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                Dear colleagues,

I hope this email finds you well. We are pleased to share the final program
for the *Autumn School and 6th Rumos Conference: Building Bridges in Times
of Crises – Knowledge Exchange in Science and Technology,*  of the Thematic
Section on Knowledge, Science and Technology of the Portuguese Sociological
Association (Associação Portuguesa de Sociologia – APS), coordinated by
Ana
Ferreira, CICS.NOVA; Nina Amelung, ICS-UL; Rafaela Granja, CECS-UMinho
attached
for your reference.

We are thrilled to host two distinguished keynote speakers: Maria do Mar
Pereira (University of Warwick) with a keynote entitled "Building Bridges
in Times of Disconnection: The Affective Life of Contemporary Academic
Labour" and Tiago Saraiva (Drexel University) with a keynote entitled
"Statistics
for a Decolonial World". Both sessions will be held in a hybrid format on
November 20 and November 21. We encourage you to join us and share this
opportunity with your colleagues. The event has received funding from EASST
Fund. We look forward to seeing you next week!


Best regards, Nina


Building bridges in times of crises: knowledge exchange about science and
technology

Date: 20-22 November 2024


(hybrid format for keynotes, Timings are in Western European Time (WET))

Location: Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e
Humanas, Colégio Almada Negreiros, Campus de Campolide


Keynote 1: Maria do Mar Pereira, University of Warwick

Building Bridges in Times of Disconnection: The Affective Life of
Contemporary Academic Labour


Wednesday, November 20, 14h30-15h30 | Public session; hybrid | Room CAN SD,
Floor 0

Chairs: Ana Ferreira, CICS.NOVA, NOVA FCSH; Rafaela Granja, CECS,
Universidade do Minho

Zoom link: https://videoconf-colibri.zoom.us/j/94111535827


In the last decades, a range of transnational changes in academia have
altered, in many countries, the conditions of labour and education in
universities, with academic activity often becoming reconceptualised as
work which must achieve the highest possible levels of productivity and
profitability. In this presentation, I draw on a longitudinal ethnography
of academia in Portugal to examine the epistemic and affective effects of
these changes, exploring how they have impacted knowledge production, the
mood of academic communities, and the bodies, minds and relationships of
scholars and students. I argue that these changes produce significant
dilemmas for academics and new challenges for the study of science and
technology, raising important questions about the conditions and aims of
contemporary academic labour and about our complicated relationship with
our own (hard) work.

Bio: Maria do Mar Pereira is a Professor of Sociology and Gender Studies at
the University of Warwick and a Co-Director of Warwick’s Centre for the
Study of Women and Gender. She has published two award-winning books –
Doing Gender in the Playground: the Negotiation of Gender and Sexuality in
Schools (in Portuguese) and Power, Knowledge and Feminist Scholarship: an
Ethnography of Academia.


Keynote 2: Tiago Saraiva, Drexel University

Statistics for a Decolonial World


Thursday, 21 November, 11h00-12h30 | Public session; hybrid | Room CAN 209,
Floor 2

Chair: Nina Amelung, ICS, Universidade de Lisboa; Rafaela Granja, CECS,
Universidade do Minho

Zoom link: https://videoconf-colibri.zoom.us/j/99763400513


This talk explores the role of statistical practices in decolonizing the
world. It engages the work of Pandurang Sukhatme at the Indian Council of
Agricultural Research and at the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of
the United Nations; Henry A. Wallace at Iowa State University and the USDA;
and Amílcar Cabral as surveyor for the Portuguese colonial government and
guerrilla leader in Guinea Bissau. Attention to the trajectories of
statistical practices, namely sampling and randomization, enables the
historical weaving of projects of world governance at the UN, Indian
independence, and West African liberation movements. In this connected
history of decolonization, statistical methods became central not only to
denounce the injustices of the colonial order, but also to unveil forms of
agency from below for worldmaking after empire.



Bio: Tiago Saraiva is Full Professor of History at Drexel University,
coeditor of the journal History and Technology, and of the Cambridge
History of Technology. He is an historian of science and technology
interested in the connections between science, technology, crops, and
politics at the global scale. He is the author of Fascist Pigs:
Technoscientific Organisms and the History of Fascism (MIT Press, 2016),
winner of the 2017 Pfizer Prize awarded by the History of Science Society
(HSS) and co-author of Moving Crops and the Scales of History (Yale
University Press, 2023), which won the award for best scholarly book by
both the Society for the History of Technology (SHOT) and the World History
Association.


