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     The psyences project 2004-5 events
     FW: [Air-l] STS (R)Evolutions - 2nd Call for Papers

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Date: Fri, 08 Oct 2004 10:52:38 +1000
From: "Elizabeth A. Wilson" 
Subject: The psyences project 2004-5 events

From: Emily Martin
To: The Psyence Project
Sent: 10/6/2004 8:57 PM
Subject: The psyences project 2004-5 events

The Psyences Project: Mind and brain in culture and history, 2004-5 
Is pleased to announce three meetings this academic year: 

Joe Dumit, Department of Anthropology, MIT

Author of Picturing Personhood: Brain scans and Biomedical Identity
"Psychiatry Alienated, Capitalism Medicated"
Friday, Dec. 3, 1-3 pm followed by reception
location: Princeton University
211 Dickenson Hall

Ruth Leys, Humanities Center, Johns Hopkins Universtiy
Author of Trauma: A genealogy
January, 2005 

David Healy, MD, Dept. of Psychological Medicine, University of Wales
College of Medicine
Author of The Creation of Psychopharmacology; Let them eat Prozac 
April, 2005


Specific dates and locations for the January and April events will be
sent out later. We hope to see you for Joe Dumit's talk on Dec. 3.

The Psyences Project is a regional seminar, launched by Elizabeth
Lunbeck (History, Princeton), Emily Martin (Anthropology, NYU), and
Louis Sass
(Clinical Psychology, Rutgers), that provides a venue for scholars--from
graduate students to professors to practitioners--concerned with the
emergence and social influence of such disciplines as psychiatry,
psychology, psychoanalysis, and psychopharmacology.

Please visit our website for more information:
(http://homepages.nyu.edu/~em81/psyences)
The event is open to all 

Generously funded by the Program in the
History of Science, Department of History, Princeton University.

TRAVEL TO PRINCETON UNIVERSITY

Information on train travel to Princeton
http://www.princeton.edu/pr/visitors/traintravel.shtml

Driving directions http://www.princeton.edu/pr/visitors/driving.shtml

Campus map http://www.Princeton.EDU/cgi/map 

QUESTIONS? Please visit our website. Contact Audrey Mainzer
(amainzer@princeton.edu; 609-258-5529) with any questions regarding
travel
or directions.
SPREAD THE WORD--PLEASE FORWARD THIS TO ANYONE YOU THINK MIGHT BE
INTERESTED
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Date: Thu, 21 Oct 2004 12:04:30 -0700
From: "Wald, Carol" 
Subject: FW: [Air-l] STS (R)Evolutions - 2nd Call for Papers



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>
Distribute Widely

>
>
> STS (R)evolutions
>
> March 17-20th
>
> Virginia Tech
>
> Blacksburg, VA
>
>
>
>
> Second Call for Papers
>
>
> Abstracts of 250 words should be submitted electronically to
> STS_revolutions@vt.edu by November 15, 2004.
>
>
>
> ** Conference Background **
>
> An emerging sense of urgency cuts across recent work and conferences 
> in the
> field of Science & Technology Studies: What role can STS play in 
> reshaping the
> relationships among science, technology and the public(s)? At a time 
> in which
> the politics of scientific and technical knowledge are increasingly 
> visible to
> scientists and non-scientists alike (witness the very public critiques

> of the
> Bush administration's science practices by the Union of Concerned 
> Scientists,
> for example), the role of science and technology in structuring both 
> the
> boundaries and possibilities of our everyday lives continues to 
> escalate. STS
> scholars are uniquely positioned to address these tensions and to 
> offer new
> insights into the interactions of science, technology, and publics 
> through
> work in both historical and contemporary contexts. Yet, this move 
> towards a
> more interventionist or reconstructivist STS - "a rapproachment 
> between the
> more academic and more activist wings of STS," as Woodhouse, Hess, 
> Breyman,
> and Martin (2002) describe it - has deep historical roots within a 
> field that
> emerged, in part, via the movements of activist scientists working to 
> produce
> science for the public and second wave feminist critiques of science 
> and
> medicine in the 1960s and 1970s. Thus, to pursue a more 
> interventionist or
> reconstructivist STS agenda of research, policymaking, and activism - 
> and
> other future directions - it seems necessary to simultaneously revisit

> our
> past and the emergence of the field of Science & Technology Studies, 
> as well
> as to assess our current locations.
>
>
>
> This conference is part of a year-long celebration of the 25th 
> anniversary of
> STS at Virginia Tech. As part of the conference program, we seek to 
> include
> histories of many of the "official" and "unofficial" sites of STS 
> throughout
> the world. Your assistance in gathering these narratives will be 
> greatly
> appreciated. Email STS_revolutions@vt.edu to contribute.
>
>
>
> ** Keynote Speakers **
>
> Geoffrey C. Bowker, Center for Science, Technology, and Society, Santa

> Clara
> University
>
> Steve Fuller, Department of Sociology, University of Warwick
>
> Sandra Harding, Graduate School of Education and Information Studies, 
> UCLA
>
>
>
> ** Call for Papers **
>
> We are interested in papers that address the past, present, and 
> futures of the
> field of Science & Technology Studies, particularly those that explore

> the
> interrelationships of these narratives. Here, we envision possible 
> topics such
> as:
>
>
>
> * Histories of STS: Alternative, Competing or Co-existing Lineages?
>
> * STS and Disciplines: The Politics of Collaboration and 
> Non-Collaboration
>
> * STS Outside the Academy: Practices, Promises, and Perils
>
> * STS in the Global North and South: Divisions, Connections, or Both?
>
> * "Doing STS" - New Methodological Directions and Practices
>
> * The Science Wars 10 Years Out: Meanings, Lessons, Ongoing Challenges
>
> * "So, you have a PhD in STS": The Effects of "Disciplinarity" on the 
> Field
>
> * Mainstreaming "Difference": Incorporating issues of difference - 
> gender,
> race, class, nationality, sexual orientation, and so forth - across 
> STS at
> large
>
> * Science Studies vs. Technology Studies - or is it all Technoscience?
>
>
>
> ** New Directions in STS **
>
> In addition to these broad discussions, we highly encourage the 
> submission of
> papers that showcase New Directions in STS - papers that identify 
> emerging
> research trends and explore new subject areas from new vantage points 
> with new
> tools. We have identified the following areas of interest, though this

> list is
> by no means exhaustive: Science, Technology, and Citizenship: Science 
> and
> Technology in a Post 9-11 World; Science and Engineering Education;
The
> Corporatization of the University; and Activism in Local and Global
> Communities. Papers addressing a wide variety of topics are welcome.
>
>
>
> ** Roundtables on More Practical Matters **
>
> Further, we are interested in coordinating sessions or round-tables 
> that
> discuss more practical matters such as professional development for 
> graduate
> students and new faculty; how to get a job and tenure as an 
> interdisciplinary
> scholar; how to get a job outside the academy; and so forth. 
> Participants are
> welcome to coordinate full sessions or to request that they be part of
> specific roundtables that we will organize.
>
>
>
> ** Final Details **
>
> We especially welcome papers from students and young researchers, 
> particularly
> those from the Global South. Small travel grants will be available on 
> request
> depending upon resource availability.
>
>
>
> Abstracts of 250 words should be submitted electronically to
> STS_revolutions@vt.edu by November 15, 2004.
>
>
jeremy hunsinger
jhuns@vt.edu
www.cddc.vt.edu
jeremy.tmttlt.com
www.tmttlt.com

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