4S Sydney 2018
Call for Papers, Closed Panels, Making and Doing Presentations, and STS Across Borders Exhibits
Sydney, Australia, 29 August to 1 September
Submissions Close February 1st 2018
There are many ways to participate in the 4S 2018 conference: presenting a paper in an open panel, a closed panel, or a panel formed by the program committee; being a discussant; chairing a panel; participating in a Making and Doing session; participating in the STS Across Borders Exhibit, attending a pre-conference event, and taking part in the range of social and collegial events across the 4S conference.
Our [log in to unmask]&job=3169609&ymlink=184766805&finalurl=https%3A%2F%2F4s2018sydney%2Eorg%2F" target="_blank">theme – TRANSnational STS – encourages presentations, panels, and other events that deepen and extend the transnational character of the Society itself, while engaging issues invoked by both the TRANS prefix (across, beyond, to change thoroughly), and by the problematic and evolving status of ‘nations’ in processes of global ordering.
The STS Making and Doing Program in Sydney is open to STS scholars wanting to share expression of their on-the-ground STS practices and innovations in scholarly knowledge work in a range of formats that extend beyond academic papers or books – whether through installations, technologies developed, exhibits, teaching curricula, or other creative works. For inspiration, see submissions to the 2015 and 2017 exhibits.
All STS Departments, Publications, Networks, and Associations can sign up for STS Across Borders, helping build exhibits for Sydney and a community archive! Also see details on the STS Across Borders Contributing Editors Program through which people can work together (transnationally) on exhibits. Junior scholars are especially encouraged to join.
Over one hundred [log in to unmask]&job=3169609&ymlink=184766805&finalurl=https%3A%2F%2F4s2018sydney%2Eorg%2Faccepted%2Dopen%2Dpanels%2D4s%2F" target="_blank">open panels have been accepted from scholars on every continent and covering every major STS theme. Please consider contributing to what is certain to be a rich and diverse regional conference – by [log in to unmask]&job=3169609&ymlink=184766805&finalurl=https%3A%2F%2F4s2018sydney%2Eorg%2Fcall%2Dfor%2Dpapers%2Dopen%2Dpanels%2F" target="_blank">submitting, by adding to our collection of [log in to unmask]&job=3169609&ymlink=184766805&finalurl=https%3A%2F%2F4s2018sydney%2Eorg%2Ftranslations%2F" target="_blank">translations of the conference (currently 18 languages) or by contributing to the [log in to unmask]&job=3169609&ymlink=184766805&finalurl=https%3A%2F%2F4s2018sydney%2Eorg%2Fblog%2F" target="_blank">blog highlighting our two plenary themes, Indigenous STS and Querying STS Geneaologies.
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Emma Kowal and Matt Kearnes, Program Chairs