About event
A free, interactive, online workshop series for PhD/ECR researchers interested in STS, hosted by AusSTS
The AusSTS Workshop is an annual workshop meeting aimed at PhD/ECR researchers from across Australasia interested in STS research. Like many events this year, our AusSTS2020 workshop plans (originally scheduled for July in Darwin) have inevitably been postponed. While we’re sad we won’t be able to see you all in person, we’re still committed to providing opportunities for STS researchers to meet new people and connect with each other, especially at a time when there are fewer occasions than ever to do so.
This online workshop series is broken into 4 weeks: 1 x keynote session, 3 x interactive workshop sessions.
Register for a single event or all of them. Whatever works for you 🙂
Each session has a different theme and is facilitated by a different group of STS researchers. These sessions broadly ask: what does “participating” in research look like since COVID-19? While COVID-19 has closed access off to some archives, how might new archives now be made available? And finally, how might we use this current moment as a starting point to rethink what “business as usual” research might look like?
Schedule Overview
Thurs 16 Jul, 10am – 11:30am AEST:
Keynote address: Associate Professor Adia Benton (Register here)
Thurs 23 Jul, 10am – 11:30am AEST:
Session 1: Participating in research now (Register here)
Thurs 30 Jul, 10am – 11:30am AEST:
Session 2: Digital life as an archive (Register here)
Thurs 6 Aug, 10am – 11: 30am AEST:
Session 3: Disruption, opportunity and re/arranging STS research (Register here)
This week:
Title: Digital life as archive
Presenters: Celia Roberts (ANU), Adrian Mackenzie (ANU), and Emily van der Nagel (Monash)
Facilitators: Courtney Addison (VUW), Declan Kuch (UNSW), and Owen McNamara (ANU)
Description: In this event, Celia Roberts (ANU), Adrian Mackenzie (ANU), and Emily van der Nagel (Monash) will discuss the conceptual possibilities, ethics, and politics of conducting research online. At a time when curtailed mobility has prompted many of us to take our work online, these conversations will consider some of the digital artefacts that avail themselves of STS analyses. While some traditional archives have gone online and other forms of archive are taking shape through the affordances of the internet (Ogden, Halford, and Carr 2019), conceptualising digital life as archive attunes us to the epistemic resources and the power dynamics that guide their aggregation online (Zeitlan 2012).
This event comprises three/four ten minute talks on this theme and a subsequent panel discussion, followed by a workshop for HDR and ECRs who wish to engage further in these discussions.
How to participate:
This session has two parts: the first half will be a presentation from the presenters; the second half will be a workshop style format with participants taking part in activities and discussion.
There are two ways to participate in this session:
- YouTube Live participant: Watch the first half of the session on YouTube live and take part on the “Live Chat” discussion. You will not be able to participate in the second half of the workshop. Register as “YouTube Live participant” on Eventbrite.
- Zoom workshop participant: Join us on Zoom for the full workshop, including presentation, live discussion, and activities. Limited tickets available for this option. Register as “Zoom workshop participant” on Eventbrite.
Registration for the “Zoom workshop participation” close 3 days prior on July 27th.
To send questions/participate in the YouTube Live chat, you’ll need to sign-in using a YouTube account.
The seminar will be recorded and available to watch on the SSN YouTube channel after the Livestream.
If you have any questions you can contact Courtney Addison at courtney.addison@vuw.ac.nz
Event Contact:
ssn-info@deakin.edu.auShare