From ssnet_list at u.washington.edu Thu Apr 3 07:05:24 2025 From: ssnet_list at u.washington.edu (Monika Sengul-Jones via Ssnet_list) Date: Thu Apr 3 08:01:12 2025 Subject: [Ssnet_list] Happening Today at 7pm | Alondra Nelson's lecture on 'Algorithmic Agnotology' | Tech Policy Lab | Thurs. April 3, 7 pm | Kane 120 In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Hi everyone, A reminder about Dr. Alondra Nelson's Distinguished Lecture today, at 7 PM. Details and the link to register are below. Warmly, Monika On Mon, Mar 31, 2025 at 9:02?AM Monika Sengul-Jones wrote: > *Welcome, new members, to the Society + Technology at UW listserv. * > > Hi everyone, > > The pink cherry blossoms are throwing a party, and I'm writing to remind > you that the UW Tech Policy Lab proudly welcomes Dr. Alondra Nelson for the > Distinguished Lecture this Thursday, April 3rd, at 7 PM in Kane Hall 120. > Her lecture, on the strategic production of ignorance, is free and open to > the public. Register here > > . > > About the lecture: > Algorithmic Agnotology: On AI, Ignorance, and Power > > In this lecture, Alondra Nelson examines the exercise of power through > agnotology?the strategic production of ignorance?drawing on foundational > work on how industries manufactured doubt to protect their interests. She > introduces ?algorithmic agnotology? to describe how Big Tech and AI > companies create knowledge asymmetries through technical obscurantism, > selective transparency, and the deliberate framing of AI limitations as > mysterious rather than systemic. By contrasting traditional and algorithmic > forms of manufactured ignorance, she demonstrates how the ?AI race? > accelerates knowledge disparities, with implications that extend beyond > technical domains into fundamental questions of democratic governance and > digital rights. > > About the speaker: > Dr. Alondra Nelson, a renowned scholar and author, is the Harold F. Linder > Professor at the Institute for Advanced Study, where she leads the Science, > Technology, and Social Values Lab. Author of The Social Life of DNA, she > served as Deputy Assistant to President Biden and Acting Director of the > White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, where her work > advanced responsible technological development, scientific integrity, and > public access to taxpayer-funded research. > > In 2023, she was named to the inaugural TIME100 list of the most > influential people in artificial intelligence and recognized by Nature as > one of the ?Ten People Who Shaped Science.? Dr. Nelson also advises > governments and global organizations and is a distinguished member of > leading scientific and policy academies. > > > > > > Yours[image: Alondra Nelson in front of the American Flag.] > > > Yours, > Monika Sengul-Jones, PhD she/they > Director of Strategy and Operations > Society + Technology at UW > Hosted in the Tech Policy Lab > www.societyandtechnology.uw.edu > email: mmjones@uw.edu > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From ssnet_list at u.washington.edu Sun Apr 6 17:33:13 2025 From: ssnet_list at u.washington.edu (Monika Sengul-Jones via Ssnet_list) Date: Sun Apr 6 18:00:44 2025 Subject: [Ssnet_list] Happening tomorrow: "Living in Prognosis" | April First Monday STSS Reading Group | New Time In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Hi everyone, A reminder that our conversation with Lisa Hoffman is tomorrow at 12:30, note the new time for spring quarter. The reading is below. Zoom link: *https://washington.zoom.us/my/monikasj* Yours, Monika (and Leah) >> >>> >> Hi everyone, >> >> An important notification, the *First Monday STSS Reading Group* will be >> at a new time this spring: *12:30 -1:25 pm. *Join us for your (online) >> lunch! >> >> Our next host is anthropologist *Lisa Hoffman*, Professor of Urban >> Studies at UW Tacoma. Lisa Hoffman chose an article that begins with a >> shooting squad. "I am alive, No, you are dead." But the piece, by Stanford >> professor Lochlain Jain, is on how *prognosis* -- you have cancer -- >> alters the representational space for people living and dying with/of >> cancer. Looking forward to a rich discussion led by Lisa that brings this >> short essay by an award-winning anthropologist of medicine and law into >> conversation with our STS-curious group. >> >> Please email me to get an invitation to join the meeting, which is >> Monday, April 7, 2025 at 12:30-1:25; below you can access the pdf. >> >> Jain Living in Prognosis.pdf >> >> >> Warmly, >> Monika >> > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From ssnet_list at u.washington.edu Mon Apr 7 18:22:25 2025 From: ssnet_list at u.washington.edu (Leah M Ceccarelli via Ssnet_list) Date: Mon Apr 7 18:22:33 2025 Subject: [Ssnet_list] a couple of grad classes of interest Message-ID: Hello All, We have spaces open in a couple HCDE Special topics for spring quarter. See below - HCDE 548 B - Critical Technology Practice 4 Credits | OPEN TO PHD AND MASTERS In this course, we will cover a combination of critical theory and methods toward a liberatory practice of technology. Technology has been an object of power and exclusion for centuries-enabling systemic injustices such as racism, ableism, and classism. This course is designed to provide foundational knowledge on what it means for students, practitioners, scholars, and technology workers alike to start questioning the role of technology in past and ongoing systemic harms. Focusing on the main structures of oppression often perpetuated via technology, we will explore counter-practices of technology research and design through which we can carry out a commitment toward dismantling such exclusionary means of technology production. Throughout, students will make artifacts conveying their interpretations of critical technology practice. HCDE 548 C CONDUCTING ACTIONABLE RESEARCH TO PROMOTE SOCIAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL SUSTAINABILITY 4 credits Course Description- Since 2015, the United Nations has been tracking progress towards synergistic sustainable development goals (SDGs) related to the environment (e.g., water, energy, food, climate, waste) and people (e.g., education, health, jobs, infrastructure). In order to engage with these interconnected sociotechnical challenges as researchers, we must first develop a deeper understanding of the relevant political, social, economic, and technological factors impacting each context-specific issue. This doctoral research seminar will review recent local and global examples of successful and failed interventions targeting environmental and public health issues. During the quarter, Ph.D. students will work in groups of diverse expertise and disciplinary backgrounds to collaborate on a research/grant proposal or editorial relating to a particular SDG and community. Through assigned and self-selected readings, students will learn to: (1) characterize the problem space, (2) identify relevant datasets and key indicators to compare the impacts of existing/proposed interventions on population health, environmental sustainability, and/or economic feasibility, and (3) design approaches to responsibly co-create and disseminate knowledge. In addition, students will lead group discussions to reflect on the ethics of global citizenship and experiences of working as a researcher in low-resource settings. To reflect the interdisciplinary nature of the grand challenges this seminar will be focused on, Ph.D. students across many disciplines (e.g., engineering, public policy, public health, and business) and at any stage of their doctoral program are strongly encouraged to participate! Let me know if you or your students are interested. Best, Kathleen KATHLEEN A. RASCON, M.Ed. Pronouns: she/her Academic Services Director Human Centered Design & Engineering 423 Sieg Hall Box 352315 Seattle, WA 98195 206.543.2567 | khorenst@uw.edu Microsoft Teams | [hcde-department.slack.com]Slack In-Office Appointments: T/W/Th 9:30 a.m. - 4:30 p.m. Remote Appointments: M 8:00 am - 12 p.m., T/W/Th 9:30 a.m. - 4:30 p.m., F available on Teams/Email/Slack Click Here to Schedule an Advising Appointment Newsletter | Instagram | BlueSky | LinkedIn In HCDE, we thrive at the critical junction of research, education, and community to cultivate equity, access, and opportunity. With these values in mind, I'd like to take a moment to acknowledge that we educate future human centered designers and researchers on this campus, on the unceded lands of the Duwamish and Coast Salish people, who are still here, honoring their ancestral and modern heritage. Native Land Digital -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Warmly, Monika Sengul-Jones (S+T @ UW) and Adrienne Russell (Center for Journalism, Media, and Democracy | Communication, UW Seattle), co-hosts On Wed, Apr 9, 2025 at 10:28?PM Monika Sengul-Jones wrote: > > *Welcome, new members, to the Society + Technology at UW listserv. Glad > you are here.