Guest editorship, Journal of Law and Society special issue 2012

I would welcome offers to collaborate on a proposal for a special issue on the theme of ‘Intersections of STS and Socio-Legal Studies’.

Best Chris Lawless

Guest editorship, Journal of Law and Society special issue 2012

The Journal of Law and Society invites expressions of interest concerning the guest editorship of the JLS Special Issue (Spring 2012). Readers are invited to contact the editor with their proposal. Send a list of authors, agreed and those yet to be confirmed, and working titles of each contribution. Prepare one page explaining the purpose and range of the collection. The material must be ‘socio legal’, fit the character of the JLS, and have current relevance and appeal to our international and diverse readership. The Issue must also be both thematic and coherent. The issue is 75,000 words, inclusive of

urgent Researcher position in namur belgium for etica and egais european projects

Dear colleagues

The researcher I contracted for two european projects (egais: The Etical GovernAnce of emerging technologieS : http://www.egais-project.eu/ and etica: Ethical Issues of Emerging ICT Applications) : http://www.etica-project.eu/) is unable to pursue in Namur for personal reason. So I need urgently to find somebody else.

please find below the call. Would you be kind enough to diffuse it and of course to see in your network if somebody could be interested. Thanks in advance for your help.

engages

Under the direction of Prof. Philippe Goujon


*_A researcher (24 months 100% - M/F) full time

Normaly beginning of September 2010

Artefacts XI -- Call for Papers & Registration / Appel de communications et Inscription

Olá Rita :)

já cheguei ao Rio, já estou instalada na nova casa e quase a entrar em "campo" :)

Achei que esta chamada te pode interessar.

Beijinhos,
Oriana


2010/5/20 Zeiss R (TSS) <r.zeiss@maastrichtuniversity.nl>
ARTEFACTS XV

Call for Papers - due June 11th

A Workshop to Explore the Significance and Impact of Artefacts

ARTEFACTS XV is for:
Museum professionals,
Academics and their Graduate students
who are looking for new ways to interpret the
preserved material culture of science and technology.

Technology Innovation Researcher

A research assistant is sought to work at the University of Edinburgh on a project funded by the UK Energy Research Centre on a two year research project which will conduct an independent, inter-disciplinary assessment of carbon capture and storage (CCS) viability from now to 2030. The project will draw on experience from other technologies to assess potential pathways for the future development of CCS. This is done to inform UK government policies, as well as to advance knowledge for technology appraisal.

You will contribute to the production of detailed case studies of the innovation histories of other technologies, and responsibilities include literature reviews, interviewing and scholarly, analytical writing.

Post doc position

Postdoctoral position in Cultural Studies: Medical Imaging

The Department of Interdisciplinary Studies of Culture, Faculty of Humanities, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), invites scholars to apply for a postdoctoral fellowship in research on contemporary medical images in a cultural perspective.

Symposium: New Materialisms and Digital Culture-event in Cambridge,at Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge (UK), June 21 (and 22n

Symposium: New Materialisms and Digital Culture-event in Cambridge,at Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge (UK), June 21 (and 22nd)

A symposium announcement – apologies for cross-posting, please forward to anyone interested

New Materialisms and Digital Culture

An International Symposium on Contemporary Arts, Media and Cultural Theory

Date: Monday 21 June 2010
Time: 10:00 - 19:30
Venue: Hel 201, Anglia Ruskin University, East Road, Cambridge

Far from being immaterial, digital culture consists of heterogeneous bodies, relations, intensities, movements, and modes of emergence manifested in various contexts of the arts and sciences.

This event suggests "new materialism" as a speculative concept with which to rethink materiality across diverse cultural-theoretical fields of inquiry with a particular reference to digitality in/as culture: art and media studies, social and political theorising, feminist analysis, and science and technology studies.

More specifically, the event maps ways in which the questions of process, positive difference or the new, relation, and the pervasively aesthetic character of our emergences with the world have lately been taken up in cultural theory. It will engage explorations of digital culture within which matter, the body and the social, and the long-standing theoretical dominance of symbolic mediation (or the despotism of the signifier) are currently being radically reconsidered and reconceptualised.

The talks of the event will probe media arts of digital culture, sonic environments, cinematic contexts, wireless communication, philosophy of science and a variety of further topics in order to develop a new vocabulary for understanding digital culture as a material culture.

Speakers include: Dr David M. Berry, Dr Rick Dolphijn, Dr Satinder Gill, Dr Adrian Mackenzie, Dr Stamatia Portanova, Dr Anna Powell, Dr Iris van der Tuin and Dr Eleni Ikoniadou.

The academic programme will be followed by a physical computing and dance performance involving CoDE affiliated staff (Richard Hoadley and Tom Hall) along with choreographers Jane Turner, Cheryl Frances-Hoad and their dancers.

