CASTAC

Join us for #CASPR2026! "Labor and Technoscientific Worlds" — a roundtable with Kalpana Shankar, David Nemer & Lilly Irani. May 29, 10:30AM–12:30PM CT. Free & online. Register: caspr2026.eventbrite.com #CASTAC #Anthropology #STS

Deadline: June 1, 2026! 📣 The Diana Forsythe Prize is now accepting nominations! Recognizing the best feminist anthropological work on work, science, or technology. . Self-nominations welcome. #CASTAC #Anthropology castac.org/castac-awards/…

📣 Nominations openfor the @AmericanAnthro GAD Awards! The New Directions Award ($1,000) recognizes individual and group work expanding anthropology in the 21st century. The Cross-Field Award ($1,000) honors interdisciplinary scholarship. Deadline: July 1. gad.americananthro.org/awards/

New AnthroPod!🔊 In the first of a three-part miniseries, we listen to the stories people tell themselves about themselves: how people come to connect with history, how traditions are carried and transmitted, and how emotional performances help people move forward.

Today on #Platypus, Sandrine Lambert introduces Citizen Technology — technologies governable by and for citizens — drawing on ethnographic fieldwork at a makerspace in Barcelona. Read this post at: blog.castac.org/2026/05/introd…

Today on #Platypus, Kaitlyn Kathleen Rabach (she/her) explores how homeowners in County Donegal, Ireland have become experts themselves to challenge a government misdiagnosis that left 30,000 buildings crumbling. Read this post at: blog.castac.org/2026/05/becomi…

Today on #Platypus, Nicole Ahoya examines how the "justice gap" is foregrounded and produced through data-driven approaches in international development — and asks whose knowledge and dreams count in re-imagining justice. Read this post at: blog.castac.org/2026/05/tech-i…

Join us for #CASPR2026! "Labor and Technoscientific Worlds" — a roundtable with Kalpana Shankar, David Nemer & Lilly Irani. May 29, 10:30AM–12:30PM CT. Free & online. Register: caspr2026.eventbrite.com #CASTAC #Anthropology #STS

📣 The David Hakken Graduate Student Paper Prize is now accepting submissions! Recognizing innovative research at the intersection of anthropology and STS. Deadline: June 15, 2026. Self-submissions welcome. #CASTAC #Anthropology castac.org/castac-awards/…

Today on #Platypus, Jackie Ashkin, Alexander Foster, and Madeline Augusta Turner use salt as a provocation to think about how the elemental is emerging as a matter of concern in the making of liveable environmental futures. Read this post at: blog.castac.org/2026/05/salt-a…

Today on #Platypus, Thomson Chakramakkil explores how the CyberKnife radiosurgery system transforms medical images into actionable data, reconfiguring the relationship between representation and intervention in cancer care. Read the complete post at: blog.castac.org/2026/05/seeing…

📢[Calls & Applications] @CASTAC_AAA invita a "Labor and Technoscientific Worlds", un panel online (29 mayo, 9:30–11:30h CST) con Kalpana Shankar, Lilly Irani y David Nemer. Diálogo sobre etnografía del trabajo, IA y más. Abierto a todo público. 🔗 tapuya.org/category/calls…

Today on #Platypus, Bronte Jones asks how reconceptualizing the human body as a holobiont might help us better attend to the relational, ecosystem nature of health and illness. Read this post at: blog.castac.org/2026/05/microb…

📣 The Diana Forsythe Prize is now accepting nominations! Recognizing the best feminist anthropological work on work, science, or technology. Deadline: June 1, 2026. Self-nominations welcome. #CASTAC #Anthropology castac.org/castac-awards/…

📣 The Diana Forsythe Prize is now accepting nominations! Recognizing the best feminist anthropological work on work, science, or technology. Deadline: June 1, 2026. Self-nominations welcome. #CASTAC #Anthropology castac.org/castac-awards/…

🏆 Congratulations to the 2025 #DianaForsythePrize winner Emily Yates-Doerr for Mal-Nutrition (UC Press), and honorable mention Amy Zhang for Circular Ecologies (Stanford UP)! #CASTAC #FeministAnthropology castac.org/castac-awards/…

Today on #Platypus, Valeria Sánchez-Prieto asks how we can reconstruct the memory of the Colombian armed conflict by including the animals that also experienced it. Read this post at: blog.castac.org/2026/05/animal…

🕮 New in [LAT-STS Library] Introducing the book “The Absent Stone: Mexican Patrimony and the Aftershocks of State Theft” by Sandra Rozental, published by @DukePress. 🪶 More resources at tapuya.org/category/lat-s…

Join us for #CASPR2026! "Labor and Technoscientific Worlds" — a roundtable with Kalpana Shankar, David Nemer & Lilly Irani. May 29, 10:30AM–12:30PM CT. Free & online. Register: caspr2026.eventbrite.com #CASTAC #Anthropology #STS

Join us for #CASPR2026! "Labor and Technoscientific Worlds" — a roundtable with Kalpana Shankar, David Nemer & Lilly Irani. May 29, 10:30AM–12:30PM CT. Free & online. Register: caspr2026.eventbrite.com #CASTAC #Anthropology #STS

Today on #Platypus, Christina Kefala explores how Chinese content creators use metrics to boost views and inform creative decisionmaking in China's tightly integrated platform ecosystem. 🔗Read this post at: blog.castac.org/2026/05/making…