Last updated 08/31/2010 by Jay Burlingham.
Spontaneous Generations latest issue available online
http://spontaneousgenerations.library.utoronto.ca/index.php/SpontaneousGenerations/issue/view/1073
Updated: August 31 2010
Spontaneous Generations: A Journal for the History and Philosophy of Science is pleased to announce the publication of its latest issue, Vol 4, No 1 (2010): "Scientific Instruments: Knowledge, Practice, and Culture"
2011-2012 Fellowships at IAS-STS in Graz, Austria
Deadline: December 31 2010
Updated: August 31 2010
The IAS-STS in Graz, Austria, promotes the interdisciplinary investigation of the links and interactions between science, technology and society as well as technology assessment and research into the development and implementation of socially and environmentally sound technologies. The IAS-STS is broadly speaking, an institute for the enhancement of science and technology studies.
The IAS-STS invites researchers to apply for a stay between 1 October 2011 and 30 June 2012 as a
- Research Fellow (up to nine months) or as a
- Visiting Scholar (shorter period, e.g. a month)
The IAS-STS offers excellent research infrastructure. Close co-operation with researchers at the IFZ (Inter-University Research Centre for Technology, Work and Culture; see: http://www.ifz.tugraz.at), guest lectures, workshops and conferences provide an atmosphere of creativity and scholarly discussion.
Furthermore we can offer five grants (up to EUR 1,000 per month) for long-term Research Fellows at the IAS-STS. The Fellowship Programme 2011-2012 is dedicated to projects investigating the following issues:
1. Gender – Technology – Environment: This area of research particularly focuses on gender dimensions of science and technology. On the one hand individual perspectives of actors in the technological field are taken into account, on the other hand educational, organisational, societal, environmental and political issues are gaining more and more relevance. Current promising research will also shed more light on the interrelation between individuals’ concepts and media representations of gender and technology.
2. Genetics and Biotechnology: A focus of the Fellowship Programme lies on research providing a critical analysis either of human genetics or of biotechnology. Researchers investigating either ethical, legal and social aspects of genetic testing in the medical domain or risk and wider governance issues related to agricultural biotechnology are especially encouraged to apply.
3. Sustainable Consumption and Production (SCP): SCP seeks to promote social and economic development within the carrying capacity of ecosystems. New strategies and concrete tools are needed to change individual and institutional patterns of consumption and to enhance corporate responsibility (CR) of organisations. Researchers investigating patterns of consumption and intervention strategies to promote sustainable lifestyles among both public and private consumers or working within the thematic field of ecological product policy are encouraged to apply. Research projects integrating product assessment tools such as LCA, carbon footprint, MIPS or related methods are also of special interest.
4. Energy and Climate: Projects in this field should aim at socio-economic aspects of environmental technologies or at strategies of environmental technology policy, such as user participation or strategic niche management. They should develop measures and strategies for the promotion of renewable energy sources and for the transition to a sustainable energy system. Regional governance, climate policy strategies, innovation policy and the role of users in the area of energy technologies play an important role. In addition, the Manfred Heindler Grant is awarded for research projects on the increased use of renewable energies and on a more efficient use of energy.
5. Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs): Novel developments in ICT-related fields are inquired from the perspective of the social studies and the philosophy of science and technology. This inquiry includes topics such as ICTs and agency (in Artificial Intelligence and beyond), ubiquitous computing and ICTs and mobility. These issues are analysed with respect to their wider social, psychological, ethical and political implications. Further issues of interest are the social shaping of ICT developments, innovation policies, ICT risk management and participatory approaches to the design of ICT systems and applications.
For further information, vist http://www.sts.tugraz.at/ or contact
Institute for Advanced Studies on Science, Technology and Society (IAS-STS)
Attn. Günter Getzinger
Kopernikusgasse 9
8010 Graz – Austria
E-mail: .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)
Grinnell’s book Everday Practice of Science Makes Royal Society Prize Shortlist
http://royalsociety.org/Royal-Society-Prize-for-Science-Books-2010-shortlist-announced/
Updated: August 27 2010
Fred Grinnell's book Everyday Practice of Science has been selected as one of the six finalists in competition for the
2010 Royal Society Prize for Science Books, winner to be announced in London on October 21.
Wolfe Chair in Scientific and Technological Literacy, McGill University
Deadline: October 15 2010
Updated: August 27 2010
The Faculty of Arts invites applications for the Wolfe Chair in Scientific and Technological Literacy. Established through a generous gift from a family foundation, the purpose of the Chair is to encourage better understanding of scientific and technological concepts across the general undergraduate student population, undertake research to provide broad and fundamental insights into the crucial importance of science and technology in society, and train graduate students to advance this field of study.
The Wolfe Chair will be expected to direct an academic and research program designed to ensure that students become familiar with critical scientific and technological concepts and terminology, including the scientific method and the importance of rigorous experimental controls in the design and evaluation of scientific and technical claims; to explore the social, cultural, ethical, economic, and political impact of scientific and technical innovation; and to promote a broad understanding of the scientific and technological basis of 21st century society, including the role of new technologies. The Wolfe Chair will also have the opportunity to play a leading role in the development of a new interdisciplinary program in science, technology and public policy.
The successful candidate will have the academic credentials necessary for a tenured appointment at the rank of Full Professor in the appropriate disciplinary department. Under exceptional circumstances the appointment may be at the rank of Associate Professor. Applications should include a letter of interest, curriculum vitae, and three letters of reference. Additional material pertaining to research and teaching will be requested at a later date. The position start date is August 1, 2011. Review of applications will begin on October 15, 2010 and will continue until the position is filled.
Please forward supporting materials to: Professor Christopher Manfredi Dean, Faculty of Arts McGill University 853 Sherbrooke Street West Montreal, Quebec, Canada H3A 2T6.
Endowed Chair in History of the Impact of Technology, University of Stuttgart
Deadline: October 01 2010
Updated: August 23 2010
In the Faculty of Philosophy and History at the University of Stuttgart (http://www.uni-stuttgart.de), a new W3-level endowed chair for the History of the Impact of Technology (Wirkungsgeschichte der Technik) is available for rapid appointment. This call for application is subject to approval by the Ministry of Science, Research and the Arts of Baden-Württemberg.
The holder of this professorship is to study the interactions between technology, society, and culture within a historical perspective, as well as to explore issues from this interconnected relationship extending into the present and future. The capacity for cross-disciplinary cooperation is indispensable. The holder of this professorship is expected to cooperate closely with the Stuttgart faculties of Architecture and Urban Planning, Energy Technology, Process Engineering and Biological Engineering, Computer Science, Electrical Engineering and Information Technology, Engineering Design, Production Engineering and Automotive Engineering, Mathematics and Physics, as well Management, Economics and Social Sciences. Furthermore, collaboration is expected with Stuttgart’s International Center for Research in Culture and Technology (IZKT.) As concerns teaching, besides the regular courses of the Faculty of Philosophy and History, the chairholder should also offer courses within the electives relevant to the mentioned other faculties. Very good command of the German language is necessary for teaching and academic services. The requirements for employment listed in § 47 and § 50 Baden-Württemberg university law apply. All interested candidates are encouraged to apply. Please send your application (by mail only, no emails) with the usual attachments (detailed CV, copies of diplomas and academic degree certificates, list of publications, list of seminars and lectures held) plus maximally four publications as PDF on a CD to the Dean of the Faculty of History and Philosophy, University of Stuttgart, Keplerstraße 17, D-70174 Stuttgart, Germany. Deadline for receipt of the application materials in Stuttgart is October 1st, 2010. The University of Stuttgart has established a Dual Career Program to offer assistance to partners of those moving to Stuttgart. For more information please visit the web-page under http://www.unistuttgart.de/zv/dezernat4/pers_entw/dual_career.html
Christine Mirzayan Science & Technology Policy Graduate Fellowship
Deadline: May 01 2011
Updated: August 20 2010
This Graduate Fellowship Program of the National Academies—consisting of the National Academy of Sciences, National Academy of Engineering, Institute of Medicine, and National Research Council—is designed to engage its Fellows in the analytical process that informs U.S. science and technology policy. Fellows develop basic skills essential to working or participating in science policy at the federal, state, or local levels.
Eligibility – Graduate students and postdoctoral scholars and those who have completed graduate studies or postdoctoral research in any social/behavioral science, medical/health discipline, physical or biological science, any field of engineering, law/business/public administration or any relevant interdisciplinary field within the last five years are eligible to apply. The program takes place in Washington, D.C. and is open to all U.S. and non-U.S. citizens who meet the criteria. However, non-U.S. citizens must be currently enrolled in a U.S. university and have proof of holding valid J-1 or F-1 status.
Session Dates – Winter/Spring: January 24-April 15, 2011 Fall: August 29 through November 18, 2011
Apply – Please visit
Application Deadline Dates – Winter/spring program: OCTOBER 15, 2010 Fall program: MAY 1, 2011 (Candidates may apply to both sessions concurrently.)
Stipend –A stipend grant award of $8,240 will be provided for the 12-week session to offset expenses.
Questions should be directed to: .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address).
Postdoc, Center for Nanotechnology in Society at UC Santa Barbara
Deadline: October 15 2010
Updated: August 20 2010
The NSF Center for Nanotechnology in Society (CNS) at the University of California, Santa Barbara seeks a highly qualified postdoctoral scholar who will conduct spatial analysis research on new media and emerging technologies, specifically nanotechnologies.
The successful candidate will join a team investigating social response to emerging nanotechnologies, and will take the lead in spatial analysis of nanotechnology risk (and innovation) coverage in new media, including the blogosphere and Twitter. Applicants should possess a Ph.D. (in hand by start of appointment) in geography or a related discipline with a strong background in visualization, spatial analysis, GIS/cartography, spatial statistics, and/or new media. Background in societal dimensions of nanotechnology is not required. Applicants should have experience in conducting independent research, a record of communicating research results via publications and presentations, and be willing to participate in collaborative, interdisciplinary research while in residence at UCSB.
UCSB has world-class resources in this area of research, and the successful candidate will have access to the expertise of the UCSB Center for Spatial Studies, including its Director Michael Goodchild, and the UCSB Center for Information Technology and Society, directed by Andrew Flanagin.
The position is full time, in residence at UCSB, with a salary of $42,000--$50,000 depending on experience, plus some health benefits and a modest research and travel budget. Preferred start-date for the position is Jan 1, 2011 (negotiable). The initial appointment is for one year, renewable, based on performance and availability of funding. Initial review of applications will begin on 15 October 2010, however the position will remain open until filled.
When applying, a prospective postdoctoral researcher should submit a full C.V., a relevant sample of published or submitted work, and a plan for research to be done while in residence at CNS with the Risk Perception interdisciplinary research group. The applicant should also provide two letters of reference, either with the application or mailed directly to the CNS. All application materials should be sent to:
Barbara Gilkes
CNS Assistant Director
ISBER MC 2150
University of California
Santa Barbara, CA 93106-2150
Email: .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)
Phone: (805) 893-3995 Fax: (805) 893-7995
The CNS-UCSB (cns.ucsb.edu) conducts collaborative interdisciplinary research on public and expert risk perception; technologies and the public sphere; science policy/public policy; the historical context of emerging technologies; new technology innovation policy and R&D systems; and globalization and technology development issues, including challenges to equitable development. CNS-UCSB research helps policy makers, scientists and engineers, industry, community organizations, and the general public understand the opportunities and risks that nanotechnology affords.
Scholar-in-Residence, Deutsches Museum, Munich
Deadline: October 17 2010
http://www.deutsches-museum.de/en/research/scholar-in-residence/
Updated: August 19 2010
The Deutsches Museum in Munich solicits applications to its Scholar-in-Residence program, for periods of either 6 or 12 months, with an application deadline of 17 October 2010. The program is international and interdisciplinary, and welcomes applications from scholars at all stages of their careers, from pre-doctoral to senior scholars. The Deutsches Museum is one of the world’s premier museums of science and technology and has extensive library, archives, and collections resources. It operates its own Research Institute, and has close ties to the history of science and technology programs in the three universities in Munich (Munich Center for the History of Science and Technology).
Fellowship, D. Kim Foundation for the History of Sci/Tech in East Asia
Deadline: December 31 2010
http://www.dkimfoundation.org/fellowships.html
Updated: August 19 2010
The D. Kim Foundation for the History of Science and Technology in East Asia is pleased to offer several annual fellowship awards and grants for 2011. Established in 2008 the D. Kim Foundation is dedicated to furthering the study of the history of science and technology in East Asia since the start of the 20th century.
The Foundation provides fellowships and grants to encourage and support graduate students and young scholars in the field. Comparative studies of East Asia and the West as well as studies in related fields (mathematics, medicine and public health) are also welcome. The Foundation also promotes the exchange and contact of people between the East and West, between old and young, or from different fields.
Professorship (Open Rank) in East Asian Science and Technology, Johns Hopkins
Deadline: January 10 2011
Updated: August 19 2010
The History of Science and Technology Department at Johns Hopkins University invites applications for the Bo Jung and Soon Young Kim Professorship in East Asian Science and Technology, starting 1 July 2011. Rank is open and we encourage applications from scholars at all levels. At the Assistant Professor level, the position is tenure-track, and at the Associate Professor level or above, the position will carry tenure. Ph.D. required; junior scholars should complete all Ph.D. requirements by the summer of 2011.
The position is open to all areas of scholarship within history of East Asian science or technology in the 19th and 20th centuries. Candidates should have a strong scholarly record and teaching experience. The position involves undergraduate and graduate teaching as well as supervision of graduate students. We seek someone who will be active in building the field of East Asian history of science and technology, who will work with scholars abroad and also with other faculty in Hopkins’ growing East Asian Studies Program. The Department emphasizes comparative study of history of science and technology and has strengths both in early modern and modern history of science and technology. We are strongly committed to developing East Asian history of science and technology. The Department has resources that will assist our candidate in this development through funds for research, cooperative projects with other scholars, conferences and other academic activities.
Please send a letter of application that describes scholarly activity and teaching experience, plus curriculum vitae and three references to: Prof. Sharon Kingsland, History of Science and Technology, Johns Hopkins University, 301 Gilman Hall, 3400 N. Charles Street, Baltimore MD 21218. Applications may be sent electronically to: .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) or by fax to Dr. Kingsland at 410-516-7502. Please do not arrange for letters of reference to be sent at the time of application; we will solicit letters directly. Review of applications will begin on 10 January 2011 and will continue until the position is filled.
Assistant Professor, History of Science, Princeton University
Deadline: October 15 2010
Updated: August 19 2010
History of Science. Assistant Professor, Tenure Track. Anticipated start date, 1 September 2011. The Department of History of Princeton University invites applications from scholars who specialize in the history of science, with a specialty in the period 1400 to 1750. Knowledge and ability to teach ancient and medieval science are also highly desired. Review of files will begin 15 October 2010, but applications will be considered until the position is filled. Applicants should provide a detailed letter of application and curriculum vitae. Applicants should also provide contact information for at least three recommenders as part of the online application process. Please apply online at http://jobs.princeton.edu
Asst/Assoc Professor, Medical Anthropology, University of Delaware
Deadline: October 15 2010
http://careercenter.aaanet.org/jobs#/detail/3511104
Updated: August 19 2010
The Department of Anthropology, University of Delaware, invites applications for a tenure-track position in medical anthropology at the assistant or associate professor rank, beginning September 2011. Ph.D. in anthropology required. We seek applications from candidates with scientific training who study the intersections of medicine, health, and society in an anthropological framework. We seek applicants from a broad range of backgrounds, including those with government or agency experience. Special attention will be given to applicants with a foundation in both biological and cultural anthropology and an established, ongoing fieldwork program. Research topics of particular interest include: the globalization of bioscience and the health industry; evolutionary medicine; health care delivery systems and providers; the impact of global health policies on local populations and cultures; lifestyle and epidemiology; disability, aging, or mental health; nutrition and diet; and fertility. The geographical area of specialization is open. Experience directing externally-funded, health-related research involving multiple researchers is desirable.
The Department of Anthropology at the University of Delaware offers undergraduate students a comparative, multicultural and cross-cultural, broad-based perspective on the human condition past and present. It offers majors in Anthropology and Anthropology Education. The successful candidate will contribute to the department’s established commitment to translational and applied research and field-based and hands-on learning, will teach introductory and upper-level courses, and direct undergraduate research in medical anthropology and global health topics.
The University of Delaware is strategically located in the Washington, D.C. to New York corridor, with strong relationships to major health centers, medical schools, and pharmaceutical companies. The University is engaged in a major expansion of its programs in health and global studies, including the development of a new Health Sciences Campus. The Department of Anthropology seeks an anthropological scholar-educator to collaborate and develop interdisciplinary and inter-institutional connections and programs of teaching and research with such units as the recently established Institute for Global Studies and the College of Health Sciences, including the School of Nursing, the Delaware Health Sciences Alliance, the Center for Translational Cancer Research in Delaware, the Center for Disability Studies, the Delaware Biotechnology Institute, and the Christiana Medical Center. The successful candidate will also contribute to the University’s undergraduate majors in Health Behavior Science and Health Studies, the Medical Scholars Program, minors in Medical Humanities and Public Health, undergraduate and graduate pharmacy and physical therapy degree programs, and the education of health sciences students in all majors.
The deadline for submission of applications is 15 October 2010. Submit letter of interest, cv, and three letters of reference to Dr. Lu Ann De Cunzo, Chair, Search Committee, Department of Anthropology, University of Delaware, Newark, DE 19716, and .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address). The curriculum vitae and letters of reference shall be shared with the search committee and departmental faculty. For additional information, contact Professor De Cunzo at .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address).
AAAS Science and Techonology Policy Fellowships
Deadline: December 05 2010
http://www.fellowships.aaas.org
Updated: August 19 2010
For more than 35 years, the AAAS Science & Technology Policy Fellowships have provided scientists and engineers with a unique opportunity to apply their knowledge and skills to national and international issues in the federal policy realm, while learning first-hand about establishing and implementing policy.
Fellows select assignments in Congressional offices or federal agencies. This is a year-long opportunity, beginning September 1 and ending August 31. Most federal agencies offer Fellows the ability to renew for a second year.
AAAS seeks candidates from a broad array of backgrounds and a diversity of geographic, disciplinary, gender, and ethnic perspectives. Fellows have ranged in age from late 20s to early 70s. They represent a spectrum of career stages, from recent PhD graduates to faculty on sabbatical to retired scientists and engineers. Fellows also come from a range of sectors, including academia, industry, non-profit organizations, and government labs.
AAAS partners with more than 30 scientific societies that also sponsor fellowships. They conduct separate application and selection processes and provide different stipend and benefits support. Individuals interested in the AAAS Science & Technology Policy Fellowships are encouraged to apply with all scientific societies for which they qualify.
The deadline is December 5th, 2010. AAAS accepts online applications only. Full details at http://www.fellowships.aaas.org
Research on ethical governance of information technology, Belgium
Deadline: September 10 2010
Updated: August 16 2010
Laboratory for ethical governance of information technology is hiring a researcher under the direction of Prof. Philippe Goujon (http://www.fundp.ac.be/universite/personnes/page_view/01005672/cv.html)
Term: 16 months 100% - M/F, beginning of October 2010 to 28/02/2012 (total 16 months)
Research lies within the scope of two European projects. Those projects investigate ethical governance in EU research projects with the goal of providing a framework for improved governance mechanisms that will address potential ethical issues arising from new and emerging technologies. Studying current governance arrangements in actual ICT projects (and in particular in Ambient Intelligence project) will help to produce a better understanding of the efficiency and limits of current ethics governance. This will be applied to the relevant ethical issues identified which will lead to a recommendation of successful governance arrangements that will address ethical issues in emerging ICTs before or as they arise. The recommendations for individual issues will be used to develop general policy recommendations.
The researcher's work will include: Review of ICT ethics governance - Research on ICT ethics governance in current European projects - Evaluation of effectiveness of current governance arrangements - Application of suitable governance arrangements to most relevant issues identified - Evaluation of viability of suggested governance arrangements
Qualifications: high level master (orPh.d. ) from philosophy or social sciences (with a good knowledge concerning ethics) with a strong interest in the problems involved in social integration, ethics and the governorship of new technologies.
Necessary qualities: · available, open-minded; · Scientific rigor and motivation for research; · Efficiency in the work and capacity to understand theoretical developments; · Perfect knowledge of power point; · Perfect spoken and written English; - the ability to work as part of a team; - the ability to produce written material of publishable standard.
Environment of research
- Facultés universitaires Notre-Dame de la Paix (http://www.fundp.ac.be/en/)
- Computer sciences department (http://www.fundp.ac.be/en/inf )
- an international network of 15 European labs expert in the field
Procedure of recruitment: CV, Interview (tel)and skype video, Test
CV and accompanying letter of motivation to be sent before 10 September (but sooner is better), 2010 by mail, post or fax to:
Professor Philippe Goujon
rue Grandgagnage, 21
5000 - Namur , Belgium
E-mail : .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)
Phone (Cellular) : +32 497 03 50 12
Fax : +32 81 72 49 67
Postdoctoral Fellowship, Max Planck Institute for the History of Science
Deadline: October 15 2010
Updated: August 16 2010
The Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin announces one two-year postdoctoral fellowship for up to two years, beginning in December 2010.
The fellow will join a project called “The Neurological Adolescent,” conducted by Dr. Suparna Choudhury in the framework of the interdisciplinary Critical Neuroscience group based in Berlin (http://www.critical-neuroscience.org ). The project is hosted in Department II at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, and is connected to the project “The Cerebral Subject: Brain and Self in Contemporary Culture.” Some of the research is conducted in collaboration with the Berlin School of Mind and Brain (http://www.mind-and-brain.de).
“The Neurological Adolescent” project examines the historical construction of adolescence and analyses of models of cognitive development and adolescent behaviour in twentieth century psychology and contemporary cognitive neuroscience. The project also investigates the appropriation of theories about affect and risk in adolescent psychiatry as well as social and health policy. Please see http://www.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/en/research/projects/MRG_Choudhury for a fuller description. Although projects must have a history of science component, projects may concern questions from a range of topics relevant to the rubric of the “Neurological Adolescent”, including:
adolescent brain development and educational policy biomarkers and neuroplasticity in adolescence adolescent “risk” in psychology and neuroscience plasticity and educability in 20th Century psychology and brain sciences
The future research fellow should hold a PhD in anthropology, history of science or related field, and must be familiar with neuroimaging research. Experience in a mental health or neuroscience setting would be an advantage. Candidates should be interested to conduct ethnographic research in neuroimaging laboratories. Consideration will also be given to excellent candidates with expertise in other relevant disciplines (cognitive neuroscience, STS, history and philosophy of science, psychiatry), but with openness to the other disciplines and a willingness to develop skills in qualitative research methods.
The candidate will devote 25% of time to organizational activities, including administrative duties involved in workshops and conferences, and will be expected to attend and present at regular meetings.
Outstanding junior scholars are invited to apply. Fellowships are endowed with a monthly stipend between 1.900 € and 2.300 € (fellows from abroad) or between 1.468 € and 1.621 € (fellows from Germany). Women are especially encouraged to apply. The Max Planck Society is committed to promote more handicapped individuals. The fellowships are open to candidates of all nationalities. The language at colloquia, workshops, and meetings is English.
Applications should be submitted in English. Candidates are requested to send a curriculum vitae, publication list, research prospectus (maximum 750 words), a sample text, and two letters of recommendation no later than October 15, 2010 to: Max Planck Institute for the History of Science Administration, PD-II-III Boltzmannstraße 22 D-14195 Berlin, Germany
Applications via e-mail should be addressed to Regina Held at .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)
Please address queries to Dr. Suparna Choudhury at .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) .
Links for further information:
Critical Neuroscience - http://www.critical-neuroscience.org
Berlin School of Mind and Brain - http://www.mind-and-brain.de
“The Cerebral Subject: Brain and Self in Contemporary Culture“ - http://www.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/en/research/projects/department2/projects/ DeptII_Cerebral_Subject/
Travel Grants for Graduate Students to Attend 2011 AAAS Annual Meeting
Deadline: December 01 2010
Updated: August 16 2010
Thanks to a generous donation from a member, Section L (History & Philosophy of Science) of the American Association for the Advancement of Science will offer a limited number of travel grants to assist graduate students studying history or philosophy of science presenting posters at the Association's next Annual Meeting in Washington, DC, February 17-21, 2011 (http://www.aaas.org/meetings/).
The submission information for posters is at http://aaas.confex.com/aaas/2011/poster/cfp.cgi/ and October 25 is the submission deadline. The grant is to defray costs of travel, lodging, and registration, to a maximum of $500. Highest preference will be given to graduate students who are presenting posters or otherwise on the program; secondary preference will be given to those who serve as session aides at the meeting (see http://meeting2011.aaas.org/sessionaide/default.aspx).
To apply, send a CV, a statement of support from your advisor, and a brief statement why attending this meeting would benefit your program of study, to Jonathan Coopersmith, Secretary, Section L, AAAS, .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address). The deadline for application is December 1. Notification of awards will be made by December 15.
SPECIAL ISSUE OF “THE INFORMATION SOCIETY” The Death, Afterlife and Immortality of Bodies and Data
Deadline: November 08 2010
Updated: August 15 2010
SPECIAL ISSUE OF ?THE INFORMATION SOCIETY?
The Death, Afterlife and Immortality of Bodies and Data
GUEST EDITORS
Connor Graham (University of Melbourne: http://disweb.dis.unimelb.edu.au/staff/cgraham/)
Martin Gibbs (University of Melbourne: http://disweb.dis.unimelb.edu.au/staff/martinrg/)
Dave Kirk (University of Nottingham: http://www.cs.nott.ac.uk/~dsk/)
John Phillips (National University of Singapore: http://profile.nus.edu.sg/fass/elljwp/)
CALL FOR PAPERS
?Anticipation?does not evade the fact that death is not to be outstripped?? Heidegger (1993:308)
As emergent information technologies increasingly pervade people?s lives, they are also increasingly a part of their dying and their deaths. For example, when someone dies, the connectivities and virtual communities supported by and lived through Facebook, MySpace and the like are transformed from viscous, ?living? portrayals of individuals in burgeoning personal social networks to digital memorials and components in more inert structures for someone who was. (Digital) photographs and video clips become a way to remember, commemorate, preserve and define various forms of digital immortality. Digital fragments such as text messages, Web pages, social networking sites, blog comments and so on populate an identity that promises to linger through these shards of ourselves as never before. However, as bodies decay and decompose after death, so do the digital fragments of the deceased slowly ossify and become fixed yet fragmentary traces of the life that once was. These ?digital life documents? (Plummer, 1983) are then not only dependent on the producer and their immediate connections. They are also supportive of connections that remain after the producer is no longer alive as a part of larger ecologies of interests and exchanges where rules and customs are still evolving. They move from being part of the milieu of simultaneity (Jaureguiberry, 2000) to the property of history and ?glacial time? (Urry, 2000).
?As people spend more time at keyboards, there?s less being stored away in dusty attics for family and friends to hang on to?The pieces of our lives that we put online can feel as eternal as the Internet itself, but what happens to our virtual identity after we die??[Faure, 2009]
Attention has recently turned to how social networking sites can become a form of memorial (Fletcher, 2009; Faure, 2009; Kera and Foong, 2009; van den Hooven, 2008) and how emergent technologies can define new forms of immortality and afterlife. As demonstrated by the quotation above, there is a temptation to apply what we know of the analogue world to the digital and argue, as with paper and offices (Sellen and Harper, 2002), that digital media will simply replace the physical stuff of rituals, ceremonies and ongoing remembering. These are the kinds of assumptions we wish to question and probe through this special issue. Our interests extend beyond commentary, discussion and debate around remembering and commemoration. They also extend beyond consideration of issues of access (i.e. who can get at the remains of the dead and how), representation (i.e. how the dead and their remains can be represented), control (i.e. who manages the transition from being to being remembered and how this is done) and maintenance (i.e. who is responsible for keeping the dead?s fragments available, accessible etc). Through examples drawn from actual cases, thorough analyses and well-argued conceptual discussions we also wish to address the practical, social, conceptual and ethical issues with:
- dealing with the physical and digital remnants of the once living.
- the ongoing management of the social ties between the living and the dead.
- the management of the ?stuff? (i.e. bodies, data, objects) involved in death.
- the possible extension of ?being-in-the-world? through the hybridisation of once living, sentient beings with other biological and robotic entities.
- support for death cults (e.g. http://www.vhemt.com) and desecration through digital technologies.
- the potential for immortality through digital macabre celebrations of death (e.g. http://www.mydeathspace.com), digital mashups of the dead?s digital fragments (e.g. http://www.dziga.com/human-victor).
- new forms of grieving and commemorating via emerging technologies through, for example, the generation of digital archives for individuals and ?those that follow? alike (e.g. http://www.croptrust.org).
- different visions of the preservation, afterlife and immortality of self and society through the digital.
- cultural issues with dying, death, afterlife and technology.
We also wish to reflect on how the apparent ubiquity and uniformity of new technologies contrasts starkly with the diversity of beliefs and cultural practices with regard to dying, death and afterlife. Some of the questions we wish to address through this special issue include (but are not restricted to):
- How do we appropriately design, store and archive the dead?s digital fragments and how can grieving, remembering and ?letting go? be supported through them?
- What are the issues around ordinary technologies transforming into memorials, evoking powerful memories, nostalgia etc?
- How will this ever-increasing mass of ?dead? data be managed and by whom?
- Should ?freedom of choice? concerning death be supported/promoted/safeguarded against through technologies such as social networking tools?
- What are the legal and ethical implications of digital desecration and the hybridisation of (the remains of) the dead with the living?
- What are the implications of and insights provided by the inevitable end of ?civilisation? for the design and management of digital resources?
These issues promise not only to stretch our analytical approaches and tools but also our methods, methodologies and ethical frameworks. Thus we wish to elicit submissions that address themes relevant to this call and, more generally, to ?The Information Society? journal (http://www.indiana.edu/~tisj/). Through eliciting these responses we hope to gather together in a single volume a series of high quality, scholarly articles that are accessible to non-specialists to deepen our understanding of issues concerning technology, death and afterlife and immortality through new data, perspectives, conceptual treatments and/or analyses.
SUBMISSIONS
Appropriate longer submissions (up to 7,500 words) include: - Extended reports from the field; - Critical literature reviews; - Discursive pieces exploring themes; - Deployments/evaluations of relevant technologies.
Shorter submissions (4,000 words) can include: - Reflections on approaches and methods; - Opinion pieces; - Early reports on studies of technologies in situ; - Design proposals addressing particular themes.
Papers will be due on 8th November 2010. We will aim to return reviews with feedback on acceptance/rejection and the need for any changes four months after that.
We recommend authors familiarise themselves with the scope and demands of ?The Information Society? journal (http://www.indiana.edu/~tisj/) before submitting. Submission guidelines for authors are available from: http://www.indiana.edu/~tisj/contributors/authors.html. Authors should send digital manuscripts to: Martin Gibbs (martin [dot] gibbs [at] unimelb [dot] edu [dot] au) or Connor Graham (cgraham [at] unimelb [dot] edu [dot] au). Authors should also feel free to correspond with the special issue editors if they have any questions or are planning to submit an article.
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Fletcher, D. (2009). What Happens to Your Facebook After You Die? Time. October 28, 2009. Available online [http://www.time.com/time/business/article/0,8599,1932803,00.html ]. Accessed November 2009.
Heidegger, M. (1962). Being and Time, translated by John Macquarrie & Edward Robinson. New York: Harper.
Jaureguiberry, F. Mobile Telecommunications and the Management of Time. Social Science Information (Information sur les Sciences Sociales). 2000; 39(2): 255?268
Foong P.S. & Kera D. 2008. Applying Reflective Design To Digital Memorials. SIMTech ?08. Cambridge, UK.
Plummer, K. Documents of Life: An Introduction to the Problems and Literature of a Humanistic Method. London: Allen & Unwin; 1983
Sellen, A., & Harper, R. H. R. (2002). The Myth of the Paperless Office. Cambridge MA: MIT Press.
van den Hoven, E., Smeenk, W., Bilsen, H., Zimmermann, R., de Waart, S., and van Turnhout, K. (2008) Communicating Commemoration. In Graham, C. and Rouncefield, M. (2008) Proceedings of the Second International Workshop on Social Interaction and Mundane Technologies (SIMTech?08). Lancaster University.
Urry, J. (2000). Sociology beyond Societies: Mobilities for the Twenty-First Century, London: Routledge.
