[Commlist] Call for Proposals - AusSTS 2026 "Antipodean Interruptions"

*AusSTS 2026 Call for Proposals now live!*

*9-11 November 2026
Te Herenga Waka - Victoria University of Wellington
Deadline for proposals: Friday 3 April, 2026*
*Full details:* *https://aussts.org/aussts2026 *

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The Call for Proposals for the AusSTS 2026 conference is now open! This 
year’s theme is ‘Antipodean Interruptions’. We invite submissions for 
presentations, written workshop papers, meet-ups, and Making and Doing 
sessions. Please submit proposals via this form

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/17U0aUw7nlsGMzCW7_4-E_58192csiZf8E0GYyWtATW8/viewform?edit_requested=true

*Antipodean Interruptions*

The antipodean is both relational provocation and critical departure. 
Perpetually defined against metropolitan poles of theory-making and 
hegemony, here the antipodes are re-centred as a site for questioning 
dominant positionalities, cartographies, and categories. What critical 
resources can an STS from this sea of islands (Hau’ofa 1994) mobilise, 
and what interruptions might it make possible? An abiding concern in 
STS, interruptions materialise variously as infrastructural failures, 
lively disturbances, activist interventions, and noise within signal. 
Taken as an epistemic stance, interruption does not stand outside to 
critique or observe, nor does it seek to overthrow or abandon. 
Interruptions break the tide and flow, inserting other rhythms and 
movements, enabling new routes to be charted, and making audible what 
has been silenced. Following Teresia Teaiwa (2014), we invite 
contributors to critically appraise and recompose their intellectual 
genealogies, thinking about the thinking that is rooted, but by no means 
stuck, ‘here’. Bringing together the anti and the inter, AusSTS 2026 
encourages voices and perspectives emerging from and in conversation 
with Australasia, Oceania, and neighbours, questioning how STS might 
enact its own antipodean interruptions.

For more information about the conference and a fuller description of 
the theme please check out the AusSTS website <https://aussts.org/>.


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