Nete Schwennsen and Daniel López Gómez invite you to submit a paper to the panel “Growing old in a more-than human world: Materialities of care and interspecies entanglements” (73) to be held in the EASST/4S conference (Prague, August 18th-21st 2020). This panel calls for papers with an interest in exploring the recent ‘post-humanist turn’ within ageing studies (Andrews & Duff 2019) asking questions such as: What does ageing become when it is seen as a stage of becoming-with more-than-humans? For more info, see: https://bit.ly/2vvySlR
Michela Cozza, Helen Manchester, Alexander Peine and Mona Urban are organizing a panel titled “The cyborg is getting older: exploring the body/machine fusion at the intersection of STS and Age Studies” (180). This track brings together contributions at the intersection of STS, social gerontology and gerontechnology and invites authors to ‘gray the cyborg’ by sharing theoretical and empirical insights about the entanglement of age, technology, and science. For more info, see: https://bit.ly/36LE8ih
If you are interested in participating in one of these two open panels, please submit your proposal by logging into the conference website (https://bit.ly/36K6rxJ) with your 4S credentials, selecting “Papers for Open Panels” and clicking in the Open Panel No. 73/No. 180. Abstracts are up to 250 words. The deadline is February 29th, 2020.
