Mapping new voices: Towards a Latin American perspective on Global Mental...
This article describes the creation of a collaborative initiative started by PhD students interested in mental health issues in Latin America. It reports on its first workshop “Mapping new voices....
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Global Health Diagnostics: Workshop Summary by Shona Lee
On January 17th, 2018, participants from the UK, Europe, and India gathered in Edinburgh for “Investigating Diagnostic Devices in Global Health”, a workshop that also marked the launch of the ERC...
View ArticleAgitated children, turbulent trajectories: Towards a comparison between...
This article describes the main discussions and contributions of the first workshop of the International Research Network on Disruptive Behaviours. The workshop was held at the “Centre for Research in...
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Remaking Reproduction Conference: A Review by Risa Cromer
More than 150 scholars of reproduction descended upon an uncharacteristically sunny Cambridge in June 2018 to put reproduction at the center of social analysis at the Remaking Reproduction: The Global...
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A Report on the 2018 4S Conference in Sydney, Australia by Tessa Leach
What characterises STS in different regions? What kinds of research projects, educational programs, and people are doing STS around the world? What problems exist in different regions? Can we draw...
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Exploring anthropologies of medicine and health across borders at 4S 2018 by...
This year’s annual meeting for the Society for Social Studies of Science (4S) had an intriguing new component: an exhibition on the histories of STS in flux internationally, befitting the theme of...
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How do you do interdisciplinarity? by Roberta Pala
The AusSTS Interdisciplinary workshop took place at Deakin University, in Melbourne, Australia from the 3rd to the 5th of July 2019. The workshop quite literally started with a confession of the...
View Article(Dis)continuities in cancer care: An ethnographic approximation to practices...
Background: Disease stratification practices have long been used as a means to produce and make sense of cancer, distinguishing ‘types’, tumour development stages, and even patients’ sociodemographic...
View ArticleAging and Social Justice: A slow-motion virtual conference by Celeste Pang
As we have all seen, COVID-19 has been a tip of an iceberg, exposing deep layers of social stratification and inequities. From the mass deaths in long-term care and nursing homes and exposure of the...
View ArticleThe Future of (Academic) Conferencing by Ayo Wahlberg
From the 4th to the 6th of March 2021, close to 500 medical anthropologists, sociologists, STS scholars and more participated in the Chronic Living conference, yet never at the same time as one...
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