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

[Daniela K Rosner via Ssnet_list]

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 <dkrosner at uw.edu> 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 <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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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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