Message posted on 03/01/2019

CFP 4S 2018 Open Panel: ‘Feminist Technoscience by Other Means’

                ***With apologies for cross-posting***
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<br>Dear colleagues,
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<br>Please consider submitting an abstract to our Open Panel at the 4S Annual
<br>Meeting in New Orleans (4S):
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<br>
<br>*Feminist Technoscience by Other Means: Reconfiguring Research Practices
<br>for World-Making Beyond the Academy*
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<br>We particularly encourage submissions by early-career scholars eager to
<br>showcase their emancipatory engagements with technoscience.
<br>
<br>*Deadline: Feb 1, 2019.*
<br>*The 4S Annual Meeting - “Innovations, Interruptions, Regenerations" - New
<br>Orleans, Louisiana, September 4-7.*
<br>*Submission Details*: https://www.4s2019.org/call-for-submissions/
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<br>*NOTE:* If this panel appeals to you but you will not be able to physically
<br>attend the conference for whatever reason, we still want to encourage your
<br>submission and are determined to support your virtual participation in any
<br>way we can.
<br>
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<br>If you have further questions, please don’t hesitate to contact us!
<br>
<br>All best,
<br>Jade V. Henry (Goldsmiths, University of London) & Lisa Lehner (Cornell
<br>University)
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<br>Jade: jade.henry@gold.ac.uk
<br>Lisa: ll723@cornell.edu || @lmh_lehner
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<br>*53. FEMINIST TECHNOSCIENCE BY OTHER MEANS: Reconfiguring Research
<br>Practices for World-Making Beyond the Academy*
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<br>Feminist Science and Technology Studies (FSTS) can be a subfield, an
<br>ethico-political commitment or a methodological sensibility. At its heart,
<br>it shares concerns for subjectivities that are devalued, marginalized or
<br>erased through technoscientific practices. Through their efforts, feminist
<br>scholars participate in the “material-semiotic becoming of things” (Puig
<br>de
<br>la Bellacasa 2011) and alternative world-making.
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<br>This panel (re)connects reflexively with these ethico-political commitments
<br>and sensibilities. We will explore how the disruptive, inventive and
<br>(re)generative potential of FSTS might give rise to new and alternative, if
<br>partial and imperfect, worlds of scholarship and living. We want to
<br>understand how we can trouble and reinvent our methods and concerns in
<br>order to (re)configure the precarious and unstable worlds in which we live
<br>and work. How can we move our commitments beyond the academy; how must
<br>methods and theories change; how might they then reconfigure academia
<br>itself? Which novel collaborations, networks and assemblages can we forge;
<br>what roles can FSTS research (not) take? How might we mobilize ambivalences
<br>and situated knowledges to connect with worlds inhospitable to them; what
<br>challenges and dangers lie therein?
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<br>This panel is not exclusive to but actively encourages PhDs and
<br>early-career scholars from FSTS, post-colonial STS and other emancipatory
<br>engagements with technoscience to showcase their creative/disruptive
<br>interpretations of these themes. Provocations may, but need not, include:
<br>reflections on ethnographic positionality and research ethics; novel
<br>pathways for non-traditional academic careers; new epistemic and aesthetic
<br>forms of knowledge production; fostering alternative attachments and
<br>alignments across traditional boundaries of human/nonhuman, social/natural,
<br>academia/beyond.
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<br>*Reference*
<br>Puig de la Bellacasa, María. 2011. “Matters of Care in Technoscience:
<br>Assembling Neglected Things.” Social Studies of Science 41 (1): 85–106.
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<br>
<br>--
<br>Lisa Lehner
<br>PhD Candidate
<br>Department of Science & Technology Studies
<br>Cornell University
<br>
<br>*E* ll723@cornell.edu* | **Twitter *@lmh_lehner
<br>
<br>*Web* http://lisa-lehner.org
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