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We would like to start with one of the General Assemblies we organized. We were visiting an exhibition of the Museum der Kulturen of Basel Striking Patterns: Global Traces in Local Ikat Fashion (Oct. 2016-March 2017), wandering slowly between immense clothes, whose patterns and colors, did not immediately speak to us. One of the curators, […]
STS-CH 25th anniversary event organized by Jessica Pidoux (University of Neuchâtel) 5 May in Geneva: 14h30 – 17h00 26 May in Lausanne): 10h00 – 12h00 (additional session in the afternoon TBD) These two workshops invite the public and researchers to recover their personal data from digital labour platforms and analyse it with open-source tools available […]
We are thrilled to celebrate our 25th anniversary! A quarter-century of engagement with Science, Technology, and Society in Switzerland! To celebrate this milestone, we are organizing a series of 12 events throughout 2026. They are organized by local hosts and aim at highlighting diverse contributions of STS within Swiss academia and beyond. Everyone is invited […]
STS-CH 25th anniversary event organized by Lucia Chiapperino & Loïc Riom February 2, 16:15-18:00 (CET, UTC+1)University of Lausanne / online Language is never neutral, including in STS: it shapes what travels, who counts as legitimate, and which arguments become canonical. Marking the 25th anniversary of STS-CH – a community marked by its multilinguism – this […]
Arriving in Lausanne in 2016 felt like touching down in a place I already knew, only to realize Swiss STS is less a clearcut community than a relay of languages, legacies, and lively streams of scholarship. I arrived in Lausanne as a postdoc in 2016 with a map drawn elsewhere: my supervisor’s connections to Harvard […]
Flipchart sheets, colorful post-its, and arrows—the picture unpacks the invisible, scriptive, and mundane work to make STS-CH exist. August 26, 2021 – UniTobler, Bern: flipchart sheets, long lists organized in columns, dozens of colorful post-its with keywords, arrows connecting them in all directions. From the outside, this multiplication of notes might have seemed obscure. The […]
Margarita (Margo) Boenig-Liptsin is Assistant Professor of Ethics, Technology and Society at ETH Zürich. Boenig-Liptsin is trained in the field of Science and Technology Studies (STS) from the Harvard STS Program and has a PhD in History of Science (Harvard University) and in Philosophy (Université Paris 1-Sorbonne). Her research examines how computing configures foundational aspects […]
On the questionnaire of a Prize Contest organized for the participants of the Summer School Lausanne 2001 (screen shot of the corresponding email). A Prize Contest was organized for the participants of the Summer School Lausanne 2001, its questionnaire (see picture) appealing to the participants’ expertise, skill, imagination, and sense of humor. The prize committee […]
In the late 1990s, a sociology research group helped spark the creation of STS-CH through the 1999 Zürich Spring School, where organizers also launched a long-running national mailing list that grew steadily and remained technologically unchanged for over two decades. Around 1998, within the Wissenschafts- und Techniksoziologie (Science and Technology Studies) research group of the […]
There is a logo and there is chocolate. And both may tell us something (or not) about STS in Switzerland. There is a logo, the one STS-CH chose to define its visual identity in 2001: a Berlin key. Needless to say, this is also the title and topic of a famous 1993 article by Bruno […]