* > > Hi everyone, > > I?ve been thinking about tables today?who sits at them, who doesn?t, and > how the conversations unfold. With that in mind, I?m sharing two > announcements: > > *Happening Monday: Technology for the People* > April 14, 2025 | 6?8 PM | Room 133, School of Law, UW Seattle > Open to the Public | Register Now! > > > Technology for the People is a Society + Technology at UW salon, co-hosted > with the Department of Communication?s Center for Journalism, Media, and > Democracy, co-sponsored by the UW Tech Policy Lab. This event showcases > empathetic, community-focused engagement with technologies for justice and > democracy. > > Featuring: > Dharma Dailey (Computing & Software Systems, UW Bothell) > Carmen Gonzalez (Communication, UW Seattle) > Esther Jang (Computer Science, UW Seattle) > Divya C. McMillin (Global Media Studies, UW Tacoma) > Moderated by: Adrienne Russell (Communication, UW Seattle) > Introduction by: Monika Sengul-Jones (Society + Technology at UW) > > This is your chance to listen in on a cross-campus UW conversation about > technology and democracy?happening at a shared table. Reception to follow. > Learn more and register. > > > *Apply by April 30: FTC Speaker Opportunity* > FTC's Attention Economy Workshop | May 28, 2025 | In-Person/Online > How Big Tech Firms Exploit Children and Hurt Families > > The FTC is hosting a workshop on the attention economy and harm to > children. In previous years, several UW scholars have taken part in FTC > workshops. Is this year your year to be at the table? > Learn more and apply. > > > > That?s it for today. > > Yours, > Monika Sengul-Jones (she/they) > Society + Technology at UW > Hosted in the Tech Policy Lab > societyandtechnology.uw.edu > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From ssnet_list at u.washington.edu Wed Apr 16 13:46:54 2025 From: ssnet_list at u.washington.edu (Monika Sengul-Jones via Ssnet_list) Date: Wed Apr 16 16:03:52 2025 Subject: [Ssnet_list] Register Now | STS in Crisis | UW Tacoma | S+T@UW / STSS Community Mixer Message-ID: *Welcome, new members, to the Society + Technology at UW listserv. Glad you are here. This message is cross-posted with the Science Studies Network listserv. * Hey everyone, Hope you are hanging in there. I'm writing to invite you to the next Society + Technology at UW Mixer, STS in CRISIS at UW Tacoma. Matthew Weinstein (Education, UW Tacoma) is joining me as local co-host. STS in CRISIS April 29, 2025 1:00 PM ? 3 PM UW Tacoma | Birmingham Hay and Seed Building 107 (Located on the 1st floor of the Birmingham Hay and Seed (BHS) Building) What is the purchase of STS to make sense of crises in the past or present? How might STS be a site of crisis? STS in CRISIS is a provocation, not a diagnosis. Join us! It's free, but please register by April Friday, April 26. We'll offer modest refreshments. Registration link: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfX6QSaoGSfvy-tuwdidFVgt8JbazCpPwRoZxgEKuxIDRikXw/viewform?usp=dialog STS in CRISIS is designed for UW faculty, staff, and students, however after the great success of the Technology for the People salon co-sponsored with the Center for Journalism, Media, and Democracy this week, if you're reading this and are not currently affiliated with UW, stay tuned for details about future public-facing events and salons. 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Political Software: Mapping Digital Worlds From Below When Thursday, May 1, 2025, 10 a.m. ? 4 p.m. Event interval Single day event Campus location Allen Library (ALB) Campus room Petersen Room By focusing on software and countermaps primarily designed for political action with social, environmental, and land justice movements, this conference brings together organizers, researchers, educators, and technologists questioning the interdependencies between digital infrastructures, software code, and emancipatory spatial futures. This conference , hosted by the Simpson Center, is being organized by Erin McElroy (Geography, UW) and Luis Felipe R. Murillo (Anthropology, University of Notre Dame). Panel 1: Community Mapping 10:00 am-12:30 pm This session explores how activist groups mobilize counter-mapping and cartographic software