Tenure-track Position in Science, Technology and Society, Lafayette College
Deadline: October 15 2010
Updated: August 15 2010
Lafayette College is seeking an exceptional teacher/scholar with expertise in Science, Technology, and Society (STS) for a tenure-track position in the interdisciplinary Engineering Studies Program. The Program awards a Bachelor of Arts degree in Engineering Studies. The candidate’s teaching and scholarly interests and experience in Science, Technology, and Society will broaden current faculty expertise in engineering policy and engineering economics and management. Relevant research areas that will complement the program’s existing strengths in environmental issues and engineering management include, but are not limited to: energy, gender, health, and telecommunications. The successful candidate will teach the Program’s Capstone Seminar in Engineering and Society; develop and teach interdisciplinary courses that attract students from across campus as well as in the major; work closely with students through independent study and undergraduate research; and advise Engineering Studies majors. Candidates must have at least one degree in engineering and be committed to teaching and scholarship in one or more areas within STS. The successful candidate will demonstrate that he or she is committed to pedagogical excellence and scholarship in an exclusively undergraduate, liberal arts environment; prior teaching experience is desirable. Lafayette College is committed to creating a diverse community: one that is inclusive and responsive, and is supportive of each and all of its faculty, students, and staff. All members of the College community share a responsibility for creating, maintaining, and developing a learning environment in which difference is valued, equity is sought, and inclusiveness is practiced. To apply, send a CV, letter of application that includes a description of teaching and scholarly interests, and list of three potential references to .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address). Review of applications will begin on October 15, 2010.
Social Science of Garbage.
Deadline: October 01 2010
Updated: August 15 2010
Archaeologists and anthropologists have long studied artifacts of refuse from the distant past as a portal into ancient civilizations, but examining what we throw away today tells a story in real time and becomes an important and useful tool for academic study. Trash is studied by behavioral scientists who use data compiled from the exploration of dumpsters to better understand our modern society and culture. Why does the average American household send 470 pounds of uneaten food to the garbage can on an annual basis? How do different societies around the world cope with their garbage in these troubled environmental times? How does our trash give insight into our attitudes about gender, class, religion, and art? The Encyclopedia of Consumption and Waste explores the topic across multiple disciplines within the social sciences and ranges further to include business, consumerism, environmentalism, and marketing. Each article ranges from 600 to 3,000 words. We are now making assignments due October 1, 2010.
This comprehensive project will be published by SAGE Reference and will be marketed to academic and public libraries as a print and digital product available to students via the library’s electronic services. The General Editor, who will be reviewing each submission to the project, is Dr. William Rathje, emeritus University of Arizona, the top scholar in the field.
If you are interested in contributing to this cutting-edge reference, it is a unique opportunity to contribute to the contemporary literature, redefining sociological issues in today’s terms. Moreover, it can be a notable publication addition to your CV/resume and broaden your publishing credits. SAGE Publications offers an honorarium ranging from SAGE book credits for smaller articles up to a free set of the printed product or access to the online product for contributions totaling 10,000 words or more.
The list of available articles is already prepared, and as a next step we will e-mail you the Article List (Excel file) from which you can select topics that best fit your expertise and interests. Additionally, Style and Submission Guidelines will be provided that detail article specifications.
If you would like to contribute to building a truly outstanding reference with the Encyclopedia of Consumption and Waste: The Social Science of Garbage, please contact me by the e-mail information below. Please provide a brief summary of your academic/publishing credentials in related issues.
Thanks very much. Joseph K. Golson .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)
Postdoc in Social Impacts of Technology at University of Alabama, Birmingham
Updated: August 15 2010
Dr. Shelia Cotten, a professor in the Sociology and Social Work department at the University of Alabama, Birmingham (UAB), is seeking to hire a Postdoctoral Fellow for a 1-2 year postdoc position. The position is available immediately but the start date is somewhat negotiable. The postdoc will work with Dr. Cotten to analyze data from existing research projects and to collect survey, interview, and observational data on upcoming research projects. Projects focus on technology usage across the life course and the social impacts of this usage, thus experience studying either specific age groups, and/or the impacts of technology use, would be preferable but is not required. Dr. Cotten, with funding from the National Science Foundation, is leading the largest study of the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) XO laptop dissemination in the United States. She also has a large NIA grant studying the impacts on quality of life of training older adults in assisted and independent living communities to use computers and the Internet. A doctoral degree in Sociology, Psychology, Communication, New Media, or a related field is required before beginning the postdoctoral fellowship. Candidates must have (1) strong quantitative and/or qualitative analysis skills, (2) experience writing manuscripts, and (3) good organizational and time management skills. Prior publication and grant writing experience will enhance the application.
The Postdoctoral Fellow is a 12 month, full-time appointment, with salary up to $45,000 depending upon qualifications. Benefits are also provided. See http://www.postdocs.uab.edu/ for more information on postdoc benefits at UAB. Funding may be available to support travel for conference presentations. Submit the following application materials as attachments via email to Dr. Shelia Cotten - .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)
- Cover letter describing training, skills, research interests and how they fit with those described in the position advertisement, and why you're interested in this position.
- Names and contact information for three references
- An up to date curriculum vitae
UAB is a Carnegie designated RU/VH: Research University institution with a population of approximately 17,000 undergraduate and graduate students. UAB's Medical School is in the top 25 in the U.S. The Department of Sociology and Social Work houses the Center for Social Medicine and is affiliated with the Lister Hill Center for Health Policy, the Center for Aging, and others. The Department offers Bachelor's degrees in Sociology, Social Work, and Social Psychology, the MA in Sociology, and the Ph.D. in Medical Sociology. Metropolitan Birmingham is home to over 1 million people and is at the foothills of the Appalachian Mountains, with plentiful cultural and recreational opportunities.
Sociologias
Deadline: September 01 2010
Updated: August 15 2010
We hereby invite you to publish an article on the Sociologias journal (http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_issuetoc&pid=1517-452220090002&lng=en&nrm=iso), as a dossier in the subject area of Social Studies in Science & Technology. Sociologias is a semi-annual publication of the Graduate Program in Sociology, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul - UFRGS/Brazil (http://www.ufrgs.br/ppgs), intended to promote exchanges between social scientists both in Brazil and internationally; it accepts original studies in the form of articles, book reviews, and research communications. With a pluralistic orientation that seeks to broaden the spaces for the expression of the various currents that exist in the social sciences field, this journal opens up debate themes and approaches that present interfaces with sociology. The council of outside consultants consists of researchers in the specific areas of the articles.
The following themes are suggested for this dossier:
· Biosociability and heterogeneity: the technoscientific narrative as a substrate for somatic identities;
· Disputes for resources and power struggles in the scientific field: discourse and rhethoric analyses in the construction of “strategic knowledge”;
· STS studies and environmental sociology;
· Theoretical and comparative discussion on the main concepts and approaches in the sociology of science and technology;
· Democratic deliberation and decision models in large socio-technical undertakings;
· The role and scope of regulation and ethics in convergent technologies: nanotechnology, biotechnology, cognoscience, and information sciences;
· Technological incarnation in bodies and their consequences on social interactions: difference, personality, and awareness in view of the development of neuroscience, biotechnology, information sciences, and nanotechnology.
· Relationship between plain and applied research within the context of technoscience;
· Discussion on the models of public participation and regulations in science and technology;
· Debate on expertise and scientific and technological controversies;
· The production of scientific legitimacy and its relationship with political counseling;
· The problem of the ontological division between nature/culture as compared with convergent technologies: what is the theoretical and conceptual future of human sciences?
· Studies on scientific controversies involving case studies;
· Empirical STS studies in technologically dense environments, with complex sociotechnical practices and heterogeneous mobilization of human and non-human entities, dependent upon special management structures and organizational practices;
· Sociology of risk and scientific controversies.
We would like very much to count on your participation in this dossier, which will be published in the first semester of 2011. The deadline for submitting the article is September, 2010.
Please find article formatting information attached to this letter. If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact us.
The journal is indexed with the following databases:
• Cambridge Scientific Abstracts / Sociological Abstracts
• CLASE - Citas Latinoamericanas en Ciencias Sociales y Humanidades
• DataÍndice – IUPERJ
• LAPTOC – Latin American Periodicals Tables of Contents
• Latindex (Directorio)
• Portal Quorum de Revistas (http://www.quorumderevistas.org)
• Redalyc – Red de Revistas Científicas de América Latina, el Caribe, España y Portugal
• SocINDEX with Full Text - EBSCO.
Annals of Science best paper prize 2010
Deadline: September 30 2010
Updated: August 15 2010
Submissions are being accepted for the Annals of Science best paper prize 2010. This prize is now awarded annually to the author of an original, unpublished essay in the history of science or technology, which is not under consideration for publication elsewhere. The prize, which is supported by Taylor & Francis, is intended for those who are currently doctoral students, or have been awarded their doctorate within the past four years. Essays should be submitted to the Editor in a form acceptable for publication in Annals of Science (see the Journal’s webpage for a style guide, http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/authors/tascauth.asp). The winning essay will be published in the Journal, and the author will be awarded US$500 and a free subscription to Annals of Science! Papers should be submitted by 30th September 2010, with the winner being notified by 31st December 2010. The Editor’s decision is final. For more information please go to: http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/pdf/competitions/tasc_2010.pdf
New Book from Roberto Abadie: The Professional Guinea Pig
http://www.dukeupress.edu/Catalog/ViewProduct.php?productid=18847
Updated: August 05 2010
The Professional Guinea Pig documents the emergence of the professional research subject in Phase I clinical trials testing the safety of drugs in development. Until the mid-1970s, Phase I trials were conducted on prisoners. After that practice was outlawed, the pharmaceutical industry needed a replacement population and began to aggressively recruit healthy, paid subjects, some of whom came to depend on the income, earning their living by continuously taking part in these trials. Drawing on ethnographic research among self-identified “professional guinea pigs” in Philadelphia, Roberto Abadie examines their experiences and views on the conduct of the trials and the risks they assume by participating. Some of the research subjects he met had taken part in more than 80 Phase I trials. While Abadie found that the professional guinea pigs tended to believe that most clinical trials pose only a moderate health risk, he contends that the hazards presented by continuous participation, such as exposure to potentially dangerous drug interactions, are discounted or ignored by research subjects in need of money. The risks to professional guinea pigs are disregarded by the pharmaceutical industry, because it has become dependent on the routine participation of experienced research subjects. Arguing that financial incentives compromise the ethical imperative for informed consent to be freely given by clinical-trials subjects, Abadie confirms the need to reform policies regulating the participation of paid subjects in Phase I clinical trials.
“Roberto Abadie has given us a deep, complex, and profoundly disturbing investigation into the dark underside of the clinical trials industry. The Professional Guinea Pig is not just ethnography. It is a call to action.”—Carl Elliott, author of Better than Well: American Medicine Meets the American Dream
For more information, and to order the book directly from Duke University Press, please visit http://www.dukeupress.edu/Catalog/ViewProduct.php?productid=18847
Assistant Professor in Environmental Political Theory, UConn
Deadline: October 01 2010
Updated: August 05 2010
The Political Science Department, in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at the University of Connecticut, located in Storrs, Connecticut, is seeking to hire a tenure-track assistant professor to begin August 23, 2011.
The position focuses on Political Theory and we are seeking applicants grounded in the history of ideas, either Western or non-Western and who address contemporary debates in political theory and specifically environmental political theory. We envision this new hire being able to focus on environmental theory from one of many diverse directions. Possibilities include, but are not limited to: economic, transitional, or global justice; race, gender or ethnicity; or global citizenship. Duties will include teaching, research, and service.
In keeping with the University's academic plan aimed at building strength around environmental research and curriculum, this faculty member will contribute to the Environmental Studies major under development, the graduate and undergraduate programs in Political Science, and could be affiliated with the Center for Environmental Science and Engineering (CESE).
Minimum qualifications for the position include: Requirements for a Ph.D. in Political Science or related field completed by start date of employment; evidence or promise of a strong research/publication record; the ability to teach courses in political science at both the graduate and undergraduate levels; and a primary focus on environmental political theory. Equivalent foreign degrees are acceptable.
Preferred qualifications include a research focus in economic, transitional, or global justice, race, gender or ethnicity, or global citizenship; and the ability to contribute through research, teaching, and/or public engagement to the diversity and excellence of the learning experience.
The successful candidate's primary academic appointment will be within the Department of Political Science at the main campus in Storrs, CT. The incumbent may have the opportunity to work at the University’s campuses at Avery Point, Hartford, Stamford, Torrington, Waterbury, or West Hartford. Salary will be commensurate with background, qualifications, and experience.
Applicants should visit Husky Hire at www.jobs.uconn.edu to upload their curriculum vitae, a letter of application, statement describing research plans and teaching interests, selected scholarly papers and publications, and three letters of reference by October 1st, 2010. Applications will be reviewed until the position is filled. Search # 2011033.
Open rank position, History of Science, Harvard University
Deadline: November 12 2010
Updated: August 05 2010
The Department of the History of Science, Harvard University, seeks to appoint an outstanding scholar working in any area of the history of science, technology, or medicine who will play an active role in shaping the field. The position is open as to rank. The Department is especially interested in candidates with exceptional promise as scholars, teachers and mentors, who are able to offer courses at the undergraduate and graduate levels. We welcome applications that will strengthen the diversity of the department. The appointee will have significant intellectual and administrative responsibilities in building initiatives that complement and expand on existing strengths. Applications should include a c.v., an outline of present scholarly projects and future plans, a statement of teaching experience and approach, and three letters of recommendation. Please address application materials to .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) or Search Committee c/o Marcus Dahmen, Department of the History of Science, Harvard University, Science Center 371, 1 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA 02138, U.S.A.
Assistant Professor in Environmental Sociology at Rutgers University
Deadline: October 18 2010
http://sociology.rutgers.edu/facjob.html
Updated: July 23 2010
The Department of Sociology at Rutgers University-New Brunswick seeks to hire a tenure track assistant professor specializing in environmental sociology, broadly defined. The position will begin Fall 2011 pending budgetary approval. Research and teaching interests could include (but are not limited to) environmental change, sustainable development, population and environment, environmental knowledge production, information technology, environmental justice and inequality, environmental networks, and social movements. Theoretical and methodological orientations are open. We will begin reviewing applications on October 18, 2010. Applications received after that date cannot be assured full consideration. Please send a cover letter, curriculum vitae, and 1-2 writing samples to us at .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address). We also require three recommendation letters; letters should be sent to .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) as well. Rutgers has a historical commitment to hiring a highly diverse faculty. We are also an NSF ADVANCE institutional transformation university, working to support the careers of women faculty, especially in the science and engineering disciplines.
Assistant Professor of Anthropology, Ohio State University
Deadline: November 01 2010
http://careercenter.aaanet.org/jobs/3456089/assistant-professor
Updated: July 15 2010
The Ohio State University invites applications for a tenure-track position as Assistant Professor of Anthropology beginning academic year 2011-2012, pending availability of funds. The position is for a cultural anthropologist whose research and teaching focus on cultural, social, and biocultural approaches to infectious disease in particular and to health in general. The emergence of infectious diseases that impact both human and animal populations presents significant global challenges (e.g., tuberculosis, H1N1, avian influenza, HIV). Anthropogenic climate change, profound alterations of landscapes and unprecedented deforestation, shifts in land use patterns, agricultural intensification, accelerated resource extraction, and remarkable population growth are producing ecological disruptions that the world is only now beginning to grapple with, including threats to health. The complexity of factors contributing to the emergence and re-emergence of infectious diseases and their global impact demand innovative and interdisciplinary approaches. These approaches must consider local and global forces in the development of solutions to issues relating to health. Anthropology has much to bring to the study and mitigation of infectious disease and health. In particular, a cultural anthropologist will employ a holistic approach that considers behavior, culture, and society, as well as the larger political and economic forces that drive changes and provide the conditions that promote infectious disease. The anthropologist recruited will use ethnographic and epidemiological methods of data collection and analysis. This position helps to widen the scope of analysis beyond the traditional framework of biomedicine, and link the cultural, social, and economic landscape in order to understand disease origin, spread, transmission, mitigation, and prevention. The hire will join a department having an empirical, quantitative orientation and wider focus on ecology, evolution, health, and diet. Priority given to applicants emphasizing ethnographic fieldwork and demonstrated ability to interact creatively with colleagues in archaeology and physical and cultural anthropology. Geographic area open. Ph.D. required. Evidence of productivity and excellence in research and teaching required. Ability to teach introductory sociocultural anthropology, anthropological theory, and an ethnographic area/regional course highly desirable. Deadline for applications is November 1, 2010. Send letter of application, CV, and names and contact information of three references to Anthropology Search Committee, Department of Anthropology, 4034 Smith Laboratory, 174 W. 18th Avenue, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH 43210-1106.
Assistant Professor in Medical Anthropology, Stanford University
Deadline: November 15 2010
http://careercenter.aaanet.org/jobs/3457722/assistant-professor-medical-anthropology
Updated: July 15 2010
he Department of Anthropology at Stanford University invites applications for a tenure-track faculty appointment in medical anthropology. The appointment will be made at the Assistant Professor rank. Applicants with a broad range of geographical and topical interests will be considered.
For full consideration, materials must be received by November 15, 2010. The term of appointment would begin September 1, 2011. We strongly urge candidates to apply before November 1, 2010, so they can be screened for possible interviews at the AAA Meetings in New Orleans, November 17-21, 2010. Send vita, letter describing qualifications and interests, one example of written work and the names of three referees to Professor Tanya Luhrmann, Chair, Medical Anthropology Search Committee, Department of Anthropology, Building 50, Main Quad, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305-2034.
Grants - History of Electricity
Deadline: October 29 2010
Updated: July 15 2010
The EDF Foundation offers grants to graduate students. Four grants of 2500 euros each and three to six grants, varying from 1250 up to 2500 euros each, will be awarded under the supervision of the Committee for the History of Electricity of the EDF Foundation.
*The selection will be based on the following criteria: originality of the subject, preparation and quality of presentation of the project. The project must deal, at least partly, with the history of electricity in France, Europe or elsewhere in the world (but with a comparative approach with Europe in this case).
The payment of the grant will be conditional upon the signature of an agreement. The thesis or dissertation will be written either in French, English, German, Spanish or Italian. A 10-page summary in French will be required for the works which won¹t be in French.
The application will include:
- a letter in which the candidate requests a grant, gives the precise subject of his/her research, as defined with his/her supervisor, and binds him/herself to respect the agreement if he/she is selected ;
- a presentation of the research project mentioning the sources, the methodology, the questions to be raised, and a short bibliography (6 10p.);
- a detailed *curriculum vitae*;
- a description of the financial resources of the candidate during the research;
- a letter of recommendation from the research supervisor, appreciating the candidate and approving the project;
- a photocopy of the student card or an attestation of research delivered by the university or the research center the candidate is affiliated with.
The application must be sent in a folder or attached to an email stating the name, the forename, the postal address, the phone number and the electronic address of the candidate. *It must be mailed or emailed before the 29th of October, 2010*
E-mail: .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)
American Association for the History of Medicine Award - William H. Welch Medal, 2011
Deadline: October 31 2010
http://www.histmed.org/awards.htm
Updated: July 15 2010
The William H. Welch Award is named in honor of a major American figure in the history of medicine and public health, who was among the first faculty at the Johns Hopkins medical school. The Medal was first presented in 1950, to Henry Sigerist, and is awarded to one or more authors of a book (excluding edited volumes) of outstanding scholarly merit in the field of medical history published during the five calendar years preceding the award. Hence, books published during 2005–2009 inclusively will be eligible for the 2011 Medal. Previously nominated books should be re-nominated each year that they are eligible; they will not be considered automatically. The Medal will be presented at the next annual meeting of the American Association for the History of Medicine, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 28 April – 1 May 2011. The chair of the Welch Medal Committee, Keith Wailoo, Ph.D., welcomes suggestions of books to consider for the award. To nominate a book, contact Dr. Wailoo at Department of History, Princeton University, 129 Dickinson Hall, Princeton, NJ 08544-1017 (e-mail: .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)). Deadline for nominations: 31 October 2010.
American Association for the History of Medicine Award - J. Worth Estes Award, 2011
Deadline: January 15 2011
http://www.histmed.org/awards.htm
Updated: July 15 2010
This award was established in honor of J. Worth Estes, M.D., in recognition of his many years of invaluable contributions to the American Association for the History of Medicine and to scholarship in the history of medicine. The award is made annually for the best published paper in the history of pharmacology during the previous two years, whether appearing in a journal or a book collection of papers. The choice of topic reflects Worth Estes’s long tenure as Professor of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics at Boston University and his own scholarship in the history of pharmacology.
For the purpose of this award, the history of pharmacology will be defined broadly to include ancient and traditional material medica, folk medicines, herbal medicines, the pharmaceuticals and medications of the modern era, pharmaceutics, and the like. It shall encompass the discovery of medicaments, basic investigations about them, their characteristics and properties, their preparation and marketing, and their therapeutic applications.
While the committee will be monitoring relevant journals and books where such papers might appear, they welcome nominations of papers that would be eligible for consideration. The nomination should consist of a letter citing the work nominated along with a copy of the paper. For the current award, candidate papers will be those published in 2009 and 2010. Papers in languages other than English should be accompanied by a translation or detailed precis. Nominations should be directed to the J. Worth Estes Award Committee Chair, John Swann, The FDA History Office, Room 3322, White Oak Building 32, 10903 New Hampshire Avenue, Silver Spring, MD 20993 (e-mail: .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)). Nominations must be received by 15 January 2011.
The award will be presented at the annual meeting of the AAHM in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 28 April– 1 May 2011. As a result of a generous contribution in honor of Worth Estes from a member of the Association, the award will be accompanied by a $500 check.
American Association for the History of Medicine Award - Shryock Medal Essay Contest, 2011
Deadline: January 15 2011
http://www.histmed.org/awards.htm
Updated: July 15 2010
Graduate students in the United States and Canada are invited to enter the Shryock Medal Essay Contest. The medal honors Richard Harrison Shryock (1893–1972), a pioneer among historians interested in the history of medicine. The award is given for an outstanding, unpublished essay by a single author on any topic in the history of medicine. The essay (maximum 9,000 words, including endnotes) must be the result of original research or show an unusual appreciation and understanding of problems in the history of medicine. In particular, the committee will judge essays on the quality of writing, appropriate use of sources, and ability to address themes of historical significance.
The winner will be invited to attend the 2011 meeting of the Association, 28 April – 1 May, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, where the medal will be conferred. Reasonable travel expenses for the winner will be provided, as will a two-year complimentary membership in the AAHM. If the Shryock Medal Committee also selects an essay for honorable mention, its author will receive a certificate and a two-year complimentary membership in the AAHM.
This competition is open to students enrolled in a graduate program in any discipline, including medicine, in the United States or Canada at the time of submission. No student should submit an essay to both the Shryock Medal and Osler Medal competitions in the same year. Essays that have been awarded an Honorable Mention are not eligible for resubmission.
Complete contest information may be viewed on the AAHM Web site (www.histmed.org/Awards) or obtained from the Shryock Medal Committee Chair: Alexandra Stern, Ph.D., University of Michigan, Center for the History of Medicine, 100 Simpson Memorial Institute, 102 Observatory, Ann Arbor, MI, 48109-0725 (e-mail: .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)). Essays must be postmarked or submitted electronically via e-mail (which is the preferred method of submission) no later than 15 January 2011.
Assistant Professor of Sociocultural Anthropology, Reed College
Deadline: October 18 2010
http://careercenter.aaanet.org/jobs/3442440/assistant-professor-of-sociocultural-anthropology
Updated: July 15 2010
Department of Anthropology invites applications for a tenure-track appointment at Asst. Prof rank in sociocultural anthropology to commence August 2011. We are seeking a teacher-scholar with research specialization in sub-Saharan Africa, but anthropologists focusing on Latin America and South/Southeast Asia are also strongly encouraged to apply. We welcome a colleague whose research combines situated ethnographic and historical engagements and control of relevant field language(s) with a macroscopic/global scale of inquiry. Research should address some subset of the following: global political economy, governmentality, science and technology studies, mediascapes, cosmopolitanism, human rights/humanitarianism, violence, or posthumanism. Theoretical expertise should include both contemporary approaches and broader historical contexts of the discipline and of Western social thought. Reed is on the semester system with a teaching load of five courses per year; all students write a senior thesis. Ph.D or ABD required. An Equal Opportunity Employer, Reed values diversity and encourages applications from underrepresented groups. Applications must be received by October 18, 2010. Preliminary interviews will be conducted at the November 2010 AAA convention in New Orleans. Electronic applications are required and must be sent as a PDF (preferred) or Word attachment. Send cover letter, vita, and names of three references to .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address). Phone: 503 777 7545.
Sociocultural Anthropologist (Assistant or Associate level) at University of Utah
Deadline: November 15 2010
http://careercenter.aaanet.org/jobs/3442178/sociocultural-anthropologist
Updated: July 15 2010
The Department of Anthropology, University of Utah, seeks a sociocultural anthropologist for a tenure-track position at the assistant or associate professor level. The successful candidate will have an active research program that uses evidence to evaluate theoretically-motivated hypotheses, and considers the cultural, environmental, and/or historical context of empirical findings. Area of specialization is open, but an interest in health-related issues, broadly construed, is a plus.
Please send C.V., description of current and future research, publications and names and addresses of four referees to Chair, Search Committee Department of Anthropology University of Utah 270 S 1400 E RM 102 Salt Lake City, UT 84112-0060
Applications should be received by November 15, 2010, for earliest consideration. The search committee may consider applications received after this time until the position is filled. This position is currently available with the starting date of July 2011.
Tenure-stream Assistant Professor position at Colgate University
Deadline: October 01 2010
http://careercenter.aaanet.org/jobs/3372394/tenure-stream-position-in-anthropology-asst-prof
Updated: July 15 2010
The Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Colgate University invites applications for a tenure-stream position in Anthropology at the level of Assistant Professor (Ph.D. expected by time of appointment) to commence in the 2011-2012 academic year. The Department invites applications from candidates committed to interdisciplinarity, ethnographic fieldwork, and social theory. Areas of scholarly interest are open, but we are looking for candidates who complement the existing strengths of the department. Teaching interests in one or more of the following are desirable: transnationalism or migration; social movements; collaborative or indigenous archaeology; race and postcolonial theory; urban ethnography; medicine and the body. Geographic area of expertise is open, but the department especially encourages applications from candidates who work in Latin America, South or Southeast Asia. Teaching duties will include Introduction to Cultural Anthropology or Research Methods, and a Senior Research Seminar, and will include participation in the University’s Liberal Arts Core Curriculum (teaching an interdisciplinary course in the candidate’s areas of specialization). Women and minority scholars are especially encouraged to apply. Colgate is a highly selective, liberal arts college located in central New York. Review of applications will begin October 1, 2010. Send letter of application, c.v., and one article-length writing sample, and have three letters of recommendation sent to: Carolyn Hsu, Chair, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Colgate University, 13 Oak Drive, Hamilton, NY 13346.
Annals of Science Best Paper Contest
Deadline: September 30 2010
http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/pdf/competitions/tasc_2010.pdf
Updated: July 15 2010
Submissions are being accepted for the Annals of Science best paper prize 2010. This prize is now awarded annually to the author of an original, unpublished essay in the history of science or technology, which is not under consideration for publication elsewhere.
The prize, which is supported by Taylor & Francis, is intended for those who are currently doctoral students, or have been awarded their doctorate within the past four years. Essays should be submitted to the Editor in a form acceptable for publication in Annals of Science (see the Journal’s webpage for a style guide, www.tandf.co.uk/journals/authors/tascauth.asp).
The winning essay will be published in the Journal, and the author will be awarded US$500 and a free subscription to Annals of Science! Papers should be submitted by 30th September 2010, with the winner being notified by 31st December 2010. The Editor’s decision is final.
Dibner 2011-2012 Fellowships
Deadline: December 15 2010
http://www.huntington.org/huntingtonlibrary.aspx?id=566#dibner
Updated: July 15 2010
The Dibner History of Science Program offers historians of science and technology the opportunity to write and to study in the Burndy Library and the other history of science and technology resources at the Huntington.
Short-Term Awards
Eligibility: PhD or equivalent; or doctoral candidate at the dissertation stage.
Tenure of fellowship: One to five months.
Amount of award: $2,500 per month.
Long-Term Awards
Eligibility: PhD or equivalent. Applicants must have received the PhD by June of 2010.
Tenure of fellowship: Nine to twelve months.
Amount of award: $50,000.
Applicants can be conducting research or already be at the writing stage and need reference materials only.
Wagner Fellowship in Philosophy of Risk, University of Pittsburgh
Deadline: November 15 2010
http://www.pitt.edu/~pittcntr/Joining/wagner_risk_fellow_application.html
Updated: July 15 2010
The Center for Philosophy of Science seeks applications from scholars in philosophy of science for a fellowship in philosophy of risk for the academic year 2011-2012. The Wagner Fellow will reside in Pittsburgh for the term of the fellowship and work in the Center for Philosophy of Science.
The Fellow will:
• undertake an original research project in the philosophy of risk from a philosophy of science perspective;
• participate as a fellow in the intellectual life of the Center for Philosophy of Science;
• organize an open call conference on the philosophy of risk to be held in the Center for Philosophy of Science at the conclusion of fellowship period.
Applicants should:
• have a doctorate in philosophy, in history and philosophy of science, or in a closely related field;
• be a more senior scholar at least five years past the awarding of their doctorate;
• have an established record of scholarship pertinent to philosophy of risk.
Fellowship stipend: US$65,000, to be paid in eight monthly installments between September 2011- April 2012 and also a supplementary budget to support the conference.
American Association for the History of Medicine Award - Lifetime Achievement Award, 2011
http://www.histmed.org/awards.htm
Updated: July 15 2010
This award was established in 1988; the first recipients were Saul Jarcho, Lester King, and Owsei Temkin. The award is given annually to a member of the Association who has retired from regular institutional affiliation or practice, with a distinguished record of support of the history of medicine over many years, and who has made continuing scholarly contributions of a distinguished nature. The Lifetime Achievement Award Committee welcomes nominations for the award, which should include one or two paragraphs of explanation and support for the nomination. For complete application details and additional information about the Award, please see the AAHM Web site: http://www.histmed.org
Pressman–Burroughs Wellcome Fund Career Development Award in 20th Century Hist Medicine or Science
Deadline: December 31 2010
http://www.histmed.org/awards.htm
Updated: July 15 2010
This award honors Jack D. Pressman, Ph.D., a distinguished historian of medicine and Associate Professor of the History of the Health Sciences at the University of California, San Francisco at the time of his early and unexpected death in June 1997. The award and stipend of $1,000 is given yearly for outstanding work in twentieth-century history of medicine or medical science, as demonstrated by the completion of the Ph.D. and a proposal to turn the dissertation into a publishable monograph.
The Ph.D. must have been completed and the degree granted within the last five years (i.e., 2006–2010). The application must include a curriculum vitae, the dissertation abstract, a one-page summary of the proposed book; a description (not exceeding two pages) of the work to be undertaken for publication; and two letters of support from faculty members knowledgeable about the applicant’s dissertation. Electronic copies of materials are preferred.
The Award will be presented at the 2011 meeting of the Association, to be held in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 28 April –1 May. The application, including all supporting materials, must be postmarked by December 31, 2010, and addressed to the Chair of the Pressman–Burroughs Wellcome Committee, Erika Dyck, Ph.D., Department of History, 9 Campus Drive, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, SK S7N 5A5, Canada (e-mail:erika.dyck@usask.edu) More information may be obtained from the AAHM Web site (www.histmed.org) or from the Committee Chair.
2011-12 Harkness Fellowships in Health Care Policy and Practice
Deadline: September 13 2010
http://www.commonwealthfund.org/fellowships
Updated: July 15 2010
The Commonwealth Fund invites applications from mid-career professionals (e.g. academic researchers, government policymakers, clinicians, managers, and journalists) from Australia, Germany, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Switzerland, and the U.K. Harkness Fellows spend up to 12 months in the U.S. working with leading experts to conduct a research study that addresses a critical issue on the health policy agenda in both the U.S. and their home country. The Fellowship awards up to U.S. $107,000 which covers roundtrip travel to the U.S., a living allowance and project-related funds. For more details about the Fellowship program, application process, and suggested project themes, please visit the Fund’s web site at http://www.commonwealthfund.org/fellowships
The Commonwealth Fund aims to promote a high performing health care system that achieves better access, improved quality, and greater efficiency, particularly for society's most vulnerable.
American Association for the History of Medicine Award - Osler Medal Essay Contest, 2011
Deadline: January 15 2011
http://www.histmed.org/awards.htm
Updated: July 15 2010
The William Osler Medal is awarded annually for the best unpublished essay on a medical historical topic written by a student enrolled in a school of medicine or osteopathy in the United States or Canada. First awarded in 1942, the medal commemorates Sir William Osler, who stimulated an interest in the humanities among medical students and physicians. The writer of the winning essay will be invited to attend the 2011 AAHM meeting, 28 April- 1 May, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, where the medal will be conferred. Reasonable travel expenses will be provided, as will a two-year complimentary membership in the AAHM. If the Osler Medal Committee also selects an essay for honorable mention, its author will receive a certificate and a two-year complimentary membership in the Association.
*All students who are candidates for the degree of Doctor of Medicine or Doctor of Osteopathy, or are graduates of the class of 2010, are eligible. The essay must have been written while the entrant was a student in good standing. Students are not eligible to compete for the Osler Medal if, by the closing date of the competition, they have completed at least one full year of graduate training in history, the history of science or medicine, or the humanities or social sciences. Medical students who have been enrolled in a graduate program in history or a related discipline should submit their essays to the Shryock competition. No student should submit an essay to both competitions in the same year. Essays that have been awarded an Honorable Mention are not eligible for resubmission.
