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<br>Dear Colleagues,
<br>
<br>We are delighted to invite proposals for a special exhibit, *Innovating STS
<br>*, that will be hosted at 4S 2019
<br>in NOLA gallery-style and online in the form or digital collections on the
<br>infra*S*truc*T*ure*S*  platform: an
<br>evolving archive for 4S and STS. Please note that individuals and groups
<br>can still build digital collections even if they are unable to be at the 4S
<br>conference in person. We look forward to receiving your proposals!
<br>
<br>Deadline for submitting a proposal: Feb 1, 2019
<br>
<br>Best, Aalok
<br>
<br>--
<br>
<br>Special Exhibit:Innovating STS
<br>
<br>Furthering its theme, *Innovations, Interruptions, Regenerations*
<br>, the 2019 annual 4S meeting in New
<br>Orleans will include a special exhibit, *Innovating STS*, that showcases
<br>innovations *in* STS as well as ways “innovation” has been studied,
<br>conceptualized, practiced, and critiqued.  Extending 4S’s commitment to the
<br>transnational character of STS, we are particularly interested in exhibits
<br>that convey diverse ways “innovation” has been an organizing rubric in
<br>different settings. We also look forward to exhibits that share how STS
<br>itself has been built and innovated in different settings.
<br>
<br>*Innovating STS* exhibits could explore how particular strands of STS
<br>scholarship (e.g. feminist and postcolonial STS, engineering studies, and
<br>innovation studies) have been built, or innovative ways STS scholars and
<br>practitioners have connected to and communicated with new publics. Exhibits
<br>could also extend the digital collections built for the 2018 4S meeting in
<br>Sydney, *STS Across Borders*
<br> (responding to
<br>the theme, *TRANSnational STS* ) — adding new
<br>content and  analysis to exhibits focused on particular departments and
<br>groups, journals and regional formations.***
<br>
<br>Exhibits in *Innovating STS* will be presented gallery-style in New
<br>Orleans, and also as curated digital collections that can be preserved,
<br>elaborated, and accessed over time in a new STS and 4S archive,
<br>*infraStrucTureS* . Both gallery and online
<br>material can be presented in many languages. The goal is to build deeply
<br>diverse grounds for the future of STS and 4S. Presenters unable to attend
<br>the New Orleans conference in person are also encouraged to develop digital
<br>collections for *Innovating STS*: an important motivation for the special
<br>exhibit is to create new forms of intellectual community that span beyond
<br>the space-time of the annual 4S conference.
<br>
<br>The goal of these newly launched special exhibits, *STS Across
<br>Borders* and *Innovating
<br>STS,* is to support collective engagement across different trajectories and
<br>enactments of STS in the lead-up to, at, and beyond its annual conferences.
<br>Thus, beyond the New Orleans conference, *Innovating STS* exhibits could
<br>also be installed in various STS departments, library foyers, or in local
<br>science musea. Digital collections prepared as part of *Innovating STS* also
<br>can be engaged in multiple ways beyond the New Orleans conference: for
<br>example, for individual research, workshops (online or in-person), and
<br>classes.
<br>
<br>Proposals for *Innovating STS* exhibits should be approximately 250 words,
<br>indicating the title and focus of the exhibit, and the kinds of materials
<br>expected to be archived online. Please refer to the *STS Across Borders*
<br>collections
<br>
<br>by
<br>way of examples. Proposed projects do not have to have a deep digital
<br>archiving component. Minimally, proposals should include a plan for a small
<br>gallery exhibit. Exhibit curators will work with the *Innovating STS* Design
<br>Group to work out allowable formats, permissions, and so on. Proposals can
<br>be submitted by individuals or groups, but must have a lead-curator. To
<br>submit a digital exhibit, at least one curator for each project must
<br>complete online training to learn about the project’s digital platform.
<br>This training will give curators both autonomy within the project platform,
<br>and capacity to connect to curators of other exhibits.
<br>
<br>Gallery exhibits will be organized around small posters that together tell
<br>a story about how STS has developed in a particular setting, or in response
<br>to a particular problem. Posters designed for *STS Across Borders* can be
<br>viewed and downloaded at this link
<br>.
<br>*Innovating
<br>STS* posters are anticipated to be similar to these. The *Innovating
<br>STS* design
<br>group will provide user-friendly poster templates such that exhibitors
<br>simply need to input information for their exhibits into the posters and
<br>generate pdfs which can then be sent back to 4S for printing. Additionally,
<br>exhibitors will also be provided with table space for each exhibit which
<br>can be used to display books, journals, old conference programs, and so on.
<br>Exhibits can also include a computer (provided by the exhibiting group)
<br>where visitors can explore associated digital collections. Note: Internet
<br>access is not assured in the exhibit space.
