About event
Online seminar co-hosted by the TransAsiaSTS network & Deakin Science and Society Network
This is an open roundtable to discuss some of the themes and ideas that emerged from “Material Itineraries: Southeast Asian Urban Transformations”—a special issue edited by Casper Bruun Jensen and published in East Asian Science, Technology and Society in July 2021. Participants will include authors of the special issue and two discussants. Our aim is to further develop the conceptual and empirical possibilities that have been emerging at the intersection of STS and urban studies during the past decade. Among other things, we will explore the possibilities for cosmopolitics opened by giving the widely discussed notion of “Asia as method” an urban dimension focused on itineraries across more-than-human worlds.
Authors
Kathrin Eitel is a cultural anthropologist and feminist STS scholar. Her work focuses on urban resilience, technological megaprojects, and environmental issues related to water scarcity and waste abundance, mainly in Southeast Asia and Europe.
Jakkrit Sangkhamanee is an Associate Professor in Anthropology at the Faculty of Political Science, Chulalongkorn University in Bangkok, Thailand. His recent research topics deal with issues in science, technology, and society (STS), focusing on water infrastructure, state floods, and cities.
Casper Bruun Jensen is an anthropologist of science and technology currently residing in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. His work focuses on climate, environments, infrastructures, speculative futures, and practical ontologies.
Discussants
Fadjar Ibnu Thufail is the Director of Research Center for Area Studies of the Indonesian National Research and Innovation Agency (BRIN). An anthropologist by training, he has been conducting research on digital heritage, digital game, disaster humanities, and maritime anthropology. He leads current projects on visualization of the Borobudur temple (in collaboration with Ritsumeikan University), maritime STS, and the relation between STS and area studies knowledge.
Itty Abraham is a Professor at the School for the Future of Innovation in Society, Arizona State University, and the former director of the South Asia Institute, the Marlene and Morton Meyerson Centennial Chair, and former associate professor of government and Asian studies. His research interests include international relations, science and technology studies, and postcolonial theory.
Moderator
Gergely Mohacsi is an associate professor at Osaka University in the School of Human Sciences. He is a medical anthropologist with special interest in science and technology studies and comparative ethnography. His research has focused on the embodied entanglements of technoscience and medicine in contemporary Japan, most notably in the domain of diabetes self-care.
Details
Seminar will stream on YouTube live. Access using the live link
Date/time: Friday 16 September, 7 UTC (5:00pm Australian Eastern Standard Time, GMT+10)
Q&A with the speaker to follow. To send questions/participate in the 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, please send to ssn-info@deakin.edu.au
The TransAsiaSTS network seeks to promote scholarly exchanges and collaborations in the field of Science & Technology Studies (or Science, Technology, and Society Studies; STS) across Asia, where both STS and Asia are broadly conceived
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