Welcome to STS.Next.20

Science and Technology Studies: The Next 20 (STS.Next.20) is a collection of websites designed to engage the international community of STS scholars and other interested participants in conversations about the interactions between science, technology, and their social, institutional, and human contexts. Your participation is warmly welcome. Please see details on the following pages.

Vignettes@STS.Next.20 invites quick, crisp responses to current events concerning the relationship between science, technology, and society.

Perspectives@STS.Next.20 is a space for discussing significant issues relating to STS as a field of teaching and training, as well as the interactions of STS with the wider world.

STS World offers an overview of resources available to the STS community, including names and links to programs, journals and professional societies, and course syllabi.

STS 20+20 Conference is a permanent archive of proceedings from the conference that spurred the creation this website It was held on April 7-9, 2011 at Harvard University. The site includes videos, photos, a live feed archive, and presentations from the conference.

STS.Next.20 is a communal project sponsored and maintained by the Program on Science, Technology and Society at the Harvard Kennedy School. It reflects the rich diversity of interests, methods, and theoretical perspectives that characterize contemporary work in STS.

Please contact the site administrators if you have any questions, comments, or suggestions.