Call for Abstracts to participate in Open Panel 97: Locating & Timing Governance in STS and Universities to be held in Prague, 18-21 August 2020, at the joint conference https://www.easst4s2020prague.org/ of the European Association for Studies of Science & Technology (EASST) https://easst.net/ and the Society for the Social Studies of Science (4S) http://www.4sonline.org/ EASST/4s 2020 Conference theme: Locating and Timing Matters: Significance and Agency of STS in Emerging Worlds https://www.easst4s2020prague.org/focus-and-themes/ There are various ways to participate in the 4s/EASST 2020 meeting: Open Panel Papers, Closed Panel Proposals, and Making/Doing Sessions https://www.easst4s2020prague.org/call-for-papers-and-panels/ For example, 217 open panels now are seeking paper submissions. See panel descriptions and search for key words at https://www.easst4s2020prague.org/accepted-open-panels-all-abstracts/ Call for abstracts to participate in Open Panel 97: Locating & Timing Governance in STS and Universities Organizers Knut H. Sørensen (NTNU) and Sharon Traweek (UCLA) For many generations universities have been institutions of higher education and research. Now they are expected to contribute to local and global economies by commercializing research and spurring innovation, while addressing grand social challenges like climate mitigation and social disparities. They also must engage successfully in mass higher education and outreach with a variety of publics. This means that universities now occupy a strategic place in re/shaping society by circulating research and knowledge through teaching and professional expertise. Meanwhile, universities have become subject to increased auditing practices and austerity policies, locally and globally. Many universities turn to experts in branding and commodification for strategies in defining and representing their work as successful. STS provides resources for understanding such dis/continuities in the making and circulation of knowledge while the study of universities in dynamic ecologies is vital to addressing unexamined assumptions in STS about the relationship between research, teaching, and society, as well as the governance of that relationship. We invite papers that address how universities engage with the changing: - fragility and resilience of university cultures. - demands for rapid intellectual, social, and economic contributions to society; - work life and agency of academics - relationship between teaching, research, innovation, and outreach; - use of social media and branding practices by universities; - intersectional issues in knowledge making, teaching, outreach, funding, and society; - political economies of research, teaching, funding, and outreach; - campus infrastructures from software & budgets to buildings & transportation; - increasingly complex webs of relationships among universities glocally through rankings, MOUs, satellite campuses, academic mobilities, etc. The organizers are co-authors of Questing Excellence: Tales of Two Universities (under contract with Routledge). Abstract Requirements: Give your main arguments, methods, and contributions to specific aspects of the panel topic in in 250 words or less. Deadline for abstract submissions is 29 February 2020 Submission information https://www.easst4s2020prague.org/call-for-papers-and-panels/ For more information contact: Knut H Sørensen, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) knut.sorensen@ntnu.no<mailto:knut.sorensen@ntnu.no> https://www.ntnu.edu/employees/knut.sorensen Sharon Traweek, University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA) traweek@history.ucla.edu<mailto:traweek@history.ucla.edu> https://ucla.academia.edu/STraweek http://genderstudies.ss.ucla.edu/faculty/sharon-traweek