Dear all,
Please spread the word!
CIRST at UQAM, Queens Sociology
Department, and York's Institute for
Technoscience & Society are organizing the
inaugural STS North Summer School!
It's for early career STS scholars in Canada, primarily aimed at all PhD
students and postdoctoral fellows. Come join us for three days of intellectual
debate, hands-on workshops, ethnographic field trips, and other fun
activities.
Where: Montreal, 27-29 August 2024
Application deadline: 30 June 2024
Application process (English or French):
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeDZHhBm1NlLEHuPbV9mHGkXuSkrI-CWf34X
xbsE8zlZ5aEZg/viewform
There is some funding available for participants.
Organizers: Florence Millerand, Jean-Benoit Cormier Landry, Norma Mllers, and
Kean Birch
Hope to see you there!
Kean
Kean Birch
Director & Professor, Institute for Technoscience &
Society
Ontario Research Chair in Science Policy (from July 2024)
Co-Editor, Science as Culture
Series Editor, Technoscience & Society Book
Series, University of Toronto Press
Editorial Board Member, Science, Technology & Human
Values; Social
Epistemology; Progress in
Economic
Geography; Humanities & Social Sciences
Communications; OMICS: A Journal of
Integrative
Biology; and Digital.
Twitter | Website |
LinkedIn
Tel.: (+1) 416-736-2100
Institute for Technoscience & Society | York University
4700 Keele Street Toronto ON, Canada M3J 1P3
NEW BOOKS
Birch, K. (2023) Data
Enclaves, London:
Palgrave Macmillan.
Scott, S. et al. (eds) (2023) Business and Society: A Critical
Introduction (2nd edition), London: Bloomsbury.
Birch, K. & Muniesa, F. (eds) (2020) Assetization: Turning Things into Assets
in Technoscientific Capitalism,
Cambridge MA: MIT Press [Open Access].
NEW ARTICLES
Birch, K., Marquis, S. and Silva, G.C. (online) Understanding data valuation:
Valuing Google's data
assets, IEEE
Transactions on Technology & Society. [Open Access]
Birch, K. and Ward, C. (2024) Assetization and the new asset
geographies,
Dialogues in Human Geography 14(1): 9-29. [Open Access]
Birch, K. and Ward, C. (2024) Response: Struggling over new asset
geographies,
Dialogues in Human Geography 14(1): 47-50.
Birch, K. (2024) Assetization as a mode of techno-economic governance:
Knowledge, education, and personal data in the UNs System of National
Accounts,
Economy & Society 53(1): 15-38. [Open Access]
Amuchastegui, M., Birch, K. and Kaltenbrunner, W. (2023) The intersections
between sociology and STS: A Big Data
approach,
Sociological Perspectives 66(5): 868-887. [Open Access]
Birch, K. (2023) There are no markets anymore: From neoliberalism to Big
Tech, State of
Power 2023 Report, The Transnational Institute (3 Feb) [Open Access].
Birch, K. and Ward, C. (2023) Introduction: Critical approaches to
rentiership,
Environment and Planning A 55(6): 1429-1437
Birch, K. (2023) Reflexive expectations in innovation financing: An analysis
of venture capital as a mode of
valuation,
Social Studies of Science 53(1): 29-48 [Open Access].
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