[STS-Africa] Fwd: 4S 2017: STS Across Borders + 6S Business Lunch

[Gianluca Miscione]

Possibly of interest,

Gianluca




On Tuesday, 29 August 2017 14:47:14 UTC+1, Colin Garvey wrote:
>
> Hi all —
>
> Looks like the message I sent over the weekend got cutoff for digest 
> versions of the list… sorry.
>
> Would like to encourage everyone to attend the pre-conference, Wednesday 
> morning session on “STS Across Borders <http://tinyurl.com/ya5r3zr5>” 
> with incoming president Kim Fortun. Details from Kim are attached below.
>
> Also would like to encourage all grad students to attend the 6S Business 
> Lunch <http://tinyurl.com/ycrfsu96> with Kim. She is very interested in 
> getting a lot of input from grads on what they’d like to see from the 
> society in the coming years. Cheers to the 6S folks for getting this setup.
>
> Colin Garvey
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> colin.k... at gmail.com <javascript:>
> @colinkgarvey
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>
>
> Please share, and plan to participate!
>
> The 4S meetings in Boston provide a special opportunity to showcase and 
> celebrate STS across borders.  4S has extended long-running effort to 
> welcome international travelers.  And there are many sessions on the 
> program that foreground diverse approaches to STS in different regions and 
> intellectual traditions.  The 2017 Bernal lecture (Friday, 4pm) by 
> Argentinian anthropologist Hebe Vessuri will continue in this vein, 
> examining STS in Latin America and “science and scientists in the ‘rest 
> of the rest of the world’.”
>
> Pre-conference Meeting: STS Across Borders
> Wednesday, August 30, 9:15-10:45am
> Beacon D, Boston Sheraton Hotel
> Organizer: Kim Fortun (kfo... at uci.edu <javascript:>)
>
> This informal, pre-meeting will be provide an opportunity for STS scholars 
> from different regions and networks to meet, and learn about different STS 
> contexts, genealogies and approaches.  Participants are invited to 
> contribute reference material in advance, addressing preliminary queries 
> <https://docs.google.com/document/d/1fKHO0jjSpkxA-seA_m2IY7SSCX4jiyvAUgEY_yVf7WM/edit?usp=sharing> 
> that will help draw out critical differences and comparisons, shared 
> concerns, and possibilities for collaboration.  Contributed material will 
> be curated and shared in advance of the meeting. The meeting will lay 
> ground for continued dialogue and planning -- focused, in part, on the 4S 
> 2018 meetings in Sydney, where the theme will be Transnational STS 
> <http://www.4sonline.org/item/4s_sydney_18_announced>.  To contribute 
> material for this meeting, contact Kim Fortun (kfo... at uci.edu 
> <javascript:>).  All are welcome to attend.  
>
>
> -- 
> Kim Fortun
> Chair, Department of Anthropology
> UC Irvine
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