STS Teachbook Cooking Classes     4S 2025

On Thursday, Sept 4, 2025 from 10 am to 4:30, An STS Teachbook Editorial Collective will host several of our author-educators for a series of interactive demos of their STS critical pedagogy recipes during the Making & Doing session at the Society for Social Studies of Science Meeting (4S) in Seattle. Making & Doing will take place in rooms 327-329 in Summit (Convention Center)

We look forward to giving attendees a taste of the STS critical pedagogies our teachbook will have to offer. We hope you can join us! 

Schedule of Recipe Demos:

10:15 - 11:00

Sarah McCullough, University of California, Davis

 Is Science Still Racist? Identifying Systemic Bias in Science 

11:00 - 11:45

Rebekah Cupitt, University of London

STS inflected storyboarding

11:45 - 12:30

Nassim Parvin, University of Washington

Paperplane Formations

12:30 - 1:15

Lunch Break

1:15 - 2:00

Gabriel Medina-Kim, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (and possibly Jane Lehr, Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo)

Module Praxis Activities: Learn by Doing at the Intersections of STS, ES & WGQS in an Upper-Division General Education Quantitative Reasoning Course

2:00 - 2:45

Timothy Reedy, University of Maryland, College Park

Who Watches the Watchmen?: Interrogating Surveillance 

2:45 - 3:30

Marisa Brandt, Michigan State University (with a nod to Isaac Record)

Opening the Black Box of Scientific Practice

3:30 - 4:15

Meredith Sattler, Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo

Imperialist Technonatures: Tracing a Species-Commodity’s Trajectory Through the Plantationocene, 1492 – Present

Session Title as it appears the 4S program:

An STS Teachbook Cooking Classes: Interactive STS Critical Pedagogy Learning Activity Recipe Demos