From wylie at virginia.edu Thu Apr 9 04:49:04 2026 From: wylie at virginia.edu (Wylie, Caitlin D. (cdw9y)) Date: Thu, 9 Apr 2026 11:49:04 +0000 Subject: [INES Announce] =?windows-1252?q?Phishing_scam_from_=93me=94?= Message-ID: Dear INES, Someone is pretending to be me and emailing many of you. Please don't respond, and please report the emails as phishing via your email client. I'm sorry! Please know that nothing for INES is ever "urgent", as these fake emails claim. And check the "from" address - these emails are from a sketchy Gmail account rather than an institutional address. Many thanks, Caitlin ______________________ Caitlin D. Wylie, Ph.D. Associate Professor Program in Science, Technology and Society University of Virginia she, her, hers https://engineering.virginia.edu/faculty/caitlin-donahue-wylie To learn how technicians and volunteers contribute creativity and problem-solving to scientific research, please read Preparing Dinosaurs: the Work behind the Scenes, available open-access from the MIT Press. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From appelhas at lafayette.edu Fri Apr 10 08:05:06 2026 From: appelhas at lafayette.edu (Sarah Appelhans) Date: Fri, 10 Apr 2026 11:05:06 -0400 Subject: [INES Announce] LaborTech Book, Paper, and Social Justice Awards Message-ID: Good morning everyone! I am forwarding along some info for the LaborTech awards season this year. We are currently seeking nominations for new books, grad student papers, and social justice activism. See below for details! Sarah **************** Labor Tech Research Network (LaborTech) invites submissions for our *fifth* annual Book, Graduate Student Paper, and Social Justice Awards. The deadline is *June 1.* **About Us** LaborTech is an interdisciplinary and transnational group of over 700 experts concerned with the intersection of technology and labor. We aim to reframe conversations about technology and labor towards issues of power, inequality, and social justice, and incorporate themes of feminism, anti-racism, and transnationalism. We also seek to foster an interdisciplinary, cross-regional, and community-oriented space for discussion, collaboration, and empowerment. For a deeper discussion of our mission, please visit our webpage. For a list of our previous winners, click here. **Call for Nominations** As part of our mission to promote scholarship and activism towards more equitable forms of labor and technology, LaborTech is announcing a call for three awards -- Book, Graduate Student Paper, and Social Justice. These will honor projects which: - have distinctive intellectual merit or activist impact; - advance the knowledge about labor and technology in the global society; and - address our core focus on labor and technology and which may simultaneously address feminism, anti-racism, and/or transnationalism. **Eligibility**: Works from all disciplines and methodologies are eligible for nomination. Nominations are open to members and non-members of LaborTech. We welcome self-nominations especially, but also nominations from publishers, colleagues, and others familiar with the projects. We encourage submissions from women, people of color, queer communities, and those from the global south. LaborTech executive board members and committee chairs, as well as books published in our Labor and Technology series with MIT Press, are ineligible for these awards. **Prizes**: Winners receive a small cash award and a certificate (which we hope to expand further in years ahead, as we are still a growing nonprofit organization :). In addition, we offer our infrastructural supports at LaborTech to promote visibility of your projects: by connecting with our globally-dispersed expert members; by making a video of winners and distributing it both in and outside of our network to enhance public attention and exposure; and by creating a space and opportunity for sharing your work at out end of year virtual celebration. Winners will be announced in December. **Deadline and Contact**: The deadline for submissions is *June 1, 2026.* Send questions to awards at labortechresearchnetwork.org. See below for separate criteria and instructions for the various awards. CRITERIA AND SUBMISSION DETAILS*Book Award* Criteria: - Monographs only (no edited volumes or anthologies) - Multiple authors accepted - Published in the last three years (2024-26). - If your book is not out by the deadline for this award, please send proofs from the manuscript and a letter from the press editor confirmation publication before the end of 2026. Submission details: Please submit the following items in English to awards at labortechresearchnetwork.org: 1. An electronic version in PDF format (contact us if only print form is available for books) 2. The author's contact email address 3. A one-page nomination letter stating the significance and contribution of the work ***Graduate Student Paper* Criteria: - Written by students currently enrolled in a graduate program or who have graduated in 2025 - Single-authored pieces are preferred, but co-authored pieces will be accepted with the above conditions in Submission Details - If a co-authored piece, *the first author must be a graduate student.