Calls for Papers
Find here non-event related calls for papers, such as special issue journals.
Last updated 01/11/2012 by Kathryn de Ridder-Vignone.
The Body in our Global World
Deadline: March 10 2012
Updated: January 11 2012
The editor of a new volume tentatively entitled The Body In a Global World, invites chapter proposals of original work of up to 500 words. The volume will consist of multi-disciplinary, historical and comparative reflections on the body in a global world. The submission deadline for proposals is March 10, 2012.
The editor invites scholars to think of the various ideals and practices associated with the body, and about how these have developed and changed in a world characterized by a fast-paced flow of ideas, products, and people. Topics may include (but are certainly not limited to):
• Tattooing • henna • body piercing, body carving • body hair removal • cosmetic surgery (including “ethnic surgery”) • hair straightening • skin lightening/ bleaching • working out • the global beauty industry and the marketing of “Western” ideals • beauty pageants, “international standards” of beauty • body-image disorders
Since the volume is focused on the globalized and globalizing nature of body practices and ideals, proposed works should consider how these practices and ideals have travelled from their place of origin to where they are practiced now; and how specific practices and ideals regarding the body are changing, or resisting change, in a particular society through the process and rhetoric of globalization and/or nationalism.
The volume will comprise two kinds of essays: original scholarly essays (between 6,000-9,000 words), and shorter original personal reflection pieces (under 2,500 words). Once a proposal has been conditionally accepted, a first draft of the entire chapter will need to be submitted by July 15, 2012.
To submit a proposal for a scholarly or personal reflection essay, or for further information, please contact the editor: Afshan Jafar, Ph.D. Department of Sociology Connecticut College .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)
CFP: Visual Representation and Science
Deadline: February 24 2012
Updated: November 08 2011
Spontaneous Generations is an open, online, peer-reviewed academic journal published by graduate students at the Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology at the University of Toronto.
Spontaneous Generations publishes high quality, peer-reviewed articles on any topic in the history and philosophy of science. For our general peer-reviewed section, we welcome submissions of full-length research papers on all HPS-related subjects. Scholars in all disciplines, including but not limited to HPS, STS, History, Philosophy, Women's Studies, Sociology, Anthropology, and Religious Studies are welcome to submit to our sixth (2012) issue. Papers from all historical periods are welcome.
In addition to full-length peer-reviewed research papers, Spontaneous Generations publishes opinion essays, book reviews, and a focused discussion section consisting of short peer-reviewed and invited articles devoted to a particular theme. This year’s focus is "Visual Representation and Science."
Submission Guidelines The journal consists of four sections:
The focused discussion section, this year devoted to "Visual Representation and Science" (see below). (1000-3000 words recommended.) A peer-reviewed section of research papers on any topics in the fields of HPS and STS. (5000-8000 words recommended.) A book review section for books published in the last 5 years. (Up to 1000 words.) An opinions section that may include a commentary on or a response to current concerns, trends, and issues in HPS. (Up to 500 words.)
Submissions should be sent no later than 24 February 2012 in order to be considered for the 2012 issue. For more details, please visit the journal homepage at http://spontaneousgenerations.library.utoronto.ca/
Focused Discussion Topic: Visual Representation and Science
How do scientists use visual representations? A cursory examination of scientific practice suggests that images are used extensively; from textbooks to lab books, from private notes to public lectures, images are often researchers’ and educators’ favorite tool in understanding and explaining the objects of their inquiry. However, it is only recently, with scholars’ turn towards examining scientific practice, that the cognitive and social implications of scientific imagery have come under investigation. Historians, philosophers, and sociologists of science have begun to ask how scientists use visual techniques to assist in their reasoning, embody their theories, frame and control debates, and convince their publics. From adaptive landscapes to Cayley graphs, from drawings of early hominids to medical imaging, the pictures that scientists use every day to illustrate, deduce, and understand have come under investigation.
In this issue of Spontaneous Generations, we invite papers for a focused discussion that will explore and give new perspectives on the relationship between science and its visual representations, from antiquity to the present.
