Dear all,
A reminder of next weeks symposium on the STS case study methodology. There
is still time to sign up! Please use the link below indicating whether you
will take part in-person in Liverpool or online (a MS Teams link will be
shared the day before).
Best wishes,
Mette
Dr Mette Kragh-Furbo
Lecturer in Sociology of Public Health
Public Health Policy and Systems, Institute of Population Health
Third Floor, Whelan Building
University of Liverpool
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From: Furbo, Mette
Sent: 19 May 2025 15:53
To: 'eurograd-easst.net@lists.easst.net'
Subject: Symposium University of Liverpool 18 June 2025: How might be feel
problems differently? (Re)thinking the case study methodology in STS
[title of event in front of a graphic. How might we feel problems differently?
(Re)thinking the case study methodology in STS. When is it? Wednesday June 18
2025, 12pm - 4pm at the University of Liverpool, UK. Logos included from the
Centre for Health, Arts, Society and Environment, and the Economic and Social
Research Council.]How might we feel problems differently?
(Re)thinking the case study methodology in Science and Technology Studies
(STS)
Wednesday, 18 June 2025, 12.00-16.00 BST | In-person & online
Sherrington Building Seminar Room 4, Ashton Street, University of Liverpool,
UK
The case study is the bread and butter of Science and Technology Studies
(STS). It is through the case study that STS works, and through which STS
theory develops Actor Network Theory (ANT), for example, was built on case
studies of the successes and failures of translation (Law, 2015). In recent
years, efforts in renewing traditions of problematization have emerged which
are focused less on developing case studies of critique and instead more on
opening up the case or problem (Stengers, 2000; Fraser, 2009; Savransky, 2016,
2018, 2021; Barry, 2020; Leistert and Schrickel, 2020).
This event considers the case study methodology of STS alongside recent
writings on the problematic, which, we argue, invite us to re-think the case
study as an exercise that allows for the problem to be experienced
differently, in a way that matters for those with whom it is concerned
(Savransky, 2016: 219). As researchers, our work is often called upon when a
solution is needed what then, might it mean for us to also take on the role
of the learner or apprentice, where the task is not to provide a solution to
the problem that identifies the situation, but to risk inventing a manner of
understanding how the problem may be defined, and how it might be developed
(ibid)?
Speakers
- Lena Theodoropoulou (Liverpool) Thinking with Desire: De-problematising
drugs, re-problematising the social
- Fay Dennis (Goldsmiths) A thousand tiny problems: The COVID-19 pandemic
and engendering a feel for a different kind of drug treatment
- Kim Hendrickx (Lige) Please dont ask for my opinion!
- Mette Kragh-Furbo & Bryan Lim (Liverpool) What can a case study do?
Reflections on the controversy surrounding folic acid food fortification in
the UK
Discussants: Nicole Vitellone (Liverpool) and Kari Lancaster (Bath)
The symposium is free to attend. Lunch and refreshments are provided. Please
let us know of any dietary requirements, when you sign up.
You can register your place via
Eventbrite. Let us know if you are
planning to attend in-person or online. The MS Teams link will be shared
closer to the event.
If youd like to know more, please get in touch with Mette Kragh-Furbo
(m.k.furbo@liverpool.ac.uk)
The event has been organised by Mette Kragh-Furbo and Bryan Lim (Liverpool) as
part of the ESRC-funded project Why the folate controversy persists: Mapping
the biosocial complexities of folate, and in collaboration with the Centre
for Health, Arts, Society and Environment
(CHASE) at the University of Liverpool.
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