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> Call for Papers:
>
> The Department of Science & Technology Studies, Cornell University
> is pleased to announce the international conference:
>
> Places of Knowledge: Relocating Science, Technology and Medicine
>
> To take place at Cornell University October 3-5, 2008.
>
> In recent years, a number of scholars working under the broad
> rubric of Science & Technology Studies have sought to move beyond
> the field's traditional focus on scientific practice carried out by
> credentialed experts in labs and clinics in the industrialized
> world. This conference invites papers including, but not limited
> to, the anthropology, history, and sociology of science, technology
> and/or medicine to consolidate and extend this work. We seek to put
> in dialogue analyses addressing technoscience in colonial and
> postcolonial contexts with work on artisanal knowledge, citizen
> science, and other forms of knowledge and sites of practice. We
> request papers that examine these places, the types of material and
> knowledge produced within them, and the sorts of communities and
> institutions that facilitate the means of knowledge production.
> Themes will include the nature of skills and practices in colonial
> and postcolonial contexts, methods of professionalization, and the
> production of traditional and modern places of knowledge as well as
> the discourse between them. We invite, in addition, papers
> concerned with questions of method: are there epistemological
> assumptions constitutive of the disciplines that have traditionally
> made up STS that have undermined (and/or continue to undermine) a
> project that aims to relocate the study of science, technology, and
> medicine?
>
> If you are interesting in taking part, please send your title and
> abstract to the Organizing Committee, Places of Knowledge, Dept
> S&TS, Rockefeller Hall, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853 by
> March 30, 2008. We have limited funds for travel so please mention
> whether you will need travel support. If you need further
> information please feel free to contact Trevor Pinch
> ([log in to unmask]) or Suman Seth ([log in to unmask]).
>
> This conference is one of a series being co-organized with H. Otto
> Sibum, Office for History of Science, Uppsala University, Sweden
> http://www.vethist.idehist.uu.se/English/index_eng.html And Richard
> Rottenburg, Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology (MPISA),
> Halle, Germany http://www.eth.mpg.de/research/mpfg1/index.html.
>
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