Some questions that may be addressed by papers submitted for the focused discussion section include, but are not limited to:
What are the role(s) of visualizations in scientific practice? How should we understand the relationship between schematic images and the complex, natural objects they represent? What validity should be ascribed to scientific mental pictures and/or thought experiments? How do images reflect and influence scientific values? How do images affect the content of science? How have scientific representations contributed towards particular conceptions of the objects and theories of science? How have changing visual technologies affected scientific theory and practice? How have certain visualizations come to signify and embody specific scientific entities and theories? How should we understand the visual decisions taken in the design of scientific models, instruments and apparatus? Which factors determine how scientists visualize “invisible” entities, such as biological processes, subatomic particles, or chemical states? What is the epistemic status of visual models and simulations?
Cultures in virtual worlds A special issue of the New Review of Hypermedia and Multimedia
Deadline: November 11 2011
Updated: October 14 2011
Guest-edited by Jeremy Hunsinger and Adrienne Massanari Virtual worlds (VW) embody cultures, their artefacts, and their praxes; these new and old spaces of imagination and transformation allow humans to interact in spatial dimensions. Within these spaces, culture manifests with the creation, representation, and circulation of meaningful experiences. But virtual worlds are not novel in that regard, nor should we make the mistake to assume that they are novel in themselves. Virtual experiences have been around in some respect for hundreds of years, and virtual worlds based in information technology have existed for at least 40 years. The current generation of virtual worlds, with roots over four decades old in studies of virtual reality, computer supported cooperative work (CSCW), sociology, cultural studies, and related topics, provide for rich and occasionally immersive environments where people become enculturated within the world sometimes as richly as the rest of their everyday lives.
We seek research that encounters and investigates cultures in virtual worlds in its plurality and in its richness. To that end, we invite papers covering the breadth of the topic of cultures in and of virtual worlds. Some possible areas/approaches of inquiry: • How culture of virtual worlds affect relationships • VW interfaces and culture/s • Hidden subcultures/communities in virtual worlds • Ages and VW cultures • Emic and etic experiences of virtual worlds • Producing VW cultures • Traditional cultural/critical studies inquiries of VWs • Transnational or cosmopolitan cultures in/of VWs While all forms of scholarship and research are welcome, we prefer theoretically and empirically grounded studies. We seek a Special Issue that exemplifies methodological pluralism and scholarly diversity. The use of visual evidence and representations is also encouraged. We especially seek pieces that investigate virtual worlds that have received little scholarly attention. Submission guidelines This special issue is Guest-Edited by Jeremy Hunsinger (Wilfrid Laurier University) and Adrienne Massanari (Loyola University Chicago). Queries regarding the Special Issue should be directed to them at jhuns@– –vt.edu and amassanari@– –luc.edu.
The Guest-Editors welcome contributions from both new researchers and those who are more well-established. Submitted manuscripts will be subject to peer review. Length of papers will vary as per disciplinary expectations, but we encourage articles of around 7000 words (longer articles may be possible, if warranted). Short discussion papers of around 3000 words on relevant subjects are also welcomed as ‘Technical Notes’. Detailed author submission guidelines are available online at http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/journal.asp?issn=1361-4568&linktype=44 Paper.s must be submitted via the journal’s online submissions system: http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/tham Please indicate that your submission is for the Special Issue on Culture in Virtual Worlds. The special issue will be published in summer 2012. Important dates: November 11, 2011 Paper submission deadline February 10, 2012 Author notification May 5, 2012 Final copy due Summer 2012 Publication jeremy hunsinger Communication Studies Wilfrid Laurier University Center for Digital Discourse and Culture Virginia Tech
The International Journal of Deliberative Mechanisms in Science (DEMESCI)
http://www.revistashipatia.com/index.php/demesci
Updated: September 15 2011
The International Journal of Deliberative Mechanisms in Science (DEMESCI) is an interdisciplinary journal that publishes articles about the relationship between science and the rest of society. Specifically, the journal is dedicated to the mechanisms and methodologies that allow the public to participate in scientific decision-making. Relevant areas of research include (but are not limited to) the following:
- Analysis of public engagement with science.
