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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72"><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal>Sounds like something that should have significant input from the SIGCIS community. History of technology and history of IT don’t explicitly make their list of “diverse fields” relevant to the intersection of STS and the history of the corporation, but maybe some of you can come up with proposals that make the relevance clear. <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Tom<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#212121'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#212121'>CALL FOR PAPERS<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><b><span style='color:#212121'>“Techniques of the Corporation”</span></b><span style='color:#212121'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='font-family:"helvetica neue light";color:#212121'> </span><span style='color:#212121'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span class=m83503639855819089gmail-m1482048900650511511m8705486758275376185m1374766422046328103gmail-aqj><span style='color:#212121'>4-6 May 2017</span></span><span style='color:#212121'>, University of Toronto<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#212121'>Technoscience Research Unit<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#212121'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><u><span style='color:#212121'>Conference organization</span></u><span style='color:#212121'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#212121'>Justin Douglas <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#212121'>Bretton Fosbrook <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#212121'>Kira Lussier <br>Michelle Murphy <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#212121'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent:.5in'><span style='font-size:11.5pt;color:black'>How do corporations know themselves and their world? Over the last 150 years, corporations, like universities and laboratories, have generated an abundance of knowledge-making techniques in the form of psychological tests, efficiency technologies, scenario planning, and logistical systems. As dominant forms of the last century, corporations are assembled with instruments, infrastructures, and interventions that arrange and rearrange the dynamics of capitalism. These techniques of the corporation have filtered into our daily lives, influencing everyday understandings of self, inequality, environment, and society.</span><span style='font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent:.5in'><i><span style='font-size:11.5pt;color:#222222'>Techniques of the Corporation</span></i><span style='font-size:11.5pt;color:#222222'> will assemble an interdisciplinary network of established and emerging scholars whose work contributes to the critical study of the techniques, epistemologies, and imaginaries of the 20th-century corporation. </span><span style='font-size:11.5pt;color:black'>This conference aims to foster a timely conversation between Science and Technology Studies (STS) approaches and the recent histories of capitalism. We treat the corporation in the same way that historians of science and STS scholars have approached science, colonialism, and militarism as generative sites for knowledge production, value-making, and technopolitics. The conference takes as its starting place North American corporations with the understanding that corporations are multinational forms with complex transnational histories. Building from the recent history of capitalism, we attend to the entangled genealogies of corporations with slavery, exploitation, environmental destruction, colonialism, and inequality.</span><span style='font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent:.5in'><span style='font-size:11.5pt;color:#222222'>Hosted by the Technoscience Research Unit at the University of Toronto, this event will be an intimate multi-day conversation between established and emerging scholars in the fields of STS, history of science, and the history of capitalism. <i>Techniques of the Corporation </i>will be headlined by keynote speaker Joseph Dumit, and features invited talks by Dan Bouk, Elspeth Brown, Deborah Cowen, Orit Halpern, Louis Hyman, Michelle Murphy, Martha Poon, and Elise Thorburn. The conference will be an immersive experience in the Greater Toronto Area with meals and cocktails provided. </span><span style='font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent:.5in'><span style='font-size:11.5pt;color:black'>We invite emerging and established scholars in diverse fields (including business history; labour history; anthropology; geography; economic sociology; media studies; critical race studies; architecture studies; feminist and sexuality studies; environmental studies; and cultural studies) to explore the techniques, epistemologies, and imaginaries of corporations. Our overall goal is to crystallize a new field, culminating in a field-defining publication. We welcome work on corporate practices that exceed calculative logics, such as work on social relations, affective and psychological states, and speculative futurities. In addition to traditional papers, the conference encourages creative methods to query corporate forms, including art installations, videos, interactive multimedia projects, and role-playing games. Applications for travel assistance will be arranged after acceptance.