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style='font-size:12.0pt;font-weight:bold'>STS Mixtures: Trans-Continental Video
Conference Seminar Series</span></font></b><o:p></o:p></p>
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style='font-size:12.0pt;font-weight:bold'>on 'Materiality and Story' </span></font></b><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>Guest
speakers this year are Karen Barad (UC Santa Cruz), <st1:PersonName w:st="on">Lucy
Suchman</st1:PersonName> (<st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Lancaster</st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceType
w:st="on">University</st1:PlaceType>), and Helen Verran (<st1:place w:st="on"><st1:PlaceType
w:st="on">University</st1:PlaceType> of <st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Melbourne</st1:PlaceName></st1:place>).<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>The 'STS
Mixtures' is an informal seminar series, and began at the Centre for Science
Studies, <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on">Lancaster University</st1:City>
<st1:country-region w:st="on">UK</st1:country-region></st1:place>. This
expanded to include a series of video conference seminars with the
Actor-Network Theory Group at <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:PlaceType w:st="on">University</st1:PlaceType>
of <st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Melbourne</st1:PlaceName></st1:place>, which
featured presentations and discussion with John Law, Helen Verran, Dianne
Mulcahy, and Robin Usher in 2008.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>We are
expanding this once more into a <i><span style='font-style:italic'>trans-continental
video conference seminar series in 2009</span></i>, and invite individuals and research
groups from around the world to participate in the discussion.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>The theme
will be 'Materiality and Story'. Three events, with internationally recognised
guest speakers, will explore how materialities get enacted differently in
different places, and how these effect the making of different empirical
accounts or stories; how materiality, place, and story are intertwined
world-making practices. We also hope that the discussion will explore
generative methods for doing materiality and story differently in STS, within
academic writing, map-making, design, teaching, and so on.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>To find
out more, and how to participate in the video conference seminars, please visit
<a href="http://stsmixtures.wordpress.com/video-conferences">http://stsmixtures.wordpress.com/video-conferences</a><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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12.0pt'><a href="http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/sociology/profiles/Laura-Watts/">http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/sociology/profiles/Laura-Watts/</a><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>Centre for Science Studies, Department of Sociology, <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City
w:st="on">Lancaster University</st1:City> <st1:country-region w:st="on">UK</st1:country-region></st1:place><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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