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Call for Abstracts:
Society for Social Studies of Science (4S) 2025
Open panel: ‘Temporalities of bodies, technologies and their entanglements in the experience of disability and/or chronic illness’
September 3-7, 2025
Seattle, Washington, USA
https://www.4sonline.org/about_the_conference_seattle.php
Deadline for submissions: January 31, 2025
We are pleased to invite you to take part in our panel at the next conference of the Society for Social Studies of Science (4S) 2025 (Seattle, 2025 3-7 September):
Temporalities of bodies, technologies and their entanglements in the experiences of disability and/or chronic illness (Panel ID Number: 43)
Chronic illness and disability have become a privileged place for technological intervention. Both are characterized by the deployment of technological devices that aim to mitigate, compensate for, or even prevent and slow down the loss of capacities, as well as alleviate or limit symptoms. In this context, a varied array of technologies that differently act on or intervene in bodies and places are introduced in people’s lives: technological devices that are implanted in the body (e.g. insulin pumps and deep brain stimulation), technological devices that are attached to the body (prostheses and orthoses) and/or technological devices that are connected both to the body and to a particular place(telecare and dialysis equipment; exoskeletons).
Regarding this ‘technological care’ (Lancelot & Guchet, 2023), research in STS and empirical philosophy of technology has mainly focused on technological use and appropriation, including the difficulties thereof. However vital and essential these technologies may be in sustaining people in daily life, attention has scarcely been paid to their fragility and people’s resulting vulnerability when they malfunction, wear and tear, break and/or thus can no longer be used or have to be adjusted and/or used differently (Oudshoorn, 2020).
These material and existential disruptions and constraints call for inquiring about the entanglements of different temporalities of chronic living and disability: of bodies adjusting to chronic illness, disability and/or to technological care; of the technologies themselves (from their development to their everyday use, adaptation, malfunctions and maintenance) and the socio-material infrastructures that support them; and of the relations between them. We invite contributions that address, empirically and/or conceptually, technological care and its temporalities.
IMPORTANT DATES:
Call for abstracts:
December 15, 2024 – January 31, 2025
Notification of Acceptance:
March 15, 2025
4S 2025 in-person conference:
September 3-7, 2025
SUBMISSIONS:
Abstracts (250 words max) should be submitted on the 4S website: https://bit.ly/3BtgXPh
ORGANIZERS:
Lucie Dalibert, University Claude Bernard Lyon 1
lucie.dalibert@univ-lyon1.fr
Agathe Camus, University Claude Bernard Lyon 1
agathe.camus@univ-lyon1.fr
Helma Korzybska, University Claude Bernard Lyon 1
helma.korzybski@univ-lyon1.fr
Valentine Gourinat, Strasbourg University
gourinat@unistra.fr
Mathilde Lancelot, Nantes University
Mathilde.Lancelot@univ-nantes.fr
Paul-Fabien Groud, University Lumière Lyon 2
pf.groud@univ-lyon2.fr
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