<div dir="ltr"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;text-align:justify;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:5pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,31,31);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Call for Proposals: AusSTS 2025 Conference</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;text-align:justify;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:5pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,31,31);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Theme: Signals and Noises </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;text-align:justify;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:5pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,31,31);font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">9-11 July 2025</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;text-align:justify;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:5pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,31,31);font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Deakin Downtown, Naarm/Melbourne</span></p><p style="line-height:1.2;text-align:justify;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:5pt"><font color="#1f1f1f" face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14.6667px"><i>Flyer attached</i></span></font></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;text-align:justify;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:5pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,31,31);font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">The Call for Proposals for the AusSTS 2025 conference is now open! This year’s theme is ‘Signals and Noises’. Please submit your proposals </span><a href="https://forms.office.com/pages/responsepage.aspx?id=7Hgj0IgW1UaFQBwotfRw9qAINXVXg4RLoPbYgoC38XVUNU5MVDFIWFdLUTRSTDFNUldKWlNaMEFTWC4u&route=shorturl" target="_blank" style="text-decoration-line:none"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline">via this form</span></a><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,31,31);font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">. We invite submissions for presentations, posters, meet-ups, making and doing sessions, and pre-submitted papers - the CFP will be open until Friday 14 March (11:59pm AEDT).</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;text-align:justify;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:5pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,31,31);font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">This year’s conference will take place across three days, from Wednesday July 9th to Friday July 11th in Narrm/Melbourne. Day 1 will take place at the National Communication Museum in Hawthorn. Days 2 and 3 will take place at Deakin Downtown (Docklands).</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;text-align:justify;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:5pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,31,31);font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">For more information and details about the conference theme please check out the AusSTS </span><a href="https://aussts.org/" target="_blank" style="text-decoration-line:none"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline">website</span></a><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,31,31);font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">. We will be announcing details of national and international keynote speakers in coming weeks - please stay tuned!</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;text-align:justify;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:5pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,31,31);font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">‘SIGNALS AND NOISES’</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;text-align:justify;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:5pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,31,31);font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline"><br></span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,31,31);font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">AusSTS 2025 seeks to bring the broad scope of STS subjects, skills, practices and politics into conversation with a core problematic of information theory - the problem of </span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,31,31);font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">noise</span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,31,31);font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;text-align:justify;margin-top:12pt;margin-bottom:12pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,31,31);font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Noise (as distortion, as error) is a problem for communication - it corrupts and contaminates communication signals (as they fly along wires or along undersea cables for example). But to eliminate noise entirely is to shut signals down, to sever communication. To perfectly silence noise would also mean perfectly silencing the signal to which it belongs. Signal and noise are intimately, iteratively bonded in their material production, reception and translation. What questions then might </span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,31,31);font-style:italic;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">signals and noises</span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,31,31);font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline"> ask of STS? Is it simply a case, as it was for Shannon and Weaver (1949) of eliminating noise as far as possible in the service of signal? </span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,31,31);font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Or can we listen to ‘noise’ differently?</span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,31,31);font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline"> Can the difference between what we seek to understand or convey on the one hand, and the ‘unintended things’ that trouble our efforts on the other, be illustrative? How might we work creatively with the flotsam and jetsam of research, or trace the twisting journeys of signals? </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;text-align:justify;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:5pt"><a href="https://forms.office.com/r/bvAgkWWize" target="_blank" style="text-decoration-line:none"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline">We encourage submissions</span></a><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,31,31);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline"> that grapple with the entwined nature of signals and noises in our efforts to understand the world and listen to noise differently. We invite generous readings of the theme. For more information and suggestions on engagements with the theme, see <</span><a href="https://aussts.org/" target="_blank" style="text-decoration-line:none"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline">https://aussts.org</span></a><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,31,31);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">/> or get in touch at <</span><a href="mailto:ausstsgrad@gmail.com" target="_blank" style="text-decoration-line:none"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline">ausstsgrad@gmail.com</span></a><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,31,31);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-a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