[Ssnet_list] 🌟🌟 4S Early Bird Registration ends May 1 🌟🌟

[Daniela K Rosner via Ssnet_list]

(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 <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

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Daniela K. Rosner, Professor
Co-Director, HCDE MS Program
Sieg Hall, room 409
Dept. of Human Centered Design & Engineering
University of Washington
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