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Just back at the end of May from Linköping and the Third New Materialisms Conference. Exciting work, wonderful atmosphere of comradeship and conversation. The program for the conference is here. I was delighted to meet people whose work I have long known and to learn about new work and enlarge transdisciplinary circles of connection! My paper is online here: Living in the middle of (media) things.

In April I was so excited to finally meet Samuel R. Delany at the celebration of his birthday at UMD. He was a generous presence during the event, reading from his new book Through the Valley of the Nest of Spiders, offering companionships unexpected and thoroughly alive! My paper is online here: SF Ecologies: speculative, feminist, science as knowledges.
November in Cleveland I attended 4S: the Society for the Social Studies of Science, my first time to this particular yearly conference, where STS, ANT, and cultural studies of science and technology are native tongues! Wonderful series of panels, some of my favorites shared science fiction inspirations for social action. My paper is online here: Transdisciplinarities: queering the pitch.

 
 
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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/ 
 
 
Hanging out with HistCon types in Atlanta at SLSA and their allies in Sweden were the highlights of the year. I am so grateful for all these folks and for their smart thinking and generous spirits for thinking together!
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Eva, Lindsay and Katie make plans for the Tranimal panel for Atlanta in Second Life.

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Ulrika about to present at the Nordic Research School workshop on feminist methodologies this year in Umeå.

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Malin on Policy Methods