2018 Bernal Prize: A Conversation with Trevor Pinch (virtual participation)

Session Submission Type: Plenary Session

Abstract

*Please note that Trevor Pinch will be participating virtually for this session*
The 2018 Bernal Prize has been awarded to Trevor Pinch, Goldwin Smith Professor of Science & Technology Studies at Cornell University in the United States. Along with a wide and expanding network of colleagues, Pinch’s work on the social construction of technology (SCOT) has shaped scholarship in STS for close to four decades. This work has opened a space for empirically oriented social, cultural and historical analyses of technology to successive generations of scholars. At the same time, Pinch’s own research focus has continued both to deepen and to change, moving most recently into the sociotechnologies of sound. This session will feature a screening of a recorded conversation with Trevor Pinch introduced by Lucy Suchman (Chair of the 2018 Bernal prize committee), and followed by responses from Pinch (joining us remotely from Ithaca, New York) and three colleagues reflecting on Pinch’s contributions to his students, his colleagues, and the field.

Panellists:
Simone Tosoni, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milan
Chia-Ling Wu, National Taiwan University, Taipei
Sally Wyatt, Maastricht University, The Netherlands

Sub Unit

• Single Paper Submission

Chair

• Lucy Suchman, Lancaster University

Session Organizer

• Kim Fortun, University of California Irvine