in order to mobilize for spatial and territorial justice. Speakers include members of groups of the following projects: Queering the Map (Canada), kollektiv orangotango (Germany), Ushahidi (Kenya), Missing Basti Project (India), and Waterlines Project (Turtle Island). Together, we will explore what it means to mobilize spatial software for emancipatory futures. Lunch Break 12:30-1:30 pm Panel 2: Community Software 1:30-4:00 pm This session focuses on community-made political software and how different collectives mobilize digital technologies against imperial spatialities. Speakers include members of the following projects: Electronic Disturbance Theater (Mexico/US/Netherlands), Casa Ta?n? (Brazil), Tor (US), Little Sis (US), and Logics (US). Together, we will explore how groups maintain autonomist politics in software creation amidst a landscape of political and economic violence. ? -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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The program suggests the panelists will address long-standing tensions between disciplines and reframe resistance to AI in novel ways to foster cross-disciplinary solidarity and honor vital curiosity. It's free and online. Register . Friday, April 25 | 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM (EDT) | Shannon Cram (IAS, UW Bothell) is speaking on a panel for SCA Fridays because she's a winner of the Gregory Bateson Book Prize for her book Unmaking the Bomb: Environmental Cleanup and the Politics of Impossibility. Congrats! It's free and online. Register . *Tuesday, April 29, 2025 | 1:00 PM - 3:00 PM PDT | Join our S+T@UW Mixer in Tacoma *for STS In CRISIS. Crisis is a provocation, not a diagnosis. What does STS offer us in this moment? The mixer is free and in-person. Co-hosted by Matthew Weinstein and Monika Sengul-Jones. Learn more and register. *Thursday, May 1, 2025 | 10:00 AM - 4:00 PM PDT | *Erin McElroy (Geography, UW Seattle) is co-organizing, with the Simpson Center, Political Software: Mapping Digital Worlds from Below , which promises to "question the interdependencies between digital infrastructures, software code, and emancipatory spatial futures." It's free and in-person at UW Seattle. Learn more . Monday, May 5, 2025 | 12:30 PM - 1:25 PM | Kim Swenson (Teaching & Learning, UW Bothell) is the host of the next S+T@UW First Monday STSS Reading Group, she?ll lead the group in discussion of a podcast episode around STS, higher thinking, and LLMs. Apropos topic. Free and online. Email mmjones@uw.edu to learn more and get the calendar invitation. Friday, May 9, 12:00 PM ? 2:00 PM | Join host Yomi Braester (Cinema and Media Studies, UW Seattle), Mal Ahern (Cinema and Media Studies, UW Seattle), Jenna Grant (Anthropology, UW Seattle), Yijun Li (Journalism and Information Communication, Huazhong University), Aditya Ramesh (History, UW Seattle), Daniela Rosner (HCDE, UW Seattle), and Diana Flores Ruiz (Cinema and Media Studies) for a conversation on representation. Representation is not a passive act, it?s a constructed practice. Learn what this does and means from experts engaged with STS and media/cinema studies theories. Free, in-person, no registration. Just show up to the HUB, Room 307. Open to the UW community. Lunch provided (while supplies last). More events are featured on the Society + Technology at UW calendar . Do you have a UW event you'd like to showcase on the calendar and/or this listserv? Share here! This is for all of you. Looking forward to these conversations and the continued promise of sunshine. 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The episode, Your Undivided Attention: Rethinking School in the Age of AI, is a conversation with Rebeca Winthrop and Maryanne Wolf, hosted by the Center of Humane Technology, whose work is "dedicated to leading a comprehensive shift toward technology that strengthens our well-being, global democratic functioning, and shared information environment." Join us for this timely conversation! If you didn't receive the calendar invite, please let me know, and I'll add you to the list. Yours, Monika (and Leah), co-facilitators First Monday STSS Reading Group Podcast: https://www.humanetech.com/podcast/rethinking-school-in-the-age-of-ai Date May 5, 2025 Time 12:30 PM - 1:25 PM Link: Join Zoom Meeting https://washington.zoom.us/j/91697538433?pwd=bcpCUCFMPlpvdKwsnSmgFnWaQblwbo.1 