EASST Review: Volume 30(4) December 2011

Coming Together in 2012; The EASST Awards; Cities, Infrastructures, Networks

Coming Together in 2012 _ by Claire Waterton, Lancaster University on behalf of the EASST Council
The EASST Awards _ by Fred Steward, EASST President
Cities, Infrastructures, Networks _ by by Attila Bruni (University of Trento) and Claudio Coletta (University of Padoa)

EASST has been in existence since 1994 and has nearly a thousand members. Members are located mainly within Europe but include those in the rest of the world.

EASST’s objective is to foster within Europe the scholarly study of science and technology including their historical development and their role in society.

More specific aims include:

improving scholarly communication and exchange in the field
increasing the visibility of the subject to policy-makers and to the general public
stimulating and supporting teaching on the subject at all levels.

Conferences

The activities of EASST include a biennial conference within Europe. The most recent conference was held at Trento, Italy in September 2010. Read more about this and other conferences here. Every other conference is held jointly with the Society for Social Studies of Science (4S).

2012 Joint EASST/4S Conference

EASST's next biennial conference will be a joint EASST/4S Conference to be held in Copenhagen, Denmark in 17- 20th October 2012. The call for open panel themes received enthusiastic response from the community. 106 panels are available, which have been grouped into 10 subject clusters. Abstracts and Session Proposals can now be submitted. For more information see our 2012 conference page. The deadline for submissions is March 18th 2012.

EASST review

EASST produces a quarterly newsletter: EASST Review. Read the current issue, highlighted above, or browse the past issues via the link on the left.

Membership

Membership of EASST is open to all who share its aims. Reduced membership subscriptions rates are available to students and to those from Eastern Europe and Developing Countries. You can join EASST online here. EASST is also developing its links with National STS associations and Centres.

EASST Eurograd

EASST runs the discussion list EASST Eurograd which includes announcements of job opportunities in the field and calls for papers for relevant meetings and conferences. You can join Eurograd here. Those on the list can access a full archive here. An archive until 2011, which does not require login, can be found here.

Council

EASST is governed by an elected Council of eight members and a President, currently Fred Steward. View the full list of Council members.