CFP: Please consider submitting a paper abstract for our open panel #71 to be
<br>held at the
<br>4S Conference, 29 August1 Sept 2018 at Sydney, Australia
<br>https://4s2018sydney.org/
<br>Submissions should be in the form of abstracts of up to 250 words and they
<br>should include the papers main arguments, methods, and contributions to STS.
<br>The deadline is Friday 1 February 2018. See more information at
<br>https://4s2018sydney.org/accepted-open-panels-4s/
<br>Submit panel #71 paper abstracts at
<br>https://convention2.allacademic.com/one/ssss/4s18/
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<br>Open Panel #71: Revisiting feminist technoscience:
<br>Exploring disciplinary diversity and translocal issues in/of gender in/of
<br>academia
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<br>Feminist technoscience studies have developed alongside STS for at least four
<br>decades, generating critical accounts of the making and doing of gender in
<br>technoscience, including post-colonial and intersectional issues. This panel
<br>invites papers that go further, exploring diversities, disunities, and
<br>translocal aspects of gender in/of academia and that transcend the dominant
<br>focus on biosciences and computer science, to investigate empirically and
<br>theoretically the doing of gender in physical sciences, engineering, and human
<br>sciences.
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<br>For a long time STS has been concerned with diversities in/of the
<br>technosciences through concepts like epistemic cultures and cultures of
<br>evaluation. This panel will explore how such insights may be brought to bear
<br>on feminist analyses while critically reflecting on its own concepts and
<br>theoretical strategies. For example, most feminist technoscience has invoked
<br>biomedical metaphors in the construction of social theory, running the risk of
<br>all such theories: essentialism, binaries, anthropomorphism, etc.
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<br>To expose the limits of that work we invite contributions
<br>* that explore the building of feminist technoscience theoretical work first
<br>with physical and chemical concepts like equilibrium, spectra, acceleration,
<br>catalyst, scale, and branes, and
<br>* secondly by thinking technoscience outside the conventional 18-20c
<br>strategies for building social theory.
<br>An empirical grounding will be appreciated in addressing the dynamics of
<br>multi-dimensional and translocal gender balances and gender articulations
<br>across disciplines, professions, organizations, and infrastructures. What kind
<br>of subpolitics and catalyst actors are introduced in gender reforms in/of
<br>academic institutions? How do migrations and diasporas make a difference?
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<br>Organizers:
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<br>Knut H. Srensen, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU)
<br>
<br>knut.sorensen@ntnu.no
<br>http://www.ntnu.edu/employees/knut.sorensen
<br>Sharon Traweek, University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)
<br>traweek@history.ucla.edu
<br>http://www.genderstudies.ucla.edu/faculty/sharon-traweek
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