Religious exemptions as public pedagogies of homophobia
Seminar
The concept of public pedagogy (Sandlin et al. 2010) explores how societal norms are conveyed outside formal education. This framework helps to understand how religious exemptions to discrimination laws in Australian schools function as a means of teaching homophobia. Religious exemptions allow…
Building a research narrative and identity in a precarious academic labour market
Workshop
This workshop will discuss strategies for building a clear research narrative to contribute to building a competitive CV whilst doing a PhD or being an ECR in the everchanging and increasingly demanding academic labour market. Building a coherent research narrative and trajectory is paramount, as…
Young people, platform practices and dimensions of the ‘data gaze’
Seminar
Data is central to how we experience the social world, with the concept of the ‘data gaze’ helping to understand how everyday life is increasingly viewed through data in strategic and predictive ways (Beer 2018). This presentation explores different dimensions of the data gaze, where algorithmic…
Novel climate interventions, coral reefs, and the social sciences
Seminar
Escalating climate impacts are reflected in increased research and development efforts focused on the delivery of novel climate interventions. These include negative emissions technologies, solar radiation management (SRM), and assisted ecosystem adaptation – that is, the deliberate acceleration of…
AusSTS 2024 Conference
Conference
The 2024 AusSTS (Australasian Science and Technology Studies) conference will be held in-person at the Australian National University, Canberra, from 18 to 20 November 2024. The AusSTS Conference 2024 theme is “(De-)Territorialising STS: Discipline, Place, Power.” Final registration deadline: 31…
But I've got other things to worry about right now...
Seminar
How information, political affiliation, and material concerns impact present and future concerns over climate change in Australia. Climate anxiety is now entrenched in many societies, though the predictors and motivations behind it vary. Many population majorities now accept climate science, and…
Care and (re)making gender through everyday technoscience
Workshop
Background 'Care' has been studied within various scholarly fields to critically interrogate gender's relationship to activities that sustain and support life (de la Bellacasa 2011; Mol, Posser, and Pols 2010; Murphy 2015). Within science and technology studies (STS), notions of care have focussed…