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<p class="MsoNormal">Gianluca<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><br></p><p class="MsoNormal"><br></p><br>On Tuesday, 29 August 2017 14:47:14 UTC+1, Colin Garvey  wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0;margin-left: 0.8ex;border-left: 1px #ccc solid;padding-left: 1ex;"><div style="word-wrap:break-word"><div>Hi all —</div><div><br></div><div>Looks like the message I sent over the weekend got cutoff for digest versions of the list… sorry.</div><div><br></div><div><div>Would like to encourage everyone to attend the pre-conference, Wednesday morning session on “<a href="http://tinyurl.com/ya5r3zr5" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" onmousedown="this.href='http://www.google.com/url?q\x3dhttp%3A%2F%2Ftinyurl.com%2Fya5r3zr5\x26sa\x3dD\x26sntz\x3d1\x26usg\x3dAFQjCNFs6rsfSyjOz15Woi0DlqaFWQvuJw';return true;" onclick="this.href='http://www.google.com/url?q\x3dhttp%3A%2F%2Ftinyurl.com%2Fya5r3zr5\x26sa\x3dD\x26sntz\x3d1\x26usg\x3dAFQjCNFs6rsfSyjOz15Woi0DlqaFWQvuJw';return true;">STS Across Borders</a>” with incoming president Kim Fortun. Details from Kim are attached below.</div><div><br></div><div>Also would like to encourage all grad students to attend the <a href="http://tinyurl.com/ycrfsu96" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" onmousedown="this.href='http://www.google.com/url?q\x3dhttp%3A%2F%2Ftinyurl.com%2Fycrfsu96\x26sa\x3dD\x26sntz\x3d1\x26usg\x3dAFQjCNF5oSySbmn_Ml7jO6fMAtBiGLSKjQ';return true;" onclick="this.href='http://www.google.com/url?q\x3dhttp%3A%2F%2Ftinyurl.com%2Fycrfsu96\x26sa\x3dD\x26sntz\x3d1\x26usg\x3dAFQjCNF5oSySbmn_Ml7jO6fMAtBiGLSKjQ';return true;">6S Business Lunch</a> 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.</div><div><br></div></div><div>
<div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px;font-style:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px">Colin Garvey</div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px;font-style:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px">---</div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px;font-style:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px"><a href="javascript:" target="_blank" gdf-obfuscated-mailto="FWw1JstvCQAJ" rel="nofollow" onmousedown="this.href='javascript:';return true;" onclick="this.href='javascript:';return true;">colin.k...@gmail.com</a></div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px;font-style:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px">@colinkgarvey</div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px;font-style:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px"><br></div><br>
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<div><blockquote type="cite"><br><div><div dir="ltr"><span><div style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="background-color:transparent;font-family:Arial;font-size:11pt;white-space:pre-wrap">Please share, and plan to participate!</span></div><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> </span></p><div style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">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 “</span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(51,51,51);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">science and scientists in the ‘rest of the rest of the world’.”</span></div><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(51,51,51);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> </span></p><div style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Pre-conference Meeting: STS Across Borders</span></div><div style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Wednesday, August 30, 9:15-10:45am</span></div><div style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Beacon D, Boston Sheraton Hotel</span></div><div style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Organizer: Kim Fortun (<a href="javascript:" target="_blank" gdf-obfuscated-mailto="FWw1JstvCQAJ" rel="nofollow" onmousedown="this.href='javascript:';return true;" onclick="this.href='javascript:';return true;">kfo...@uci.edu</a>)</span></div><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> </span></p><div style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">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</span><a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1fKHO0jjSpkxA-seA_m2IY7SSCX4jiyvAUgEY_yVf7WM/edit?usp=sharing" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" onmousedown="this.href='https://docs.google.com/document/d/1fKHO0jjSpkxA-seA_m2IY7SSCX4jiyvAUgEY_yVf7WM/edit?usp\x3dsharing';return true;" onclick="this.href='https://docs.google.com/document/d/1fKHO0jjSpkxA-seA_m2IY7SSCX4jiyvAUgEY_yVf7WM/edit?usp\x3dsharing';return true;"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> </span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">preliminary queries</span></a><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> 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</span><a href="http://www.4sonline.org/item/4s_sydney_18_announced" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" onmousedown="this.href='http://www.google.com/url?q\x3dhttp%3A%2F%2Fwww.4sonline.org%2Fitem%2F4s_sydney_18_announced\x26sa\x3dD\x26sntz\x3d1\x26usg\x3dAFQjCNGlGjUMVQgwDXjXm6Wz_NXl27uLoQ';return true;" onclick="this.href='http://www.google.com/url?q\x3dhttp%3A%2F%2Fwww.4sonline.org%2Fitem%2F4s_sydney_18_announced\x26sa\x3dD\x26sntz\x3d1\x26usg\x3dAFQjCNGlGjUMVQgwDXjXm6Wz_NXl27uLoQ';return true;"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> </span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Transnational STS</span></a><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">.  To contribute material for this meeting, contact Kim Fortun (<a href="javascript:" target="_blank" gdf-obfuscated-mailto="FWw1JstvCQAJ" rel="nofollow" onmousedown="this.href='javascript:';return true;" onclick="this.href='javascript:';return true;">kfo...@uci.edu</a>).  All are welcome to attend.  </span></div><div><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><br></span></div></span><div><br></div>-- <br><div><div dir="ltr">Kim Fortun<div>Chair, Department of Anthropology</div><div>UC Irvine</div></div></div>
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