EASST2026

Book01

Book reception for "The Connector: Living with Experimental Neuroprosthetics" (Duke University Press 2026)

CF01

A question of trust. Artificial intelligence in surveillance in healthcare and criminal justice

CF02

Synthetic data and representation: The politics of AI generated computational practices

CF03

Confronting military technoscience: STS, algorithmic warfare and livable futures

CF04

Waiting with infrastructures: The maintenance of resilient systems, from edge to center

CF05

Exploring resilient tech-homes - what futures of care for older adults are worth realizing

CF06

The invisible labour of security: Wired and wireless interface work

CF07

Resilient Aquatic Futures: Navigating technoscientific frictions in knowing and intervening in aqueous environments

CF08

Infrastructures of governance: Power and assemblages in the data-driven state

CF09

Thinking with innovation residues: Disrupting and reassembling innovation societies

CF10

Unpacking alternative futures

CF11

Planetary stewardship beyond the escape velocity: Lunar and deep space perspectives on earth-space sustainability

CF12

Practicing creative collaboration: Art, science, and technology studies and the making of more-than-now futures

CF13

From distant catastrophe to present action: Temporal and physical proximity and existential risk

CF14

Ground truths and the epistemology of AI

CF15

Beyond and within Crisis: reformulating the notion of crisis, its uses and effects from a STS perspective

CF16

Meeting invasions halfway: Reimagining futures with invasive species through STS

CF17

Networking embedded ethics: Building a network for integrators of ethics into technoscience in Europe

CF18

Molecular Matters: Toxicities, Vitalities, and the Futures of Life

CF19

Democracy on the Edge: Science, Technology and Political Promise in Central Eastern Europe

CF20

Rural Frontiers; Shifting paradigms of intensification, abandonment and restoration

CF21

Generating Methods or Degenerating Practices? Playful Prototyping With/Through Generative AI

CF22

Urban futures in practice – building on methods of anticipation, STS and design studies

CF23

Futures and Critical AI Literacies: Resisting inevitability narratives through creative methods and critical pedagogy

CF24

Reimagining climate feeling, eco-anxiety, and care toward planetary futures: What is the role of STS?

CF25

Beyond Expert Prediction? Interrogating the Tools and Politics of Collaborative Future-Making in Science

CF26

Powering otherwise with art-science-activism: re-politicizing renewable energy futures via sub-vertizing and culture-jamming

CF27

after technocracy: practicing expertise within the state

CF28

Future Urban Ecologies: Using Speculation to Reimagine Our Relationship with Nature Exploring How Futures Thinking Can Shape More Hopeful Worlds

MD01

Cooperative thread of threads

MD02

Aqueous accessibility: Experimenting with methods for studying aquatic ecosystems

MD03

Playful research: Making, doing, playing, plorking

MD04

Collage as an art‐based method of exploring socio-technical and ethical issues in health and the environment

MD05

Synthetic agents for civic deliberation with remote sensing data: From dashboard to theater

MD06

Vocabularies for algorithmic futures: thinking differently with the REAL card deck

MD07

Navigating emerging futures - embodied practice for generative collaboration

MD08

Doing conference ethnography in and of STS

MD09

Making and Doing Data Ethics in Education: The Ethical Data Initiative

MD10

Making Urban Development Tangible through Physicalization

MD11

Hands-on Futures - Participatory Science Communication and Futures Literacies through Morphological Methods

MD12

More Than Human Research Methods for Unknown Futures

MD13

Modulation Matrix: Speculative Choreography for Worlds That Could Be Otherwise

MD14

Urban xtopias: A new approach to participatory futuring

Meet01

STS Austria Meet-Up

Meet02

Meet the editorial team of Engaging Science, Technology, and Society.

Meet03

More than publishing now. On Ownership, Labor, and the Futures of Scholarly Communication in the EASST Community

Meet04

Nordic STS Network Meeting

Meet05

Unite meet-up: Find and connect STS at unite

Meet06

Microbes meet-up: A slime-mould gathering

Meet07

Authors meet critics: "peak pharma: Toward a new political economy of health"

Meet08

Open Meet-up of the „European Social Science Robotics Network“ (ESSRN)

Meet09

Women, true crime, and the art of paying attention

Meet10

Meet the editors of Science, Technology, & Human Values (ST&HV)

Meet11

Aquatic Science Studies Meetup

Meet12

STS-CH: 25th Anniversary Apero!

Meet13

National STS Associations of Europe

Meet14

ESST Anniversary Gathering

P001

Windstories: Thinking with air beyond the now

P002

Commoning socio-technical frontiers: Navigating cutting-edge science and technology through the lens of sympoiesis.

