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****************************************************** * http://www.anthropologymatters.com * * A postgraduate project comprising online journal, * * online discussions, teaching and research resources * * and international contacts directory. * ****************************************************** > > 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. > ************************************************************* * Anthropology-Matters Mailing List * * To join this list or to look at the archived previous * * messages visit: * * http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/Anthropology-Matters.HTML * * If you have ALREADY subscribed: to send a message to all * * those currently subscribed to the list,just send mail to: * * [log in to unmask] * * * * Enjoyed the mailing list? Why not join the new * * CONTACTS SECTION @ www.anthropologymatters.com * * an international directory of anthropology researchers * ***************************************************************