Disciplinary Translations in Science and Society - II

Abstract

Recent events worldwide have shown the relevance of interdisciplinary approaches to cope with uncertainty: the current pandemic and sanitary crisis, social and political protests, climate emergency -among many others- prove the need to think—and act —in novel and creative ways. More than disciplines examining phenomena from different standpoints, innovative interdisciplinary approaches need to conceptualize past and emerging problems from assemblages at the interaction of various fields. In this way, effective interdisciplinary studies could contribute to understanding our world from a more complex, dense, and purposeful perspective.
At the crossroads of society and science, STS offers a strong potential to trespass traditional knowledge production boundaries. This panel seeks to explore the role of “disciplinary translations” in studying science and societies. Disciplinary translations refer to the transfer of concepts, ideas, frameworks produced in science and applied to understand social dilemmas and vice versa. To mention just a few examples, there have been experiences of applying complex models of physics to understand social networks; chaos theory to study social behaviors in crowds; chemical transformations in matter to analyze historical processes. This panel aims to bring together proposals from different fields exploring this post-disciplinary approach to both science and society. Additionally, the purpose of this panel is to discuss how STS could contribute to shaping both compelling and effective interdisciplinary knowledge production.

Chair

• Barbara Kirsi Silva, Universidad Alberto Hurtado

Individual Presentations

• Access To Justice Design Lab: Bringing Solutions To Justice And Breaking Barriers Through Transdisciplinarity - Santiago de Francisco Vela, Laboratorio de Diseño para la Justicia - Universidad de los Andes; Laura Guzmán Abello, Laboratorio de Diseño para la Justicia - Universidad de los Andes; Santiago Pardo Rodríguez, Laboratorio de Diseño para la Justicia - Universidad de los Andes; Laura Vanessa Vanegas Herrera, Laboratorio de Diseño para la Justicia - Universidad de los Andes; Nicolls Feghali Vargas, Laboratorio de Diseño para la Justicia - Universidad de los Andes; Camila Padilla Casas, Laboratorio de Diseño para la Justicia - Universidad de los Andes

• Crime Narratives: a collaborative exploration in STS communication - Daniela Idrovo, Kaleidos - Center for Interdisciplinary Ethnography; Maria Elissa Torres Carrasco, Kaleidos Center for Interdisciplinary Ethnography

• "Science and Technology in Popular Culture": How Discussions of Representation and Collective Attitudes Influence Engineering Education - Bryn Seabrook, University of Virginia

• Who Thinks Science is nothing but an Opinion? Modern-Day Discontents and the Educational Gradient in Epistemological Insecurity - phj achterberg, Tilburg University

Session Organizer

• Barbara Kirsi Silva, Universidad Alberto Hurtado