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<br>> On 30 Mar 2018, at 15:22, eurograd--- via Eurograd <
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<br>> I am out of the office until Thursday 12th April.
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<br>> On 30 Mar 2018, at 15:19, eurograd--- via Eurograd <
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<br>> I am out of the office until Thursday 12th April.
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<br>> On 30 Mar 2018, at 15:12, eurograd--- via Eurograd <
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<br>> I am out of the office until Thursday 12th April.
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<br>> On 30 Mar 2018, at 13:38, eurograd--- via Eurograd <
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<br>> ***DEADLINE NOW EXTENDED TO 20
<br>> TH
<br>>  APRIL***
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<br>>
<br>> *Call for Papers*
<br>>
<br>> *The Changing Political Economy of  Research & Innovation (CPERI)*
<br>> *6**th** Annual International Workshop, Monday 23**rd** and Tuesday 24*
<br>> *th** July 2018 (preceeding EASST)*
<br>> *Institute for Social Futures, Lancaster University, UK*
<br>> We cordially invite submissions to the 6th CPERI workshop, following
<br>> previous events at Lancaster (2012), Toronto (2013), San Diego (2015),
<br>> Liège (2016) and Boston (2017).  CPERI is a unique global forum for the
<br>> exploration of scholarship regarding the *political economy of research &
<br>> innovation* (R&I), and hence at the intersection of STS, political
<br>> economy and multiple other cognate disciplines, including
<br>> geography,  sociology, politics, law, education, medicine, engineering,
<br>> computing & philosophy.  The workshop series is dedicated to cultivating a
<br>> growing community of committed and engaged international scholars of the
<br>> political economy of R&I who will continue to build on their CPERI
<br>> connections at subsequent workshops and conferences, and through
<br>> collaboration on research.  We aim to bring this crucial but neglected
<br>> issue more centrally to major conferences in adjacent fields, where it
<br>> remains overlooked.  With these goals in mind, and to assist attendance
<br>> from as diverse a group as possible, the workshop is also being held
<br>*directly
<br>> before the EASST Conference 2018, also in Lancaster*. Attendance is free.
<br>> Our theme for 2018 is:
<br>> *Making & Doing Technoscientific Futures Better*
<br>> *Keynote speakers:*
<br>> *Professor Susan Robertson** (Cambridge) on “the University in an age of
<br>> platform capitalism”*
<br>> *Dr Mark Carrigan** (Cambridge) on “Securing public knowledge amidst the
<br>> epistemic chaos of platform capitalism?”*
<br>> [*Further keynote speakers for the event will be confirmed shortly.*]
<br>> There is no shortage of scholarship identifying the profound challenges of
<br>> contemporary techno-scientific lifeworlds, whether regarding the
<br>> Anthropocene (Hamilton 2017, Bonneuil & Fressoz 2016), emergence of post-
<br>> (or even trans-) human ‘digital disruptive innovation’ (Harari 2016,
<br>Lanier
<br>> 2017), or their conjunction in the emergent ‘technosphere’ (e.g. Haff
<br>2016,
<br>> Szerszynski 2017).  Meanwhile, and not unrelated, public spheres (viz.
<br>> CPERI 2016, Liège) continue to be upended and turbulently transformed as
<br>> digital social media, and potentially their deepening percolation into
<br>> material life, unleashes social division, economic inequality and
<br>‘culture
<br>> wars’ polarization.  Indeed, 2017 was the year in which a new
<br>‘reasonable’
<br>> or ‘respectable’ declinism regarding ‘civilization’ (often
<br>identified with
<br>> Western and/or liberal democracy) went mainstream (Luce 2017, Reich 2017,
<br>> King 2017, Cf Mishra 2017).
<br>> Techno-science, and thereby the research and innovation (R&I) from which
<br>> it hails, plays a crucial role in all these narratives, whether optimistic
<br>> and utopian or pessimistic and dystopian. Indeed, the zeitgeist of doom and
<br>> incipient barbarism raises with renewed urgency long-standing but
<br>> fundamental, ‘big’ questions about the crucial role of science and
<br>> technology and innovation – and, crucially, education – in the
<br>evolution
<br>> and formation of ‘civilizations’ and stable, thriving societies (e.g.