P003

Anticipating uncertainty: organizing scientific advice for crisis and disaster preparedness and response

P004

Caring for limits in and beyond the ‘now’. The case of health

P005

Multispecies Mutualisms? Rethinking ‘win-win’ health entanglements between species

P006

Infrastructuring earth – geospatial data and the production of space

P007

Space could be otherwise: imagining (new)space futures and their democratic alternative(s)?

P008

Building and repairing the future

P009

Exploring resilient and responsible futures of quantum technologies

P010

Decolonizing futures: Rethinking resilience through indigenous knowledge and local innovation systems

P011

'No' to 'data beings': reimagining data infrastructures for resilient digital futures

P012

The matter of method in researching AI: elusiveness, scale, opacity

P013

Ecocentric perspectives on Nature-based Solutions for urban resilience: moving beyond anthropocentric assumptions

P014

Futures, materialities, and techno-politics of outer space

P015

Toward biomedical and health testing studies? Reassembling testing practices and health futures

P016

Ethnographic inquiries into the chemo-industrial sector: materialising resilient futures?

P017

Could industrial animal agriculture be otherwise? Imaginations, enactments, and suspensions of alternatives within industrial animal agriculture

P018

More-than-human (non)futures: on the (im)possibility to include non-humans in STS research

P019

Genuine collaboration for resilient futures: Reimagining STS in applied environmental research

P020

Can we change the world through interdisciplinary research?

P021

STS and biology revisited: biosociality, interdisciplinarity and the biosociences, in an age of increasingly biological fascism.

P022

In my head, in my hands: Embodied encounters with generative AI in creative work

P023

From margins to methods: Re-making of socio-technical futures with justice and care.

P024

Watery encounters and knowledge-flows

P025

Situated microbes: Perspectives from empirical niches for reimagining resilience

P026

Gut futures: Politics, care and digestion

P027

Speculating caring futures: Design-based methods for re-imagining care

P028

The platformization of health: What if the boundaries between activism and influencing were to blur?

P029

Watching each other: Platformised neighborhood governance and everyday security in the Global South

P030

An (un)avoidable scale-up? Exploring contested futures of the 'green gas' sector

P031

Creative scholarship as epistemic innovation

P032

The digital pantheon: Engineering deities and demons

P033

Scales of Care: Intersections between Health and Environmental data, technologies and communication

P034

Making short work of farm work: agriculture, labour, and science and technology

P035

When models act: Forecasting, automation and the politics of future-making

P036

A field in formation: What do we mean by ‘critical’ and ‘AI’ in Critical AI Studies?

P037

Outlasting 'disruption': Empirical perspectives on practical reasoning with AI

P038

Uncertain presents and alternative futures in direct-to-consumer genetic testing

P039

Beyond precision: Imagining a ‘better’ personalised medicine

P040

Beyond default futures: Social technologies as tools for collective anticipation

P041

Material citizenship politics: Revisiting critical potentials in times of contentious civil rights

P042

The more-than-now of nuclear power

P043

STS interventions in emerging neurotechnology: epistemic, practical, and normative diffractions

P044

Making and unmaking of new scientific fields: Contestations, practices, and institutional pathways

P045

Funding futures: Rethinking research support through sociotechnical imaginaries of fairness and innovation

P046

The politics of expertise. Hybrid objects between aesthetics, science and activism.

P047

Seeing and knowing resilient futures: towards an Anticipatory Governance of early warning systems and crisis predictions

P048

Queer family futures in East Asia

P049

Strengthening the resilience of what? For whose aims? For what socio-ecological futures? + The Palestine Exception in academia: framing the past to shape what futures?

P050

Ritual calibrations: Data, devotion, and the ordering of time

P051

The materiality of the energy transition and its futures

P052

AImagineries of the social: The adoptions of GenAI in making knowledge on social realities

P053

futuring digital foodscapes

P054

Caring for the possible: In the meantime of healthcare’s data-driven futures

P055

Ecological Translation: Speaking for and with the Mute World through Law, Science and Technology

P056

Working class knowledge formations

P057

Technologies of precision: Exploring the meanings, practices, and politics of precisioning tools across healthcare, agriculture, and warfare.

P058

Marginalized voices: Democratizing the green transition through environmental justice

P059

Constrained Futures under Goal-Oriented Research Policies: How Hegemonic Normative Frameworks (Do Not) Transform Research and Innovation

P060

Critical metascience

P061

The Futures of Qualitative Inquiries: Post-Digital Methods, Pre-Digital Methodologies

P062

Loopholes

P063

STS confessions as politics of resilience: making untold stories matter

P064

Smart rurality: Critically exploring the link between smartness, rural transition and resilience

P065

To know a rat: Examining human-rat entanglements through the production of interspecies knowledge.

