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Emma Kowal

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Anthropology/STS/genomics/colonialism. Deputy Director @Deakin_ADI. Past President @4sWeb. New book out with DUP #hauntingbiology surname pron. Koval

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Tarde pero seguro, les comparto este texto que escribí para el @anthrotheory.bsky.social.
Planteo repensar lo “inquietante”/”haunting” como metodología para la investigación de la identificación de migrantes desaparecidos y las nociones de justicia.

🕯️ www.at-commons.com/pub/dbu8b0wc...

14.01.2026 17:06 👍 4 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0
About the Conference

I'm co-chairing the Society for Social Studies of Science @4sweb.bsky.social Conference in Toronto, Oct 2026. #STS #scipol #innovation

Theme: "TechnoPower • Technoscientific Futures".

Open panel submissions portal is open! ls!

Deadline: 2nd February 2026

www.4sonline.org/about_the_co...

14.01.2026 16:12 👍 169 🔁 133 💬 17 📌 9
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An exciting start to the second day of the STS-IN Winter School with Prof. Emma Kowal, Deakin University (Former president of 4S), discussing the ins and outs of writing a monograph!

@profemmakowal.bsky.social

13.12.2025 06:39 👍 6 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Poster of the MPIWG Institute’s Colloquium. It features the titles of its five events below an image that shows a colorful mixture of liquids in red, orange, yellow, green, and violet.

Poster of the MPIWG Institute’s Colloquium. It features the titles of its five events below an image that shows a colorful mixture of liquids in red, orange, yellow, green, and violet.

Next in our Institute's Colloquium series 2025/26 "Rethinking #Time in the History of Science": @profemmakowal.bsky.social on "Freezing Time: A Decade of #Cryopolitics" ❄️🕰️

🗓️ Jan 27, 2025 (14:00 CET)
📍 Harnack Haus, Berlin

🔗 bit.ly/48w3WAR

#HistSci #Anthropology @deakinuniversity.bsky.social

03.12.2025 13:11 👍 16 🔁 7 💬 0 📌 3
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Last week I officially became a TEDx speaker. It's sooo different to giving an academic talk. It was a steep but fun learning curve. The video will be out in a couple of weeks!

02.12.2025 03:30 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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A few weeks ago I was lucky enough to be at a @wennergrenorg.bsky.social
seminar in Austria on 'Biocultural Anthropology for the 21st century'. Three days of wonderful conversation in a summer resort town imagining the future of biocultural anthropology @danilynrutherford.bsky.social

25.10.2025 06:32 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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I'm really excited to be in conversation with colleagues at Aarhus University very soon!

21.09.2025 20:35 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Ghostly Lessons · Anthropological Theory

Ghostly Lessons: New Forum at Anthropology Theory Commons @anthrotheory.bsky.social led by Emma Kowal & Amanda Domingues

Right on time before the 2025 AAA Meeting on "Ghosts" in November @americananthro.bsky.social

Essays are short but deep (including mine)! www.at-commons.com/ghosts

28.08.2025 15:30 👍 7 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 1

I wrote this short piece about the time when I was a ghost. Part of a special forum I edited with Amanda Domingues for Anthropology Theory Commons - thanks @mdicenta.bsky.social for the thread and for your awesome contribution!

04.09.2025 01:26 👍 8 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Dr Thao Phan wins 2025 Max Crawford Medal Dr Thao Phan has won the 2025 Max Crawford medal for her work investigating dynamics of race and gender in algorithmic culture.

Delighted to learn that Dr Thao Phan is awarded the 2025 Max Crawford medal, Australia's major prize for early-career humanities researchers! Pleasantly surprised it went to an STS scholar for the first time too. Such good news!
@thaophan.bsky.social @humanitiesau.bsky.social #STS

06.08.2025 08:36 👍 62 🔁 11 💬 2 📌 1
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Bioethics for the planet

Here you go! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

31.07.2025 22:28 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I'm very proud to be part of this groundbreaking publication just out in the Lancet, arguing for a bioethics as planetary health ethics. Includes seven practical steps for putting the 'bios' back into bioethics. #bioethics #planetary #STS

31.07.2025 03:00 👍 16 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 0

Very much looking forward to hosting Aalok Khandekar from IIT-Hyderabad for a @deakinssn.bsky.social seminar on Community-based climate adaptation. With two fabulous discussants, Sujatha Raman and Robert Faggian. Join us in the city or online!

