[Commlist] Call for Panels - STS Italia Conference

Call for Panels - STS Italia Conference, Milan, 11-13 June, 2025 
 
We are pleased to announce the Call for Panels for the upcoming 10th STS 
Italia Conference “Technoscience for Good: Designing, Caring and 
Reconfiguring” which will be held on 11-13 June, 2025, at the 
Politecnico di Milano in Milan, Italy.
As an acknowledgement of the multidisciplinary roots of STS and to 
foster conversations between aligned fields, we very much encourage 
submissions from communication and media scholars. We are pleased to 
announce the two keynote speakers, namely Ruha Benjamin (Princeton 
University) and Shannon Vallor (Edinburgh University).
We welcome proposals for open panels, which will be opened to paper 
submissions during the general call for abstracts. Panel organizers are 
asked to submit only a title and a brief description of the panel’s 
topic. Depending on the number of paper submissions, panels can consist 
of more than one session.
Along with conventional panels and paper presentations, we encourage 
engagement with alternative or experimental formats. These can include 
(but are not limited to) roundtables, workshop-style sessions, meet-ups, 
and performances of all sorts. Please include details on the panel 
format in the panel description.
Applicants are encouraged to engage with _the general theme of the 
conference <https://stsitalia.org/conference-2025/>_ covering a wide 
variety of topics and domains including (but not limited to) the following:
 
• Reconfiguration, regeneration, and recuperation
• Political participation and grassroots movements in technoscience
• Feminist, post-/decolonial, and crip technoscience
• Ethics of care, repair, and maintenance
• Work, labour relations, technology, and automation
• Moralising technology and the ethics of design
• Politics of artefacts, life and infrastructures
• STS as intervention and activism
• Adaptation and appropriation of science and technology
• Practices of resistance, subversion, and transformation
• Inter- and cross-disciplinarity between STS and associated disciplines
• Technoscience and/from the Global South
• Critical studies on AI, digital media and algorithmic imaginaries
• Historical conceptualizations of ‘good’ technoscience
• Research and materiality in History of science
• Philosophy and History of science in practice
• Openness, porosity, and trading zones
• Fairness, equality, equity, and diversity
• Epistemic (in)justice
• Design/data/climate justice
• Positionality of STS research in hegemonic institutions and
methodological implications
 
Panel proposals can be submitted through the new STS Italia website, 
which features a dedicated platform for the 
conference (_https://stsitalia.org/submission-2025/ 
<https://stsitalia.org/submission-2025/>_). Each panel organizer can 
propose and organize only one panel. The person submitting the panel 
(even in the case of co-organizers) will be the ‘corresponding panel 
organizer’ and will be responsible for communicating with the other 
co-organizers and panel participants.
Deadline for panel proposals: 21 October, 2024




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