Message posted on 18/10/2019
[STS Italia] deadline extension to October, 31 - VIII Conference of STS Italia DIS/ENTANGLING TECHNOSCIENCE
Dear all, <br> <br>after several requests to postpone the deadline of the call for <br>abstracts for the conference 8th STS Italia Conference "DIS/ENTANGLING <br>TECHNOSCIENCE: vulnerability, responsibility and justice", and taking <br>into account that the current deadline falls on Sunday, we decided a <br>*deadline extension until Thursday 31st October 2019*. The further <br>timeline holds unchanged. <br> <br>Below you may find the call for abstract, also available at the <br>conference website: https://www.stsitaliaconf2020.com/ <br> <br>We hope this can be helpful for everybody. <br> <br>Best wishes, <br> <br>Assunta Viteritti, Simone Arnaldi & Stefano Crabu (the board of STS Italia) <br> <br>****** <br> <br>*/Dis/Entangling Technoscience: <br>/* <br> <br>*/Vulnerability, Responsibility and Justice/**/ <br>/* <br> <br>*/8/**/^th /**/STS/**//**/Italia/**//**/Conference,/**/University of <br>Trieste, Italy, 18–20 June 2020 <br>/* <br> <br>CALLFORTRACKS <br> <br>The *8th STS Italia Conference* will be held in *Trieste, Italy, 18 to <br>20 June 2020*, by the Italian Society of Science and Technology Studies, <br>in collaboration with the Department of Political and Social Sciences of <br>the University of Trieste. <br> <br>We are now inviting proposals for tracks. The selected tracks will be <br>subsequently included as part of the formal call for papers. The <br>submitted tracks are meant to engage with the general theme of the <br>conference: “*Dis/Entangling Technoscience: Vulnerability, <br>Responsibility and Justice*”. <br> <br>This major theme refers to the complex and ambivalent role of <br>technoscience and innovation in constituting societies – making <br>possibilities flourish, but also creating new vulnerabilities. The <br>emergence of new, severe forms of labour exploitation through digital <br>platforms and algorithms, the risk of massive and hidden surveillance <br>practices and the related commodification of personal information, the <br>emergence of novel forms of genetic discrimination in the context of <br>genomic medicine and the public unease with and controversy over the <br>public accountability of expert communities are just some of the most <br>well known and vivid examples of the epistemic and biopolitical <br>importance of re-considering technoscience in the context of justice and <br>vulnerability. <br> <br>Indeed, in societies intensely shaped by technoscience, vulnerability – <br>the exposure to harm and the susceptibility to subsequent loss – can be <br>understood as an emergent property of the relationships between human <br>actors and material objects, technological artefacts and infrastructures <br>and social processes and structures. However, the effects of these <br>processes (the levels, intensities and types of vulnerabilities) are <br>unevenly distributed and closely interconnected in space and time and <br>across different social worlds. Such an unequal distribution points to <br>the underlying, fundamental question of justice in a “technologically <br>dense society”. More broadly, it refers to exploring the reasons for <br>this vulnerability, addressing topics such as the forms and sources of <br>power and participation, the limits of control and epistemic <br>uncertainty, the expectations, representations and interests of the <br>social actors and the (often assumed) neutrality of scientific knowledge <br>and technology. It refers to examining how responsibilities for this <br>state of affairs are defined and assigned, addressing topics such as <br>models of governance and regulation, ethics and values, hegemony and <br>contestation and discourse and legitimation. For these reasons, justice <br>and responsibility in technologically dense societies not only represent <br>an important research object for science and technology studies and <br>other related fields, but their exploration is also a way to assert the <br>civic commitment of the STS community itself. <br> <br>The conference will welcome empirical and theoretical contributions <br>addressing diverse aspects of the social study of science, technology <br>and innovation from different disciplines and fields, such as <br>anthropology, economics, design, history, law, philosophy, political <br>science, psychology, semiotics and sociology. <br> <br>*Track proposals should be submitted* via email to