- Mixed advisory committees and other collaborations between members and non-members of the scientific community.
- Research methodologies that facilitate the public participation in science.
- Deliberation and the social sciences.
- Classifications and typologies of public engagement mechanisms.
- The implications of public engagement with science for local communities.
- Epistemological consequences of engagement mechanisms with science.
The first issue of the journal will be available in February 2012. Submissions are now being sought from authors working in the aforementioned areas across different academic disciplines including: Science and Technology Studies; Political Science; Sociology; Science Communication Studies; Anthropology; Cultural Studies; History; Philosophy; and Geography.
We appreciate your interest in the journal and are looking forward to receiving your articles and feedback.
For any further assistance please contact the journal at:
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The Shaping of Patient 2.0
Deadline: January 31 2012
http://www.sciencestudies.fi/node/2070
Updated: July 17 2011
Healthcare systems in Western countries are undergoing profound changes in the organisation of services and patient treatment. A growing share of the aging population and an increase in chronic diseases are accompanied by a decrease of the workforce in the healthcare sector and a steady increase in spending. These challenging tendencies have spawned the need for substantial changes in the organisation of healthcare. Patient involvement and participation in treatment together with new information and communication technologies (ICTs) are considered as having huge potentials in meeting these challenges and provide better healthcare at lower costs.
The term “Patient 2.0” has been proposed as the new patient role emerging due to these tendencies . The concept is derived from the “Web 2.0” definition, which covers internet technologies where the content on the web is primarily produced by the users, also known as social media technologies. The notion of Patient 2.0 seems to embody the envisioned future of re-organised healthcare practices and it is commonly represented as the technologically empowered citizen who engages in new forms of participation, collaboration and self-management practices. Therefore Patient 2.0 is endowed with many great expectations to meet the above challenges. Consequently, the interests of many different actors such as healthcare systems managers, policy makers, manufacturers and ICT developers, but also patient associations or online social networks seems to converge with the dawning of the Patient 2.0.
However, the Patient 2.0 is by no means a settled matter, rather it is accompanied with diverse and somehow contradictory discourses, representations and perspectives that articulate different risks, issues and opportunities. For instance, a critical assertion that stands in contrast to optimistic idea of the empowered, active, ICT literate and informed patient, is one where patients and their domestic environments are seen as subjects and spaces that are being disciplined and enrolled in the healthcare infrastructure. In this light the medical regime imposes patients’ participation as means to an end and the logic and knowledge of medical science and institutions are infused into the lives and homes of patients (Oudshoorn 2008; Mort, May and Williams 2003).
Another assertion of the Patient 2.0 is one where patients (and laypeople) are viewed as “health consumers” following a neoliberal logic of choice (Mol 2006). The premise of this view is a notion of the individual as autonomous and naturally inclined to take responsibility for him or herself. This individual is empowered to maximise the quality of life by accessing, producing, processing and sharing health information, making informed choices based on transparent grounds, and self-managing their treatment. Yet another perspective acknowledges the collective dimension of the Patient 2.0 where patients engaged in networks facilitated by ICT and social media technologies share personal information. In this manner experiences, knowledge and competences are produced and circulated that enable patients to supplement and interfere with established medical practices, potentially leading to the creation of new ways of knowing and treating the disease (Nettleton and Burrows 2003). In this case, Patient 2.0 renegotiates the terms on which empowerment and patient participation takes place and it challenges the traditional distribution of authority in the healthcare system (Callon, Lascoumes and Barthe 2009; Epstein 2008).
In this call we propose a broad definition of the Patient 2.0 as encompassing new patient roles and identities and organisation of healthcare in which ICT constitutes a significant component. This may be as concrete technological artefacts and systems, but also as derived effects from logics and rationalities related to information technologies (Berg and Mol 1998; Lehoux 2006). Patient 2.0 is an interesting figure to explore. Partly performed and partly imagined, idealised and shaped through discursive practices (e.g. enacted in public policies and health products’ advertisements), Patient 2.0 draws attention to the complex and evolving ecology of practices, actors, technology and discourses that (re-)constitute the healthcare system. The notion of Patient 2.0 is thus an intriguing lens through which to observe how things are and how they could be otherwise (Haraway, 1991).
