Workshop Proposal: STS Perspectives on Imported Technology in Latin America

拟举办的研讨会将汇集一批国际学者，讨论拉丁美洲范围内的科学和技术社会研究。通过这样做，它将在北美、南美和欧洲的学者之间形成新的网络，他们使用科学和技术研究(STS)的概念和框架来研究拉丁美洲的科学和技术。智力价值这次研讨会的国际焦点将提供关于科学和技术的新视角和思考方法，包括跨文化适应和翻译科学技术的作用。讲习班参与者将分析拉丁美洲的经验如何扩大我们对科学和技术的理解；揭示科学和工程实践的假设、价值和伦理层面；并将STS的跨学科领域推向新的方向。拟议的讲习班还将推动新一波新的奖学金和展示，并使拉丁美洲学者获得一些最好的STS奖学金。潜在的更广泛的影响拟议的研讨会将使印第安纳大学布鲁明顿社区的成员获得关于拉丁美洲的STS奖学金。更广泛地说，它将通过推动形成一个致力于拉丁美洲科学和技术研究的知识界来加强研究和教育的基础设施。一旦修订后的研讨会文件发表，它将通过为科学和技术政策的制定提供信息，使社会受益。它还将扩大代表性不足群体的参与，因为拉丁美洲机构的学者(以及在全球南部研究STS的北美学者)在国际STS界的代表性不足。研讨会的调查结果将汇编成编辑后的卷，由麻省理工学院出版社在国际上发行。

IntroductionThe proposed workshop will bring together an international group of scholars to discuss the social studies of science and technology in Latin American contexts. In doing so, it will form new networks among North American, South American, and European scholars who use concepts and frameworks from science and technology studies (STS) to study science and technology in Latin America.Intellectual MeritThe international focus of this workshop will provide new perspectives and ways of thinking about science and technology, including the role of adaptation and translation of science and technology across cultures. Workshop participants will analyze how Latin American experiences broaden our understandings of science and technology; make visible the assumptions, values, and ethical dimensions of science and engineering practices; and push the interdisciplinary field of STS in new directions. The proposed workshop will also advance a new wave of new scholarship and showcase and make accessible some of the best STS scholarship by Latin American academics. Potential Broader ImpactsThe proposed workshop will engage members of the Indiana University at Bloomington community with STS scholarship on Latin America. More broadly, it will enhance infrastructure for research and education by advancing the formation of an intellectual community dedicated to the study of science and technology in Latin American contexts. It will benefit society by providing information for science and technology policy formation once the revised workshop papers are published. It will also broaden the participation of underrepresented groups, since academics from Latin American institutions (and North American scholars who study STS in the global south) are underrepresented in the international STS community. The workshop findings will be compiled in an edited volume, which will be distributed internationally by MIT Press.