[Air-l] Fwd: Reminder: Grad Conference at VT

[Jeremy Hunsinger]

Begin forwarded message:

> From: shew at vt.edu
> Date: May 23, 2007 5:56:33 PM EDT
> To: Jeremy Hunsinger <jhuns at vt.edu>
> Subject: Re: Reminder: Grad Conference at VT
>
> Call for Graduate Student Abstracts
>
> Interactions: Artifacts & Us
> A Graduate Student Conference Exploring Our Relationships with  
> Things and Theirs
> with Us
> September 7-9, 2007
> Blacksburg, Virginia
>
> The Science & Technology Studies graduate students at Virginia Tech  
> welcome
> abstract submissions on topics relating to concepts and artifacts,  
> the uses
> they are put to, the evolution and impacts of technology,  
> scientific objects
> and their study, the role of the engineer in design, and more.
> Possible topics could include: the role of phlogiston in chemical  
> theorizing,
> the use of social networking on the internet and how it changes  
> relationships,
> the use of medical technologies in the classification of disease,  
> the role of a
> disease concept in the experience of illness, the way telescopes  
> and microscopes
> change how we envision the world, the role of failure in  
> engineering design, the
> use and misuse of technology in everyday life,….
> Basically, anything you can argue fits in the topic will be  
> considered!
>
>
> Deadline for Submission: June 1, 2007
>
> Submissions should include a cover sheet with the title and author  
> name(s),
> institutional affiliation, and contact information, as well as an  
> abstract page
> prepared without identification of the authors or affiliations.  
> Abstracts will
> be selected for oral presentation and discussion by blind review.  
> Please keep
> abstracts under 500 words.
>
> Submissions should be emailed as Word or PDF attachments to:
> Ashley.Shew at gmail.com,
> with a subject line of “Interactions Conference Submission”
>
>
>
> Thanks so much, Jeremy.
>
> Ashley
>
> Quoting Jeremy Hunsinger <jhuns at vt.edu>:
>
>> ashley,
>>
>> can you just make this into a plain text file and i'll send it about.
>>
>> thanks,
>>
>> j
>> On May 15, 2007, at 11:07 AM, Ashley Shew wrote:
>>
>>> Yes, I did forget the attachment. Sorry. I chose the file, but
>>> failed to hit
>>> attach... like I do every time.
>>>
>>> We need abstracts, so please get cracking.
>>>
>>> Ashley
>>>
>>> Quoting Ashley Shew <shew at VT.EDU>:
>>>
>>>> Dear STSers,
>>>>
>>>> This is just a quick note to remind you that the deadline for
>>>> abstracts to
>>>> the
>>>> "Interactions: Artifacts and Us" Conference on September 7-9 in
>>>> Blacksburg is
>>>> June 1st. Blacksburg's VT Grad Students are more than welcome to
>>>> submit an
>>>> abstract - you could get a line on your CV and not even have to
>>>> beg Skip for
>>>> travel funding. I've attached the Call for Papers again. Please
>>>> feel free to
>>>> submit your abstract and encourage/pressure your STS friends from
>>>> other
>>>> departments and colleges to submit abstracts too.
>>>>
>>>> (I also sincerely invite NoVA grad students to submit abstracts.
>>>> We could
>>>> find
>>>> students for you to stay with so that the trip would be less
>>>> expensive.)
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Thanks,
>>>> Ashley
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> <Interactions_Artifacts&Us.doc>
>>
>> Jeremy Hunsinger
>> Information Ethics Fellow, Center for Information Policy Research,
>> School of Information Studies, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
>> (www.cipr.uwm.edu)
>>
>> Words are things; and a small drop of ink, falling like dew upon a
>> thought, produces that which makes thousands, perhaps millions,
>> think. --Byron
>>
>>
>>
>
>

jeremy hunsinger
Information Ethics Fellow, Center for Information Policy Research,  
School of Information Studies, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee  
(www.cipr.uwm.edu)

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