CfP ESHS 2020 Bologna, Hybrid Scientific Objects (Deadline 12.12)

Hybrid scientific objects: stories of visual cultures, gender and
transnational expert communities

A proposal for a symposium for the 2020 ESHS Meeting, Bologna
María J. Santesmases, org.
mariaj.santesmases@cchs.csic.es

Many materialities in the history of contemporary science has
circulated between the industry, the clinic and the laboratory.This
session proposal is aimed at studying hybrid objects for a plural
epistemology that is composed of shared styles of representations such
as images and facilities as components of a material culture of
science and technology in which gender participates. Chromosomes are
an example of such hybrid scientific objects, that circulated between
biology and the clinic, the cytological laboratory and the clinical
practice; and there would be many others, such as minerals that travel
from mining to technological devices in the atomic era.
Provided by the conceptual framework of the histories of scientific
objects, this session proposal aims at focusing on the circulation of
knowledge between different places; between the invention setting and
those where they were used, between the laboratory and the clinic, the
consulting room, the pilot plant, the factory. In so doing, the
history of the sciences would include those who, by adopting and using
experiments and knowledge invented somewhere else, became integrated
in transnational expert communities articulated around hybrid
scientific objects, that is objects that belonged to different
professional and cultural spaces. By historizing their shifts and
travels, a collective of people and materials would be involved:
women, men, medical and technological institutions, gender as well as
knowledge represented in images, materials and new dispositifs, either
apparatuses or methods.
We call for contributions that take into consideration two or more of
such agents so as to provide stories of the circulation of knowledge
between political geographies, professional spaces and domains of
authority in the gendered contemporary era.

Please, note that any proposal for a contribution to this symposium
should be sent by December 12th at latest to
mariaj.santesmases@cchs.csic.es and should include:
1. Title
2. Author(s) (full name(s), academic title, institution, address,
email and a short biographical note of max.150 words). In case of
multiple authors the first author should be the presenting and
corresponding author.
3. Abstract (max. 300 words, including possible references)
4. Keywords (3)

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María Jesús Santesmases
Departamento de Ciencia, Tecnología y Sociedad
Instituto de Filosofía, CCHS
Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas
calle Albasanz, 26-28
28037 Madrid; España
Tel. +916022375