[Air-L] Call for Proposals - AusSTS 2026 "Antipodean Interruptions", 9-11 November 2026

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*AusSTS 2026 Call for Proposals now live!*



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

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://aus01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdocs.google.com%2Fforms%2Fd%2F17U0aUw7nlsGMzCW7_4-E_58192csiZf8E0GYyWtATW8%2Fedit&data=05%7C02%7CThao.Phan%40anu.edu.au%7C8fbd4ea55c2644f2c67308de653932c5%7Ce37d725cab5c46249ae5f0533e486437%7C0%7C0%7C639059493509674343%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJFbXB0eU1hcGkiOnRydWUsIlYiOiIwLjAuMDAwMCIsIlAiOiJXaW4zMiIsIkFOIjoiTWFpbCIsIldUIjoyfQ%3D%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&sdata=L0ARXVkuiHiH%2BM6fLlfTwrN1UREp0uo6URzEzAHEgPs%3D&reserved=0>.


The CFP will be open until Friday 3 April (11:59pm NZST).

*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/>. We will be
announcing details of plenaries and field trips in coming weeks - stay
tuned!