Good Morning
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<br>Could I pls ask to resend this as we are close to the deadline? Thanks, best
<br>wishes Roberta
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<br>Dear Colleagues
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<br>This is a Call for Papers for the American Anthropological Association Annual
<br>Meeting in St. Louis, MO, USA (November 18-22, 2020), for the following
<br>panel:
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<br>Panel Title: Entangling data and entangling disciplines: the future of
<br>anthropological collaborations with data scientists
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<br>Organizers: Roberta Raffaetà (Free University of Bolzano) and Giovanna
<br>Santanera (University of Milan-Bicocca)
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<br>Discussant: Nick Seaver (Tufts University) and Katherine Ryan Amato
<br>(Northwestern University)
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<br>This panel opens a discussion about forms of collaboration between
<br>anthropologists and data scientists. Anthropologists have recently turned to
<br>the study of data and algorithms, offering critical insights about their
<br>production and implementation. They have addressed the effects of algorithmic
<br>automation (e.g. increasing surveillance, inequality exacerbation, new forms
<br>of discrimination) and conducted fieldwork among data scientists in order to
<br>bring the socio-cultural dimensions of their work to the forefront. However,
<br>these efforts rarely alter the practices of data science and the boundaries
<br>between disciplines have remained durable.
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<br>This panel asks: How can anthropology make an impact on data science? Can the
<br>relationship between anthropology and data science be reconfigured? How can
<br>anthropologists remain, as Marilyn Strathern has suggested, ‘a community of
<br>critics’ while also engaging affirmatively with data scientists and
<br>interfering productively with their epistemic practices? Beyond understanding
<br>the data scientist’s point of view and destabilizing our own disciplinary
<br>habits and assumptions, this panel asks if there may be other ways to
<br>collaborate. Is it possible, for example, to set up experiments that straddle
<br>disciplinary boundaries and craft shared spaces of practice? How can we
<br>facilitate the envisioning of productive, inclusive, just and diverse future
<br>scenarios?
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<br>Practicing anthropology as a study with people rather than a study of people,
<br>this panel welcomes papers that, not only discuss and criticize ‘data
<br>cultures,’ but also share experiences and explore and speculate on
<br>innovative forms of collaboration between data scientists and anthropologists
<br>in various fields (e.g. market analysis, design and development of products
<br>and services, computational biology, personalized medicine, epidemiology,
<br>engineering etc.).
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<br>We invite interested contributors to submit a paper title, abstract (250 words
<br>max), current affiliation and contact info to Roberta Raffaetà
<br>(roberta.raffaeta@unibz.it) and Giovanna Santanera
<br>(giovanna.santanera@unimib.it) by Friday, March 27. Decisions about acceptance
<br>of abstracts for this panel will be emailed no later than March 30.
<br>Thanks, Roberta and Giovanna
<br>
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<br>Roberta Raffaetà
<br>Free University of Bozen-Bolzano
<br>Universitätsplatz 5 - Piazza Università 1
<br>I-39100 Bozen-Bolzano
<br>roberta.raffaeta@gmail.com
<br>+39 3382846103
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<br>Web: https://unibz.academia.edu/RobertaRaffaet%C3%A0;
<br>https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Roberta_Raffaeta;
<br>https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0680-1613
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<br>Latest publications:
<br>Caring across borders: The politics of belonging and transnational health,
<br>ANUAC. Rivista della Socità Italiana di Antropologia Culturale
<br>http://ojs.unica.it/index.php/anuac/article/view/3624
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<br>Current projects: SPASS (Studying, Portraying and ASSessing examples of good
<br>scientific practice in interdisciplinary work)
<br>https://www.unibz.it/assets/Documents/Faculty-Design/Research/Running/Enable/
<br>Metzner-Szigeth-SPASS.pdf
<br>PPE (Praxis, Performativity, Embodied Knowledge)
<br>https://www.unibz.it/assets/Documents/Faculty-Design/Research/Running/Enable/
<br>Schmidt-Wulffen-PPE.pdf
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