<div dir="ltr"><div style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">*Apologies for cross-posting*</span></div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px"><br></span></div><span style="font-size:12.8px">Call for Papers 4S Sydney - Open Panel #99</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">Post-Cyber Feminisms: Mutations in Australian Feminist Technoscience</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">Panel Convenors: </span><div style="font-size:12.8px"><font color="#000000" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size:12.8px;text-align:justify">Emma Black, University of Queensland,<a href="http://goog_138455720/" target="_blank"> </a></font><span style="font-size:12.8px;text-align:justify;color:rgb(85,85,85);white-space:nowrap"><a href="mailto:emmaa.bblack@gmail.com" target="_blank">emmaa.bblack@gmail<wbr>.com</a></span><font color="#000000" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size:12.8px;text-align:justify"><br></font></div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><span class="gmail-m_579128822300000716gmail-m_-5991382565371314636gmail-im"><font color="#000000" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size:12.8px;text-align:justify">Sally Olds, University of Melbourne, </font><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" color="#000000" style="font-size:12.8px;text-align:justify"><a href="mailto:solds@student.unimelb.edu.au" target="_blank">solds@student.unime<wbr>lb.edu.au</a> </font><div style="font-size:12.8px;text-align:justify"><font color="#000000" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Thao Phan, University of Melbourne, <a href="mailto:thaophan03@gmail.com" target="_blank">thaophan03@gmail.co<wbr>m</a></font></div><br style="font-size:12.8px"></span><span class="gmail-m_579128822300000716gmail-m_-5991382565371314636gmail-im"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12.8px"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Australia has a rich history of feminist critique and engagement with science and technology. From the VNS Matrix’ Cyberfeminist Manifesto to Laboria Cuboniks’ Xenofeminist Manifesto, Australian feminists have been at the forefront of experimental and radical scholarship and practice. While concepts from cyberfeminism and xenofeminism are now transnational, their uniquely situated histories within genealogies of feminist technoscience warrants further engagement. This open panel invites papers reflecting on Australian feminist technoscience “post-cyber feminism.” What mutations have occurred over time? By mutation, we refer to the transmission, variation and corruption of ideas and approaches to “doing” feminist theory and practice. Mutations call to attention changes in situated material contexts, in this case, the specific material-semiotic assemblages of time/place/people/events we call “Australia.”</font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12.8px"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"> </font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12.8px"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">The questions we seek to address include: What are the uniquely Australian histories of feminist technoscience? How do these intersect with other forms of Australian feminisms, such as Aboriginal, postcolonial, queer? How can we think “xeno”-politics in a settler-colonising society? How do seemingly disparate movements in contemporary art, fiction, philosophy, and feminism draw on, respond to, and critically resist Australian cyberfeminism, and how has Australian cyberfeminism mutated in response to these? How have changing political, material, and technological conditions altered the field of cyberfeminism, perhaps necessitating the expanded taxonomy of what Helen Hester recently called “post-cyber feminism”? We seek both traditional conference papers and contributions that loosen or discard the conference paper format altogether: science-fiction, performance art, poetry, philosophy, and all other mutations.</font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12.8px"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12.8px"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><b>Deadline: </b>Feb 1, 2018</font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12.8px"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><b>Submissions:</b> </font><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><span lang="EN-US"><a href="https://4s2018sydney.org/accepted-open-panels-4s/" target="_blank">https://4s2018syd<wbr>ney.org/accepted-open-panels-4<wbr>s/</a></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><br></span></p></span><span style="font-size:12.8px">——</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">4S Sydney 2018 - Call for Submissions</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">Closes </span><span