*Essays may pertain to the historical development of a contemporary medical problem, or to a topic within the health sciences related to a discrete period of the past, and should demonstrate either original research or an unusual appreciation and understanding of the problems discussed. The essay (maximum 9,000 words, including endnotes) must be entirely the work of one contestant.
*Complete contest information may be viewed on the AAHM Web site (www.histmed.org/Awards) or obtained from the Osler Medal Committee chair: Joel D. Howell, M.D., Ph.D., Departments of History and Internal Medicine, University of Michigan. E-mail: .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address). Entries must be e-mailed to the chair no later than 15 January 2011.
Tenure-Track Assistant Professor in History of Science and/or Technology, Harvey Mudd College
Deadline: September 16 2010
Updated: July 15 2010
Harvey Mudd College invites applications for a tenure-track Assistant Professor position in the History of Science and/or Technology beginning Fall 2011. We are conducting a broad search, but the successful candidate will be expected to teach the modern segment of the three-course sequence on the history of science and technology. Candidates should have completed the Ph.D. degree and be able to provide evidence of excellence in teaching and promise of significant scholarship.
HMC is a highly selective institution that offers majors in the sciences, mathematics, and engineering. The position is in the Department of Humanities, Social Sciences, and the Arts, an interdisciplinary department supporting a broad-based liberal arts program, and the teaching load is five semester-courses per year, including a writing-intensive first-year seminar. HMC’s membership in the Claremont consortium offers significant opportunities for cooperation and collaboration with disciplinary colleagues at the Claremont Colleges and the Claremont Graduate University as well as participation in the Intercollegiate Program in Science, Technology, and Society. Situated approximately 35 miles east of downtown Los Angeles, HMC offers easy access to LA’s vibrant cultural scene and is also convenient to the Huntington Library, which includes the Burndy Library and other collections in the field.
Applicants should send a letter of application, CV, a sample of scholarly work (no more than 35 pp.), three letters of recommendation, course evaluations, a statement of teaching philosophy, and syllabi of three proposed courses to: Professor Hal S. Barron, Chair, History of Science and/or Technology Search Committee, Department of Humanities, Social Sciences, and the Arts, Harvey Mudd College, 301 Platt Blvd., Claremont, CA 91711-5990. If possible, submit these materials electronically to: .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address). Please include in the cover letter a statement about working in and promoting diverse academic environments. Applicants should indicate whether they plan to attend the SHOT meeting in Tacoma and/or the History of Science meeting in Montreal. While applications will be considered until the position is filled, we plan to conduct preliminary interviews at both meetings and files received by September 16 will be given preferred consideration.
Harvey Mudd College, an Equal Opportunity Employer, is committed to the recruitment of candidates historically underrepresented on college faculties. Experience with or demonstrated ability to effectively teach students from diverse backgrounds will be considered among criteria for appointment.
Call for Paper Proposals: “Oil Culture,” special issue under consideration with the Journal of Ameri
Deadline: September 01 2010
Updated: July 15 2010
Call for Paper Proposals: "Oil Culture," special issue under consideration with the Journal of American Studies
Guest Editors:
Ross Barrett, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)
Daniel Worden, University of Colorado at Colorado Springs .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)
Petroleum has long been recognized to be a dangerously volatile commodity whose illuminative and propulsive capacities are inseparable from its destructive potential. This catastrophic power has been reaffirmed by the succession of environmental disasters that have accompanied the global expansion of oil extraction--a series of ecological tragedies culminating in the 2010 Deepwater Horizon blowout--and the array of social antagonisms, global political conflicts, and chaotic economic cycles that have developed around the industry since its beginnings. Despite its disastrous implications, however, oil came to be embraced over the course of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries as an unassailable "fact" of everyday American experience, a core issue of national political platforms, and a reliable pillar of industrial and financial capitalism in the U.S. While much work has been done to track the material and political processes that made the dominance of oil capitalism possible, relatively little scholarship has addressed the rise of oil as a cultural problem.
For this special issue, we seek essays that explore the wide field of "oil culture" that has emerged around the American petroleum industry in the 150 years since its inception in northwestern Pennsylvania. More specifically, we are looking for articles that examine how painting, sculpture, video and digital art, film and photography, popular visual culture and music, television programming, the print and digital news media, literature, advertising, and other forms of public culture have contended with the volatile material of oil and the systemic shifts that it has produced, and in so doing contributed to, or contested, the reorientation of modern American life around oil consumption. We hope, ultimately, to assemble a roster of essays that elucidate the complex role that imaginative representations have played in the establishment of oil as the primary commodity underpinning modern economic expansion and a fundamental ontological construct shaping social and political life in the United States and beyond.
Papers might address a range of subjects and problems, including:
--artistic engagements with oil, the petroleum industry, and petro-carbon consumption --art, environmentalism, and sustainability --documentary photography and oil --cinematic and televisual interpretations of oil --oil in popular imagery and music --oil companies and cultural patronage --museums and the oil industry --oil advertising and marketing --petroleum at World's Fairs and Oil Expositions --architecture and the oil industry --the material culture of oil consumption --oil and the culture of automobility --race, class, and gender in the oil fields --oil, mobility, and subjectivity
Proposal Process:
Authors are asked to electronically submit an abstract of 500-1000 words and an abbreviated cv (two pages) to Ross Barrett (.(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)) and Daniel Worden (.(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)) by September 1, 2010. Abstracts should articulate the central arguments, historical and/or theoretical implications, and methodological approach of the proposed essay, and situate the essay within relevant scholarly conversations. The abstract and cv should be sent as Word documents or PDFs.
After reviewing the proposals, the editors will notify the selected authors and submit chosen abstracts to the Journal of American Studies by September 8, 2010. Upon acceptance by the journal, authors will be asked to submit a full copy of their article to the issue editors by January 2011. The full version of the article should not exceed 6000 words, and should be accompanied by a short abstract (200-300 words). All articles will go through the peer-review process, and it is on the basis of these reviews that articles will be selected for publication in the special issue.
For further information on the special issue, please see:
http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=177429
For further information on the Journal of American Studies, please see:
http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayJournal?jid=AMS
Networked Sociability and Individualism: Technology for Personal and Professional Relationships
Deadline: July 15 2010
Updated: July 15 2010
CALL FOR CHAPTER PROPOSALS
Proposal Submission Deadline: July 15, 2010
?Networked Sociability and Individualism: Technology for Personal and Professional Relationships,?
A book edited by Francesca Comunello Sapienza Universit? di Roma, Italy To be published by IGI Global: http://www.igi-global.com
Introduction
The rise of individualism has been recently described in terms of ?networked individualism? or ?individualized networking? (following Wellman and Castells). Instead of being organized in groups, our lives are articulated around multiple networks, while our forms of sociability are getting growingly increasingly privatized. The new patterns of sociability seem to be built on multiple me-centred networks: each person ?becomes a communication and information switchboard, between persons, networks, and institutions? (Wellman, 2004). Far from proposing an atomized vision of individuals, these Authors underline the growing degree of responsibility people experience in their everyday activity of relationship management. The concept that better describes the forms of sociability we are experiencing is, in my opinion, Castells? networked sociability. Digital technology is not determining this process: it is rather enabling each person to build and manage their own social networks, both on- and offline.
The recent popularity of Social Network Sites (SNS) such as My Space, Facebook, Linkedin, etc. shows that there is a growing interest in articulating, making visible, and managing personal or professional relationships through technology-enabled environments. The phenomenon addressed is wider than Social Network Sites, and includes the wide variety of ways in which people are linked to each other.
Objective of the Book
In the proposed publication we will on a variety of Social Media and Computer-Mediated Communication environments, in order to underline the ways in which people articulate their social relations and the related individualized identity performances. In this book's analysis, Social Network Sites will play a major but not exclusive role. For a better understanding of the identity performances and of the ties? strength, this book will not only focus on SNS, but rather consider the wider context, includingthe variety of ways in which people are linked to each other (a context where old and new media collide, and where mediated and face to face social relations are growingly integrated). Nevertheless, SNS are powerful playgrounds, both for the user and for the researcher. a sociological point of view, one of the main point of interest of Social Network Sites, let alone their constantly growing popularity among internet users worldwide, is that they represent powerful environments to observe publicly articulated self presentation and identity performances: SNS make such processes visible, trackable, and, therefore, easy to study. Far from constituting an alternative or ?virtual? world, social media are embedded in everyday life: using Social Network Sites, people connect to each other in ways they perceive seamless to face-to-face relations. Nevertheless, the above mentioned ?trackability? enables people?s awareness (we are now more consciously engaged in our personal network management). This book will analyze this increased consciousness, fully exploring the technology and impact of our social networks in the current social atmosphere.
Target Audience
? Academics: Scholars, Researchers, Students (Media Studies, Internet Studies, Education, Sociology, Psychology, etc.) ? Educators (Primary and Secondary School) ? Policy makers ? Consulting firms, marketing and communication experts
Recommended topics include, but are not limited to, the following: ? Networked individualism and networked sociability: theoretical perspectives; ? Social Network Sites: data on adoption and use (worldwide); ? Personal profiles and identity performances in digital networked media (including comparative and cross-platform approaches); ? New forms of sociability, on- and offline (including comparative and cross-platform approaches); ? Social Network Sites and New Media Literacy; ? Social Media and privacy concerns; ? People's different usage patterns (varying according to sex, age, individual attitudes, platforms, etc.); ? People's attitude towards specialized platforms; (business and recruiting platforms, social media sharing sites, UGC environments, etc.); ? Emerging trends.
Submission Procedure
Researchers and practitioners are invited to submit on or before July 15, 2010, a 2-3 page chapter proposal clearly explaining the mission and concerns of his or her proposed chapter. Authors of accepted proposals will be notified by July 30, 2010 about the status of their proposals and sent chapter guidelines. Full chapters are expected to be submitted by October 30, 2010. All submitted chapters will be reviewed on a double-blind review basis. Contributors may also be requested to serve as reviewers for this project.
Publisher
This book is scheduled to be published by IGI Global (formerly Idea Group Inc.), publisher of the ?Information Science Reference? (formerly Idea Group Reference), ?Medical Information Science Reference? and ?IGI Publishing? imprints. For additional information regarding the publisher, please visit http://www.igi-global.com . This publication is anticipated to be released in 2011.
Important Dates
Proposal Submission Deadline: July 15, 2010
Proposal Acceptance Notifications: July 30, 2010
Full chapter Submission: October 30, 2010
Review Results to Authors: December 15, 2010
Revised Chapter Submission: January 30, 2011
Final Acceptance Notifications: February 15, 2011
Submission of Final Chapters: February 28, 2011
Final Deadline: March 30, 2011
Inquiries and submissions can be forwarded electronically (Word document) or by mail to:
Dr. Francesca Comunello Department of Communication and Social Sciences University of Rome, La Sapienza Tel. +39 06 49918374 Mobile +39 333 9567857 email: .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)
Exploring Produsage New Review of Hypermedia and Multimedia Special Issue
Deadline: July 16 2010
Updated: July 15 2010
Call for papers The concept of produsage points to the shift away from conventional producer/consumer relationships, and highlights the more fluid roles of users and contributors within social media environments. Participants in open source projects, in Wikipedia, in YouTube and Second Life are no longer merely consuming or using preproduced material, but neither are they at all times acting as fully self-determined producers of fully formed new works; rather, they occupy a hybrid position as produsers of content.
Produsage processes are now evident across a wide range of activities - mainly online, but increasingly also extending to the offline world - from citizen journalism and communal knowledge management through to collaborative artistic activities, from learner-led education models to citizen engagement in political processes. As such models establish themselves, what does an examination through the lens of the produsage framework reveal about their internal operations? How do they affect the existing institutional, industrial, social, and cultural environments within which they operate? How may they be guarded against cooptation and exploitation by corporate interests? What possible futures do they foreshadow?
Potential contributions to this special issue could include, but are not limited to, areas such as:
* Conceptualising produsage: theoretical frameworks for examining produsage activities, practical examples of produsage projects, ... * Historical and comparative perspectives: produsage and other forms of collaborative and commons-based work, precedents of produsage, ... * Technologies and practices of produsage: collaborative dynamics of leading produsage spaces, impact of the technological foundations of produsage, ... * Empirical perspectives on produsage: case studies of produsage and its effects, ethnographic research into produsage communities, ... * Methodology: research approaches to the study of produsage, tracking and evaluating produser activities, ... * Critical perspectives: economic, legal, pedagogic, sociological perspectives on produsage, ...
For this special issue of NRHM, we invite contributions on these and other topics related to produsage. Full papers should be around 7,000 words; shorter papers (around 3,000 words) for technical notes, industry perspectives or opinion pieces are also welcome. More detailed instructions for authors can be found online: http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/nrhm. Queries should be directed to the Guest Editors. Authors should submit their papers online via the New Review of Hypermedia and Multimedia Manuscript Central site: http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/tham
Important dates July 16, 2010 Paper submission deadline September 24, 2010 Author notification October 15, 2010 Final copy due Spring 2011 Publication
Guest Editors Axel Bruns, Queensland University of Technology, .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) Jan Schmidt, the Hans-Bredow-Institute for Media Research (Hamburg), .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)
Old STS listserv (sts@nic.surfnet.nl) now incorporated at Google groups (sts_1@googlegroups.com)
Updated: June 28 2010
The old STS list (.(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)) is to be discontinued at the end of the 2010 calendar year, but the list has been incorporated at .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) which is freely accessible to the STS community for further communication.
Special Issue of New Media & Society: Internet Studies: The State of an Emerging Field
Deadline: December 31 2010
Updated: June 15 2010
Editor: Charles Ess, Guest Professor (Professor med s?rlige opgaver), Department of Information and Media Studies, Aarhus University, Denmark, and Professor, Philosophy and Religion, Drury University. and William H. Dutton, Professor of Internet Studies, Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford
Background
In 2005, Nancy Baym edited a special issue of The Information Society (Vol. 21, No. 4) that asked the question, ?Is ?Internet Research? a Virtual Field, a Proto-Discipline, or Something Else?? In 2010, two handbooks of Internet Studies will appear (edited by Hunsinger, Kastrup, & Allen [Springer] and Consalvo & Ess [Wiley-Blackwell]) while a third has been launched (Dutton [Oxford University Press]. These publications document the emergence and development of Internet Studies as a field of research and scholarship in its own right, one affiliated with a characteristic topoi of issues, research questions, methodologies, and its own distinctive ethics.
To further explore the broad terrains and structures of this emerging field, the Oxford Internet Institute is organizing a series of workshops and lectures over the next two years, intended to encourage and gather critical analyses and perspectives from a number of internationally-recognized scholars and researchers, along with younger colleagues whose research promises new insights and perspectives. The first of these workshops, held at Aarhus University on 19 March 2010, took stock of the field by critically assessing the two major volumes on Internet Studies (Consalvo and Ess 2010, and Hunsinger et al 2010), with a view towards developing further insights for the field, its current and future directions, and its (potential) significance and impact. Future workshops are being organized, including one that will be held in Barcelona in early 2011. Steve Jones (
A special issue of New Media & Society is intended (a) to encourage and collect the development of scholarly contributions developed initially for these workshops, and lectures, and (b) gather related scholarly research and reflections from the global community of Internet scholars and researchers. These contributions will build on the existing and forthcoming handbooks and related compilations to stimulate and inform global discussion about the emerging field of Internet Studies.
Accordingly, we invite contributions from across the range of disciplines applied to study of the Internet that address our thematic questions, beginning with: can ?Internet Studies? be discerned and demarcated as a field (or fields) of academic research and scholarship out of the rapidly growing body of research and scholarship intertwined with the Internet and the array of human interactions it facilitates? And: insofar as Internet Studies can be argued to exist as a field(s) ? what are its defining characteristics, including, e.g., a distinctive set of objects of study, research questions, methodologies, a body of findings and literature recognized as foundational or definitive, ethical guidelines, professional expectations, and whatever else we may argue to be necessary, if not sufficient, conditions for an academic field(s) of study?
Contributions may take one of two forms. One, authors may seek to develop comprehensive and authoritative overviews of how an important topos of research on the Internet (e.g., social interactions, emotion, identity play and development, etc., etc.) has been studied, important findings, and areas in need of further research. Two, authors may take a critical perspective on the field as a whole or any sub-field within this area. Generally, the special issue will not focus on the presentation of specific research, even though it might connect well with and reflect upon a broader synthesis or overview of a larger domain of Internet research. Other special issues and articles are well suited for the publication of original research. This issue will be more focused on generating the most stimulating syntheses of the field ? defining the vitality and overall state of the field.
Selected contributions will appear in the special issue of New Media & Society.
Submissions are due to the editors by December 31, 2010. Submissions accepted by the editors will be returned to the author(s) for any needed revision by 31 March 2011; final versions will be due back to the editors by 30 June 2011, followed by an external review process resulting in final acceptance / rejection / or acceptance with revisions. Final versions of accepted papers will be due by 1 December 2011. Authors? Guidelines are available on the New Media & Society website at
For further information about our workshops, lectures and this special journal issue, please feel free to contact either of the editors: Charles Ess: .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) William Dutton: .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)
Assistant Professorship at Missouri University of Science and Technology
Deadline: December 01 2010
Updated: June 10 2010
The Department of History and Political Science at Missouri University of Science & Technology (formerly University of Missouri-Rolla) invites applications for a tenure-track assistant professorship for fall 2011 in the history of science with a specialization in any area of European history (including Great Britain and Russia). Candidates must be prepared to teach survey courses in Western Civilization. Candidates must have PhD no later than August 15, 2011, and must provide evidence of excellence in teaching and scholarship. All application materials, including resume/c.v., cover letter, three reference letters, portfolio, etc. must be electronically submitted to the Missouri University of Science and Technology’s Human Resource Office using the following address: .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address).
Acceptable electronic formats that can be used include PDF and Word. Employment application materials (such as resumes, c.v., dossiers, cover letters, reference letters, transcripts, etc.) must be received in Human Resource Services not later than 4:00 pm on the application deadline date of 1 December 2010. Please remember to include the reference number listed with each job in your application materials that you submit. Missouri S&T participates in E-Verify. For more information on E-Verify, please contact DHS at: 1-888-464-4218. Contact .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) for assistance if needed.
Five Colleges Feminist Science Studies Tenure Track Position (Assistant Professor)
Deadline: September 22 2010
Updated: June 09 2010
UMass Amherst/Five Colleges, Assistant Professor, tenure track to begin Fall 2011
Emphasis on race, gender and science. Specialization in natural, social sciences or humanities, or interdisciplinary work. Focus could include the environment, technology, medicine, sexuality, transnational contexts, and/or the theory and practice of science. Ability to teach core Women’s Studies
courses assumed. Qualifications: PhD required by 9/2011; teaching experiencepreferred. Annual teaching load: two courses at the home campus, UMass Amherst (Women’s Studies); one at Mount Holyoke College (Gender Studies); and one at Hampshire College.
Review of applications to begin September 22, 2010. Application should include a letter of application, curriculum vita, a syllabus or course outline for a course on “Race, Gender and Science” as well as other relevant syllabi and course descriptions, and three letters of recommendation. Send application materials to Chair, Feminist Science Studies Search Committee, Women, Gender, Sexuality Studies, Bartlett Hall 208, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst 01003.
U Mass Amherst is a member of the Five College Consortium along with Amherst, Smith, Hampshire, and Mt. Holyoke Colleges. http://www.umass.edu/wost
New Book from Janus Hansen: Public Engagement with Biotechnology in Europe
http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?pid=389899
Updated: June 09 2010
Publisher description: “Ideas about public engagement with controversial technologies are growing in political prominence. This book delivers a theoretically grounded, empirical analysis of why active public involvement is considered to be of growing importance for the legitimate use of new technologies. It examines the different social dynamics influencing actual attempts to engage the public and the difficulties encountered. Janus Hansen argues that while there are strong normative reasons to further public engagement with the regulation of controversial technologies, there are also strong sociological reasons to reflect carefully on what such engagement can realistically achieve. This book delivers conceptual tools and empirical analyses to support such reflections based on in-depth case studies of important attempts to engage public concerns across Europe.”
US-specific site: http://us.macmillan.com/biotechnologyandpublicengagementineurope
Special section of Sociological Research Online on Epistemic Communities
http://www.socresonline.org.uk/15/2/
Updated: May 26 2010
Sociological Research Online has just published an international, peer-reviewed Special Section on the theme of Epistemic Communities.
Introduction: The Dynamics of Epistemic Communities, by Morgan Meyer and Susan Molyneux-Hodgson: http://www.socresonline.org.uk/15/2/14.html
From Comunities of Practice to Epistemic Communities: Health Mobilizations on the Internet, by Madeleine Akrich: http://www.socresonline.org.uk/15/2/10.html
Caring for Weak Ties - the Natural History Museum as a Place of Encounter Between Amateur and Professional Science, by Morgan: http://www.socresonline.org.uk/15/2/9.html
Epistemic Communities Facing a New Type of Agora? Centres of Science, Technology and Innovation as Defining the New Research Landscape in Finland, by Seppo Poutanen and Anne Kovalainen: http://www.socresonline.org.uk/15/2/12.html
Possibilities of Enacting and Researching Epistemic Communities, by Dagmar Lorenz-Meyer: http://www.socresonline.org.uk/15/2/13.html
Let's Get Organised: Practicing and Valuing Scientific Work Inside and Outside the Laboratory, by Lisa Garforth and Anne Kerr: http://www.socresonline.org.uk/15/2/11.html
New Book from Andrew Feenberg: Between Reason and Experience (MIT Press)
http://mitpress.mit.edu/catalog/item/default.asp?ttype=2&tid=12182
Updated: May 24 2010
Between Reason and Experience: Essays in Technology and Modernity by Andrew Feenberg
The technologies, markets, and administrations of today's knowledge society are in crisis. We face recurring disasters in every domain: climate change, energy shortages, economic meltdown. The system is broken, despite everything the technocrats claim to know about science, technology, and economics. These problems are exacerbated by the fact that today powerful technologies have unforeseen effects that disrupt everyday life; the new masters of technology are not restrained by the lessons of experience, and accelerate change to the point where society is in constant turmoil. In Between Reason and Experience, leading philosopher of technology Andrew Feenberg makes a case for the interdependence of reason—scientific knowledge, technical rationality—and experience.
Feenberg examines different aspects of the tangled relationship between technology and society from the perspective of critical theory of technology, an approach he has pioneered over the past twenty years. Feenberg points to two examples of democratic interventions into technology: the Internet (in which user initiative has influenced design) and the environmental movement (in which science coordinates with protest and policy). He examines methodological applications of critical theory of technology to the case of the French Minitel computing network and to the relationship between national culture and technology in Japan. Finally, Feenberg considers the philosophies of technology of Heidegger, Habermas, Latour, and Marcuse. The gradual extension of democracy into the technical sphere, Feenberg argues, is one of the great political transformations of our time.
Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in Information and Library Studies at University College Dublin
Deadline: September 30 2010
Updated: May 19 2010
Applications are invited for the post of Lecturer (Assistant Professor) within the UCD School of Information and Library Studies. An appointment will be offered on either a 5-year or permanent basis.
The appointed Lecturer will teach within the School and contribute significantly to the quality expansion of research in one or more of the following areas:
Metadata, information technology design and evaluation, computer-supported cooperative work, health science informatics, human information behavior, management in information organizations, information retrieval, digital libraries, information architecture, classification, information literacy, and/or related topics regarding the interplay of people, information, technology and social structures.
S/he will also be required to participate effectively in the School’s graduate and undergraduate programs and to contribute to the academic life of the School, College and University.
UCD (University College Dublin) is a leading European research-intensive university. Over 23,000 students and academics explore and learn in the creative and collegial environment of UCD’s Belfield 320 acre campus, which is within a short distance of Dublin’s city centre. UCD leads as the university of first choice for Irish school-leavers, and has the largest number of master's and PhD students in Ireland. The University is also home to over 3,500 international students from over 100 countries. The UCD faculty is increasingly international – a rich diversity of backgrounds to complement UCD’s diversity of academic disciplines. UCD runs overseas programs in partnership with leading international universities and education providers in China, Hong Kong, Malaysia, Singapore, Spain, and Sri Lanka.
The position of Lecturer is equivalent to the position of Assistant Professor at U.S. universities. More detailed information about the position can be found at: http://www.ucd.ie/hr/jobvacancies/
Salary: €35,335 - €81,452 p.a. Appointment on scale will be made commensurate with qualification and experience.
Closing date: 23:30hrs on Thursday 30th September 2010
Informal enquiries can be sent to the Head of School, Prof. Diane H. Sonnenwald, email: .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address), phone: +35317167799.
NOTE: Applications must be submitted by the closing date and time specified. UCD is unable to accept late applications. Ref: 004094
Scientific Research and Essays (SRE)
Updated: May 17 2010
Scientific Research and Essays (SRE) is currently accepting manuscripts for publication. SRE publishes high-quality solicited and unsolicited articles, in English, in all areas of science, medicine, agriculture and engineering. All papers published by SRE are peer reviewed. SRE is a very rapid response journal with an issue published every month. The following types of papers are considered for publication: • Original articles in basic and applied research. • Critical reviews, surveys, opinions, commentaries and essays. Our objective is to inform authors of the decision on their manuscript(s) within three weeks of submission. Following acceptance, a paper will normally be published in the next issue. One key request of researchers across the world is open access to research publications. Scientific Research and Essays is fully committed to providing free access to all articles as soon as they are published. We ask you to support this initiative by publishing your papers in this journal. Instruction for authors and other details are available on our website http://www.academicjournals.org/SRE. Prospective authors should send their manuscript(s) to .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) or .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address). Scientific Research and Essays (ISSN 1992-2248) is also seeking qualified reviewers as members of the editorial board. SRE serves as a great resource for researchers and students across the globe. We ask you to support this initiative by joining our reviewer’s team. Kindly contact us if you are interested in serving as a reviewer. Dr. N. J. Tonukari Editor-in-Chief Scientific Research and Essays E-mail: .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) http://www.academicjournals.org/SRE Please visit http://www.academicjournals.org/SRE/contents/2007cont/Jul.htm to view our current issue.
Asst Prof of Sociology (tenure-stream) University of Toronto - Crime/Deviance
Deadline: September 20 2010
Updated: May 16 2010
The Department of Sociology at the University of Toronto invites applications for a full-time tenure-stream appointment at the Assistant Professor level with primary interests in Crime, Deviance, and Socio-Legal Studies, starting July 1, 2011. A PhD in Sociology or primary graduate background in Sociology is required.
Candidates must have an excellent research and teaching record. Salary is commensurate with qualifications and experience. Applicants should either have a Ph.D. or expect to finish the Ph.D. at time of appointment.
We encourage applications from candidates with strong secondary interests in one of our other departmental areas of specialization (immigration and ethnicity, gender, work and stratification, crime and law, culture, political sociology, and networks).
The University of Toronto is a research-intensive institution offering faculty the opportunity to conduct research, teach and live in one of the most diverse cities in the world. The University includes programs and faculties in a number of cognate fields, including the Centre of Criminology and the University of Toronto Faculty of Law.
Successful candidates will teach in both the undergraduate and graduate programs and they will be expected to develop an independently funded program of research. Evidence of excellence in teaching and research is required. Additional information on the Department can be obtained at www.utoronto.ca/sociology.
The University of Toronto is strongly committed to diversity within its community and especially welcomes applications from visible minority group members, women, Aboriginal persons, persons with disabilities, members of sexual minority groups, and others who may contribute to the diversification of ideas. All qualified candidates are encouraged to apply; however, Canadians and permanent residents of Canada will be given priority.
To be considered for this position, please apply online at the University of Toronto Academic Career Opportunities site www.jobs.utoronto.ca/faculty (job # 1000347) by clicking on the link below. If you are unable to apply online, please submit your application and other materials by to the following address:
Chair, Search Committee in Crime and Sociology of Law
Department of Sociology
725 Spadina Avenue
University of Toronto
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
M5S 2J4
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Applications should include a Curriculum Vitae, samples of publications and writing, and evidence of teaching ability and experience. We encourage applicants to combine PDF or MS WORD documents in one or two files. Applicants should also ask three referees to e-mail letters to the departmental address above. Faxes of letters of recommendation are accepted at 416-978-3963, but must be followed by hard copies.
Application materials must be received by September 10, 2010.
Assistant Professor, Anthropology/Sociology, Denison University
Deadline: October 04 2010
http://careercenter.aaanet.org/jobdetail.cfm?job=3377518
Updated: May 16 2010
The Department of Sociology/Anthropology invites applications for one tenure-track position at the Assistant Professor level, beginning August 2011. We seek a sociologist or an anthropologist with strong quantitative analysis skills, an active and engaging research agenda, a global perspective and a strong commitment to liberal arts education. Candidates must be willing to teach in a merged sociology/anthropology curriculum that emphasizes theory and research methods, and have the desire and ability to teach quantitative research methods and data analysis to undergraduates. Among candidates with strong quantitative data analysis skills and research, all specializations within anthropology and sociology will be considered. Ph.D. in sociology or anthropology by August 2011 is required. Denison is a highly selective residential liberal arts college of 2000 students located in central Ohio 25 miles east of Columbus, and offers generous start-up benefits and a pre-tenure sabbatical program for new tenure track faculty. Denison University is an Affirmative Action, Equal Opportunity Employer. To achieve our mission as a liberal arts college, we continually strive to foster a diverse campus community, which recognizes the value of all persons regardless of religion, race, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, disability, or socio-economic background. Inquiries should be sent to Anita Waters at .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) or by telephone 740-587-6572. Candidates should apply on-line by sending a cover letter, a curriculum vitae, and the names and addresses of three references to https://employment.denison.edu by October 4, 2010.
Postdoctoral Position in Heritage and Archaeology, Stanford University
Deadline: September 01 2010
http://careercenter.aaanet.org/jobdetail.cfm?job=3375314
Updated: May 16 2010
The Stanford Archaeology Center announces a postdoctoral position in any area of global heritage with some preference for applicants working on archaeological ethics, rights and internationalism. The main focus of the fellowship will be on published output. The candidate is also expected to teach one course per year in heritage, organize one academic conference at Stanford during the fellowship, and engage with faculty and graduate students at the Center. The faculty sponsor of this postdoc will be Prof. Lynn Meskell.
The application receipt deadline is September 1, 2010. Interviews will be held in October 2010 and the position will begin in early January, 2011.
Submit your print materials via U.S. mail to: Heritage Postdoctoral Fellowship Search Committee Stanford Archaeology Center Stanford University P. O. Box 20446 Stanford, CA 94309
All applications must include the following: A current curriculum vitae; A statement of proposed research; A dissertation abstract or summary; An undergraduate/graduate course proposal, inclusive of syllabus; A conference proposal; A writing sample (dissertation chapter or other paper); Three sealed letters of recommendation should be sent directly by the recommender to the address above.
Please direct inquiries to .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address).
National Humanities Center Fellowships 2010-2011
Deadline: October 15 2010
http://nationalhumanitiescenter.org/
Updated: May 16 2010
The National Humanities Center offers 40 residential fellowships for advanced study in the humanities during the academic year, September 2011 through May 2012. Applicants must hold doctorate or equivalent scholarly credentials. Young scholars as well as senior scholars are encouraged to apply, but they must have a record of publication, and new Ph.D.s should be aware that the Center does not support the revision of a doctoral dissertation. In addition to scholars from all fields of the humanities, the Center accepts individuals from the natural and social sciences, the arts, the professions, and public life who are engaged in humanistic projects. The Center is also international and gladly accepts applications from scholars outside the United States.
Deadline and Application Procedures. Applicants submit the Center’s form, supported by a curriculum vitae, a 1000-word project proposal, and three letters of recommendation. You may request application material from Fellowship Program, National Humanities Center, Post Office Box 12256, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina 27709-2256, or obtain the form and instructions from the Center’s website. Applications and letters of recommendation must be postmarked by 15 October 2010.
Asst Prof of Sociology (tenure-stream), University of Toronto - Medical Sociology
Deadline: September 27 2010
Updated: May 16 2010
The Department of Sociology at the University of Toronto (St. George campus downtown) invites applications for a full-time tenure stream appointment at the Assistant Professor level with primary interest in Health/Mental Health, or Medical Sociology in general, starting July 1, 2011. Salary is commensurate with qualifications and experience.
Applicants should have a graduate-level background and degree in Sociology, and either have a Ph.D. or expect to finish the Ph.D. at time of appointment.
We encourage applications from candidates with quantitative skills and /or with an active interest in cognate fields such as Public Health and Epidemiology, or with strong secondary interests in one of our other departmental areas of specialization (immigration and ethnicity, gender, work and stratification, crime and law, culture, political sociology, and networks).
The University of Toronto is a research-intensive institution offering faculty the opportunity to conduct research, teach and live in one of the most diverse cities in the world. The University includes programs and faculties in a number of cognate fields, including the Dalla Lana School of Public Health and the University of Toronto Medical School.
Successful candidates will teach in both the undergraduate and graduate programs and they will be expected to develop an independently funded program of research. Evidence of excellence in teaching and research is required. Additional information on the Department can be obtained at www.utoronto.ca/sociology.
The University of Toronto is strongly committed to diversity within its community and especially welcomes applications from visible minority group members, women, Aboriginal persons, persons with disabilities, members of sexual minority groups, and others who may contribute to the diversification of ideas. All qualified candidates are encouraged to apply; however, Canadians and permanent residents of Canada will be given priority.
