+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
Posted Tue, 12 Jan 2016 17:33:30
This message was forwarded through MEDSOCNEWS.
If you wish to make an announcement or publicise
an event then please send the text to:
[log in to unmask]
You can follow us on twitter @MedSocNews
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
‘Cosmopolitical Research and STS’ at 4S/EASST Conference in Barcelona, 31.Aug.-3.Sept. 2016***.
***Please forward widely. Apologies for cross-posting.***
Abstract Deadline Feb. 21, 2016
Submit abstracts online at: http://www.sts2016bcn.org/
Organizer Michael Schillmeier, University of Exeter [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>
Cosmopolitical Research and STS
This call for papers invites contributions to a cosmopolitical research agenda in STS that draws attention to the questionability of the normal in social relations and how social normalcy is disrupted, questioned and altered by unforeseeable events, unexpected practices and uncommon actors and actor-coalitions.
The track will focus on empirical and conceptual work that address how STS can contribute to novel understandings and engagement with the non-normal, the un-common and unexpected which challenge and put at risk the conduct of everyday life practices and institutionalized orderings.
Central questions include
· How can STS contribute to caring practices for which no common solutions are available?
· Which role do non-humans, artefacts, design and technologies gain in cosmopolitical research?
· How can we imagine new coalitions between researcher and researched?
· How can a cosmopolitical perspective contribute to ‘slow science’?
· How can a cosmopolitical perspective disrupt the premises of human exceptionalism in STS?
· How can we think of cosmopolitical research as a mode of political engagement and experimentation, resistance and disruption of ‘social normalcy’?
· What are the novel spaces of cosmopolitics and how do they become visible?
Possible areas of research may include
· Urban Studies
· Disability Studies
· Health and Illness
· Art, Literature and Design
· Environmental Studies
· Disaster Studies
· Risk Studies
· Issue/Publics Studies
· Speculative Philosophy in STS, etc….
———————————
Professor Michael Schillmeier
Department of Sociology, Philosophy and Anthropology
Centre for the Studies of Life Sciences
Byrne House
University of Exeter
Exeter EX4 4PJ
FON ++44 (0)1392 725125
Call for Papers
Cosmopolitical Research and STS<http://www.nomadit.co.uk/easst/easst_4s2016/panels.php5?PanelID=3986>
EASST/4S Barcelona 2016
Last Book
Eventful Bodies - The Cosmopolitics of Illness (Ashgate)
Open Access
Caring about Social Complexity in Nanomedicine<http://www.futuremedicine.com/doi/pdf/10.2217/nnm.15.149>
**********************************************************************
1. For general enquires or problems with the list or to CHANGE YOUR EMAIL ADDRESS send a message to:
[log in to unmask]
2. To suspend yourself from the list, whilst on leave, for example,
send an email to [log in to unmask] with the following message:
set medsocnews nomail
3. To resume email from the list, send the following message:
set medsocnews mail
4. To leave MedSocNews, send an email to [log in to unmask] with the message (leave the subject line blank and do not include a signature):
leave medsocnews
5. To join or subscribe to MedSocNews, send an email to [log in to unmask] with the message (leave the subject line blank and do not include a signature):
SUBSCRIBE medsocnews firstname lastname
6. Further information about the medsocnews discussion list (including
list archive and how to subscribe to or leave the list) can be found
at the list web site:
http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/medsocnews.html
**********************************************************************
|