Participants in S+T Community Programs are invited to please review and abide by our Community Guidelines.
First Monday STSS Reading Group
First Monday STSS is a participant-led monthly online reading group, launched and co-facilitated by Monika Sengul-Jones and Leah Ceccarelli (Communication). The goal of the reading group is to foster and deepen the science and technology studies (STS) intellectual community of faculty, students, and staff across the UW’s campuses and the School of Medicine, many of whom are involved in UW’s Science, Technology, and Society Studies (STSS) interdisciplinary graduate certificate program. Anyone at the UW who is STS-curious is welcome to join the reading group. Learn more
Pop-Up Working Groups
Pop-Up Working Groups are thematic problem-solving events proposed and hosted by one or several of the S+T Affiliate network members. Once proposed, S+T supports the host(s) to facilitate a 55-minute online conversation about a question or problem to brainstorm solutions. In 2024, the first Pop-Up Working Group evolved out of a reading group conversation and addressed science, technology, and society studies approaches to AI at UW. Have a question or problem you’d like to examine with the S+T network of Affiliates? Propose a Pop-Up Working Group session by emailing mmjones@uw.edu
Salons
Salons are a conversation series held in-person or online designed to elevate the S+T’s cross-campus and cross-disciplinary perspectives on technologies. Each Salon is a one-hour and fifteen-minute conversation between three to five affiliates from the S+T network, with a moderator. The purpose is to recognize and honor live, arranged encounters as a meeting of the minds, to give greater visibility to the S+T network, and to cultivate intellectual conditions for deeper collaborations. Would you like to present your work in a Salon? Email mmjones@uw.edu. Interested in notifications about future Salons? Subscribe to the S+T Calendar
Interviews
Conversations with Society + Technology is a podcasted interview series about emerging technologies and their societal impact, featuring in-depth conversations with the S+T Affiliate community. Is there someone you’d like to hear from? Email mmjones@uw.edu to recommend interviewees. Access the episodes
S+T Community Board [Pilot]
S+T Community Board is a collaborative online space for UW affiliates to connect and share asynchronously. Affiliates are invited to introduce themselves and their work, as well as offer or request opportunities and resources. To create this semi-public communication space, we are piloting Padlet using the free version of the software. To protect privacy, UW affiliates can contribute to these public-facing discussion boards without creating an account, though we encourage including names on posts. All posts are manually reviewed by S+T admins to ensure a supportive and respectful environment. At this time, the Community Board is intended for UW affiliates only. Go to the Community Board