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<br>*CFP: EASST 2018, 25-28th July 2018, Lancaster UK*
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<br>The room where it happens: inclusion, exclusion and power in STS research
<br>and practice
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<br>Convenors: Katharine Howell and Craig Jones (Lancaster University)
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<br>*No-one really knows how the game is played*
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<br>*The art of the trade*
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<br>*How the sausage gets made*
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<br>*We just assume that it happens*
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<br>*But no-one else is in*
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<br>*The room where it happens*
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<br>Lin-Manuel Miranda, *Hamilton *
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<br>Interviews, conferences, cabinet meetings, political summits. Meetings, as
<br>the physical (and increasingly, virtual) bringing together of people in one
<br>room, play a central part both in the practice of doing STS research and in
<br>the things we research. Who is in the room where it happens and who is
<br>absent? Who speaks, who is silent? Who listens, who and what is heard? What
<br>are the power dynamics of meetings, and what are the implications of these
<br>for research, policy and practice? How do these relate to intersectional
<br>structures of oppression and privilege acting both within and beyond the
<br>room? How do the interactions in our research practice disrupt and
<br>reinforce these dynamics? Who do we as researchers include and exclude? Are
<br>absence and exclusion the same thing? And how is what happens in the room
<br>reported outside it? Who is written into and out of journalism, research,
<br>history?
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<br>In this panel, we invite participants to explore the politics of meetings
<br>through asymmetries and structures of power including, but not limited to:
<br>coloniality, race, class, gender, (dis)ability, sexuality, and religion.
<br>Our aim is to facilitate discussion around how our work is implicitly and
<br>explicitly imbued with a multitude of power relations. We welcome
<br>submissions both of standard paper presentations and less conventional
<br>formats.
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<br>Please submit abstracts of up to 250 words *by 14th February 2018* at
<br>https://nomadit.co.uk/easst/easst2018/conferencesuite.php/panels/6256
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<br>If you have any queries, please contact us at katharine.howell@gmail.com
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