To be considered for this position, please apply online at the University of Toronto Academic Career Opportunities site www.jobs.utoronto.ca/faculty (job#100319) by clicking on the link below. If you are unable to apply online, please submit your application and other materials to the following address:
Professor Blair Wheaton, Chair
Department of Sociology
725 Spadina Avenue
University of Toronto
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
M5S 2J4
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Applications should include a Curriculum Vitae, samples of publications and writing, and evidence of teaching ability and experience. We encourage applicants to combine PDF or MS WORD documents in one or two files. Applicants should also ask three referees to e-mail letters to the departmental address above. Faxes of letters of recommendation are accepted at 416-978-3963, but must be followed by hard copies.
Application materials must be received by September 27, 2010.
Researcher, Madrid Institute for Advanced Studies (IMDEA)
Deadline: November 15 2010
http://www.socialsciences.imdea.org/
Updated: May 16 2010
The Social Sciences Division of the Instituto Madrileño de Estudios Avanzados (IMDEA Social Sciences) invites applications to fill several tenured and tenure-track research positions. For the present call we seek to attract applicants of any nationality in the areas of economics, sociology and political science. For senior applicants an outstanding record of high quality research is required. For junior applicants, a completed Ph.D. before the appointment is made and the promise of high quality research (as demonstrated by already written work) are expected. In the three areas we are looking for candidates who do theoretically motivated, empirically grounded and policy relevant research.
For tenured positions, this call will remain open until positions are filled. Updates will be posted periodically in our Web page: www.socialsciences.imdea.org.
For tenure-track positions, applications will be received until November 15, 2010 and selected applicants will be contacted and later interviewed at major professional venues for each field.
In both cases applications must be submitted on-line. Please visit our Web page and follow the link "International Call".
Asst Prof Position (Tenure-stream) in Anthropology, Colgate University
Deadline: October 01 2010
http://careercenter.aaanet.org/jobdetail.cfm?job=3372394
Updated: May 16 2010
The Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Colgate University invites applications for a tenure-stream position in Anthropology at the level of Assistant Professor (Ph.D. expected by time of appointment) to commence in the 2011-2012 academic year. The Department invites applications from candidates committed to interdisciplinarity, ethnographic fieldwork, and social theory. Areas of scholarly interest are open, but we are looking for candidates who complement the existing strengths of the department. Teaching interests in one or more of the following are desirable: transnationalism or migration; social movements; collaborative or indigenous archaeology; race and postcolonial theory; urban ethnography; medicine and the body. Geographic area of expertise is open, but the department especially encourages applications from candidates who work in Latin America, South or Southeast Asia. Teaching duties will include Introduction to Cultural Anthropology or Research Methods, and a Senior Research Seminar, and will include participation in the University’s Liberal Arts Core Curriculum (teaching an interdisciplinary course in the candidate’s areas of specialization). Women and minority scholars are especially encouraged to apply. Colgate is a highly selective, liberal arts college located in central New York. Review of applications will begin October 1, 2010. Send letter of application, c.v., and one article-length writing sample, and have three letters of recommendation sent to: Carolyn Hsu, Chair, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Colgate University, 13 Oak Drive, Hamilton, NY 13346.
New Groups and New Methods? The Ethnography and Qualitative Research of Online Groups Special Issue
Deadline: September 15 2010
Updated: May 16 2010
(volume 4, number 2, 2011) of “Etnografia e Ricerca Qualitativa” (Ethnography and Qualitative Research) Edited By: Stefano De Paoli & Maurizio Teli Abstract due: 15 May 2010 (500 words) Online groups, also called "virtual worlds", "virtual communities", or “digital collectives”, are those social groups whose members’ interactions are mediated primarily by the Internet. Participation in these groups has a variety of purposes and takes place via a variety of technological platforms. These include, for instance, platforms for social networking (such as Facebook, Second Life and social networks in general), platforms that have a productive purpose for participants (such as projects for the development of Free and Open Source Software), or platforms whose goal is to provide entertainment or a pastime for users (for instance Multiplayer Online Games such as the Massive Multiplayer Online Games or Online Poker). Nowadays, the social relevance of this phenomenon has become quite clear in several areas. For example, social networks like Facebook or MySpace now count millions of users that interact online, with a variety of goals, practices and tools (Beer, 2008). The proliferation of socio-technical phenomena such as Wikipedia, Creative Commons and Free and Open Source Software has changed some of the traditional assumptions about organizational hierarchies and paid labour (Kelty, 2008). Or again, Online Games' virtual economies are tied to real economies, in ways that challenge traditional assumptions about property (Castronova, 2005). Social, cultural, economic, and technological dimensions are, therefore, closely intertwined in the phenomenon of Online Groups. In this special issue (volume 4, number 2, 2011) of “Etnografia e Ricerca Qualitativa” (Ethnography and Qualitative Research) we are looking for contributions with a strong empirical bias that can tackle this hybrid complexity and that specifically offer reflections and practical experiences for a discussion on the theoretical and methodological dimensions of the phenomenon. This involves reflecting on one or more of the following topics: Firstly, some reflections might focus on the theoretical dimension. Often the literature, in both the social sciences and economics, for example Benkler’s (2006) or von Hippel’s (2004) works, has associated the birth and proliferation of online groups with a process of democratization and the construction of a new democratic balance of power and knowledge. (Consider the case of Free and Open Source Software or the advent of Web 2.0 and User Generated Content.) However, this literature is often linked with individualistic approaches, the methodological dimension of which does not focus on the “fine grain” of social practices and on the power relationships these practices might imply. One of the goals of this special issue is therefore to stimulate a debate on how ethnographic or qualitative research in general can help to balance this optimistic view, in which "online" is seen as a place of pure democracy. Secondly, the research on online group interactions requires a discussion of and reflection on the assumptions of traditional qualitative and ethnographic research. Indeed, the researcher herself is required to take part in online interactions and to use the Internet to conduct the research. This consideration illustrates that there is an inherent reflexive element: the researcher studies a phenomenon that she is also contributing to identify. It is therefore important for researchers to reflect on the use in research of the same technologies and platforms used for online interactions. This includes, for instance, tools for collecting qualitative data, for analyzing data and also for the communication/dissemination of research results. Examples could be: the use of blogs or wikis as tools to keep and organize field notes or even to build a relationship with participants in the online groups themselves; the use of online resources (such as software tools) that can be used for data collection and analysis, for example extensions for the Firefox browser or web-based CAQDAS software; and the use of blogs, wikis and other platforms to disseminate research results, in this way contributing to the construction of online interactions. Finally, ethnographic and qualitative online research requires specific reflections on the ethical aspects of the research. For instance, the availability of archived material in a space that is neither public nor private, according to classical categories in the ethics of research, and whose authors are not always reachable, poses challenging problems. Indeed, often the user communications and interactions are public, in the sense that they are easily accessible by almost anyone through an Internet connection. This type of “sharing in a limited context” by users raises ethical questions for researchers, as the users' original purpose was not to provide “data” for researchers (Bakardjeva and Feenberg, 2001). Therefore, an approach that takes the situation into account should be used when discussing the status of public/private information in relation to Internet conversations and interactions (Teli, Pisanu, Hakken, 2007). In conclusion, we invite empirically grounded research papers that address one or more of the dimensions outlined above, but which may also expand them and include other aspects. Contributions might include (but are not restricted to): The ethnography and qualitative research of online groups: social networks, online games, Wikipedia, etc. The construction of groups: the role of the researcher and qualitative research Ethnographic and qualitative approaches to power and to online data Power and knowledge: digital archives, avatars Your experiences with using online technologies for the collection and analysis of qualitative data The ethics of qualitative research on online groups References Beer, D. (2008). Social network(ing) sites…revisiting the story so far: A response to danah boyd & Nicole Ellison, Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication, Volume 13 Issue 2, Pages 516 - 529 Benkler, Y. (2006). The Wealth of Networks: How Social Production Transforms Markets and Freedom, New Haven: Yale University Press von Hippel, E. (2004). Democratizing innovation, Cambridge, MA: MIT Press Kelty, C. (2008). Two Bits: The Cultural Significance of Free Software and the Internet, Durham, NC: Duke University Press Castronova, E. (2005). Synthetic Worlds-The Business and Culture of Online Games, Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press Bakardjeva, M. and Feenberg, A. (2001). Involving the virtual subject. Ethics and Information Technology, 2, 233-240. Teli, M., Pisanu, F., and Hakken, D. (2007). The Internet as a Library-of-People: For a Cyberethnography of Online Groups [65 paragraphs]. Forum Qualitative Sozialforschung / Forum: Qualitative Social Research, 8 (3), Art. 33, http://www.qualitative-research.net/index.php/fqs/article/view/283/621 Important Dates: 15 May 2010: Abstract of maximum 500 words. We will accept any abstract we consider interesting for the aims of this special issue. The selection of the articles to be published will then be done on the basis of the Full Papers. Full Paper Submission: 15 September 2010 Review Results: 15 December 2010 Final Paper (maximum ten thousands words), camera-ready: 15 March 2011
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
Special issue of BioSocieties on ‘Drugs, Addiction and Society,’ now available free online
http://www.palgrave-journals.com/biosoc/journal/v5/n1/index.html
Updated: April 26 2010
The first issue of BioSocieties published by Palgrave Macmillan consists of nine thought-provoking articles from leading experts in the field, arising from an interdisciplinary conference on 'Addiction, the Brain and Society' held in Atlanta in February 2009.
The issue is guest-edited by Deanne Dunbar and Howard I. Kushner of Emory University and Scott Vrecko from the University of Exeter. As well as providing important analyses of the key social and neurobiological issues raised by 'the problem of addiction', these papers show that dialogue between distinct and sometimes opposing positions from the social and cultural sciences and the neurosciences is difficult but possible.
Access to the whole of this issue is available for free at http://www.palgrave-journals.com/biosoc/journal/v5/n1/index.html
New Book: Science: The Art of Living
http://www.acumenpublishing.co.uk/display.asp?K=e2009012713293172
Updated: April 25 2010
By Steve Fuller, Acumen and McGill-Queens University Press, 2010.
In this book, Fuller contends that our continuing faith in science in the face of its actual history is best understood as the secular residue of a religiously inspired belief in divine providence. Our faith in science is the promise of a life as it shall be, as science will make it one day. Just as men once put their faith in God’s activity in the world, so we now travel to a land promised by science. Fuller suggests that the two destinations might be the same one.
Fuller sympathetically explores what it might mean to live “scientifically”. Can science give a sense of completeness to one’s life? Can it account for the entirety of what it is to be human? And what does our continuing belief in scientific progress say about us as a species?
Science, argues Fuller, is now undergoing its own version of secularization. We are ceasing to trust science in its institutional forms, formulated by an anointed class of science priests, and instead we are witnessing the emergence of what Fuller calls “Protscience” – all sorts of people, from the New Age movement to anti-evolutionists, claiming scientific authority as their own. Fuller shows that these groups are no more anti-scientific than Protestant sects were atheistic.
Assistant Dean for Interdisciplinary Studies, NC State University
http://jobs.ncsu.edu/applicants/Central?quickFind=86278
Updated: April 21 2010
The College of Humanities and Social Sciences invites applications for Assistant Dean for Interdisciplinary Studies. This position will report to the Dean. The proposed hire of a new Assistant Dean of Interdisciplinary Studies would be responsive to the recommendation of the 2003 report of the CHASS ad hoc Task Force on Interdisciplinary Programs that a new full-time position be created in the College to provide leadership and administration for CHASS interdisciplinary programs. The report may be viewed at http://www.chass.ncsu.edu/chass/docs/faculty/report_IDS.pdf.
The College of Humanities and Social Sciences (CHASS) has a long history of involvement in interdisciplinary teaching and research. In order to better serve the needs of NC State and our society, the College aims to strengthen its current efforts and expand its offering of interdisciplinary programs. We are also committed to making interdisciplinary programs available to diverse and geographically dispersed populations through distance education.
The College seeks an energetic leader who can work well with faculty, students, and the external community. The position of Assistant Dean for Interdisciplinary Studies encompasses the following key areas of responsibility:
1) Oversees and assists interdisciplinary programs in the college and advises and facilitates new program development. 2) Manages interdisciplinary resources. 3) Supervises interdisciplinary and dual-degree program directors. 4) Serves in lieu of department head for interdisciplinary studies faculty with appointments in the Dean’s Office. 5) Provides substantive administrative oversight as well as working with the CHASS research and development offices on grant writing and fund raising for these programs. 6) Works with other Directors of Undergraduate Advising, the College Academic Affairs team, and with other units of the university, such as the First Year College, to publicize and promote interdisciplinary programs. The Assistant Dean for Interdisciplinary Studies will supervise the following programs:
Africana Studies (Major and Minor) Arts Studies (Major and Minor) Interdisciplinary Studies Self-Designed Degree Program: BA and BS International Studies (Major and Minor) Middle East Studies (Minor) Science, Technology and Society (Major and Minor) Women's and Gender Studies (Major and Minor)
The program also offers six dual-degree programs, which enable CHASS students to combine scientific or professional study with a focus in the humanities or social sciences. Through successful completion of these programs, students earn two undergraduate degrees, one in CHASS and the second in one of NC State's other Colleges. Dual-degree programs include:
Thomas Jefferson Scholars (CHASS and the College of Agriculture) DaVinci Scholars (CHASS and the College of Design) Benjamin Franklin Scholars (CHASS and the College of Engineering) Alexander Hamilton Scholars (CHASS and the College of Management) Gifford Pinchot Scholars (CHASS and the College of Natural Resources) Eli Whitney Scholars (CHASS and the College of Textiles)
For more information about the Interdisciplinary Programs of the College of Humanities and Social Sciences at NC State please visit: http://ids.chass.ncsu.edu/
Applicants should have a Ph.D. and the credentials to be hired in as a tenured associate or full professor level in the College of Humanities and Social Sciences. To apply, please submit a letter of interest indicating administrative experience, leadership and teaching philosophies, and research interests, along with a curriculum vita at:
jobs.ncsu.edu/applicants/Central?quickFind=86278
Position will remain open until filled. Individuals with disabilities desiring accommodations in the application process should contact NCSU Human Resources at 919-515-2135.
New Book: Health Promotion and Prevention Programmes in Practice
http://www.transcript-verlag.de/ts1302/ts1302s.php
Updated: April 15 2010
Health Promotion and Prevention Programmes in Practice: How Patients' Health Practices are Rationalised, Reconceptualised and Reorganised
Thomas Mathar, Yvonne J.F.M. Jansen (eds.)
The shift to prevention and health promotion is an example of how policy makers aim to rationalise and organise both health systems and patients' health practices. By applying a perspective from empirical science & technology studies (STS), based on qualitative research methods, the chapters of this book present a view behind the scenes and zoom into the micropolitics of prevention and health promotion. They analyse how patients are framed as being »at risk«, how preventative regimes shape medical practices, and what its practical consequences are in patients' everyday lives. This makes the insights of this book relevant for prevention and health promotion practitioners, public health policy-makers and researchers.
Tom Mathar is a PhD-student in the Research Cluster »Preventive Self« based at the Department of European Ethnology at Humboldt University in Berlin.
Yvonne J.F.M. Jansen is cultural anthropologist and researcher at The Netherlands Organisation for Applied Scientific Research TNO Quality of Life.
Multiple Faculty Positions, Asian University for Women, Chittagong, Bangladesh
http://www.asian-university.org/careersAtAUW/teaching.htm#undergraduate
Updated: April 15 2010
The Asian University for Women (http://www.asian-university.org), a newly established institution based in Bangladesh, invites applications for the following positions that will contribute to the first year core integrated courses and the second year major’s foundations courses: Physics; Biology; Chemistry; Programming (software design, database, communication networking, artificial intelligence); Information & Communication Technology (ICT) for Development and Innovation; Quantitative Reasoning/Mathematics/Statistics; Applied Calculus; Psychology; Economics; Political Science/Gender Politics & Policy; Philosophy & Ethics; Sociology; Women’s Studies; Literature; History; Religious Studies; Fine Arts; Arts - Fine Arts, Film, Photography.
*Interdisciplinary or scholarship emphasis that includes Gender, Environment, Asia, and/or Ethics preferred.
The AUW is being established as a leading institution of higher education for women across Asia. While international in its vision and scope, the University is rooted in a context unique to the diverse cultural, religious, ethnic, and socioeconomic backgrounds of Asia. The civic and academic goal of the AUW is to better prepare disadvantaged women of high ability and potential through a world-class education that will encompass both the progressive liberal arts & sciences and requisite professional training in order to further the intellectual and professional development of eligible young women.
Essential duties: Collaboratively develop the curriculum during Faculty Development Session (July-Aug 2010) and contribute to the majors (Biological Sciences; Information, Communication & Technology; Politics, Philosophy & Economics; Literature & Women’s Studies). Team teaching integrated courses using active-, learning-focused approaches.
Job requirements: A clear commitment to active-learning pedagogy and mentoring students. Open to evidence-based curricular approaches, including a focus on learning outcomes and assessment/grading aligned with learning. Flexibility: ability to appreciate life and work in a developing country. Positive attitude: turn challenges into opportunities; assume best of co-workers. Strong teamwork skills: enjoy working collaboratively.
Other information: Ph.D preferred; exceptional teaching plus All But Dissertated or Masters considered. Interdisciplinary teaching or research background desired. International experience preferred. Involving undergraduates in research and/or service learning connected to the Asia region desired and supported. Average teaching load: 2 courses/semester, 15-25 students/course. Attractive benefits package including medical, retirement, housing, yearly return airfare, tuition for K-12 dependents attending local schools in Chittagong with international curriculum (American, British).
The university encourages (but is not restricted to) applicants who are women, connected to the region served, dual career couples (please indicate and send cv if interested in employment with the AUW), early- or late-career.
A complete application consists of the following: a letter of application, curriculum vitae/resumé/biodata, teaching portfolio (one page statement of teaching philosophy, syllabi and major assignments from recent courses taught/designed, all student evaluations if available), and contact information for 3 referees, at least one for teaching.
Review of applications will begin immediately and continue until the positions are filled. Please send your application, with Faculty position clearly marked in the subject line of the email, to .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address). For more information, please see our website: http://www.asian-university.org.
Sr. Urban Anthropology Manager, Field Museum, Chicago
http://careercenter.aaanet.org/jobdetail.cfm?job=3340338
Updated: April 15 2010
Title: Sr. Urban Anthropology Manager (open to social scientists with anthropology or related degrees)
Supervisor: Urban Anthropology Director
Term: 1 year with possibility of renewal
The Division of Environment, Culture, and Conservation (ECCo) at The Field Museum seeks an experienced social scientist for a full time (35hrs/wk) senior managerial position on its Chicago Region Urban Anthropology Team.
Position Summary: The Sr. Urban Anthropology Manager is responsible for developing, managing, and assisting with the implementation of ECCo’s social sustainability projects in the Chicago region. Projects focus on climate change mitigation and adaptation; strengthening relationships between urban communities and nature; and drawing on cultural heritage to address contemporary issues. Managerial duties include managing projects and budgets; managing staff and interns; seeking funding opportunities and writing grant proposals; and assisting the Urban Anthropology Director in divisional leadership.
Duties and Responsibilities include but are not limited to: Develop and manage participatory research and community engagement projects related to cultural diversity and the natural environment in the Chicago region; Assist with other division projects; Manage budgets; Seek funding for urban anthropology projects and write grant proposals and reports; Manage staff and interns; Work with division leaders to help set and achieve ECCo’s overall direction, goals, and strategies.
ECCo staff work in the Chicago metropolitan region and South America and comprise an interdisciplinary team of anthropologists and other social scientists, ecologists, communicators, and educators. Our goal in the Chicago region is to use The Field Museum’s collections and resources as tools for enhancing urban conservation and cultural understanding. In all of its work, ECCo partners with local agencies and organizations to help them draw on their environmental, social, and cultural assets to build green and sustainable communities that benefit people and the natural environment. The successful candidate must be able to work collaboratively, creatively, and rapidly with local partners, including community-based organizations, conservation organizations, schools, government agencies, and regional consortia.
Salary will be commensurate with experience. Applications are accepted online at http://www.fieldmuseum.org/.
Annual Review of Political and Military Sociology The Annual Review of Political and Military Sociol
Updated: April 13 2010
Call for Submissions Annual Review of Political and Military Sociology The Annual Review of Political and Military Sociology is currently seeking article submissions in the fields of political and military sociology, broadly defined. APRMS is the new title of the former Journal of Political and Military Sociology, now relaunched and henceforth to be published annually by Transaction Publishers. Since its inception in 1973, the journal has advanced the fields of political and military sociology through the dissemination of high-quality scholarly research. In so doing, it has established itself as a leading international journal in these fields. Continuing this tradition, the Annual Review of Political and Military Sociology welcomes submissions covering a wide range of topics in political science, international relations and political sociology. Such topics include, but are not limited to: military sociology, civil-military relations, problems of governance, foreign policy, ethnic/religious/territorial conflict, secession and irredentism, problems of social and political order, war and armed conflict, political elites and international migration. For more information, or to submit your manuscript, please contact ARPMS's editors: Neovi Karakatsanis Indiana University South Bend South Bend, Indiana USA .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) Jonathan Swarts Purdue University North Central Westville, Indiana USA .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)
New Book: A Vast Machine: Computer Models, Climate Data, and the Politics of Global Warming
http://mitpress.mit.edu/catalog/item/default.asp?ttype=2&tid=12080
Updated: March 31 2010
Paul N. Edwards, A Vast Machine: Computer Models, Climate Data, and the Politics of Global Warming (Cambridge: MIT Press, 2010).
Global warming skeptics often fall back on the argument that the scientific case for global warming is all model predictions, nothing but simulation; they warn us that we need to wait for real data, "sound science." Paul Edwards' new book A Vast Machine argues that without models, there are no data. Today, no collection of signals or observations—even from satellites, which can "see" the whole planet with a single instrument—becomes global in time and space without passing through a series of data models. Everything we know about the world's climate we know through models. Edwards offers an engaging and innovative history of how scientists learned to understand the atmosphere—to measure it, trace its past, and model its future.
Edwards argues that all our knowledge about climate change comes from three kinds of computer models: simulation models of weather and climate; reanalysis models, which recreate climate history from historical weather data; and data models, used to combine and adjust measurements from many different sources. Meteorology creates knowledge through an infrastructure (weather stations and other data platforms) that covers the whole world, making global data. This infrastructure generates information so vast in quantity and so diverse in quality and form that it can be understood only by computer analysis—making data global. Edwards describes the science behind the scientific consensus on climate change, arguing that over the years data and models have converged to create a stable, reliable, and trustworthy basis for establishing the reality of global warming.
Sign Language Studies (SLS)
Updated: March 16 2010
SLS 10:2
This volume connects the burgeoning academic field of science and technology studies (STS) with studies into the technologies of deafness; examples of such technologies include genomics, cochlear implantation, sign language corpora, educational tracking systems, and mobile communications. The subsequent articles all bear witness to the extensive interweaving of advanced technologies, scientific knowledge, deafness and sign language. The papers brought together in this special issue were presented at two prominent international conferences: the annual meeting called “Ways of Knowing” held by the Society for Social Studies of Science (4S), in Montreal from October 11–13, 2007; and the annual meeting called “Acting with Science, Technology and Medicine,” held jointly by 4S and the European Association for the Study of Science and Technology (EASST) in Rotterdam from August 20–23, 2008.
New Book: Surveillance in the Time of Insecurity (Rutgers University Press, 2010)
http://rutgerspress.rutgers.edu/acatalog/Surveillance_in_the_time_of_insecurity.html
Updated: March 15 2010
By Torin Monahan (Vanderbilt University).
Threats of terrorism, natural disaster, identity theft, job loss, illegal immigration, and even biblical apocalypse – all are perils that trigger alarm in people today. Although there may be a factual basis for many of these fears, they do not simply represent objective conditions. Feelings of insecurity are instilled by politicians and the media, and sustained by urban fortification, technological surveillance, and economic vulnerability.
Surveillance in the Time of Insecurity fuses advanced theoretical accounts of state power and neoliberalism with original research from the social settings in which insecurity dynamics play out in the new century. Torin Monahan explores the counterterrorism-themed show 24, Rapture fiction, traffic control centers, security conferences, public housing, and gated communities, and examines how each manifests complex relationships of inequality, insecurity, and surveillance. Alleviating insecurity requires that we confront its mythic dimensions, the politics inherent in new configurations of security provision, and the structural obstacles to achieving equality in societies.
AAAS Announces 5 New Members of the History and Philosophy of Science Section (L)
Updated: March 14 2010
The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) honored five members of the History and Philosophy of Science Section (L) as Fellows at its 2010 annual meeting. The new Fellows are (1) Garland Allen, Washington University in St. Louis; (2) Daniel Dennett, Tufts University; (3) Maura Flannery, St. John’s University; (4) Anita Guerrini, Oregon State University; and (5) Manfred Laubichler, Arizona State University.
New Book: GM Food on Trial: Testing European Democracy
http://technology.open.ac.uk/cts/docs/GM%20Food%20on%20Trial%20flyer_A4.pdf
Updated: March 14 2010
By Les Levidow and Susan Carr, Routledge, 2010
Europe was told that it had no choice but to accept agbiotech, yet this imperative was turned into a test of democratic accountability for societal choices. Since the late 1990s, European public controversy has kept the agri-biotech industry and its promoters on the defensive. As some opponents and regulators alike have declared, ‘GM food/crops are on trial’. Suspicion of their guilt has been evoked by moral symbols – in disputes over whether genetically modified products are modest benign improvements on traditional plant breeding, or dangerous Frankenstein foods; and in disputes over whether they are global saviours, or control agents of multinational companies.
This book examines European institutions being put ‘on trial’ for how their regulatory procedures evaluate and regulate GM products. The defendant on trial was expanded − from product safety, to biotech companies, their innovation trajectory, regulatory decision-making, expert advisors, government policy and its democratic legitimacy − in ways which opened up alternative futures. Levidow and Carr highlight how public controversy led to national policy changes and demands, in turn stimulating changes in EU agbiotech regulations as a means to regain legitimacy.
Special issue of journal “Sign Language Studies” (SLS) on the science and technologies of deafness
http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/sign_language_studies/toc/sls.10.2.html
Updated: March 14 2010
This volume (10:2) connects the burgeoning academic field of science and technology studies (STS) with studies into the technologies of deafness; examples of such technologies include genomics, cochlear implantation, sign language corpora, educational tracking systems, and mobile communications. The subsequent articles all bear witness to the extensive interweaving of advanced technologies, scientific knowledge, deafness and sign language. The papers brought together in this special issue were presented at two prominent international conferences: the annual meeting called “Ways of Knowing” held by the Society for Social Studies of Science (4S), in Montreal from October 11–13, 2007; and the annual meeting called “Acting with Science, Technology and Medicine,” held jointly by 4S and the European Association for the Study of Science and Technology (EASST) in Rotterdam from August 20–23, 2008.
The History and Philosophy of Science Section (L) of AAAS Announces Its 2010 Officers
Updated: March 14 2010
The 2010 officers of the History and Philosophy of Science Section (L) of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) are:
Chair: Richard Creath
Chair-Elect: Jan Maienschein
Retiring Chair: Alan Rocke
Secretary: Jonathan Coopersmith
Members-at-Large: Heather Douglas, Paul Farber, Sally Gregory Kohlstedt, and Karen Rader.
Social Sciences Position, Center for Learning Innovation, University of Minnesota Rochester
Updated: March 08 2010
The University of Minnesota Rochester (http://www.r.umn.edu) invites applications for a social sciences position in sociology for its degree program Bachelor of Science in Health Sciences (BSHS). The successful candidate will work with other faculty to coordinate and teach an introductory sociology course, an ethics course, and other social sciences courses as appropriate, and staff a student tutoring center in the BSHS program. Duties include helping to prepare and teach primarily first-year courses, grading, staffing the Just ASK tutoring center (http://www.r.umn.edu/academics/just-ask/index.htm), supervising peer tutors, and related duties as assigned.
The instructor/coordinator will join the Center for Learning Innovation (CLI). CLI leads the development of an integrated, writing-enriched curriculum for a baccalaureate degree in the health sciences. It promotes a learner-centered, competency-based learning environment in which ongoing assessment guides and monitors student learning and is the basis for data-driven research on learning.
The successful candidate has a M.A./M.S. or Ph.D. (or equivalent) in Sociology or related field. Excellent communication skills (both written and verbal) are required. Experience in instruction at the college level would be preferable. The successful candidate works well in interdisciplinary teams and is comfortable working independently.
Review of applications will begin immediately and will continue until the position is filled.
Applications must be submitted online at https://employment.umn.edu. For application instructions and links, click on "Search Postings" and use the following job requisition number #165009.
For more information, to request disability accommodations, and/or to receive materials available in alternative formats, please contact Andrea Wilson, University of Minnesota Rochester, 300 University Square, 111 South Broadway, Rochester, MN 55904; fax 507-281-7794, phone 507-280-4650, e-mail .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address).
The University of Minnesota is committed to the policy that all persons shall have equal access to its programs, facilities, and employment without regard to race, color, creed, religion, national origin, sex, age, marital status, disability, public assistance status, veteran status or sexual orientation. Women and minorities are encouraged to apply.
Professor (W2 rank), International Business for Engineers, Pforzheim University
Updated: March 04 2010
Pforzheim University is a highly regarded institution in the south of Germany, which consists of three faculties: design, engineering and business. Its success is founded upon its interdisciplinary and international emphasis in both teaching and research, and its objective of preparing students both academically and personally for responsible positions in society. Pforzheim University (http://www.pforzheim-university.de) is located in southwest Germany some 20 miles northwest of Stuttgart, and nestles in attractive countryside at the north rim of the Black Forest National Park.
For the extension of our International Programs in Business Administration and Engineering (especially for the programs International Business and Global Process Management) we seek as soon as possible (October 2010 or March 2011) a Professor (pay scale W2) in International Business for Engineers. You will be responsible for educating future managers at the interface of engineering and business administration. It is expected that you lecture in the areas of International Business in the department of Business Administration and Engineering, which is one of the most renowned in Germany. Foremost, you will teach International Business, International Negotiation Skills and Advanced English for Engineers in our international bachelor programs International Management and Global Process Management.
In addition to your lecturing activities you are expected to contribute to the development of our international programs in Business Administration and Engineering, for example in the field of student exchange and through establishment of partner universities.
The successful candidate will have an international and intercultural background with focus on technical industries or engineering. Due to the fact that all lectures will be held in English, near native English language abilities are essential. Furthermore, qualified knowledge of Business Administration and Management Theory is required.
The successful candidate will also have a track record of teaching excellence and be prepared to engage in the School's self-administration. Candidates are also expected to demonstrate research skills proven by publications. For further information, please contact Professor Dr. Guy Fournier, mail to guy.fournier@hs- pforzheim.de. Details on the international program can be found at http://wiinternational.hs- pforzheim.de/
The formal requirements for applicants are a University degree and a Ph.D. or a comparable scientific qualification. A minimum of five years of postgraduate experience is required, of which a minimum of three years must have been gained outside the University. The successful applicant will initially be offered a tenured position on probation, which will automatically be changed to a tenured position when the conditions stipulated by the regional government (Baden- Württemberg) have been fulfilled. Details can be obtained at http://www.pforzheim-university.de. The University is an equal opportunities employer and seeks to increase the proportion of women at the institute. Handicapped applicants will be preferred in the event of equal qualifications.
Please send a full application including CV, list of publication and teaching experiences by no later than......, 2010 to the Rector of Pforzheim University, Professor Dr. Martin Erhardt, Tiefenbronner Strasse 65, 75175 Pforzheim/Germany.
