NEWS

Enrique Soto-Astorga (PhilComp)

The 2025 International Conference on Philosophy of Computing was held at Mexico’s National Autonomous University (UNAM) last October. Enrique Soto-Astorga (Faculty of Sciences, UNAM) was one of the main organizers of the conference, along with the Research Group on Philosophy of Computing (UNAM/ACOM). He offers a broad view of the wide range of topics covered, from theory to the societal impact of computer machinery and new technologies, and invites the Tapuya and STS communities to visit philcomp.org to learn more about their work. 

Tapuya: Latin American Science, Technology and Society Indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index (ESCI) of Web of Science

We are proud to share that Tapuya: Latin American Science, Technology and Society is indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index (ESCI), part of Clarivate’s Web of Science Core Collection. 

Despite WoS´s known limitations, this recognition is an important milestone in the development of our journal. Being indexed in ESCI is a result of the ongoing commitment to rigorous peer review, editorial quality, and the dissemination of relevant and impactful research.

This also means an increase in the visibility of our authors’ work globally, ensuring that their contributions reach a broader academic and professional audience. 

The journal and all of the editorial team and authors’ work is now part of a global network of reputable publications, recognized for their overall contribution to advancing knowledge. 

We wish to extend our gratitude to everyone who has supported the journal in its mission to provide a platform for high-quality research in the field of Science, Technology and Society (STS). We look forward to continuing to serve the academic community with integrity and excellence.

In this video, Paola Sesia (CIESAS) shares about winning the 2025 LASA Health, Science, and Technology Article Prize for her work with Lina Berrio Palomo on Indigenous midwifery and alternative care during Covid-19 in Southern Mexico. The award honors outstanding research in health, science, and technology within Latin America’s social and cultural contexts.
Learn more: lasaweb.org/es/2025-section-awards/

STS Publishing as Hope & Service – Interview with Vivette García-Deister

Platypus features Tapuya Editor-in-Chief Vivette García-Deister discussing Latin American STS publishing challenges and opportunities. She highlights Tapuya‘s role in bridging North-South dialogues and fostering hopeful, care-centered scholarship.  

Read the interview here!

#STSpublishing #GlobalSouth #OpenScience 

Meet Miguel Zapata Clavería

Meet Dr. Miguel Zapata Clavería, coordinator of the Philosophy and Letters School, at UNAM (FFyL-UNAM), who briefly shares with us his projects regarding sociotechnical imaginaries, ignorance, and conspiracy theories.

Meet Sarah Abel

Meet Sarah Abel, author of Permanent Markers, whose interdisciplinary work explores genomics influence on racial and gender issues. Recently, she’s turned her critical lens to generative AI, visual AI, and digital sciences from a Latin American perspective, offering fresh STS insights on emerging technologies.

Discover and engage with the STS community’s cutting-edge debates, here, at Tapuya.

Tapuya Volume 8 is Now Live!

Tapuya: Latin American Science, Technology and Society serves as a vital forum for STS scholarship and trans-regional dialogue.

Explore the latest research here: tapuya.org| tandfonline.com

#TapuyaLASTS #OpenAccess #STS

Sandra Harding (1935–2025)
understood the need to question whose perspectives have shaped Western science, philosophy, and social studies of science. She also recognized the urgency of amplifying STS scholars from the Global South. That’s why, in 2016, she conspired with Latin American scholars to create Tapuya.

This journal exists because of her tenacity and vision. She will be deeply missed and remembered.

SSN Book Talk with Jane Calvert

Join the Science and Society Network (SSN) on 18 February, 15:00 AEDT, for a book talk with Professor Jane Calvert on her open-access book, A Place for Science and Technology Studies (MIT Press, 2024). Calvert will explore the spaces where STS research unfolds, followed by a conversation with Radhika Gorur and chaired by Emma Kowal. 

Tune in via YouTube Live or join the discussion on BlueSky with #SSNbooktalk. 
Register here.

Now on Bluesky!
Exciting News! Tapuya is now on Bluesky!

Find us at @tapuya.org and explore our Starter Pack designed to kick off a thriving Latin American STS community.

Join the conversation, connect with us, and let’s build this space together!

Teresa Guadalupe de León Escobedo

Teresa Guadalupe de León Escobedo shares her research on the geographies of climate change science, which focuses on the global mobilization of climate knowledge, and the scientific communities formed around it in Mexico. Her paper “Scalar dissonances”, published in Tapuya Vol. 6, was supported by the ESOCITE Paper Lab, and recently won first place in the PINCC award‘s fourth category. 

Congratulations to our author!

