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<p><i><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">*** Please submit and help spread the word to others in your networks! ***<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">STS Africa 2018:
<br>
An NSF-sponsored pre-4S Workshop on STS on/in Africa<br>
Sydney, Australia – August 27-29, 2018<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Organizers: Dr. Tolu Odumosu (University of Virginia); Dr. Anne Pollock (Georgia Tech)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">This Workshop seeks to explore the question “What are the boundaries of Science and Technology in Africa and how should we recognize and address both the uniqueness of African knowledge production
and innovation on the one hand, and the potential that STS work in Africa has to offer to the field as a whole on the other?” We hope to answer these questions by working across the three domains of information technology, medicine, and the environment as
they relate to Africa. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">As this is event is sponsored by the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF), and we are seeking additional support from other funding bodies, funds will be available to offset travel and accommodation
expenses. We anticipate being able to fully fund all travel expenses for participants coming from the African continent, and to be able to significantly defray the travel expenses for all participants.
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">We anticipate an intimate gathering of 24 participants, including at least 12 Africans (including at least 6 who are based at institutions in Africa). The Workshop will be held in coordination
with the Society for Social Studies of Science 4S-Sydney meeting. The pre-4S events will be held at the University of Sydney, and will feature a keynote panel of prominent scholars on the topic of challenges and opportunities of doing STS work in Africa,
roundtables on publishing at funding with guests from presses, journals, and funding institutions, and meals that will provide opportunities for networking and community-building. On the first day of 4S, incorporated into the program of 4S proper, there will
be a Closed Panel featuring stream of panels in response to an open CFP: <a href="http://stsafrica2018.com/">http://stsafrica2018.com/</a>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">We seek submissions of abstracts in the following three areas:<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Panel 1: Information Technology</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> – In contemporary Africa, the music of modernity is the ring of the mobile phone.
An Information Technology revolution has swept the continent especially with the adoption of the mobile phone, and in later years, the mobile internet. Multiple African STS scholars have examined the mobile phone as a particular information technology that
is co-constituted with Africa (de Bruijn, Nyamnjoh, and Brinkman 2009; Zegeye and Muponde 2012, Odumosu 2017). For example, de Bruji, Nyamnjoh, and Brinkman examine emergent innovations and new practices around mobile telephony such as healing practices (van
Beek 2009), engineering design (Odumosu 2017) and mobile money platforms (Donovan 2012). We seek submissions that contribute to our understanding of information technology in Africa, in ways that might intersect with or depart from the other topical areas
below.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Panel 2: Biomedicine</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> – Similarly, much STS of Biomedicine in Africa has been in dialogue with Critical Global Health.
Clinical trials have been a particularly important site for consideration of power and knowledge (Crane 2013, Kelly and Geissler 2012). In both the study of pharmaceuticals and the study of toxicology, Africa has also been part of the broader interrogation
in STS of the tension in science between its claims to universality and its practice in particular places, because lab-based biosciences are figured as the most placeless and prestigious, and African scientists have challenged their exclusion (Okeke 2011,
Pollock 2014, Tousignant 2013). There has been important work challenging the figuration of Africa as lack (Mkhwanazi 2016). We seek submissions that contribute to our understanding of biomedical technologies in Africa.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Panel 3: Environment</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> – The Environment is also central to how Africa is invoked. Africa is often used as a symbol
of wildness on the one hand and underdevelopment on the other, and there is considerable scholarship of the intersections nature and development there (Walley 2004) that has much to offer STS more broadly. There has already been productive cross-talk between
the spheres of Biomedicine and Environment. This is partly because of the way that, for colonial science, understanding the natural world in Africa was intertwined with other imperial projects including extracting natural resources of potential benefit to
health (Tilley 2011). In the disparate spheres of bioprospecting and natural therapies on the one hand (Osseo-Asare 2014, Droney 2016, Foster 2017) and mosquito control on the other (Kelly and Biesel 2011), nature and medicine necessarily come together. We
seek submissions that contribute to our understanding of the environment in Africa.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Provisional Workshop Schedule</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Monday, August 27, 2018</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Welcome, Introductions - Tolu Odumosu, Anne Pollock, all participants</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> - 5pm<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<ul style="margin-top:0in" type="disc">
<li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l1 level1 lfo1;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Organizers welcome participants, explain logistics<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l1 level1 lfo1;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Icebreakers<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l1 level1 lfo1;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Each participant presents one slide about themselves and presents it for 90 seconds<o:p></o:p></span></li></ul>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Welcome to Australia
</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> - 6pm<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Helen Verran is a historian and philosopher of science at Charles Darwin University in Darwin, Northern Territories, Australia. She has expertise
on both Africa and indigenous Australia, as exemplified by her books <i>Science and an African Logic</i> and
<i>Singing the Land, Signing the Land</i>, and so is well-situated to provide introductory welcoming remarks. She has expressed enthusiasm about participating, pending scheduling.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Networking Dinner -
</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">6:30pm<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Tuesday, August 28, 2018</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Roundtable on funding - 10am</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Funding challenges have been one of the significant barriers to doing STS work on and in Africa. This Roundtable invites representatives from key funding agencies to help
Workshop participants understand mechanisms by which this work might be supported. So far, we have spoken with Wenda Bauchspies from the National Science Foundation, who has expressed her interest. We are reaching out to representatives from such funders
as the European Research Council, the Economic and Social Research Council, and the Wellcome Trust.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Roundtable on publishing - 11:30am</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Publishing venues are also important for increasing the profile and visibility of STS work on and in Africa. This Roundtable invites representatives from key publishing venues
to help Workshop Participants understand how to navigate these publishing venues.
