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4S Sydney 2018, Aug 29 4S Sydney 2018 Preliminary Program 18 April 2018 4S Sydney 2018, Aug 29 – Sep 1 Program at a Glance WEDNESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY SATURDAY Publisher and Book Exhibits Publisher and Book Exhibits Publisher and Book Exhibits ICC: Level 2 ICC: Level 2 ICC: Level 2 STS Across Borders STS Across Borders STS Across Borders All day ICC: Level 3 ICC: Level 3 ICC: Level 3 events Short Film Program Short Film Program Short Film Program Powerhouse Museum, Kings Powerhouse Museum, Kings Powerhouse Museum, Kings Cinema Cinema Cinema 9:00 – 11:30 Concurrent Sessions (26) Concurrent Sessions (26) Concurrent Sessions (26) 9:00 – 001. STS Journal Roundtables 10:30 110. Carson Book Prize: 160. Fleck Book Prize: ICC: Cockle Bay Room Author meets critic Author meets critic 10:30 – Coffee Break Coffee Break Coffee Break 11:00 13:30 – 17:00 Concurrent Sessions (26) Concurrent Sessions (26) Concurrent Sessions (26) 002. Making and Doing 152. Special Plenary: Bernal 184. Sub-plenary: STS Across 11:00 – Sessions 12:30 Lecture Scale: 4S Meets Regional Powerhouse Museum: The Speaker: Trevor Pinch STS Organisations Lab ICC: Parkside 1 ICC: C2.3 Lunch Break Lunch Break Lunch Break 053. Asia-Pacific STS 153. Transformed Academic 206. 4S Business Meeting Network Business Meeting Careers ICC: C2.4 12:30 – ICC: C2.4 ICC: C2.4 207. Knowledge asymmetries 14:00 054. Indigenous STS Meet- 154. Australian-French STS in/from the Global South: Up Researcher Networking Power, Practices and ICC: C2.5 ICC: C2.5 Legitimation ICC: C2.5 Concurrent Sessions (26) 155. Special Plenary: Concurrent Sessions (26) Indigenous STS Plenary Speakers: Marisol de la 14:00 – Cadena, Marama Muru 15:30 Lanning, Lynette Russell, Kim Tallbear, Kyle White ICC: Parkside 1 15:30 – 15:30 – 17:00 Coffee Break Coffee Break Coffee Break 16:00 003. Sub-plenary: STS in Different Regions ICC: Cockle Bay Room Concurrent Sessions (26) 156. Special Plenary: Awards Concurrent Sessions (23) 097. Special Sessions: Plenary 232. Special Event: STS in ICC: Parkside 1 16:00 – Mullins Prize Practice: Activism, 17:30 ICC: E5.4 Algorithms and Accountability with Joan Donovan ICC: C2.3 17:15 – 18:45 18:00 – 19:30 17:45 – 19:00 004. Welcome to Country and 103. Dyason Lecture Pre-Banquet Drinks Presidential Plenary Speaker: Helen Verran ICC: Level 3 Speaker: Kim Fortun ICC: C2.3 Evening ICC: Cockle Bay Room events 19:00 onwards 19:30 onwards 005. Welcome Reception 157. 4S Sydney 2018 Banquet With DJ Alex Lippman Powerhouse Museum ICC: Cockle Bay Room With ‘critical gelatin studies workshop’ by Lindsay Kelley 4S Sydney 2018 Preliminary Program 18 April 2018 WEDNESDAY, AUGUST, 29 Introducing My Laboratory: The Lab-Life Simulator —Hanbyul Jeong, KAIST 001. STS Journal Roundtables Kosmos: An Art-Science Collaboration —Ting Tong Chang, Special Event Christina Park Gallery; Andrea Nunez Casal, Goldsmiths, 9:00 to 11:30 am University of London; Niki Vermeulen, University of ICC: Cockle Bay Room Edinburgh 002. Making and Doing Sessions Learning to work with Scientists: an Indigenous Australian Special Event perspective from remote northern Australia —Otto 1:30 to 5:00pm Bulmaniya Campion, Arafura Swamp Rangers Aboriginal Museum of Applied Arts and Sciences: The Lab Corporation Special exhibition in which 40 participants share their on-the- Life of Things Project: Piloting antidisciplinary co-creation of ground practices and innovations in scholarly knowledge work knowledge and care —Alexandra Endaltseva, L'École des in a wide range of formats: hautes études en sciences sociales / Linköping University Participants: Making & Doing 2018 — ‘Lift me up!’ Engaging publics through film —Lina Ingeborgrud; Ivana Suboticki, Norwegian University of Making and Doing Karrabing Filmmaking and the Aesthetic of Science and Technology; Vivian Anette Lagesen, NTNU; Survivance —Elizabeth Povinelli, Colombia Univeristy Jonas Hustad, Brillefilm Meaning from Monitoring —Gwen Ottinger, Drexel University ‘Nuclear’: Creative Arts Exposing Humanitarian Impacts of the Nuclear Deferral —N.A.J. Taylor, The University of Melbourne Atomic Bomb, using immersive digital projections —Paul Open and Collaborative Science in Development Network: Frederick Brown, University of New South Wales Managing and Synthesizing Diverse Open Science A Theatre of Digital Designing —Allen Higgins, University Projects —Angela Crandall Okune, University of College Dublin California, Irvine; Becky Hillyer, OCSDNet; Denisse Across an archive of digital memories —Vishnupriya Das, Albornoz, OCSDNet; Alejandro Posada, OCSDNet; Leslie University of Michigan Chan, University of Toronto - Scarborough and OCSDNet AI and Society: Creating Dialogue, Network and Future — Performing Knowledge Traditions In Accordance With The Arisa Ema Transnational Stems and