Sydney STS Inaugural Event | Why (Australian) STS Now?
We are pleased to announce the launch of a new cross-institutional forum for Science and Technology Studies in Sydney—a space for critical inquiry, scholarly exchange, and collective thinking across the communities that make up Sydney's growing STS scene. STS has never been merely an academic exercise. It is a commitment to examining how knowledge is made, how technologies are stabilised, how expertise is contested, and how the social and the technical are always already entangled. And yet, for all the richness of STS scholarship happening here, we have lacked a common forum in which to think together. Our inaugural gathering will be structured around a provocation rather than a programme. Six scholars will offer brief responses to a shared question: Why (Australian) STS now? The question is deliberately open, inviting reflection on what it means to do STS from a settler-colonial context amid ecological crisis and technological acceleration. The network welcomes researchers at every career stage and remains open to adjacent fields and interlocutors. We are less interested in policing the STS boundary than in cultivating the conditions for good thinking.
Location: RD Watt Building, Seminar Room 203, Social Sciences Building (A04),University of Sydney
Date & Time: 3pm - 5pm, February 27, 2026
Organisers: SYD STS Organising Team
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