Funding:

The conference and the autumn school receive the support of the EASST Fund
and of national funds through APS - Portuguese Sociological Association -
and FCT - Foundation for Science and Technology, I.P., within the scope of
the project «UIDB/04647/2020» of CICS.NOVA – Interdisciplinary Centre of
Social Sciences of Universidade Nova de Lisboa.


Organizers:

The co-organizers of the Thematic Section on Knowledge, Science and
Technology of the Portuguese Sociological Association (Associação
Portuguesa de Sociologia – APS) Ana Ferreira, CICS.NOVA; Nina Amelung,
ICS-UL; Rafaela Granja, CECS-UMinho.


Scientific Committee:

Ana Delicado, ICS-UL; Ana Ferreira, CICS.NOVA; António Carvalho, CES-UC;
Catarina Delaunay, CICS.NOVA; Frederico Águas, CICS.NOVA; Nina Amelung,
ICS-UL; Nuno Boavida, CICS.NOVA; Rafaela Granja, CECS-UMinho; Thais França,
CIES-ISCTE


Contact Information:

Please contact conhecimento@aps.pt for further information


Website:

mensagem de boas vindas



--
"Remember to imagine and craft the worlds you cannot live without, just as
you dismantle the ones you cannot live within."
— Ruha Benjamin

Recent selected publications:

Amelung, N., Scheel, S. & van Reekum, R. (2024). Reinventing the politics
of knowledge production in migration studies: introduction to the special
issue. 
Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies. 50(9), 2163-2187.

Amelung, Nina & Galis, Vasilis. 2023. Border control technologies:
introduction
,
Science
as Culture, DOI: 10.1080/09505431.2023.2234932


Amelung, Nina. 2023. The torqued, invaded and speculative figure of the
‘crimmigrant other’: Standardizing criminal suspicion against migrants.

 *Technopolitics and the Making of Europe*. Edited by Nina Klimburg Witjes
and Paul Trauttmansdorff. Routledge 103-122.

Amelung, Nina. 2021. Crimmigration Control” across Borders
:
The Convergence of Migration and Crime Control through Transnational
Biometric Databases
.
*Historical
Social Research *46 (3): 151-177.

Amelung, Nina. 2021. Politics of (Non)Belonging: Enacting Imaginaries of
Affected Publics Through Forensic Genetic Technologies. In: *Racism and
Racial Surveillance.*

*Modernity
Matters.*

Edited
By Sheila Khan, Nazir Ahmed Can, Helena Machado. London: Routledge.

Amelung, Nina; Gianolla, Cristiano; Sousa Ribeiro, Joana; Solovova, Olga.
2021. Material Politics of Citizenship: Connecting Migrations With Science
and Technology Studies.

London: Routledge.

Amelung, Nina; Machado, Helena. 2021. *Governing expectations of forensic
innovations in society: the case of FDP in Germany*

. New Genetics and Society, 1-22 .

Amelung, Nina; Queirós, Filipa; Machado, Helena. 2021. Desafios éticos e
democráticos da vigilância genética na Alemanhae em Portugal
, In Machado, Helena (Ed.), *Crime e
tecnologia: Desafios culturais e políticos para a Europa*. Porto: Edições
Afrontamento Lda, pp. 41-63.
Amelung, Nina; Granja, Rafaela; Machado, Helena. 2021. Modes of
Bio-Bordering: The Hidden (Dis)integration of Europe
. Singapore: Springer.

Amelung, Nina; Gianolla, Cristiano; Solovova, Olga & Sousa Ribeiro, Joana.
2020. *Technologies, infrastructures and migrations: material citizenship
politics*
.
Citizenship Studies, 24:5, 587-606.

Amelung, Nina, Rafaela Granja, and Helena Machado. 2020. “Communicating
Forensic Genetics: ‘Enthusiastic’ Publics and the Management of
Expectations’.” Pp. 209–26 in *Exploring Science Communication*, edited
by
S. R. Davies and U. Felt. London; Thousand Oaks, New Delhi, Singapore: Sage.

Machado, Helena, Rafaela Granja, and Nina Amelung. 2020. “Constructing
Suspicion Through Forensic DNA Databases in the EU. The Views of the Prüm
Professionals
.”
*The British Journal of Criminology* 60(1):141–59.

Amelung, Nina and Helena Machado. 2019. “Affected for Good or for Evil :
The Formation of Issue-Publics That Relate to the UK National DNA Database
.” *Public
Understanding of Science* 28(5):590–605.

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