Society for Social Studies of Science - 4S

04/08/2025

🎉It is our honour and a pleasure to announce the 2025 winners of the Bernal Prize, which recognizes individuals’ distinguished contributions to Science and Technology Studies over the course of their career, both of whom will join us in Seattle: Paul N. Edwards and Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing.

04/08/2025

We are pleased to announce that you can register for the upcoming 4S Seattle 2025 conference on our new conference platform. Registration is now open for the 4S-Seattle Meeting September 3rd-6th, 2025.

We are very aware of the financial and travel uncertainties that many in the U.S. and around the world are facing. Like all academic societies, 4S is also impacted by these uncertainties, and therefore we would appreciate you registering as soon as you can.

01/21/2025

A reminder that there are just two weeks left before the key deadline for submissions to the 4S-Seattle conference.Submit your contributions to – Open Panels, Closed Panels, Roundtables, and Making & Doing – by Friday, January 31st.

We invite submissions of abstracts, closed panels, roundtables, Making & Doing sessions, zines, and meetups that align with the conference theme. To reverberate is to echo, to repeat, to transmit further, to convey. Reverberations are also relays—wave-like, rolling, seismic or subtle—between ...

11/13/2024

48 hours remaining to submit your Open Panels! The deadline for submissions is November 15, 2024

Submit here: https://4sonline.org/call_for_open_panels_seattle.php
Key dates: https://4sonline.org/key_dates_seat
Reverberations theme: https://4sonline.org/about_the_conf

11/07/2024

One week remaining to submit your Open Panels for the 2025 4S conference.

The meeting will take place at the Sheraton, Seattle, taking place 3–7 September 2025.

CFP : https://4sonline.org/call_for_open_panels_seattle.php

11/03/2024

We are pleased to announce the Call for Open Panels for the 4S 2025 conference Reverberations, to be held September 3-7, 2025. The theme offers layered meaning, sitting at the nexus of transmission and repercussion and across multiple sightlines and frequencies—historical, geological, sonic, and otherwise.

Please submit your open panel proposals by November 15th, 2024.

More info:

We are pleased to announce the Call for Open Panels for the 4S (Society for Social Studies of Science) 2025 conference Reverberations, to be held at the Sheraton Hotel in Seattle from September 3-7, 2025. The theme offers layered meaning, sitting at the nexus of transmission and repercussion, and ac...

04/22/2024

🏆 The Society for Social Studies of Science proudly announces the winners of the 2024 Bernal Prize: Geoffrey Bowker and Annemarie Mol! 🎉🌐 Congratulations to both esteemed scholars for their outstanding contributions to the field of STS!

Annemarie Mol is an exceptionally original theorist and ethnographer who has had a highly impactful career within STS and beyond. Her work, which draws on actor-network theory with a feminist sensibility, has set her apart as a leading thinker in the field.

Geoffrey Bowker has transformed our understanding of information technology and cyberinfrastructures. With his late partner and intellectual collaborator, Susan Leigh Star, Bowker reshaped and extended knowledge of sociotechnical infrastructures.

https://4sonline.org/2024_geoffrey_c_bowker_and_annemarie_mol.php

02/01/2024

Dr. Adele E. Clarke, a distinguished sociologist and trailblazing figure in women's health and STS, passed away on January 19. As we bid farewell to her, we honour a pioneering scholar, mentor, and activist whose legacy will continue to shape the field.

01/24/2024

Como, quando e por que a ciência falha em se corrigir?
Este é o tema de um dos painéis abertos que ocorrerão na reunião quadrienal conjunta de 2024 da European Association for the Study of Science and Technology - EASST e da Society for Social Studies of Science - 4S, que se realizará em Amsterdã, Holanda, de 16 a 19 de julho de 2024. Envio de resumos até 12 de fevereiro! Saiba mais:
https://www.revistahcsm.coc.fiocruz.br/como-quando-e-por-que-a-ciencia-falha-em-se-corrigir/

01/02/2024

4S Backchannels: Call for Assistant Editors

Backchannels is an integral part of the 4S organization and community. Our teams provide a timely outlet for short-format, media-rich, and editor-reviewed scholarly communications.

This is perfect for emerging scholars with the following qualifications:
- Training and expertise in STS
- Experience and/or interest in academic publishing and alternative publishing platforms
- Ability and desire to work collaboratively with an interdisciplinary team