* - Papers may be published within the last three years (2024-26) or unpublished - Page length: 25-40 pages, double-spaced Submission details: Please submit the following items in English to awards at labortechresearchnetwork.org. 1. Electronic version in PDF format 2. The author's email address 3. A one-page nomination letter stating: - the significance and contribution of the work - when the PhD was started and, if applicable, granted - if the paper was published, then state when and in what journal - if co-authored with faculty/advisors/other PhDs, please include a paragraph attesting to the student's dominant role in generating the paper (such as working on its theoretical components, doing the research, and writing it up). In addition, we ask that the cover letter is signed (digitally, or otherwise) by all co-authors, so that they are aware of this submission. *Social Justice Award* Criteria: - Those who are interfacing with technology in the course of their organizing, or who are organizing against inequitable technologies, in the context of labor, feminism, anti-racism, transnationalism struggles. This may include: - tech workers - labor organizers, whether in unions or other workers' associations - feminist, immigrant, community, and ethnic rights activists - scholar-activists. For this, we are not looking for purely academic work (i.e., scholars who are studying activism), but rather those who are participating in activism themselves, or who are promoting collaborations between activists and scholars. - people creating design alternatives for social justice, like engineers and designers - Open to individuals, small groups, and if appropriate, organizations - Focus will be on a particular campaign or project that is done with the aim of social justice regarding labor and/or technology. These projects may be broad (such as educating the public on a social justice issue) or specific (such as organizing a protest for higher wages). They may use a variety of strategies (e.g., art, design, social media, marches and strikes, policy interventions, etc.). We'd like to honor activists who, through these projects, have developed novel approaches or who are pioneers in the fight for more equitable relations of technology and/or labor. Submission details: - Fill out this Google Form : It has a few short questions regarding the significance and contribution of your social justice activities - Answers to this form should be a *minimum 400 words each*, in order to give us enough understanding of the nominee's accomplishments. No single sentence answers please! - Please submit all items in English. However, if you have a submission in another language, contact us and we'll attempt to find a translator in our group. Sarah E. Appelhans Assistant Professor Department of Engineering Studies Lafayette College Office: AEC 316 (610)330-5442 appelhas at lafayette.edu Pronouns: she/her/hers -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From rhearty1 at jhu.edu Wed Apr 22 12:00:42 2026 From: rhearty1 at jhu.edu (Ryan Hearty) Date: Wed, 22 Apr 2026 19:00:42 +0000 Subject: [INES Announce] Join us this Friday April 24 at 11am ET: Edward Beatty and Israel G. Solares at the Engineering Studies working group Message-ID: Dear INES members, Please join our Engineering Studies working group at CHSTM at 11am ET this Friday, 24 April 2026, for a discussion with Edward Beatty and Israel G. Solares, the co-editors of the open-access An Engineered World: The Role of Engineers in Global Modernity (MIT Press, 2025). See you then! Best wishes, Ryan and Ellan ----------- Ryan Hearty, Ph.D. Lecturer, Johns Hopkins University Ellan F. 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The AAA deadline is Wed, April 29 - if you can get us an *abstract (300 words) by Apr 28*, that would be wonderful. Please send it to Sarah Appelhans (appelhas at lafayette.edu). *Panel Title: *Shifting Techno-Political Futures: Capturing Change amongst Engineers and Technical Workers Anthropologists have long documented the* human* aspects of technological production and innovation and the roles that engineers and other technical workers play in their organizations and in society more broadly. Engineers frequently serve as mediators between humans and the environment (Reddy 2023; Vaughn 2022), pragmatically navigate ethical boundaries in corporations (Smith 2021; Carrigan 2024; Dorschel 2025), and spread both technological and political agendas domestically and abroad (Beatty and Solares 2025). The current moment represents a crucial fork in the road, which may either affirm the recent trajectory toward greater inclusion, interdisciplinarity and complexity in engineering, or set the field on a different path. A rightward political