We invite contributions that address the contradictory aspects of the Patient 2.0 by attending to the heterogeneous practices in which technologies, daily practices, healthcare organisation and governance meet and are negotiated and managed in various ways. Also, we invite contributions that address the transformative processes of becoming where agencies, diseases, technologies, life, work and care become translated and out of which novel identities and practices emerge. We are interested in contributions that critically address the technological assumptions inscribed in the design of technologies (Akrich 1992), while also critically attending to “unruly” and “wild” use practices that may contradict, circumvent and dismantle the technological imagery. In short, we invite contributions that address the controversial landscape of the Patient 2.0, where the Patient 2.0 is both fiction and fact and in a process of emergence, a figure that is performed in multiple ways and situations and in every case real in its consequences.
The Journal of Science Policy and Governance
http://www.sciencepolicyjournal.org/
Updated: June 20 2011
Now accepting rolling submissions!
The Journal of Science Policy and Governance is an interdisciplinary journal that seeks high-quality submissions on emerging or continuing policy debates. Current students (undergraduate or graduate) and recent graduates within three years of earning a degree (bachelors, masters, or doctoral) are eligible to submit. We seek to publish articles on a variety of policy areas including: scientific research, engineering, innovation, technology transfer, commercialization, bio-medicine, drug development, energy, the environment, climate change, the application of technology in developing countries, STEM education, and space exploration. Submissions on other topics are also welcome as long as they relate to the theme of science policy and governance. The Journal strives to publish articles in a timely manner to ensure that publications can be considered in the context of current policy debates.
Please see website for submission guidelines.
Questions and/or submissions should be sent to .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address).
The ESRC Genomics Network - Genetics and Society Book Series
Deadline: June 01 2015
Updated: April 14 2011
The ESRC Genomics Network - Genetics and Society Book Series provides an outlet for outstanding scholarship in the multiple fields of genetics and genomics social sciences research. Published with Routledge since 2006, the research monographs, handbooks, textbooks, and edited collections offer authoritative, cutting edge perspectives on issues covering the ethical, legal, social, economic or political aspects of:
* tissue engineering, enhancement, and cloning * genetic modification of foodstuffs and other organisms, * neuroscience and neuroethics * genetic screening and testing * stem cell research and reproductive technologies * psycho-social aspects of medical genetics and gene therapy * the social and ethical issues surrounding biomedical innovation * public engagement and political discourse * representations of genetics across the media and cultural spheres * regulatory policy and governance of biomedical research and its human applications * the sociology and anthropology of bio-science and bio-technology * bioethics * the economics of new biomedical technologies and their place in the ‘knowledge economy’
Proposals for new titles within the scope of these topic areas are encouraged from individuals and groups. Please see the book proposal submission guidelines and application form.
Further information, requests and queries contact:
Helen Greenslade, Editorial Manager Cesagen Cardiff University 6 Museum Place Cardiff CF10 3BG
e-mail: .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) Tel: 02920 – 875389 Fax: 02920 – 870024
Asian Biotechnology and Development Review (ABDR): Call for Articles, Reviewers
Updated: May 16 2010
The Asian Biotechnology and Development Review (ABDR) is a peer reviewed journal published by Research and Information System for Developing Countries (RIS) from New Delhi, India. It is supported by Life Science Division of UNESCO and Department of Biotechnology of Government of India. This Journal is abstracted in CAB Abstracts. ABDR is guided by an Editorial Board and Editorial Advisory Board with distinguished experts, policy makers, academics, representatives of UN organizations as members.
ABDR is now into its 12th Volume ABDR has been a forum for informed views and perspectives on biotechnology and development issues. The contents of past issues except the last two issues can be downloaded from RIS website. ABDR is listed under journals in the publications section in the RIS website www.ris.org.in
ABDR has published articles on a wide variety of issues ranging from Access and Benefit Sharing to Bioethics in Asia, from regulation of stem cells to biosafety and international trade, from Bt. cotton in India to regulating biotechnology in Australia. ABDR has published Special Issues also focusing on a particular theme.
