Lillian Isacks wrote: > > Technology & Identity > A Conference at Cornell University > April 16-18, 1999 > > As a theoretical term, identity is being increasingly invoked by > analysts in science and technology studies (S&TS) and other fields to > order and explain actors' values, interests, practices, and more > generally, world-views. As social constructs, heterogeneous > assemblages can form, maintain, fragment, and completely transform the > identities of collectivities and actors. The graduate students of the > Science & Technology Studies Department at Cornell University announce > a conference to explore the boundaries of identity, to be held April > 16-18, 1999. How are identities constructed and defined? What work do > actors achieve by drawing on identity as a resource? In our analyses, > what work do we accomplish by using the term "identity" as compared to > other theoretical resources? By focusing on the constructed boundaries > of identity, including those between other identities, we hope to > investigate core questions in S&TS such as how some identities are > maintained or how a particular sociotechnical system can support > multiple identities. Ken Gergen, Professor of Psychology at Swarthmore > College, will deliver the keynote address. Although conference > participants may study these questions at multiple levels, such as the > nation-state or the laboratory, and with diverse empirical concerns, > we expect papers to engage with theoretical questions raised by the > intersection of technology and identity. Conference information is > posted as available at http://www.sts.cornell.edu/TI.html.