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Published On: Nov 11 2024
Deadline: Jan 8, 2025
In recent years, perhaps stimulated by the growing awareness of the power of digital technologies, there have been calls for engineers and designers to advance values ‘by design’, such as democracy, participation, privacy and transparency. This builds on earlier inclusive design and access-for-all initiatives. But not all encounters with technologies are fulfilling, and some are designed to exclude or harm people, animals and nature. This workshop focuses on those technologies that could be described as hostile or exclusionary by design.
The workshop is supported by the Maastric...
Published On: Nov 25 2024
Deadline: Jan 2, 2025
The Department of Social Science & Cultural Studies at Pratt Institute invites applications for a full-time tenure-track faculty position at the Assistant Professor rank, with an area of focus in visual & material culture, to begin Fall 2025. We seek a dynamic scholar and educator whose research emphasizes visuality and/or materiality, and their social, political, economic, and cultural contexts. A PhD in a relevant social science discipline or interdisciplinary field is required at the time of appointment. These could include: anthropology, history, political science, sociology, or ot...
Published On: Dec 9 2024
Deadline: Dec 31, 2024
The Käte Hamburger Kolleg Cultures of Research (c:o/re) is an international center for advanced studies at RWTH Aachen University, funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research. The center has openings for a total of ten international fellows from the humanities and social sciences, as well as from natural, life, and technical sciences. Cultures of Research is positioned where the fields of history, philosophy, and sociology interface with natural science and technology. We are particularly interested in exploring the concepts of ‘digitality/complexity’, and ...
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
Published On: Nov 19 2024
Deadline: Jan 6, 2025
The Department of Geography in the College of Social Sciences & Public Policy at Florida State University seeks a 9-month tenure-track Assistant Professor in critical Human Geography. The successful candidate will have demonstrated commitment to sustaining a research agenda in human-environment interactions, with interests that bridge disciplinary boundaries. Relevant geographic sub-disciplines for this position include political ecology, environmental justice, urban geography, and critical science geographies, such as critical physical geography. We especially welcome applications from ca...
Published On: Nov 19 2024
Deadline: Jan 3, 2025
Department II: Knowledge Systems and Collective Life, led by Dr. Etienne Benson, seeks to appoint a Postdoctoral Scholar for three years starting on Sept 1, 2025. Researchers in Department II use historical and ethnographic methods to study the relationship between knowledge systems and forms of collective life in the past and present. We seek to foreground neglected histories, trace cross-cultural connections, engage with diverse publics, expand the boundaries of the political, challenge conventional definitions of science and technology, critically reflect on our own political and ethical co...
Published On: Nov 25 2024
Deadline: Jan 15, 2025
In an age of endless disruption, how do we live with the rapid advances and early analyses of artificial intelligence software, moral panic, and the voracious consumption of already oppressive datasets and social relations? In this issue, we want to explore a range of critical framings and interventions that understand AI as the latest wave of technological change that may be able to help or hinder us in our weird and sometimes wonderful daily grind(s), rather than as a totalizing and inevitable replacement of human existence. 500-word abstract due January 15, 2025; papers due June 1, 2025.
Published On: Dec 9 2024
Deadline: Jan 15, 2025
Building on CDP’s previous conferences, which have opened up questions of how drugs are problematised; how the complexity of drug use can be attended to; how drug use might be understood as event, assemblage or phenomenon; how drugs and their effects are constituted in various forms of practice and interactions/intra-actions; how we might rethink change; and the need to embrace ‘trouble’ in our work, the 2025 conference seeks submissions for presentations that consider the many boundaries, borders, binaries and barriers that structure how we do drugs, including work that chal...
Published On: Nov 13 2024
Deadline: Jan 9, 2025
The John B. Hurford ’60 Center for the Arts and Humanities at Haverford College invites applications for a two-year, full-time Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship to begin Fall 2025. We seek a scholar interested in discard studies and the relation between waste and life systems. Candidates may have a wide range of theoretical and interdisciplinary interests, such as science and technology studies, environmental studies, geography, cultural studies, literature, visual and performance studies, biology, anthropology, political science, sociology, and philosophy. We are interested in all geograph...
Published On: Nov 25 2024
'Driving Decisions: How Autonomous Vehicles Make Sense of the World' by Sam Hind examines the phenomenon of autonomous driving, and the ongoing, complex, costly, and contentious quest to automate driving. Principally organized around the concept of algorithmic decision-making, the book considers how different mapping, sensing, and machine learning (ML)-dependent capabilities are gifted to autonomous vehicles through different kinds of technical work: from computer science students annotating visual data in industry-funded research centres to software engineers designing ‘end-to-end&rsquo...