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Science, Technology, Society, and the State |
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In the past ten
years, the study of science and technology has emerged as a significant and
provocative new interdisciplinary effort. With novel approaches to the constitution
of techno-scientific knowledge both inside and outside of traditional
research settings, science and technology studies have fruitfully challenged
the anthropologies, sociologies, and histories of knowledge once dominant in
the academy. As the name suggests, this interdisciplinary workshop aims to
explore the complex forms of association and discourse that link the pursuit
of techno-scientific knowledge to the nation-state project and its
institutional practices, broadly understood. This year’s
workshop will explore the theme of “Science, Security, and Society,” asking
not just about the social life of security but about the security of social
life. SPRING
2008
This Quarter the STSS workshop is
happy to sponsor the conference:
April 25- 27, 2008 Anthropology and Global Counterinsurgency
A
Conference at the University of Chicago
Department
of Anthropology
For conference schedule and information, please
visit
http://anthroandwar.uchicago.edu/index.html
WINTER
2008
Tuesday, March 4th
4:30 HASKELL MEZZANINE (2nd floor) Answering Needham’s Problem: Kuhn and
Longino, Social Modeling, and the Late Imperial Civil Service System Discussant:
Christopher Walker (Anthropology) Tuesday, February 19th 4:30 HASKELL MEZZANINE (2nd
floor) Stormy Weather: Global Disaster and
the Normalization of Emergency [in Haiti] Discussant:
Alison Feser (Anthropology) *Thursday, February 7th 4:30 PICK 105 Rocío Magaña (Anthropology,
University of Chicago) Desolation Bound: The Spatial Entanglement of Border Crossing
and Enforcement Along the Arizona-Mexico Desert Region Discussant: Susan Gzesh (Director of
the Human Rights Program, University of Chicago) *Event co-sponsored with the Global
Environment Workshop Tuesday, January 29th 4:30 HASKELL 315 Between Acquisition and Use: Examining the Improbability of
Nuclear Terrorism *An unofficial item of interest for STSSers: Roger Myerson (Nobel Laureate;
Economics, University of Chicago) Foundations of the State in Theory and Practice: Reading Bremer and
the Counterinsurgency Field Manual Comparative Politics Workshop Wednesday, January 16th 6-8 pm Wilder House This is not a session of STSS Autumn
2007
*Monday, November 26th 7-9 pm HASKELL 315 Special Session of STSS: Military Ethnographers? A Roundtable and Open Discussion
With Marshall Sahlins,
John Kelly, Bea Juaregui, and Sean Mitchell
Tuesday, November 20th Dan Slater (Political Science,
University of Chicago) Altering Authoritarianism: Dynamics of
Infrastructural and Despotic Institutions in Indonesia Discussant: Kurt Jacobsen (Political Science) Tuesday, November 6th ‘Psychopolitics’ and Nuclear State Fallout in the Gambier Islands Discussant: Marston Morgan
(Anthropology) Tuesday, October 23rd Private Interests and Public Goods:
The Institutions of Spanish Urbanism from Falangism to Technocracy Discussant:
Bea Jauregui (Anthropology) Faculty Sponsors
Jim Hevia (jhevia@uchicago.edu) Joseph Masco (jmasco@uchicago.edu) Student Coordinator Stephen K. Scott (skscott@uchicago.edu)
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Meetings Note that our location varies this quarter! Papers Assistance
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