<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Hope to see some of you there, and please note that the identifier should also read 'Visiting Professor, MIT Anthropology'!<div><br></div><div>best,</div><div>Lucy<br><div> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><div><div><br></div></div></span></span></div><div><div>On 7 May 2009, at 10:15, Amberly Steward wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0; "><o:smarttagtype namespaceuri="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" name="PlaceType"><o:smarttagtype namespaceuri="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" name="PlaceName"><o:smarttagtype namespaceuri="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" name="City"><o:smarttagtype namespaceuri="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" name="place"><o:smarttagtype namespaceuri="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" name="PersonName"><div class="Section1"><div><div style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-right: 0pt; margin-left: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><b><font size="5" color="navy" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size: 16pt; color: navy; font-weight: bold; ">Please join us for…<o:p></o:p></span></font></b></div><div style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-right: 0pt; margin-left: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><font size="3" color="black" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size: 12pt; color: black; "><o:p> </o:p></span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-right: 0pt; margin-left: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><font size="3" color="black" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size: 12pt; color: black; ">Media Lab Colloquium Series</span></font><o:p></o:p></div><p style="margin-right: 0pt; margin-left: 0pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><font size="3" color="#990000" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(153, 0, 0); ">WHAT:</span></font><br><st1:personname w:st="on">Lucy Suchman</st1:personname><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>(Centre for Science Studies,<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><st1:place w:st="on"><st1:placename w:st="on">Lancaster</st1:placename><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><st1:placetype w:st="on">University</st1:placetype></st1:place>):<br>"Agencies at the Interface"<o:p></o:p></p><p style="margin-right: 0pt; margin-left: 0pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><font size="3" color="#990000" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(153, 0, 0); ">WHEN:</span></font><br>Monday, May 11, 2009 4:00pm - 6:00pm<o:p></o:p></p><p style="margin-right: 0pt; margin-left: 0pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><font size="3" color="#990000" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(153, 0, 0); ">WHERE:</span></font><br>Wiesner Room, MIT Media Lab (2nd Floor)<o:p></o:p></p><p style="margin-right: 0pt; margin-left: 0pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><font size="3" color="#990000" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(153, 0, 0); ">SUMMARY:</span></font><br>This talk considers how capacities for action are currently figured at the human-machine interface, and how they might be imaginatively and materially reconfigured. Drawing on examples from recent scholarship in anthropology, science and technology studies, and media arts and design, Suchman argues for research aimed at tracing differences that matter within specific sociomaterial arrangements, without resorting to essentialist human-machine divides. This requires expanding our unit of analysis, while taking responsibility for the inevitable cuts or boundaries through which technological systems are made.<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><div style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-right: 0pt; margin-left: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><font size="3" color="#990000" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(153, 0, 0); ">BIO:</span></font><br><st1:personname w:st="on">Lucy Suchman</st1:personname><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>is professor of anthropology of science and technology in the Department of Sociology at<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><st1:placename w:st="on">Lancaster</st1:placename><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><st1:placetype w:st="on">University</st1:placetype>, and co-director of<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Lancaster</st1:place></st1:city>'s Centre for Science Studies. Before taking up her present position she spent twenty years as a researcher at Xerox's<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><st1:place w:st="on"><st1:placename w:st="on">Palo Alto</st1:placename><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><st1:placename w:st="on">Research</st1:placename><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><st1:placetype w:st="on">Center</st1:placetype></st1:place>, where she was a founding member and manager of the Work Practice and Technology area. Her research included ethnographic studies of everyday practices of technology design and use, as well as interdisciplinary and participatory interventions in new technology design. Her publications include<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><em><i><font face="Times New Roman">Human-Machine Reconfigurations</font></i></em><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>(Cambridge University Press 2007), which includes an annotated version of the text of her earlier<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><em><i><font face="Times New Roman">Plans and Situated Actions: The Problem of Human-Machine Communication.</font></i></em><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>The sequel adds six new chapters, looking at relevant developments since the mid-1980s both in computing and in social studies of technology. She served as program chair for the second Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work in 1988, and for the first Conference on Participatory Design of Computer Systems in 1990.<o:p></o:p></div></div><div><div style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-right: 0pt; margin-left: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size: 12pt; "><o:p> </o:p></span></font></div></div><div><div style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-right: 0pt; margin-left: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size: 12pt; "><a href="http://www.media.mit.edu/events/eventpage.php?event=talk-693" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; ">http://www.media.mit.edu/events/eventpage.php?event=talk-693</a><o:p></o:p></span></font></div></div><div><div style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-right: 0pt; margin-left: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size: 12pt; "><o:p> </o:p></span></font></div></div><div><div><div><div><div style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-right: 0pt; margin-left: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><font size="2" color="black" face="Helvetica"><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Helvetica; color: black; "><o:p> </o:p></span></font></div></div></div><div style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-right: 0pt; margin-left: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size: 12pt; "></span><o:p> </o:p></font></div></div><div style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-right: 0pt; margin-left: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size: 12pt; "><o:p> </o:p></span></font></div></div></div></o:smarttagtype></o:smarttagtype></o:smarttagtype></o:smarttagtype></o:smarttagtype></span></blockquote></div><br></div></body></html>