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Society for Social Studies of Science
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We are 4S, an international, nonprofit association focused on the social studies of science, technology and medicine (#STS). Next Annual meeting Sept 3 - 6, 2025.
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Bordering Keynote
Tracing struggles & solidarities across bordering mechanisms that use systems of attention & surveillance to violently separate, confine, & debilitate—
Diana Flores Ruíz
Lupe Alberto Flores
Darren Byler
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Photographic portrait of Diana Ruíz, a Latina young woman facing the camera with long dark curly hair, wearing large red framed glasses and lipstick, and wearing a leathery tanned jacket and blue blouse. She stares at camera pictured in front of a red rose bush in a garden. Photographic portrait of Lupe Flores, a Latino man faces direct to the camera while grinning. He wears a black and grey shirt, short cropped hair and a metal rose on his lapel. He is in front of a beige wall and a wooden framed room with a dark scalloped chair. Photographic portrait of Dr. Darren Byler, a white man faces direct to the camera with a smile. He has cropped light brown hair and a beard, and wears a grey shirt and grey cardigan. He is depicted behind an digital-abstract panel of earthy tones.
July 29, 2025 at 8:35 PM
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Photographic portrait of Dr. Andrea Ballestero, a senior LatinX / Latina woman facing the camera with short brown and grey bobbed hair and thick black rimmed glasses. She smiles direct at camera with red lipstick and a red and pink patterned shirt, cropped at the shoulders.
July 29, 2025 at 8:24 PM
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Political Water Keynote
Shifting knowledges of water above and below ground within existing forms of ecological governance, extraction, &
scientific observation—
Nikiwe Solomon
Jakkrit Sanghamanee
Andrea Ballestero
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Photographic portrait of Dr. Nikiwe Solomon, a black woman facing the camera with her striking hair scooped to her left, smiling at camera wearing a blue-black top with a small silver bar at the fastening and large silver hooped earrings. She is pictured in front of a book shelf and looks direct at camera. Photographic portrait of Dr. Jakkrit Sangkhamanee, a Thai man facing the camera, with his hands in his trouser pockets, leaning against a desk with a laptop and a book shelf behind. He wears small wire framed glasses and a black shirt and trousers.
July 29, 2025 at 8:24 PM
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Check out this year’s Threaded Keynotes on—Art Scenes, Bordering, & Political Water
Each panel brings together scholar-practitioners at different career stages to think together about pressing issues in STS
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Photographic portrait of Chari Glogovac-Smith, a Black woman facing the camera with her black and grey hair scooped back under a red hat, wearing a black shirt, cropped at the shoulders, smiles while looking direct at the camera in an interior space. Photographic portrait of Dr Tania Pérez-Bustos, a LatinX [or Latina?] woman facing the camera with short brown bobbed hair and round glasses, wears a white top and a denim jacket, smiles while looking direct at the camera. Tania is pictured outside with green trees in the background. Photographic portrait of Althea Rao, a young Asian woman facing the camera with her medium-long hair wearing two long beaded necklaces, wireframed glasses, and a rust coloured dress. Althea is pictured with her arms clasped together in front of her body, and is stood in front of a large tree in a grassy green park. Photographic portrait of Sadaf Sadri, a young [?] women facing the camera with her arms crossed out in front sitting on a chair in front of a iron gate. Her face is in shadow and she wears a purple hoodie and trousers. Sadaf looks direct at the camera.
July 29, 2025 at 8:15 PM
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The 🏆4S Mullins Prize winner for 2025🏆 is Anin Luo for “Animal Scientism: Making Biology Experimental in Republican China.” East Asian Science, Technology and Society: An International Journal 19(1): 8–36.

Read more here:
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Photographic portrait of Anin Luo facing the camera, wearing a cream suit jacket, a small silver necklace, and black bobbed hair. Anin is smiling while appearing in front of a photograph of a blue building.
June 19, 2025 at 7:09 PM
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The 🏆4S Edge Prize winner for 2025 🏆is Kim De Wolff for “‘Floating things’ and methodological drift:

Accounting for haunted materialities in the North Pacific Ocean.”
Social Studies of Science 54(4): 536–556.

Read more here:
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Photographic portrait of Kim De Wolff facing the camera side-on. Kim is wearing a dark navy-black sweater and a gun-metal silver v-shaped necklace. Kim is smiling at the camera with brown bobbed hair, with a green background pictured outdoors.
June 19, 2025 at 7:02 PM
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📣Infrastructure Prize winners for 2025!

—Digital STS

For more read the announcement here:
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Book cover of Digital STS which shows various text and code of a computer screen.
May 16, 2025 at 7:10 PM
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Carson Prize winner for 2025!

Emily Yates-Doerr’s Mal-Nutrition: Maternal Health Science and the Reproduction of Harm
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Photograph of Emily Yates-Doerr next to a bookshelf stacked with books, Emily is wearing a white t-shirt, and black jacket with shoulder length brown hair, large golden hoop earring and a semi-circle gold necklace.
May 16, 2025 at 7:03 PM
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Fleck Prize winner for 2025!