Hebe Vessuri y políticas del cambio climático en latinoamérica

En el marco del Programa de Actualización en políticas de ciencia, tecnología e innovación en América Latina (IIS, UNAM), Hebe Vessuri nos comparte sobre sus más recientes investigaciones en torno al cambio climático y las políticas que surgen en países latinoamericanos, específicamente en Venezuela. A partir de la tesis de Teresa Guadalupe de León Escobedo (también autora de Tapuya), Hebe busca diferentes modelos de acción que sean aplicables global y localmente. 
Entérate de este y más proyectos CTS aquí mismo, en Tapuya.

Article published in Tapuya wins award

Teresa Guadalupe de León Escobedo has won First Place in her category of the PINCC 2024 Climate Change Research Award for her article “Scalar dissonances, knowledge-making, sense of urgency, and social narratives about the future. Contours of the climate change debate in Latin America”, published in Tapuya Volume 6. In her article, Teresa Guadalupe de León Escobedo examines climate change through global-local knowledge dissonances in Latin America and reveals unresolved tensions between global narratives and the realities of the Global South. Read the article here.
Discover more about the Climate Change Research Program (PINCC) at www.pincc.unam.mx/!

Raúl Pacheco-Vega

Raúl Pacheco-Vega, investigador de la Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales (FLACSO México) y profesor del Laboratorio de Métodos, nos habla sobre su investigación sobre la gobernanza del agua embotellada.

¡Descubre otros interesantes proyectos CTS interesantes aquí mismo, en Tapuya!

El Taller Interinstitucional de Etnografía desde y sobre México reinicia sus actividades en octubre. Este foro reúne a académicxs de distintas disciplinas para discutir textos en proceso y fomentar una comunidad de apoyo académico. Las sesiones se realizarán en Casa Galván y se transmitirán en línea. 
Más detalles y calendario en labetno.colmex.mx.

Meet participants of the ICOHTEC-SHOT 2024 conference

In the 4th and last video of our ICOHTEC-SHOT 2024 series, we talk with Sonia Robles, Associate Professor at the University of Delaware. 

She talks about her research on the Ministry of Education in Mexico, focusing on the repair and technology of the Titlanti receiver (el Mensajero).

Stay tuned for more content on STS research in/about Latin America!

More participants of the ICOHTEC-SHOT 2024 conference

Colette Perold, Assistant Professor of Media Studies in the University of Colorado, Boulder talks about her book in progress on the History of Computing in South America. Colette is also co-organizer of the SIGCIS (Special Interest Group for Computing, Information, and Society) conference, which was held the day after the ICOHTEC-SHOT Meeting in Chile.

Stay tuned and discover more stimulating STS projects like this one!

Meet some participants of the ICOHTEC-SHOT 2024 conference

Tapuya’s Associate Editor, José Ragas, interviewed STS scholars working in Latin America about their projects. In this first video, Corina Zeltsman (assistant professor of History at Princeton University) introduces her project on the history of paper in Mexico between the 19th and 20th centuries.

Stay tuned and discover more interesting projects like this!

Join Us in Viña del Mar for the 2024 ICOHTEC-SHOT Annual Meeting!

We are thrilled to announce the presence of Tapuya’s ambassadors Leonardo Aranda (who designed the cover for Vol 7) and Alexis Bedolla at the joint ICOHTEC-SHOT 2024 Annual Meeting. Location for this year is Viña del Mar, Chile, from 9 to 14 July 2024.

The preliminary program is now available and will be updated bi-weekly. Don’t miss this conference: a bilingual (English-Spanish) experience!

Explore the program and keep yourself updated here!

Interview with Kelly S. McDonough
In this interview by the University of Arizona Press, Kelly S. McDonough shares her process of writing the book Indigenous Science and Technology. Nahuas and the World Around Them, emphasizing collaboration with scholars and long conversations with Nahua friends. She created multimedia diagrams to understand Nahua science, tech, and theories, aiming to challenge mainstream narratives that exclude Indigenous contributions.

Read the full interview and get to know her unique approach at: https://uapress.arizona.edu/2024/06/five-questions-with-kelly-mcdonough

Also, don’t forget to check out the book entry in our LAT-STS Library!

Participa en el Sexto Encuentro CTS Ecuador 2024
Este año se explorará el tema de “Riesgos, oportunidades y puntos ciegos de las tecnologías emergentes”. Desde la transformación digital hasta la vigilancia masiva, se busca debatir cómo estas innovaciones afectan la vida diaria.
Paola Ricaurte Quijano estará como ponente magistral y discutirá la “Gubernamentalidad algorítmica, democracia y justicia social en América Latina”.

Modalidad: Virtual o presencial en Salón de Afiches (Torre 1) del campus FLACSO, Sede Ecuador.
Fechas: 20 y 21 de junio de 2024.

¡Envía tus ponencias antes del 12 de junio!
Más información en: http://ctsecuador.org/sexto-encuentro-cts-ecuador-2024/.

