Message posted on 12/12/2019
CfA | Education and/as its making: Vulnerabilities in the sociomaterial worlds of learning (8th STS Italia Conf.)
* * * apologies for unintended crosspostings * * * <br> <br> <br> <br>Education and/as its making <br>Vulnerabilities in the sociomaterial worlds of learning <br> <br>8th STS Italia Conference <br>18-20 June 2020, University of Trieste (Italy) <br> <br> <br> <br>Convenors <br> <br>Assunta Viteritti, “Sapienza” University of Rome <br>(assunta.viteritti@uniroma1.it) <br> <br>Leonardo Piromalli, “Sapienza” University of Rome <br>(leonardo.piromalli@uniroma1.it) <br> <br> <br> <br>New vulnerabilities arise in all fields of education and learning today. <br>This track aims at dis/entangling them in their proximal and distal <br>effects. <br> <br>(Meta)data and infrastructures deluge as tools for researching and <br>governing education (Williamson & Piattoeva, 2019) at policy and <br>practice levels. Educational apps and platforms sculpt users’ <br>subjectivities, enact learning regimes and perform relationships thus <br>making ‘platform societies’ operative (Decuypere, 2019; Van Dijck et <br>al., 2018). Standards are adopted in ‘governing at a distance’ efforts <br>as assurances of objectivity, transparency and trustworthiness (Landri, <br>2018). Networks composed by experts, edu-businesses, edtech stakeholders <br>emerge as new macro-actors doing governing work on education beyond the <br>state boundaries and the formal sphere (Normand, 2016; Williamson, <br>2019). Knowledge and disciplines are constantly in the making as <br>unstable effects of translations and inscriptions of practical <br>accomplishments which are materially, discursively, aesthetically, <br>affectively mediated (Fenwick, 2015; Taylor, 2018; Gherardi, 2019). <br>Policies too are entangled with such complex and multiple processes as <br>fast, mobile, unpredictable assemblages that are always on the verge of <br>becoming something different (Gorur, 2011; Cort, 2014; Williamson, <br>Rensfeldt, Player-Koro & Selwyn, 2019). Power-laden discourses and <br>theories are translated across multiple scalar levels through laws, <br>casual chatting, scientific papers, research methods and techniques <br>(Nespor, 1994; Ozga & Gerwitz, 1994). <br> <br>Various effects emerge from the unstable relationships connecting these <br>f/actors within the increasingly intricate space-times of educational <br>processes and practices. The end of the programme institutionnel of <br>modernity (Dubet, 2008) brings new tensions that call into question the <br>relations between humans and non-humans in the fields of education. On <br>the one hand, processes of democratisation of knowledge emerge which <br>lead to the co-construction of spaces of inclusion. On the other, new <br>vulnerabilities and forms of exclusion arise through processes of <br>datafication, dataveillance, blackboxing, commensuration, gender <br>discrimination, etc. <br> <br>This track aims at performing a shared space for reflection about <br>education and/as its making in vulnerable societies. We thus welcome <br>contributions which deploy empirical cases, theories, methods and <br>sensitivities for doing work in and on the world(s) where education is <br>governed, practised, assembled (Law & Singleton, 2013). <br> <br>Possible topics of interest include the following: <br> <br>· what does the ‘platformisation’ of education do today? <br> <br>· how do standardisation and standards in school and university <br>generate vulnerability? <br> <br>· how (where?) do education policies morph when they move (Staunæs <br>et al., 2018)? <br> <br>· what methods, techniques and practices to engage with and <br>contrast vulnerabilities in education? <br> <br>· how can spaces, objects, texts, etc., of education and learning <br>produce or/and reduce vulnerabilities? <br> <br> <br> <br>Deadline for submission: 9 February 2020 <br> <br>Details for submissions: <br>https://www.stsitaliaconf2020.com/call-for-abstracts <br> <br>Conference website: https://www.stsitaliaconf2020.com/ <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br>-- <br>________________________________________________________ <br>Le informazioni <br>contenute in questo messaggio di posta elettronica sono strettamente <br>riservate e indirizzate esclusivamente al destinatario. Si prega di non <br>leggere, fare copia, inoltrare a terzi o conservare tale messaggio se non <br>si è il legittimo destinatario dello stesso. Qualora tale messaggio sia <br>stato ricevuto per errore, si prega di restituirlo al mittente e di <br>cancellarlo permanentemente dal proprio computer. <br> <br>The information <br>contained in this e mail message is strictly confidential and intended for <br>the use of the addressee only. If you are not the intended recipient, <br>please do not read, copy, forward or store it on your computer. If you have <br>received the message in error, please forward it back to the sender and <br>delete it permanently from your computer system. <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
EASST-Eurograd
mailing list
30 recent messages
30 recent messages
- 07/05/2024 Gentle Reminder: IAS-STS Fellowship Program 2024/25
- 07/05/2024 REMINDER Postdoc vacancy > politics of EU sustainable agricultural policies (3 years) at Utrecht University
- 07/05/2024 CfA - Nuclear revival and legacies conference - Paris - 21-22 October 2024
- 06/05/2024 Registration deadline May the 10th: DASTS'24 Conference on Elegies of waste, surplus, and excess
- 06/05/2024 Talk: Lara Houston "Planetary Computing and Repair" (Maintenance and Philosophy SIG: Thursday 9th May 1800-1915 UTC+1)
- 06/05/2024 Final CfR: Workshop on Philosophy of Cosmic Inflation (May 24th)
- 06/05/2024 Free webinar: Diagnosing universities
- 02/05/2024 Live broadcast of the "Big Tech as an Actor of Global Security and Conflicts" conference (May 2-3)
- 02/05/2024 International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Quantum Computing (BAIQC 2024), Roanne, France, October 30-31, 2024
- 02/05/2024 Reminder: EASST/4S 2024: Short Story, Flash Fiction, and Poetry Competition - deadline 1 June 2024
- 02/05/2024 CFP: Digitalisation of energy communities workshop in Helsinki, October 2-3
- 29/04/2024 Reminder: CFP open for the Swedish STS Conference 2024 - submission deadline 17 May!
- 29/04/2024 7th STS Italia Summer School | ArTS in Society - Application deadline extended May 3rd, 2024
- 29/04/2024 REMINDER : 7th Innovation in Information Infrastructures (III) Workshop (16th - 18th September 2024 ESADE Barcelona) CFP CLOSES 31 May 2024
- 26/04/2024 Reminder: CfA FELLOWSHIPS at CAPAS 2025-2026 Biopolitics
- 26/04/2024 PhD position-MDU Sweden
- 26/04/2024 Funded PhD Position Available – COFUND Marie SkÅ‚odowska-Curie Actions
- 26/04/2024 Reminder: 1 day left for grants to NSU/Cybioses, Speculative Technologies
- 26/04/2024 Job Opportunity: Postdoctoral position in Natural Resources and Sustainable Development
- 26/04/2024 Hiring: Research Associate (PDRA) in Responsible Research & Innovation (Future Biomanufacturing)
- 26/04/2024 Funded PhD Scholarship, University College Dublin, mental health and LLM
- 26/04/2024 CfP | SI Bureaucratic reinventions: The more-than-market arrangements of public action
- 24/04/2024 PhD Position at STS Vienna
- 24/04/2024 CfA: International Conference "Popular Health and Social Media" (University of Siegen, 12-13 September 2024)
- 24/04/2024 [CfP] Digital Transformations and Climate Change
- 24/04/2024 Hau of Finance Online Seminar Series - 'Crisis, Speculation and the Making of a Climate Haven" - Sarah Besky, Cornell University - Tuesday April 30 @15h CEST
- 24/04/2024 Funded PhD in AI and libraries, University College Dublin
- 20/04/2024 CFP: Workshop on Generative AI as a method in social sciences
- 20/04/2024 Webinar Reminder: Alternative Pathways for Patient Access to Advanced Therapies
- 20/04/2024 CfP: 6th International Workshop on Formal Methods for Autonomous Systems (FMAS 2024)