[Sci-tech-public] FW: Trans-Continental Video Conference Seminar Series

[Amberly Steward]

Call for Participation

STS Mixtures: Trans-Continental Video Conference Seminar Series

on 'Materiality and Story' 

 

Deadline for participation 1st April 2009

Guest speakers this year are Karen Barad (UC Santa Cruz), Lucy Suchman
(Lancaster University), and Helen Verran (University of Melbourne).

The 'STS Mixtures' is an informal seminar series, and began at the Centre
for Science Studies, Lancaster University UK. This expanded to include a
series of video conference seminars with the Actor-Network Theory Group at
University of Melbourne, which featured presentations and discussion with
John Law, Helen Verran, Dianne Mulcahy, and Robin Usher in 2008.

We are expanding this once more into a trans-continental video conference
seminar series in 2009, and invite individuals and research groups from
around the world to participate in the discussion.

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.

To find out more, and how to participate in the video conference seminars,
please visit http://stsmixtures.wordpress.com/video-conferences

Dr Laura Watts

http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/sociology/profiles/Laura-Watts/

Centre for Science Studies, Department of Sociology, Lancaster University UK

 

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