</span><span style='font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:11.5pt;color:black'> </span><span style='font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:11.5pt;color:black'>Corporate practices, include, but are not limited to: </span><span style='font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><table class=MsoNormalTable border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0 style='border-collapse:collapse;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial'><tr><td width=139 style='width:104.25pt;padding:.75pt .75pt .75pt .75pt'><p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:11.5pt'>management </span><span style='font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'><o:p></o:p></span></p></td><td width=166 style='width:124.5pt;padding:.75pt .75pt .75pt .75pt'><p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:11.5pt'>sharing economy </span><span style='font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'><o:p></o:p></span></p></td><td width=167 style='width:125.25pt;padding:.75pt .75pt .75pt .75pt'><p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:11.5pt'>data management </span><span style='font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'><o:p></o:p></span></p></td></tr><tr><td style='padding:.75pt .75pt .75pt .75pt'><p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:11.5pt'>marketing </span><span style='font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'><o:p></o:p></span></p></td><td style='padding:.75pt .75pt .75pt .75pt'><p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:11.5pt'>risk management </span><span style='font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'><o:p></o:p></span></p></td><td style='padding:.75pt .75pt .75pt .75pt'><p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:11.5pt'>corporate culture </span><span style='font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'><o:p></o:p></span></p></td></tr><tr><td style='padding:.75pt .75pt .75pt .75pt'><p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:11.5pt'>planning </span><span style='font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'><o:p></o:p></span></p></td><td style='padding:.75pt .75pt .75pt .75pt'><p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:11.5pt'>corporate responsibility </span><span style='font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'><o:p></o:p></span></p></td><td style='padding:.75pt .75pt .75pt .75pt'><p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:11.5pt'>consulting</span><span style='font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'><o:p></o:p></span></p></td></tr><tr><td style='padding:.75pt .75pt .75pt .75pt'><p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:11.5pt'>infrastructure </span><span style='font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'><o:p></o:p></span></p></td><td style='padding:.75pt .75pt .75pt .75pt'><p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:11.5pt'>sustainability</span><span style='font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'><o:p></o:p></span></p></td><td style='padding:.75pt .75pt .75pt .75pt'><p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:11.5pt'>research and development </span><span style='font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'><o:p></o:p></span></p></td></tr><tr><td style='padding:.75pt .75pt .75pt .75pt'><p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:11.5pt'>logistics</span><span style='font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'><o:p></o:p></span></p></td><td style='padding:.75pt .75pt .75pt .75pt'><p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:11.5pt'>corporate design </span><span style='font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'><o:p></o:p></span></p></td><td style='padding:.75pt .75pt .75pt .75pt'><p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:11.5pt'>intellectual property </span><span style='font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'><o:p></o:p></span></p></td></tr><tr><td style='padding:.75pt .75pt .75pt .75pt'><p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:11.5pt'>gaming</span><span style='font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'><o:p></o:p></span></p></td><td style='padding:.75pt .75pt .75pt .75pt'><p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:11.5pt'>precarity</span><span style='font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'><o:p></o:p></span></p></td><td style='padding:.75pt .75pt .75pt .75pt'><p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:11.5pt'>affective labor </span><span style='font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'><o:p></o:p></span></p></td></tr><tr><td style='padding:.75pt .75pt .75pt .75pt'><p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:11.5pt'>racial surveillance </span><span style='font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'><o:p></o:p></span></p></td><td style='padding:.75pt .75pt .75pt .75pt'><p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:11.5pt'>architecture</span><span style='font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'><o:p></o:p></span></p></td><td style='padding:.75pt .75pt .75pt .75pt'><p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:11.5pt'>transnational capital</span><span style='font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'><o:p></o:p></span></p></td></tr></table><p align=center style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:center'><span style='color:black'> </span><span style='font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p align=center style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:center'><b><span style='font-size:11.5pt;color:black'>Please submit abstracts of no more than 300 words and a CV to the conference organizers at </span></b><span style='font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black'><a href="mailto:corporatetechniques@gmail.com" target="_blank"><b><span style='font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#1155CC'>corporatetechniques@gmail.com</span></b></a></span><b><span style='font-size:11.5pt;color:black'> by <span class=m83503639855819089gmail-m1482048900650511511m8705486758275376185m1374766422046328103gmail-aqj>13 January 2017</span>.</span></b><span style='font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><br clear=all><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>-- <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>Bretton Fosbrook </span></b><b><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:red'> • </span></b><b><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>Doctoral Candidate 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