CFP: Panel Session at ACS Crossroads, (17-21 June 2010, Hong Kong)
Cultural laboratories and scientific cultures
Interrogating the theoretical and empirical between Cultural Studies and
Science and Technology Studies
Organizers
Nayantara Sheoran, George Mason University, USA
Matthias Wieser, Alpen-Adria-University Klagenfurt, Austria
Abstract
Paper proposals are invited for a panel session â??Cultural laboratories
and scientific cultures: Interrogating the theoretical and empirical
between Cultural Studies and Science and Technology Studiesâ?? at the 8th
Association for Cultural Studies Crossroads Conference. The goal of the
session is to bring together cultural studies scholars who are
interested in the critical perspectives and insights of Science and
Technology Studies for their theoretical and/or empirical endeavours.
Within recent years there has been a growing attention between cultural
studies and science studies. Tony Bennett is establishing â??culture
studiesâ?? in analogy with science studies and is using insights of
especially Actor-Network Theory for his work on museums. Stephen Muecke
and Arturo Escobar are strongly influenced by the new ontology proposed
by Bruno Latour and others in their work on indigenous or local
knowledges and practices in Australia and Colombia. Joseph Dumit is
looking at the pharmaceutical advertising and articulating the medical
discourse in media. While interdisciplinary work becomes rigorous for
the larger academic community, Cultural Studies has engaged critical
issues from the onset. However, the contemporary moment allows for an
interrogation of the everyday cultural articulations of sanctified
fields of knowledge be it science, technology or medicine. This panel
will highlight such conversation and looks for presentations which
include but are not limited to:
? Cultural Studies and STS (or ANT, Science Studies, etc.)
? Critical Cultural Studies of Science and/or Technology and/or
Medicine
? Culture Studies
? Cultural Science: Experimental Cultural Studies
? Cultures and the agency of non-humans
? Environmental Cultural Studies
? Technologies of popular culture
? Media technologies and practices
? Media and its articulation of â??scientific knowledgeâ??
? Media and the pharmaceutical nexus
If you would like to present a paper as part of this session, please
send a 100-150 word abstract to Nayantara Sheoran ((nsheoran /at/ gmu.edu)) and
Matthias Wieser ((matthias.wieser /at/ uni-klu.ac.at)) by Friday, 27th November
2009.
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Univ.-Ass. Matthias Wieser, M.A.
University of Klagenfurt
Department of Media & Communications
Universitaetsstrasse 67
9020 Klagenfurt, Austria
T: +43 (0)463 2700 1831
F: +43 (0)463 2700 991831
(Matthias.Wieser /at/ uni-klu.ac.at)
