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<br>Dear colleagues,
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<br>Building on continuing dialogue about transnational STS in recent years at
<br>4S conferences, we’re organizing a panel for 4S/EASST Joint Meeting at
<br>Prague this year (18-21 August), *Transnational STS: Theories, Practices,
<br>and Pedagogies *(see below for the CfPs and abstract submission
<br>guidelines). Please join us!
<br>
<br>We are working to figure out remote participation possibilities so please
<br>be in touch if you would like to participate but already know that you
<br>won't be able to be in Prague.
<br>
<br>This panel will build from the work done in previous years on the STS
<br>Across Borders
<br>
<br>and Innovating
<br>STS  digital
<br>collections and conference exhibits.  We thus envision building a digital
<br>workspace for the panel where we can interact in the lead up to the
<br>conference and beyond.  We see this as an experiment with new forms of
<br>collaboration, scholarly expression, and archiving -- building
<br>infrastructure for transnational STS.  Participation in the online,
<br>on-going effort will be optional, but we hope you'll be interested.
<br>
<br>If you have any questions, please contact us. Otherwise, we are very much
<br>looking forward to seeing your ideas,
<br>
<br>Transnational STS Panel Organizers
<br>
<br>
<br>*EASST and 4S Joint Meeting*
<br>
<br>*Panel #200 - Transnational STS: Theories, Practices, and Pedagogies*
<br>
<br>Kim Fortun, University of California Irvine; Noela Invernizzi, Universidade
<br>Federal do Parana; Duygu Kasdogan, İzmir Katip Çelebi University; Aalok
<br>Khandekar, Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad; Angela Okune,
<br>University of California Irvine
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<br>STS scholarship has flourished in diverse regions and institutional spaces,
<br>creating a deeply transnational, interdisciplinary research field.
<br>Further, STS scholars in diverse places often study global circuits of
<br>ideas, technologies, experts, development models, and so on. Transnational
<br>STS thus has many facets and potentials. Building on continuing dialogue
<br>about transnational STS in recent years (especially since the 2018 4S
<br>conference in Sydney, where TRANSnational STS was the conference theme),
<br>this panel will bring together presenters working to conceptualize,
<br>practice and extend Transnational STS in different ways. In conversation
<br>with STS scholarship that focuses on the constitution of modern
<br>technoscience across and between nation-states, this panel seeks to reflect
<br>on the transnational character of STS at theoretical, methodological and
<br>empirical levels from a comparative perspective. Rather than approaching
<br>“transnational” as an ideal temporal-spatial universalism to be achieved,
<br>this panel particularly aims to elaborate on and question STS praxis that
<br>centers on the analytic of the “nation-state” in studying
<br>technoscientific
<br>developments as well as reflecting on the uncritical utilization of STS
<br>concepts/theories across different contexts. Through opening a
<br>self-reflexive space about methodological nationalism and neocolonial
<br>orientations in our praxis at this very moment when we witness the haunt of
<br>the far-right movements, authoritarian states, post-truth politics, and
<br>intentional denial of socio-ecological crises across the world, we invite
<br>contributions that reflect on theoretical and methodological capacities of
<br>STS to imagine and reclaim for science(s) otherwise. Contributions may
<br>address, among others, the following questions:
<br>
<br>·       What makes STS transnational? How can we think about
<br>“transnational
<br>STS” in juxtaposition to other concepts, e.g., international,
<br>multinational, postnational, supra-national, anti-national, global,
<br>cosmopolitan, universal, imperial, and translocal?
<br>
<br>·       What becomes visible when nation-state as the only analytic breaks
<br>down? What is the role of the nation-state with regard to education,
<br>research activities and the regulation of technologies in the contemporary
<br>period?
<br>
<br>·       How do STS theories and concepts travel, get used and modified
<br>around the world? Are the directions of the flux of theories and concepts
<br>changing? To what extent do STS theories and concepts reflect on the
<br>inadequacies of existing categories -e.g., “East and West” ; “center
<br>and
<br>periphery”; “developing and developed”?
<br>
<br>·       What can we learn from South-South dialogues in STS?
<br>
<br>·       How are transnational research networks formed and organized? How
<br>do these networks set research agendas?
<br>
<br>·       What infrastructures can support transnational STS formations?
<br>
<br>·       What are the methods and methodologies used to foster transnational
<br>knowledge production in a collaborative manner? How would transnational STS
<br>add to the interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary character of the field?
<br>
<br>·       What are exemplary cases that demonstrate transnational STS
<br>sensibilities?
<br>
<br>·       How can transnational STS contribute to STS teaching? How can
<br>transnational STS add to local efforts in engaging with multiple publics,
<br>decision-makers, scientists, activists, and other related actors?
<br>
<br>·       How can transnational STS contribute to the future of the field?
<br>What are the limitations of doing transnational STS?
<br>
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<br>*Contact: **duygukasdogan@gmail.com *
<br>
<br>*Keywords:* transnational STS, nation-state, neocolonialism, research
<br>networks, pedagogy
<br>Abstract Submission 
<br>Deadline:
<br>February 29
<br>
<br>Meeting’s Remote Participation
<br> Guideline
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<br>Meeting’s EcoStatement 
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<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:* B 316* | *aalok@iith.ac.in* 
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<br>*Platform Director, **STSinfrastructures *
<br> | *Associate Editor, Engineering Studies
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