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Choreographies: Rhythms and Movements in Research - 4S/EASST Prague 2020
4S/EASST Prague 2020 <br>24. Choreographies: Rhythms and Movements in Research <br>Andrea Schikowitz, TU Munich; Niki Vermeulen, University of Edinburgh; Filip <br>Vostal, Czech Academy of Sciences <br>Discussant: Charis Thompson, University of California, Berkeley <br>This session aims to explore intersections between temporal and spatial <br>dimensions of research through the mobilization of the concept of <br>'choreography'. With an origin in the Greek language, combining 'dance' with <br>'writing', the artistic metaphor evokes movements and their routinized <br>sequences (cf. Pickering 1995 and his notion of 'dance of agency' and his <br>overall theory of 'mangle of practice'). Emanating Thompson's (1998, 2005) <br>concept of 'ontological choreography' - capturing the dynamic coordination of <br>scientific, technical, legal, political, financial, relational and emotional <br>aspects in clinics for Assisted Reproductive Technology - STS researchers have <br>studied coordination and (de)alignment of research configurations, while <br>leaving room for non-linear narratives, multiplicities and tensions. Analyses <br>cover choreographies of disciplinary and trans-disciplinary fields, <br>participation and identity formation (see work of Felt 2016; Moreira 2018; <br>Schikowitz 2017, 2020; Vermeulen 2018). In turn, Coeckelbergh (2019) recently <br>used choreography to show how science and (digital) technology can shape and <br>organize human thinking, movements and lives. Consequently, this panel invites <br>papers that further explore rhythms and movements in research, including its <br>embodiment and imprint. We would like to bring together scholars working on <br>the role of time and/or space in research to discuss spatio-temporal patterns, <br>e.g. pacing, duration, circulation,(de)synchronisation, (de)centering, ebbing <br>and flowing, acceleration and deceleration, openness and closedness, and the <br>like. <br> <br>Coeckelberg, M (2019). Moved by Machines. Performance Metaphors and Philosophy <br>of Technology. London: Routledge. <br>Felt, Ulrike (2016) 'The Temporal Choreographies of Participation. Thinking <br>Innovation and Society From a Time-Sensitive Perspective'. In Chilvers, Jason, <br>and Kearnes, Matthew (eds), Remaking Participation: Science, Environment and <br>Emergent Publics. (London/New York: Routledge): 178-198 <br>Moreira, T (2018). 'Translating the Cell Biology of Aging? On the Importance <br>of Choreographing Knowledge' Seminar at STS University of Michigan, February <br>12. <br>Pickering, A. (1995). The Mangle of Practice. Time, Agency and Science. <br>Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press. <br>Schikowitz, A. (2017). Choreographies of Togetherness. Re-Ordering <br>Collectivity and Individuality in Transdisciplinary Sustainability Research in <br>Austria. doctoral thesis. Vienna: Department of Science and Technology <br>Studies/University of Vienna. <br>Schikowitz, Andrea (2020, forthcoming): 'Being a Good Researcher in <br>Transdisciplinary Research - Identity Beyond Community?'; Sociology of the <br>Sciences Yearbook "Communities and Identities in Contemporary Technosciences <br>", Eds: Karen Kastenhofer and Susan Molyneux-Hodgson. <br> <br>Thompson, C. (2005). Making Parents. The Ontological Choreography of <br>Reproductive Technologies. Cambridge: MIT Press. <br>Thompson/Cussins, C. (1998). Ontological Choreography: Agency for Women <br>Patients in an Infertility Clinic. In M. Berg & A. Mol (Eds.), Differences in <br>Medicine. Untraveling Practices, Techniques and Bodies (pp. 166-201). <br>Durham/London: Duke University Press. <br>Vermeulen, N. (2018). The Choreography of a New Research Field: Aggregation, <br>Circulation and Oscillation. Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space, <br>50(8), 1764-1784. <br>Contact: nikivermeulen@gmail.com <br>Keywords: Choreography, time, space, research practice <br>Categories: Knowledge, Theory and Method <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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