Les invitamos a participar en la presentación del libro Mundo de la vida y vida del laboratorio de Antonio Arellano (Universidad Autónoma del Estado de México (UAEM), Mexico), parte del Advisory Board de Tapuya. La citas es el miércoles 15 de mayo vía Zoom.

Modera: Silvia Salgado G. (Directora del Posgrado en Antropología). 

Comentan: Ronny Viales H. (Director del CIHAC) y Ana Lucía Calderón (Posgrado en Antropología). 

ID de reunion: 6110355670
Clave de acceso: 9OZyeD

Uma nova edição do Boletim de História e Filosofia da Biologia está disponível.

Sumário:

• Encontro de História e Filosofia da Biologia, EHFB, 2024
• Eventos da área
• Livros da área

Acesse a edição completa de todos os números aqui.

The International Congress of History of Science and Technology is held every four years. The 27th Congress will bes a hybrid in-person and online event at the University of Otago’s Dunedin campus in June-July 2025. 

Register your interest, get to know keydates and opportunities at their webpage now!

Tapuya’s evolution is reflected in our academic citation data. Our journal is only 6 years old, and citations have grown steadily, reaching 440 in 2023. We appreciate your being part of this conversation!

XV Jornadas Latinoamericanas de Estudios Sociales de la Ciencia y la Tecnología (XV Jornadas ESOCITE LA) is the place to discuss cutting-edge topics in STS, with an emphasis on the Latin American context.
This year’s theme is “(Re)Making Science and Technology in Democracy”, in line with the understanding of the fundamental role of science and technology in the construction of democratic processes, governance and policy formulation.
Dates: July 23-26, 2024, in Campinas (São Paulo), Brazil.

Find out more at the official site: https://eventos.galoa.com.br/esocite/page/3389-evento

The Bioanthropological Latin American Network (BLAN) / Red BALANCE is a new project funded by the Global Initiatives Grant, and supported by the Wenner-Gren Foundation.

The main objectives of this network are protecting regional biocultural heritage by establishing and advocating for ethical practices to promote more equitable collaborations between Latin American and Global North researchers, and strengthening bioanthropological research in the Global South by empowering members of the local scientific community. The project, which has been consolidating since 2022, had its official founding ceremony in July.

You can find the complete report with the network’s aims and activites at: https://wennergren.org/article/global-initiatives-grant-report-bioanthropological-latin-american-network-blan-red-balance/

SHOT Global Community Scholars

DEADLINE EXTENDED

Each year, SHOT designates selected Global Community Scholars for a two-year term. These scholars act as ambassadors for the society in their countries and regions, both by informing SHOT about the history of technology in their regions, and by helping to disseminate information about the society and its activities. In return, they receive priority for travel grant applications and a free two-year SHOT membership, which includes a subscription to Technology and Culture.

The new deadline to receive applications is Tuesday, 10 October 2023.

Read more here.

On July 26, Tapuya was invited to participate in the “VIII Escuela Doctoral ESOCITE”, Uruguay. Along with other ESOCITE affiliated journals –such as ESTS and Redes–, Tapuya presented its editorial project and policies, as well as an explanation of the publication process, with special emphasis on PhD students as prospective authors.

El miércoles 26 de julio, Tapuya fue invitada a participar en la “VIII Escuela Doctoral ESOCITE”, en Uruguay. Junto con otras revistas asociadas a ESOCITE –como ESTS y Redes–, Tapuya presentó su proyecto editorial y sus políticas, así como una explicación del proceso de publicación, con especial énfasis en los estudiantes de doctorado como futuros autores.

Check the photos here. / Mira las fotos aquí.

ISH-y journals: Meet the editors

This special session is an invitation to scholars of all stages (but especially grad students, junior scholars, and those from underrepresented communities/regions) to meet the editors of ISH-related journals. The journals Philosophy of Science, History and Philosophy of Science, Studies in History and Philosophy of Science, and Tapuya: Latin American Science, Technology and Society, all encourage contributions in the history, philosophy, and social studies of biology. All journals are international in scope and content, and publish papers from a wide range of countries, cultural and research traditions.

Find out more and register to this event at: https://site.pheedloop.com/event/ISHPSSB2023/schedule/SESHOF0YKMVSKTDTW

The Forum for Science and Knowledge in Latin America and the Caribbean (SKLAC), of the History of Science Society announced the first SKLAC article prize. The SKLAC article prize will be awarded biennially to the article in English, Spanish, or Portuguese judged to make the most significant contribution to the history of science, knowledge, and medicine in Latin America and the Caribbean. To nominate or self-nominate an article for the award, email an abstract and PDF of the article to the members of the prize committee listed on the image.

Submission deadline: August 1st, 2023