** LAST CHANCE TO APPLY ** Call for ATTENDEES for Symposium ‘Decolonise STEM: Resisting, Unlearning, and Imagining’ 
 
---- NOTICE: IF YOU HAVE APPLIED TO SPEAK ON A PANEL, YOU DO NOT NEED TO REGISTER TO ATTEND, YOU WILL BE CONSIDERED AUTOMATICALLY--- 
*if you would like to register for a panel then please visit the decolonise STEM Website: https://decolonisestem.home.blog/call-for-panellists/
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Deadline for registration: 1st September 2019
Contact Email: [log in to unmask]
Date: Saturday 5th October 2019
 
Symposium Location: Institute of Education, United Kingdom
Keynote Speakers: Dr Arianne Shahvisi and Dr Christine (Xine) Yao
 
We are pleased to announce that registration to attend the ‘Decolonise STEM: Resisting, Unlearning, and Imagining’ symposium taking place on Saturday October 5th 2019 at Institute Of Education, supported in part by the Department of Science and Technology Studies and the Wellcome Trust, is now open!
 
The symposium seeks to be an important and empowering day. A space to share lived and felt experience of existing in, and speaking across, the Eurocentric space of STEM, as well as an opportunity for all of us -- speakers, panellists, and attendees -- to strategize, and conspire methods by which to dismantle white supremacy in STEM.
 
Please continue reading for details about the organising collective, the aims of the symposium as well as how to apply as an attendee. Alternatively, you can follow the link to our website: https://decolonisestem.home.blog/call-for-attendees/. Please do feel free to circulate this call to anyone/any groups that you think might be interested in joining us at the symposium. 
 
The collective
 
The creation of a collective to decolonise STEM (the material and theoretical outputs of what is broadly conceived as science, technology, engineering and mathematics, as well as the institutions that support them) is born with a sense of urgency and recognition that we must act if we are to survive the pervasive politics of the moment. This collective recognises how these politics – of empire and white supremacy – are deeply embedded and upheld by our hegemonic understanding of science, institutional practice, and emerging technologies. The intellectual and political wellspring of science and technology studies (STS), which provides some tools to unpack the relationship of science, technology and politics, is activism. It is our belief that this ethos has to be reclaimed and enacted in concrete, shared decolonising practice.
 
 
The symposium
 
The symposium is first and foremost an act of activism, and of academic humility. We hope to provide a space to interrogate accepted ‘truths’ about STEM and to make room for and learn from overlooked lived experiences, which highlight how colonial power is embedded in, emboldened and reproduced by STEM and help to empower or create new and alternative knowledges/spaces and practices to move beyond the dominant system. 
 
The symposium will be split into two panels and a collaborative and interactive workshop. Panel one, ‘Experiences in STEM: Strategies of Survival’, will foreground counternarratives – lived and felt experiences of navigating and surviving, both past and present, the coloniality of STEM. Panel two: ‘Decolonising STEM’, will centre academic and scholarly activism on the topic of supremacy in, and decolonisation of, STEM. Finally, with care, kindness, and collaborative non-hierarchical method, we will workshop, together, practical and theoretical tools to begin he process of decolonising STEM.
 
We hope this symposium forms the roots to support an ongoing and much bigger, longer-term movement to decolonise STEM. For more details, please visit our website: https://decolonisestem.home.blog/ 
 
Call for Attendees: Conscious and Equitable Application 
 
[Notice: if you have applied to speak on a panel, info of which can be found on our website, you DO NOT need to apply to attend, you will be considered automatically]
 
By virtue of this being a small, collaborative, direct action symposium, spaces are limited. As such we will be exercising a method of conscious and equitable application. This means that that as opposed to the traditional method of first come, first serve -- that has the potential to alienate and exclude certain individuals, groups, and causes -- we ask that prospective attendees fill out the attached google doc, and briefly explain (in no more than 150 words), your interest in participating in this event. By no means does this have to be a formal statement, rather a little snippet about why you want to get involved.
 
The deadline to submit attendee application is 1st September 2019. To submit please click on the link: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSedBHJzRN3BdF5R4QHxs85ljs4g0FbAEjKl3QLXo_D2-Qm4kA/viewform 
 
A decision on all attendees will be made by 5th September 2019. Feel free to get in touch with us at: [log in to unmask] with any queries, questions or concerns. 
 
The symposium is free to attended, lunch will be provided, and a venue is booked for us to chill out at the end of an exciting day.
 
Attendees chosen to participate this time around will be contacted by 5th September 2019 and will also be eligible for funding to cover travel expenses within the UK.
 
See more on our website: www.decolonisestem.home.blog 
Follow the conference on Twitter for updates: https://twitter.com/DecoloniseSTEM
 
Sponsored and Supported By: Wellcome Trust and UCL Department of Science and Technology Studies
 
We look forward to hearing from you.
 
In solidarity,
 
The Decolonise STEM Collective. 
 
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