Besides articles ABDR publishes Book Reviews. Articles that provide a perspective on an issue or analyze an important case (e.g. Decision by WTO Panel/Appellate Body) can be considered for publication.
The guidelines for contributors are available in the website. When an article is submitted it is immediately acknowledged and the review process is set in motion. We strive to publish the accepted articles as early as possible. ABDR welcomes articles, book reviews and other contributions. ABDR does not publish articles that are solely of scientific or technical in nature. The readership of ABDR is spread across the globe. While the contents of the past issues will give an idea about the nature and scope of the articles and book reviews published in ABDR, articles on themes and topics not covered before particularly articles on socio-economic impacts of emerging biotechnologies and developments in life sciences, and bioeconomy will be considered for publication. The scope of the contributions to ABDR need not be restricted to biotechnology related issues in Asia or developing countries.
ABDR is also interested in empanelling reviewers for doing peer-review of articles. Those interested in doing peer review are requested to submit a brief CV and their areas of specialization/expertise. Submissions can be sent by email to the Managing Editor and there is no need to send the same in CD/hard copy if submission is by email.
For more information about ABDR and work of RIS on biotechnology please visit www.ris.org.in Submissions can be sent by email to .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) For more information please contact Dr. K.Ravi Srinivas, Managing Editor, ABDR email .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) Fax: +91-11-24682173-74
The Construction of Personal Identities Online: a Special Issue of Minds and Machines
Deadline: December 15 2011
http://www.philosophyofinformation.net/grants/pio/index.html
Updated: January 15 2010
Information and communication technologies (ICTs) are building a new habitat (infosphere) in which future generations will spend an increasing amount of time. So, how individuals construct, shape and maintain their personal identities online (PIOs) is a problem of growing and pressing importance. Today, PIOs can be created and developed, as an ongoing work-in-progress, to provide experiential enrichment, expand, improve or even help to repair relationships with others and with the world, or enable imaginative projections (the "being in someone else's shoes" experience), thus fostering tolerance. However, PIOs can also be mis-constructed, stolen, "abused", or lead to psychologically or morally unhealthy lives, causing a loss of engagement with the actual world and real people.
The construction of PIOs affects how individuals understand themselves and the groups, societies and cultures to which they belong, both online and offline. PIOs increasingly contribute to individuals' self-esteem, influence their life-styles, and affect their values, moral behaviours, and ethical expectations. It is a phenomenon with enormous practical implications, and yet, crucially, individuals as well as groups seem to lack a clear, conceptual understanding of who they are in the infosphere and what it means to be a responsible informational agent online. This special issue of Minds and Machines seeks to fill this important gap in our philosophical understanding. It will build on the current debate on PIO, and address questions such as:
- How does one go about constructing, developing and preserving a PIO? Who am I online?
- How do I, as well as other people, define and re-identify myself online?
- What is it like to be that particular me (instead of you, or another me with a different PIO), in a virtual environment?
- Should one care about what happens to one's own PIO and how one (with his/her PIO) is perceived to behave online?
- How do PIs online and offline feedback on each other?
- Do customisable, reproducible and disposable PIOs affect our understanding of our PI offline?
- How are we to interpret cases of multiple PIOs, or cases in which someone's PIO may become more important than, or even incompatible with, his or her PI offline?
- What is going to happen to our self-understanding when the online and offline realities become intertwined in an "onlife" continuum, and online and offline PIs have to be harmonised and negotiated? Papers comparing and evaluating standard approaches to PI in order to analyse how far they may be extended to explain PIO are also very welcome. Submissions will be double-blind refereed for academic rigor, originality and relevance to the theme. Please submit articles of no more than 10,000 words to .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) in .doc or .pdf format.
The special issue is part of a series of workshops organised in connection with the AHRC-funded project The Construction of Personal Identities Online. Authors may also wish to submit their papers to one of the workshops organized on the same topic. Submissions will also be considered for publication in the special issue.