Following the symposium there will also be a short workshop for PhD students on Tuesday 22 June led by Van der Tuin and Dolphijn along with Milla Tiainen and Jussi Parikka. The aim of the workshop is to enable students to discuss and present brief intros to their work on the theme of new materialist analysis of culture and the arts with tutoring from the workshop leaders. The workshop is restricted to max. 10 students. Participation for the selected ten is include in the registration fee. If you are interested, please send an informal message to either milla.tiainen@anglia.ac.uk or Jussi.parikka@anglia.ac.uk along with a short (approx. 1 page) description of your PhD work and its relation to new materialism.

In addition, we are planning an informal introductory workshop for Tuesday afternoon on experimental performance and physical computing.

The event is sponsored by CoDE: the Cultures of the Digital Economy research institute and the Department of English, Communication, Film and Media at Anglia Ruskin University.

http://www.anglia.ac.uk/code

Please register your place here: https://store.anglia.ac.uk/events/eventdetails.asp?eventid=37

Programme

 Anglia Ruskin University. East Road, Cambridge, UK, Helmore Building, room Hel 201

 June 21, Monday

10.00 Welcome and what is new materialism, Milla Tiainen and Jussi Parikka

10.15 Anna Powell (Manchester Met): Electronic Automatism: Video Affects and The Time Image

11.10 Break

11.30 Iris van der Tuin (Utrecht): A Different Starting Point, a Different Metaphysics”: Reading Bergson and Barad Diffractively

Rick Dolphijn (Utrecht): The Intense Exterior of Another Geometry

12.30 Lunch

13.45 Stamatia Portanova (Birkbeck): The materiality of the abstract (or how movement-objects ‘thrill’ the world)

 Eleni Ikoniadou: Transversal digitality and the relational dynamics of a new materialism

Satinder Gill (Anglia Ruskin/CoDE and Cambridge University): “Rhythms and sense-making in responsive dense-space’

15.20 break

15.40 David Berry (Swansea): Software Avidities: Latour and the Materialities of Code. 

16.10 Adrian Mackenzie (Lancaster) Believing in and desiring data: R as ’ next big thing

17.00 closing and a break

18.00 Open launch and drinks event for the Digital Performance laboratory (CoDE, Music and Performing Arts, Anglia Ruskin) and a science-arts interdisciplinary performance Triggered. Recital-hall, Helmore Building (029), East Road, Anglia Ruskin, Cambridge.

‘Triggered’ showcases the results of a practice-as-research project into methods of interdisciplinary collaboration between a group of contemporary  dancers, musicians and music technologists. The nature of this collaboration has allowed performance to emerge from artists and disciplines interacting and responding to each other. The bespoke technologies used in the project enable sophisticated dialogue between movement and sound, between music composition and choreography. The nature of interaction and narratives created are key areas of investigation and these areas will explored in a workshop on the second day of the conference. Performing, choreographing, composing and building the production are Cheryl Frances-Hoad, Tom Hall, Richard Hoadley, Jane Turner & dance company.

Day 2 (June 22)

10.00-12.30

New materialism: art, science, media –workshop with selected PhD students with

Dr Iris van der Tuin and Rick Dolphijn, along with Milla Tiainen and Jussi Parikka

12.30-14.00 lunch

14.00 an experimental performance/HCI workshop and interaction possibility with Jane Turner, Cheryl Frances-Hoad, Dr Satinder Gill, Dr Richard Hoadley and Dr Tom Hall.

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Dr Jussi Parikka

Director of CoDE: the Cultures of the Digital Economy-research Institute

Reader in Media Theory & History

Co-Director of the Anglia Research Centre in Digital Culture (ArcDigital)

Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge, UK

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Reminder: CfP Summer School "Beyond Knowledge Society" - Speakers confirmed

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CfP Summer School - The Globalisation of Innovation in Oldenburg

Dear Research Fellows,

Masters (MSc) programme in Digital Anthropology at University College London

Masters (MSc) programme in Digital Anthropology at University College London

Early application deadline: 30 June 2010

http://www.ucl.ac.uk/anthropology/digital-anthropology/

The new MSc in Digital Anthropology—begun in the Autumn of 2009—is well positioned for becoming a world leader in the training of researchers in the social and cultural dimensions of information technologies and digital media.

Digital technologies have become ubiquitous. From Facebook, Youtube and Flickr to PowerPoint, Google Earth and Second Life. Museum displays migrate to the internet, family communication in the Diaspora is dominated by new media, artists work with digital films and images. Anthropology and ethnographic research is fundamental to understanding the local consequences of these innovations, and to create theories

Final Call for Submissions: Nicholas C. Mullins Award, 4S Student Essay Competition

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Nicholas C. Mullins Award

Student Essay Competition

Deadline for Submission: May 15, 2010