Branches Calendrical Clock (Southern and Northern Hemispheres) —Rey Calingo Aurator: audio diaries across synthetic biology’s disciplinary Tiquia, University of Melbourne boundaries —Britt Damm Wray, University of Copenhagen Playful Systems —Alexander Holland, University of Melbourne Building a Modern Chemistry Set —Alice Williamson, The University of Sydney; Annabelle Buda, The University of Questioning Value of Robot’s Labor?: The Super Perfect Sydney Working Robot Rich Ann in Singapore —Tzu-An Ko, Artist; Kuan-Hung Lo, Virginia Tech Collaborative Explorations —Peter J. Taylor, UMass Boston Remote Knowledge and Engagement —Julian Rutten, The Confidentiality, Openness, and Attribution: Creating University of Swinburne Pedagogical Spaces for Earnest Exchange About Science & Science Policy —Eric Kennedy, Consortium for Science, Science (Is Not) Fair: Interrogating Queerness and Biomedicine Policy, and Outcomes - Arizona State University; Matthew through Art, Event, and Critique —Stephen Molldrem, The Harsh, Concordia University University of Michigan; David Nasca, Artist; Kate O'Connor, University Of Michigan, Ann Arbor Cursed With Good Ideas: Podcasting workshop about podcasting in post-crisis academia —Jonathan Burrow, SCOT, The Board Game. Taking It To The Next Level —Sally University of Oulu; Ge Zhang, RMIT Wyatt, Department of Technology and Society Studies, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, Maastricht Univer; Digital futures of karang guni recycling in Singapore —Lyle Alexandra Supper, Maastricht University Fearnley, Singapore University of Technology and Design SCRaMbLing Human-Yeast Relations: A Methodological DIO: A Surveillance Camera Mapping Game for Mobile Experiment as ArtiSTS —Tarsh Bates, The University of Devices —Tiago Chagas Soares, Universidade de Sao Western Australia; Erika Amethyst Szymanski, University of Paulo; Rafael Evangelista, Unicamp - University of Edinburgh; Devon Ward, Symbiotica, University of Western Campinas Australia Experimenting Sociotechnical Resilience —Sulfikar Amir, Step Right Up! Performing participatory practice. —Alice Nanyang Technological University; Fredy Tantri, Nanyang Wendy Russell, Australian National University Technological University; Justyna Katarzyna Tasic, Nanyang Technological University Technology In A Shared Home —Laura Parraga Gonzalez, n/a How do we recognise soil organisms? —Anne O'Brien, The stories we tell: growing up in high-tech medicine —Nadine Australian Catholic University Tanio, UCLA, Graduate School of Education and Information Studies Human/ Plant Borderland Jamming —Emily Crawford, Composting Feminism Tiger Penis Project —Kuang-Yi Ku, MA Social Design, Design Academy Eindhoven, Netherlands ImaginAging - Plausible Futures of Healthy Aging in an Urban Setting —Clarissa Ai Ling Lee, Emmanuel Tsekleves, Lau Transforming the standard blackbox of time —Barbara Bok, Sian Lun, Sabir Giga, Hwang Jung Shan, and Yong Min Swinburne University of Technology Hooi Ways of Seeing —Venkat Srinivasan, Archivist 1 4S Sydney 2018 Preliminary Program 18 April 2018 Where Are The End-Ups? Investigating Ethical And Epistemic New Directions in STS Research Implications Of Design —Sankalp Bhatnagar, The New Open Panel School 9:00 to 10:30 am 003. STS Across Regions: Honoring Diverse Scholarly ICC: C2.2 Traditions Participants: Special Event Advancing STS Data Sharing Infrastructure with the Research 3:30 to 5:00 pm Data Alliance Lindsay Poirier, Rensselaer Polytechnic ICC: Cockle Bay Room Institute 004. Welcome to Country and Presidential Plenary Building a Community History of Biotech in the Bay Area Plenary Session Joseph Klett, Science History Institute 5:15 to 6:45 pm Data, Design and Democracy : Embedding the Ethics of ICC: Cockle Bay Room Algorithms into Data Science Curriculum Theresa Participant: Dirndorfer Anderson, University of Technology Sydney Presidential Plenary address Kim Fortun, University of How could research infrastructures better support California Irvine transdisciplinary research Yuanying Gao, National Academy of Innovation Strategy, China Association for Science and 005. Welcome Reception Technology, Beijing, Chin; Lili Qiao, National Academy of Reception Innovation Strategy, China Association for Science and 7:00 to 8:00 pm Technology, Beijing, Chin ICC: Cockle Bay Room Featuring DJ Alex Lippman Ways Of Seeing Memory, Database And The Narrative. Venkat Srinivasan, Archivist; Dinesh T B, Servelots Infotech Pvt Ltd; Bhanu Prakash, Servelots Infotech Pvt Ltd; Shalini A, Servelots Infotech Pvt Ltd THURSDAY, AUGUST, 30 When the data could not speak for itself: information omission in bibliometric-based evaluation Weishu Liu, Zhejiang 006. The Invisible Aspects of Infrastructure 1, Knowledge, University of Finance and Economics; Guangyuan Hu, Research & Education
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