Dear all
The following Workshop is now open for pre-registration.
To register, pls. follow the link: https://goo.gl/forms/lPdpWIPlA0dwFQW23
A pop-up inventory of STS researchers roles and interventions (Workshop
BW01)
Location: Bowland North Seminar Room 23
Date and time: Thursday, 26 July, 2018, from 14.00
Convenors
Judith Igelsbck (Technical University of Munich)
Denisa Kera (University of Salamanca, Marie Curie senior fellow)
Hannah Varga (HU Berlin)
Yutaka Yoshinaka (Technical University of Denmark)
Discussant
* Jane Calvert (University of Edinburgh)
Recent evocations of a 'collaborative turn' (Faras 2016) describe a growing
community of STS researchers who choose 'impure entanglement' over
'enlightened distance' (Puig de la Bellacasa 2017), and experiment with
different forms of 'figuring together' (Suchman 2012) producing mutual
learning and caring relations. Is this a repetition of old issues concerning
nomothetic x idiosyncratic, objective x subjective, descriptive x emancipatory
methods and agenda in social sciences? What can present engagements of STS
with design, arts, etc., bring to STS and vice versa? Do we need to consider
issues of reciprocity? And is this a typical inter/cross/trans/multi
disciplinarity debate? No! STS took a long time to emancipate itself from
philosophy of science, history of science, and even sociology to become this
hybrid mess.
This workshop takes current developments as occasion to discuss potential ways
of re-configuring and re-inventing the roles and responsibilities of STS
researchers, reflecting on the practices, the reasons and methods why people
choose a particular role (e.g. the consultant) or play with a specific figure
(such as the idiot or the partisan).
This workshop consists of two parts. At the beginning of the conference,
participants meet to share their experience and knowledge of the topic.
Afterwards, workshop participants will use the conference as an empirical site
to explore and collect prominent, persistent, hidden, forbidden, and desired
forms of being an STS researcher and initiate a collective 'pop-up inventory'
at the conference venue.
We plan for a workshop consisting of ca. 7-12 participants. Thank you.
Pre-registration via here: https://goo.gl/forms/lPdpWIPlA0dwFQW23
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Yutaka Yoshinaka
Technical University of Denmark (DTU)
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