[Air-L] [CASPR 2025] Knowledge in Crisis: Navigating Science in Uncertain Times

[Kim Fernandes]

The Committee for the Anthropology of Science, Technology & Computing (CASTAC) invites you to join us for CASPR 2025. This year’s event centers on the escalating crises that are reshaping the conditions of knowledge production across institutional, national, and disciplinary boundaries. In recent years, CASPR has served as a forum for critical conversations on themes such as artificial intelligence, digital ethnography, and the shifting terrain of anthropology careers. Building on this foundation, we’ll turn our focus to interconnected crises that threaten the very foundations of knowledge production, both within and beyond academia. Our three guest speakers bring insight into the urgent challenges and disastrous effects of shrinking science funding, sweeping education cuts, and increasingly strained care systems, both domestically and internationally. We aim to think collectively about how anthropologists and related researchers might respond to these challenges, both within our own institutions and in solidarity with broader movements for justice, advocacy, and resilience.

Topics guiding our discussion:

  *   Strategies to implement interdisciplinary collaboration and advocacy, to ensure scientific knowledge translates into equitable societal benefits.
  *   Building resilience and solidarity across different groups (academics and non-academics) in the face of the current challenges.
  *   The importance of rebuilding public trust in scientific institutions and scientific knowledge.

Join us for a roundtable discussion and Q&A with Alex Hanna (Distributed AI Research Institute), Emily Yates-Doerr (Oregon State), and Juno Salazar Parrenas (Cornell University), moderated by CASTAC Co-Chair Ana Carolina de Assis Nunes (Oregon State).

Register for a free ticket now!<https://caspr2025.eventbrite.com/>

About CASTAC
The Committee for the Anthropology of Science, Technology, & Computing<https://castac.org/>'s (CASTAC) mission is to facilitate communication within the AAA among anthropologists working in areas related to science, technology and computing, and to promote the visibility of anthropological research on technoscience. CASTAC offers a forum in which to organize sessions for meetings, exchange ideas and network with anthropologists who have similar research interests.

Warmly,

Kim Fernandes<http://kimfernandes.com>
(they/them/theirs)
Data & Society<https://datasociety.net/> and Center for Information, Technology & Public Life<https://citap.unc.edu/> Affiliate
Managing Editor, Platypus<https://blog.castac.org/>
Postdoctoral Fellow, Faculty of Information, University of Toronto