The COVID-19 pandemic has interrupted our graduate students’ lives in every way possible. Their experience as a UW-Madison graduate student has been turned upside-down as the pandemic, restrictions and schedule changes have interrupted their research …
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4S 2021 Call for Papers, Closed Panels, Posters & Presentations – open Jan 17-March 8
The purpose of calling for open panel proposals is to stimulate the formation of new networks around topics of interest to the STS community and to facilitate the organization of exciting paper sessions. Open panel …
Becoming-Feral – Call for Submissions, extended to Feb 1
becoming-Feral is a creative research publication which aims to investigate the complex relationships between human/other-animals and the shifting categories of wild/feral/domestic, set within landscapes constantly being altered by global transformations of climate and capitalism. We …
Popkewitz edits book that explore international mobilizations of sciences related to education after WWII
Holtz Center member, Thomas Popkewitz, along with Daniel Pettersson and Kai-Jun Hsiao, recently edited the newly published, “The International Emergence of Educational Sciences in the Post-World War Two Years: Quantification, Visualization, and Making Kinds of …
Lewis connects with other feminist STS scholars through Holtz Center
The Departments of Gender and Women’s Studies and Urology both recently welcomed Kelsey Lewis as a new postdoctoral fellow on the UW-Madison campus. Lewis is the 2020-2022 Wittig Postdoctoral Fellow in Feminist Biology, with an …
Holtz Center allows Jackson to collaborate with & learn from like-minded scholars.
“The Holtz Center allows me to collaborate with and learn from like-minded scholars.”, states one of our newest STS colleagues from the Information School, Corey Jackson. Jackson, who is a 2020-21 Anna Julia Cooper Postdoctoral …
Newman brings his science communication niche to Holtz Center
Earlier this fall, Todd Newman presented over our newly-formatted STS lunch seminar series. His well-received virtual seminar shared original evidence about how the United States public and scientists both view the brand of science and …
Johnson joins Holtz roster, intersecting feminist STS & Cultural Studies
Whether working on campus this fall or remotely, the Holtz Center continues to be a natural outlet for STS colleagues to collaborate, share ideas and support research efforts in science and technology studies. The Holtz Center …
Former UW STS researchers collaborate on marine biomaterials & ocean governance project
Three recent UW-Madison researchers have begun a three-year project titled “Circulatory Entanglements: Marine Biomaterials and Paradoxes in Ocean Governance”, funded by the UK-based Leverhulme Trust. The project is led by Dr. Elizabeth Johnson, formerly a …
Holtz Center supports ‘Dear Pandemic’ translation on all-Spanish mirror site
While we have all been asking a lot of questions during the pandemic, Malia Jones (Community and Environmental Sociology) and her “Nerdy Girl” colleagues, Sandra Albrecht (Columbia University) and Tita Smyth Escobedo have been busy …