"The biggest thing that attracts me is the incredible tenacity of people to manage and surmount their incredibly challenging circumstances. You don’t find that in many parts of the world. I also love Lagos in spite of all the wahala. The fact that people don’t just survive but thrive here in...Read more
"I lived in West Germany as an exchange student in a household where the father is Syrian and pro-Middle East; and the mother’s family members were anti-fascist activists in WWII Germany. I was 18 years old and I was living in the U.S. occupied section of West Germany during the Reagan-...Read more
An interview with Law and Society scholar Z. Umut Türem from Bogazici University, conducted by STS scholar Duygu Kaşdoğan on August 12, 2019. In this interview Türem reflects on his experiences in moderating a talk given by...Read more
This interview by Kyra Fox as part of the BIG STORIES + CLOSE (UP) RESEARCH series from the African Studies Department at University of Wisconsin - Madison highlights Julie Livingston's research trajectory.Read more
In this interview with Kunle Ajibade of TheNews and PM News in Nigeria, Kris Peterson discusses her book, "Speculative Markets," highlighting the complex layers that make up the Nigerian pharmaceutical markets.Read more
AO: With her permission, I include Nanjira Sambuli's full typed responses to the interview questions I sent her.Read more
I think archives and libraries are unique and special because they serve as a meeting point for knowledge seekers. People who may have never met under any other...Read more
In the 2018 Sydney Conference of the Society for Social Studies of Science (4S), Aalok Khandekar and Kim Fortun curated a special exhibition “STS Across Borders” in line with the conference theme, “TRANSnational STS.” In the 2019 New Orleans Conference of the society, the curators extended and...Read more
This is an interview of Karin Knorr Cetina by Miguel Garcia-Sancho. In the wake of trying to trace the emergence of STS, I came across this interview and it seemed to give a first-hand personal account of the academic journey of the author who also witnessed and contributed to the emergence of...Read more