The Body in Breast Cancer: a Special Issue of Social Semiotics
Deadline: October 01 2010
Updated: January 15 2010
Social Semiotics invites submissions to a special issue “The Body in Breast Cancer” in order to mobilize new critical interventions into the materiality of breast cancer.
The body, at the level of the breast, is the terrain on and through which breast cancer registers. This body, as understood through poststructuralist theory, is always already constructed and negotiated in relation to technology. This body, then, is a technologized body. The experience of breast cancer at once compels particular interfaces of body and machine in detection, treatment, and “recovery,” and the necessity for corporeal reworking in relation to the machine. Stressing the material breast as a technologized terrain necessitates grappling with the myriad of troubled relations of/to the breast, such as the prosthetic breast, the absent breast, fear of the lost breast, refusal of the breast, the scrutinized fleshy breast. In order to enable such exploration, we solicit papers in the fields of science and technology studies, queer studies, cultural studies, performance studies, and disability studies that enter into dialogue with scholarship on (bio)technologies and/or the posthuman. Foregrounding the technologized materiality in breast cancer will yield new ways of understanding subjectivity and somatic resistance, crafting corporeality, and practicing critique/politics in order to extend “livable lives.”
We are especially interested in accounts of queer, non-white, crip, male, classed bodies, and other particularities of subjecthood, that explore the practices of the technologized body in breast cancer at the level of machine and science, and imagined through biotech, the cyborg, cybernetics, prostheses, biometrics, and so forth.
We welcome articles that investigate:
• Excavations of the breast that foreground the policing, containment, mutilation, resignification, and crafting of the breast
• Bodies in breast cancer surveillance
• Bodies and breast reconstruction
• Bodies in treatment (radiation, the chemotherapy ward, detection, ultrasound, MRI, biopsy, mammogram, the breast clinic)
• Bodies and traces of military technologies; marks of cancer treatment
• Body-erotics/sexuality and breast cancer
• Visual economies of the breast and legalities of breastlessness
• The body and prognosis in breast cancer
• Altered notions of bodily capacity in relation to breast cancer
• Breasted aesthetics as self-crafting/disciplining
• Renegotiations of subjectivity at the interface with machines
• Unstable assemblages between flesh and machine in detection, risk assessment, prognosis
• Cancer and matter
• Regeneration and illness
We invite traditional essays as well as a variety of alternative forms: short performative pieces, short critical etymologies, visual essays, case studies. We are hoping to put together a range of different submissions for this issue in order to encourage unorthodox approaches to breast cancer. If submitting a traditional paper, the word count should be no more than 8000, including notes and bibliography. Alternative formats should be between 1 and 15 pages (maximum). For all submissions, please note that one image is equivalent to 250 words (half page). The journal citation style is Chicago Author-Date. For style guidelines and further information about figures and formatting, please see the journal website instructions for authors: http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/authors/csosauth.asp Articles should be prepared for anonymous review. Please provide a separate short author biography and an abstract of no more than 150 words. The deadline for submissions is 1 October 2010, with a final publication date scheduled for January 2012. Papers should be submitted by electronic attachment as a Word document (.doc or .txt) or pdf. The subject line of your email should state the special issue title “The Body in Breast Cancer” and be addressed to: .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address).
General Call for Papers: East Asian Science, Technology and Society: an International Journal
http://www.springerlink.com/content/1875-2160
Updated: January 13 2010
Editor-in-Chief:
Daiwie Fu, National Yang Ming University, Taiwan
Associate Editors:
Warwick Anderson, University of Sydney, Australia / University of Wisconsin-Madison, US
Pingyi Chu, Academic Sinica, Taiwan
Sungook Hong, Seoul National University, South Korea
Togo Tsukahara, Kobe University, Japan
EASTS is an interdisciplinary quarterly journal based in Taiwan guided by editorial boards of STS scholars from Taiwan, Japan, South Korea, and the West. Founded in 2007, EASTS provides an international platform for STS scholarship on East Asia. The goal of the journal is to bring Western and East-Asian STS communities together to share ideas, knowledge and research on the full range of topics encompassed by STS. EASTS promotes STS studies from and to the East Asian and worldwide STS communities.