MSc Medicine, Science & Society, King’s College London
http://www.kcl.ac.uk/schools/sspp/interdisciplinary/cbas/msc/index.html
Updated: February 24 2010
What is the impact of President Obama’s policies on the global economy of embryonic stem cell research? What ethical and regulatory issues does the current boom of personal genome tests raise? Issues like these lie at the core of the MSc Medicine, Science & Society at the Centre for Biomedicine & Society (CBAS), King’s College London. This MSc explores new and important areas for Science and Technology Studies (STS) and the social sciences, ranging from stem cells to nanomedicine. It explores the implications of innovative biomedicine for identities, innovations, bioethics, regulation, science, medicine, and healthcare. The MSc is well suited to social science, science and humanities graduates. Full/part-time options are available: www.kcl.ac.uk/schools/sspp/interdisciplinary/cbas/msc/index.html
MSc information leaflet: www.kcl.ac.uk/content/1/c6/02/50/21/MScMedicineScienceSocietyFlyer.pdf
King's College London is a global leader in health science research, hosting more Medical Research Council (MRC) Research Centres (five) than any other University. The CBAS MSc and MA therefore examine the social science aspects and ethical dimensions of innovative biomedicine in a unique supporting context. The courses also allow students to expand a specialist interest by selecting from an impressive range of Masters Options. There are clear career trajectories and exciting PhD prospects for those graduating from these two Masters course. The life sciences are a major growth area within contemporary social science, and are key areas for research funding. For further information please see the CBAS website: www.kcl.ac.uk/schools/sspp/interdisciplinary/cbas/
MA Bioethics & Society, King’s College London (New for 2010)
http://www.kcl.ac.uk/schools/sspp/interdisciplinary/cbas/mabas.html
Updated: February 24 2010
Developments in the biosciences raise important ethical issues that are increasingly being addressed by multidisciplinary research teams from the fields of philosophy and social science through, for example, the Wellcome Trust Strategic Award that created the London and Brighton Translational Ethics Centre (hosted at CBAS). This innovative MA in Bioethics & Society enables students to combine philosophical ethics modules taught by staff at the world famous Centre of Medical Law & Ethics (CMLE, School of Law) with social science and ethics modules from our CBAS MSc in Medicine, Science & Society. Students will be able to pursue their Dissertation with staff from CBAS and/or CMLE. Full/part-time options are available: http://www.kcl.ac.uk/schools/sspp/interdisciplinary/cbas/mabas.html
King's College London is a global leader in health science research, hosting more Medical Research Council (MRC) Research Centres (five) than any other University. The CBAS MSc and MA therefore examine the social science aspects and ethical dimensions of innovative biomedicine in a unique supporting context. The courses also allow students to expand a specialist interest by selecting from an impressive range of Masters Options. There are clear career trajectories and exciting PhD prospects for those graduating from these two Masters course. The life sciences are a major growth area within contemporary social science, and are key areas for research funding. For further information please see the CBAS website: http://www.kcl.ac.uk/schools/sspp/interdisciplinary/cbas/
New eBook: Hatched: New Zealand’s Future
http://www.landcareresearch.co.nz/services/sustainablesoc/hatched/
Updated: February 15 2010
Hatched: The Capacity for Sustainable Development is a new eBook from Manaaki Whenua - Landcare Research, New Zealand's foremost environmental research organisation.
Hatched is an eBook of research findings, stories and tools exploring five key areas of capacity required for New Zealand’s long-term success:
- Thinking and acting for long term success - can NZ be a future maker not a future taker?
- Businesses as sustainability innovators – improving and marketing businesses’ sustainability performance.
- Individuals as citizen consumers – what it takes to live sustainably.
- Facing up to wicked problems - creating solutions to complex, value laden and multi-party problems.
- The future as a set of choices - the next steps needed for NZ’s long-term success.
Hatched has been written for practitioners working within the public, business and community sectors and is free to download.
New Journals: Science as Culture, New Genetics and Society, and Engineering Studies
Updated: February 15 2010
Science as Culture (http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/csac) , a 'critique of the way science is going', New Genetics and Society (http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/cngs), a focus for leading-edge social science research on the new genetics and related biosciences, and Engineering Studies (http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/test) , a new journal devoted to the scholarly study of engineers and engineering, these Routledge journals are available to individual 4S members at special annual print-only subscription rates. For more information, visit the 'News and Offers' page from the journal homepages or via the 4S members page.
3 Faculty Openings, Dept of Environmental and Occupational Health, GWU
http://careers.apha.org/jobdetail.cfm?job=3280957
Updated: February 14 2010
Search Continues:
The George Washington University School of Public Health and Health Services The Department of Environmental and Occupational Health of The George Washington University School of Public Health and Health Services invites applications for as many as three faculty positions. These positions will be tenure-track or tenured at the Assistant, Associate, or Professor rank, commensurate with experience.
The School is a fully accredited school of public health with vigorous programs of undergraduate and graduate research and education, including an MPH in Environmental Health Science and Policy and a DrPH in environmental and occupational health. The Department of Environmental and Occupational Health is at the center of national and global conversations about using science to protect workers, the public, and the environment from toxic substances and dangerous conditions. Faculty and staff in the Department, in keeping with the School’s location in Washington, D.C., have earned a national reputation as researchers and leaders in articulating how public health science is best used in regulatory decision-making. More information about the Department can be found at http://www.gwumc.edu/sphhs/departments/eoh/
Basic Qualifications: Applicants must have a terminal degree in a relevant discipline, strong verbal and written communication skills, and a commitment to teaching and mentoring students. Successful candidates at the rank of Associate Professor or Professor will have a solid publication record and have demonstrated the ability to obtain extramural research funding. Candidates applying for consideration at the Assistant Professor level should have demonstrated potential for external funding and peer reviewed publications.
Preferred Qualifications: Preference will be given to candidates who have demonstrated a history of collaborative work, and will have significant expertise in at least one and preferably several of the following areas: air pollution, climate change, environmental health policy, exposure assessment, industrial hygiene, global environmental health, mine health and safety, occupational health and safety, occupational medicine, regulatory science, risk sciences, sustainability, toxicology, and water quality.
Application Procedure: To be considered, interested applicants should submit: (1) a curriculum vitae; (2) a letter of interest describing teaching and mentoring experience, research interests, and plans for maintaining or developing an independently funded research program; and (3) complete contact information for at least three references. Only complete applications will be considered. Review of applications began on July 13, 2009 and will continue until the positions are filled. Please submit all materials electronically to: EOH Search Committee c/o Jo Ann Roberts Department of Environmental and Occupational Heath The George Washington University School of Public Health and Health Services 2100 M Street, NW, Suite 203 Washington, DC 20037
Assistant Professor Department of Bioethics, Kansas City University of Medicine & Biosciences
http://careers.apha.org/jobdetail.cfm?job=3281069
Updated: February 14 2010
Kansas City University of Medicine and Biosciences seeks applicants for Assistant Professor of Bioethics. The University offers a Masters of Arts in Bioethics in three degree tracts: a DO/MA dual degree earned over four years, a one-year Masters program, and a career enhancement tract where practicing professionals earn their degree on a part-time basis. In a rich and varied curriculum, the Department of Bioethics approaches the study of bioethics broadly by drawing on the perspectives of philosophy, the medical humanities, humanism, and the “softer” side of the social sciences. The department has close affiliation with area hospitals and the Center for Practical Bioethics.
The successful candidate must have a Ph.D. in ethics or a field related to bioethics-broadly defined. An advanced clinician’s degree (in medicine, nursing, etc.) and experience teaching bioethics will also make applicants eligible for consideration. Responsibilities include teaching in the Masters program and in the College of Osteopathic Medicine, carrying on an active program of research, assisting with the continued growth and development of the department, and contributing to the overall advancement of the university. For additional information contact: David Wendell Moller, Ph.D., Professor and Chair of Bioethics, .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) or 818-283-2219.
To apply, submit a cover letter for job #09-27 (include salary range requirements), curriculum vitae, a statement of teaching philosophy, research interests, and strengths for the position to: Dawn Rohrs, Assistant Vice President for Human Resources, 1750 Independence Ave., Kansas City, MO 64106-1453, 1-800-234-4847, ext. 2371 or 816-283-2371; or e-mail: .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address), (MS Word or PDF only, please); Fax: 816-283-2285. Pre-employment drug screen and background check required. EOE. www.kcumb.edu. Tobacco-free environment.
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Chair, Dept of Community Health & Prevention, Drexel University
http://careers.apha.org/jobdetail.cfm?job=3289016
Updated: February 14 2010
The Drexel University School of Public Health is seeking an experienced and dynamic public health professional with academic/administrative experience to lead the Department of Community Health and Prevention. The department is strongly committed to human rights, social justice and community engagement, incorporating these values into the curriculum and program objectives of the DrPH and MPH degree tracks. The department has a well-developed research and public health practice agenda grounded in serving vulnerable populations, adopting community-based participatory research methodology to address public health concerns in youth, HIV/AIDS, LGBT health and tobacco-related chronic diseases.
The Department Chair reports to the Dean, serves on the School’s leadership team, and manages departmental fiscal and human resources to foster excellence in education, research and service. The successful candidate will have a well-developed research program and will be expected to continue scholarly and educational pursuits.
Applicants should apply electronically to www.drexeljobs.com by clicking on "search postings," then clicking on "faculty," then clicking on "search" to find this position on the list. Please upload a statement of interest, CV, and contact information for three references. Inquiries may be directed to Janet Fleetwood,Ph.D., Search Committee Chair, at 215-895-1827.
Drexel University is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer and encourages applications from women, members of minority groups, disabled individuals, and veterans. Applications will be handled with strictest confidence.
Professor, Senior Rank, University of Nebraska Medical Center
http://careers.apha.org/jobdetail.cfm?job=3294517
Updated: February 14 2010
The Position: The Department of Health Services Research and Administration, College of Public Health, University of Nebraska Medical Center, seeks candidates for position of Professor in Health Services Administration and Policy. This is a 12-month tenure-eligible faculty position with responsibilities for teaching in the graduate programs (MPH, PhD, and plans for an MHA), mentoring PhD students, and conducting funded research in health services administration and policy. Specific areas of specialization within health administration are open, with known interest in strategic planning, organization theory and development, and health finance. Faculty with interest in global health research and education are especially welcome to apply.
The Opportunities: The Department launched a new PhD program in September 2009 with students enrolling in tracks in health administration, health policy, and quality and effectiveness research. We are committed to enrolling at least three new fully funded PhD students each of the next four years. The College of Public Health is seeking accreditation, having been formed in 2007. The College is the only such entity in Nebraska and in a multi-state region. Both the College and the Department are growing, creating opportunities for academic leadership in addition to an environment conducive to collaborative research.
The Environment: The Department includes two research centers with established, active records in funded research and publication/dissemination of results to diverse audiences: the RUPRI Center for Rural Health Policy Analysis (www.unmc.edu/ruprihealth) and the Nebraska Center for Rural Health Research (www.unmc.edu/rural). The Department includes faculty with expertise in health economics, medical geography, health policy and health services research, along with 7 data analysts and 4 graduate research assistants. The College of Public Health is developing a Center for Global Health to capitalize on opportunities for collaboration and cross-national training with institutions in Kenya, China, India and Indonesia. The College will occupy its own building in 2010, bringing together faculty across 5 departments, and research centers. The MPH program was reaccredited in 2009 for a 7-year period. UNMC is a growing institution; ranking among research universities has risen in recent years, thanks to meeting aggressive goals to increase extramural and internal support for research activity.
The Qualifications: We seek an individual with a strong record of peer-reviewed publications and a proven ability to secure extramural funding, who is ready for new challenges. The candidate must meet qualifications required of senior (Associate Professor or Professor) faculty. The candidate must be qualified to teach courses in health administration and/or health policy, with areas of interest to include health care organizations, health policy, and/or global health.
Applicants should send a letter of interest with curriculum vitae, references, and writing samples to: Keith Mueller, PhD, 984350 Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, NE 68198-4350, Email: .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)
The University of Nebraska is an Affirmative Action / Equal Employment Opportunity employer, which seeks and encourages expression of interest from minorities and groups traditionally underrepresented.
Faculty Position, Open Rank, University of Nebraska Medical Center
http://careers.apha.org/jobdetail.cfm?job=3294513
Updated: February 14 2010
The Position: The Department of Health Services Research and Administration, College of Public Health, University of Nebraska Medical Center, seeks candidates for a faculty position, open rank, in Health Services Administration and Policy. This is a 12-month tenure-eligible faculty position with responsibilities for teaching in the graduate programs (MPH, PhD, and plans for an MHA), mentoring PhD students, and conducting funded research in health services administration and policy. Specific areas of specialization within health administration are open, with known interest in strategic planning, policy analysis, organization theory and development, and health finance. Faculty with interest in global health research and education are especially welcome to apply.
The Opportunities: The Department launched a new PhD program in September 2009 with students enrolling in tracks in health administration, health policy, and quality and effectiveness research. We are committed to enrolling at least three new fully funded PhD students each of the next four years. The College of Public Health is seeking accreditation, having been formed in 2007. The College is the only such entity in Nebraska and in a multi-state region. Both the College and the Department are growing, creating opportunities for academic leadership in addition to an environment conducive to collaborative research.
The Environment: The Department includes two research centers with established, active records in funded research and publication/dissemination of results to diverse audiences: the RUPRI Center for Rural Health Policy Analysis (www.unmc.edu/ruprihealth) and the Nebraska Center for Rural Health Research (www.unmc.edu/rural). The Department includes faculty with expertise in health economics, medical geography, health policy and health services research, along with 7 data analysts and 4 graduate research assistants. The College of Public Health is developing a Center for Global Health to capitalize on opportunities for collaboration and cross-national training with institutions in Kenya, China, India and Indonesia. The College will occupy its own building in 2010, bringing together faculty across 5 departments, and research centers. The MPH program was reaccredited in 2009 for a 7-year period. UNMC is a growing institution who ranking among research universities has risen in recent years, thanks to meeting aggressive goals to increase extramural and internal support for research activity.
The Qualifications: We seek an individual at any academic rank with evidence of ability to publish research manuscripts and secure extramural funding, including through previous faculty positions and/or post doctoral experience. Areas of interest should some combination of health care finance, health care organizations, health policy, and global health. Applicants should send a letter of interest with curriculum vitae, references, and writing samples to: Keith Mueller, PhD, 984350 Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, NE 68198-4350, Email: .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)
The University of Nebraska is an Affirmative Action / Equal Employment Opportunity employer, which seeks and encourages expression of interest from minorities and groups traditionally underrepresented.
Assistant Professor, Health Policy and Management, Harvard University
http://careers.apha.org/jobdetail.cfm?job=3297490
Updated: February 14 2010
The Department of Health Policy and Management at the Harvard School of Public Health is seeking to appoint an assistant professor to teach and conduct research in health policy and management. The successful candidate should possess a broad knowledge of both health care and health policy. Candidates will be expected to be able to undertake empirical research employing statistical and econometric methods. Candidates should have demonstrated the experience and skills necessary to play a central role in research and teaching. Candidates should hold an earned doctoral degree in medicine (M.D.) and additional training in research. A Ph.D. in a closely related social science discipline, such as health policy, sociology, or economics is desirable, but not required. We expect that this individual will conduct research on quality of care, access to care, and related delivery system issues. Other qualifications include advanced methodological training, evidence of ability or the potential to manage national and international projects, to collaborate with professionals in other disciplines, and to teach health policy and management courses at the graduate level.
Please send a letter of application, including a statement of current and future research interests, curriculum vitae, sample publications and the names of four referees to the following address. Applicants should ask their referees to write independently to this address. The electronic submission of application documents to the email below is welcome:
Hayden Rockson, Search Administrator
Department of Health Policy and Management
Harvard School of Public Health
677 Huntington Avenue
Boston, MA 02115
Email: .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)
Harvard University is committed to increasing representation of women and minority members among its faculty and particularly encourages applications from such candidates.
Project Leader, Plastics Collection, Syracuse University
Updated: February 14 2010
Syracuse University Library invites applications for the position of Plastics Collection Project Leader. This 18 month, benefits eligible position reports to the Director of Special Collections. The successful candidate will lead an ambitious effort to build the plastics history collection, which includes artifacts, printed materials, and archives, and oversee the ongoing development of the web portal plastics.syr.edu.
In 2008, Syracuse University Library took custody of a collection of thousands of artifacts, books, and archival collections documenting the history of the plastics industry. Most of these materials are housed in the library’s Special Collections Research Center (scrc.syr.edu) where interested patrons may consult them. This bold new collecting area requires a well-rounded and entrepreneurial leader to administer its continued growth.
Requirements (listed in order of priority):
Define collecting goals for library’s plastics collection.
Oversee the continued development of the web portal plastics.syr.edu.
Build relationships with industry leaders in order to attract donation of collection materials and cash gifts.
Suffuse plastics collection into Syracuse’s many academic teaching programs.
Convene plastics advisory board made up of interested plastics industry and academic parties.
Answer reference questions about the collection and arrange for patron use.
Qualifications:
Master’s degree in the history of science, design, technology, or business (PhD preferred) OR master’s degree in library and information science or museum studies.
Work experience in academic libraries, archives, or museum.
General knowledge about the role of plastics in history and society.
Ability to work with individuals from diverse backgrounds, including academia, industry, and business.
Proven record of leadership in programming and outreach.
Salary and Benefits: 18-month, benefits-eligible position, full-time, 37.5 hours per week. Annual Salary: $50,000. Information regarding the University’s generous benefits package can be found on the Department of Human Resources website at http://humanresources.syr.edu/benefits/.
Contact: Syracuse University requires that you complete an online application. To complete an online application through the Internet, please go to http://www.sujobopps.com. Applicants should attach both a cover letter and resume with the application and include the names of three professional references.
Application deadline: Position will remain open until filled. Syracuse University is an Equal Opportunity Employer.
Science as Culture
Updated: February 14 2010
Science as Culture
NSF Senior Analyst, Science & Engineering Indicators Program
http://jobview.usajobs.gov/GetJob.aspx?OPMControl=1781564&org=NSF
Updated: January 28 2010
The National Science Foundation is seeking a Senior Analyst in its Science & Engineering Indicators Program, Division of Science Resources Statistics’ (SRS) Directorate for Social and Behavioral Sciences, Arlington, VA. Appointment is under the Intergovernmental Personnel Act* (IPA) for a two-year renewable period. The salary range is $89,033 - $163,957. SRS, the principal Federal Government source in the Federal Government for statistics and analyses of worldwide Science and Engineering (S&E) trends, produces the National Science Board’s Congressionally mandated biennial Science and Engineering Indicators report for the President and the Congress. Indicators analyses cover the range of S&E topics from education and workforce to globalization of S&T capabilities and production and trade of sophisticated goods and services. The Senior Analyst will be responsible for quantitatively based analyses in one or more of three major topic areas: Structure and functioning of the U.S. higher education system with specific reference to science, engineering, and mathematics; U.S. academic R&D including faculty, academic researchers, and graduate and doctoral S&E students and postdocs; and the structure and dynamics of the U.S. S&E workforce. Much of the work will be done in a team setting. For information about this job and how to apply, please go to http://jobview.usajobs.gov/GetJob.aspx?OPMControl=1781564&org=NSF. The Agency Contact for this job announcement is Camille L. Britt, (703) 292-4345; .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address); TTD (703) 292-8044.
For more information about SRS programs, including the Science and Engineering Indicators Program, please go to the website at http://www.nsf.gov/div/index.jsp?div=SRS.
Please share this notice with colleagues as appropriate.
* Intergovernmental Personnel Act (IPA) Assignment. Individuals eligible for an IPA assignment with a Federal agency include employees of state and local government agencies or institutions of higher education, Indian tribal governments, and other eligible organizations in instances where such assignments would be of mutual benefit to the organizations involved. The individual remains an employee of the home institution, and NSF provides funding toward the assignee’s salary and benefits.
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).
Assistant/Associate/Full Professor, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Updated: January 15 2010
Deadline: Applications will continue to be accepted until the positions are filled
The School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, invites qualified academics who possess PhDs in Sociology (Social or Cultural Anthropology will also be considered) and proven records of accomplishments in teaching and research (especially on Asian societies), to apply for tenure-track faculty positions as either Assistant Professor, Associate Professor or Professor, in any of the following disciplines:
- Urban Sociology
- Social Demography
- Consumption and Popular Culture
- Organizations/Business and Society
Applicants with additional expertise in Quantitative Methods and Social Theory will receive priority of consideration. Successful applicants are expected to teach effectively (at both undergraduate and graduate levels) in English.
The Division strongly emphasizes teaching excellence and supports faculty research. The thrust of our Division's teaching and research is international and comparative, with special focus on the analysis of social change in Asian societies. The Division's profile can be found at the following website: http://www.ntu.edu.sg/hss/sociology/.
To apply, please refer to the Guidelines for Submitting an Application for Faculty Appointment (http://www.ntu.edu.sg/ohr/Career/SubmitApplications/Pages/Faculty.aspx) and send your application to:
Associate Professor KWOK Kian-Woon
Head, Division of Sociology
School of Humanities and Social Sciences
HSS-05-36
Nanyang Avenue, Singapore 637332
Fax: (65) 6794 6303Email: .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)
Applications will continue to be accepted until the positions are filled.
Non-Tenure Track Assistant/Associate Research Professor, Center for State Health Policy, Rutgers
Updated: January 15 2010
Position Announcement
Assistant/Associate Research Professor
Center for State Health Policy
Institute for Health, HealthCare Policy & Aging Research
Rutgers the State University of New Jersey
New Brunswick, NJ
The Center for State Health Policy (Center/CSHP) at Rutgers University invites applications for a non-tenure track Assistant or Associate Research Professor with strong interest, expertise and record of achievement in health services research and public policy.
The successful candidate will have a doctoral degree in health or public policy or a related discipline such as sociology, economics, political science, epidemiology, law or medicine; and substantial (e.g., 3 or more years) relevant research experience. Individuals with a master's degree and substantial relevant independent research experience in one or more of the areas listed below will be considered. Preference will be given to individuals with training and experience in the application of advanced quantitative and/or qualitative methods.
We are seeking talented and motivated candidates who are emerging or established leaders in health policy research with strong records of developing and managing complex policy and services research projects. The desired applicant should have excellent analytic and communication skills and a blend of the following:
Demonstrated ability to conceptualize, develop and lead the submission of successful proposals to government, particularly federal, and private research sponsors.
Commitment to the Center's mission and strategic goal of informing, supporting and stimulating sound and creative state health policy in New Jersey and around the nation.
Extensive policy/content expertise in one or more of the Center's areas of interest (described below), and knowledge of and interest in government and policy.
Ability and enthusiasm to lead and work effectively within multi-disciplinary teams that may include faculty, staff, and students. Willingness to mentor junior staff and contribute to the professional development of colleagues at the Center.
Ability to translate research findings to policy audiences, and excellent skills in written and oral communication of complex policy-related information and research findings to diverse, non-technical audiences.
Strong publications record, including policy-oriented work and peer-reviewed scholarly publications.
The new faculty member will contribute to the Center's efforts to build on our research portfolio in one or more of the following areas:
Population health, including state obesity prevention strategies.
Measurement and improvement of health system performance, including state policies addressing health service quality and value.
Medicaid policy.
Health care workforce policy (i.e., nursing, medicine and other health care workers).
Policies addressing racial, ethnic, and socioeconomic disparities in health services access, utilization, quality, and outcomes.
Policies to improve the organization, financing and delivery of acute and long-term care services for vulnerable populations including people with physical disabilities or chronic conditions, low-income populations, and the elderly.
The Center for State Health Policy, a unit of the Institute for Health, Health Care Policy, and Aging Research at Rutgers University, serves the policy needs of New Jersey and contributes to generalizable knowledge about state health policy. More than 25 faculty and research staff from diverse disciplines work on a wide range of research, policy analysis, and other projects related to health and health care policy. For more information about the Center, visit http://www.cshp.rutgers.edu.
This is a 12 month, renewable position. Renewal, with opportunities for promotion, will be based on the successful development of a focused sponsored research agenda that is consistent with the Center's mission. An initial two year contract period will be considered for applicants with an exceptional record of relevant work. Salary and rank will be commensurate with academic achievements, including sponsored research and scholarly publication records, as well as relevant professional experience. See http://uhr.rutgers.edu/documents/FacultyBenefitsGuide.pdf for additional information about the University's competitive benefit package.
Interested applicants should submit, via email, a cover letter, curriculum vita, writing sample, and names and contact information for at least three references to Margaret Koller, CSHP Executive Director, at .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address). This posting will remain open until the position is filled.
Rutgers University is an equal opportunity educator and employer.
Acquiring Editor, History and Philosphy of Science at University of Pittsburgh
Updated: January 14 2010
The University of Pittsburgh Press seeks an energetic, creative, and dedicated Editor to acquire 25-30 books a year for a new editorial program in the history and philosophy of science. This position is part of a three-person acquisitions department, reporting to the Editorial Director of the Press.
The ideal candidate will have a strong grounding, by way of editorial and/or educational experience, in one or more of the following fields: history of science, philosophy (preferably philosophy of science), science studies, history of technology, or world history. Experience in other relevant fields will also be given consideration. This expansion of our publishing program is underwritten for its first five years by a Mellon Foundation grant intended to help the Press align more closely with the institutional strengths of the University of Pittsburgh. In addition to the opportunity to creatively build an important new publication list from the ground up, the successful candidate will also be working closely with Pitt's Department of History and Philosophy of Science, and the Department of History's Center for World History, helping to develop and coordinate conferences, lecture series, among other activities.
For more information about this Mellon grant, see the press release on our website:
http://www.upress.pitt.edu/htmlSourceFiles/pressReleases/MellonGrantPR.pdf
The D. Kim Foundation for the History of Science and Technology in East Asia
Updated: January 14 2010
The D. Kim Foundation for the History of Science and Technology in East Asia is pleased to offer several annual fellowship awards and grants for 2010-2011. Established in 2008 the D. Kim Foundation is dedicated to furthering the study of the history of science and technology in East Asia since the start of the 20th century. Comparative studies of East Asia and the West as well as studies in related fields (mathematics, medicine and public health are also welcome). The Foundation provides fellowships and grants to encourage and support graduate students and young scholars in the field.
Dissertation Fellowship
Eligibility: PhD candidate who is writing his/her dissertation.
Amount of award: $25,000
Exchange Student Fellowship
Eligibility: Student who wishes to expand his/her scholarly experience by studying abroad.
Amount of award: $20,000 full-year, $10,000 half-year
Traveling/Research Grant
Eligibility: Must present a paper at an international conference, workshop or annual meeting, or do a short-term research project (less than a month).
Amount of award: Up to $2,500
Group Grant
Eligibility: Grants will be available to groups that organize workshops or international meetings. These meetings must be held in the United States and conducted in English.
Amount of award: Up to $5,000
For further information visit our website: www.dkimfoundation.org.
Masters (MSc) programme in Digital Anthropology at University College London
Deadline: June 30 2010
Updated: January 14 2010
Early application deadline: June 30, 2010
http://www.ucl.ac.uk/anthropology/digital-anthropology/
The new MSc in Digital Anthropology--begun in the Autumn of 2009--is well positioned for becoming a world leader in the training of researchers in the social and cultural dimensions of information technologies and digital media.
Digital technologies have become ubiquitous. From Facebook, Youtube and Flickr to PowerPoint, Google Earth and Second Life. Museum displays migrate to the internet, family communication in the Diaspora is dominated by new media, artists work with digital films and images. Anthropology and ethnographic research is fundamental to understanding the local consequences of these innovations, and to create theories that help us acknowledge, understand and engage with them. Today's students need to become proficient with digital technologies as research and communication tools. Through combining technical skills with appreciation of social effects, students will be trained for further research and involvement in this emergent world.
This MSc (nominally one year of full-time study) brings together three key components in the study of digital culture:
1. Skills training in digital technologies, including our own Digital Lab, from internet and digital film editing to e-curation and digital ethnography.
2. Anthropological theories of virtualism, materiality/immateriality and digitisation.
3. Understanding the consequences of digital culture through the ethnographic study of its social and regional impact.
Bursaries
There is a £5,000 annual bursary shared between this programme and the MSc in Material and Visual Culture, as well as 3 x £1,000 bursaries for all anthropology MA/MSc programmes. See here for further details on funding opportunities.
The programme is suitable both for those with a prior degree in anthropology but also for those with degrees in neighbouring disciplines who wish to be trained in anthropological and related approaches to digital culture. There is scope for those with specialist interests to work closely with information system designers, curators, communication specialists as well as our own digital studio. In addition to its importance for careers such as media, design and museums, digital technology is also integral to development, theoretical and applied anthropology.
University College London is one of the highest rated universities in the world, coming fourth after Harvard, Cambridge, and Yale in the 2009 annual Times Higher Education-QS World University Rankings.
The Dept. of Anthropology at UCL is the world's leading centre for the study of Material and Visual Culture. We publish The Journal of Material Culture and several relevant book series. We have nine specialist staff in material and visual culture, and currently supervise nearly fifty PhD students specifically in this field, including many with topics in Digital Anthropology.
For further information about this course contact Lane DeNicola(.(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)).
For making an application, note that the UCL bureaucracy may take a while to catch up with what is a new course, so in order to ensure your application is received we recommend that you download the application form from:
http://www.ucl.ac.uk/prospective-students/graduate-study/application-admission/downloadable-applications
And send this directly to:
Dr. Lane DeNicola
Department of Anthropology
University College London
14 Taviton Street
London WC1H OBW
New Book: Sciences from Below: Feminisms, Postcolonialities, and Modernities
Updated: January 14 2010
Sandra Harding
Duke University Press, 2008
A preeminent science studies scholar shows how feminist and postcolonial science studies challenge the problematic modernity versus tradition binary.
http://www.dukeupress.edu/books.php3?isbn=978-0-8223-4282-3
Mullins Award Winner—2009
Updated: January 14 2010
23 graduate student papers were nominated for this award. Many, many were truly excellent and we are confident that most will eventually be published. Still, our committee (including Andrew Lakoff, Daniel Kleinman, and Cathy Waldby) concluded that Manjari Mahajan’s paper, “Governing through the Non-Governmental: Shifting Terrains of Public Health in India’s AIDS Epidemic,” stood out. Mahajan explores the ways in which the Indian government, in a significant departure from its past public health practices, has relied heavily on non-governmental organizations to provide AIDS-related health services. In doing so, Mahajan argues a new mode of what she terms “contractual accountability” is developing. But Mahajan does much more than render a rich story, analyzing the political and epistemic implications of India’s approach to AIDS and showing the ways in which NGOs in India have become crucial players in knowledge production and expertise about AIDS, sexuality, culture and morality.
New Book: Schools under Surveillance: Cultures of Control in Public Education
Updated: January 14 2010
Rutgers University Press, 2010
Torin Monahan (Vanderbilt University) and Rodolfo D. Torres (UC Irvine), editors
Schools under Surveillance gathers together some of the very best researchers studying surveillance and discipline in contemporary public schools. Surveillance is not simply about monitoring or tracking individuals and their data--it is about the structuring of power relations through human, technical, or hybrid control mechanisms. Essays cover a broad range of topics including police and military recruiters on campus, testing and accountability regimes such as No Child Left Behind, and efforts by students and teachers to circumvent the most egregious forms of surveillance in public education. Each contributor is committed to the continued critique of the disparity and inequality in the use of surveillance to target and sort students along lines of race, class, and gender.
For more information, see the publisher's website at http://rutgerspress.rutgers.edu/acatalog/Schools_Under_Surveillance.html
New Graduate track at UMass Boston
Updated: January 14 2010
From personalized genomics to measurements of sea-level rise, from al Qaeda websites to citizen technology-assessment panels, from brain-based education to labor-saving inventions for use in developing countries, social and scientific changes are intertwined. "Science in a Changing World," a new graduate track at UMass Boston prepares students to participate in questioning and shaping the direction of scientific and social changes, as well as to teach and engage others to participate in this important endeavor.
Masters degree and Graduate certificate with face-to-face, online, and at-a-distance course offerings.
Students with diverse backgrounds and career paths--from laboratories to field research, journalism to policy formulation, teaching to activism--are welcome to join the track. The teachers, advisors, courses, and research & engagement projects will lead them to examine Science and its Social Context and to develop valuable professional skills in Research, Writing & Evaluation for Civic Engagement and in Collaborative processes & Problem-Based Teaching around real-world issues involving science and technology.
Applications accepted to start in spring and fall. For more information, see http://www.stv.umb.edu/SICW.html or contact .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address).
New Book: Experimental Secrets: International Security, Codes, and the Future of Research
Updated: January 14 2010
University Press of America, 2009
Brian Rappert (University of Exeter)
Experimental Secrets addresses an unsettling question asked in recent years about the implications of modern biotechnology: might the knowledge being gained be used to further—rather than prevent—the spread of disease? In other words, might the life sciences become the death sciences? To avert this prospect, many governments, science agencies, and others have proposed researchers should subscribe to codes of conduct. Experimental Secrets recounts five years of international efforts to devise such codes. These initiatives have raised a question of profound significance: Are there limits to what should be known or communicated in the name of security?
To convey the experiences of policy-making, Experimental Secrets offers a marked departure from typical forms of academic writing. It seeks to convey a sense of what has been at stake with codes through ways of writing that question the conventions of statecraft, science, and social research. Different styles of writing, formats of texts, and points of views are mixed in an effort to convey the tensions, frustrations, and promises associated with international diplomatic efforts. In doing so, this book examines how those in STS and elsewhere undertaking research in conditions of secrecy could use what is missing from their accounts as a creative resource.
For more information, see the publisher's website at http://www.univpress.com/Catalog/SingleBook.shtml?command=Search&db=%5EDB/CATALOG.db&eqSKUdata=0761844759
IEEE History Center Life Member Internship
Deadline: March 01 2010
Updated: January 14 2010
Scholars at the beginning of their career studying the history of electrical technology and computing are invited to contact the Center to be considered for a paid Internship at the Center's offices on the Rutgers University campus in New Brunswick, New Jersey.
The intern program seeks to provide research experience for graduate students in the history of electrical and computer technologies, while enlisting the help of promising young scholars for the Center's projects. The Intern generally works full-time for two months at the History Center on a Center project that is connected to his or her own area of interest. This time is usually during the summer, but other arrangements will be considered. Interns are also encouraged to consult with the Center's staff and its associates, and guided to research resources in the area. The internship is designed for those near the beginning or middle of their graduate careers, but advanced undergraduates, advanced graduates, and, on rare occasions, recent Ph.D.s will also be considered. Special consideration is often given to scholars from outside the United States who might not otherwise have an opportunity to visit historical resources in this country.
