Virtual Conference Registration Fee Reimbursement Grants
The Holtz Center will continue to accept applications from UW-Madison Graduate Students until funds are no longer available.
STS Lunch Seminar with Adeline Lo | Jan 28
Refugees to the Rescue: Motivating Pro-Refugee Public Engagement during the COVID-19 Pandemic
STS Takes on COVID-19
The Holtz Center for Science and Technology Studies is collecting various COVID-19 resources from our membership across the UW-Madison campus. We know that you, as experts in your field, will have a lot to share on this topic.
Science and Technology Studies (STS)
Science and technology studies (STS) is a growing field of study that seeks to understand how science and technology shape human lives and livelihoods and how society and culture, in turn, shape the development of science and technology.
History of The Holtz Center
In the 1990s, Bob and Jean Holtz made an initial commitment that created the Holtz Center for Science and Technology Studies at UW-Madison.
Graduate Program
The Ph.D. minor (Option A) in STS is offered to graduate students who are candidates for a Ph.D. degree in another department or program. The minor is open to students in all campus departments, including the humanities, social sciences, natural scie
Undergraduate Certificate
ISSuES offers undergraduate students an opportunity to interact with the social sciences and humanities in a way that emphasizes the relationship between science, technology, engineering and society.
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January 2021
Refugees to the Rescue: Motivating Pro-Refugee Public Engagement during the COVID-19 Pandemic
Refugees to the Rescue: Motivating Pro-Refugee Public Engagement during the COVID-19 Pandemic STS Lunch Seminar with Adeline Lo, PhD Assistant Professor, Political Science Migrants are often scapegoated during public health crises. Can such crises cre-…
Find out more »February 2021
Of Neutrality: Science, innovation and the politics of future
February 2, 12-1 pm, via Zoom (details to follow) Spain: Vincenzo Pavone: “Of Neutrality: Science, innovation and the politics of future” We are used to think that technologies are neutral and that it all depends…
Find out more »Deadline: Top-Up Fellowships for Recruiting New Graduate Students
The Holtz Center announces its 2021 competition for top-up fellowships for admitted graduate students. The fellowships are designed to help recruit graduate students who plan to work on topics in science and technology studies, construed…
Find out more »Perspectives of development in Yucatán Península
February 23, 12-1 pm, via Zoom (details to provided) Mexico: Robin Canul: “Perspectives of development in Yucatán Península”. This seminar is part of "Science and Technology in the Hispanic World", a special seminar series prepared…
Find out more »March 2021
Agribiopolitics: Plants and humans in the age of monocrops in Paraguay
March 23, 12-1 pm, via Zoom (to be provided) Paraguay: Kregg Hetherington: “Agribiopolitics: Plants and humans in the age of monocrops in Paraguay” Agribiopolitics: How monocrops transformed the welfare state The Green Revolution in crop development…
Find out more »April 2021
Deadline: Faculty & Staff Travel Grants (for Summer/Fall Travel)
Spring deadline: April 1 for travel Summer/Fall 2020 The Holtz Center is pleased to offer travel awards of up to $1000 to Holtz Center faculty and staff members presenting STS-related research at conferences. Two cycles…
Find out more »Facing the Environmental Mission: Small Farmers in Nicaragua and the Agro-Ecological Challenges of the Neoliberal Food Regime
April 20, 12-1 pm, via Zoom (link to be provided) Nicaragua: Birgit Muller “Facing the Environmental Mission: Small Farmers in Nicaragua and the Agro-Ecological Challenges of the Neoliberal Food Regime” The efforts of small development…
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October 2021
4S Annual Meeting 2021
Good Relations Practices and Methods in Unequal and Uncertain Worlds What does it mean in practice to strive towards good relations as humans, with technologies, in our modes of knowing, within environments, across distance, and…
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