Submit Your Paper Now!
Papers should be submitted via Editorial Manager: http://www.editorialmanager.com/east
Editorial queries can be addressed to: .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) or .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)
Recent Special Issues:
Constructing Intimacy: Technology, Family and Gender in East Asia
Guest Editor: Francesca Bray
Gender and Reproductive Technologies in East Asia
Guest Editors: Adele E. Clarke, Azumi Tsuge and Chia-Ling Wu
The Globalisation of Chinese Medicine and Meditation Practices
Guest Editor: Elisabeth Hsu
Emergent Studies of Science and Technology in Southeast Asia
“Towards Transformative Governance? Responses to mission-oriented innovation policy paradigms”
June 12 2012 to June 13 2012 | Karlsruhe, Germany
Deadline: January 31 2012
http//:www.eu-spri-conference-2012.org
Updated: November 08 2011
Eu-SPRI Conference 2012: Call for Abstracts
Submission deadline: 31 January 2012
Notification of acceptance: 15 March 2012
Registration: starting in January 2012
Conference website with full call text (downloadable as a PDF): http://www.eu-spri-conference-2012.org
The Fraunhofer Institute for Systems and Innovation Research ISI is organizing the 2nd biennial conference of the Eu-SPRI Forum (http://www.euspri-forum.eu/). Fraunhofer ISI is celebrating its 40th anniversary in 2012 and the conference will be a major part of the anniversary celebrations. The conference will offer a keynote speech, parallel thematic sessions, an Elevator Pitch Contest for young researchers, a roundtable discussion, the ISI anniversary dinner at Karlsruhe Palace (Schloss) and many opportunities for informal exchange.
Call for Abstracts
The Lund Declaration, which was handed to the Swedish Presidency of the Council of the European Union by 400 prominent researchers and politicians in 2009, states that "European research must focus on the Grand Challenges of our time moving beyond current rigid thematic approaches. This calls for a new deal among European institutions and Member States, in which European and national instruments are well aligned and cooperation builds on transparency and trust." The declaration thus asks EU institutions to play a crucial role in bringing the relevant public and private actors together, and helping to build more cooperation and trust in order to address the overarching policy objectives.
This declaration has taken up and reinforced a development in the past few years in which governments and the European Union have adopted a new strategic rhetoric for their research and innovation policy priorities which addresses the major societal challenges of our time. This is evolving into the third major policy rationale besides economic growth and competitiveness.
It is not yet clear whether and how any transformative effects from this new mission-oriented approach can already be identified. The conference aims to attract papers that discuss possible transformative effects at different levels, i.e. on the actors performing research, innovation processes, scientific fields and technological sectors, the institutional funding and research landscape, society, the demand and user/beneficiary side, research and innovation policy and financing, and national and European political framework conditions. It also invites contributions that critically discuss methodological issues, conceptual developments and novel normative challenges around innovation and R&D policy triggered by the – alleged – mission oriented turn.
This conference will bring together leading and up and coming researchers across a range of social science disciplines and provide an open forum to promote the emerging academic discussion about new developments in research and innovation policy and their effects on knowledge production, innovation and grand challenges at different levels.
The conference welcomes papers from a range of disciplinary backgrounds and traditions, including policy studies, political science, sociology, science and technology studies, public administration, the economics of science and innovation, research management, entrepreneurship, technology assessment and evaluation studies. The organizers encourage contributions that conceptually and/or empirically advance the topic.
Deadline and Requirements
Please submit your extended abstracts by January 31st, 2012. It should include your name(s), affiliation(s) with full contact details, up to five keywords and the sub-theme it is related to. The extended abstract should have 1,000-1,500 words and clearly refer in its structure to (1) the motivation, (2) approach, (3) (expected) results, and (4) conclusion and/or (policy) implications of the work. Please submit your document in DOC/DOCX format.
From among the conference presentations, a selected number will be invited to publish full papers afterwards in a journal special issue or conference book.
