Call for Papers

EASST/4S conference "Acting with Science, Technology and Medicine"
Rotterdam, August 20 – 23, 2008
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STS Locations: Latin America*
As has been noted in many STS works, the manner in which science,
technology, and medicine is produced or translated depends greatly on
historical and national contexts.  The production of knowledge about the
interactions of science, technology, medicine, and society is not exempt
from this contextualization. Yet much like the production of tehnoscientific
and medical knowledge, STS knowledge production remains primarily
EuroAmerican despite the field's attempts to broaden its conceptual
perspectives.  The session's goal is three-fold: to explore the
contributions to thinking about science, technology, medicine and society by
scholars in Latin America past and present; to provide scholars working on
Latin American STS issues an opportunity to showcase their work; and to
further theorize the specifics of acting with a
co-productionist/interventionist approach, to science, technology, and
medicine in Latin American locations.

Papers are invited to address issues such as:
•    Methodological and theoretical contributions to the field of STS by
Latin American scholars
•    Latin American approaches to theorizing and acting with science,
technology, and medicine
•    Latin American interventions and activism with science, technology, and
medicine
•    Latin American innovations and developments in science, technology, and
society

Multiple panels will be submitted in these four areas if there is sufficient
interest.

Session Organizers
Robert Olivo, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA
Rick B. Duque, Tulane University, New Orleans, LA
Christina Holmes, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Canada

Please send an abstract of a paper (minimum 250 words, maximum of 400 words)
dealing with the issues sketched above and related issues to Robert Olivo (
ol...@vt.edu).  Submission deadline: February 13, 2008.

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Shobita Parthasarathy, Assistant Professor
Co-Director, Science, Technology, and Public Policy Program
Ford School of Public Policy
University of Michigan

For the 2007-2008 academic year:
Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars
One Woodrow Wilson Plaza
1300 Pennsylvania Avenue NW
Washington, DC 20004-3027
Tel: 202/691-4123
Fax: 202/691-4001
shob...@umich.edu
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