Message posted on 09/02/2018

Last reminder | Announcement WTMC Spring Workshop DOING COMPARISON, 2 - 4 May 2018, Conference center Soeterbeeck, Deursen-Dennenburg, NL | Please register by 15 February 2018

                WTMC Spring Workshop DOING COMPARISON
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<br>2 - 4 May 2018
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<br>Conference centre Soeterbeeck, Deursen-Dennenburg, the Netherlands
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<br>Comparison is pervasive throughout Science, Technology and Innovation Studies.
<br>As STIS students, we study science or technology or innovations in two
<br>different countries, we look at how participation to music varies between
<br>groups, at how knowledge or technologies (may be made to) travel between
<br>contexts, or how concepts have been used in different periods of time. We
<br>search for similarities and differences, for ways to generalize from
<br>case-studies, or for research designs that afford such generalizations right
<br>from the start. We're deeply into comparison even if we're often hardly aware
<br>of it.
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<br>This workshop sets out to articulate and render reflexive STIS's engagements
<br>with comparison. When do we do comparison, and why? How is comparison done,
<br>epistemologically as well as practically? How can research objects be made
<br>comparable? Does comparison always require symmetry? How does comparison
<br>articulate or even produce difference? What are the assumptions and
<br>infrastructures we build our comparative work with? What is a case-study a
<br>study of, and what do we do when we compare countries, data-sets, or contexts?
<br>And what do we make of the irreducibility, the situatedness, the singularity,
<br>the context-specificity that as STIS researchers we've come to value so much
<br>and that were a solid part of our critique of comparison?
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<br>Different than usual, we will work around one central publication: Practising
<br>Comparison (J. Deville, M. Guggenheim & Z. Hrdlikov (eds), 2015, Mattering
<br>Press).
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<br>The workshop is aimed at PhD students across STIS.
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<br>Confirmed speakers include: Anna Harris, Sarah de Rijcke and Joe Deville.
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<br>The registration form for this workshop is now available
<br>here.
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<br>Please register by 15 February 2018!
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<br>Costs for WTMC members: meals 10 EUR /day.
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<br>Costs for everyone else: 695 EUR, including fee, accommodation and meals.
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<br>If you have any content-related questions regarding this workshop, please feel
<br>free to contact Govert Valkenburg:
<br>g.valkenburg@cwts.leidenuniv.nl or
<br>Bernike Pasveer:
<br>b.pasveer@maastrichtuniversity.nl
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<br>For practical questions please contact Elize Schiweck:
<br>e.schiweck@utwente.nl
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