<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Dear list-subscribers, <div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I like to share with you this first important event in a series of other similar events to come. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Sorry for the short notice and the timing of it which is meant to work best for Asia and Oceania and the West Coast of the US. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Best</div><div class=""><br class=""><div class="">
<meta charset="UTF-8" class=""><div dir="auto" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div>Richard Rottenburg <font color="#ff2600" class="">W I S E R</font> - The Wits Institute for Social and Economic Research, University of the Witwatersrand | Pbag 3, PO Wits, Johannesburg, South Africa, 2050 | Web: <a href="http://wiser.wits.ac.za" class="">wiser.wits.ac.za</a></div></div>
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<div><br class=""><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class=""><div style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Times New Roman"; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">Global STS I: Transnational Network Building - Asia, Oceania, and Beyond</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Times New Roman"; background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">Thursday, May 20th at 5:30pm Pacific Daylight Time</span></div></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Zoom link:<br class=""><a href="https://ucsc.zoom.us/j/97505747092?pwd=T29FU2V2bXo3YzdNejBtNFE4Z1paQT09" class="">https://ucsc.zoom.us/j/97505747092?pwd=T29FU2V2bXo3YzdNejBtNFE4Z1paQT09</a><span class="sewio3g2xm50fq"></span><span class="sewio3g2xm50fq"></span><br class="">Meeting ID: 975 0574 7092<br class="">Passcode: 436821<br class=""><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><span id="gmail-docs-internal-guid-ad6594e1-7fff-9701-b467-297ef475a6cc" class=""><div style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Times New Roman"; background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">In recent years, the interdisciplinary field of science and technology studies (STS) has been undergoing what some have called a “global turn” through greater attention to knowledge production, scientific practices, and therapeutics outside of North America and Western Europe. Regional and transnational academic networks have been established to support nascent STS communities around the world. As junior scholars, many of us are interested in exploring transnational network-building, collaborative research, and decolonial praxis in STS. </span></div><br class=""><div style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Times New Roman"; background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">To facilitate dialogue on the intellectual and political stakes of this “global turn” and how we might become involved, we will be hosting a two-part series on Global STS. The first workshop, “Global STS I: Transnational Network Building - Asia, Oceania, and Beyond,” will feature STS leaders who have pioneered new academic networks in Australia, Asia, and globally. We will learn about their work and discuss how grad students can become involved. The second workshop, “Global STS II: Decolonial Praxis in STS,” will continue the conversation, featuring STS leaders who are pioneering new publishing opportunities in STS, expanding the Euro-American “canon” in STS, and building STS communities in Latin America, Africa, and the Middle East. </span></div><br class=""><div style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Times New Roman"; background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">Confirmed speakers:</span></div><ul style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px" class=""><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;margin-left:11pt" class=""><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:10pt;margin-bottom:0pt" class=""><span style="font-size:11pt;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap" class="">Dr. Kim Fortun (University of California, Irvine)- Platform for Experimental Collaborative Ethnography (PECE), STS Infractures, and Disaster STS (Irvine 5:30pm)</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;margin-left:11pt" class=""><div style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" class=""><span style="font-size:11pt;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap" class="">Dr. Thao Phan (Alfred Deakin Institute for Citizenship and Globalisation)- AusSTS (Melbourne 12:30pm)</span></div></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;margin-left:11pt" class=""><div style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" class=""><span style="font-size:11pt;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap" class="">Dr. Grant Otsuki (Victoria University of Wellington) - Japan/East Asia/NZ STS (New Zealand 2:30pm)</span></div></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;margin-left:11pt" class=""><div style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" class=""><span style="font-size:11pt;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap" class="">Dr. Aalok Khandekar (Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad)- TransAsiaSTS (India 7:00am)</span></div></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;margin-left:11pt" class=""><div style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" class=""><span style="font-size:11pt;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap" class="">Dr. Fadjar Thufail (Indonesian Institute of Sciences)- Southeast Asia STS (Jakarta 8:30am)</span></div></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;margin-left:11pt" class=""><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:10pt" class=""><span style="font-size:11pt;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap" class="">Dr. Casper Bruun Jensen (Independent scholar, Phnom Penh) - Southeast Asia STS (Phnom Penh 8:30am)</span></p></li></ul><div style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">Speaker Bios</span></div><br class=""><div style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" class=""><a href="http://kfortun.org/" style="text-decoration-line:none" class=""><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap" class="">Kim Fortun</span></a><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(68,68,68);font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap" class=""> is a cultural anthropologist with research and teaching focused on environmental risk and disaster, experimental ethnographic methods and research design, and the poetics and politics of data infrastructure. In 2017-2019, Fortun served as President of the Society for Social Studies of Science, with a strong commitment to the transnational character of STS as a field. </span></div><br class=""><div style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" class=""><a href="https://independent.academia.edu/CasperBruunJensen" style="text-decoration-line:none" class=""><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap" class="">Casper Bruun Jensen</span></a><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap" class=""> is an anthropologist of science and technology currently residing in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. He is the author of </span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";background-color:transparent;font-style:italic;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap" class="">Ontologies for Developing Things </span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap" class="">(Sense, 2010) and </span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";background-color:transparent;font-style:italic;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap" class="">Monitoring