Meeting ID: 916 9753 8433 Passcode: 391598 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From ssnet_list at u.washington.edu Fri Apr 25 14:55:52 2025 From: ssnet_list at u.washington.edu (Jenna Grant via Ssnet_list) Date: Fri Apr 25 15:00:32 2025 Subject: [Ssnet_list] Public talk 4/29: Emily Yates-Doerr on Mal-Nutrition: Maternal Health Science and the Reproduction of Harm Message-ID: [image: image.png] Dear colleagues, We have the honor of an in-person visit from Dr. Emily Yates-Doerr (Oregon State) on Tuesday 4/29, who will be speaking to my ANTH 215 class about her new book, *Mal-nutrition : Maternal health science and the reproduction of harm *(UC Press 2024). This talk is open to the public. When: Tuesday 29 April, 10:30am Where: GUG 220 >From the publisher site: Mal-Nutrition *documents how maternal health interventions in Guatemala are complicit in reproducing poverty. Policy makers speak about how a critical window of biological growth around the time of pregnancy?called the "first 1,000 days of life"?determines health and wealth across the life course. They argue that fetal development is the key to global development. In this thought-provoking and timely book, Emily Yates-Doerr shows that the control of mothering is a paradigmatic technique of American violence that serves to control the reproduction of privilege and power. She illustrates the efforts of Guatemalan scientists, midwives, and mothers to counter the harms of such mal-nutrition. Their powerful stories offer a window into a form of nutrition science and policy that encourages collective *nourishment and fosters reproductive cycles in which women, children, and their entire communities can flourish. Join us if you can! best, Jenna -- Jenna Grant, PhD (*she series*) Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology Adjunct Associate Professor, Department of American Ethnic Studies Faculty, Southeast Asia Center University of Washington P.O. 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Purchasing a membership gives you access to reduced rates, so be consider becoming a member first: http://tinyurl.com/4nt59r4v *http://4sonline.org * Fostering interdisciplinary and engaged scholarship in social studies of science, technology, and medicine across the globe. *4S 2025 Seattle, Sept 3-6* *Conference Theme: Reverberations* To reverberate is to echo, to repeat, to transmit further, to convey. Reverberations are also relays?wave-like, rolling, seismic or subtle?between points in space and time, felt evidence of distant yet interpenetrating events. In this sense, to reverberate is to exhibit a strange kind of force?an infinite regress of effects perceived as causes perceived as effects. For STS, reverberation figures science and technology not only as an effect of myriad practices and multiple agencies but also as normative sites where diverse politics and disparate struggles are resounded, reworked, and?consequentially?reactivated. The 50th Annual Meeting of the Society for Social Studies of Science (4S): Reverberations calls for presentations, panels, and adjacent gatherings that engage reverberations across form and content. The theme offers layered meaning, across the senses. For example, it invites an engagement with the past as it reverberates in the present, which reflects on varied STS histories ? in the Seattle region, longstanding and ongoing colonialism and resource extraction, as well as protest and Indigenous resistance. Extending from that, Reverberations also has a spatial dimension, both geologically, as we will be gathering in a seismically active place, and in a broader sense, as what happens in one place can ripple outward with transcontinental impacts. On another register, Reverberations brings to mind music, which has been such an impactful site of Seattle?s pop cultural impacts. And there could also be myriad opportunities to bring the evocatively tactile theme of Reverberations into conversation with theoretical concepts impactful within STS, ranging from the classic interest in the agency of objects, to inquiries into what attending to diffraction might reveal, to sociotechnical systems and imaginaries ? and so much more. The meeting includes a Making & Doing exhibition alongside a special zine exhibition that showcases a plurality of formats and inquiries. https://www.4sonline.org/about_the_conference_seattle.php -- -!-?..-!-..?