Calling all microbially-curious social scientists and STS researchers! Send in
your abstracts!
There are many microbe-focused panels at the upcoming EASST-4S
conference in Amsterdam between
the 16th and the 19th of July, 2024. We've gathered all we could find and
indexed them here for clarity. Please take a look, spread the word, and submit
your abstracts! Thanks and hope to see you in Amsterdam next year. Note: many
of the co-convenors are members of the Centre for the Social Study of
Microbes. You can find out more about us and our work here:
https://www.socialmicrobes.org/
Title: Marine Transformations: Exploring the technoscience behind our changing
relationship with the seas
Panel code: P009
Convenors: Sebastian Ureta (Universidad Catlica de Chile); Jackie Ashkin
(Leiden University); Elis Jones (University of Exeter); Jose A. Caada
(University of Helsinki)
Short abstract: Human actions both imperil and promise to save the oceans. How
do technoscientific enterprises contribute to transforming human-ocean
relations? This panel invites contributions which explore the more-than-human,
technoscientific and ethicopolitical dimensions of knowing and relating to the
ocean.
Title: Microbial Methods and Practices for Doing STS Otherwise
Panel code: P110
Convenors: Maya Hey (University of Helsinki); Salla Sariola (University of
Helsinki)
Short abstract: What STS methods including tools and methodological
frameworks can detect, document, and make sense of microbes? What are their
affordances and limitations? And how can these social scientific methods
expand the ways in which microbes are studied? This panel examines situated
methods-in-action.
Title: Knowledge Politics in/through/with Microbes
Panel code: P111
Convenors: Wakana Suzuki (Osaka University); Shiho Satsuka (University of
Toronto); Maya Hey (University of Helsinki)
Short abstract: This panel engages with the knowledge politics inherent to
microbial phenomena, asking questions such as who has the authority to make
claims about microbes and how do different microbial knowledges get
negotiated? This panel aims to disentangle knowledge politics in/through/with
microbes.
Title: Microbial encounters at the edge: Exploring transformative
microbe-environment-human relations
Panel code: P148
Convenors: Alicia Ng (University of Helsinki); Paula Palanco Lopez (University
of Oulu)
Short abstract: This panel focuses on microbial worlds in naturecultural,
Anthropocenic natural environments beyond human bodies, imagination, and
control in order to explore microbial processes and interactions, to follow
their entanglements, transformative potential, and points of tension.
Title: Engaging with the mobile world: humans, animals, microbes, risks and
care
Panel code: P184
Convenors: Alena Kamenshchikova (Maastricht University); Andrea Butcher
(University of Helsinki); Catherine Will (University of Sussex)
Short abstract: The movements of humans and non-humans across the world become
seen as risky or desirable depending on what, who, how and when is crossing
the borders. This panel engages with these diverse mobilities and reflects
upon the complex intersections of health, security and care in a mobile
world.
Title: Rethinking the harm in harm reduction movements of drugs and health
Panel code: P260
Convenors: Nancy Campbell (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute); Kari Lancaster
(University of New South Wales)
Short abstract: We invite papers that rethink the knowledges and discourses of
social movements for harm reduction in the area of drugs and health. In the
face of decolonial imperatives to move away from damage-centred narratives,
do we in effect do harm when we make harm central to our narratives?
Title: Planetary Health in the Anthropocene: Transdisciplinary practices
towards decolonial climate futures
Panel code: P303
Convenors: Kaajal Modi (University of York); Maro Pebo (Waag Futurelab)
Short abstract: Planetary health is a transdisciplinary framework that
intertwines human and ecological health. The panel aims to bring together
artists, activists, and researchers employing experimental and embodied
approaches to collaboratively explore imaginaries of ecology in relation to
wellness and disease.
Title: Reconfiguring place, space and time to addressing antimicrobial
resistance (AMR).
Panel code: P327
Convenors: Oscar Forero (CAP)
Short abstract: AMR research has relied in splitting the complex AMR into
smaller components overlooking the positive feedback mechanisms between
ecosystems and social systems. Our call is for research that recognizes the
wicked problem of AMR and that advances complexity approach to it.
Alicia Ng
PhD researcher (she/they)
University of Helsinki
Centre of Excellence in Antimicrobial Resistance Research (FIMAR)
Centre for the Social Study of Microbes (CSSM)
Doctoral Programme in Interdisciplinary Environmental Studies (DENVI)
Recent publications:
Ng, A. (2023) 'Transforming Toxic Materialities: Microbes in Anthropogenically
Polluted Soils', Theory, Culture &
Society.
Ng, A (2023) 'Polluted Histories, Clean Futures? Differing Scenarios for an
Electronic Waste Circular Economy in China', in Waste and Discards in the Asia
Pacific
Region, eds.
Viktor Pl and Iris Borowy.
mastodon: https://fediscience.org/@alicia_ngingeng
twitter/x: @alicia_ngingeng
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