<br>> Mumford 2010, Mauss 2006, Beinhocker 2007).  With digital social media,
<br>> built on privately-owned and deliberately addictive platforms, parsing up
<br>> the public sphere, are there even socio-technical grounds any longer for a
<br>> single, shared (if not ‘objective’) body of knowledge that both binds a
<br>> society together and is itself collaboratively developed and disseminated
<br>> by its R&I and educational institutions?
<br>> To counter this downward dynamic meaningfully, however, demands not just
<br>> the voluntaristic politico-cultural formulation of new ‘narratives’ or
<br>> ‘myths’ for society, even as these are undoubtedly both powerful and
<br>> crucial.  It also calls for new forms of active engagement with R&I that
<br>> both underpin such new narratives with demonstrable practical experiment,
<br>> and thereby bring a hands-on, in-depth and appreciative understanding of
<br>> current R&I frontiers that can possibly direct these from within, not just
<br>> criticize or critique from without. In short, what remains urgently needed
<br>> is *(re-)constructive* research that engages with *changing* and *shaping*
<br>emergent
<br>> techno-scientific futures in ‘better’ directions.  This encompasses not
<br>> only positive agendas and initiatives – e.g. ‘responsible research &
<br>> innovation’ – across the systems of socio-technical life – e.g. health
<br>&
<br>> medicine, environment, mobility, energy, cities & construction, production
<br>> & consumption etc… – but also regarding the institutions and practices
<br>of
<br>> knowledge production.
<br>> This workshop invites papers at the boundaries of STS and political
<br>> economy and/or political ecology, across the spectrum of positions
<br>> (including (trans-) feminist, post-human(ist) and non-Western scholarship),
<br>> investigating new perspectives on key global challenges in ways that offer
<br>> promising approaches to future-oriented action.
<br>> Papers are invited (for 20 minute presentations) on any theme of
<br>> contemporary R&I or higher education, insofar as they engage with making
<br>> and/or doing technoscientific futures better, for instance:
<br>> *We especially encourage contributions from scholars from Eastern and
<br>> Southern Europe and beyond, areas which are not well-represented within our
<br>> network, and with whom we would like to foster opportunities for future
<br>> collaboration, particularly at the early-to-mid career stage.*
<br>> Papers may address (but are not limited to) the following questions:
<br>> ·
<br>>
<br>> The Precarity of the Expert / The Fact
<br>> ·
<br>>
<br>> The Politics of Expertise
<br>> ·
<br>>
<br>> Values and Valuation in Science, Technology and Medicine
<br>> ·
<br>>
<br>> Austerity and the Economics of Innovation
<br>> ·
<br>>
<br>> Challenges to Responsible Innovation
<br>> ·
<br>>
<br>> The Geography of Alternative Knowledge
<br>> ·
<br>>
<br>> Diverse Knowers and Knowing / Feminist Knowledge
<br>> ·
<br>>
<br>> Commercial Imperatives in Research and Innovation
<br>> ·
<br>>
<br>> Scientific Ambiguity and Environmental Science
<br>> ·
<br>>
<br>> Complexity and Scientific Decision-making
<br>> ·
<br>>
<br>> Technologically-driven Social/Political Change
<br>> ·
<br>>
<br>> Ontological / Epistemic Politics of Emerging Technoscientific Fields
<br>> *Abstracts should be no more than 300 words, and should include the
<br>> author’s name, institutional affiliation, and contact information.
<br>> Questions and abstracts should be sent via email to
<br>**CPERIWorkshop2018@gmail.com
<br>> * * by 20 April.*
<br>> We gratefully acknowledge the support of Lancaster’s *Institute for
<br>> Social Futures* in hosting this event.
<br>>
<br>> Organizers:
<br>> David Tyfield (Lancaster University)
<br>> Stevie de Saille (Sheffield University)
<br>> Janja Komljenovic (Lancaster University)
<br>>
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