[STS-Africa] Speculative Futures Program (6 April)

[Vincent Duclos]

Dear colleagues, We are pleased to invite youto join us for the Speculative Futures, a workshop held on April 6,2018, organized by Drexel University and the University of Pennsylvania. The event will be held at theSlought Foundation, located on the campus of the University of Pennsylvania: https://slought.org/resources/speculative_futuresPlease see below adescription of the event, and find attached the final program. Description:How are new geographies ofexperimentation and speculation remaking science and medicine? How aretechno-scientific and biomedical futures imagined in and beyond the GlobalSouth? Bringing together scholars from anthropology, STS, and adjacent fields,this workshop explores how configurations of 'the South' facilitate, produce,and are taken up within new formations of science, technology, and medicine.Through three panel presentations and a public discussion and roundtable, thisworkshop examines contemporary and historical forms of scientific and medicalspeculation in the global South. Science and medicine have long been sites ofintervention, experimentation, and speculation in the South. Historians andanthropologists have explored colonial practices of experimentation andintervention, for instance, while archaeologists have examined precolonialmodes of science, industry, and production. Anthropological and STSinvestigations of science and medicine in the South have relied in turn ondevelopmental and institutional framings to understand the forms ofepistemological, financial, material and moral value that these engagementsgenerate.Y et these political, economic, and material contexts are changing.Observers, for instance, have hailed "the end of global health," evenas increasing attention to "South-South" alignments become sites ofboth hype and hope, promising to transform, undo, or remake dominantconfigurations of health, technology, and intervention. What techno-scientificand medical futures are being imagined in light of these shifts, by whom, andwith what effects? How do new scientific, technological, and medical practicesarticulate with practices of producing knowledge, politics, and value?Exploring these questions through diverse ethnographic case studies, thisworkshop attends to the emergence, consolidation, and contestation ofspeculative techno-medical futures. It seeks to generate an analyticalvocabulary for understanding the emergent configurations through which newly"Southern" scientific, technological, and medical futures areimagined today. Speakers/panelists:    
   - Alice Street (U Edinburgh)
   - Crystal Biruk (Oberlin)
   - Euclides Goncalves (Wits)
   - Heidi Morefield (Johns Hopkins)
   - Kaushik Sunder Rajan (U Chicago) 
   - Kristina Lyons (UC Santa Cruz)
   - Jean Comaroff (Harvard)
   - Julie Livingston (NYU)
   - Liliana Gil (New School)
   - Marko Monteiro (State University of Campinas)
   - Peter Redfield (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill)
   - Ramah McKay (Penn)
   - Richard Rottenburg (Halle-Wittenberg)
   - Sebastián Ureta (Universidad Alberto Hurtado)
   - Stacey Langwick (Cornell)
   - Sylvain Faye (Université Cheikh Anta DIOP)
   - Vincent Duclos (Drexel)          
 Contact:Vincent Duclos (vd339 at drexel.edu)Ramah McKay (rmckay at sas.upenn.edu)  --- Vincent DuclosAssistant ProfessorCenter for Science, Technology & Society Department of Global Studies & Modern Languages Drexel University
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