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New Book | The Cybernetic Border

Published On: Oct 4 2024

In The Cybernetic Border, Iván Chaar López argues that the settler US nation requires the production and targeting of a racialized enemy that threatens the empire. The cybernetic border is organized through practices of data capture, storage, processing, circulation, and communication that police bodies and constitute the nation as a bounded, territorial space. Chaar López historicizes the US government’s use of border enforcement technologies on Mexicans, Arabs, and Muslims from the mid-twentieth century to the present, showing how data systems are presented as solu...

4S Palestine Forum | Contributions Call

Published On: Jul 30 2024

The 4S Palestine Forum, launched earlier this year as the initial project of the Working Group on War and Genocide that was initiated at 4S Honolulu in 2023, is welcoming further contributions.

Please submit new short blog-style entries, as well as references to published work, syllabi, and other resources by writing info@4sonline.org.

View the Palestine Forum in its entirety here: https://www.4sonline.org/palestine_forum.php

ASU | Winter School on Emerging Technologies

Published On: Oct 4 2024

Deadline: Oct 7, 2024

The Winter School on Emerging Technologies: Accelerating Impactful Scholarship will be held January 3-10, 2025 in Arizona. Winter School provides junior scholars and scientists an introduction to and practical experience with methods and theory for better understanding the social dimensions of emerging technologies. The 2025 program will be focused on the broad notion of impact with an aim to explore ways for participants to increase and diversify the impact of their work.

University of Notre Dame | Tenure-Track Position

Published On: Oct 4 2024

Deadline: Oct 7, 2024

The Program of Liberal Studies (PLS) at the University of Notre Dame is accepting applications for a tenure-track, assistant professor in the history of science, philosophy of science, or science & technology studies to begin August 2025, with duties including research, teaching, and service. The position carries a 2-2 course load, with core responsibilities including the Program's Great Books Seminars plus two or more of its disciplinary-based "tutorials." 
Contact: Prof. Thomas Stapleford, Chairperson, Program of Liberal Studies

Smithsonian | Lemelson Center Fellowship

Published On: Oct 4 2024

Deadline: Oct 15, 2024

The Lemelson Center Fellowship Program supports projects that present creative approaches to the study of invention and innovation in American society. These include, but are not limited to, historical research and documentation projects resulting in dissertations, publications, exhibitions, educational initiatives, documentary films, or other multimedia products. The Lemelson Center invites all applications covering the broad spectrum of research topics in the history of technology, invention, and innovation.

CfP Workshops and Interactive Sessions | iConference: Living in an AI-gorithmic world

Published On: Oct 4 2024

Deadline: Oct 20, 2024

The iConference is an annual gathering of a broad spectrum of scholars and researchers from around the world who share a common concern about critical information issues in contemporary society. The iConference pushes the boundaries of information studies, explores core concepts and ideas, and creates new technological and conceptual configurations—all situated in interdisciplinary discourses.
Submission deadline (workshops & interactive sessions): October 20, 2024 | Event: 18-22 March, 2025 (in-person) & 11-14 March, 2025 (virtual)

ACLS | Summer Institute

Published On: Oct 4 2024

Deadline: Oct 30, 2024

The Summer Institute for the Study of East Central and Southeastern Europe (SISECSE) is a two-week residential workshop, that provides scholars of Eastern Europe time and space to dedicate to their own research and writing in a collaborative and interdisciplinary setting. ACLS in partnership with the Centre for Advanced Study Sofia (CAS) will convene leading scholars from Eastern Europe and North America for a two-week residency in Blagoevgrad, Bulgaria from June 5, 2025 to June 20, 2025.

CfP | Revisiting Biomedicalization: Toward a Technology-Focused Approach

Published On: Oct 4 2024

Deadline: Oct 31, 2024

On February 28 and March 1, 2025, we will convene a small conference to explore contemporary biomedical and health technologies, hosted by the Department of Sociology at Yale University in New Haven, CT. The purpose of the workshop is to bring together social scientists and historians studying technologies using a science and technology studies lens. We seek to convene scholars across career stages who are conducting empirical investigations of contemporary biomedical and health technologies.

Pomona College | Tenure-Track Position

Published On: Oct 3 2024

Deadline: Oct 31, 2024

We seek a tenure-track colleague whose research resides at the intersections of the environmental humanities and critical studies of ability, class, gender, indigeneity, race, sexuality, and/or species. We invite applications from scholars examining the uneven distribution of environmental burdens across various interlocking forms of social inequity; analyzing the environmental histories and impact of militarism; intervening in the ideological assumptions behind narratives of progress, development, futurity, and human exceptionalism; or offering innovative, cross-disciplinary analyses of legal...

Stanford | Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences Fellowships

Published On: Oct 4 2024

Deadline: Nov 1, 2024

The Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences (CASBS) at Stanford University is now accepting applications for residential fellowships for the 2025–26 academic year. The Center offers a residential fellowship program for scholars working in a diverse range of disciplines that contribute to advancing research and thinking in social science. Fellows represent the core social and behavioral sciences but also the humanities, education, linguistics, communications, and the biological, natural, health, and computer sciences.

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