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Ten-Year Partnership with Duke University Press Ends in 2020

After an unforgettable ten-year partnership, Duke University Press (DUP) will this year finish its publishing contract with EASTS’ sponsor, the Ministry of Science and Technology. Starting with volume 5, DUP became our publishing partner in 2011. Together we accomplished forty spectacular issues (5, no .1, through 14, no. 4) that transformed EASTS into a more interdisciplinary, transnational, and competitive journal. These efforts also resulted in our winning the Society for Social Studies of Science Infrastructure Prize in 2018. Utilizing its specialization in Asian and science studies, DUP assisted us with creating visibility in the academic world, notably inclusion by Clarivate Analytics in their Social Sciences Citation Index and Arts and Humanities Citation Index in 2018. DUP will now be followed in the partner role by Routledge, starting with volume 15.

On behalf of the editorial team and office staff, we want to express our deepest gratitude to Duke University Press for its professional and generous support over the past nine years, especially Journals Director Rob Dilworth and Marketing Manager Jocelyn Dawson.

Korean Association of Science and Technology Studies Celebrates Twentieth Anniversary

Closely interacting with EASTS and with the wider East Asian STS community, the Korean Association of Science and Technology Studies (KASTS) will be celebrating its twentieth anniversary this year with a two-day conference on 13 and 14 November. Founded in 2000, KASTS is the oldest professional society dedicated to STS in East Asia, and it has been growing consistently in its membership as well as its intellectual rigor. Its platinum anniversary will serve as an occasion for looking back and then moving forward by convening a large group of Korean STS scholars and their domestic and international colleagues in related disciplines.

The theme of the conference is “Science, Technology, and the Future Society,” which offers opportunities to discuss how STS can contribute to our understanding of emerging technoscientific and social lives in Korea and elsewhere. Cognizant of [End Page 675] societal change triggered by the pandemic and the changing meaning of the STS needed to cope with it, the conference will include six sessions: “STS in East Asia: Redrawing the STS Map”; “AI, Robots, and the Future Society”; “New Materialism, Technoscience, and the Body”; “STS and the Outer Space as Human Space”; “The Anthropocene and Diseases: Learning from COVID-19”; and last, but not least, “Media, Participation, and Education in the Age of Great Transformation.” Featured speakers from EASTS and the East Asian STS community will include Wen-Ling Hong (Taiwan), Wen-Hua Kuo (Taiwan, EASTS), Masashi Shirabe (Japan), Cheng Zhou (China), and Hee-Je Bak (Korea, EASTS).

At the time of this writing (September 2020), there are still logistical uncertainties caused by the pandemic, but that same crisis is nevertheless creating opportunities to put STS into practice. With a firm commitment to making this celebratory event happen, KASTS President Buhm Soon Park and the organizing committee will be monitoring the pandemic regulations both inside and outside of Korea and making the necessary arrangements, whether online or offline, to accommodate these discussions. [End Page 676]

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