Recipes for Technoutopia: On Hospitality and Infrastructure as Experimental Performance. Handbook on Art, Science and Technology Studies.

Jordan, S.B. Recipes for Technoutopia: On Hospitality, Hope and Infrastructure as Experimental Performance. Rogers, Halpern, Hannah, de Ridder-Vignone (Eds.) Handbook of Art, Science and Technology. Routledge Press. (in press). Presented at the 2019 Annual Meeting for the Society of the Social Study of Science (4S) in New Orleans, September 2019. invited presenter at the University…

Matters of Emergenc/y: Breakdown, Crisis and the Production of Scientific Knowledge

Center for Gender in a Global Context and the Department of Sociology February 28, 2020 Environmental crisis, financial crisis, states of emergency and urgency: crisis forms the backdrop of contemporary debates about the role of science and technology in society. Sharing her ethnographic fieldwork in oceanographic and climate-oriented research endeavors over the better part of…

A Dance Around Racism: When Everyone Around You is White, 4S 2020.

A Dance Around Racism: When Everyone Around You is White. Panel on “Choreographies.” 4S 2020 New Orleans. What is the choreography of crisis? This dance can be radical and feminist like Okwui Okpokwasili’s Bronx Gothic or jess pretty’s dream[e]scapes or  I laugh to myself thinking that it can also be and often is something like Taylor Swift’s…

Moderator, Mowed Over: Community Governance of Public Space. Maintainers III.

Moderator of panel “Mowed Over: Community Governance of Public Space” at Maintainers III: Policy, Practice and Care conference October 7-9 in Washington, D.C.  More information available here. The goal of this workshop is to create a conversation among policy makers, activists and researchers about the different ways communities take on maintenance and stewardship responsibilities for…

Technoscience in the Era of #metoo and the Science March. Journal of Science Communication, 2019.

Steinhardt, S. (2019). ‘Technoscience in the era of #MeToo and the science march’. JCOM 18 (04), C03. https://doi.org/10.22323/2.18040303. Feminist technoscience theory offers perspectives for science communication that both question common narratives and suggests new narratives. These perspectives emphasize issues of ethics and care often missing from science communication. They focus on questions of what is…

NSF Workshop: Making the Future of Work Work

Attendee of the NSF Workshop “Making the Future of Work Work” at University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, June 4-6, 2019. Organizers: Silvia Lindtner, Cindy Lin, Shaowen Bardzell, Jeffrey Bardzell, Paul Dourish More information here: Workshop: Making the ‘Future of Work’ work

Designing Feminist Action: At the Intersection of Culture and Method. DIS ’19.

Workshop at Designing Interactive Systems (DIS) 2019 on June 24, 2019, in San Diego, CA Organizers: Melanie Feinberg, Sarah Fox, Jean Hardy, Stephanie Steinhardt and Palashi Vaghela This one-day workshop will explore the use of design research and computing practice in resisting and reifying inequalities. We invite participants to share how we do, and how…