Lisa Yin Han’s Deepwater Alchemy: Extractive Mediation and the Taming of the Sea Floor

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A photograph of Lisa Yin Han smiling at the camera, pictured outside in front of a tree and a grassy background, and is wearing metal glasses and a botanical printed top.
May 16, 2025 at 6:54 PM
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From Backchannels: James Merron describes the tensions and contestations over waves, interference and frequencies in the electromagnetic spectrum at the Ghana Radio Astronomy Observatory (GRAO).

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December 7, 2023 at 4:12 PM
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The #EASST4S2024 Call for Abstracts is open! Submit your proposals to Open Panels, Making & Doing, Workshops, Roundtables, Closed Panels and Meet-Ups till February 12th via: easst4s2024.net/callforabstr...

Questions? conference@easst4s2024.net
November 27, 2023 at 11:46 PM
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📍Saturday M&D Workshops at 4S Honolulu 2023
- W13. The Pacific Ocean as relational method and
source of knowledge 🌊🏊
- W11. For My Friend, Earth: Rethinking Data and
Behaviour in a Plastic World - Part 2🌎
- W10. Vagina Chorus: Embodiment through playful
world travelling🪷
November 11, 2023 at 3:29 PM
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Our in -person speakers give leis to one another ahead of the plenary now happening in ballroom b.

Manulani Aluli Meyer And Mehana Blaich Vaughan With Joan Fujimura (4S past president 2021)
November 9, 2023 at 10:24 PM
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@dukepress.bsky.social is also at the convention center in Honolulu with some compelling titles!
November 9, 2023 at 8:18 PM
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MAKING AND DOING WORKSHOP REMINDERS ⏰

- Let's Play the Black Box PolicyMaking Game 📦
- Story Telling: A Trauma-Informed Research Methodology 💜
- Terrestrial, Aquatic and Atmospheric Phenomena of Aina Moana (Magic Island): A workshop in mediated attunement to
new environments 🤳

Details below ⤵️
November 9, 2023 at 6:13 PM
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Special Plenary: Aloha 'Āina: Hawaiian Knowledge Today" happens TODAY (Nov 9) at 4sHonolulu23 . Speakers are Manulani Aluli Meyer, Mehana Blaich Vaughan, and Malia Akutagawa.
November 9, 2023 at 3:30 PM
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Explore the potential of filmmaking in STS at the "Cinematic Translations" Workshop.

The session focuses on how we might employ film to further intervene in our collective understanding of technoscientific developments in Hawaii and beyond.
November 8, 2023 at 6:53 PM
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Workshops at #4SHonolulu23

In the "Imagining AI through Indigenous Knowledge Systems" workshop, participants can reflect on Indigenous Knowledge frameworks through speculative and creative engagement with AI design processes.
November 8, 2023 at 6:52 PM
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🏊 Calling strong swimmers to "The Pacific Ocean as relational method and source of knowledge"

Think with the ocean through settler colonialism, transience, materialism, breath and onto-epistemologies
November 8, 2023 at 6:51 PM
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Get entangled in queer ecologies in "I am a Rock I am an Island"

This workshop takes the format of a collective Reading Meditation w/ a compilation of fictional & theoretical texts about a more-than-human world.
November 8, 2023 at 6:50 PM
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Workshops at #4SHonolulu

BioJam camp: Bioengineering justice through art, culture & creativity w/ youth" led by Callie Chappelle, Corinne Okada Takada, & Anatacia Del Rio. How a bioengineering summer camp develops a decolonizing & reparative relationship w/ kids of migrant workers & a university.
November 8, 2023 at 6:50 PM
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Workshops at #4SHonolulu

Vagina Chorus: Embodiment through playful world travelling" led by Althea Rao, introduces a performance-based framework for ppl with vaginas to break free from traditional tags, targets, and connotations tied to their genitalia.

Sign up - 8 participant slots available!
November 8, 2023 at 6:48 PM
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Workshops at #4SHonolulu

"For My Friend, Earth: Rethinking Data and Behaviour in a Plastic World" led by Jihyun Park.

Explore a probe kit to track plastic use, interpreting data through activities like behaviour reasoning & speculating, data meshworking, & co-making.
November 8, 2023 at 6:48 PM
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#4SHonolulu WORKSHOPS include:

"Embracing Disciplinary Symbiosis: A Shadow Puppetry Workshop for Interdisciplinary Learning" led by Cristian Vargas-Ordóñez & Morgan Hynes.

Explore the transformative potential of a shadow puppetry box to cultivate a balanced communal perspective of disciplines.
November 8, 2023 at 6:46 PM
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Explore the potential of filmmaking in STS at the "Cinematic Translations" Workshop.

The session focuses on how we might employ film to further intervene in our collective understanding of technoscientific developments in Hawaii and beyond.

Nov 10 6:30 - 8:20 PM
Room 328
November 7, 2023 at 10:17 PM