PRACTISING SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY, PERFORMING THE SOCIAL

The European Association for the Study of Science and Technology will hold its bi-annual conference from September 2 – 4, 2010 in Trento, Italy. The overall theme will be PRACTISING SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY, PERFORMING THE SOCIAL; and the focus will be explicitly on practice and performance. The conference will be organized in approximately 20-30 parallel thematic tracks. They have an ongoing call for proposals to these tracks, the deadline is October 12! Teams for convening such a track are allowed up to 4 people. On the site (http://w ww.easst.net/node/2326) you find several fields, but two of them “medicine and healthcare as technoscientific practices” and “The ´doing` of bodies and gender in science and technology” could be of interest for scholars in medical anthropology. Submissions for tracks should address broad issues and themes in order to attract a large number of scholars. Further on, submissions are expected to include an outline of the proposed theme and the area of interest (maximum 500 words) as well as a short description of the convenors. The tracks are created to attract more than 10 abstracts and less than 40. Submissions shall be made to conference@easst.n et
 

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Dr. Viola Hörbst
Centro de Estudos Africanos
CEA / ISCTE

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