I spent the last two days in the company of folks whose thinking I honor -- their patternings of knowledges, sciences, and what sort of lives we need to live to share them as forms of justice, make my life better.

Jenny Reardon, Jake Metcalf, Karen Barad and many others put this event together. Geoff Bowker spoke of Leigh's many worlds and how she was woven into and by and through thinking that connected or disarranged these and why that matters. Donna Haraway, Maria Puig de la Bellacasa and Jake Metcalf shared the openings Leigh's work creates for them and us. The Conference program is here: http://research.pbsci.ucsc.edu/scienceandjustice/blog/symposia-conferences/the-state-of-science-justice-conversations-in-honor-of-susan-leigh-star/

I was on a panel with Maria Puig de la Bellacasa and Astrid Schrader, facilitated by Karen Barad, in which feminist theory and feminist practices of science knowledges was displayed, discussed, and rearranged. My talk is online here: http://growbobjects.blogspot.com/ I discussed why we need to learn from Leigh how to grow feminist boundary objects at a time of global academic restructuring, how to befriend connections we have only modest abilities to shape, and why it is important to care about such agency.

Folks gather together for events set up by Tema Genus at Linköping University. This workshop/conference examined the socio-techno-pedagogical communications needed to set into motion a new BA/MA distance learning program in Gender Studies to be hubbed at Linköping. A lively panel of Swedish researchers, graduate students, IT folks, game developers and feminist critics commented on and extended discussion and analysis begun with three keynote presentations by scholars from the UK and US.

Together with others who attended and created the event, we were: Gill Kirkup (Centre for the Study of Educational Technologies and the Computers and Learning Research Group at Open Univ, UK), Katie King, (Feminist technoscience, including cyberculture and technology, Women's Studies at the University of Maryland), Erna Kotkamp (member of Athena-cyber-feminist-gender studies-activists, Utrecht University), Annika Olofsdotter Bergström (game designer, project leader of feminist Super-Marit-game, Gender and Technology Luleå University), Åsa Rosenberg (expert on Second Life, PhD-student in Sociology, Göteborg University), Redi Koobak (PhD-student at Tema Genus, Linköping University), Ana Valdés (author, debater, game nerd and critic), Anna Söderström (Head of ICT Studio at Linköping University).

Special thanks to Pia Laskar, Nina Lykke, Elisabeth Samuelsson.

My talk is online at: http://socmedlearn.blogspot.com/ 

St. Hugh's at Oxford was the site for a wonderful conference sponsored by the Center for Research on Socio-Cultural Change. (This link has more information.) It was hosted by folks from the Open University and the University of Manchester.

Beautiful gardens just beyond the lecture hall where the conference plenaries were held.

Originally I was to have been situated in a plenary grouping with Susan Leigh Star, who unexpectedly died shortly before. Her work has been an important influence on mine, and I wanted to make that clear in my own presentation, so I based it on an interview with her published last year. The term "knowledge weaving" came from that interview.

A talksite to accompany the presentation is on the web at: http://weaveknowledge.blogspot.com/