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CONFER: Indentity & Social Construct of Science - Grad Conference
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Robert Hettinga)
Fri Mar 12 17:27:49 1999
Date: Fri, 12 Mar 1999 16:55:43 -0500
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Technology & Identity
A Conference at Cornell University
April 16-18, 1999
As a theoretical term, identity is being increasingly invoked by
analysts in science and technology studies (S&TS) and other fields to
order and explain actors' values, interests, practices, and more
generally, world-views. As social constructs, heterogeneous
assemblages can form, maintain, fragment, and completely transform the
identities of collectivities and actors. The graduate students of the
Science & Technology Studies Department at Cornell University announce
a conference to explore the boundaries of identity, to be held April
16-18, 1999. How are identities constructed and defined? What work do
actors achieve by drawing on identity as a resource? In our analyses,
what work do we accomplish by using the term "identity" as compared to
other theoretical resources? By focusing on the constructed boundaries
of identity, including those between other identities, we hope to
investigate core questions in S&TS such as how some identities are
maintained or how a particular sociotechnical system can support
multiple identities. Ken Gergen, Professor of Psychology at Swarthmore
College, will deliver the keynote address. Although conference
participants may study these questions at multiple levels, such as the
nation-state or the laboratory, and with diverse empirical concerns,
we expect papers to engage with theoretical questions raised by the
intersection of technology and identity. Conference information is
posted as available at http://www.sts.cornell.edu/TI.html.
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Robert A. Hettinga <mailto: rah@philodox.com>
Philodox Financial Technology Evangelism <http://www.philodox.com/>
44 Farquhar Street, Boston, MA 02131 USA
"... however it may deserve respect for its usefulness and antiquity,
[predicting the end of the world] has not been found agreeable to
experience." -- Edward Gibbon, 'Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire'
