AusSTS2022

AusSTS2022: “Generation”

(Thurs 28th and Fri 29 July, 2022)

As STS practitioners, we grapple with the understanding that generating knowledge and ideas are always practices in becoming, unfinished, and multiple, never isolated. We are asked to think about the socio-technical, material-discursive, and political relations that generate some worlds and ideas, and exclude others. These multiple configurations speak of the inevitability of interdependence, relationality, permeability, and boundaries.

To think about generation in multiple senses means to think through the humble awareness of our indebtedness to other bodies, knowledges, histories, ecologies—as a part of a community in constant formation. This awareness can reflect in the ethics of our own praxis. It can inspire us to bring into conversation different generations and sensitivities of STS. It can also speak of the knowledges and material practices that shape memories of past generations, and expectations and promises about future ones. It can mean asking what relations get remembered, what relations are maintained, and who is harmed or excluded in the process.

AusSTS is committed to bringing together STS scholars from across Australasia by offering a space where these conversations and reflections can happen freely and generously. As with the AusSTS2021 workshop, AusSTS2022 was run as a multi-sited event hosted across four locations: Sydney, Melbourne, Darwin, and Wellington.

Watch the Opening Keynote

Current Generativities in Feminist, Antiracist, and Decolonial STS

Opening Keynote with Anne Pollock (King’s College London), chaired by Carina Truyts

AusSTS Sydney Public Lectures

Generations of Slow Violence: The Persistent Challenge of Lead Pollution

Public lecture with Abby J. Kinchy (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute), chaired by Sophie Adams

“Sickening: Anti-Black Racism and Health Disparities in the United States”

Book talk with Anne Pollock (King’s College London), chaired by Mia Harrison

Creative Contributions from Local Nodes

AusSTS Sydney Video: “What does ‘Generation’ mean to you?”

Photos from the Workshops

Introducing Anne Pollock’s keynote (Melbourne node)

Courtney Addison introducing AusSTS at VUW’s law school (Wellington node)

Sharing zine pages with zine facilitator Helen Yeung via Zoom (Wellington node)

Object-based learning at the Chau Chak Wing Museum (Sydney node)

Object-based learning at the Chau Chak Wing Museum (Sydney node)

Object-based learning at the Chau Chak Wing Museum (Sydney node)

Object-based learning at the Chau Chak Wing Museum (Sydney node)

Gathering around a laptop to watch the first few minutes of Anne Pollock’s keynote (Darwin node)

Marrara swamp field school (Darwin node)

Watching the plenary keynote (Darwin node)

Courtney Addison presents the 1931 Pharmacy Building as part of the collaborative medical history tour of Wellington (Wellington node)

Reflecting on the workshop themes during the zine workshop (Wellington node)

Reflecting on the workshop themes during the zine workshop (Wellington node)

Field trip to State Library Victoria (Melbourne node)

Tim Neale writing live translations on a whiteboard during the plenary keynote (Melbourne node)

“Metabolism” panel selfie with Carina Truyts, Tyler King, and Angie Sassano (Melbourne node)

Talking about “futuring” between panel Natasha Rooney, Cameron McKean, and Kari Dahlgren with chair Angie Sassano (Melbourne node)

Lou Buckley, Hilman S. Fathoni, and Mariah Sampson in “Conserve” panel discussion (Melbourne node)

“Publishing in STS” online #AusSTS2022 pre-workshop

Anne Pollock presenting keynote

Tyler King presenting “(re)generating multispecies communities in urban environments” (Melbourne node)

The workspace of a State Library of Victoria conservator (Melbourne node)

Holdings from the State Library of Victoria’s zine collection (Melbourne node)

State Library of Victoria rare book expert shows illustration of heliocentric universe in 1566 edition of Nicolaus Copernicus’s De revolutionibus orbium coelestium (On the revolutions of celestial spheres) (Melbourne node)

Abby Kinchy presenting public lecture on the persistent challenge of lead pollution (Sydney node)

Audience Q&A following Abby Kinchy’s public lecture (Sydney node)

The Chau Chak Wing Museum (Sydney node)

Final panel discussion (Sydney node)

Katherine Kenny presenting “Persistence, perspective and the afterlives of data” (Sydney node)

Myles Oakey presenting “An unknown songbird: artefacts of acoustic life and its making” (Sydney node)

Scott Webster presenting “‘A Home Among the Gumtrees’: Bushfires, Memory and More-Than-Human Homes” (Sydney node)

Caitlin Hyde introducing old Dental School, where dental nurses trained and kids got free dental care (Wellington node)

Dinithi Bowatte presenting doctoral research (Wellington node)

Marrara Swamp Field School (Darwin node) 

(Re)walking Rapid Creek (Darwin node)

Studying soundscapes (Darwin node)

Practicing ‘inefficient mapping’ (Darwin node)

Refuelling at the field school end (Darwin node)

Workshop Recaps

Melbourne Workshop Review: Published on Platypus (the CASTAC blog), written by Angie Sassano
Wellington Workshop Review: Published on 4S Backchannels, written by Andreja Phillips, Mythily Meher, Dinithi Bowatte

Organising Committee

Sydney: Roberta Pala, Mia Harrison, Sophie Adams, Matthew Kearnes, Kari Lancaster.
Melbourne: Tim Neale, Thao Phan, Carina Truyts, Tyler King, Lauren Kelly, Kieran Hegarty, Emma Kowal
Darwin: Michaela Spencer, Jennifer Macdonald, Kirsty Howey, Kelly Lee Hickey, Jennifer Deger, Leonie Norrington, Matt Barlow, Yasunori Hayashi
Wellington: Courtney Addison, Max Soar, Dinithi Bowatte

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