Movements in Development Aid </span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap" class="">(with Brit Ross Winthereik) (2013, MIT) and the editor of </span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";background-color:transparent;font-style:italic;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap" class="">Deleuzian Intersections: Science, Technology, Anthropology </span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap" class="">with Kjetil Rödje (Berghahn, 2009) and </span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";background-color:transparent;font-style:italic;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap" class="">Infrastructures and Social Complexity </span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap" class="">with Penny Harvey and Atsuro Morita (Routledge, 2016). His work focuses on climate, environments, infrastructures, and speculative and practical ontologies. </span></div><br class=""><div style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" class=""><a href="https://www.iith.ac.in/~aalok/" style="text-decoration-line:none" class=""><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap" class="">Aalok Khandekar</span></a><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(51,51,51);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap" class=""> is an assistant professor of Anthropology/Sociology at the Indian Institute of Technology, Hyderabad, India. Khandekar's recent research has focused on infrastructures of environmental health governance in southern cities; as part of the </span><a href="https://coolinfrastructures.com/" style="text-decoration-line:none" class=""><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(191,37,73);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap" class="">Cool Infrastructures</span></a><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(51,51,51);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap" class=""> consortium, his current research examines thermal knowledges and practices as marginalized groups in the urban global South adapt to rising temperatures in their cities. Khandekar was lead curator of the </span><a href="https://stsinfrastructures.org/content/sts-across-borders-0/essay" style="text-decoration-line:none" class=""><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(191,37,73);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap" class="">STS Across Borders</span></a><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(51,51,51);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap" class=""> and </span><a href="https://stsinfrastructures.org/content/innovating-sts/essay" style="text-decoration-line:none" class=""><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(191,37,73);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap" class="">Innovating STS</span></a><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(51,51,51);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap" class=""> exhibits at the 2018 and 2019 4S annual meetings and is a founding member of the </span><a href="https://stsinfrastructures.org/content/transnational-sts-network/essay" style="text-decoration-line:none" class=""><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(191,37,73);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap" class="">Transnational STS</span></a><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(51,51,51);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap" class=""> and </span><a href="https://stsinfrastructures.org/content/transasiasts/essay" style="text-decoration-line:none" class=""><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(191,37,73);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap" class="">TransAsiaSTS</span></a><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(51,51,51);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap" class=""> networks. Khandekar currently serves as the Editor-in-Chief of </span><a href="https://estsjournal.org/index.php/ests/index" style="text-decoration-line:none" class=""><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";background-color:transparent;font-style:italic;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap" class="">Engaging Science, Technology, and Society</span></a><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(51,51,51);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap" class="">, the Open Access journal of the </span><a href="http://4sonline.org/" style="text-decoration-line:none" class=""><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap" class="">Society for Social Studies of Science</span></a><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(51,51,51);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap" class=""> (4S).</span></div><br class=""><div style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" class=""><a href="https://www.gjotsuki.net/" style="text-decoration-line:none" class=""><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap" class="">Grant Otsuki</span></a><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap" class=""> is a lecturer in cultural anthropology at Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand. He has a PhD in anthropology (Toronto), and an MS in STS (RPI). Previously, he was assistant professor of anthropology, University of Tsukuba, Japan. His work is in the anthropology and history of technology. Grant has written about human-machine interfaces and the history of cybernetics in Japan, postcolonial anthropology, translation, and the anthropology of ethics in Japanese and English.</span></div><br class=""><div style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" class=""><a href="https://deakin.academia.edu/ThaoPhan" style="text-decoration-line:none" class=""><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap" class="">Thao Phan</span></a><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap" class=""> is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Alfred Deakin Institute for Citizenship and Globalisation. She is a feminist STS scholar who analyses the technologization of gender and race in algorithmic culture. Her work on Amazon Echo and the aesthetics of whiteness received the Nicholas C. Mullins Prize by the Society for the Social Studies of Science (4S) and the Most Distinguished Paper Prize by the Australian Women’s and Gender Studies Association (AWGSA). She is also the co-founder and convenor of AusSTS—a network that brings together STS researchers across the Australasian region.</span></div><br class=""><div style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" class=""><a href="http://psdr.lipi.go.id/research-staff/fadjar-i-thufail.html" style="text-decoration-line:none" class=""><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap" class="">Fadjar Thufail</span></a><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap" class=""> is a senior researcher at the Research Center for Area Studies of the Indonesian Institute of Sciences. He got his Ph.D from the Department of Anthropology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He has been a visiting fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, the University of Tokyo, and the Tokyo University of Foreign Studies. Dr. Thufail is currently working on digital maritime heritage and the intersection between area studies and STS.</span></div></span></div></div><div class=""><br class=""></div>-- <br class=""><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature">Jaimie Morse, PhD, MPH<br class="">Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, University of California, Santa Cruz<br class="">Senior Visiting Fellow, Global Health Justice Partnership, Yale University</div></div>
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