Workshop: STS research on Africa and from Africa

这次讲习班将突出并解决STS学者面临的结构性挑战，以及他们在非洲大陆、非洲大陆和非洲大陆的学术研究。这次会议将有助于增加该领域的知识，将非洲STS的不同学术团体聚集在一起，整合研究生物医学、环境以及信息和通信技术的见解。通过增加非洲独特视角对非洲大陆STS知识创造的参与，研讨会将加深我们对非洲大陆各种科学、技术和创新过程的洞察。研讨会的核心问题是：非洲科学技术的边界是什么，我们应该如何认识和处理非洲知识生产和创新的独特性，以及非洲STS工作为整个领域提供的潜力？通过在科学社会研究学会(4S)会议之前聚集在非洲大陆和在非洲大陆工作的不同的STS学者群体，讲习班将为该协会更充分地参与非洲STS学术活动创造体制压力。研讨会还将通过产生新的学术议程来影响整个领域，以扩大非洲境内和非洲的STS研究的能见度。这一奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力优势和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

This workshop will highlight and address the structural challenges faced by STS scholars and their scholarship from, on, and about the continent of Africa. The conference will contribute to increasing knowledge in the field by bringing together the disparate communities of scholarship on African STS, integrating insights from studying Biomedicine, the Environment and Information and Communication Technologies. By increasing participation of uniquely African perspectives in the creation of STS knowledge about the continent, the workshop will deepen our insights on various processes of science, technology and innovation on the African continent.The core question of the workshop is this: What are the boundaries of Science and Technology in Africa and how should we recognize and address both the uniqueness of African knowledge production and innovation on the one hand, and the potential that STS work in Africa has to offer to the field as a whole on the other? By bringing together a diverse group of STS scholars who work in and on the African continent before the Society for Social Studies of Science (4S) meeting, the workshop will create the institutional pressure for the society to more fully engage with African STS scholarship. The workshop will also affect the field as a whole by generating new scholarly agendas to expand the visibility of STS research in and on Africa.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.