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                Dear collagues,
<br>We are organzing session on  STS Studies of Outer Space at the 8th STS
<br>Italia Conference will be hosted by the University of Trieste, Italy, June
<br>18 through 20, 2020. Please see the call *here*
<br>
<br>.
<br>
<br>There is a grant scheme for scholars from Cetnral and Eastern Europe and
<br>there would approximately 20 grants covering travel and
<br>accommodation costs. More for the conference is at
<br>https://www.stsitaliaconf2020.com/ and on Call for abstract at
<br>https://www.stsitaliaconf2020.com/.
<br>
<br>The deadline for abstacts is Febriary 9, 2020.
<br>
<br>Kind rregards,
<br>Ivan Tchalakov
<br>
<br>On Mon, 13 Jan 2020 at 10:04, eurograd--- via Eurograd <
<br>eurograd@lists.easst.net> wrote:
<br>
<br>> Call for Abstracts to participate in Open Panel 97:
<br>> Locating & Timing Governance in STS and Universities
<br>>
<br>> to be held in Prague, 18-21 August 2020, at the joint conference
<br>> https://www.easst4s2020prague.org/ of the
<br>>
<br>> *European Association for Studies of Science & Technology* (EASST)
<br>> https://easst.net/ and the
<br>>
<br>> *Society for the Social Studies of Science* (4S) http://www.4sonline.org/
<br>>
<br>> The conference theme is* Locating and Timing Matters: Significance and
<br>> Agency of STS in Emerging Worlds *
<br>> https://www.easst4s2020prague.org/focus-and-themes/
<br>>
<br>> There are various ways to participate in the 4s/EASST 2020 meeting: Open
<br>> Panel Papers, Closed Panel Proposals, and Making/Doing Sessions
<br>> https://www.easst4s2020prague.org/call-for-papers-and-panels/  For
<br>> example, 217 open panels now are seeking paper submissions. See panel
<br>> descriptions and search for key words at
<br>> https://www.easst4s2020prague.org/accepted-open-panels-all-abstracts/
<br>>
<br>>
<br>>
<br>> *Call for abstracts to participate in Open Panel 97: *
<br>>
<br>> *Locating & Timing Governance in STS and Universities*
<br>>
<br>> *Organizers Knut H. Sørensen (NTNU) and Sharon Traweek (UCLA)*
<br>>
<br>> For many generations universities have been institutions of higher
<br>> education and research. Now they are expected to contribute to local and
<br>> global economies by commercializing research and spurring innovation, while
<br>> addressing grand social challenges like climate mitigation and social
<br>> disparities. They also must engage successfully in mass higher education
<br>> and outreach with a variety of publics. This means that universities now
<br>> occupy a strategic place in re/shaping society by circulating research and
<br>> knowledge through teaching and professional expertise. Meanwhile,
<br>> universities have become subject to increased auditing practices and
<br>> austerity policies, locally and globally. Many universities turn to experts
<br>> in branding and commodification for strategies in defining and representing
<br>> their work as successful.
<br>>
<br>> STS provides resources for understanding such dis/continuities in the
<br>> making and circulation of knowledge while the study of universities in
<br>> dynamic ecologies is vital to addressing unexamined assumptions in STS
<br>> about the relationship between research, teaching, and society, as well as
<br>> the governance of that relationship. We invite papers that address how
<br>> universities engage with the changing:
<br>>
<br>> - fragility and resilience of university cultures.
<br>>
<br>> - demands for rapid intellectual, social, and economic contributions to
<br>> society;
<br>>
<br>> - work life and agency of academics
<br>>
<br>> - relationship between teaching, research, innovation, and outreach;
<br>> - use of social media and branding practices by universities;
<br>>
<br>> - intersectional issues in knowledge making, teaching, outreach, funding,
<br>> and society;
<br>>
<br>> - political economies of research, teaching, funding, and outreach;
<br>>
<br>> - *campus infrastructures from software* & budgets to buildings &
<br>> transportation;
<br>>
<br>> - increasingly complex webs of relationships among universities glocally
<br>> through rankings, MOUs, satellite campuses, academic mobilities, etc.
<br>>
<br>>          The organizers are co-authors of *Questing Excellence: Tales of
<br>> Two Universities* (under contract with Routledge).
<br>>
<br>>
<br>>
<br>> Abstract Requirements: Give your main arguments, methods, and
<br>> contributions to specific aspects of the panel topic in in 250 words or
<br>> less. Deadline for abstract submissions is 29 February 2020. Submission
<br>> information https://www.easst4s2020prague.org/call-for-papers-and-panels/
<br>> For more information contact:
<br>>
<br>> *Knut H Sørensen*, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU)
<br>> knut.sorensen@ntnu.no  https://www.ntnu.edu/employees/knut.sorensen
<br>>
<br>> *Sharon Traweek,* University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA)
<br>> traweek@history.ucla.edu  https://ucla.academia.edu/STraweek
<br>> http://genderstudies.ss.ucla.edu/faculty/sharon-traweek
<br>>
<br>>
<br>>
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<br>*Ivan Tchalakov, Ph.D.*
<br>Professor of Sociology of Science and Technology - Department of Applied
<br>and Institutional Sociology, University of Plovdiv, Bulgaria
<br>Senior Research Fellow - BAS Institute for the Study of Knowledge & Society
<br>Senior Research Fellow - Center for Policy Analyses & Studies of
<br>Technologies (PAST), Tomsk State University, Russia
<br>Editor-in-Chief - International Journal of Actor-Network Theory and
<br>Technological Innovation (from 2016 till 2018)
<br>2016 Fulbright Research Fellow - Georgia Institute of Technology, USA
<br>http://ivantchalakov.weebly.com/biography.html
<br>e-mail:  tchalakov@policy.hu
<br>phone  +359 899 417530; +7 961 891 0596
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