The stipend paid to the intern is US$3,500, but additional funds may be available to defray travel costs, depending on the intern’s circumstances. This internship is supported by the IEEE Life Members Committee.
There is no formal application form. To apply, please mail a curriculum vitae showing your studies in electrical history along with a cover letter describing the sort of project you would be interested in doing (see contact information below). The deadline for contacting the IEEE History Center is 1 March 2010.
IEEE and Rutgers are AA/EO employers. Women and minorities are encouraged to apply for all positions. The IEEE History Center is cosponsored by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)—the world’s largest professional technical society—, and Rutgers—the State University of New Jersey. The mission of the Center is to preserve, research, and promote the legacy of electrical engineering and computing. The Center can be contacted at: IEEE History Center, Rutgers University, 39 Union Street, New Brunswick, NJ 08901-8538, .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address), http://www.ieee.org/web/aboutus/history_center/index.html
New Book: Protocol Politics: The Globalization of Internet Governance
Updated: January 14 2010
The MIT Press, 2009
Information Revolution and Global Politics Series
Dr. Laura DeNardis, Yale Law School
ISBN-10: 0-262-04257-6
ISBN-13: 978-0-262-04257-4
“The Internet is approaching a critical point. The world is running out of Internet addresses.” So begins Protocol Politics, a new book by STS Scholar Laura DeNardis, a Research Scholar and Lecturer in Law at Yale Law School and the Executive Director of the Yale Information Society Project. Internet engineers developed a new technical protocol, IPv6, to address this problem but IPv6 adoption has barely begun because of technical, cultural, and economic constraints. DeNardis's key insight is that technical standards are political. IPv6 serves as a case study for how protocols more generally are intertwined with socioeconomic and political order. IPv6 intersects with provocative topics including Internet civil liberties, U.S. military objectives, globalization, institutional power struggles, and the promise of global democratic freedoms. DeNardis offers recommendations for Internet standards governance, based not only on technical concerns but on principles of openness and transparency, and examines the global implications of looming Internet address scarcity versus the slow deployment of the new protocol designed to solve this problem.
MIT Press Book Description http://mitpress.mit.edu/catalog/item/default.asp?ttype=2&tid=11893'
2010 ESST European Award for Aspiring Undergraduates in Science, Technology and Society (STS)
Deadline: June 30 2010
Updated: January 14 2010
Undergraduates studying at any European university and in any relevant field (engineering, the sciences, the social sciences and the humanities) are invited to apply for the 2010 ESST European Award sponsored by the European Masters Programme in Society, Science and Technology (ESST). An amount of 1,000 € will be awarded for the best original undergraduate paper or essay on any topic related to Society, Science and Technology. All submissions must be between 2,000 and 3,000 words in length and must be written in English. The deadline is 30 June, 2010.
For more information about the ESST European Masters Programme see:
http://www.esst.eu
Further details about the 2010 ESST European Award are available from:
http://www.esst.eu/award
Bakken Travel Grants
Deadline: February 19 2010
Updated: January 14 2010
Scholars and artists are invited to apply for travel fellowships and grants, which the Bakken Library and Museum in Minneapolis offers to encourage research in its collection of books, journals, manuscripts, prints, and instruments. The awards are to be used to help defray the expenses of travel, subsistence, and other direct costs of conducting research at the Bakken for researchers who must travel some distance and pay for temporary housing in the Twin Cities in order to conduct research at the Bakken.
Visiting Research Fellowships are awarded up to a maximum of $1,500; the minimum period of residence is two weeks, and preference is given to researchers who are interested in collaborating informally for a day or two with Bakken staff during their research visit. Research Travel Grants are awarded up to a maximum of $500 (domestic) and $750 (foreign); the minimum period of residence is one week.
The next application deadline for either type of research assistance is 19 February 2010.
For more details and application guidelines, please contact:
Elizabeth Ihrig, Librarian
The Bakken Library and Museum
3537 Zenith Avenue So.
Minneapolis, MN., 55416
e-mail: .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)
http://www.thebakken.org
New Book: The Making of a Building: A Pragmatist Approach to Architecture
Updated: January 14 2010
Oxford, Bern, Berlin, Bruxelles, Frankfurt am Main, New York, Wien, 2009. XII, 227 pp., 24 ill.
ISBN 978-3-03911-952-3 pb.
Order online: http://www.peterlang.com/index.cfm?vID=11952&vLang=E&vHR=1&vUR=2&vUUR=1
How do architects learn about a building-to-be? How does a building emerge and gain reality in the model shop, in scaling, in option making, in architects' - and engineers' - discussions, in public presentations? What does it mean to design? What does it mean to add a building to the city? Drawing on rare ethnographical material of architects at work at the Office for Metropolitan Architecture (OMA) of Rem Koolhaas in Rotterdam in the period 2001-4, this book offers a novel account of the social and cognitive complexity of architecture in the making.
The author dismisses both stylistic periodization and socio-political constructivist methods as being inadequate to the task of understanding the dynamic process of how architects generate design through space and materiality, instead showcasing the potentials of the pragmatist approach as a research tool in the field of architecture. Offering a new way of understanding architecture as practice that takes place within the interactive networks of human and non-human actors, the book also tells the intriguing story of the extensions of the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York.
Contents: Pragmatist Approach to Architecture - The Social Life of Buildings - Ethnography of Design - Visualisation in Design - Scale Models - Design Cognition - Comparative Historical Enquiry in Design - Architecture of Addition - New York - Manhattan - Design Controversies - American Architecture - Marcel Breuer - Michael Graves - Rem Koolhaas - Actor-Network Theory.
The Author: Albena Yaneva is a Lecturer in Architectural Studies at the University of Manchester, United Kingdom. In her research she draws extensively on the Actor-Network Theory to explore fieldworks in architecture, industrial design, contemporary art, and museum studies.
New Book: The Sociology of Intellectual Life: The Life of the Mind in and Around the Academy
Updated: January 14 2010
By Steve Fuller, 'Theory, Culture and Society' series, Sage Publications (London)
This book outlines a social theory of knowledge for the 21st century. It deals directly with a world in which it is no longer taken for granted that universities and academics are the places and people that best embody the life of the mind. While Fuller defends academic privilege, he takes very seriously the historic divergences between academics and intellectuals, attending especially to the different features of knowledge production that they value. Among this book's features include:
* an account of the vexed relationship between postmodernism and the university as an institution;
* the role tensions endemic to an academic who wishes also to function as an intellectual;
* a critical survey of the emerging fields of social epistemology and the sociology of philosophy, set against the rise of Anglophone analytic philosophy in the 20th century;
* a discussion of the ethics and politics of public intellectual life, especially given its largely improvisational character.
Save 50% order online at http://www.uk.sagepub.com/booksProdDesc.nav?prodId=Book229759&
quoting promo code UK09AF024. E-book also available at £24.95 (ISBN 978-1-84920-523-8). The website also includes a link to the author's podcasts about the book, as well as the text of the introduction and chapter one. The author is also happy to be contacted about the book at .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)
William Kinsella is Director of the Interdisciplinary Program in Science, Technology, and Society at
Updated: January 14 2010
William Kinsella has been appointed to a three-year term as Director of the Interdisciplinary Program in Science, Technology, and Society at North Carolina State University (http://ids.chass.ncsu.edu/sts/). He has also received a U.S. Fulbright scholar award for research to be based at the University of Stuttgart during the Spring 2010 term. His Fulbright research project is titled "Nuclear Energy in Germany: Institutional, Political, and Public Communication in a Changing Social Context."
Research Grants from the Friends of the UW Madison Libraries
Deadline: February 01 2010
Updated: January 14 2010
The Friends of the University of Wisconsin—Madison Libraries is pleased to offer a minimum of four grants-in-aid annually, each one month in duration, for research in the humanities in any field appropriate to the library’s collections. The purpose is to foster the high-level use of the University of Wisconsin—Madison Libraries’ rich holdings, and to make them better known and more accessible to a wider circle of scholars. Awards are $2,000 each, or $3,000 for those traveling from outside North America.
Memorial Library, the university’s principal research library is distinguished in almost every area of scholarship. It boasts world-renowned collections of:
•history of science from the Middle Ages through the Enlightenment
•pseudo science and medical and scientific quackery
•the largest American collection of avant-garde “Little Magazines”
•a rapidly growing collection of American women writers to 1920
•many other fields
Generally, applicants must have a Ph.D. or be able to demonstrate a record of solid intellectual accomplishment. Scholars and graduate students who have completed all requirements except the dissertation are also eligible.
The grants-in-aid are designed primarily to help provide access to UW—Madison library resources for people who live beyond commuting distance. Preference will be given to scholars who reside outside a 75-mile radius of Madison. The grantee is expected to be in residence during the term of the award, which may be taken up at any time during the year.
Applications are due 1 February of any year. For application forms or more information, see http://giving.library.wisc.edu/friends/grant-in-aid.shtml, or write to Friends of the University of Wisconsin—Madison Libraries, University of Wisconsin—Madison, 990 Memorial Library, 728 State St., Madison, WI 53706, or contact the Friends at 608-265-2505; fax: 608-265-2754, E-mail: .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address).
Further Information:
http://giving.library.wisc.edu/friends/grant-in-aid.shtml
Faculty position in History/Political Science at Pennsylvania College of Technology
Updated: January 14 2010
Deadline: Open until Position is Filled
Pennsylvania College of Technology is located in Williamsport, a family-oriented community, ideally situated along the Susquehanna River at the foot of Bald Eagle Mountain in North Central Pennsylvania, within 200 miles of New York City, Philadelphia, Baltimore, and Washington D.C. Penn College is Pennsylvania’s premier technical college and an affiliate of The Pennsylvania State University. More than 6,500 students are enrolled in Penn College’s bachelor and associate degree and certificate majors, which combine hands-on experience with theory and management education.
We offer a competitive salary and benefits package, excellent educational benefits for employees and dependents at Penn College and Penn State, and an exciting work experience as part of the Penn College family. Penn College recently received Honor Roll recognition in The Chronicle of Higher Education’s survey of “Great College’s to Work for.” For more information about Penn College, please visit our Web site at http://www.pct.edu.
Faculty: History/Political Science: The faculty will instruct and evaluate students in core U.S. and world history courses, elective history courses, political science courses; specifically, history and theory of American government at the federal, state, and local level. Position will start Fall 2010 semester, August 12, 2010.
Minimum qualifications include Ph.D. in history or closely related discipline; and two years of full-time or the equivalent of two years full-time relevant teaching experience in U.S. history and/or world history at the college level. Finalists must present a sample lesson. Background check will be required on selected candidate.
Submit a completed College application for employment AND a letter of interest and resume to:
Human Resources (281)
Pennsylvania College of Technology
One College Avenue
Williamsport, PA 17701
Position will remain open until a suitable candidate is identified. A detailed job announcement and an application for employment are available at http://www.pct.edu/jobs or by calling (570) 327-4770.
Senior Lecturer in Women’s and Gender Studies at Vanderbilt University
Updated: January 14 2010
Vanderbilt University’s interdisciplinary Women’s and Gender Studies Program seeks a SENIOR LECTURER for a renewable three-year contract at the BEGINNING OF THE 2010-2011 ACADEMIC YEAR. The position includes teaching duties of six courses per academic year. The ideal candidate will hold a degree in Women’s and/ or Gender Studies or a related discipline. Ph.D. REQUIRED NO LATER THAN AUGUST 2009. Demonstrated experience teaching women’s and/or gender studies courses preferred. While any area of scholarship related to women’s and gender studies is welcome, we are in particular need of faculty in the areas of Transnational Feminisms, and Masculinities, broadly conceived.
The Women’s and Gender Studies Program is both the public face and nexus of feminist and gender scholarship at Vanderbilt University and, as such, serves multiple functions. The program is staffed with a Director, an Associate Director, an Administrative Assistant, and student workers. In addition, Women’s and Gender Studies is guided by a Steering Committee appointed by the Director and also benefits from the advice, support, and research and teaching activities of 90+ affiliated faculty members drawn from across campus, as a well as, significant support from the university administration.
Please forward letter of application, curriculum vitae, statement of teaching philosophy, sample syllabus, teaching evaluations if available, and contact information for three references to:
Professor Charlotte Pierce-Baker, Director Women’s and Gender Studies Program VU Station B #350086 2301 Vanderbilt Place Nashville, TN 37235
Direct inquiries to .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address); please do not telephone the program. For additional information, visit our website at www.vanderbilt.edu/womens-studies
Review of applications begins immediately and continues until position is filled.
Requirements
The position includes teaching duties of six courses per academic year. The ideal candidate will hold a degree in Women’s and/ or Gender Studies or a related discipline. Ph.D. REQUIRED NO LATER THAN AUGUST 2009. Demonstrated experience teaching women’s and/or gender studies courses preferred. While any area of scholarship related to women’s and gender studies is welcome, we are in particular need of faculty in the areas of Transnational Feminisms, and Masculinities, broadly conceived.
The History of Science Society 2009 Prize Winners
Updated: January 14 2010
The History of Science Society awarded its 2009 prizes at the HSS annual conference, which was in Phoenix. The HSS wishes to congratulate its prize winners.
Sarton Medal: (for lifetime achievement)
John E. Murdoch
Professor, Harvard University
Pfizer Award: (for the best scholarly book)
Harold J. Cook
Director of the Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine and professor at University College London
Matters of Exchange: Commerce, Medicine, and Science in the Dutch Golden Age (Yale University Press, 2007)
Watson Davis and Helen Miles Davis Prize: (for the best book for a general audience)
Charles Seife
Associate Professor, The Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute at New York University
Sun in a Bottle: The Strange History of Fusion and the Science of Wishful Thinking (Viking Adult, 2008)
Derek Price/Rod Webster Prize: (for the best article in Isis)
Angela N. H. Creager, Professor, Princeton University and Gregory J. Morgan, Associate Professor, Stevens Institute of Technology “After the Double Helix: Rosalind Franklin's Research on Tobacco mosaic virus" (Isis, 2008, 99:239-272)
Joseph H Hazen Education Prize: (for excellence in teaching the history of science)
Frederick Gregory
Professor, University of Florida
Margaret W. Rossiter History of Women in Science Prize: (for the best book on the history of women in science)
Monica H. Green
Professor, Arizona State University
Making Women's Medicine Masculine. The Rise of Male Authority in Pre-Modern
Gynaecology (Oxford University Press, 2008)
Nathan Reingold Prize: (for the best unpublished article by a graduate student)
Rachel N. Mason Dentinger, University of Minnesota
“Molecularizing Plant Compounds, Evolutionizing Insect-Plant Relationships: Gottfried S. Fraenkel and the physiological study of insect feeding in the 1950s."
New Book: The Materiality of Learning Technology and Knowledge in Educational Practice
Updated: January 14 2010
Cambridge University Press, 2009.
Estrid Sørensen, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
The field of educational research lacks a methodology for the study of learning that does not begin with humans, their aims, and their interests. The Materiality of Learning seeks develop a novel spatial approach to educational research that focusses on the materiality of learning. Drawing on science and technology studies (STS), and especially on the spatial thinking of After-ANT, Estrid Sørensen compares an Internet-based 3D virtual environment project in a fourth-grade class with the class’s work with traditional learning materials, including blackboards, textbooks, notebooks, pencils, and rulers. Taking into account pupils’ and teachers’ physical bodies, Professor Sørensen analyzes the multiple forms of technology, knowledge, and presence that are enacted with the materials. This book is an important reference for professionals and graduate or postgraduate students interested in a variety of fields, including educational studies, educational psychology, social anthropology, and STS.
• Original ethnographic descriptions showing the fine details of how materials influence the learning process • Introduces the advanced and complex Actor-Network Theory to the educational field, clarified for the reader through detailed ethnographic descriptions
‘Sørensen shows in the book that it is indeed possible to write a genuine and theoretically sophisticated post-humanist analysis, while showing care and empathy for the people invovled.’ Prof. Torben Elgaard Jensen, Technical University of Denmark
New book: The Origins of Sociable Life: Evolution After Science Studies by Myra J. Hird
Updated: January 14 2010
This ambitious, agenda-setting study considers the origins of sociable life from a microontological perspective. More specifically, it suggests ways of engaging with bacteria in other-than passive or pathogenic characterizations. We know much more about living organisms "big-like-us" than we do about those organisms which originated life on Earth and sustain the biosphere through complex symbiotic and recycling relationships. This book details scientific research on bacterial capabilities such as perception, communication, community organization and symbiosis. It critically analyzes evolutionary theories about the development of species (including neo-Darwinism, epigenetics and symbiogenesis). It also draws on bio-philosophical discussions of sexual difference, identity, environmentalism and ethics, providing a transdisciplinary framework with which to engage the social and natural sciences together to recognize bacterial liveliness in structuring social relations.
Praise for The Origins of Sociable Life: ‘Myra J. Hird provides a highly engaging and energetic account of contemporary scientific debates about microbes, detailing how they challenge mainstream understandings of evolution, identity, sex and ecology. Most importantly, she articulates why social scientists, feminists and queer theorists should pay careful attention to our inextricable entanglements with the microcosmos. Her enthusiasm for her subject matter is infectious.’ — Celia Roberts, Department of Sociology, Lancaster University, UK
‘This book is an exciting and inviting account of the messy entanglements and inventions of the world’s tiny beings, those entities that shape scale upon scale of sociable living for all on the earth. Myra Hird’s book is richly researched and beautifully written, and it fulfills my appetite for an account of biology and biologists to live with and for. Hird shows how “thinking with micro-organisms”– and with their scientists – can be a fundamental practice for living well in multispecies, mortal worlds.’— Donna Haraway, Distinguished Professor, History of Consciousness Department, UC Santa Cruz, USA
For more information, see the publisher's website, http://us.macmillan.com/theoriginsofsociablelifeevolutionaftersciencestudie
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
New Book from Cary Wolfe: What Is Humanism? (U of Minn Press, 2009)
Updated: January 08 2010
WHAT IS POSTHUMANISM?
By Cary Wolfe
University of Minnesota Press | 392 pages | 2009
ISBN 978-0-8166-6614-0| hardcover | $75.00
ISBN 978-0-8166-6615-7| paperback | $24.95
Posthumanities Series, Vol. 8
Can a new kind of humanities-posthumanities-respond to the redefinition of humanity's place in the world by both the technological and the biological or "green" continuum in which the "human" is but one life form among many? Exploring this radical repositioning, Cary Wolfe ranges across bioethics, cognitive science, animal ethics, gender, and disability to develop a theoretical and philosophical approach responsive to our changing understanding of ourselves and our world.
Cary Wolfe holds the Bruce and Elizabeth Dunlevie Chair in English at Rice University. His previous books include Critical Environments: Postmodern Theory and the Pragmatics of the "Outside," Observing Complexity: Systems Theory and Postmodernity, and Zoontologies: The Question of the Animal, all published by the University of Minnesota Press.
For more information, including the table of contents, visit the book's webpage:
http://www.upress.umn.edu/Books/W/wolfe_posthumanism.html
For more information on the Posthumanities Series:
http://www.upress.umn.edu/byseries/posthumanities.html
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New Program in Science, Technology, and International Development at U of Edinburgh
Updated: January 08 2010
The Science, Technology and Innovation Studies Subject Group at the University of Edinburgh is launching a new postgraduate programme in Science, Technology and International Development from September 2010. The MSc programme (coursework plus dissertation) can be completed full-time over one year or part-time over two or three years. Alternatively a shorter programme (coursework without dissertation) can be followed for a Diploma or Certificate. The MSc Science, Technology and International Development is designed to equip students with an advanced interdisciplinary understanding of the historical, sociological, political and policy aspects of science and technology as they relate to international development. The programme provides a conceptual and policy-oriented approach the relationships between science, technology and international development. The programme prepares students for specialised practical work in international development or further academic study. Further information: see http://www.sps.ed.ac.uk/stid or contact the Programme Director Lawrence Dritsas .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address). The University of Edinburgh is a charitable body, registered in Scotland, with registration number SC005336.
Professional Associations
Updated: January 03 2010
International Affiliates of 4S
International Council for Science
International Social Science Council
US Associations
IEEE Society on Social Implications of Technology
History of Science Society (HSS)
Philosophy of Science Association (PSA)
Society for the History of Technology (SHOT)
American Sociological Association (Section on Science, Knowledge, and Technology - SKAT)
American Association for the History of Medicine
American Anthropological Association
American Association for the Advancement of Science
National Association for Science, Technology, and Society
Lehigh University STS Newsletter
International Associations
International Society for the History of Philosophy of Science
www.stssociety.com (website of the only STS Journal in South Asia )
European Association for the Study of Science and Technology (EASST)
Australasian Association for the History, Philosophy and Social Studies of Science (AAHPSSS)
International Sociological Association (Research Committee 23 - Sociology of Science and Technology)
International Society for the History of Technology (ICOHTEC)
International Society for the Psychology of Science and Technology
Arthur L. Norberg Travel Fund
Deadline: January 15 2010
Updated: January 02 2010
The Arthur L. Norberg Travel Fund provides short-term grants-in-aid to help scholars with travel expenses to use archival collections at the Charles Babbage Institute. Each year we plan to award two $750 grants.
Applicants should send a 2-page CV as well as a 500-word project description that describes the overall research project, identifies the importance of specific CBI collections, and discusses the projected outcome (journal article, book chapter, museum exhibit, etc.). Applicants are strongly encouraged to examine the extensive on-line finding guides to CBI’s 200-plus archival collections at http://www.cbi.umn.edu/collections/archmss.html. Applicants should estimate how many days they plan to use CBI collections during their visit (travel should generally be in the calendar year of the award). To be eligible, scholars will reside outside the Twin Cities metropolitan region.
Notification of awards will be made within four weeks, and travel can commence directly thereafter. Questions pertaining to collection content and access can be directed to R. Arvid Nelsen, CBI Archivist, at .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address). Please direct questions about the Arthur Norberg Travel Fund to Jeffrey Yost, CBI Associate Director, .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address). For additional information, see http://www.cbi.umn.edu.
Materials must be submitted by email to .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) or postmarked no later than 15 January 2010.
Further Information: http://www.cbi.umn.edu/collections/archmss.html
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)
Web Resources
Updated: December 31 1969
The resources listed below are maintained on a cumulative basis, with new content added (and outdated links removed) on a bi-monthly basis. Resources include
- wiki’s
- networks and news
- online journals and weblogs
- bulletin boards and listservs (email lists not associated with an official "society")
- non-profit organizations and initiatives
- online exhibits
- job search sites
- funding and award sites
- external collections of STS-relevant links
Wiki’s
STS Wiki
[added: 12/02/2005]
http://www.stswiki.org/
The STS Wiki provides an advanced, user-extensible environment for STS-related collaboration and information exchange. Features currently include a world-wide directory of STS programs and STS scholars, reading notes, book reviews, bibliographies, working papers, and ongoing intellectual dialogue; however, users will ultimately determine how STS Wiki evolves. STS Wiki uses the same software that powers Wikipedia. All STS and affiliated scholars are warmly invited to join in the conversation.
WTMC Wiki
http://www.wtmc.net/wiki/index.php?title=Main_Page
"The WTMC wiki is meant for sharing information on all sort of issues related to doing a PhD, being a member of WTMC, or doing research in the field of Science, Technology and Modern Culture. At the moment this wiki consists of large number of articles. Please feel free to add or edit content, or to (re-)structure information. There’s nothing better than scholars sharing their thoughts!"
Networks and News
Situating Science: Cluster for the Humanistand Social Studies of Science
The Cluster for the Humanistic and Social Studies of Science (CHSSS) promotes new ways of bringing together scholars studying science and technology from a philosophical, historical, sociological and cultural perspective, along with colleagues in adjacent fields, making that work integrated with and accessible to journalists, museum workers, policy makers and the Canadian public.
Science Studies Search Engine
http://google.com/coop/cse?cx=006369935143364481409%3Ak8leffjphf8
This custom search engine, implemented using Google Co-op (http://google.com/coop/), searches across across all sites supporting or relevant to the scholarly field of STS/Science Studies. Available for public use without registration, S3E can also be added as a "gadget" to an individual’s Google homepage (for those with a Google Account). Currently, the search spans:
1) the STS Wiki
2) the 4S website
3) all those sites listed under the Web Resources and Professional Associations sections of the 4S website (these are dynamically updated to include any sites added to/deleted from those pages).
Humanities/Policy
http://www.humanitiespolicy.unt.edu
“Humanities/Policy (H/P) consists of an interdisciplinary group of researchers seeking to articulate and test the idea that the humanities have important contributions to make to public policy issues arising at the interface of science, technology, and human values. As our scientific knowledge and technical capabilities grow, some of the most pertinent questions remain those perennially addressed by the humanities. We place these perennial questions within the framework of how science and technology affect and have been affected by our public policies and larger societal values.”
The International Calendar of Information Science Conferences (ICISC)
http://icisc.neasist.org/
The Special Interest Group on International Information Issues (SIG/III), the European (ASIST/EC) and the New England (NEASIST) chapters of ASIS&T (American Society for Information Science & Technology) are pleased to announce this centralized, master calendar of relevant conferences being held around the world.
EurekAlert!
http://www.eurekalert.org/
Science news from the American Association for the Advancement of Science
SciDev.net (The Science and Development Network)
http://www.scidev.net
"The overall aim of the Science and Development Network (SciDev.Net) is to enhance the provision of reliable and authoritative information on science- and technology-related issues that impact on the economic and social development of developing countries. Our goal is to ensure that both individuals and organisations in the developing world are better placed to make informed decisions on these issues. We seek to achieve this objective primarily through running a free-access website, but also by building regional networks of individuals and institutions who share our goals, and by organising capacity-building workshops and other events in the developing world."
E & S Network (The Environment & Society Network)
http://www.uni-bielefeld.de/iwt/eesn/
"A group of social scientists, loosely organized under the umbrella of the European Sociological Association. Our aim is to share research findings and social science viewpoints concerning the social dimensions of environmental care and sustainable development. European scholars interested in this field are welcomed to join the network (you can send a message on the page ‘Contact us’). The Network organizes the E&S sessions at the biannual ESA conferences, as well as workshops in between the ESA conferences. It is a platform for communication for social scientists who are active in the environmental field, and it keeps up contacts with other, related groups, such as the Environment and Society Research Committee of the International Sociological Association (ISA RC24)."
H-Net (Humanities & Social Sciences Online)
http://www.h-net.org/
"H-Net is an international interdisciplinary organization of scholars and teachers dedicated to developing the enormous educational potential of the Internet and the World Wide Web. Our edited lists and web sites publish peer reviewed essays, multimedia materials, and discussion for colleagues and the interested public. The computing heart of H-Net resides at MATRIX : The Center for Humane Arts, Letters, and Social Sciences Online, Michigan State University, but H-Net officers, editors and subscribers come from all over the globe."
Science & Technology Section, Association of College and Research Libraries
http://www.ala.org/ala/acrl/aboutacrl/acrlsections/sciencetech/sts.htm
"STS, the Science and Technology Section of the Association of College and Research Libraries, provides a forum through which librarians in scientific and technical subject fields can achieve and maintain awareness of the impact and range of information with which they work; and promotes improved accessibility to and active use of this information."
The Cluster for the Humanistic and Social Studies of Science
http://www.situsci.ca/
The Cluster for the Humanistic and Social Studies of Science promotes new ways of bringing together scholars studying science and technology from a philosophical, historical, sociological and cultural perspective, along with colleagues in adjacent fields, making that work integrated with and accessible to journalists, museum workers, policy makers and the Canadian public.
Journals & Weblogs
Journal of Biomedical Discovery and Collaboration
http://www.j-biomed-discovery.com
Journal of Biomedical Discovery and Collaboration is an open access, peer-reviewed online journal that encompasses all aspects of scientific information management and studies of scientific practice, with a particular emphasis on biomedical laboratory investigations.
Health Innovations In Context Blog
Our goal is to develop a knowledge-transfer platform and foster dialogue between journalists, patient associations, decision-makers and researchers. Each month, a new topic will be featured and various issues raised by emerging and existing innovations (prenatal screening tests, pharmacogenomics, predictive medicine) will be explored. Interviews with scientists will be available online while comments from readers will be posted. This blog is an initiative of Dr Pascale Lehoux, associate professor at the Department of Health Administration (University of Montreal) and is funded by the Canadian Institutes of Health Research.
Hodges Health Career - Care Domains - Model
http://www.p-jones.demon.co.uk/
"Originally created in the UK by Brian E Hodges (Ret.) at Manchester Metropolitan University Hodges’ Health Career - Care Domains - Model [h2cm]can help map health, social care and OTHER issues, problems and solutions. The model takes a situated and multi-contextual view across four knowledge domains: Interpersonal, Sociological, Empirical, and Political."
Directory of Open Access Journals (Lund University Libraries)
http://www.doaj.org
"The aim of the Directory of Open Access Journals is to increase the visibility and ease of use of open access scientific and scholarly journals thereby promoting their increased usage and impact. The Directory aims to be comprehensive and cover all open access scientific and scholarly journals that use a quality control system to guarantee the content. In short a one stop shop for users to Open Access Journals."
openDemocracy (Science & Technology Section)
http://www.opendemocracy.net/science_and_technology
openDemocracy.net is an online global magazine of politics and culture. We publish clarifying debates which help people make up their own minds. We seek the finest writing, the strongest arguments, the most compelling views and truthful voices on key issues, great and small. We use the web’s potential to build and map intelligent discussions which we accumulate and index in our back pages which now include over 1,500 articles. Written by and for people across the world, from South and North, from the powerless to the influential, we seek to bring together those who are not well-known with writers and thinkers of international repute.
Public Library of Science
http://www.plos.org/
"The Public Library of Science (PLoS) is a non-profit organization of scientists and physicians committed to making the world’s scientific and medical literature a freely available public resource."
First Monday
http://www.firstmonday.org/
First Monday is one of the first peer–reviewed journals on the Internet, solely devoted to the Internet. Since its start in May 1996, First Monday has published 557 papers in 101 issues; these papers were written by 662 different authors. First Monday is indexed in Communication Abstracts, INSPEC, LISA, PAIS and other services. In the year 2003, users from 816,912 distinct hosts around the world downloaded 5,385,649 contributions published in First Monday. In the month of October, 2004, users from 73,091 distinct hosts around the world downloaded 528,434 contributions.
Issues in Science & Technology Librarianship (ISTL)
http://www.istl.org
A quarterly publication of the Science and Technology Section of the Association of College and Research Libraries, "ISTL publishes substantive material of interest to science and technology librarians. It serves as a vehicle for sci-tech librarians to share details of successful programs, materials for the delivery of information services, background information and opinions on topics of current interest, to publish research and bibliographies on issues in science and technology libraries, and to communicate in more depth than the STS-L mailing list. ISTL is indexed in INSPEC, Library and Information Science Abstracts (LISA), and Library Literature and selectively indexed by Current Index to Journals in Education (CIJE)."
Bulletin Boards and Listservs
4S Graduate Student Discussion Group
http://4sonline.org/6s/listserv.htm
Listserv administered by Cornell University (Ithaca, USA).
Archive of CFPs Related to Science & Culture
http://cfp.english.upenn.edu/archive/Science/
UPenn English Department Listserv (.(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address))
CFPs in English & American Literature
gomobility
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This list is one way to bring together scholars with a common interest in mobility and how it constitutes the terms for social life. The list will provide a forum: to circulate information on conferences, calls for papers, fellowships, etc.; to post essays, reviews, or recommended readings in the field, and to discuss issues of disciplinarity, “method”, etc. To subscribe, send a message to .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) with “subscribe gomobility” in the body. You will receive a message confirming your subscription.
EUROGRAD
http://www.easst.net/joineurograd
"EUROGRAD is a listserv (discussion list) intended to facilitate a European network of PhD students, postdocs and junior scholars interested in Science and Technology Studies."
STS and the Built Environment
http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/bests
"To better network people with an interest at the intersection of STS and the built environment."
Online Exhibits
NanoFutures
http://cns.asu.edu/nanofutures
READ, REVISE, RANT: Some say that Nanotechnology will revolutionize life as we know it, but what should we really expect from the future of nanotechnology? CNS developed 6 plausible product descriptions- called scenes- to provide some structure to discussions about nanotechnology. These fictional scenes have been evaluated by nanoscale scientists and engineers for technical plausibility- it is up to you to weigh social, economic, ethical, environmental and political plausibility-and desirability!!
Through an interactive website, the NanoFutures experiment invites citizens, scientists and engineers, social scientists, policy makers, and others interested in nanotechnology to assess the potentials and perils of nano-enabled futures.
American Elements Periodic Table of Elements
http://www.americanelements.com/
If you want information of an element of the periodic table, just click on the element’s box on the table. Though not an exhibit in the typical sense, this resource provides plenty of information (like the research and uses of each of the elements, including properties, safety data and applications) in a really cool format.
Computer History Museum, Mountain View, CA (USA)
http://www.computerhistory.org/
"Established in 1996, the Computer History Museum is a public benefit organization dedicated to the preservation and celebration of computing history. It is home to one of the largest collections of computing artifacts in the world, a collection comprising over 4,000 artifacts, 10,000 images, 4,000 linear feet of cataloged documentation and gigabytes of software."
ingenious.org.uk
http://www.ingenious.org.uk
Administered by the Science Museum in London. Contextualises and presents 30,000 images of pictures and artefacts from the museum’s collections.
makingthemodernworld.org.uk
http://www.makingthemodernworld.org.uk
Adminstered by the Science Museum in London. Presents an animated history of technology since 1750 and links scenes to educational material for high school students.
Online Exhibits, Museum of the History of Science, University of Oxford
http://www.mhs.ox.ac.uk/exhibits
Virtual versions of exhibitions and other resources.
Non-Profit Organizations and Initiatives
Reach and Teach
http://www.reachandteach.com
"Provides education resources and development services for individuals, non-profit organizations, and schools working for peace and social justice in the world."
Creative Commons
http://www.creativecommons.org
Science Commons
http://creativecommons.org/projects/science/
Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility
World Values Survey
http://www.worldvaluessurvey.com
"[A] worldwide investigation of sociocultural and political change. It is conducted by a network of social scientist at leading universities all around world. The survey is performed on nationally representative samples in almost 80 societies on all six inhabited continents. A total of four waves have been carried since 1981 allowing accurate comparative analysis."
Eurobarometer
http://www.columbia.edu/acis/eds/dset_guides/eurobar.html
"Standard Eurobarometer public opinion surveys are conducted on behalf of the European Commission at least two times a year in all member states of the European Union. Since the early seventies they have provided regular monitoring of social and political attitudes in Europe."
European Social Survey
http://ess.nsd.uib.no/
"The European Social Survey (the ESS) is a biennial multi-country survey covering over 20 nations. The first round was fielded in 2002/2003. The survey contains a standard set of questions to be repeated in future rounds and special topic questions which, in the first round, dealt with immigration and asylum. The sample size is larger than that of Eurobarometer and the questions are more standardized than those of used in the World Values Survey."
Afrobarometer
http://www.afrobarometer.org
"Afrobarometer is a research project that measures the social, political, and economic atmosphere in Africa. A standard set of questions is used to allow comparisons. The intent to track changes over time as two survey rounds have been completed and a third is planned."
Demographic and Health Surveys
http://www.measuredhs.com/
The Demographic and Health Surveys
(DHS+) program is a worldwide project initiated by the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) to provide data and analysis on the population, health, and nutrition of women and children in developing countries. Its predecessors were the World Fertility Survey and the Contraceptive Prevalence Surveys.
Regional Inversion
http://www.regionalinversion.com/index.htm
Website dedicated to economic development, regional change, economic geography, and regional science.It provides an overview of the concept of regional inversion, the roles of tangible and intangible infrastructure, innovative capacity, educational access, and related aspects.
Yearbook of International Co-operation on Environment and Development
http://www.greenyearbook.org/
"This site is edited with a view to give both professionals and the concerned public in general a reliable and user-friendly guide to major instruments and players in the process towards sustainable development. It presents both systematic reference material and informed evaluations of international co-operation on environment and development. Through this combination of facts and analysis, our aim is to demonstrate the status of collaboration, the main obstacles to effective international solutions, and how to overcome them. Most of the site’s information is based on the more comprehensive Yearbook of International Co-operation on Environment and Development 2002/2003."
Agricultural Market Access Database (AMAD)
UN World Summit on the Information Society
http://www.itu.int/wsis/
"The UN General Assembly Resolution 56/183 (21 December 2001) endorsed the holding of the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) in two phases. The first phase took place in Geneva hosted by the Government of Switzerland from 10 to 12 December 2003 and the second phase will take place in Tunis hosted by the Government of Tunisia, from 16 to 18 November 2005."
The Science Fiction Foundation
http://www.sf-foundation.org/
"The Science Fiction Foundation (Registered Charity No. 1041052) was founded in 1970 by the writer/social activist George Hay and others as a semi-autonomous association of writers, academics, critics and others with an active interest in science fiction, with Arthur C. Clarke and Ursula K. Le Guin as patrons. Our aim is to promote science fiction and bring together those who read, write, study, teach, research or archive science fiction in Britain and the rest of the world. We also want to support science fiction, at conventions, at conferences and at other events which bring those interested in science fiction together."
Society for the Furtherance and Study of Fantasy & Science Fiction (SF3)
http://sf3.org/
"SF3 hosts WisCon, the world’s only Feminist Science Fiction convention, and other events. We have supported literary and fanzine fandoms in Madison, Wisconsin for over two decades."
Living Knowledge
http://www.livingknowledge.org
An International Network for Science Shops
"Science shops mediate or perform research in all disciplines from sociology to chemistry, largely on behalf of civil society organisations - for whom the research is often cross subsidised or even free of charge. Many existing science shops are linked to or based in universities, where research is done by students under the supervision of science shop staff and other associated (university) staff. However, many initiatives not linked to universities—such as community based research centres—are similar to science shops and do the same type of work. Despite their different names and differences in operation and organisation, basic principles and goals are comparable. Through this type of extension and support activity, science shops attempt to create access to science, knowledge and technology for social groupings that would not or could not ordinarily interact with these disciplines."
The Silent Spring Institute
http://www.silentspring.org
"[A] non-profit scientific research organization dedicated to identifying the links between the environment and women’s health, especially breast cancer. We are a groundbreaking collaboration of scientists, physicians, health advocates, and community activists, and a leading edge research institution using multi-disciplinary, state-of-the-art approaches."
The Food Ethics Council
http://www.foodethicscouncil.org
"The Food Ethics Council reports on ethical issues in food and agriculture. We develop tools to help make ethical thinking a standard practice in policy, business and everyday life. We work towards a food system that is fair, humane, secure and sustainable."
United Nations Data Access System (UNdata)
http://data.un.org
"The new UN data access system (UNdata) will improve the dissemination of statistics by UNSD to the widest possible audience. An easy to use data access system was developed that meets UNSD’s vision of providing an integrated information resource with current, relevant and reliable statistics free of charge to the global community.
Subsequent stages of the development of the UN data access system will extend to UN system data as well as to data of national statistical offices - providing the user with a simple single-entry point to global statistics."
Job Search Sites
AcademicCareers.com
http://www.AcademicCareers.com
Allows applicants to search on faculty, post doc, library, endowed chairs, administrative and senior management jobs at colleges, universities and research institutes anywhere. Applicant can use all their services without being charged and employers can post a job listing for up to three full months for US$175. This even includes email alerts to applicants.
Employment Opportunities in International Studies
http://www.isanet.org/employment.html
International Studies Association
eJobs
http://www.apsanet.org/section_74.cfm
American Political Science Association
(NB: free to APSA members only)
Chronicle Careers
http://chronicle.com/jobs/
Chronicle of Higher Education
Job Listings
http://www.sustainablebusiness.com/jobs/
Business Jobs–Environmental Jobs–Environmentally Responsible Employers
Funding and Award Sites
U.S. National Science Foundation Programs
Science & Technology Studies Program
http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2004/nsf04531/nsf04531.htm
Societal Dimensions of Engineering, Science & Technology Program
http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=5323&org=SES
Crosscutting/Interdisciplinary Programs
http://www.nsf.gov/home/crssprgm/
Funding Opportunities page
http://www.cdc.gov/funding.htm
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (U.S.)
The Dibner Library of the History of Science and Technology Resident Scholar Program
http://www.sil.si.edu/researchintern/index.htm
Smithsonian Institution Libraries
"The Dibner Library of the History of Science and Technology Resident Scholar Program, supported by The Dibner Fund, awards stipends of $2,500.00 per month for up to six months for individuals working on a topic relating to the history of science and technology who can make substantial use of collections in the Dibner Library. Historians, librarians, doctoral students, and post-doctoral scholars are welcome to apply. Scholars must be in residence at the Dibner Library during the award period. Scholars wanting to do research in other areas of SIL Special Collections should apply for the Baird Society Resident Scholar Program."
The Baird Society Resident Scholar Program
http://www.sil.si.edu/researchintern/index.htm
Smithsonian Institution Libraries
"The Baird Society Resident Scholar Program awards stipends of $2,500 per month for up to six months for individuals working on a topic relating to the holdings of SIL’s special collections. Historians, librarians, doctoral students, and post-doctoral scholars are welcome to apply. Scholars must be in residence at the Smithsonian during the award period. Scholars wanting to do research primarily in the collections of the Dibner Library of the History of Science and Technology should apply for the Dibner Library Resident Scholar Program."
The Partington Prize
http://www.open.ac.uk/ambix/prizes.htm
Society for the History of Alchemy and Chemistry
"...awarded every three years for an original and unpublished essay on any aspect of the history of alchemy or chemistry. The prize consists of three hundred and fifty pounds (£350). The competition is open to anyone with a scholarly interest in the history of alchemy or chemistry who, by the closing date…has not reached 35 years of age, or if older, has completed a doctoral thesis in the history of science within the previous three years. Scholars from any country may enter for the competition, but entries must be submitted in English…"
The Victor and Joy Wouk Grant-in-Aid Program
http://archives.caltech.edu/grants-in-aid.html
California Institute of Technology, Institute Archives
New in 2003, this program offers research assistance up to $2,000 for work in the Papers of Victor Wouk in the Caltech Archives. Applications are reviewed quarterly, on Jan 1, Apr 1, Jul 1 and Oct 1 each year.
Herbert Scoville Jr. Peace Fellowship
http://www.clw.org/scoville/
Council for a Livable World
Established in 1987 to provide college graduates with the opportunity to gain a Washington perspective on key issues of peace and security. Twice yearly, the Fellowship’s Board of Directors selects a group of outstanding individuals to spend six to nine months in Washington. Supported by a monthly stipend, the Fellows serve as full-time project assistants at the participating organization of their choice. In the Program’s first seventeen years, ninety-six fellowships have been awarded.
Roy Porter Student Essay Prize Competition
http://www.sshm.org/prize/prize.html
Society for the Social History of Medicine
"This prize will be awarded to the best original, unpublished essay in the social history of medicine submitted to the competition as judged by the SSHM’s assessment panel. It is named in honour of the late Professor Roy Porter, a great teacher and a generous scholar. The competition is open to undergraduate and post-graduate students in full or part-time education. The winner will be awarded £ 500.00, and his or her entry may also be published in the journal, Social History of Medicine."
William Osler Medal Essay Contest
http://histmed.org/Awards/Oslerannounce.html
American Association for the History of Medicine
Submission Deadline: postmarked by Feb 1
Awarded annually for the best unpublished essay on a medical historical topic written by a student enrolled in a school of medicine or osteopathy in the United States or Canada. Essays may pertain to the historical development of a contemporary medical problem, or to a topic within the health sciences related to a discrete period of the past, and should demonstrate either original research or an unusual appreciation and understanding of the problems discussed. The essay (maximum 10,000 words, including endnotes) must be entirely the work of one contestant. For details see
Richard Harrison Shryock Medal Essay Contest
http://histmed.org/Awards/Shyrockannounce.htm
American Association for the History of Medicine
Submission Deadline: postmarked by Feb 1
Graduate students in the United States and Canada are invited to enter the Shryock Medal Essay Contest. The essay (maximum 10,000 words, including endnotes) must be the result of original research or show an unusual appreciation and understanding of problems in the history of medicine. In particular, the committee will judge essays on the quality of writing, appropriate use of sources, and ability to address themes of historical significance. Students enrolled in M.D./Ph.D. programs in history or related fields are eligible to apply only for the Shryock Award. For details see
Singer Prize
http://www.bshs.org.uk/prizes/singer.html
The British Society for the History of Science
Submission Deadline: received by Dec 15
The Singer Prize, of up to £300, is awarded by the BSHS every two years to the writer of an unpublished essay based in original research into any aspect of the history of science, technology or medicine. The Prize is intended for younger scholars or recent entrants into the profession. The Prize may be awarded to the writer of one outstanding essay, or may be divided between two or more entrants. The Prize will usually be presented at the BSHS Annual Conference and publication in the British Journal for the History of Science will be at the discretion of the Editor. Essays on offer or in press will not be eligible.
Abraham Pais Award For the History of Physics
http://www.aps.org/units/fhp/pais/index.cfm
American Physical Society and the American Institute of Physics
Nomination Deadline: May 1
A major new award (initially presented in 2005), the Abraham Pais Award for the History of Physics will recognize outstanding scholarly achievements in the history of physics. The award will be given annually and consists of $5000, a certificate citing the recipient’s contributions to the history of physics, and funds to travel to an APS meeting to receive the award and deliver an invited talk on the history of physics. For further information, see the website of the APS Forum on History of Physics
External Collections of Links
STS Links by Theme
http://www.ncsu.edu/chass/mds/stslinks.html
Division of Multidisciplinary Studies, North Carolina State University
[NB: many broken links!]
Worldwide Guide to Science Studies Programmes
http://cas.umkc.edu/scistud/
University of Missouri–Kansas City
BSHS List of Theses
http://www.bshs.org.uk/theses/
"The list exists primarily to give details of theses and dissertations
currently in progress, or recently completed, in the history, philosophy
and social studies of science, technology, medicine, mathematics,
engineering and studies of mind, at academic institutions in the UK and
Republic of Ireland."
Collection of Medical hisotry links
http://www.yext.com/podiatrists/articles/medical-history-resources.html
ECHO: Exploring and Collecting History Online – Science, Technology, and Industry
Echo: Exploring and Collecting History Online – Science, Technology, and Industry, a project of the Center for History and New Media, announces the launch of its redesigned, expanded, and improved Research Center. Available at http://echo.gmu.edu, the Research Center is the most comprehensive portal for the history of science on the Web, and now includes a searchable guide to more than 5,000 websites on the history of science, technology, and industry, as well as website reviews and annotations, and the latest science news.
iConference Workshop on Sociotechnical systems, “Keywords of the Sociotechnical”
February 03 2010 | University of Illinois, Urbana Champagne
Updated: January 14 2010
This workshop will provide a venue to gather and discuss our intellectual traditions, research objects, and vocabularies in order to elaborate and clarify the keywords of the sociotechnical.
The workshop builds on and extends efforts that have included the 2008 & 2009 Summer Research Institute of the Consortium for the Science of Sociotechnical Systems (CSST). These Research Institutes, supported by the National Science Foundation and held at the University of Michigan (2008) and Syracuse University (2009), brought together a diverse set of researchers from fields as diverse as science and technology studies, human-computer interaction, management and organizational studies, library and information science, sociology, social informatics, and computer science, to begin exploring and framing a future research agenda centered on socio-technical research.
http://www.sociotech.net
here: https://www.ischools.org/conftool/
2010 College Art Association Conference
February 10 2010 | Chicago
Deadline: May 08 2009
(http://conference.collegeart.org/2010/
Updated: January 14 2010
Please see teh website for more information: (http://conference.collegeart.org/2010/) for more information about the conference and for details about how to submit a proposal. Proposals should be emailed directly to Aviva Dove Viebahn (.(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)) no later than May 8, 2009, with all CAA-required accompanying materials included.
http://www.iitd.ac.in/events/ICTD2010/
Fourth International Conference on Design Principles and Practices
February 13 2010 | University of Illinois, Chicago
Deadline: June 11 2009
http://www.Design-Conference.com
Updated: January 14 2010
We are excited to be holding this year's Conference in Chicago, one of the world's great design cities. Chicago serves as a living history of modern architecture - the home of the world's first skyscrapers and, at various times, of architects Louis Sullivan, Frank Lloyd Wright and Ludwig Mies van der Rohe. More recently and notably in the global design scene, Chicago-based Sol Sender created the the design strategy and concept for the 2008 Obama campaign for the US Presidency. Chicago is also a marvelous city of art and design galleries, and museums, including a recently opened modern art wing to the Chicago Art Institute, designed by Renzo Piano. This dynamic history, and continuing spirit of creativity, makes Chicago an environment well suited to the goals and spirit of the International Conference on Design Principles and Practices.
The Design Conference is a place to explore the meaning and purpose of 'design', as well as speaking in grounded ways about the task of design and the use of designed artifacts and processes. The Conference is a cross-disciplinary forum that brings together researchers, teachers and practitioners to discuss the nature and future of design. In professional and disciplinary terms, the Conference traverses a broad sweep to construct a dialogue which encompasses the perspectives and practices of: anthropology, architecture, art, artificial intelligence, business, cognitive science, communication studies, computer science, cultural studies, design studies, education, e-learning, engineering, ergonomics, fashion, graphic design, history, information systems, industrial design, industrial engineering, instructional design, interior design, interaction design, interface design, journalism, landscape architecture, law, linguistics and semiotics, management, media and entertainment, psychology, sociology, software engineering and telecommunications.
This highly inclusive format provides Conference Delegates with significant opportunities to connect with people from shared fields and disciplines and with those from vastly different specialisations. The resulting conversations provide ample occasions for mutual learning, often weaving between the theoretical and the empirical, research and application, and market pragmatics and social idealism.
As well as an international line-up of plenary speakers, the Conference will also include numerous paper, workshop and colloquium presentations by practitioners, teachers and researchers. Presenters may choose to submit written papers for publication in the refereed Design Principles and Practices: an International Journal of Design Principles and Practices. If you are unable to attend the Conference in person, virtual registrations are also available which allow you to submit a paper for refereeing and possible publication, as well as access to the Journal.
Whether you are a virtual or in-person presenter at the Design Conference, we also encourage you to present on the Conference YouTube Channel. Please select the Online Sessions link on the Conference website for further details.
The deadline for the next round in the call for papers (a title and short abstract) is 11 June 2009. Future deadlines will be announced on the Conference website after this date. Proposals are reviewed within two weeks of submission. Full details of the Conference, including an online proposal submission form, may be found at the Conference website -
http://www.Design-Conference.com.
ICT and Development:Research Voices from Africa, International Federation for Information Processin
March 22 2010 | Makerere University, Uganda
Deadline: November 30 2009
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Updated: January 14 2010
“ICT for development” has attracted wide attention for several years now. Often we hear about ICT in Africa, much more rarely about ICT from African voices. Why did our knowledge about the correlations between ICT and the economy and society fail to develop ICT to support development? Is the mainstream model of conceptualising and implementing ICT4D applicable and helpful in the African context? What are the alternatives to dominant approaches? This workshop is intended to provide a forum for discussion of ICT research approaches and findings that emerged from and relevant to the African contexts. We are particularly interested in receiving written submissions from African researchers in ICT for development, and from African intellectuals outside the mainstream ICT-based approach to economic growth and social improvements.
We welcome explanatory papers, aiming at analysis and understanding of ICT in actual African contexts. More precisely, the workshop invites short papers in the following focal areas: discontinuities between the African context and dominant ICT paradigm role of information, and ICT, within Africa and between Africa and the rest of the world barriers against Africa’s adoption, appropriation and autonomous use of ICT•cultural issues that may shape ICT adoption in unexpected ways•alternative strategies of ICT implementation and sustainability in Africa uncertainty, unpredictability, risk and serendipity related to ICT initiatives•role of ICT in empowerment, illiteracy, poverty eradication, and human development in Africa. The workshop is intended to be informal and inclusive in order to provide a “bigger picture” of ICT in Africa.
We welcome participants from academic institutions engaged in similar research, governmental and non-governmental organizations, public and private sector representatives, entrepreneurs and grass-root movements, civil society and ICT practitioners.
SubmissionsWe call for submission of short papers, in the form of long abstracts, up to 2000 words. Please send them as email attachments to this address:african-voices@googlegroups.com
International Conference on ICT for Africa 2010
March 25 2010 | Cameroon
Updated: January 14 2010
It is quite opportune that Africa has something to contribute to the information age. First, with innovations like mobile phones, we can say that Africa has not been left out. Africa is reported to be the world's single fastest-growing regional mobile market. Second, some researchers have noted that there tends to be mismatch between the realities for developing economies and assumptions of Western models of enterprise, thus as business practices evolve with their changing business environments, more research is needed to redefine existing knowledge to be consistent and applicable with the dynamic nature of the environment. These developments draw attention to a number of questions. What role can we play in the information age? Is Africa going to be only consumers of the information age or can Africa join the producers of ICT knowledge, products and services? What could be emergent patterns of ICT knowledge transfer in development? Is there an opportunity for unique contribution from Africa in this information age?
If there is, then let us tell the story of what we have in this conference. With support from the National Science Foundation (NSF), The National Aeronautic and Space Administration (NASA) and The Louisiana Board of Regents, we are pleased to announce The International Conference on ICT for Africa 2010. The International Conference on ICT for Africa 2010 (ICIA 2010) is themed 'ICT for Development - Contributions of the South'.
This conference will bring together a fine mix of practitioners and academicians in the area of ICTs for sustainable development. The conference will explore the contributions of Africa to the global ICT for development discourse and efforts. The objective is to highlight the synergy of collaboration between African countries and other developing countries, and between African countries and the developed countries towards development solutions. Discussions and panel debates will therefore question how ICTs become the process for South-to-South knowledge transfer and South-to-North knowledge transfer in both research and practice. Workshops will explore international grant-seeking opportunities for ICT research and projects, e-learning for African universities and new frontiers in telemedicine and tele-neonatology research and practice in Africa. Visit the website at http://www.icitd.org..
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cAIR10 Applied Interculturality Research
April 07 2010 | University of Graz, Austria
Deadline: October 15 2009
http://www.uni-graz.at/fAIR/cAIR10/
Updated: January 14 2010
cAIR combines the resources of research (universities, institutes) and practice (government, civil society, NGOs, schools, media) to raise awareness about sexism, racism and xenophobia and reduce its prevalence and impact. cAIR helps practitioners to benefit from researchers, and researchers from practitioners - and promotes high standards in both areas. Keynote addresses will be given by international leaders in interculturality research and practice.
The extended deadline for submission of project summaries is October 15th - further information and the guidelines for the project summaries can be found on our homepage: http://www.uni-graz.at/fAIR/cAIR10/ Please send your project summaries to: .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)
Call for Papers Annual Meeting of the Renaissance Society of America
April 08 2010 | Venice, Italy
Deadline: May 15 2010
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Updated: January 14 2010
Panel on: Artificial life: Golems, Homunculi, Automata
The definition of life seems to be a particularly 20th- or 21st- century conundrum with our current debates over the ethics of cloning, abortion, and stem-cell research. Although the Judeo-Christian creation story set forth in Genesis established orthodox views on the origins of life and the differences among humans and other animals, the period saw its own upheavals in the understanding of life, from the discovery of bizarre life forms in newly explored regions of the planet to the revelations of the microscope. I invite papers that look at the possibilities for artificial life or artificial intelligence, as they were explored in fields such as alchemy, natural philosophy, mechanics and clockworks, or mathematics. What does the early modern quest for artificial life tell us about religious, metaphysical, scientific, or political definitions of the body and mind? Please send a CV and abstract of no more than 150 words by 15 May to Sarah Benson, Saint John's College, Annapolis: .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) or .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address).
Forced Migration: Challenges and Change 3rd Annual Conference of the Canadian Association for Refu
May 06 2010 | McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario
Deadline: January 29 2010
Updated: February 14 2010
In recent years, the idea of change has charged political debate in countries around the world and has, in some cases, catalyzed the election of new governments and the creation of innovative programs and policies. This period has also been one of significant change for the field of forced migration. New policies and increasingly securitized perceptions of forced migration have created new practices such as interdiction, detention and expedited deportation that have changed the protection landscape in both the global North and South. At the same time as scholars have questioned the labelling and bureaucratic categorization of forced migrants, the United Nations has piloted new approaches to improve the protection and assistance available to members of traditionally marginalized ?categories?, particularly internally displaced persons. Massive displacement in the wake of Hurricane Katrina and Cyclone Nargis raised the profile of ?environmental refugees? as an issue predicted to grow in importance as the impacts of climate change become increasingly evident. In Canada, the government has recently announced that it is preparing a package of changes to the refugee determination system, including the fast-tracking of claims from countries that are generally considered safe. As a precursor to more sweeping anticipated changes, the government has already imposed visa requirements on Mexico and the Czech Republic in an attempt to stem the flow of refugee claimants from those countries.
The 2010 CARFMS Conference will bring together researchers, policymakers, displaced persons and advocates from diverse disciplinary and regional backgrounds to discuss the changes and challenges faced in the field of forced migration. We invite participants from a wide range of perspectives to explore the practical, experiential, policy-oriented, legal and theoretical questions raised by different processes of change affecting forced migrants at the local, national, regional and international levels. The conference will feature keynote and plenary speeches from leaders in the field, and we welcome proposals for individual papers and organized panels structured around the following broad sub-themes:
Asylum, protection and durable solutions: Needs, current practices and prospects for reform Calls for reform of national and international refugee protection systems have been raised in different quarters, with dramatically diverse visions for change. What are the key challenges facing advocates, policymakers and displaced communities and individuals? How have trends in the interception, interdiction, processing, detention, deportation, protection, settlement and integration of forced migrants shaped prospects for reform? What models might inform the productive reform of the Canadian refugee system? What role might scholars play in efforts to strengthen the protection of forced migrants and the effective resolution of displacement?
Theorizing the changing field of forced migration
Past decades have seen rapid development ? domestically and internationally ? in the study of refugee protection and forced migration both within traditional disciplines and across disciplinary lines. With such significant change in research and policy in recent years, the longer view ? both to the past and to the future ? cannot be neglected. What is the nature of refugee protection in a globalized world, and how is it important (or not) to consider the ?new? era? What have been the historical trajectories of laws, policies and practices in forced migration, and how can the historicization of the field advance understandings of change and contemporary challenges? How have different disciplines, methodologies and approaches affected our understandings? Finally, what role is there for actors outside of academia, from policymakers and refugee advocates to displaced persons themselves?
Experiencing displacement: Changes and challenges How have recent political and social changes, and changes in the structure and operation of the refugee regime affected the lives of displaced persons? What can scholars of forced migration learn about the contemporary reality of the refugee regime by focusing on the lived experience of displaced individuals and communities? In this section, we particularly welcome presentations by displaced individuals, advocates, and organizations working directly with forced migrants.
Pre-conference workshops/networking A number of pre-conference workshops and networking sessions will take place on the afternoon of May 5. More information on pre-conference workshops/session will be available on conference website shortly.
SUBMISSION OF ABSTRACTS Individuals wishing to present a paper at the conference must submit a 250-word abstract by January 29, 2010. The conference organizers welcome submissions of both individual papers and proposals for panels.
Please submit your abstract via the conference website: http://carfmsconference.yorku.ca/. For more information, please contact Heather Johnson .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)
The Rightful Place of Science?
May 16 2010 | Tempe, AZ
Updated: March 16 2010
The Consortium for Science, Policy & Outcomes at Arizona State University invites you to attend The Rightful Place of Science? May 16-19, 2010 in Tempe, AZ. Join your colleagues and friends to frame the future agenda for engaging and shaping science policy. “The Rightful Place of Science?” will address the challenges facing a society that is at once utterly dependent on science and technology and yet equally unprepared to govern the implications of that dependence. In his inaugural address, President Obama promised to “restore science to its rightful place” in U.S. society, but that location is far from obvious. How can we understand this provocative formulation in the context of the complexity, uncertainty, and political, social and cultural diversity that mark our world? At this conference, you will be immersed in a world of rich and generative interaction aimed at fostering ideas, agendas and community at the interfaces of science, technology, politics, media and the arts. For more information, http://www.cspo.org/conference2010/.
First Berlin Forum Innovation in Governance
May 20 2010 | Berlin
Deadline: February 14 2010
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Updated: February 14 2010
The Innovation in Governance Research Group at the Technische Universität Berlin is pleased to publish a Call for Papers for the First Berlin Forum Innovation in Governance, which will take place in Berlin on Thursday 20 and Friday 21 May, 2010. This Forum is the first in an initial series of four, which will take place on an annual basis until 2013.
Entitled "Studying the emergence and development of new forms of governance", the first Forum aims to lay the conceptual and methodological grounds for studying the genesis, dynamics and politics of new forms of
governance.
We therefore invite you to submit proposals for papers that discuss and/or probe particular approaches to conceptualise innovation in governance and trace the development of governance patterns through time and space.
We also invite proposals for poster presentations. A planned poster session will include a concourse with five minutes for each poster to highlight questions, approach and findings.
We will be able to cover travel expenses for a limited number of participants. Please therefore indicate your need for travel funds when submitting your proposal.
The deadline for the submission of all abstracts is Sunday, 14 February 2010. Please submit your proposal via email to .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address). Applicants will be notified of the outcome by the end of February.
“Understanding Sustainability: Perspectives from the Humanities”
May 20 2010 | The Portland Center for Public Humanities at Portland State University
Deadline: January 04 2010
www.publichumanities.pdx.edu
Updated: January 13 2010
We hear talk of "sustainability" everywhere—sometimes as an ecological vision, an advertising strategy, a countercultural dream or even a business model. Given the diverse uses of “sustainability,” how might those of us who invoke it most effectively address our ecological,
economic, and social challenges? This conference is an invitation to construct bridges across the diverse terrains of sustainability theory and practice, engaging in productive dialogue and debate that might lead to innovative green frameworks for environmental scholarship,
activism, research, and policy.
Proposal Guidelines:
We welcome proposals both for traditional academic paper presentations as well as other formats, including panel discussions, interviews, workshops, art installations, and media screenings. Presentations that speak broadly to an interdisciplinary audience and that seek to
stimulate broad conversation about the future direction of green or environmental knowledge and practice are especially encouraged.
Please send proposals of 250 words or less by Monday, January 4, 2010 to: .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)
Please write “Understanding Sustainability” in the subject line and attach your proposal in the form of a Microsoft Word compatible file. Both the e-mail text and document should include name, affiliation,proposal title, and full contact information (address, phone, e-mail) for all participants. More information about this conference and the sponsoring Humanities Sustainability Research Project may be found at
Fourth International AAAI Conference on Weblogs and Social Media (ICWSM-10)
May 23 2010 | George Washington University, Washington, DC
Deadline: December 01 2009
http://www.aaai.org/Publications/Author/author.php
Updated: January 13 2010
Sponsored by the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence, Featuring a keynote by Professor Bob Kraut on "Designing Online Communities from Theory"
The International Conference on Weblogs and Social Media is a unique venue that brings together researchers from the disciplines of NLP, Social Psychology, Data Mining, Sociology and Visualization to increase our understanding of social media in all its incarnations. Research that blends social science and technology is especially encouraged.
SUBMISSION
People interested in participating should submit through the ICWSM-10 website a technical paper (up to 8 pages, not including references), poster or demo description (up to 4 pages) by the deadlines given above (Midnight PST). Papers must be must be formatted in AAAI two-column, camera-ready style (see the AAAI author instructions page at http://www.aaai.org/Publications/Author/author.php). Details for the submission procedure will appear at the conference website: http://icwsm.org
CONFERENCE WEBSITE
http://www.icwsm.org For general information regarding ICWSM-10, please write .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address). More details about the CFP and the conference will appear on the website over time.
Biomedical Visualisations and Society: Virtual Reality and its Application to Healthcare
May 24 2010 | University of Warwick
Updated: January 13 2010
An ESRC funded seminar series for early-career researchers interested in the social and political dimensions of biomedical visualisations. Each two-day workshop will combine a lecture from a leading scholar in the field and time for peer discussion with an opportunity to engage with visualisation in practice and ask questions. Attendance is free but places are limited. Some funding is available towards travel and accommodation costs for researchers who have no alternative funding source.
For more information, visit the project website: http://www.warwick.ac.uk/go/biomedicalvisualisationsandsociety
Or email: .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)
Virtual Reality and its Application to Healthcare
24th – 25th May 2010
Keynote Speaker: Rachel Prentice, Cornell University, USA.
Includes a visit to the Digital Lab, University of Warwick, guided by Professor Vinesh Raja.
Identity in the Information Society Workshop (IDIS10)
May 26 2010 | Rome, Italy
Deadline: December 10 2009
http://www.editorialmanager.com/idis/
Updated: January 13 2010
The third IDIS annual workshop provides an opportunity to present leading edge research, exchange ideas, encourage collaboration, andbuild communities across the various research groups working on contemporary identity topics and in the related fields of privacy and
security. Check previous workshops at http://is2.lse.ac.uk/idis/2009/.
Scope
IDIS10 explores the relationship between “Identity and Organizations”, whether public or private sector, local or global, formal or informal, for-profit or not. We welcome contributions ranging across different disciplinary areas, reflecting the broad nature of the study area with
its interwoven concerns of law, technology, and information systems alongside other social, political and management issues.
Topics might include, but are not limited to, the following:
• New identity technologies
• Emerging practices and behaviours enabled with identification
processes
• Changing notions of identity: customers, citizens, and audiences
• Information and identity risks and how they are managed
• Surveillance and privacy issues
• Regulatory and legal issues
Important dates:
Submission of papers to Workshop (4-6000 words): 10 December 2009
Decision and Screening Feedback to authors: 19 February 2010
Presentation of selected papers at IDIS10 Workshop: 26-28 May 2010
Submission to IDIS Journal of revised selected papers: 25 June 2010
Feedback from reviewers to authors: 3 September 2010
Submission of final version papers: 5 November 2010
Publication in IDIS Journal from January 2011
Submit papers to IDIS Journal: http://www.editorialmanager.com/idis/
selecting “IDIS10 Workshop” article type.
