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Along these lines of 'essential work'--here's a call for applications for little pots of money for research groups to start up (Andy, perhaps to do your oral history project?):</div>
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<span style="margin: 0px; font-size: 9pt; line-height: 18px; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; color: rgb(51, 51, 51)">Based on the outpouring of interest from the research community and our mission to advance convergence science for the benefit of humanity,
CONVERGE is offering<span> </span><strong><span style="margin: 0px">$1,000 awards</span></strong><span> </span>to those who wish to launch<span> </span><strong><span style="margin: 0px">COVID-19 Working Groups for Public Health and Social Sciences Research</span></strong>. </span></p>
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<span style="margin: 0px; font-size: 9pt; line-height: 18px; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; color: rgb(51, 51, 51)">CONVERGE and the Social Science Extreme Events Research (SSEER) Network will fund up to<span> </span><strong><span style="margin: 0px">30
COVID-19 Working Groups</span></strong><span> </span>focused on issues and innovations in methods, ethics, and empirical areas of inquiry. Please see the<span> </span><b>Working Groups webpage</b><span> </span>(</span><a href="https://converge.colorado.edu/resources/covid-19/working-groups" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="margin: 0px; color: rgb(5, 99, 193); text-decoration: underline">https://converge.colorado.edu/resources/covid-19/working-groups</a>)
f<span style="margin: 0px; font-size: 9pt; line-height: 18px; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; color: rgb(51, 51, 51)">or specific examples and requirements. Applications will be accepted between April 4 and April 13, 2020. Funding announcements for Working
Groups will be made by April 17, 2020. </span></p>
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<b><span style="margin: 0px; font-size: 9pt; line-height: 18px; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; color: rgb(51, 51, 51)">We will hold a CONVERGE Virtual Forum on Friday, April 3, from 3:00 to 4:30 p.m. MDT.</span></b><span style="margin: 0px; font-size: 9pt; line-height: 18px; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; color: rgb(51, 51, 51)"><span> </span>(Register
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<span style="margin: 0px; font-size: 9pt; line-height: 18px; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; color: rgb(51, 51, 51)">During this forum, researchers will have the opportunity to share ideas for Working Groups while connecting with one another. We will also
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<span style="margin: 0px; font-size: 9pt; line-height: 18px; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; color: rgb(51, 51, 51)">The CONVERGE and SSEER teams have also worked with partners to develop a<span> </span><b>COVID-19 Global Research Registry for Public Health
and Social Sciences.</b><span> </span>(</span><a href="https://converge.colorado.edu/resources/covid-19/public-health-social-sciences-registry)" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="margin: 0px; color: rgb(5, 99, 193); text-decoration: underline">https://converge.colorado.edu/resources/covid-19/public-health-social-sciences-registry)</a><span> </span><span style="margin: 0px; font-size: 9pt; line-height: 18px; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; color: rgb(51, 51, 51)">If
you are interested in learning more about this and other initiatives, please for updates via the CONVERGE website. (</span><a href="https://converge.colorado.edu/signup" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="margin: 0px; color: rgb(5, 99, 193); text-decoration: underline">https://converge.colorado.edu/signup</a>)<span style="margin: 0px; font-size: 9pt; line-height: 18px; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; color: rgb(51, 51, 51)"></span></p>
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<span style="margin: 0px; font-size: 9pt; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; color: rgb(51, 51, 51)">Thank you for the work that you are doing, and know that our hearts and minds are with you. Please remember to take care of yourself and others during this time
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Lori Peek<br>
Director, Natural Hazards Center<br>
Professor, Department of Sociology<br>
Principal Investigator, NSF-Supported CONVERGE, SSEER, and ISEEER<br>
University of Colorado Boulder<br>
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<strong><span style="margin: 0px">Acknowledgements:</span></strong> CONVERGE, SSEER, and ISEEER are supported by the National Science Foundation (NSF Award #1841338). Any opinions, findings, conclusions, or recommendations expressed in this material are those
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<div dir="ltr">I’ve been daydreaming about a distributed oral history/interview project, consisting of interviews with “essential” workers to document their experiences. One could imagine at least 3 categories of interview subjects: those deemed essential before
COVID19; those who’ve been recategorized (like my friends at my school’s IT help desk and our local wine & liquor store); and those not deemed essential by the state, but appear so in the eyes of the researcher. Non wage domestic labor is one clear example
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<div>I think the concept of "frontlines" workers (COVID-19 + evocation of wartime measures) and the legal designation of "essential services" is fraught but essentially has to do with the social processes of valuing infrastructural labor. In the context of
free and open source software and other infrastructural labor that involves voluntary processes or volunteer work, maintenance workers doing essential things to keep infrastructure like software going are excluded from the legal protections and recognition
of the designation of being "essential", yet are still less visible to different publics who are suddenly recognizing "essential labor" and care workers as underrecognized occupations or bringing them to the center of attention about where care and respect
and risk should be allocated in society. When we evoke the term essential services as a way of recognizing often invisibilized labor, my question is who does this designation still exclude and how can resources(ing) follow recognition?
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<div dir="ltr">I've seen this talk (must be alot of work to transcribe it; and i'm sort of writing something on this topic, and am aware of graeber's views )<br>
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In my area we have something we call the 'virus' (or the V (for victory) I r U.S. --- one for all ).
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How many 'maintainers' are essential workers and how many are innessential? I have seen some suggestions that some anthropologists, economists, fashion models, wine tasters, McDonald's hamburger cooks and cleaners, musicians and mathematicians and artists,
and museum curators and securty guards, and web ad programmers, are inessential. Or perhaps they are the 'rare' essence of the universe. </div>
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<div dir="ltr" class="x_gmail_attr">On Sun, Mar 29, 2020 at 1:54 AM Su <<a href="mailto:su@generis.name" target="_blank">su@generis.name</a>> wrote:<br>
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Hi, all. Long-time listener, blah blah. Lee et al., I'm @TopLeftBrick<br>
on Twitter *waves* We've had a little contact over the years, I've<br>
been lurking here since pretty much the beginning and uh, have a LOT<br>
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Anyway, in case anyone was interested or wanted an easier way to grab<br>
a quote I put up a transcript of this talk the other day at<br>
<a href="http://opentranscripts.org/transcript/managerial-feudalism-revolt-caring-classes/" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://opentranscripts.org/transcript/managerial-feudalism-revolt-caring-classes/</a><br>
It's…kinda of the moment right now.<br>
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On Fri, Dec 27, 2019 at 10:51 PM Camille E Acey <<a href="mailto:connect@camilleacey.com" target="_blank">connect@camilleacey.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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> New David Graeber <a href="https://media.ccc.de/v/36c3-11241-from_managerial_feudalism_to_the_revolt_of_the_caring_classes" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">
https://media.ccc.de/v/36c3-11241-from_managerial_feudalism_to_the_revolt_of_the_caring_classes</a><br>
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