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Science and Technology Caucus
The Science and Technology Caucus provides a community for scholars interested in the interdisciplinary study of science and technology within and beyond American culture.
The Caucus was formed in 2006 to build on the enthusiastic reception of the special technology issue of the American Quarterly (September 2006) and on the positive feedback that the “science and technology” panels received at the 2006 ASA in Oakland. The Caucus endeavors to encourage more discussion of science and technology at ASA meetings, both nationally and regionally.
As American Studies scholars, we believe it is imperative that we interrogate the place of science and technology within American culture, broadly defined. Scientific and technological objects, practices, and debates - from evolution to stem cell research to nuclear energy to hybrid cars - inform our conversations about globalization, politics, religion, gender, race, progress, and health, as well as highlight key issues of American identity. As a Caucus, we encourage discussion of these issues within our field, paying particular attention to their local, national and global ramifications.
We started a new listserv on Google groups for the caucus in December 2011. If you would like to join our caucus listserv, please look for “ASA Science & Technology Caucus” on Google groups and request to join.
Caucus liasons: Jason Weems, Emily Smith Beitiks, Monique Laney
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Time to think about our sponsored panel for 2012!
Dear ASA Science and Technology colleagues,
Thank you to those who joined us to discuss the STS caucus in Baltimore. Once again, it’s time for our caucus to select a panel to sponsor for the next ASA meeting in San Juan, Puerto Rico. General panel submissions are due January 26, 2012, so we hope to lock down our sponsored panel no later than January 23rd.
Following the discussion at ASA, your co-chairs of the science and technology caucus, Jason Weems, Monique Laney, and Emily Smith Beitiks, have been discussing how we might form the sponsored panel. We have decided to put the panel selection to a vote, as we did last year.
Therefore, when any panels related to science and technology have full abstracts ready to be submitted to the ASA website, please forward the abstracts to me by January 19th. We will then send all complete panels out for a vote, and based on the responses, we will choose our sponsored panel (it is possible that two panels will be selected, TBD). Since abstracts can be revised at any time up to the final deadline, the sponsored panel can then write at the top of their abstract “This panel is sponsored by the Science and Technology Caucus” and resubmit it to the ASA website by the deadline. And of course, if your panel is not selected, you will still have time to submit your abstract to the general ASA submission.
Need help finding or organizing a panel? Use our list-serve! (see announcements for how to join)
So good luck organizing and send me (Emily Beitiks: .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)) all complete panel abstracts by the end of Thursday, January 19th, and be ready to VOTE on 1/20!
All the best,
Emily, Jason, and Monique
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Baltimore 2011
Business meeting and this year’s panels related to Science & Technology
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ASA 2010 Science and Technology Caucus Business Meeting
Date: Saturday Nov 20th
Time: 8:00-9:45a.m. (We hope to provide coffee and munchies).
Room: Grand Hyatt - Travis CD
Please come prepared to brainstorm session topics for next year and discuss the role of science and technology studies in American Studies. Depending on the number of people who attend, we may also discuss informally individual current research projects.
PS: Check out new links at top of this page to display S&T related panels at ASA 2010!
Hello Science and Technology Caucus Members -
First, greetings from your new caucus coordinator, and many thanks to Kimberly Hamlin and Carolyn de la Pena for doing such a great job over the last few years. The Caucus Business meeting was small this year, and I volunteered to coordinate the caucus, so if anyone else also wants to help, please let me know. As Kimberly mentioned, Monique Laney is helping update the website. I’m writing to encourage all of you to network and create proposals for science and technology related panels for next year’s ASA annual meeting. This semester is nearing its end, so hopefully that means we’ll all have a little more time to move forward with the panel ideas that were brought up at the meeting and to consider others we’d like to submit.
The ideas suggested at the business meeting, and people who offered to work on them, are as follows:
1) genetic/biological citizenship (Sarah McCullough, Aiko Takeuchi-Demirci)
2) the STS/AMS approach to disability studies (Emily Laurel Smith, Stephanie Schulte)
3) hi-tech/lo-tech, simplicity (Sarah McCullough)
4) technology and visual culture - e.g. mapping, eye-tracking (possibly Caren Kaplan)
5) incorporating science/technology studies into the AMS classroom (Kimberly Hamlin)
It was also suggested that panels 1 and 2 could perhaps be combined. The group recommended denoting either 1 or 2 as the “sponsored session.” It would be great to get a few more ideas added to this list as well.
Monique and I are happy to upload Panel Abstracts and Proposals in Progress in order to facilitate networking among Science and Technology Caucus members. Please email us if you would like your panel proposal posted onto the site. As you can see below, you may also network through the main ASA website. More information on the upcoming conference is available by following the links below, with deadline of January 26th for final full proposal submission. Also, I cc:ed everyone here to facilitate networking. However, if for some reason you prefer more privacy or to be contacted by the caucus through Bcc:, please let me know.
Thanks!
Christina
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