>From - Fri Aug 9 11:11:22 2002 X-Mozilla-Status2: 00000000 Return-path: Received: from dagger.cc.vt.edu ([10.1.1.11]) by gkar.cc.vt.edu (Sun Internet Mail Server sims.3.5.2001.05.04.11.50.p10) with ESMTP id <0H0L002550QXLM@gkar.cc.vt.edu>; Fri, 9 Aug 2002 11:08:57 -0400 (EDT) Received: from elist02.mail.cornell.edu (elist02.mail.cornell.edu [132.236.56.15]) by dagger.cc.vt.edu (Mirapoint Messaging Server MOS 3.1.0.54-GA) with ESMTP id AOT07670; Fri, 09 Aug 2002 10:53:23 -0400 (EDT) Received: from elist02.mail.cornell.edu (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by elist02.mail.cornell.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id KAA28168; Fri, 09 Aug 2002 10:45:18 -0400 (EDT) Received: from mailhub2.mail.cornell.edu (mailhub2.mail.cornell.edu [132.236.56.26]) by elist02.mail.cornell.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id KAA16751 for ; Fri, 09 Aug 2002 10:21:42 -0400 (EDT) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by mailhub2.mail.cornell.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) id KAA19138 for STSGRAD-L@elist02.mail.cornell.edu; Fri, 09 Aug 2002 10:21:42 -0400 (EDT) Received: from lennier.cc.vt.edu (lennier.cc.vt.edu [198.82.162.213]) by mailhub2.mail.cornell.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id KAA19106 for ; Fri, 09 Aug 2002 10:21:41 -0400 (EDT) Received: from steiner.cc.vt.edu (IDENT:mirapoint@steiner-lb.cc.vt.edu [10.1.1.14]) by lennier.cc.vt.edu (8.11.4/8.11.4) with ESMTP id g79ELfw439676 for ; Fri, 09 Aug 2002 10:21:41 -0400 (EDT) Received: from vt.edu (h80ad2675.async.vt.edu [128.173.38.117]) by steiner.cc.vt.edu (Mirapoint Messaging Server MOS 3.1.0.54-GA) with ESMTP id ALU85527; Fri, 09 Aug 2002 10:21:37 -0400 (EDT) Date: Fri, 09 Aug 2002 10:24:33 -0400 From: wyatt galusky Subject: CFP: Virginia Tech STS Workshop 2003 Sender: owner-STSGRAD-L@cornell.edu To: STSGRAD-L , STS@listserv.vt.edu, sts-gso@listserv.vt.edu Reply-to: wgalusky@vt.edu Message-id: <3D53D0A1.20FC4EC8@vt.edu> MIME-version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7C-CCK-MCD {C-UDP; EBM-APPLE} (Macintosh; I; PPC) Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit X-PH: V4.1@mailhub2 X-Accept-Language: en Message-Tag: 35 X-Listprocessor-version: 8.2.09.cu.02/011115/14:19 -- ListProc(tm) by CREN Call For Papers Virginia Tech STS Workshop 2003 "Technologies/Moralities: The Ethical Grammar of Technological Systems" Guest participants: Professor Andrew Feenberg and Professor Brian Martin Abstracts due: 15 October 2002 (for notification by 1 December) The Graduate Students of Virginia Tech's Center for Science and Technology Studies are hosting a workshop on Friday and Saturday, 28-29 March 2003, tentatively entitled "Technologies/Moralities: The Ethical Grammar of Technological Systems." The workshop's theme revolves around the intersections (or dual tracks) of morality and technology, and what people can do about them. Thus, we have a two-fold premise: one, that addressing contemporary articulations of the morality-technology conjunction is necessary, and two, that our own science studies work must theorize and inform the subject in a meaningful (publicly inclusive) way. Science studies discourse opens up a field of questions that needs to be addressed by and for a wide audience. For this workshop, we encourage papers that focus on technologies with emerging (or already emergent) social prevalence, such as: * biotechnology * information technology * so-called alternative technologies and which deal with these and related questions: * how do technological systems contain ethical agendas? * how do they alter and obscure them? * in what ways can we articulate how today's technical choices become tomorrow's ethical imperatives? * what voice do/ should publics have in these discourses? The impetus for creating this forum is to expand the academic discourse on these issues towards the larger public realm. (Note that the means by which social relevance can be achieved will be one topic for debate.) The foundation of the workshop will be structured as a tiered effort. The top tier engages the topic of technologies and moralities; the second tier offers a particular perspective on that theme (such as environmental, critical theoretical, legal, activist, historical, philosophical, etc.); and the third tier is the case study (such as biotechnology or information technology), used as the basis for the other two tiers. Our over-arching theme of the union of technologies and moralities is a way to focus discussion on a specific issue, and to employ different methodologies in approaching that issue. We envision our second tier-these differing methodologies and/or scopes-as one which will be diverse and possibly contentious while the top and bottom tiers will maintain a sense of continuity throughout the workshop. In addition to local participants, Professor Andrew Feenberg (Philosophy of Technology, UCSD) and Professor Brian Martin (Sociology of Science, University of Wollongong) will be participating in, and commenting on, the discussion-intensive sessions. Also, we ask that you please consult our webpage for updates on other participants and for a more comprehensive prospectus on the workshop at http://www.cis.vt.edu/sts/NEmain.htm. At this website you can find more detail about possible topics (such as biotechnological systems, information technology, activism as a technology, techniques of STS engaging popular discourse), about the discussion format, and about updates on workshop participants. We encourage contributions from a wide array of disciplines and from scholars at all stages of their careers. Please submit abstracts of no more than 250 words and a one-page c.v. (electronic submissions encouraged) along with any questions to the address below. Note that papers will be pre-circulated (by mid-February) to other participants in your session, so paper proposers should plan to have a working draft of a (10-16 page) paper available by that time. Send abstracts to: (via e-mail) sts_grad2003@vt.edu, or (via snail mail): Technologies/Moralities Workshop, c/o Benjamin Cohen 131 Lane Hall (0227), Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA 24061 sts_grad2003@vt.edu http://www.cis.vt.edu/sts/NEmain.htm We kindly ask that you please forward and circulate this CFP to anyone who you think would be interested in submitting a proposal to the workshop.