[Themaintainers] CFP for Maintainers II, April 6-8, 2017

Andrew Russell arussell at arussell.org
Wed Aug 31 10:34:21 EDT 2016


Hello!

Yes - the Twitter handle is @The_Maintainers <https://twitter.com/The_Maintainers> and various people have been using #Maintainers for a hashtag.  We hadn’t thought about a new hashtag for the new conference - I think we can leave that to the more expert tweeters to sort out...

Cheers,

Andy




> On Aug 31, 2016, at 10:19 AM, Padraig Murphy <padraig.murphy at dcu.ie> wrote:
> 
> Hi Andy,
> 
> And since we have 'innovative' social media  now also, we might  as well use it too!
> Have you a Twitter handle and a preferred hashtag for Maintainers II?
> 
> Padraig
> 
> 
> On 31 August 2016 at 14:33, Andrew Russell <arussell at arussell.org <mailto:arussell at arussell.org>> wrote:
> Hi everyone!
> 
> Just to add my 2 cents:
> 
> 1. While we very much appreciate you spreading the word on social media, it’s important to us to reach and include people who aren’t active on social media.  So, if you have any suggestions for doing so - or just want to pass the CFP on to various channels using older technologies like email (or snail mail, posters, or whatever) - that would be a big help.
> 
> 2. Please feel free to use this email list for any maintainers-related things you want.  That might be passing around news stories or new books/articles, discussions about various topics, ideas for panel proposals for Maintainers II (we’re serious about interpretive dances) or other conferences, or whatever else you think is appropriate.  The list is a standard mailman implementation, so you can log in to the address at the bottom to tweak your subscription, look at list archives, etc.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Andy
> 
> 
>> On Aug 31, 2016, at 7:37 AM, Lee Vinsel <lee.vinsel at gmail.com <mailto:lee.vinsel at gmail.com>> wrote:
>> 
>> Dear Maintainers,
>> 
>> The list has been mostly inactive over the summer, but we are hoping it will pick up in the coming weeks. Andy Russell and I be bringing a number of opportunities to your attention, and we'd love to hear any ideas you have or opportunities you know of, on or off list. 
>> 
>> To get things going, here is the CFP for The Maintainers II--copied below for your convenience: http://themaintainers.org/maintainers-ii-cfp/ <http://themaintainers.org/maintainers-ii-cfp/>
>> 
>> Best to all,
>> 
>> Lee
>> 
>> Call for Papers
>> 
>> Maintainers II: Labor, Technology, and Social Orders
>> 
>> April 6-8, 2017
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>>  
>> We invite submissions and proposals for a conference called “The Maintainers II: Labor, Technology, and Social Orders,” to be hosted at Stevens Institute of Technology on April 6-8, 2017.  This meeting will build upon the discussions and community formed in the wake of activities in 2016, including the first Maintainers Conference at Stevens in 2016 <http://themaintainers.org/program/>, an article that appeared in Aeon <https://aeon.co/essays/innovation-is-overvalued-maintenance-often-matters-more>, and blogs and discussions launched at http://themaintainers.org/blog/ <http://themaintainers.org/blog/>.
>> 
>>  
>> Recent scholarship on technology has too often fetishized material things and their thinginess, and excluded any consideration of the humans who make those things work. The purpose of Maintainers II is to write humans back into stories of technology, as a way to highlight social inequalities, racial and ethnic disparities, and the structural maldistribution of the fruits of technological progress.    
>> 
>>  
>> To do so, we build on a long tradition of the study of maintenance that spreads across disciplines, from historians such as Ruth Schwartz Cowan and David Edgerton to social scientists such as Lucy Suchman and Craig Henke. In the first Maintainers conference in 2016, scholars responded to a call for papers that positioned maintenance and Maintainers against prevailing discourses of innovation and Innovators.  In this second conference, we are emphasizing the theme of labor and laborers, in an effort to establish the study of maintenance framed on its own terms, as we have seen in recent work by scholars such as Jerôme Denis and David Pontille <http://www.csi.mines-paristech.fr/blog/?p=1181&lang=en>.
>> 
>>  
>> We are especially interested in proposals that examine the human dimensions of infrastructures, technological systems, and everyday life.  We are also particularly interested in presentations from practitioners of maintenance and repair—so if you have a Maintainer in your life who has something that he or she really wants to say, please send them our way. We welcome proposals for individual papers as well as full sessions, and proposals for anything that one wouldn’t usually see at an academic meeting (video, interactive sessions, interpretive dances, etc) also would be most welcome. All proposals are welcome, including those that engage the following ideas:
>> 
>>  
>> - Case studies of specific groups of maintainers
>> 
>> - Labor organizations around maintenance and repair work
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>> - The maintenance and conservation of repressive regimes (such as the infrastructure of Jim Crow segregation)
>> 
>> - Methodologies for studying maintenance and repair
>> 
>> - The fit between maintenance, maintainers, and traditional left-right, progressive vs. conservative political distinctions
>> 
>> - Connections between failures, accidents, and (deferred or denied) maintenance
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>> - Deterioration, decay, disruption, and breakdown
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>> - Ingenuity and improvisation as key aspects of maintenance
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>> - Studies grounded either outside the United States or before the 1980s
>> 
>>  
>> Review of proposals will begin on Thursday December 1. Proposals should include a topic title, a description of roughly 300 words, and a current curriculum vita. Please submit questions to the conference organizers, Lee Vinsel (Stevens Institute of Technology – lee.vinsel at gmail.com <mailto:lee.vinsel at gmail.com>) and Andrew Russell (SUNY Polytechnic Institute – arussell at arussell.org <mailto:arussell at arussell.org>). Completed proposals should be submitted to themaintainersnetwork at gmail.com <mailto:themaintainersnetwork at gmail.com>.
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>> 
>> -- 
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>> Program on Science and Technology Studies
>> College of Arts and Letters
>> Stevens Institute of Technology
>> Hoboken, NJ 07030
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