Description
The AusSTS interdisciplinary workshop is an annual, multi-day, multi-disciplinary event that brings together STS researchers from across Australasia. AusSTS 2021 was hosted as a multi-sited event, with shared online keynotes and local (read: “situated”) meetup events across Melbourne, Sydney, Darwin, and Wellington. As STS researchers, we are taught to see science as a situated practice — something that is tied to knowledge and power, radically historically specific, and irreducibly social and political. We understand that science, like all practices, is contingent on the social and material forces that circumscribe possibility and action. Yet, at times, we struggle to articulate how our research practice too is a situated practice. We know that research is unruly. No matter how much we propose and plan, no matter what timelines and techniques we use to discipline ourselves into writing, the social and material forces (otherwise known as life) have a unique way of acting back. For many, 2020 and now 2021 have been a humbling experience into what it means to continue our practices in situations we had not expected. While some of us had planned to situate ourselves elsewhere — conducting fieldwork, attending conferences, etc — others have found that once familiar situations are now vastly different.| Period | 7 Jul 2020 → 10 Jul 2020 |
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| Event type | Conference |
| Location | Darwin, Australia, Northern TerritoryShow on map |
| Degree of Recognition | National |