-!-?..-!-?..-!-?..-!-?..-!-?..-!-?..-!-?..-!- Daniela K. Rosner, Professor Co-Director, HCDE MS Program Sieg Hall, room 409 Dept. of Human Centered Design & Engineering University of Washington -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Registration link: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfX6QSaoGSfvy-tuwdidFVgt8JbazCpPwRoZxgEKuxIDRikXw/viewform?usp=dialog STS in CRISIS is designed for UW faculty, staff, and students, however after the great success of the Technology for the People salon co-sponsored with the Center for Journalism, Media, and Democracy this week, if you're reading this and are not currently affiliated with UW, stay tuned for details about future public-facing events and salons. Yours, Monika Sengul-Jones (with co-host Matthew Weinstein) Society + Technology at UW www.societyandtechnology.uw.edu -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Box 353100 Seattle, WA 98115 jmgrant@uw.edu My latest publication is *Fixing the Image : Ultrasound and the Visuality of Care in Phnom Penh* ---------- Forwarded message --------- From: Jenna Grant Date: Fri, Apr 25, 2025 at 14:55 Subject: Public talk 4/29: Emily Yates-Doerr on Mal-Nutrition: Maternal Health Science and the Reproduction of Harm To: Jenna Grant [image: image.png] Dear colleagues, We have the honor of an in-person visit from Dr. Emily Yates-Doerr (Oregon State) on Tuesday 4/29, who will be speaking to my ANTH 215 class about her new book, *Mal-nutrition : Maternal health science and the reproduction of harm *(UC Press 2024). This talk is open to the public. When: Tuesday 29 April, 10:30am Where: GUG 220 >From the publisher site: Mal-Nutrition *documents how maternal health interventions in Guatemala are complicit in reproducing poverty. Policy makers speak about how a critical window of biological growth around the time of pregnancy?called the "first 1,000 days of life"?determines health and wealth across the life course. They argue that fetal development is the key to global development. In this thought-provoking and timely book, Emily Yates-Doerr shows that the control of mothering is a paradigmatic technique of American violence that serves to control the reproduction of privilege and power. She illustrates the efforts of Guatemalan scientists, midwives, and mothers to counter the harms of such mal-nutrition. Their powerful stories offer a window into a form of nutrition science and policy that encourages collective *nourishment and fosters reproductive cycles in which women, children, and their entire communities can flourish. Join us if you can! best, Jenna -- Jenna Grant, PhD (*she series*) Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology Adjunct Associate Professor, Department of American Ethnic Studies Faculty, Southeast Asia Center University of Washington P.O. Box 353100 Seattle, WA 98115 jmgrant@uw.edu My latest publication is *Fixing the Image : Ultrasound and the Visuality of Care in Phnom Penh* -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: image.png Type: image/png Size: 433655 bytes Desc: not available URL: From ssnet_list at u.washington.edu Tue Apr 29 10:24:11 2025 From: ssnet_list at u.washington.edu (Erin McElroy via Ssnet_list) Date: Tue Apr 29 10:27:06 2025 Subject: [Ssnet_list] Political Software: Mapping Digital Worlds From Below Message-ID: <2E9C3F9F-9F27-42F1-9482-695DB483F0EF@uw.edu> Dear all, I wanted to send this invitation out for a conference that I?m co-organizing through the Simpson Center on Thursday May 1st. Here is the information below, as well as the flyer for the event. Please feel free to invite colleagues, students, and community members! Hope to see you there, Erin Political Software: Mapping Digital Worlds From Below When Thursday, May 1, 2025, 10 a.m. ? 