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From: shew@vt.edu Date: May 23, 2007 5:56:33 PM EDT To: Jeremy Hunsinger <jhuns@vt.edu> Subject: Re: Reminder: Grad Conference at VT

Call for Graduate Student Abstracts

Interactions: Artifacts & Us A Graduate Student Conference Exploring Our Relationships with Things and Theirs with Us September 7-9, 2007 Blacksburg, Virginia

The Science & Technology Studies graduate students at Virginia Tech welcome abstract submissions on topics relating to concepts and artifacts, the uses they are put to, the evolution and impacts of technology, scientific objects and their study, the role of the engineer in design, and more. Possible topics could include: the role of phlogiston in chemical theorizing, the use of social networking on the internet and how it changes relationships, the use of medical technologies in the classification of disease, the role of a disease concept in the experience of illness, the way telescopes and microscopes change how we envision the world, the role of failure in engineering design, the use and misuse of technology in everyday life,…. Basically, anything you can argue fits in the topic will be considered!

Deadline for Submission: June 1, 2007

Submissions should include a cover sheet with the title and author name(s), institutional affiliation, and contact information, as well as an abstract page prepared without identification of the authors or affiliations. Abstracts will be selected for oral presentation and discussion by blind review. Please keep abstracts under 500 words.

Submissions should be emailed as Word or PDF attachments to: Ashley.Shew@gmail.com, with a subject line of “Interactions Conference Submission”

Thanks so much, Jeremy.

Ashley

Quoting Jeremy Hunsinger <jhuns@vt.edu>:

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ashley,

can you just make this into a plain text file and i'll send it about.

thanks,

j On May 15, 2007, at 11:07 AM, Ashley Shew wrote:

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Yes, I did forget the attachment. Sorry. I chose the file, but failed to hit attach... like I do every time.

We need abstracts, so please get cracking.

Ashley

Quoting Ashley Shew <shew@VT.EDU>:

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Dear STSers,

This is just a quick note to remind you that the deadline for abstracts to the "Interactions: Artifacts and Us" Conference on September 7-9 in Blacksburg is June 1st. Blacksburg's VT Grad Students are more than welcome to submit an abstract - you could get a line on your CV and not even have to beg Skip for travel funding. I've attached the Call for Papers again. Please feel free to submit your abstract and encourage/pressure your STS friends from other departments and colleges to submit abstracts too.

(I also sincerely invite NoVA grad students to submit abstracts. We could find students for you to stay with so that the trip would be less expensive.)

Thanks, Ashley

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Jeremy Hunsinger Information Ethics Fellow, Center for Information Policy Research, School of Information Studies, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (www.cipr.uwm.edu)

Words are things; and a small drop of ink, falling like dew upon a thought, produces that which makes thousands, perhaps millions, think. --Byron

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