Dear all,
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<br>please find the call for our upcoming conference - by EASST & 4S - at
<br>https://www.easst4s2020prague.org/
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<br>Deadline for Panel proposals is 31st Oct 2019
<br>https://www.easst4s2020prague.org/call-for-papers-and-panels/
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<br>This is the focus:
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<br>Locating and Timing Matters: Significance and agency of STS in emerging
<br>worlds
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<br>How has the world changed since 2016 when EASST and 4S met in Barcelona?
<br>Since then, efforts to frame “alternative” approaches and futures appear
<br>to have been co-opted by powerful actors. Big Data has been fiercely
<br>replacing former identities with digital identities for humans, animals
<br>and artefacts. Geopolitical and epistemic centres have further
<br>multiplied. The global temperature of the planet continues to increase,
<br>as do global emissions of CO2. Wildlife biodiversity is decreasing,
<br>while the first CRISPR-Cas engineered babies with altered germlines were
<br>born. Modern nation-states have become more unstable even as we see the
<br>tentative emergence of new collectives and solidarities. The #metoo
<br>campaign has sparked a new wave of articulations of and conflict over
<br>gender power asymmetries contributing energy to other ongoing efforts
<br>against asymmetric differentiations and exclusions in and beyond
<br>academic contexts.
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<br>These are just some of the major shifts that create feelings of urgency,
<br>unease and confusion. Calls to “act now” proliferate. And yet, while
<br>technoscience and its products ever more tangibly shape our planet and
<br>lives, politicians, publics, and even academics feel helpless.
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<br>We invite STS scholars to examine such spiralling changes that generate
<br>these feelings of urgency and powerlessness in ways that make our
<br>research relevant to wider academic and non-academic publics. For the
<br>meeting in Prague, we especially welcome inquiries into longer term
<br>continuities and discontinuities and material legacies of modernity—both
<br>desired and undesirable—that have been built into our sociotechnical
<br>infrastructures and ways of living. We want to pay special attention to
<br>the ways in which geopolitical, economic and epistemic globalization is
<br>localized and distributed over Planet Earth. What are the means and ends
<br>of STS in different places? What does it take to intervene and be
<br>relevant here and there? Whom do we want to speak and act with? Who
<br>wants to speak and act with us?
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<br>We encourage STS researchers to ask reflexive questions with regard to
<br>our own existing and potential practical contributions to these ongoing
<br>developments. How do we, can we and should we (re)organize our own
<br>professional practices to the differences we desire? How may we
<br>collaborate across regions, genders, races, religions or disciplines
<br>without reproducing inequalities? How shall we publish, (co)author and
<br>cite in inclusive ways? How do we rethink and remake ways of recognizing
<br>and crediting the work of others in an era of pervasive audit and
<br>(self)tracking? How do we liaise, meet up and travel responsibly in a
<br>time of climate disruption and overproduction of waste? How can we
<br>engage with policymaking and society at large amidst the dynamics of
<br>“alternative facts”?
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<br>We welcome experiments in conference formats. Apart from regular paper
<br>sessions, we also invite submission of walking seminars, performances
<br>and participatory formats of knowledge making and exchange. We plan to
<br>collaborate with local artists as unruly participant witnesses and
<br>agents of intervention into the conference.
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<br>https://www.easst4s2020prague.org/focus-and-themes/
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