AusSTS @aussts.bsky.social · Jul 9
We're at Deakin Downtown for day 2 of #AusSTS25 and it's a full house for our keynote on "Noisy Experiments: the strange history of incubator baby shows" from Elizabeth Stephens #signalsandnoises

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AusSTS @aussts.bsky.social · Jul 9
We're at Deakin Downtown for day 2 of #AusSTS25 and it's a full house for our keynote on "Noisy Experiments: the strange history of incubator baby shows" from Elizabeth Stephens #signalsandnoises

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Emma Kowal @profemmakowal.bsky.social · Jul 9
Workshop in the beautiful gallery of the National Communication Museum #AusSTS25

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AusSTS @aussts.bsky.social · Jul 8
All of our keynote panels will be live streamed 🛰️

Our day 1 keynote panels is on "Infrastructures of Noise" w Ranjodh Dhaliwal @ranjodhdhaliwal.com, Fabian Offert @zentralwerkstatt.org, Dang Nguyen @digitaldang.bsky.social & Kate Mannell @katemannell.bsky.social

www.eventbrite.com/e/aussts-202...
AusSTS 2025 Day 1 Keynote "Infrastructures of Noise"
Join AusSTS online for the first keynote of 'Signals and noises' with Dang Nguyen, Fabian Offert, Ranjodh Singh Dhaliwal & Kate Mannell.
www.eventbrite.com

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AusSTS @aussts.bsky.social · Jul 8
And our AMAZING co-convenors @carinatruyts.bsky.social and @blueskychris.bsky.social talking us through the next few days ahead

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AusSTS @aussts.bsky.social · Jul 8
Kicking off #AusSTS2025 is Wurendjeri Elder Uncle Tony Garvey welcoming us to country and NCM Artistic Director Emily Siddons welcoming us to the National Communication Museum☎️📶

You can follow along the highlights from the conference using #AusSTS2025 and #signalsandnoises

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Ranjodh Singh Dhaliwal @ranjodhdhaliwal.com · Jul 8
Starting in a few minutes!

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AusSTS @aussts.bsky.social · Jul 8
✨ Good morning Narrm!✨
It's day 1 of #AusSTS2025 and we are looking forward to three days of conversations, workshops, performances, and other experiments with all things #signalsandnoises📡🎛️

docs.google.com/document/d/1...
AusSTS 2025 Signals and Noises Program
AusSTS 2025 Signals and Noises Conference Booklet Conference-on-a-page Conference organising committee Conference Program AusSTS Day 1 (NCM), Wednesday 9 July AusSTS Day 2 (Deakin Downtown), Thursday ...
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Emma Kowal @profemmakowal.bsky.social · Jul 5
Two sleeps until Doing Interdisciplinarity, the Deakin Science and Society Network's flagship event for 2025! Not too late to book for this in-person celebration and reflection on what works in interdisciplinary research @tdneale.bsky.social @carinatruyts.bsky.social @silk-tim.bsky.social
deakinssn.bsky.social Deakin Science and Society Network @deakinssn.bsky.social · Jun 26
Join the SSN, Christina Twomey of the ARC, Peter Enticott and a line up of interdisciplinary experts on 8 July for “Doing Interdisciplinarity..." — a TEDx-inspired event showcasing powerful stories of interdisciplinary research in action.

www.eventbrite.com.au/e/doing-inte...
Doing Interdisciplinarity: 6 years of the Science and Society Network (SSN)
Join the SSN, the ARC's Christina Twomey & SSN grantholders for an afternoon of insights and success stories of interdisciplinary research.
www.eventbrite.com.au

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Emma Kowal @profemmakowal.bsky.social · Jul 5
AusSTS is about to take off this week! Even if you haven't managed to get registered (it's totally full), you can access some of the STS goodness through our livestreamed keynotes and interact with the YouTube audience.

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Deakin Science and Society Network @deakinssn.bsky.social · Jun 26
Join the SSN, Christina Twomey of the ARC, Peter Enticott and a line up of interdisciplinary experts on 8 July for “Doing Interdisciplinarity..." — a TEDx-inspired event showcasing powerful stories of interdisciplinary research in action.

www.eventbrite.com.au/e/doing-inte...
Doing Interdisciplinarity: 6 years of the Science and Society Network (SSN)
Join the SSN, the ARC's Christina Twomey & SSN grantholders for an afternoon of insights and success stories of interdisciplinary research.
www.eventbrite.com.au

Reposted by Emma Kowal

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AusSTS @aussts.bsky.social · Jun 26
Not coming to #AusSTS25? You can catch each keynote, livestreamed here www.eventbrite.com/cc/aussts-20...
AusSTS 2025
Join the SSN and AusSTS for a series of free events in the week of 8- 11 July. We start off with the SSN's 'Doing Interdisciplinarity' on Tuesday afternoon, in-person at Deakin Downtown. This is follo...
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Ranjodh Singh Dhaliwal @ranjodhdhaliwal.com · Jun 22
On the 9th of July, at the National Communication Museum in Hawthorn, as a part of the @aussts.bsky.social 2025 conference, I will be talking about infrastructures of noise at the keynote panel along with Glen Berman, Dang Nguyen, Fabian Offert, and Kate Mannell. (3/4)

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Timothy Neale @tdneale.bsky.social · Jun 20
Can't make it to #AusSTS25? We will be streaming keynotes, including the "Bodies of signal and noise" plenary w/ Warwick Anderson, Kari Lancaster + Chris O'Neill @wombatscholar.bsky.social @karilancaster.bsky.social @blueskychris.bsky.social Fri 11 July @ 1530 AEST www.youtube.com/live/dBNpkXI...
AusSTS 2025 Day 3 Keynote "Bodies of signal and noise"
YouTube video by SSN Info
www.youtube.com

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IEHHS Augsburg @iehhs.bsky.social · Jun 16
Ethik @ Lunch continues this Friday!

We are excited to welcome @profemmakowal.bsky.social (Deakin University, Australia) for a talk on: "Ethics of Qualitative Research in Minority Settings"

We warmly invite you to join us!

🔗 Program & access: www.uni-augsburg.de/de/fakultaet...

#bioethics

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Emma Kowal @profemmakowal.bsky.social · Jun 13
The best part of this crazy academic life is reading insightful pieces on your work that reveal connections you didn't see before. Thanks @benjhegarty.bsky.social & @mgbevans.bsky.social for making it happen and Frédéric Keck, Beth Greenhough, Trevor Engel, and Ros Williams for their engagement.
benjhegarty.bsky.social Benjamin Hegarty @benjhegarty.bsky.social · Jun 12
Read @mgbevans.bsky.social and my introduction to the forum and the contributions at www.medanthrotheory.org/mat/article/.... “How do we grapple with the ghosts of racial science in contemporary biological research?” @profemmakowal.bsky.social @dukepress.bsky.social
Haunting Biology : Book Forum | Medicine Anthropology Theory
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