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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:

https://stnr.aps.pt/conhecimento-ciencia-tecnologia/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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