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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">If you are looking for an AAA activity, please get in touch ASAP to join our round table<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#212121">Our goal is to bring scholars together who have a range of positions and experiences in order to highlight the practical and conceptual resources that anthropology (particularly anthropology of engineering)
has for understanding and navigating this moment. Abstract is below.</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#212121"> </span></span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:#212121"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#212121">Thanks much,</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#212121"> </span></span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:#212121"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#212121">Beth</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#212121"> </span></span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:#212121"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#212121">Abstract:</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:#212121"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">The Anthropology of Engineering: US Institutions Shift, and We Have Been Here Before</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:#212121"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">Radical shifts in institutional investment in the US are having serious consequences for academic studies, collaborations, and teaching. Research and teaching alike are transformed as the executive
branch of the United States government takes radical steps to transform national culture, with attention to socially relevant topics and themes of particular anthropological expertise. Resource availability is re-written and our relations shift, but, as Smith</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black"> </span></span><i><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">et
al</span></i><span class="apple-converted-space"><i><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black"> </span></i></span><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">write in an editorial for the journal engineering studies, “we have
been here before (2025).” We have observed and documented the many ways that engineering has engaged authoritarianism and nationalism. We are cognizant of how ways of knowing and being associated with engineering can be mobilized for violence. We are aware
of places and times where well-intentioned technological opportunities and modes of action facilitate other, better outcomes.</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:#212121"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">Anthropologists of engineering have developed insights for practice; insights related to teaching critical perspectives on technology, to developing and maintaining support for our activities, to building
solidarities across radical disciplinary difference, and to helping students, professors and practicing engineers imagine otherwise. </span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:#212121"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">This participatory round table brings together anthropologists who study, work with, and teach engineers and engineering. From diverse institutional positions, we consider such topics as</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#212121"> </span></span><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">research,
collaboration, teaching, and activism in engineering contexts.</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:#212121"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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Beth<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#888888;mso-ligatures:none">Elizabeth Reddy, PhD<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#888888;mso-ligatures:none">Assistant Professor | Engineering, Design, & Society | Geophysics<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#888888;mso-ligatures:none">Associate Director | Humanitarian Engineering and Science<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#888888;mso-ligatures:none">Colorado School of Mines<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#888888;mso-ligatures:none"><a href="mailto:reddy@mines.edu" target="_blank"><span style="color:#0563C1">reddy@mines.edu</span></a> |
<a href="http://www.elizabethreddy.info" target="_blank"><span style="color:#0563C1">www.elizabethreddy.info</span></a>
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