class="gmail-m_579128822300000716gmail-m_-5991382565371314636gmail-m_-7520112958265433705gmail-aBn" style="font-size:12.8px">February 1st 2018</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">We are excited to announce that 4sSydney (</span><span class="gmail-m_579128822300000716gmail-m_-5991382565371314636gmail-m_-7520112958265433705gmail-aBn" style="font-size:12.8px">August 29th - September 1st 2018</span><span style="font-size:12.8px">) is now open for submissions:</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><br style="font-size:12.8px"><a href="https://4s2018sydney.org/call-for-papers-open-panels/" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank" style="font-size:12.8px">https://4s2018sydney.org/call-<wbr>for-papers-open-panels/</a><br style="font-size:12.8px"><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">On this website you will find information about submitting a closed panels and single papers&lt;</span><a href="https://4s2018sydney.org/panels_papers/" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank" style="font-size:12.8px">https://4s2018sydney.or<wbr>g/panels_papers/</a><span style="font-size:12.8px">&gt;  a paper to an open panel&lt;</span><a href="https://4s2018sydney.org/accepted-open-panels-4s/" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank" style="font-size:12.8px">https://4s2018sydney.org<wbr>/accepted-open-panels-4s/</a><span style="font-size:12.8px">&gt;  a Making and Doing&lt;</span><a href="https://4s2018sydney.org/making_doing/" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank" style="font-size:12.8px">https://4s2018sydney.org<wbr>/making_doing/</a><span style="font-size:12.8px">&gt; session; and an exciting new addition to the 4S program, the STS Across Borders Exhibit&lt;</span><a href="https://4s2018sydney.org/across-borders/" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank" style="font-size:12.8px">https://4s2018sydney.o<wbr>rg/across-borders/</a><span style="font-size:12.8px">&gt;.</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">Our theme&lt;</span><a href="https://4s2018sydney.org/" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank" style="font-size:12.8px">https://4s2018sydney.org<wbr>/</a><span style="font-size:12.8px">&gt; – TRANSnational STS – encourages presentations, panels, and other events that deepen and extend the transnational character of the Society itself, while engaging issues invoked by both the TRANS prefix (across, beyond, to change thoroughly), and by the problematic and evolving status of ‘nations’ in processes of global ordering.</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">Over one hundred open panels&lt;</span><a href="https://4s2018sydney.org/accepted-open-panels-4s/" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank" style="font-size:12.8px">https://4s2018sydney.or<wbr>g/accepted-open-panels-4s/</a><span style="font-size:12.8px">&gt; have been accepted from scholars on every continent and covering every major STS theme. Please consider contributing to what is certain to be a rich and diverse regional conference – by submitting&lt;</span><a href="https://4s2018sydney.org/call-for-papers-open-panels/" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank" style="font-size:12.8px">https://4s2018sydne<wbr>y.org/call-for-papers-open-pan<wbr>els/</a><span style="font-size:12.8px">&gt;  by adding to our collection of translations&lt;</span><a href="https://4s2018sydney.org/translations/" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank" style="font-size:12.8px">https://4s2018syd<wbr>ney.org/translations/</a><span style="font-size:12.8px">&gt; of the conference (currently 18 languages) or by contributing to the blog&lt;</span><a href="https://4s2018sydney.org/blog/" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank" style="font-size:12.8px">https://4s2018sydney.org/<wbr>blog/</a><span style="font-size:12.8px">&gt; highlighting our two plenary themes, Indigenous STS and Querying STS Geneaologies.</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">Please share this call to your networks far and wide, email us&lt;mailto:</span><a href="mailto:4s2018Sydney@gmail.com" target="_blank" style="font-size:12.8px">4s2018Sydney@gmail.c<wbr>om</a><span style="font-size:12.8px">&gt; with any questions, and follow us on twitter&lt;</span><a href="https://twitter.com/4sSydney" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank" style="font-size:12.8px">https://twitter.com/4s<wbr>Sydney</a><span style="font-size:12.8px">&gt; or join our mailing list&lt;</span><a href="https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/4ssydneyinfo/join" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank" style="font-size:12.8px">https://groups.google.com<wbr>/forum/#!forum/4ssydneyinfo/jo<wbr>in</a><span style="font-size:12.8px">&gt; for updates.</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">Emma Kowal and Matt Kearnes, Program Chairs</span></div></div>