the organising <br>committee, , *by 31 <br>October 2019*. Along with traditional *academic sessions*, the <br>submission of alternative formats is encouraged. These can include (but <br>are not limited to) roundtables, *workshop-style sessions, theatrical <br>debates*, and other *performances*. Applicants are encouraged to engage <br>with the general theme of the conference. <br> <br>We welcome proposals covering a wide variety of topics and domains, <br>including (but not limited to) the following: <br> <br>● Co-creation in science and technology <br>● Communication, media and digital technologies <br>● Critical perspectives on consumption practices <br>● Design practices in and outside of official/conventional research and <br>development settings <br>● Coping with vulnerability in and through education <br>● Engaging art in technoscience <br>● Environmental sustainability, adaptation and resilience <br>● Expectations, promises and visions of science, technology and innovation <br>● Forms and practices of public participation and engagement <br>● The gender–technology relationship <br>● Grassroots innovations for sustainable development <br>● Hackerspaces, makerspaces and DIY centres <br>● Information infrastructures and infrastructuring practices <br>● Platforms, algorithms and the organisation of society <br>● Political economy of science, technology and innovation <br>● Medical practices and the public shaping of biomedical research <br>● Postcolonial technoscience: science and technology in non-Western <br>countries <br>● Responsibility in science and innovation <br>● Science, technology and innovation policy <br>● Work, organisation and technology <br> <br>Submissions for thematic tracks should be written in Italian or English <br>using the template available in attachment**and at the following link: < <br>bit.ly/2krHKE0 >. They should include a short <br>description of the proposed theme (max. 400 words) and information about <br>the convenors (max. 50 words for each convenor, including email <br>addresses). Convenors will be notified of track acceptance by 18 <br>November 2019. <br> <br>Convenors will independently set session topics and organise each track <br>according to the numerical constraints specified by the conference <br>organisers. Convenors who consider an abstract interesting but not <br>suited to their thematic track will be free to redirect the abstract to <br>the scientific board for submission to another track. If a track draws <br>fewer than three abstracts, the scientific board will decide whether to <br>run the track or merge it with another track. <br> <br>*IMPORTANT* *DATES* <br> <br> * October 31, 2019: Deadline for track submission <br> * November 18, 2019: Notification of track acceptance or rejection <br> * November 25, 2019: Conference announced with a call for abstracts <br> * February 9, 2020: Deadline for abstract submission <br> * March 2, 2020: Notification of abstract acceptance or rejection <br> * March 29, 2020: Early registration deadline <br> * April 19, 2020: Closing date for registration <br> * May 24, 2020: Publication of the final conference programme <br> * June 18–20, 2020: Conference <br> <br>/-----------------------------/ <br> <br>/Download the "Call for Track <br>"/ <br> <br>/Download the "Template " for submitting thematic <br>tracks / <br> <br>/CONTACTS: *stsitaliaconf@gmail.com <br>*/ <br> <br>*SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE* <br> <br>Simone Arnaldi (University of Trieste) <br>Attila Bruni (University of Trento) <br>Stefano Crabu (Politecnico di Milano) <br>Marina Maestrutti (Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne) <br>Paolo Magaudda (University of Padova) <br>Federico Neresini (University of Padova) <br>Giuseppina Pellegrino (University of Calabria) <br>Manuela Perrotta (Queen Mary University of London) <br>Sara Tonolo (University of Trieste) <br>Assunta Viterriti (The Sapienza University of Rome) <br>Paolo Volonté (Politecnico di Milano <br> <br>**** <br> <br>*** <br> <br>FURTHER INFO:https://www.stsitaliaconf2020.com/** <br>_______________________________________________ <br>EASST's Eurograd mailing list <br>Eurograd (at) lists.easst.net <br>Unsubscribe or edit subscription options: http://lists.easst.net/listinfo.cgi/eurograd-easst.net <br> <br>Meet us via https://twitter.com/STSeasst <br> <br>Report abuses of this list to Eurograd-owner@lists.easst.netview formatted text
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