Elevator Pitch Contest for young Researchers
Doctoral students and young researchers are invited to submit proposals for an Elevator Pitch Contest. An 'elevator pitch' is a short speech used to quickly and simply engage your audience for your research idea. It reflects the idea that it should not take longer than an elevator ride to deliver a convincing summary of your project (planned or in progress). At the conference, you will have exactly 60 seconds for your pitch, and there will be an audience prize for the winner of the contest.
Applicants for the Elevator Pitch Contest will please submit their ideas by January 31st, 2012. Please submit a short abstract of not more than 200 words of the idea together with your name, affiliation and contact details, and give an additional description of the context of the research project or idea. Please submit also a short bio and indicate which media (PPT, audio, video, … ) you would like to use for your elevator pitch, if at all.
Notification of accepted elevator pitches will be sent out by March 15th, 2012.
Abstract Submission and Registration
Please send your abstracts for presentations and proposals for the elevator pitch to the organizers at .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address).
Registration for the conference (as presenter and as participant) will be open from early 2012. Please visit the conference homepage at http://www.eu-spri-conference-2012.org for more information. Here you will also find travel and hotel information.
Please see the conference website: http://www.eu-spri-conference-2012.org and contact us at .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)
Call for Papers for Edited Volume –Trans Studies: Beyond Hetero/Homo Normativities
May 15 2013 |
Deadline: May 15 2012
Updated: December 16 2011
Call for Papers for Edited Volume –Trans Studies: Beyond Hetero/Homo Normativities
The Institute for Research at Women at Rutgers University invites submissions for an edited volume entitled, Trans Studies: Beyond Hetero/Homo Normativities, which we anticipate publishing at a university press.
Currently at the cutting edge of interdisciplinary scholarship, Trans Studies have undermined pre-existing, oppositional sex/gender binaries by focusing on the fluidity and malleability of gender identity and expression. Trans Studies therefore destabilize and complicate many of the debates about the social, biological and cultural constructions of gender and sexuality. There has also been a heated debate among scholars and activists—especially in the United States and Latin America—on the distinctions between transgender, transsexual and transvestite, and the ways in which each one of these terms interrogates scientific, artistic, popular, cultural and ethnic definitions of gender and sexuality based on the idea of a set spectrum, or conceived as a result of a particular performance or practice. Scholars and activists who work on trans issues are currently analyzing the social, psychological, and legal impact of surgical gender reassignment, as well as promoting the protection of legal rights for trans people in public spaces. The proposed edited volume would like to address this topic as an exploration of the new frontiers that are open when the relationships between gender, sexuality and the body are not conceived within heteronormative or homonormative frameworks, but from the perspective of psychoanalysis and desire, philosophy and subject theory, law and civil rights, cultural and social studies and issues of representation, and sociological and political science debates on social imaginaries and political radicalism.
This volume will encourage a broad conversation about the most recent redefinitions in Women’s, Queer and Sexuality Studies in dialogue with debates in Trans Studies. Possible topics might explore:
The relationship between identity, desire and the body The relationship between feminist theory, queer theory and trans theory; the ways in which Trans Studies have transformed Feminist and Queer Studies The performativity of gender and sexuality The history of gender as social and scientific construct The relationship between LGB and T in movement politics, nationally and internationally The relationship between trans studies and transnational studies; migration, queer and trans rights; trans tourism The possibility of translating trans identities beyond territorial borders Queer linguistics; the challenge of capturing fluid conceptions of gender identity and expression in language; of terminology and its associated politics (e.g. transgender, transgendered or trans; intersex or DSD); of exporting/transposing nomenclature between different national contexts HIV infection and trans people The most pressing medical/social/legal/public policy issues affecting trans people The role of intersectional oppression (e.g. race, ethnicity, class, sexuality) in the field of Trans Studies Sexual rights as human rights, especially rights related to gender identity and gender expression
The volume will be edited by Dr. Yolanda Martínez-San Miguel and Dr. Sarah Tobias (bios below). Please send abstracts of 200 – 300 words accompanied by a C.V. to .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) by May 15, 2012. Full text articles should be ready no later than May 15, 2013.