4 p.m. Campus location Allen Library (ALB) Campus room Petersen Room By focusing on software and countermaps primarily designed for political action with social, environmental, and land justice movements, this conference brings together organizers, researchers, educators, and technologists questioning the interdependencies and contradictions between digital infrastructures, software code, and emancipatory spatial futures. This conference , hosted by the Simpson Center, is being organized by Erin McElroy (Geography, UW) and Luis Felipe R. Murillo (Anthropology, University of Notre Dame). Panel 1: Community Mapping 10:00 am-12:30 pm This session explores how activist groups mobilize counter-mapping and cartographic software in order to organize for spatial and territorial justice. Speakers include members of groups of the following projects: Queering the Map (Canada), kollektiv orangotango (Germany), Ushahidi (Kenya), Missing Basti Project (India), and the Waterlines Project (Seattle). Lunch Break 12:30-1:30 pm Panel 2: Community Software 1:30-4:00 pm This session focuses on community-made political software and how different collectives mobilize digital technologies against imperial spatialities. Speakers include members of the following projects: Electronic Disturbance Theater (Mexico/US/Netherlands), Casa Ta?n? (Brazil), Little Sis (US), and Logics (US). Erin McElroy , they/them Assistant Professor, Department of Geography University of Washington -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From ssnet_list at u.washington.edu Wed Apr 30 13:55:00 2025 From: ssnet_list at u.washington.edu (Daniela K Rosner via Ssnet_list) Date: Wed Apr 30 15:21:41 2025 Subject: [Ssnet_list] =?utf-8?b?8J+Mn/CfjJ8gNFMgRWFybHkgQmlyZCBSZWdpc3Ry?= =?utf-8?b?YXRpb24gZW5kcyBNYXkgMSDwn4yf8J+Mnw==?= In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: FYI - 4S early registration was just extended to *May 7th *- remember to register soon for the best rates! On Mon, Apr 28, 2025 at 7:24?AM Daniela K Rosner wrote: > (apologies for any cross posting) > > A few days to go to register and receive an ?? early-bird rate for 4S > Seattle 2025 ?? > > *Early-bird ends May 1. *Same rates for online + in-person. Purchasing a > membership gives you access to reduced rates, so be consider becoming a > member first: http://tinyurl.com/4nt59r4v > > *http://4sonline.org * > Fostering interdisciplinary and engaged scholarship in social studies of > science, technology, and medicine across the globe. > > *4S 2025 Seattle, Sept 3-6* > *Conference Theme: Reverberations* > To reverberate is to echo, to repeat, to transmit further, to convey. > Reverberations are also relays?wave-like, rolling, seismic or > subtle?between points in space and time, felt evidence of distant yet > interpenetrating events. In this sense, to reverberate is to exhibit a > strange kind of force?an infinite regress of effects perceived as causes > perceived as effects. For STS, reverberation figures science and technology > not only as an effect of myriad practices and multiple agencies but also as > normative sites where diverse politics and disparate struggles are > resounded, reworked, and?consequentially?reactivated. > > The 50th Annual Meeting of the Society for Social Studies of Science (4S): > Reverberations calls for presentations, panels, and adjacent gatherings > that engage reverberations across form and content. The theme offers > layered meaning, across the senses. For example, it invites an engagement > with the past as it reverberates in the present, which reflects on varied > STS histories ? in the Seattle region, longstanding and ongoing colonialism > and resource extraction, as well as protest and Indigenous resistance. > Extending from that, Reverberations also has a spatial dimension, both > geologically, as we will be gathering in a seismically active place, and in > a broader sense, as what happens in one place can ripple outward with > transcontinental impacts. On another register, Reverberations brings to > mind music, which has been such an impactful site of Seattle?s pop cultural > impacts. And there could also be myriad opportunities to bring the > evocatively tactile theme of Reverberations into conversation with > theoretical concepts impactful within STS, ranging from the classic > interest in the agency of objects, to inquiries into what attending to > diffraction might reveal, to sociotechnical systems and imaginaries ? and > so much more. > > The meeting includes a Making & Doing exhibition alongside a special zine > exhibition that showcases a plurality of formats and inquiries. > > https://www.4sonline.org/about_the_conference_seattle.php > > -- > -!-?..-!-..?-!-?..-!-?..-!-?..-!-?..-!-?..-!-?..-!-?..-!- > Daniela K. Rosner, Professor > Co-Director, HCDE MS Program > Sieg Hall, room 409 > Dept. of Human Centered Design & Engineering > University of Washington > -- -!-?..-!-..?-!-?..-!-?..-!-?..-!-?..-!-?..-!-?..-!-?..-!- Daniela K. 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