P066

‘Nothing comes without its world’: Futuring work with/through/against AI epistemologies

P067

Encoded Bodies: Biometric Medicine and the Surveillance of Human Life

P068

Repair as Future-Making: Enacting Sociotechnical Change in Organizations

P069

Envisioning Futures of Patient and Public Involvement in Health Research: Navigating between different tensions to move beyond current impasses

P070

More than Politics: Science, Technology and Expertise in an age of populism

P071

Silicon Lives: Infrastructures and Ecologies of Semiconductor Industries

P072

Limitation as liberation: opening up technoscience through socio-ecological boundaries

P073

Conceptualising "Waste" in the Age of Digital Technologies and AI

P074

Deep Time and the Politics of Storage

P075

Data Infrastructure Worldings: Epistemic and Planetary Co-Enactments

P076

Food Systems Transformation and Ecologies of Quantification

P077

Contested diseases and resilient futures of knowledge and care

P078

The limits of inclusion: navigating the tension between democracy and expertise in public engagement with science

P079

Fragile futures: Living with chronic post-infectious illnesses

P080

On Becoming Ancestors: Speculative kinships and heritable techno-futures

P081

Hostility by design?

P082

When agroecology meets intensive farming infrastructures. From lock-in effects to transformations.

P083

Statistical Harmonization and Standardization: Constructing and Contesting Comparability

P084

Speculative Groundwater Care

P085

We Are How We Eat: Unsettling Dietary Recommendation Practices in More-than-Human Worlds

P086

How to Explain Erosion Rates to a Dead Hare: Or, What Counts as Soil Data in the Anthropocene?

P087

Challenging the co-constitution of racial supremacies with modern science and technology

P088

Materials and substances in (trans)formation: methods and concepts for ethnographies and histories of late industrialism

P089

Digital Environing: toxic entanglements between digitalization and ecological landscapes

P090

Understanding the impact of decision-support AI technologies on medical practice: Learning from empirical studies.

P091

Rethinking, Re-doing and Re-describing Value and ‘The Value Economy’

P092

Anticipating Otherwise: Participatory Surveillance and the Futures of Care

P093

Coding the State: Sociotechnical Imaginaries of AI in Public Administration

P094

Lost Futures In Design Professions

P095

Making Order in Science through Reform: The Politics of Replication and Research Information Infrastructures

P096

Risk, crisis, catastrophe, resilience

P097

Crops, food, framing

P098

Ecology, species, NHA

P099

STS Education

P100

Politics, governance, state

P101

Health, care

R01

Hype Studies, meet STS; STS, meet Hype Studies

R02

Positioning the academic track. A reflexive space for master’s and doctoral students at EASST‘26

R03

Community-owned data centers for sustainable resilient futures

R04

AI cold war and AI nationalism between signals, sovereignty, and imagination: Cuius Regio, Eius Machina?

R05

The politics of machine learning (ML) evaluation

R06

STS and the infrastructural now

R07

What is ‘participatory’ about participatory STS – a roundtable discussion debating reflexive approaches to methods, inclusion, and collaboration in and for the future of STS

R08

History and transdisciplinary STS: Making and doing across time

R09

Exploring ‘resilient futures’ with situated models - reflecting on practical experiences and modes of collaborations with modellers in the natural sciences and beyond

R10

40 years of Donna Haraway’s “A Manifesto for Cyborgs”

R11

Pharmaceutical Science and Technology Studies - Launch of the Handbook

R12

Resilient research infrastructures - smaller, simplier, freer, better?

R13

Assessing the socio-ecological impact of conservation services on communities in the northern and southern rangelands

W01

“I am not here to tick boxes” - Navigating reflexivity, critique, and meaningful participation in science and engineering research

W02

Data foraging: A workshop on everyday fixings

W03

Letting nonhumans speak: AI agents as performative devices for situated STS research

W04

Scotopic Walk & Night Talk: Worlding with Darkness

W05

Building socio-technical futures in climate and sustainability research: A participatory workshop on engaged STS

W06

Futures of Science 2040 - Futures Literacy Laboratory

W07

Objects of Intereste and Necessity: A Tour Guide to Autonomous AI Imaging

W08

Stitching Time: Speculative Making, Collage and crafts as Imaginative Exploration of Nonlinear Futures