Society for Social Studies of Science conference

November 8–11, 2023 | Honolulu, HI

Welcome to our conference hub for the 2023 Society for the Social Studies of Science (4S) conference! We are excited to be celebrating with you all virtually this year.

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Got an interdisciplinary book you want some editing or indexing help with? You can schedule a free Zoom consultation with IoF founder Cathy Hannabach to learn how our team of editors, indexers, researchers, and publishing consultants can help get your book out into the world.

Below, you can check out our #4SHonolulu Imagine Otherwise podcast playlist as well as the latest science studies books we have edited and/or indexed.

Even if you can’t attend in person, you can follow along with the conversations at the conference hashtag #4SHonolulu.

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Podcast episodes

Meghnaa Tallapragada in front of a brick wall, text reads: Meghnaa Tallapragada on Science in the Public Sphere

Hunter Vaughan in front of a flowering shrub, text reads: Hunter Vaughan on the ecological impact of media technologies

Melody Jue in front of an old university building, text reads: Melody Jue on thinking through seawater

Elizabeth Wayne and Christine "Xine" Yao on podcasting across the STEM/humanities divide

Christopher Ali wearing a purple blazer, text reads Christopher Ali on rural broadband access

Sasha Engelmann on art and activism in the air

Image: Meryl Alper wearing a black shirt and glasses. Text reads: Meryl Alper on autistic kids’ digital media

Books

Cover of Underflows: Queer Trans Ecologies and River Justice, with underwater riverbed rocks overlaid with blue and purple and wavy white lines

Cover of Global Guyana with a person looking out over the ocean covered in a patterned scarf

Cover of Subjunctive Aesthetics, with group of hammerhead sharks swimming

Cover of How the Earth Feels, with a landscape painting with an erupting volcano in the background

Cover of Nonhuman Witnessing, with dozens of glass ornaments hanging by thin threads

Cover of Death Glitch, with multicolored pixelated glitch image

Cover of Kids Across the Spectrums, with multicolored outlines of children raising their arms above their heads

Cover of Fit Citizens: A History of Black Women's Exercise from Post-Reconstruction to Postwar America, with athlete jumping in a field

Cover of Anthroposcreens with a closeup on ice

Cover of Fixing the Image: Ultrasound and the Visuality of Care in Phnom Penh, with abstract wave made up of dots on a dark background

Cover of Beyond Straw Men, with two young children embracing while looking out over a massive garbage pile

Cover of Violent Inheritance: Sexuality, Land, and Energy in the Making of the North American West, with a rusted oil drum in a field under stormy skies

Cover of Visceral Prostheses: Somatechnics and Posthuman Embodiment, with two dancers on stage with metal technologies on their bodies

Cover of In Case of Emergency: How Technologies Media Crisis and Normalize Inequality, with bullhorn emergency alarm system on bright yellow background

Cover of The Matter of Black Living: The Aesthetic Experiment of Racial Data, 1880–1930, with numbers written on graph paper

Cover of Plastic Matter, with a deer in a field with plastic rope and an orange balloon stuck in their antlers

Cover of Laboratory of Deficiency: Sterilization and Confinement in California, 1900–1950s, with a dilapidated hall of a medical facility

Cover of Reproduction Reconceived: Family Making and the Limits of Choice after Roe v. Wade, with a drawing of a person sitting on the floor tending to a red flower on the ground

Cover of Farm Fresh Broadband: The Politics of Rural Connectivity, with a broadband tower in the middle of a corn field stretching to the sky

Cover of Acid Revival, with an eye dropper dispensing orange liquid onto a brain

Cover of Becoming Human: Matter and Meaning in an Antiblack World, with shirtless person with horns on their head staring intensely at the camera

Cover of A Simpler Life: Synthetic Biologists in the Lab, with a plant sprout in a petri dish

Cover of Feeling Medicine: How the Pelvic Exam Shapes Medical Training, with a silver metal speculum on a white background

Cover of Numbered Lives: Life and Death in Quantum Media, with medieval images of people dancing with skeletons

Cover of Possessing Polynesians: The Science of Settler Colonial Whiteness in Hawai‘i and Oceania, with white-skinned doctor's hand measuring the face of a dark-skinned, shirtless person

Cover of Perishability Fatigue: Forays into Environmental Loss and Decay, with a frozen and frosted metal door

Cover of We Are Data: Algorithms and the Making of Our Digital Selves, with a person's face and torse made up of documents and files

Cover of Communicative Biocapitalism, with abstract nodes and web

Cover of Eating Right in America, with multicolored pie chart shapes containing various food groups

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