shift in the tech industry, a collapse of funding for inclusive STEM and sustainability, and the wild card of Generative AI have the potential to create rapid and unpredictable cultural change. As critical actors in the creation of new techno-political futures, engineers? actions over the coming years will have outsized impact in shaping the global economy. A persistent challenge in anthropology has been capturing the process of change as it is taking place. Ethnographic work typically describes snapshots in time; only when viewed in increments do these cultural shifts become visible. This is particularly challenging for those of us studying engineering and technical industries, since the pace of technological change is occurring so rapidly. In this call for papers, we seek anthropologists engaged in documenting change amongst engineers and technical workers. What types of cultural shifts are we noticing amongst our interlocutors? How do we reveal the motion around us, even as we attempt to capture the present moment? What innovative methodological and/or rhetorical strategies can support our fieldwork during this time? *References* Beatty, Edward, and Israel G. Solares, eds. 2025. *An Engineered World: The Role of Engineers in Global Modernity*. Engineering Studies. The MIT Press. Carrigan, Coleen. 2024. *Cracking the Bro Code*. MIT Press. https://direct.mit.edu/books/oa-monograph/5759/Cracking-the-Bro-Code. Dorschel, Robert. 2025. *The Social Codes of Tech Workers: Class Identity in Digital Capitalism*. Labor and Technology. MIT Press. https://doi.org/10.7551/mitpress/15180.001.0001. Reddy, Elizabeth. 2023. *?Alerta!: Engineerig on Shaky Ground*. MIT Press. https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262545518/alerta/. Smith, Jessica M. 2021. *Extracting Accountability: Engineers and Corporate Social Responsibility*. Engineering Studies, edited by Gary Lee Downey and Matthew Wisnioski. MIT Press. Vaughn, Sarah E. 2022. *Engineering Vulnerability: In Pursuit of Climate Adaptation*. Duke University Press. -- Best, Sarah Sarah E. Appelhans Assistant Professor Department of Engineering Studies Lafayette College Office: AEC 316 (610)330-5442 appelhas at lafayette.edu Pronouns: she/her/hers -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From appelhas at lafayette.edu Wed Apr 29 09:01:59 2026 From: appelhas at lafayette.edu (Sarah Appelhans) Date: Wed, 29 Apr 2026 12:01:59 -0400 Subject: [INES Announce] CASPR 2026 Labor & Technoscientific Worlds Message-ID: Hi Everyone, You may be interested in this panel discussion from CASTAC happening on Fri, May 19 11:30-1:30 ET. Register here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/caspr-2026-labor-and-technoscientific-worlds-tickets-1987354000313?aff=oddtdtcreator Here are the details: Overview For CASPR 2026, we will explore the topic of labor within technoscientific worlds to honor the legacy of David Hakken. Labor and Technoscientific Worlds: Historical Encounters and New Directions in the Field We invite you to join us for CASPR 2026, our annual gathering dedicated to dissecting pressing issues in anthropology and STS. In past years, we have addressed topics such as applied anthropology, digital ethnography, and knowledge production in times of crisis. In Spring 2026, we turn our attention to labor within technoscientific worlds to honor the legacy of David Hakken. As one of CASTAC?s founders, he pioneered research that helped lay the foundations of STS and anthropology, with a special focus on the social transformations of work in informatics and computing that shaped anthropological and materialist approaches to this dynamic intersection. As Hakken himself noted, ?how society changes has more to do with how people interpret computerization than with any separable technological impact.? Following this legacy into the present, we will ask: How does this foundational insight unfold in the era of artificial intelligence, ubiquitous digital infrastructures, and rising contestation over science and technology? Bringing together scholars working in anthropology, STS, and labor studies, CASPR 2026 revisits this intellectual legacy while exploring emerging directions and challenges for the field. Join us for a roundtable presentation and breakout Q&A discussions, as we invite our community to reflect on labor in a changing world, with our panelists Kalpana Shankar (University College Dublin), David Hakken (University of Virginia), and Lilly Irani (UC San Diego). Some of the topics guiding our discussion include: - Ethnographic approaches to studying labor in technoscientific systems - Labor, digital infrastructures, and platforms. - Maintenance, repair, and invisible labor - Automation, AI, and the reorganization of work Sarah E. Appelhans Assistant Professor Department of Engineering Studies Lafayette College Office: AEC 316 (610)330-5442 appelhas at lafayette.edu Pronouns: she/her/hers -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: