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The Black Sea World in the Age of Democratizations Call for articles: Transitions
Deadline: March 15 2010
Updated: February 14 2010
ed. by l'Institut de Sociologie, Université Libre de Bruxelles and
l'Institut Européen, Université de Genève
Twenty years after the fall of the communist regimes in Central and
Eastern Europe, the transitions of these countries to democracy and
market economy have been finally achieved. Central and Eastern Europe
has become a stable region, as it overcame the risk of turbulence it
went through in the 90s. But, as we move to the East, the situation is
completely different. In the years 2000, the transitions moved East of
Eastern Europe, where they are still going on, although with contested
chances to lead to consolidated democracies. Ukraine, Moldova,
Georgia, Azerbaijan, Russia itself, are but a few of the countries
which have recently focused the attention of researchers as they raise
a wide range of domestic and international challenges.
The reason for the interest of political scientists towards this
region is mainly the complexity of the stakes that circumscribe it.
Geopolitical stakes, first, as the Black Sea is a hub of connections
between East and West, but also between Russia and the Middle East.
Security stakes, in the wide sense of the word, encompassing
migration, trafficking, or pollution. Energy stakes, at a time when
access to oil and gas supplies from Russia and Central Asia is one of
the top priorities on the EU agenda, and as Georgia is the key to the
route linking Central Asia to Turkey, while Ukraine is the key to the
northern route. This is why the Black Sea region is interesting at the
same time for Russia (through its 'near abroad' policy), for the EU
(through its Neighborhood Policy and, more recently, the Eastern
Partnership), and for the US (through the 'Greater Middle East'
policy). Meanwhile, the projects of regional cooperation initiatives
are multiplying at an accelerated pace, with several states trying to
play as leaders of these initiatives. Turkey and Russia are the two
main actors sharing a condominium in the region, but other attempts at
gaining more international weight by playing the regional card can be
identified, such as in the case of Ukraine and even Romania.
All these international stakes have a visible impact on the political
regimes of the countries in the region, which are moreover suffering
from endemic problems such as political instability, bad governance,
networks of organized crime or state failure.
The Institut de Sociologie of the Université Libre de Bruxelles and
the Institut Européen of the Université de Genève invite scholars to
submit paper proposals for the next issue of the Transitions journal,
on the general topic of the democratic transitions in the Black Sea
countries. More specifically, the articles should address one of the
following issues:
1.Is the Black Sea a 'region'? Which are the common interests shared
by the former USSR states, the three EU member states neighboring the
Black Sea – Bulgaria, Greece and Romania, and a NATO country – Turkey?
Are the fault-lines dividing them more pervasive than the cooperation
incentives?
2.Which are the factors that influence democratic transitions in the
former Soviet countries at the Black Sea? Which is the relationship
between energy issues, geopolitics, Western or Russian conditionality,
and democratization?
3.Which role for the EU at the Black Sea, both in terms of
consolidating democracy domestically, and of favoring stability and
regional cooperation?
4.How do frozen conflicts (such as those in Transnistria, South
Ossetia, Abkhazia, and Nagorno Karabach), and more generally, how do
identity/ethnicity issues affect democratization and domestic
political regimes?
The proposals for contributions shoud be in English or French, no
longer than 600 words. Please send also the name and affiliation of
the author with a short biography. The deadline for the submission of
the article proposals is February 28, 2010. Please submit your article
proposals to both the following mail addresses:
Prof. Jean-Michel de Waele, .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)
Dr. Ruxandra Ivan, .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)
You will receive notice of acceptance by March 15, 2010. The final
version of the accepted articles should be submitted by June 1st,
2010.
Le monde de la Mer Noire à l'époque des démocratisations
Appel à contributions pour la révue Transitions ,
Editée par l'Institut de Sociologie, Université Libre de Bruxelles et
l'Institut Européen, Université de Genève
20 ans après la chute des communismes en Europe centrale et orientale,
les transitions vers la démocratie et l'économie de marché dans ces
pays sont finalement achevées. L'Europe centrale et orientale est
devenue une région stable qui ne risque plus les troubles des années
90. Mais, plus à l'Est, la situation est complètement différente. Dans
les années 2000, les transitions se sont déplacées à l'Est de l'Europe
de l'Est, où elles continuent encore, mais, pour la plupart, avec des
chances contestées de déboucher sur de vrais régimes démocratiques.
L'Ukraine, la Moldavie, la Géorgie, l'Azerbaijan et même la Russie ne
sont que quelques uns des pays qui ont attiré récemment l'attention
des chercheurs, car ils suscitent toute une série de questionnements
concernant leurs régimes internes et leur comportement international.
Les raisons de l'intérêt que suscite cette région du point de vue de
la science politique tiennent à la complexité des enjeux qui la
circonscrivent. Enjeux géopolitiques, d'abord, car il s'agit de la
région de la Mer Noire, point de carrefour entre l'Est et l'Ouest,
mais également entre la Russie et le Moyen Orient. Enjeux
sécuritaires, dans le sens qu'a pris ce mot dans les dernières
décennies, lorsque les scientifiques ont montré que l'insécurité peut
provenir non seulement des armées ennemies, mais aussi des flux
migratoires, du trafic transfrontalier et même de la pollution. Enjeux
énergétiques, à l'heure où la question de l'approvisionnement en
pétrole et en gaz russes et d'Asie centrale est sur l'agenda de
l'Union européenne, et dans les conditions où la Géorgie est la clé de
la route Asie Centrale – Turquie, et l'Ukraine – la clé de la route
nordique. Tout cela fait en sorte que la région de la Mer Noire soit à
la fois l'objet de la préoccupation de la Russie (à travers sa
politique de « l'étranger proche »), de l'Union européenne (la
Politique de Voisinage et, plus récemment, le Partenariat à l'Est) et
des Etats-Unis (la politique du Moyen Orient élargi). Cependant, on
assiste à une multiplication accélérée des initiatives de coopération
dans la Mer Noire, plusieurs Etats essayant de se promouvoir comme
chefs de file de ces coopérations. La Turquie et la Russie sont les
deux grands acteurs qui partagent un condominium sur la zone, mais il
y a également des tentatives de l'Ukraine et même de la Roumanie de
gagner plus de poids international à partir de leur position
géostratégique.
Tous ces enjeux internationaux ont un impact non négligeable sur les
régimes politiques de la région, qui souffrent en plus de certains
problèmes endémiques, comme l'instabilité politique, la mauvaise
gouvernance, les réseaux de criminalité organisée ou l'échec de
l'Etat.
L'Institut de Sociologie de l'Université Libre de Bruxelles et
l'Institut Européen de l'Université de Genève invitent les chercheurs
à proposer des articles pour un prochain numéro de la revue
Transitions sur la problématique générale des transitions
démocratiques dans les pays de la Mer Noire. Plus précisément, les
articles devraient aborder l'une des thématiques suivantes:
1.Peut-on parler d'une « région » dans le cas de la Mer Noire? Quels
sont les intérêts communs partagés par les pays de l'ancienne URSS,
les trois Etats-membres de l'UE dans le voisinage de la Mer Noire – la
Bulgarie, la Grèce et la Roumanie, et un pays membre de l'OTAN – la
Turquie? Leurs différences sont-elles plus significatives que les
dynamiques de coopération?
2.Quels sont les facteurs qui influencent les transitions
démocratiques dans les anciens pays de l'URSS à la Mer Noire? Quelle
est la relation entre l'énergie, la géopolitique, la conditionnalité
occidentale ou russe et la démocratisation?
3.Quel est/pourrait être le rôle de l'UE à l'égard de la région de la
Mer Noire, tant en termes de consolidation des démocraties, qu'en
termes de promotion de la stabilité et de la coopération régionale?
4.Comment les conflits glacés (comme ceux de la Transnistrie, de
l'Ossétie du Sud, de l'Abkhazie ou du Haut Karabach) et, plus
généralement, les questions identitaires et ethniques affectent-ils la
démocratisation et les régimes politiques internes?
Les propositions de contributions doivent être rédigées en Anglais ou
en Français et ne pas dépasser 600 mots. Elles doivent être
accompagnées du nom et de l'affiliation institutionnelle de l'auteur
et d'une courte notice biographique. Les propositions doivent parvenir
aux deux adresses suivantes avant le 28 Février 2010:
Prof. Jean-Michel de Waele, .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)
Dr. Ruxandra Ivan, .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)
Les propositions acceptées seront notifiées avant le 15 Mars 2010. La
version finale des articles acceptés devra être envoyée avant le 1er
Juin 2010.
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF TECHNOETHICS (IJT)
Deadline: March 15 2010
Updated: February 14 2010
Official publication of the Information Resources Management Association
http://www.igi-global.com/ijt
Editor-in-Chief: Rocci Luppicini, University of Otttawa, Canada
Published: Quarterly (both in Print and Electronic form)
MISSION OF IJT:
Prospective authors are invited to submit manuscripts for possible
publication in the International Journal of Technoethics (IJT). The
mission of the International Journal of Technoethics (IJT) is to
evolve technological relationships of humans with a focus on ethical
implications for human life, social norms and values, education, work,
politics, law, and ecological impact. This journal provides cutting-edge analysis of technological innovations, research,developments policies, theories, and methodologies related to
ethical aspects of technology in society.IJT publishes empirical
research, theoretical studies, innovative methodologies, practical
applications, case studies, and book reviews. IJT encourages
submissions from philosophers, researchers, social theorists,
ethicists, historians, practitioners, and technologists from all areas
of human activity affected by advancing technology.
RECOMMENDED TOPICS:
Topics to be discussed in this journal include (but are not limited
to) the following:
SUBMITTING TO THE INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF TECHNOETHICS:
• Technoethics and Cognition (artificial morality, ethical agents,
technoethical systems, technoethical mind, techno-addiction and
ethical intervention, etc.)
• Biotech Ethics (cloning ethics, e-health ethics, telemedicine
ethics, medical, research ethics, genetic ethics, neuroethics, sport
and nutrition technoethics, etc.)
• Technoethics and Society (digital property ethics, technoethics and
social theory, technoethics and law, technoethics and science,
technoethics and art, global technoethics, etc.)
• Computer and Engineering Ethics (professional codes of ethics,
environmental technoethics, military technoethics, nanoethics, nuclear
ethics, etc.)
• Information and Communication Technoethics (cyberethics, cyber
pornography, cybercrime, cyber-stalking, internet ethics, media
ethics, netiquette, etc.)
• Organizational Technoethics (e-business ethics, outsourcing ethics,
virtual organization ethics, global ethics, technoethics and knowledge
management, technoethics and work, etc.)
• Educational Technothics (cyber-bullying, cyber democracy, digital
divide, e-learning ethics, emancipatory educational technology,
professional technoethics, technoethical assessment and evaluation,
etc.).
Prospective authors should note that only original and previously
unpublished articles will be considered. INTERESTED AUTHORS MUST
CONSULT THE JOURNAL’S GUIDELINES FOR MANUSCRIPT SUBMISSIONS at
http://www.igi-global.com/development/author_info/guidelines
submission.pdf PRIOR TO SUBMISSION. All article submissions will be
forwarded to at least 3 members of the Editorial Review Board of the
journal for double-blind, peer review. Final decision regarding
acceptance/revision/rejection will be based on the reviews received
from the reviewers. All submissions must be forwarded electronically
to .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address).
PUBLISHER:
The International Journal of Technoethics is published by IGI Global
(formerly Idea Group Inc.), publisher of the “Information Science
Reference” (formerly Idea Group Reference) and “Medical Information
Science Reference” imprints. For additional information regarding the
publisher, please visit http://www.igi-global.com.
All inquiries and submissions should be should be directed to the attention of:
Dr. Rocci Luppicini, Editor-in-Chief
International Journal of Technoethics
E-mail: .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)
http://www.igi-global.com/ijt
CFP: Animals in Place
Updated: February 14 2010
We are seeking chapter proposals for an edited collection
investigating the relationship between animals and place.
Multidisciplinary in its scope, the editors encourage submissions
across the natural sciences, social sciences and humanities. The
editors envision a book that acknowledges and considers the role of
place in the multiple situated encounters between human and other
animals.
Questions to be considered:
• How, if at all, do concepts of domestic, wild or feral places affect
the contours and outcomes of encounters?
• How might the relational space change when we encounter individuals
of a species in distinctly different places (i.e. enclosed versus open
spaces)?
• In co-constructing knowledge about non-human animals, is space
considered?
• How, if at all, are factors, such as chance, spontaneity and
imagination, impacted by the locations we encounter animal others?
• What do non-Euclidean ideas of space offer to human-animal
relationships?
We encourage potential contributors to negotiate the dynamic role of
place in human-animal interactions and ethical relationships.
Encounters in a variety of spatial and relational configurations will
be included in the volume, enlivening and contributing to a collective
imagining of animals in place, particularly the place of humans in a
multispecies and multidimensional world.
Please submit proposals for chapters (500 words, maximum) and a short
CV by March 1, 2010.
Submissions should be sent to both Dr. Traci Warkentin
(.(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)) and Gavan P.L. Watson (.(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)).
Selected submissions will be notified by April 5, 2010. Completed
chapters will be due by August 1, 2010.
For more information visit: http://www.gavan.ca/aip/
Science as Culture
Updated: February 14 2010
Science as Culture
The Construction of Personal Identities Online: a Special Issue of Minds and Machines
Deadline: December 15 2011
URL: 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).
Call for papers: Volume 11 of ‘Advances in Medical Sociology’ - Sociological Reflections on Neurosci
Deadline: February 15 2010
Updated: January 15 2010
Editors: Ira van Keulen (Rathenau Institute) and Martyn Pickersgill
(University of Edinburgh)
(Series Editor: Professor Barbara Katz Rothman)
Abstracts due: February 15th 2010
The Advances in Medical Sociology book series seeks submissions for a new volume on sociological reflections on the neurosciences. Neuroscience is an increasingly influential and prestigious branch of biomedicine, gaining ever more traction within a variety of policy, professional and public cultures. In some respects, neuroscientific ideas and concepts are replacing genetics as a paradigm for understanding the body, the mind and social order, and the relationships between these domains. Neuroscience therefore demands attention from sociologists. However, to-date, debate around the ‘new brain sciences’ has been limited within sociology, and it has mostly been ethicists who have opened up discussions on the important ethical and epistemological issues neuroscience raises. As a consequence, many of the discussions on the social, ethical, legal and policy implications of the rapidly growing field of the neurosciences have been primarily speculative and theoretical. Thus for this volume of Advances in Medical Sociology: Sociological Reflections on Neuroscience we are specifically looking for articles based on empirical research, from socio-historical analysis to ethnographic research, from surveys to in-depth interviews .
This edited volume of Advances in Medical Sociology aims to be a benchmark text in sociological analyses of neuroscientific research and practice. Accordingly, we call for papers addressing a wide variety of issues pertaining to the sociology of neuroscience, including - but not limited to - the following topics:
1) knowledge representation in (medical) neuroimaging studies 2) changing perceptions of neurological conditions (e.g. Alzheimer’s Disease, Parkinson’s Disease) and ‘cognitive functions’ (e.g. attention, memory) within the clinic and in wider society 3) the neuroscientific (re)construction of psychopathology (e.g. autism, ADHD, depression) 4) the links between neuroscience, clinical practice and subjectivity (including the politics and meanings of ‘neurodiversity’) 5) the rise of novel clinical neurotechnologies (e.g. neurofeedback, deep brain stimulation and transcranial magnetic stimulation) 6) representations of the (diseased) brain within and beyond the media 7) changing perceptions of the mind-body relationship 8) the governance and regulation of medical neuroimaging (including the development and implementation of clinical neuroethics) 9) the international production and flow of neuroscientific concepts, knowledge and technology 10) neuroscientific understandings of ‘sociological’ terms and concepts such as gender and racism
This list should be treated as suggestive rather than prescriptive, and we welcome papers that with other germane issues (such as the degree to which longstanding sociological concepts like ‘biographical disruption’ and ‘medicalisation’ have explanatory or descriptive power in thinking about neuroscience, and the potential contribution neuroscience might make to sociology).
Potential contributors should email a 300-500 word abstract by Monday February 15th to: .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address). Informal enquiries to this address are also welcome. Name and institutional affiliation of author(s) should also be supplied, including full contact details of the main author. Proposals will be reviewed by the editors, and authors notified by 5th April. The deadline for full submissions (7500-8500 words) will be 1st September. Publication of the volume is expected in late 2011.
Canadian Journal of Media Studies Call for Papers: Media, Knowledge and the Network University
Deadline: February 28 2010
URL: http://cjms.fims.uwo.ca/default.htm
Updated: January 13 2010
2009 marks the 30th anniversary of the publication of Jean-Fran ois Lyotard’s The Postmodern Condition: A Report on Knowledge. “[I}t is common knowledge,” he wrote, “that the miniaturization and commercialization of machines is already changing the way learning is acquired, classified, made available, and exploited” (1984, org. 1979: 4). In 2010, “Connected Understanding” will be the theme of the Congress of Social Sciences and Humanities in Montreal (http://www.fedcan.virtuo.ca/congress2010/). The Canadian Journal of Media Studies announces a special issue on Media, Knowledge and the Network University edited by Bob Hanke, York University, and David Spencer, University of Western Ontario.
The massification and informationalization of the university has transformed not only the content of teaching and research but also disciplinary processes of knowledge production and the technological form of academic life and culture. The integration and normalization of ICT’s raises many questions about the university, academic labour, scholarly communication and collaboration, and academic technoculture. In 1957, Marshall McLuhan invited us to reconsider the education process by announcing that, with the advent of television, the “classroom without walls” had arrived. A half a century later, we are working in the university without walls and the ICT “revolution” is over. In “Universities, wet, hard, and harder,” German media theorist Friedrich Kittler reviewed 800 years of university-based media history to observe that “universities have finally succeeded in forming once again a complete media system.” Yet media scholars have rarely chosen to study their own universities as media systems. This special issue of the CJMS is an invitation to reflexive, critical media studies. Established and emerging scholars are invited to address continuities and transformations in new media and the network university and to set the agenda for future study and debate.
Possible questions and areas of research and critical inquiry include:
What is unthought, unrepresented and unquestioned in discussions of the public university and the ‘neoliberal turn,’ technologically-mediated post-secondary education, and institutional initiatives in the virtualization of the educational process?
What is the impact of the cybernation of the university? What is happening in information technology (IT) infrastructure, planning and governance? What IT strategies are pursued by specific institutions in different jurisdictions? What is the role of IT professionals as intermediaries between IT industries, intermediating organizations, private-sector partners and the university? What is the faculty experience of ICTs, and IT “solutions,” services, and support?
What are the networks of possibility and affordances of technology, and what are the obstacles and limits? the unintended, unanticipated consequences? What hybrid methodologies, research techniques and software enhance our capacity to map the wireless campus and network condition of the university?
What philosophers of technology and politics are relevant to sharpening our thinking on the question of technology? What scholarly perspectives on invention, innovation and the process of emergence enable us to break the habit of instrumentalist thinking and discard the “tool” metaphor? How can we take technical artifacts, from small, portable technology to entire campus networks, out of their “black boxes” in order to study them? How does the technical substrate matter to our thinking? Our reading and writing of “texts”? Our notions of “research”?
How is the university embedded in the network society and cognitive capitalism? What are the drivers of IT change in universities? What are the consequences of the disjuncture between the digital culture and practices outside the university and IT (planning, procurement/evaluation/implementation, support and services) inside universities?
How can we move beyond user-centric approaches to Web 2.0 based software applications and learning management systems, peer-to-peer networks, and small tech in academic settings? In the new network culture, how can we grasp the relations between what is “given” and what is unlikely, surprising, unexpected and unrealized?
How can we move beyond debates over “student centered” learning and faculty deskilling to new models of reskilling and organized research networks, technological literacy and technologies of the common? How can we articulate scholarly “collaboration” and student “engagement” with a politics of knowledge (commodified knowledge, open scholarship and knowledge within the social sciences and humanities, popular knowledge, indigenous knowledge, etc.) that will strengthen the public mission of the university after the recession? How can we turn away from the “knowledge economy” and towards knowledge cultures? What does the prototype of the Canadian Institute for Health Research’s Knowledge Broker Model portend for the social sciences and humanities?
We also invite investigations of:
• computerization, campus networking strategies, and ICT-related organizational change since the advent of distributed computing, the Internet and the WWW
• space, time, speed and rhythm in the network university
• the production and operativity of networks and archives, scholarly journals and portals, web-based learning environments and objects, research cyberinfrastructure, critical cyberpedagogy, technological literacy, copyright/left, intellectual property rights
• open access movement, open access research, open educational resources, open courseware, institutional repositories, ‘Do it Yourself’ education or edupunk
• tropes of factory, ecology, network, mobility, common
• articulations and destabilizations of oral/written, actual/virtual, bureaucratic records/institutional memory, off-line/on line, knowledge creation/information sharing, formal learning on campus/informal learning off campus, amateur/professional, artist/researcher
• ideology of convenience, ethos of performativity, immaterial academic labour, general intellect, circuits of knowledge and struggle
• technological “progress,”“knowledge economy,” knowledge “transfer” or “mobilization,” creativity, innovation, academic freedom, academic capitalism
• the coming network university, knowledge futures, ecoethical perspectives on the university’s inputs and outputs and the discourse of “sustainability”
Since intellectual innovation may be engendered at the intersections of disciplines, contributions are welcome from outside of Communication and traditions and trajectories of media studies outside of Canada. Solo or collaborative work that provides a comparative, international perspective on the network university in different countries is especially welcome.
Submission Guidelines
Authors should submit papers of about 25 pages (or 8000 words) in MLA style with abstract and keywords electronically to David Spencer, Editor, .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address). With the exception of the title page, please remove all indications of authorship.
The deadline for papers is February 28, 2010. Peer review and notification of acceptance will be completed by March 31, 2010. Final manuscripts accepted for publication will be due April 30, 2010.
Comments and queries can be sent to Bob Hanke, Guest Co-Editor, .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address).
For more information about the Canadian Journal of Media Studies, visit http://cjms.fims.uwo.ca/default.htm
Llamada a artistas, científicos, historiadores de ciencia, animadores, documentadores, y cineastas
Deadline: January 10 2010
Updated: January 13 2010
En 1845, la revista “Scientfic American” se comenzó a publicar en los Estados Unidos. “La America Científica” una edición en Español, apareció en México en 1890 y dejo de ser publicada en 1905. Hay muchos misterios en esta historia. ¿Por qué se empezo y luego termino la publicacion? ¿Que significa su titulo “La America Científica?
En Latinoamerica, el término “America” se refiere a un solo continente (desde Alaska hasta Tierra del Fuego). En los Estados Unidos el término “America” se refiere a un país: Los Estados Unidos. ¿Quién es “La America Científica?” ¿Cuál es la visión de la ciencia y de la tecnología al sur de la frontera?
Estamos utilizando “La America Científica” y “Scientific American” como punto de partida y esperamos que usted también la encuentre como tal. Es en la fabricacion y el invento donde las artes entran en juego – en este caso la imaginación lleva a una corriente común, es la moneda que cruza todas las fronteras desde adentro hacia fuera, norte al sur. Sin embargo, debe haber diferencias. Mira!
Los Detalles:
El trabajo debe durar menos de 10 minutos. Las sumisiones deben enviadas por correo, y en DVD, VHS, o miniDV, y serán tambien consideradas para otras ediciónes.
Los participantes seleccionados para la publicacion recibirán 3 copias del diario de videos (La America Científica) y $50.00 (US). Promoveremos activamente el trabajo sobre estos diarios y también le informaremos si los diarios se muestran en diversos lugares. Fecha tope de entrega/presentación es el 10 de Enero de 2010.
Favor de enviar su trabajo a:
AstroDime c/o La Ciencia
119 Chelmsford Street
Lowell, Massachusetts 01851
USA
Las sumisiones no serán devueltas a menos que usted incluya franqueo. Para más información, contacte a .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address).
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Call for Papers: Special Issue of Theory, Culture and Society, ‘Beyond societies of risk and control
Deadline: February 15 2010
URL: http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/centres/css/downloads/cfp_tcs_risk_control_code_crisis sept09.pdf
Updated: January 13 2010
Financial, ecological and security crises currently grip the contemporary world. Crises are moments when ‘modern’ expectations of security and control are disappointed. However, demands for safety and security routinely spill over into anxieties concerning the proliferating mechanisms and apparatuses of control that ‘protect’ us and at the same time put us ‘at risk.’ Security and control name both lack and excess. Beck’s ‘risk society’ and Deleuze’s ‘societies of control’ whilst very different, share a concern with what we might call the /codings/ to which the natural and social worlds are made subject, and with the consequences which follow from those codings. Code offers a crucial starting point for any critical exploration of crises and conduct in crisis in their mutual supplementarity and interference. We ask that papers attend to slippages that occur when codes and codings respond to demands that the world be controlled or made safe. We are particularly interested in approaches that combine awareness of broader cultural and political economies of design, science, media, commodification, and subjectification with close attention to concrete material-technical situations (in media, in science, in popular culture, in the military, etc).
Topics of interest would include, but are not limited to:
• What are the genealogies of the forms of code and coding that currently organize our world?
• At what points do understandings of risk societies and societies of control converge or diverge in their treatment of code and codings?
• How do codes capture, entrain and exclude knowledges and forms; how do different orders of being are handled and rendered (in)compatible in coding?
General Call for Papers: East Asian Science, Technology and Society: an International Journal
URL: 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
Call for Articles and Book Reviews on Technology, Democracy, and Citizenship for Humanities and Tech
Deadline: March 31 2010
Updated: January 13 2010
HTR is the interdisciplinary peer reviewed journal, published annually, of the Humanities and Technology Association (HTA). Generally, it explores the interface between the humanities and technology. For the Fall 2010 edition, we are looking for article
submissions and reviews of books that address the 2009 conference theme: Technology, Democracy, and Citizenship.
The theme of Technology, Democracy and Citizenship raises important questions about how technology mediates relationships between individuals, civil society, and the nation-state. How does the management of technology affect democracy? How is technology used by under-represented or oppressed groups to address their condition? How do the socio-technical systems such as voting machines and social networking tools influence democratic processes? How does technology impact decision making with regard to public policy? How are media and ideology related? What challenges do ambient intelligence and surveillance pose to democracy? How do fiction, cinema, hip hop, and other art forms articulate such issues?
POSSIBLE TOPICS INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO:
• The consequences of limited access to technology.
• Technological literacy and its relation to citizenship.
• The politics of expertise.
• The history of technology in relation to democracy.
• The concepts of utopia and dis-utopia.
• Thoughtfulness and the public sphere.
• New media platforms and social networking tools.
• Cross-cultural perspectives.
• War technology and nation building.
• Environmental justice, social justice and diversity.
• National security and homeland defense.
• Hazard and disaster prevention, preparation, and recovery.
Author guidelines: Send all queries or manuscripts via email attachment to Frederick B. Mills, Editor, HTR (.(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)). All submissions must use APA format, MS Word 2007 without any special formatting, 12 font times new roman, and double spacing throughout. Do not insert page numbers, headers or footers. All manuscripts should be prepared for blind review. The deadline for papers is March 31, 2010.
Call for Papers: Spontaneous Generations: A Journal for the History and Philosophy of Science Scient
Deadline: February 26 2010
URL: http://jps.library.utoronto.ca/index.php/SpontaneousGenerations/
Updated: January 13 2010
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.
In addition to articles for peer review, opinion essays, and book reviews, Spontaneous Generations is seeking contributions to its focused discussion section. This section consists of short peer-reviewed and invited articles devoted to a particular theme. This year, the theme is “Scientific Instruments: Knowledge, Practice, and Culture.” See below for submission guidelines.
We welcome submissions from scholars in all disciplines, including but not limited to HPS, STS, History, Philosophy, Women’s Studies, Sociology, Anthropology, and Religious Studies. Papers from all periods are welcome.
The journal consists of four sections:
1. A focused discussion section devoted to Scientific Instruments (see below). (1000-3000 words recommended.)
2. A peer-reviewed section of research papers on various topics in the field of HPS. (5000-8000 words recommended.)
3. A book review section for books published in the last 5 years. (Up to 1000 words.)
4. An opinions section that may include a commentary on or a response to current concerns, trends, and issues in HPS. (Up to 500 words.)
With the “practical turn” in history and philosophy of science came a renewed interest in scientific instruments. Although they have become a nexus for worries about empiricism and standards of evidence, instruments only rarely feature as primary sources for scholars in the history and philosophy of science. Even historians of technology have been accused of underutilizing the evidence embodied in material objects (Corn 1996). The fundamental questions are not settled. First, there is no general agreement as to what counts as a scientific instrument: Are simulations instruments? Can people function as instruments? Do economic or sociological instruments operate in the same way as material instruments? There is a second, related debate about how scientific instruments work: Is there a unified account? Do instruments produce knowledge or produce effects? Do they extend our senses (Humphreys 2006) or embody knowledge (Baird 2006)? Third, HPS has seen a variety of approaches to fitting instruments into broader historical and philosophical questions about scientific communities and practices: Shapin and Schaffer (1985) relate instruments to the scientific life, Galison (1997) gives instrument makers equal footing with theorists and experimentalists within the trading zone of scientific discourse, and Hacking (1983) elevates instruments to central importance in the realism-antirealism debate. Finally, it seems plausible that there are methodological concerns specific to scientific instruments: What lessons can we draw from anthropology, material culture, and other allied fields?
We welcome short papers exploring the history and philosophy of scientific instruments for inclusion in Spontaneous Generations Volume 4. Submissions should be sent no later than 26 February 2010 in order to be considered for the 2010 issue.
Call for Papers: Philament: Borders, Regions, Worlds
Deadline: January 31 2010
URL: http://www.arts.usyd.edu.au/publications/Philament
Updated: January 13 2010
“Besides, interesting things happen along borders- transitions- not in the middle where everything is the same”.
Neal Stephenson
Philament, the peer-reviewed online journal of the arts and culture affiliated with the University of Sydney, invites scholars to contribute articles to our latest issue upon the theme of Borders, Regions, Worlds. Possible topics include, but are not limited to:
Mappings,Identity, Migration, Difference, Connections, Complexity, Systems, Community, Totality, Postcolonialism, Regionalism, Domesticity, Liminality, Nature, Landscape, Security, Capital(s), World-Building, Transgression, Alienation
Philament accepts submissions from current postgraduate students and early-career scholars (less than five years post-qualification).
Submissions may include:
Academic papers up to 8,000 words.
Opinion pieces: reviews (book, stage, screen, etc.), conference reports, short essays, responses to papers previously published in Philament, up to 1,000 words.
Creative works: writing, images, sounds or mixed media. Submissions should be limited to three pieces.
All submissions may be sent as an email attachment in a PC-readable format to .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) together with a submission form available from
http://www.arts.usyd.edu.au/publications/philament/submissions.htm
Academic papers must include endnotes and conform to Philament house style of referencing as detailed at the URL above. Philament will only accept submissions not previously published and not under consideration elsewhere.
Call For Papers: Eä – Journal of Medical Humanities & Social Studies of Science and Technology Vol.
Deadline: January 15 2010
URL: http://www.ea-journal.com/en
Updated: January 13 2010
Information for authors is available at the Information for authors section of our website http://www.ea-journal.com/en/information-for-authors . Any enquiries please contact us to .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address).
Eä, a periodical electronic journal in an interactive format publishing papers on Medical Humanities and Social Studies of Science and Technology, is available permanently at http://www.ea-journal.com, and aims to be in the junction between academic excellence and the development of the new technologies of information and social networks. The journal gathers a prestigious editorial committee, is peer reviewed by international referees and meets the requirements of periodical publications indexes. It publishes three issues a year (April, August, and December), is presented in Spanish and English, and accepts texts in Spanish, English, Portuguese and French, reaching global impact. This publication has been created under the Web 2.0 paradigm, with a dynamic layout that promotes user-reader’s interaction between them and with the website.
We invite you to go through our contents as well as through the news that are permanently updated in our website, and to submit papers for publication for our next issue.
Call to artists, scientists, historians of science, animators, documentarians, film makers
Deadline: January 10 2010
Updated: January 13 2010
1845, the magazine Scientific American began publishing in the United States. It was primarly a magazine of patents and invention. La America Científica was a Spanish language edition which appeared in Mexico in 1890, and stopped being published in 1905. There are many mysteries in this history..why did it start and stop? and what was meant by its title “La America Científica”?
In Latin America the term America refers to one continent (from Alaska to Tierra del Fuego). In the U.S. the term America refers to one country: the United States of America. Who is La America Científica? What is the vision of science and technology from south of the border? We are using La America Científica (and Scientific American) as a point of departure and hope you will as well. The making is where the arts come into play – for here the imagination carries a common current, is the currency that crosses all borders from inside to out, north and south. And yet at the same time, there must be differences….let’s look.
THE DETAILS:
Works should be under 10 minutes, or be able to be excerpted (please indicate which). Submissions should be by snail mail, and on DVD, VHS, or mini-DV, and will also be considered for other issues. Physical submissions much preferred to web URL’s.
People who are selected for publishing will receive 3 copies of the journal and $50.00 US. We will be actively promoting the work on these journals and will also inform you if the journals play in different
venues. Deadline is January 10, 2010.
Please mail your work to:
AstroDime c/o La Ciencia
119 Chelmsford Street
Lowell, Massachusetts 01851 USA
If you want it returned, please include a self-addressed stamped envelope. Preview copies should be on DVD, VHS, or mini-DV. For more info, contact .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address).
The AstroDime Transit Authority is a Think-Tank and public service organization that considers issues of transportation, communication and world and intergalactic citizenship. Our research includes curated video
shows, data collection, and performances which reveal and explores these issues. We publish a twice-yearly video journal called INtransit. For general questions about AstroDime Transit Authority, email
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Our web site is http://astrodime.wordpress.com/
Call For Papers: Special Issue of Minds and Machines on The Construction of Personal Identities Onl
Deadline: December 15 2011
Updated: December 31 1969
Call For Papers: Special Issue of Minds and Machines on The Construction of
Personal Identities Online
Guest Editors: Luciano Floridi, Dave Ward
Closing date for submissions: 15 December 2011
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 closing date for submissions is: 15 December 2011.
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Workshops:
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.
More information about the project and the workshops is available here:
http://www.philosophyofinformation.net/grants/pio/index.html
Please address any queries to Dave Ward: .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)
Call for Reviewers: Climate Change and Human Security in East Africa and The Horn of Africa
December 15 2009 |
URL: http://www.eashr.org
Updated: January 13 2010
Publication: East African Journal of Human Rights and Democracy
The East African School of Human Rights is preparing a special edition of the Journal due in Dec 2009. We are calling for paper reviewers for this edition.
Peer Review is a pro-bono service for an academic scholarly journal. The School is therefore requesting for volunteers to review paper submitted for possible publication in December 2009. All reviewers will be acknowledged in person and will receive a paper edition of the Journal where papers reviewed are published.
Interested persons should contact the undersigned for more details prferably within one week of this notice
Atunga Atuti O.J
Chief Executive Officer
east African School of Human Rights
P.O. Box 11391, 00100 Nairobi, Kenya
http://www.eashr.org
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Pharmaceuticals in Historical Context
October 22 2010 | University of Wisconsin
Deadline: March 15 2010
Updated: February 14 2010
The American Institute of the History of Pharmacy invites submissions for the 2nd Madison Medicines Conference, “Pharmaceuticals in Historical Context,” to be held 22-23 October 2010.
Pharmaceuticals – whether from natural sources or research laboratories – have been central to the treatment of disease throughout human history. The conference organizers welcome proposals for 20-minute papers that address the theme of placing medicines into
the social, political, economic, or philosophical context of any era or place using the tools of history.
Papers will be presented in plenary sessions over the two days in a workshop-style conference that seeks to foster and reflect the growing body of pharmaceutical scholarship across historical disciplines. Newer scholars are especially encouraged to submit abstracts. Some travel funds will be available for graduate students, and established scholars interested in using the scholarly resources of the American
Institute of the History of Pharmacy can apply for travel funds through the Sonnedecker Visiting Scholar Program (www.aihp.org).
Send abstracts of up to 250 words to: .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) by 15 March 2010. Abstracts should include the title of the paper, information concerning the research question examined, the sources used and preliminary results. Please also include your contact details (name, affiliation, e-mail-address). All papers are to represent
original work not already published.