Dear All, I’m pasting below two open panels at 4S that might be of interest to you—one on graduate feminist STS pedagogies and one on transnational pedagogies. Also, Shannon Conley and I are planning to convene an STS Pedagogies lunchtime meet-up at 4S, and we’ll send along more details when we have them. All the best, Emily 173. Teaching interdependent agency: Feminist STS approaches to STEM pedagogy Kalindi Vora, University of California Davis; Maya Cruz, University of California – Davis; Anita Say Chan, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign This panel discussion of STEM graduate training brings together insights from feminist theory with social studies of science to address deep bias in scientific research to suggest methods and frameworks that produce more accountable, accurate and responsible scientific research. This panel is interested in talking about how feminist STS (fSTS) scholars are using, or exploring the use of, the critique of objectivity to address biases in science. How are we engaging with STEM graduate education to teach a more nuanced “situatedness” (Haraway 1988) in culture and history to produce more responsible and accountable science? Research in STEM education suggests that integrating socio-cultural context and communal values into STEM education can increase recruitment and retention of women, under-represented minorities (URMs), and first-generation students in STEM. Building on the contributions of Jenny Reardon, Karen Barad, and Banu Subramaniam to feminist approaches to STEM pedagogy, this panel invites papers addressing how feminist STS can move STEM graduates toward greater engagement with social justice, as well as deep collaboration with social sciences and humanities. What sort of curricular changes could lead to a transformation of STEM research and the diversity of researchers conducting it? How can STS scholars use pedagogy to empower STEM researchers to be agents of social transformation even in the face of anti-science discourse, and anti-women, racist, anti-trans and anti-LGBTQ cultural politics? Contact: [log in to unmask] Keywords: feminist, curriculum, objectivity, situated knowledge, social justice Categories: Gender/Sexuality/Feminist STS STS and Social Justice/Social Movement Race/Racialization/Indigeneity Panel #200 - Transnational STS: Theories, Practices, and Pedagogies Kim Fortun, University of California Irvine; Noela Invernizzi, Universidade Federal do Parana; Duygu Kasdogan, İzmir Katip Çelebi University; Aalok Khandekar, Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad; Angela Okune, University of California Irvine STS scholarship has flourished in diverse regions and institutional spaces, creating a deeply transnational, interdisciplinary research field. Further, STS scholars in diverse places often study global circuits of ideas, technologies, experts, development models, and so on. Transnational STS thus has many facets and potentials. Building on continuing dialogue about transnational STS in recent years (especially since the 2018 4S conference in Sydney, where TRANSnational STS was the conference theme), this panel will bring together presenters working to conceptualize, practice and extend Transnational STS in different ways. In conversation with STS scholarship that focuses on the constitution of modern technoscience across and between nation-states, this panel seeks to reflect on the transnational character of STS at theoretical, methodological and empirical levels from a comparative perspective. Rather than approaching “transnational” as an ideal temporal-spatial universalism to be achieved, this panel particularly aims to elaborate on and question STS praxis that centers on the analytic of the “nation-state” in studying technoscientific developments as well as reflecting on the uncritical utilization of STS concepts/theories across different contexts. Through opening a self-reflexive space about methodological nationalism and neocolonial orientations in our praxis at this very moment when we witness the haunt of the far-right movements, authoritarian states, post-truth politics, and intentional denial of socio-ecological crises across the world, we invite contributions that reflect on theoretical and methodological capacities of STS to imagine and reclaim for science(s) otherwise. Contributions may address, among others, the following questions: · What makes STS transnational? How can we think about “transnational STS” in juxtaposition to other concepts, e.g., international, multinational, postnational, supra-national, anti-national, global, cosmopolitan, universal, imperial, and translocal? · What becomes visible when nation-state as the only analytic breaks down? What is the role of the nation-state with regard to education, research activities and the regulation of technologies in the contemporary period? · How do STS theories and concepts travel, get used and modified around the world? Are the directions of the flux of theories and concepts changing? To what extent do STS theories and concepts reflect on the inadequacies of existing categories -e.g., “East and West” ; “center and periphery”; “developing and developed”? · What can we learn from South-South dialogues in STS? · How are transnational research networks formed and organized? How do these networks set research agendas? · What infrastructures can support transnational STS formations? · What are the methods and methodologies used to foster transnational knowledge production in a collaborative manner? How would transnational STS add to the interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary character of the field? · What are exemplary cases that demonstrate transnational STS sensibilities? · How can transnational STS contribute to STS teaching? How can transnational STS add to local efforts in engaging with multiple publics, decision-makers, scientists, activists, and other related actors? · How can transnational STS contribute to the future of the field? What are the limitations of doing transnational STS? Contact: [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]> Keywords: transnational STS, nation-state, neocolonialism, research networks, pedagogy Abstract Submission<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__admin.allacademic.com_one_ssss_ssss20_&d=DwMFaQ&c=eLbWYnpnzycBCgmb7vCI4uqNEB9RSjOdn_5nBEmmeq0&r=JAMUZhBFD3VoLyvi581Tgw&m=PaP3SLXm-avkEeKrlTVuw7c6x5cdlQMjeJqjUFF0Hcs&s=Z2zcWIcBcP4DOyh_zwbcgVUdOExSkwatlsJbgBqBH2g&e=> Deadline: February 29 Meeting’s Remote Participation<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.easst4s2020prague.org_presentation-2Dlogistics_&d=DwMFaQ&c=eLbWYnpnzycBCgmb7vCI4uqNEB9RSjOdn_5nBEmmeq0&r=JAMUZhBFD3VoLyvi581Tgw&m=PaP3SLXm-avkEeKrlTVuw7c6x5cdlQMjeJqjUFF0Hcs&s=9_x7VGqN1mMjwce6wtgbOZ-MXwAfN2mxbnt_gF_JOL8&e=> Guideline Meeting’s EcoStatement<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.easst4s2020prague.org_ecostatement_&d=DwMFaQ&c=eLbWYnpnzycBCgmb7vCI4uqNEB9RSjOdn_5nBEmmeq0&r=JAMUZhBFD3VoLyvi581Tgw&m=PaP3SLXm-avkEeKrlTVuw7c6x5cdlQMjeJqjUFF0Hcs&s=AOFYEdvCwfBhzLiBt9nWu7feALgNEkfIiNKStgXENqI&e=> ____________________________ Emily York, Ph.D.<https://www.jmu.edu/isat/people/faculty/york-emily.shtml> Assistant Professor School of Integrated Sciences James Madison University 702 Carrier Drive MSC 4302 Harrisonburg, VA 22807 Office: EnGeo 2133 Email: [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]> Co-director, STS Futures Lab<https://sites.lib.jmu.edu/stsfutureslab/> Associate Editor, Engineering Studies<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__www.tandfonline.com_loi_test20&d=DwMFaQ&c=eLbWYnpnzycBCgmb7vCI4uqNEB9RSjOdn_5nBEmmeq0&r=JAMUZhBFD3VoLyvi581Tgw&m=zP159rtP0xKaXtpO_mg5kSs8UxNaCZQQrk0QJkeFOJI&s=06WHQ8rC8dXRYUE5NwzKdBwGfn0qRelHCq2OMTkNZD4&e=> [https:[log in to unmask]]<https://sites.lib.jmu.edu/stsfutureslab/> ############################ To unsubscribe from the STS-PEDAGOGIES-L list: write to: mailto:[log in to unmask] or click the following link: http://listserv.jmu.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=STS-PEDAGOGIES-L&A=1