<br>
<br>Digital collections can be more expansive and can include oral histories,
<br>interviews, field research videos, department brochures and posters,
<br>photos, and so on, all of which can be captioned or annotated (refer to *STS
<br>Across Borders* digital collections
<br>).
<br>The architecture of the digital platform for the project will support
<br>shadow box-like displays (for inspiration see the “assemblage art” of
<br>Joseph Cornell
<br>),
<br>with each box-within-the box treated as a holding place for material
<br>(textual, audio, and video). Exhibit curators will go through on-line
<br>training to learn how to work within the project’s digital platform,
<br>gaining experience and skills that can support further collaboration and
<br>other digital projects.
<br>
<br>The timeline for building Innovating STS exhibits includes intermediate
<br>deadlines as well as a calendar of monthly virtual calls aimed at
<br>introducing participants to the *infraStrucTureS*
<br> platform and supporting them in
<br>identifying materials, deepening collaborative analysis, and developing
<br>creative new forms of digital publishing. The tentative timeline for
<br>developing the exhibit will be:
<br>
<br>   - Feb 1, 2019: Last date to submit proposals (via All Academic)
<br>   - Feb 15, 2019: Notification of acceptance
<br>   - March 2019
<br>      - Virtual call for *Innovating STS* exhibitors
<br>      - Introduction to *infraStrucTureS* 
<br>       platform
<br>   - April 2019
<br>      - Virtual call for *Innovating STS* exhibitors
<br>      - Exhibitors share initial attempts at working with the platform and
<br>      identify
<br>      - materials that they intend to work with
<br>      - *Innovating STS* design group introduces additional features of the
<br>      platform toward deepening digital collections
<br>   - May 2019
<br>      - Virtual call for *Innovating STS* exhibitors
<br>      - Exhibitors share more developed version of their digital collections
<br>      - Exhibitors identify materials that they anticipate using for their
<br>      gallery exhibits
<br>   - June 2019
<br>      - Virtual call for *Innovating STS* exhibitors
<br>      - Exhibitors share first drafts of their digital collections
<br>      - Exhibitors assigned one other exhibit for reviewing
<br>      - All exhibits internally reviewed by *Innovating STS* design group
<br>      - Exhibitors develop draft posters for gallery exhibit at New Orleans
<br>   - July 2019
<br>      - Virtual call for *Innovating STS* exhibitors
<br>      - Feedback from internal reviews due to exhibiting groups prior to
<br>      call
<br>      - Exhibitors share draft posters and other ideas for the gallery
<br>      exhibit in New Orleans prior to the call
<br>      - Exhibitors incorporate feedback towards developing final collections
<br>   - Aug 1, 2019
<br>      - Virtual call for *Innovating STS* exhibitors
<br>      - All digital collections and posters finalized by Aug 11, 2019.
<br>      - External reviewers assigned for each exhibit: reviewers will
<br>      interact with exhibiting groups at New Orleans and submit
<br>“elaborative
<br>      reviews” of the exhibit post-conference.
<br>   - Sept 4-7, 2019
<br>      - *Innovating STS* gallery exhibit installed at 4S New Orleans
<br>   - Dec 2019: optional
<br>      - If exhibitors are interested in “publishing” their exhibits on
<br>the
<br>      *infraStrucTureS*  platform, they
<br>      will work with the *Innovating STS* design group after the 4S 2019
<br>      New Orleans conference, to incorporate reviewer comments before final
<br>      publication on the platform.
<br>
<br>Questions? Contact: aalok@iith.ac.in
<br>
<br>*** see *STS Across Borders* exhibits focused on STS in particular:
<br>
<br>University departments: Deakin
<br>, Drexel
<br>,
<br>Nottingham
<br>
<br>, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
<br>,
<br>and the Department of Anthropology at University of California, Irvine
<br>
<br>
<br>Research Groups: iHub Research
<br>
<br>
<br>Countries and Regions: “Africa
<br>”, Australia
<br>
<br>, Chile
<br>
<br>, India
<br>
<br>, Japan
<br>,
<br>and Turkey 
<br>
<br>Academic Journals: *East Asian Science, Technology and Society: An
<br>International Journal*
<br>
<br> and *Science & Technology Studies*
<br>
<br>--
<br>*Aalok Khandekar* , *Assistant Professor*
<br> of *Anthropology*/ *Sociology*
<br>Department of Liberal Arts , Indian Institute of
<br>Technology Hyderabad 
<br>Kandi, Sangareddy-502285, Telangana, India
<br>
<br>Off:* A 717/G* | Ph:* +91-40-2301 6148* | *aalok@iith.ac.in*
<br>
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<br> *|* ResearchGate
<br>*
<br>
<br>*Managing Editor, *STS Across Borders 
<br>| *Associate
<br>Editor, Engineering Studies *
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