Emma Kowal
@profemmakowal.bsky.social
Anthropology/STS/genomics/colonialism. Deputy Director @Deakin_ADI. Past President @4sWeb. New book out with DUP #hauntingbiology surname pron. Koval
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
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
October 25, 2025 at 6:32 AM
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
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
I'm really excited to be in conversation with colleagues at Aarhus University very soon!
September 21, 2025 at 8:35 PM
I'm really excited to be in conversation with colleagues at Aarhus University very soon!
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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
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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August 28, 2025 at 3:35 PM
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
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
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!
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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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
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September 4, 2025 at 1:26 AM
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!
Reposted by Emma Kowal
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
@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.
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August 6, 2025 at 8:36 AM
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
@thaophan.bsky.social @humanitiesau.bsky.social #STS
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
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
#bioethics #planetary #STS
@nam.edu @humanitiesau.bsky.social
July 31, 2025 at 3:00 AM
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
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!
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
July 28, 2025 at 5:18 AM
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!
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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
@tdneale.bsky.social @sthv.bsky.social
July 12, 2025 at 6:35 AM
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
@tdneale.bsky.social @sthv.bsky.social
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Thanks to the @aussts.bsky.social team for the invitation and opportunity to share my work on the strange history of public incubator shows!
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
July 10, 2025 at 8:26 AM
Thanks to the @aussts.bsky.social team for the invitation and opportunity to share my work on the strange history of public incubator shows!
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)
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
July 9, 2025 at 11:39 PM
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)
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And our AMAZING co-convenors @carinatruyts.bsky.social and @blueskychris.bsky.social talking us through the next few days ahead
July 8, 2025 at 11:59 PM
And our AMAZING co-convenors @carinatruyts.bsky.social and @blueskychris.bsky.social talking us through the next few days ahead
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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
You can follow along the highlights from the conference using #AusSTS2025 and #signalsandnoises
July 8, 2025 at 11:54 PM
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
You can follow along the highlights from the conference using #AusSTS2025 and #signalsandnoises
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Starting in a few minutes!
July 8, 2025 at 11:47 PM
Starting in a few minutes!
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Loving being back on home soil and with this excellent #STS community as @aussts.bsky.social 2025 kicks off today. A reminder that all the keynotes are being streamed live. Get amongst it 👇
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...
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.
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July 9, 2025 at 12:08 AM
Loving being back on home soil and with this excellent #STS community as @aussts.bsky.social 2025 kicks off today. A reminder that all the keynotes are being streamed live. Get amongst it 👇
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✨ 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...
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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July 8, 2025 at 9:19 PM
✨ 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...
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...
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
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...
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
July 5, 2025 at 10:22 PM
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
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.
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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July 5, 2025 at 10:10 PM
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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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)
June 22, 2025 at 4:43 AM
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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Are you heading to @aussts.bsky.social #AusSTS25 #SignalsAndNoises in July in Melbourne? #STS
If so I hand-curated a Bluesky list of people I could find from the conference program:
bsky.app/profile/did:...
If so I hand-curated a Bluesky list of people I could find from the conference program:
bsky.app/profile/did:...
June 23, 2025 at 2:59 AM
Are you heading to @aussts.bsky.social #AusSTS25 #SignalsAndNoises in July in Melbourne? #STS
If so I hand-curated a Bluesky list of people I could find from the conference program:
bsky.app/profile/did:...
If so I hand-curated a Bluesky list of people I could find from the conference program:
bsky.app/profile/did:...
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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
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June 20, 2025 at 3:40 AM
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...
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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
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
June 16, 2025 at 10:22 AM
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
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
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.
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
www.medanthrotheory.org
June 13, 2025 at 8:15 AM
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.
Great to see this forum published in TAJA, and newly grateful to @wombatscholar.bsky.social, Lynette Russell and David Trigger for their generous engagement with Haunting Biology.
May 26, 2025 at 9:36 AM
Great to see this forum published in TAJA, and newly grateful to @wombatscholar.bsky.social, Lynette Russell and David Trigger for their generous engagement with Haunting Biology.
I’m speaking at UNAM (online) in an hour! Tune in on YouTube if you like!
May 20, 2025 at 10:29 PM
I’m speaking at UNAM (online) in an hour! Tune in on YouTube if you like!