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Interested in participating in principle:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<ul style="margin-top:0in" type="disc">
<li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Sergio Sismondo, Editor of
<i>Social Studies of Science</i><o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Katie Helke, MIT Press<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Khadija Coxon, McGill-Queens University Press<o:p></o:p></span></li></ul>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">1pm - lunch with Program Officers/Publishers/Workshop attendees</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Keynote Panel on Challenges and Promise of STS Work in Africa - 3pm</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Confirmed panelists:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<ul style="margin-top:0in" type="disc">
<li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l2 level1 lfo3;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Clapperton Mavhunga is an Associate Professor of Science, Technology and Society at the Massachusetts Institute of
Technology whose research explores knowledge production and innovation in Africa. He is the author of
<i>Transient Workspaces: Technologies of Everyday Innovation in Zimbabwe</i> (MIT Press, 2014). He is a major thought leader in this space, for example as editor of the collection, published by MIT Press in 2017,
<i>What Do Science, Technology, and Innovation Mean from Africa?</i><o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l2 level1 lfo3;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Tunde Opeibi is a Commonwealth Fellow and a Alexander von Humboldt Fellow who currently serves as an Associate Professor
in the Department of English at the University of Lagos Nigeria. His research is on new media and governance. He is the author of Discourse Strategies in Political Campaigns in Nigeria (Lambert 2011 ). He is leading the embrace of Information Technology in
the Nigerian Humanities and Social Science Academy and recently organized the 2017 Lagos Summer School in Digital Humanities.<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l2 level1 lfo3;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Natasha Vally is a Next Generation Scholar Fellow at the Centre for Humanities Research at the University of the Western
Cape in South Africa. She is an emerging leader in this space, both in her own research on the technopolitics of post-apartheid South Africa and as part of the organizing team of the first STS-Africa conference, held at the University of the Witwatersrand
in 2014.<o:p></o:p></span></li></ul>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Panelists interested in participating in principle, pending scheduling:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<ul style="margin-top:0in" type="disc">
<li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l3 level1 lfo4;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Abena Osseo-Asare is an Associate Professor of History at the University of Texas at Austin. She is the author of the
award-winning <i>Bitter Roots: The Search for Healing Plants in Africa</i> (University of Chicago Press, 2014), which is a study of six plants which scientists in Ghana, South Africa, Madagascar and other countries sought to transform into new pharmaceuticals.<o:p></o:p></span></li></ul>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">5:30 - Drinks</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">6pm - Collaborative Conversations Dinner</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Submissions in response to CFP - Held during 4S on Wednesday from 11am</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Because part of our goal is to find people working in this space who we do not already know, it is important to circulate a call for papers. We plan to organize submissions
in response to the CFP into three panels, organized into a single stream so that all participants hear them, with the with the topical foci of (1) biomedicine (2) information technology (3) environment.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Panel on Biomedicine
</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">~11am<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Panel on Information Technology
</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">~2pm <o:p>
</o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Panel on Environment
</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">~4pm <o:p>
</o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Optional Post-4S meal for potential 4S-Africa organizers
</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Saturday, Sept 1, 2018<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Having experienced 4S-Sydney, those interested in organizing potential future events, potentially included a 4S in Africa for 2022, will meet over dinner to discuss possibilities.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Updates will be posted here:</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> <a href="http://stsafrica2018.com/">http://stsafrica2018.com/</a></span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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