<div dir="ltr"><font size="2"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Dear Colleagues,</span></font><br><font size="2"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"></span></font><div><font size="2"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">
Please consider submitting a paper to our open panel "Science from Elsewhere", which we are organizing for the 2019 4S Conference in New Orleans, Louisiana, USA, September 4-7, 2019. The panel description is pasted below.<br>
Guidelines for Submission: <a href="https://www.4s2019.org/call-for-submissions/" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.4s2019.org/call-for-submissions/</a><br>
Deadline for Submission: Feb. 1st, 2019<br>
We look forward to your papers,</span></font></div><div><font size="2"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Julia and Laura<br></span></font></div><div><br></div><div>*****<br></div><div><br></div><div><font size="4"><font size="2"><b><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Open Panel 134:</span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> Science from Elsewhere: Thinking from Where we Think</span></b></font></font><font size="2"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><br></span></font></div><div><font size="2"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><br></span></font></div><div><font size="2"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Organizers:</span></font><font size="4"><font size="2"><b><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"></span></b></font></font></div><div><font size="2"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"></span></font><div><span class="gmail-m_3786209633466766502gmail-m_8227009478683026448gmail-m_-1021928391297876190gmail-field gmail-m_3786209633466766502gmail-m_8227009478683026448gmail-m_-1021928391297876190gmail-field--name-title gmail-m_3786209633466766502gmail-m_8227009478683026448gmail-m_-1021928391297876190gmail-field--type-string gmail-m_3786209633466766502gmail-m_8227009478683026448gmail-m_-1021928391297876190gmail-field--label-hidden">
<font size="2"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><font size="2"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Laura Meek (Anthropology, University of California, Davis) </span></font></span></font></span></div><div><span class="gmail-m_3786209633466766502gmail-m_8227009478683026448gmail-m_-1021928391297876190gmail-field gmail-m_3786209633466766502gmail-m_8227009478683026448gmail-m_-1021928391297876190gmail-field--name-title gmail-m_3786209633466766502gmail-m_8227009478683026448gmail-m_-1021928391297876190gmail-field--type-string gmail-m_3786209633466766502gmail-m_8227009478683026448gmail-m_-1021928391297876190gmail-field--label-hidden">&<br></span></div><div><span class="gmail-m_3786209633466766502gmail-m_8227009478683026448gmail-m_-1021928391297876190gmail-field gmail-m_3786209633466766502gmail-m_8227009478683026448gmail-m_-1021928391297876190gmail-field--name-title gmail-m_3786209633466766502gmail-m_8227009478683026448gmail-m_-1021928391297876190gmail-field--type-string gmail-m_3786209633466766502gmail-m_8227009478683026448gmail-m_-1021928391297876190gmail-field--label-hidden">Julia Morales Fontanilla (Cultural Studies, University of California, Davis)</span></div><font size="2"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><font size="2"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"></span></font></span></font><div><font size="2"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><br></span></font></div><div><font size="2"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><br></span></font><span class="gmail-m_3786209633466766502gmail-m_8227009478683026448gmail-m_-1021928391297876190gmail-field gmail-m_3786209633466766502gmail-m_8227009478683026448gmail-m_-1021928391297876190gmail-field--name-title gmail-m_3786209633466766502gmail-m_8227009478683026448gmail-m_-1021928391297876190gmail-field--type-string gmail-m_3786209633466766502gmail-m_8227009478683026448gmail-m_-1021928391297876190gmail-field--label-hidden"><font size="2"> </font></span></div>

</div><div><font size="2"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Abstract:</span></font></div><div><font size="2"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"></span></font></div><div><font size="2"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Does it matter from where we do and think science? How might the conditions of our em/placement inform what we mean by “science”? How does where we do and think affect how and what we do and think? We welcome submissions that engage with minority and/or non-western STS practices and their specificity of place. We aim to make place affective and disruptive in our thinking (Stewart 2017). Topics might include questions of scientific legitimacy and legibility; speculative onto-epistemic openings that make us think with other beings, entities, and forces which may not be legible as “science” in all places; or improvisations and innovations for doing science and/or STS under conditions of scarcity, uncertainty, or precarity. In these questions, the stakes are both (cosmo)political and scholarly: they demand a rethinking of not only what we do and think, but how we do and think, and with whom/what (de la Cadena 2017). We recognize that our knowledge practices are inseparable from their entanglement with states, post/colonial histories, political-economic conditions, and the ways these cohere in bodies, including our bodies as STS scholars. We seek papers that are troubled by that which exceeds “science” and yet resides at its limit, and that play with other forms of speculative thinking (Haraway 2016, McLean 2017, Perez Bustos 2015, Puig de la Bellacasa 2012, Stengers 2003). This panel engages themes of the 4S 2019 NOLA conference by asking how science and STS from elsewhere interrupt both science-as-usual and STS-as-usual.</span></font></div><div><font size="2"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><br></span></font></div><div><font size="2"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><br></span></font></div><div><font size="2"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">*****</span></font></div>

<div><br></div><div><br></div><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><span><font face="Times New Roman" color="#000080"><div><span style="font-family:times new roman,serif">Laura A. Meek</span></div><span style="font-family:times new roman,serif">
</span><div><span style="font-family:times new roman,serif">PhD Candidate, Dept. of Anthropology</span></div><span style="font-family:times new roman,serif">University of California, Davis</span></font></span><span><font face="Times New Roman" color="#000080"><div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:times new roman,serif"><font color="#000080">(973) 714-0153</font></span></div><span style="font-family:times new roman,serif">

</span><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:times new roman,serif"><font color="#000080"><a href="mailto:emery.eaves@nau.edu" target="_blank">lameek@ucdavis.edu</a><br></font></span></div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:times new roman,serif"><span><br></span></span></div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:13px"><span><span><font face="Times New Roman" color="#000080"><span style="font-family:times new roman,serif"><span><span><font face="Times New Roman" color="#000080"><span><span><font face="Times New Roman" color="#000080"><span style="font-family:times new roman,serif">Co-Liaison, </span></font></span></span></font></span></span>Society for Medical Anthropology Section News, <i>Anthropology News</i></span></font></span></span></div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:13px"><span><span><font face="Times New Roman" color="#000080"><span style="font-family:times new roman,serif"><i><br></i></span></font></span></span></div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:13px"><span><span><font face="Times New Roman" color="#000080"><span style="font-family:times new roman,serif">Co-Chair, Complementary and Alternative Medicine / Integrative Medicine Special Interest Group</span></font></span></span></div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:13px"><span><span><font face="Times New Roman" color="#000080"><span style="font-family:times new roman,serif">Society for Medical Anthropology</span></font></span></span></div>
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