28.07.2025 05:18 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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Speaking on noise and the insurrection of subjugated unknowables.... or something like that. Hauntology and #STS. At @aussts.bsky.social 2025 meeting in Melbourne (Narrm). A very interesting meeting....
@tdneale.bsky.social @sthv.bsky.social

12.07.2025 06:35 👍 18 🔁 4 💬 2 📌 0

Thanks to the @aussts.bsky.social team for the invitation and opportunity to share my work on the strange history of public incubator shows!

10.07.2025 08:26 👍 8 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0

Day 2 of #AusSTS25 is underway! If you can’t be with us at Deakin Downtown, you can listen along to @elizabethstephens.bsky.social’s fascinating keynote now on YouTube (link below)

09.07.2025 23:39 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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Workshop in the beautiful gallery of the National Communication Museum #AusSTS25

09.07.2025 02:55 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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And our AMAZING co-convenors @carinatruyts.bsky.social and @blueskychris.bsky.social talking us through the next few days ahead

08.07.2025 23:59 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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Kicking off #AusSTS2025 is Wurendjeri Elder Uncle Tony Garvey welcoming us to country and NCM Artistic Director Emily Siddons welcoming us to the National Communication Museum☎️📶

You can follow along the highlights from the conference using #AusSTS2025 and #signalsandnoises

08.07.2025 23:53 👍 8 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 0

Starting in a few minutes!

08.07.2025 23:47 👍 4 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0

Loving being back on home soil and with this excellent #STS community as @aussts.bsky.social 2025 kicks off today. A reminder that all the keynotes are being streamed live. Get amongst it 👇

09.07.2025 00:08 👍 5 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0
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AusSTS 2025 Signals and Noises Program AusSTS 2025 Signals and Noises Conference Booklet Conference-on-a-page Conference organising committee Conference Program AusSTS Day 1 (NCM), Wednesday 9 July AusSTS Day 2 (Deakin Downtown), Thursday ...

✨ Good morning Narrm!✨
It's day 1 of #AusSTS2025 and we are looking forward to three days of conversations, workshops, performances, and other experiments with all things #signalsandnoises📡🎛️

docs.google.com/document/d/1...

08.07.2025 21:19 👍 7 🔁 5 💬 1 📌 1

Two sleeps until Doing Interdisciplinarity, the Deakin Science and Society Network's flagship event for 2025! Not too late to book for this in-person celebration and reflection on what works in interdisciplinary research @tdneale.bsky.social @carinatruyts.bsky.social @silk-tim.bsky.social

05.07.2025 22:22 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 1

AusSTS is about to take off this week! Even if you haven't managed to get registered (it's totally full), you can access some of the STS goodness through our livestreamed keynotes and interact with the YouTube audience.

05.07.2025 22:10 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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On the 9th of July, at the National Communication Museum in Hawthorn, as a part of the @aussts.bsky.social 2025 conference, I will be talking about infrastructures of noise at the keynote panel along with Glen Berman, Dang Nguyen, Fabian Offert, and Kate Mannell. (3/4)

22.06.2025 04:43 👍 5 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 0

Are you heading to @aussts.bsky.social #AusSTS25 #SignalsAndNoises in July in Melbourne? #STS

If so I hand-curated a Bluesky list of people I could find from the conference program:

bsky.app/profile/did:...

23.06.2025 02:59 👍 11 🔁 7 💬 2 📌 1
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AusSTS 2025 Day 3 Keynote "Bodies of signal and noise" YouTube video by SSN Info

Can't make it to #AusSTS25? We will be streaming keynotes, including the "Bodies of signal and noise" plenary w/ Warwick Anderson, Kari Lancaster + Chris O'Neill @wombatscholar.bsky.social @karilancaster.bsky.social @blueskychris.bsky.social Fri 11 July @ 1530 AEST www.youtube.com/live/dBNpkXI...

20.06.2025 03:40 👍 17 🔁 9 💬 0 📌 0
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Ethik @ Lunch continues this Friday!

We are excited to welcome @profemmakowal.bsky.social (Deakin University, Australia) for a talk on: "Ethics of Qualitative Research in Minority Settings"

We warmly invite you to join us!

🔗 Program & access: www.uni-augsburg.de/de/fakultaet...

#bioethics

16.06.2025 10:22 👍 5 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 2

The best part of this crazy academic life is reading insightful pieces on your work that reveal connections you didn't see before. Thanks @benjhegarty.bsky.social & @mgbevans.bsky.social for making it happen and Frédéric Keck, Beth Greenhough, Trevor Engel, and Ros Williams for their engagement.

13.06.2025 08:15 👍 5 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

Great to see this forum published in TAJA, and newly grateful to @wombatscholar.bsky.social, Lynette Russell and David Trigger for their generous engagement with Haunting Biology.

26.05.2025 09:36 👍 5 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0