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                Dear colleagues,
<br>
<br>I would like to share with you the workshop announcement and CfP below and
<br>here:
<br>
<br>http://ces.uc.pt/pt/agenda-noticias/agenda-de-eventos/2018/how-can-science-an
<br>d-technology-studies-help-to-reflect/apresentacao
<br>
<br>It would be great if you would distribute it among potentially interested
<br>persons.
<br>
<br>Best, Nina
<br>
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<br>
<br>Paper workshop
<br>
<br>*How can Science and Technology Studies help to reflect on the political
<br>crisis associated with refugees and asylum seekers?*
<br>
<br>*26-28 September 2018* *taking place at CES, Coimbra, Portugal*
<br>Call for Papers
<br>
<br>In this workshop we focus on the ongoing political crisis associated with
<br>refugees/ asylum seekers/ forced migrants as an object of study. So we ask
<br>how Science and Technology Studies (STS) approaches may contribute to
<br>understanding the sociotechnical and epistemic aspects of forced migration
<br>and displacement, (re)integration, resettlement and related debates and
<br>practices. Based on the practice-oriented empirical commitments and
<br>conceptual repertoires of the field, various developments and
<br>configurations have lent themselves to fascinating STS studies (for
<br>instance Boswell 2012; Broeders 2007; Jacobsen 2017; M’Charek 2017;
<br>Tazzioli 2017; van der Ploeg 1999). We aim to gather contributions that
<br>make use of the theories and problematisations of STS and that may include
<br>but not be limited to the following issues:
<br>
<br>- border and state surveillance technologies: management of refugees’
<br>mobility;
<br>
<br>- objects, infrastructures and spaces: how classifications and standards
<br>envisage smooth protocols while producing human suffering;
<br>
<br>- digital technologies among asylum-seekers and transportation networks:
<br>moral and political capacitation;
<br>
<br>- sociotechnical controversies around systems and formulae being devised
<br>for asylum-seeker allocation throughout Europe,
<br>
<br>- local formats of doing politics at the margins of democracy (e.g.
<br>refugee-organised actions in informal camps or detention centres),
<br>
<br>- issues of exclusion and orders of visibility: critically explore the
<br>positioning of refugees not recognized as humans of their own right in
<br>sociotechnical assemblages;
<br>
<br>We invite scholars to critically reassess individual research contributions
<br>through joint discussion of each draft paper. Abstracts are invited from
<br>researchers (including refugee scholars) in the field of STS from a wide
<br>array of European countries. Participants are expected to present their own
<br>contribution and to be discussant on other papers.
<br>
<br>Coupled with the workshop, a science café is planned under the title:
<br>“Science and Technology: Helping for refugees’ integration in
<br>Portugal?”
<br>with inputs from participants and other practitioners in a public space in
<br>Coimbra. In 2019, a new invitation will be issued to submit revised/full
<br>chapters for peer review, to be compiled in an anthology and afterwards
<br>submitted to an international academic publisher.
<br>
<br>*Registration Fee and Financial Support:*
<br>
<br>There is a registration fee of 30 Euros per person covering meals. The
<br>workshop is financially supported by the European Association for the Study
<br>of Science and Technology (EASST ), so that travel and
<br>accommodation costs can be partly covered (5 persons can be supported up to
<br>200 Euros). Please indicate in your application if you wish to be
<br>considered for a bursary. The workshop receives additional support from CES
<br> (University of Coimbra) and the EXCHANGE project
<br> (CECS ,
<br>University of Minho)
<br>
<br>*How to apply?*
<br>
<br>Applications should include a short CV (max. 2 pages, including a list of 3
<br>most relevant publications) and an abstract of a paper (max. 500 words with
<br>3-5 keywords) and should be submitted using this *form*
<br>
<br>
<br>
<br>*Important dates:*
<br>
<br>Abstract submission deadline: 15th of April 2018; Notification of
<br>acceptance: 1st of May 2018; Short chapter draft (5-7 pages) submission
<br>deadline: 1st September 2018.
<br>
<br>
<br>*Organizers and contact:* Nina Amelung (EXCHANGE project, CECS, Uminho) &
<br>Gaia Giuliani, Cristiano Gianolla, Olga Solovova, Joana Sousa Ribeiro (ITM
<br>group, CES, University of Coimbra). Please direct all your queries to
<br>nina.amelung@ics.uminho.pt and cgianolla@ces.uc.pt
<br>
<br>
<br>*References:*
<br>
<br>Boswell, C. 2012. *The Political Uses of Expert Knowledge: Immigration
<br>Policy and Social Research*. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
<br>
<br>Broeders, Dennis. 2007. “The New Digital Borders of Europe EU Databases and
<br>the Surveillance of Irregular Migrants.” *International Sociology* 22 (1):
<br>71–92.
<br>
<br>M’charek, Amade. 2017. “‘Dead-Bodies-at-the-Border’: Distributed
<br>Evidence
<br>and Emerging Forensic Infrastructure for Identification.” Pp. 145–64 in
<br>*Bodies
<br>of evidence: Anthropological studies of security, knowledge and power*,
<br>edited by M. Maguire, U. Rao, and N. Zurawski. Durham, NC: Duke University
<br>Press.
<br>
<br>Jacobsen, Katja Lindskov. 2017. “On Humanitarian Refugee Biometrics and New
<br>Forms of Intervention” *Journal of Intervention and Statebuilding* 11 (4).
<br>
<br>Van der Ploeg, Irma. 1999. “The Illegal Body: ‘Eurodac’ and the Politics
<br>of
<br>Biometric Identification.” *Ethics and Information Technology*
<br>1(4):295–302.
<br>
<br>Tazzioli, Martina. 2017. “Containment through mobility: migrants’ spatial
<br>disobediences and the reshaping of control through the hotspot
<br>system.” *Journal
<br>of Ethnic and Migration Studies*, 1-16.
<br>
<br>
<br>
<br>--
<br>
<br>*Dr. Nina Amelung*
<br>
<br>Research Fellow
<br>
<br>Project EXCHANGE (2015-2020), funded by the European Research Council
<br>(Grant agreement 648608)
<br>
<br>exchange.ics.uminho.pt
<br>
<br>Communication and Society Research Centre (CECS) | University of Minho,
<br>Portugal
<br>
<br>
<br>
<br>--
<br>
<br>*Dr. Nina Amelung*
<br>
<br>Research Fellow
<br>
<br>Project EXCHANGE (2015-2020), funded by the European Research Council
<br>(Grant agreement 648608)
<br>
<br>exchange.ics.uminho.pt
<br>
<br>Communication and Society Research Centre (CECS) | University of Minho,
<br>Portugal
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