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Submit your STS sock photos!
Holtz Center members and staff are proudly showing off their STS socks, as our center celebrates its 20th anniversary! We’re spotting them online — from home offices, desks and just lounging around. Sandals in February, …
Holtz Center announces spring STS lunch seminar series lineup
The Holtz Center announces the lineup for its spring STS lunch seminar series. The center is hosting a total of seven lunchtime seminars via Zoom over the next several months. More details for each of …
Holtz Center awards 16 STS mini fellowships to UW grad students during pandemic
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 …
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 …