2nd Workshop on Architecture + Social Architecture
May 26 2010 | Brussels, Belgium
Deadline: February 01 2010
Updated: January 13 2010
This is the second conference on “Architecture and Social Architecture” which seeks to explore a notion of relationships between organizations and their affiliated architecture. In recent years, organizational scholars have given attention to ways of conceiving space in organizations. However, little attention has been given to the influence of architecture on organizations and social behavior in the context of architectural spaces. Additionally, other disciplines such as, architecture, science and technology studies, and urban design and planning have examined the intersection between physical architecture and the organizations that structure it that may provide new lenses for organizational scholars and vice versa. We are particularly interested in cross-fertilization of disciplines that illuminate new and novel methodological, theoretical and analytical approaches.
Abstract submissions of 400 words should be submitted online by February 1. For more information visit website at:
Ten Years After - Mapping the Societal Genomics Landscape
May 27 2010 | Royal Tropical Institute, Amsterdam
Deadline: January 08 2010
www.society-genomics.nl/en/conference-2010
Updated: January 13 2010
The Centre for Society and Genomics (CSG, The Netherlands), in collaboration with the UK-EGN network and VALGEN (Canada) will hold its biannual Conference on Society and Genomics on May 27-28 in Amsterdam. We invite submission of abstracts for papers and posters addressing the upcoming conference’s theme: Ten years after - Mapping the societal landscape of genomics.
The basic objective of the conference is to map and assess the emerging societal landscape of genomics. Four zones will be distinguished: the urban, the industrial, the rural and the environmental zone. Within these zones, a range of topics (dealing with innovation, governance, infrastructures and emerging issues) will be addressed in the form of parallel sessions. Besides plenary lectures, the programme includes ~ 50 scholarly presentations in parallel sessions, while participants will also have the opportunity to display posters.
We invite submission of abstracts for presentations or posters no later than January 8, 2010.
Further information about the theme of the conference, the practicalities and the call can be found on CSG’s website: www.society-genomics.nl/en/conference-2010
Venice Summer School on Science and Religion, 2010
May 29 2010 | Venice, Italy
Deadline: November 12 2009
Updated: January 13 2010
The Venice Summer School on Science and Religion held in Venice, Italy, intends to be a key venue to expand and deepen the work of scholars interested in the interface of two of humanity's most central approaches to the search for truth and meaning. The school is open to all scholars seeking enhanced engagement with central topics in science
and religion.
The theme for the 2010 summer school is "Values & Science." The school will meet 25 May through 29 May 2010. Lecturers include George Ellis, Keith Ward, and David Sloan Wilson. The school's organizing committee includes Karl Giberson, Thomas Jay Oord, William Shea, and Donald Yerxa.
The Venice School on Science and Religion will award scholarships to participants whose proposals are chosen as most relevant for the school's discussion. Interested individuals should submit materials when applying for admission.
All application materials for the school are due 12 November 2009. Notification of acceptance will be 31 January 2010. More information regarding the application and other matters are available on the school website:
http://www.vssr.info
Workshop Ethics on the laboratory floor; explorations for a methodology
June 01 2010 | University of Twente, Enschede, the Netherlands
Deadline: March 01 2010
http://www.utwente.nl/ceptes/ceptes_activities/deliberation_engineering/
Updated: January 14 2010
These last years there has been a growing interest in the engagement of ethicists in the context of scientific engineering research, with the aim to anticipate the ambiguous impacts that technological innovations have on the quality of human life. In this way ethicists are thought to be able to contribute to the constitution of the technological product, at a stage when it is still malleable.
Several scholars have developed views on how an ethicist in this context should work, but there is not yet a detailed ‘method’. With this workshop we want to contribute to the development of such a method. We want to focus especially on the themes of reflection and deliberation, for the enhancement of ‘reflection’ and the broadening of ‘deliberation’ is often understood to be the primary aim of the work of an ethicist in the scientific research context. Yet it remains unclear what this involves. Questions are raised such as: what is reflection/deliberation? How should ethicists enhance reflection? What are the consequences of such an enhancement of reflection on the deliberation about research choices? How much should this deliberation be broadened? And what is the specific input of an ethicist in this deliberation?
This workshop aims to act as a platform to discuss and critically engage with these questions. Confirmed invited participants are Bernadette Bensaude-Vincent, Rosalyn Berne, Ulrike Felt, Armin Grunwald, Alfred Nordmann and Arie Rip.
We invite abstracts (500-1000 words) from philosophers and social scientists. Theoretical philosophical papers about deliberation, reflection and moral linguistics are welcome, but also descriptions and analyses of concrete joint deliberation processes on the laboratory floor about ethical issues. Sub-themes are:
* Reflection/deliberation
* Future scenarios
* Ethical language and communication
* The institutional context
For contact or more information, please look at our workshop website http://www.utwente.nl/ceptes/ceptes_activities/deliberation_engineering/
The deadline for submission is March 1, 2010. The authors of selected papers will be notified by email. Abstracts should be sent to: .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)
“Connected Understanding”, Canadian Communication Association Annual Conference, 2010 (CCA)
June 01 2010 | Concordia University, Montreal
Deadline: January 15 2010
http://acc-cca.ca/en/annual_conference
Updated: January 13 2010
“Connected Understanding” is the theme of the Canadian Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences (CFHSS) 2010 Congress within which the Canadian Communication Association (CCA) will hold its Annual Conference from June 1 - 3 at Concordia University. We are calling for proposals that explore, critique and extend this theme as well as for proposals on any other relevant themes to Communication Studies. Please see website for further information on panels, prizes, travel Please note that Masters students interested in taking part in the
conference must submit through the Graduate Masters Sessions. See the GMS terms of reference: http://acc-cca.ca/en/annual_conference
Full details on submission, proposal forms, prizes, accommodation, etc., are included in our Conference FAQ: http://acc-cca.ca/en/annual_conference
.
Submission Details
All proposals must be submitted using the online submissions form. Full details are available at http://www.acc-cca.ca/reg/ . Please follow the directions on this website carefully and review the
Conference FAQ for more details: http://acc-cca.ca/en/ annual_conference . All proposals will be peer-reviewed by the conference organizing committee.
For additional information, please visit the CCA web site :
http://www.acc-cca.ca/, http://www.acc-cca.ca/en/annual_conference, http://acc-cca.ca/en/conference/upcoming_conference
Fourth Conference on the History of Recent Economics
June 03 2010 | École normale supérieure de Cachan
Deadline: September 30 2009
Updated: January 13 2010
The Second World War and its aftermath marked a major stage in the establishment of economics as one of the dominant discourses in contemporary societies. The spread of economic ideas into many areas of social life invites mutually profitable engagements between historians of economics and historians of other social sciences. It also presents great potential for those working on the history of economics to broaden their audience beyond those that they have traditionally addressed.
The past decade has been witness to a surging interest in the history of economics post-WWII. This new scholarship has made good use of newly available source-materials, rehearsed new methodologies for the study of the past and looked across disciplinary boundaries for insights. The first three HISRECO conferences offered wide-ranging samples of this work. For the fourth consecutive year, we are inviting submissions of papers on the post-WWII era. Papers that deal with the period leading up to this may be considered, but only if they shed significant light on subsequent developments. Though all proposals will be carefully considered, our preference is for papers that place post-war economics in a broader context, whether this is parallel developments in other social sciences, politics, culture or economic challenges. To this end, we solicit proposals from scholars trained in history, economics, sociology, or any field that may yield insights. Proposals from doctoral students and junior researchers are actively encouraged.
If you are interested in participating, please submit a proposal containing roughly 500 words and indicating clearly the original contribution of the paper (if you have a draft of the paper, we would be happy to see that as well). The deadline for the submission of paper proposals is 30 September 2009. Notice of acceptance or rejection will be sent by 15 November 2009 and completed papers will be due on 1 March 2010 so that we can provide feedback and then give discussants time to prepare worthwhile comments.
Proposals should be sent electronically to .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address).
For further information about the conference please contact Philippe Fontaine.
2010 IEEE International Symposium on Technology and Society: Social Implications of Emerging Technol
June 07 2010 | Wollongong, New South Wales, Australia
Deadline: October 02 2009
www.ieeessit.org or www.uow.edu.au.
Updated: January 13 2010
The IEEE International Symposium on Technology and Society (ISTAS) is an annual international forum sponsored by the IEEE Society on Social Implications of Technology (SSIT). ISTAS`10 in Wollongong, NSW, Australia, will bring together participants sharing research, projects, and ideas about: Automatic Identification, Automatic identification technologies including biometrics (DNA), RFID, Surveillance, dataveillance, sousveillance, anti-surveillance, uberveillance, National security, emergency response, border control, e-tollways, e-passports, Location-Based Services, Geographic information systems, digital mapping, geotagging, street view, CCTV, Location-based services, global positioning systems (GPS), tracking, monitoring, Social Networking, Social networking applications, blogs, glogs, cyberstalking, collaboration, Data collection, data merging, data matching, data mining, disclosure, Mobile comms, wearable computing, ubiquity, context-aware applications, Nanotechnology, Microchip implants, biomedical solutions, diagnostics, drug delivery, Nanotechnology, bionics, transhumanism, artificial intelligence, robots, cyborgs, Privacy, Security & Human Rights, Cyberethics, privacy, data protection, trust, control, consent, transborder flows, Security, law enforcement, covert/overt policing, laws, regulations, public policy, Social implications, registers, human rights, intellectual property, social equity.
Additional papers on other traditional fields of interest to SSIT also are welcome. ISTAS ‘10 will be a multi-disciplinary event for engineers, scientists, researchers in the social sciences, arts/law and humanities, and decision makers in the public and private sectors.
Important Dates: Abstract submission (200 words) October 2, 2009
Full/Short paper submission (5000/2000 words): November 13, 2009
Final camera-ready copy: March 26, 2010
All submissions to Katina Michael at: .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address).
For more information visit: www.ieeessit.org or www.uow.edu.au.
Risky entanglements? Contemporary research cultures imagined and practised
June 09 2010 | Albert Schweitzer Haus, Vienna
Deadline: January 29 2010
http://sciencestudies.univie.ac.at/events/conference2010/
Updated: January 12 2010
Recent key macro studies agree that scientific research is
increasingly entangled in various societal rationales. On the one
hand, these analyses should be understood within the context of the
growing importance attributed to scientific and technological
innovation for shaping contemporary societies. On the other hand,
society's readiness to contribute to an innovation-friendly climate is
considered a key-asset for materializing this imagined progress. For
both issues, the human side of science, thus researchers and their way
of doing research, their values and their readiness to engage with
both science and society, is perceived as essential.
As this unfolds on a global scale, it is interesting to observe within
research policy and science institutions the convergence of various
discourses that stress and imagine what seem to be the key values or
myths guiding research today: excellence, accountability, mobility,
flexibility, ethical conduct, societal relevance or application
orientation, to mention but a few. However, far too little analytic
attention has been devoted to (1) how these broad and ostensibly
universal notions impinge on different work and knowledge production
cultures, (2) how specific local histories and contingencies play out
in practice, (3) how these global changes get refracted locally and
personally, and (4) how all this re-frames what being a researcher
today actually means. This lack seems astonishing given the importance
the 'human factor' is attributed in current policy discourses around
innovation.
This conference invites contributions that address change and
continuity of work and knowledge production cultures in research, and
ask in which processes ethical, societal and economic rationales shape
these very cultures. Of particular interest are contributions that are
combining more refined empirical analyses with broader theoretical
frameworks of change. By combining works that address different
regional-historical contexts and different scientific fields, the
conference's explicit goal is to open up comparative perspectives,
thus contributing to a broader understanding of contemporary research
cultures.
Risky entanglements?: Contemporary research cultures imagined and practised
June 09 2010 | Albert Schweitzer Haus, Vienna
Deadline: January 29 2010
http://sciencestudies.univie.ac.at/events/conference2010/
Updated: January 13 2010
Recent key macro studies agree that scientific research is increasingly entangled in various societal rationales. On the one hand, these analyses should be understood within the context of the growing importance attributed to scientific and technological innovation for shaping contemporary societies. On the other hand, society's readiness to contribute to an innovation-friendly climate is considered a key-asset for materializing this imagined progress. For both issues, the human side of science, thus researchers and their way of doing research, their values and their readiness to engage with both science and society, is perceived as essential.
As this unfolds on a global scale, it is interesting to observe within research policy and science institutions the convergence of various discourses that stress and imagine what seem to be the key values or myths guiding research today: excellence, accountability, mobility, flexibility, ethical conduct, societal relevance or application orientation, to mention but a few. However, far too little analytic attention has been devoted to (1) how these broad and ostensibly universal notions impinge on different work and knowledge production cultures, (2) how specific local histories and contingencies play out in practice, (3) how these global changes get refracted locally and personally, and (4) how all this re-frames what being a researcher today actually means. This lack seems astonishing given the importance the 'human factor' is attributed in current policy discourses around innovation.
This conference invites contributions that address change and continuity of work and knowledge production cultures in research, and ask in which processes ethical, societal and economic rationales shape these very cultures. Of particular interest are contributions that are combining more refined empirical analyses with broader theoretical frameworks of change. By combining works that address different regional-historical contexts and different scientific fields, the conference's explicit goal is to open up comparative perspectives, thus contributing to a broader understanding of contemporary research cultures.
Please see website for associated details:
http://sciencestudies.univie.ac.at/events/conference2010/
Recycling Textile Technologies
June 14 2010 | University College London
Updated: February 14 2010
This interdisciplinary workshop will bring together researchers who work
on textile recycling, including anthropologists, geographers,
historians, political economists, designers, and materials scientists.
This is with a view to develop a research agenda that explores
innovation in textile recycling technologies in the widest sense, and
how these succeed or fail in becoming socially embedded. Textile
recycling activities, as socio-technical systems, arise in specific
cultural contexts within global trading patterns, and their study may
incorporate the underlying relationships between people and things, raw
materials and technologies and the emergence of entrepreneurs and
innovators in social networks amongst other (f)actors.
We see at least three possible clusters of themes emerging, but welcome
further ideas:
1. Reinventing Old Solutions to New Problems?
Industrial recycling practises are specific, historically situated
socio-technical systems. While pre-industrial papermaking industries
used rags as a source of raw materials, 19th century textile mills
looked to recycled clothing as a cheaper source of raw material for the
wool shoddy industries. In the 21st century, the problem has changed to
what to do with mountains of cast-off clothing, and this drives the
search for technologically solutions appropriate to diverse cultural
contexts. Anthropological understandings of technology embrace
materials, makers, designers, and users in a relational networks
including socio-economic, political, and legal factors. In this broader
context, how are some old technologies being reinvented for the future,
and in what fields are new technologies being successfully developed?
2. The value of knowledge and skills in cultural contexts
As different cultures have developed different somatic skills and
practices, we wish to investigate the importance of tacit knowledges to
recycling. Consideration of these embedded knowledges within the global
perspective raises a number of questions specific to the processing of
waste textiles. How are knowledge and skills valued differently within a
textile waste industry compared to primary production? How intimately do
you need to know used textiles in order to process them effectively, and
how do differing levels of entanglement affect your social status within
a recycling system? For those who are bodily engaged with waste, how
valuable are these tacit knowledges and are they acknowledged by others?
And what are the cultural specificities of the valuing of people and
skills within different textile waste sectors? For example, there are
differences in skills and status between an immigrant rag sorter in a UK
factory, an illiterate migrant woman cutting up rags in an Indian shoddy
factory and the designer creating eco-textiles from recycled materials.
Do these differences come down to a narrowing of knowledge domains? Are
these limitations the only factors affecting personal value ranking
within global systems?
3. Networks of global trade
Since at least the early 19thC rags have been globally traded for reuse
and recycling industries. Many rag businesses are family businesses that
have been trading for generations, and have nurtured valuable networks
of business contacts that span the developed and developing world in
both directions. The movement of second-hand textiles across the globe
both creates social relations and at the same time is enabled by
pre-existing social contacts. Why is it difficult to start up a new rag
trade business? A related question is what can waste do as an actor in
international trade? For example, how does the trade in second-hand
clothing and textile waste facilitate the movement of other goods along
similar networks? To what extent is textile waste trade a conduit for
other licit and illicit goods? How might the degrees of regulatory
frameworks surrounding waste enable or inhibit other flows of goods, and
is this conducive to it becoming the visible front for invisible
commodity exchange? Is this particular to textiles, to waste or raw
materials in general?
Please send abstracts of no more than 250 words by Feb 28th to:
Lucy Norris .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) AND Julie Botticello
.(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)
Department of Anthropology, UCL.
This workshop is being initiated as part of the ESRC project, the Waste
of the World
www.thewasteoftheworld.org
Objectivity in Science
June 17 2010 | University of British Columbia
Deadline: December 01 2009
Updated: January 13 2010
Over the past two decades questions have arisen regarding the objectivity of specific projects in or fields of science: for example, can we trust medical research when it is funded by pharmaceutical companies? Or, whose research in climate science meets the standards of scientific objectivity? Such questions have become important in framing public debate about science and science policy. At the same time, the objectivity of science has become an increasingly important topic among historians and philosophers of science as well as researchers in other fields in science and technology studies (STS) such as sociology of science, rhetoric of science, and cultural studies of science. This conference seeks to advance scholarly perspectives on the objectivity of science by bringing them into conversation with one another. The conference also asks whether and how such scholarly perspectives on objectivity might or should inform public debate. The conference will investigate, moreover, how the specific concerns of scientists, science policy experts, science journalists, and other groups might be made more salient in the research of the STS community.
The goal of this conference, thus, is to provide a forum for STS researchers of diverse disciplinary backgrounds, practicing scientists, and other researchers to discuss and debate issues concerning the nature of objectivity in science. A particular concern will be to discuss how, when, and why questions of objectivity arise within science, in science policy debates, and in public engagement with science. In addition to conference sessions held during the day, this conference will feature two evening panel discussions, open to the public and focused on particular areas of research wherein the issue of scientific objectivity is particularly salient. The public panel discussions will focus on questions of objectivity in collaborative aboriginal research and in research on harm reduction.
Confirmed keynote speakers include Professor Ian Hacking (University of Toronto and the Collège de France) and Professor Naomi Oreskes (University of California at San Diego).
CALL FOR PROPOSALS
We welcome individual paper and panel submissions related to the theme of scientific objectivity.
Proposals for papers should include author information (including email address), paper title, and an abstract of no more than 500 words. Speakers will have 30 minutes to present and discuss their work.
Proposals for panel sessions should include the name of the panel organizer (including email), a brief description of the panel, author information, paper titles, and abstracts for each paper. Panel sessions will be ninety minutes in duration, including discussion time.
Program Committee: Alan Richardson (UBC), Robert Brain (UBC), Candis Callison (UBC), Lesley Cormack (Simon Fraser University), Flavia Padovani (UBC), and Jonathan Tsou (Iowa State University).
The deadline for paper and panel submissions is December 1, 2009. Please email submissions to Dani Hallet at: .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)
Risk, Governance, and Accountability, Society for Risk Analysis
June 21 2010 | King's College London
Deadline: January 11 2010
http://www.kcl.ac.uk/sspp/srae2010 Updated: January 13 2010 The 19th SRA-Europe conference in 2010 aims to facilitate an exchange of ideas among all actors in the field of risk: academics from across the disciplines, policy makers, the private sector, NGOs and other interest groups. The conference organisers welcome presentations on all aspects of risk analysis, broadly encompassing risk assessment, risk characterisation, risk perception and communication, risk management, and risk governance. June 22 2010 | Singapore Deadline: December 30 2009 Updated: January 13 2010 All proposals on the subject of the history of medicine and health in Southeast Asia will be considered, but preference will be given to those on the theme of: June 23 2010 | Grenoble, France Deadline: January 31 2010 Updated: February 14 2010 The social sciences are witnessing a 'practice turn', of which traces are also found in the policy sciences. Policy discourses are for example conceptualized as: (1) the result of 'messy practices'; (2) only loosely embedded in democratic practices; (3) hardly related to social practices; and (4) the opposite of 'what is really happening'. This panel wants to identify how the practice turn impacts the field of forest and nature conservation policy, specifically relating it to accounts of politics, legitimacy, and power in general. Conceptually, the relationship between discourse and practice will be particularly key. This relationship can range from discourse as one of the many components of a practice to discourse as constituting practice. Methodologically, we want to discuss whether a practice turn gives primacy to ethnographic techniques, or that other methods retain equal value. To discuss these, and related issues, we call on you to write papers on the following topics: June 24 2010 | Manchester, UK Deadline: March 15 2010 http://www.sed.manchester.ac.uk/research/marc/ Updated: February 14 2010 In the last decade numerous STS trained scholars engaged in a venture June 29 2010 | University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), USA Deadline: August 13 2010 http://www.HumanitiesConference.com/ Updated: January 13 2010 We are very pleased to be holding this year's conference in Los Angeles, California. Los Angeles is one of the most diverse and dynamic cities in the United States, attracting immigrants and visitors from around the world to its wide range of attractions, activities and professional opportunities. Although Los Angeles is perhaps most well recognized as the center of U.S. movie and television production, its cultural role exceeds that of its most famous industry. Its music, literary and visual and performing arts communities, for instance, reflect the diverse perspectives of Angelinos and are internationally influential. The Los Angeles area is home to some of the best galleries and museums in the country and to distinguished centers for humanities research, such as the Getty Center, the Huntington Library and the William Andrews Clark Memorial Library. The city is also a center of higher education, boasting many of the finest colleges and universities in the United States, including the host of this year's International Conference on New Directions in the Humanities, the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). June 30 2010 | VIBE Hotel in Sydney, Australia Deadline: December 30 2009 Updated: January 13 2010 This interdisciplinary and transnational conference is accepting proposals on ALL aspects of popular culture. We are seeking a strong representative presence for the study of Queer Popular Culture at this conference. Graphic novels, comics, popular romance, television, film and internet are only some aspects of the study of queer popular culture. Creative work is also accepted. Proposals for panels are welcome. June 30 2010 | Adelaide Deadline: February 01 2010 .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) Updated: January 13 2010 In a time of rapid social, economic and political transition this conference calls for consideration of the meaning and possibilities of change for gender in Australia and internationally. We invite papers on themes including (but not limited to): July 03 2010 | Imperial College, London Deadline: March 01 2010 http://www.astronomy2009.org/news/updates/687/ Updated: January 15 2010 Now in its fifth year, the Science and the Public conference aims to bring together the various strands of academia which consider science’s relationships with groups generally called ‘the public’. Delegates come from a wide range of disciplines: science and technology studies, history of science, geography, psychology, cultural studies, media studies, sociology, development studies, English literature, science policy studies and more. July 05 2010 | University of Leeds Deadline: November 30 2009 http://www.philosophy.leeds.ac.uk/Invention/invention.htm Updated: January 13 2010 An international conference by the collaborative research project ‘Owning and disowning invention: intellectual property, authority, and identity in British science and technology, 1880-1920’ (University of Leeds & University of Bristol) supported by the Arts & Humanities Research Council and the White Rose IPBio Project (Universities of Leeds, Sheffield and York) July 06 2010 | University of Warwick Updated: January 13 2010 An ESRC funded seminar series for early-career researchers interested in the social and political dimensions of biomedical visualisations. Each two-day workshop will combine a lecture from a leading scholar in the field and time for peer discussion with an opportunity to engage with visualisation in practice and ask questions. Attendance is free but places are limited. Some funding is available towards travel and accommodation costs for researchers who have no alternative funding source.
The special conference theme will be Risk, Governance and Accountability. This theme reflects the increasing centrality of risk analysis to decision-making in a wide range of policy and organisational contexts and the increasing demands by the public for decision-makers to account for outcomes.
The 2010 conference will be held at King's College London and will be co-sponsored by the Environment Agency, the Food Standards Agency and the Health and Safety Executive. King’s College London is one of England’s oldest and most prestigious university institutions, and its central London location is within walking distance of world famous attractions, such as the
Houses of Parliament, St Paul’s Cathedral, Tate Modern, and Covent Garden.
We invite scientists and practitioners wishing to present their work at the conference in the form of an oral presentation, poster, or symposium, to submit an abstract, no later than January 11th 2010.
For more information about the conference and important dates, please visit the website at http://www.kcl.ac.uk/sspp/srae2010
or email: .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)
3rd International Conference on The History of Medicine in Southeast Asia (HOMSEA 2010)
New Medicines, Markets, and the Development of Medical Pluralism
The theme “New Medicines, Markets, and the Development of Medical Pluralism” intends to explore how both local and metropolitan actors in Southeast Asia have contributed historically to the growth and development of medical markets throughout the region, here implying both traditional pharmacopeia as well as the arrival of newer pharmaceuticals in colonial and post-colonial settings. With a time frame preceding formal colonial intervention in the region and ranging up to the present, with the creation of a local infrastructure for biomedical and biotech work, participants are encouraged to submit individual papers and panels with possible themes including:
Women and Health in Southeast Asia
Medical pluralism in Southeast Asia: A Historical Perspective
Medical markets in SEA
Southeast Asian Biopoleis (including the growth of biomedical infrastructure, Science Parks, and Local Production Facilities¬identification of pharmacopoeia, drug development)
New Sources, New Methodologies, New Historiographies
As the HOMSEA meeting will coincide with the IAHA 2010 meeting in Singapore, those interested in expanding the discussion either geographically¬to include North East Asia and South Asia¬chronologically, or methodologically are encouraged to apply to HOMSEA as well as the IAHA meeting to broaden the scope of discussion.
Please see the IAHA website at: http://www.fas.nus.edu.sg/hist/iaha/index.htm
Please submit a one-page proposed abstract for a 20-minute talk, and a one-page CV by 30th December 2009 to: Laurence Monnais ( .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address))
Please note that it may be possible to subsidize some of the costs of participation for scholars from less wealthy countries.
For further information about funding and the general organization of the meeting, please contact: John DiMoia (.(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address))
IPA 2010 Grenoble: Discourse and Policy Practices: Politics – Legitimacy - Power
The relation between forest and nature discourses and management practices. Is policy 'what is happening'? The politics of policy discourse. How do we retrieve the politics and power of policy discourses from policy practices? In forest and nature conservation policy, public participation and transparency are often expected to contribute to democratic legitimacy. Do these also constitute democratic practices? The methodological consequences of a practice turn. How do we research green policy practices and in what ways do we present our findings?
January 31, 2010:
Deadline for paper submission (Abstract; max 500 words)
February 15,
2010 : Notification of acceptance and registration
May 15, 2010 : deadline for full papers
Abstracts of no more than 500 words should be sent by email to .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)
Politics of Design
of unpacking design practices. Yet, to study the practical course of
design means to be simultaneously involved in the subject of politics
and in the particular sort of politics that is centred on objects
(Latour & Weibel, Making Things Public). Recent studies in political
philosophy and STS have argued that politics is not limited anymore to
citizens, elections, votes, petitions, ideologies and particular
institutionalised conflicts (DeVries, What is Political in Sub-
politics?), and have reformulated the question of politics into one of
cosmopolitics (Stengers, Cosmopolitics; Latour, Politics of Nature)
and ontological politics (Mol, Actor Network Theory and After). The
“political” is not defined as a way of codifying particular forms of
contestation but as opening up new sites and objects of contestation
(Barry, Political Machines).
Looking to assess the multifarious ways design can be “political” and
the various sites of politics of design, this workshop will explore a
range of questions pertaining to theory and methodology:
To what kind of politics can we get access when we strive to unravel
design not through ideology but through the work of designers, their
rich repertoire of actions, their controversies, concerns, puzzles,
risk-taking, and imagination? And likewise, what kinds of politics are
embedded in the objects of design, with their multiple meanings of
materiality, pliability, and obduracy?
How does design’s potential to bring an ever-greater number of non-
humans into politics contribute to the re-composition of the common
world, the cosmos in which everyone lives? What are the politics of
the relations invoked by design practices? Is design “political”
because it brings together land and NGOs, gravity laws and fashions,
preservationists and zoning regulations, architectural languages and
concerned communities, dives and stakeholders, land registers and
modernists, and if so, how?
What are the multiple design sites where political action might be
seeping through? How is politics carried out today in sites often
unrelated to the traditional loci of political action: in building
development companies, planning commissions, building renovation
sites, urban spaces, local communities, architectural offices, public
presentations of designers? And what can we learn from the different,
even unexpected forms of concernedness that we may come across in such
contexts?
How and under which conditions does design become one of the means
through which politics is being carried out? How does design turn the
“public” into a problem - and thus engage and mobilise it -
triggering disagreements and generating issues of public concern? How
do designers and planners make their activities accountable to
citizens?
If the “political” is considered a moment in the complex trajectory of
design projects, processes and objects, what are the methods we use to
account for them? How can we map, track, trace and document
ethnographically and historically these moments of becoming political?
The workshop is expected to attract a diverse group of scholars from
the fields of STS, architecture, geography, political economy,
environmental psychology and planning, design studies, sociology,
cultural studies and political sciences.8th International Conference on new Directions in the Humanities
The Humanities Conference provides a space for dialogue and for the publication of new knowledge that builds on the past traditions of the humanities whilst setting a renewed agenda for their future.
In addition to an impressive line-up of international plenary speakers, the Conference will also include numerous paper, workshop and colloquium presentations by practitioners, teachers and researchers. We would particularly like to invite you to respond to the Conference Call-for-Papers. Presenters may choose to submit written papers for publication in the fully refereed International Journal of the Humanities. If you are unable to attend the Conference in person, virtual registrations are also available which allow you to submit a paper for refereeing and possible publication in this fully refereed academic Journal.
Whether you are a virtual or in-person presenter at this Conference, we also encourage you to present on the Conference YouTube Channel. Please select the Online Sessions link on the Conference website for further details.
The deadline for the next round in the call for papers (a title and short abstract) is 13 August 2009. Future deadlines will be announced on the Conference website after this date. Proposals are reviewed within two weeks of submission. Full details of the Conference, including an online proposal submission form, are to be found at the Conference website - http://www.HumanitiesConference.com/.
The First Annual Popular Culture Association of Australia and New Zealand (PopCAANZ)
We will also be holding a postgraduate poster evening. All postgrads and undergrads (provided they are working with the guidance of a trained scholar) interested in presenting their would-be or current research are invited to submit an abstract. Please mark your submissions: Poster Session.
Abstracts (300 words max.) should be sent as e-mail attachments to .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) The deadline for submissions is 30th December, 2009. Please include your name, affiliation, mailing and e-mail address, and the title of your presentation. E-mails should be entitled: PopCanz Conference. If you do not receive an acknowledgment within one week, please resend your submission. Accepted presenters will be notified via e-mailin January 2010.
A selection of papers from the conference will be solicited for publication.
Additional information is available on the PopCanz blogsite: http://popcanz.blogspot.com/
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Australian Women’s and Gender Studies Conference, Emerging Spaces: New Possibilities in Critical Tim
-Indigenous women and political change, -Global feminisms, -Asian women and women in Asia,
-Feminist activism/politics, -Feminist economics, -Gender in technology & science, -Feminist models of governance, -Gender and Health, -Migration and gender, -Gender and youth cultures
Abstracts for oral presentations of 20 minutes duration should include:
Title of the paper, name and institutional affiliation of author(s), and an abstract of no more than 300 words. Contact details for presenter (postal address, phone, fax and email) and a brief biographical note about author/s -100 words.
Abstracts should be sent as an e-mail attachment to: .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)
Further information about the conference can be accessed at:
http://www.arts.monash.edu.au/womens-studies/awgsa/conference.php
or e-mail .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)
Science and the Public 2010
The range of topics covered may include (but are not limited to):
* PUS, PEST, PR.
* Surveying public knowledge and attitudes.
* Science and the arts (including science fiction).
* Science, publics and personal identity.
* The role of industry and/ or the third sector in public engagement
and scientific research.
* The challenges of ‘upstream’ engagement.
* Popular science and professionalization.
* Specific public-science issues: e.g. climate change, MMR, energy policy, GMOs.
* Studies of specific media: e.g. film, books, the internet, museums, radio.
* Science, religion and the ‘New Atheism’.
* Politically engaged scientists.
* Churnalism vs. investigative science journalism.
* Edu-tainment.
* Scientific advisers, spin and secrecy.
* Patients and publics in health services.
* Science and the sceptics.
* Amateur science.
Potential contributors should email a 300 word abstract to .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) by 1st March2010. Please include full contact details (name, affiliation, email) of all authors.
Panel proposals should include a panel abstract and individual abstracts for each of the papers on the panel as well as contact information (name, affiliation, email) of the presider (moderator) and all panel members.
All submissions should be emailed to .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) 1st March 2010. All other enquires also to this address.
Managing Knowledge in the Techno-sciences, 1850-2000
The conference brings together researchers investigating the history of knowledge management since the mid-19th century – a period that saw the rise of the techno-sciences, trans-European controversies over the legitimacy of patenting, and the coining of the term ‘intellectual property’. Contributions are welcome from a variety of perspectives concerning ‘intellectual property’ and the 'intellectual commons' in the techno-sciences e.g. the cultures of monopoly, shared ‘open’ knowledge and of sponsored invention. Participants are encouraged to examine critically the foundations and methodology of historical research on the techno-sciences, including biomedical and agricultural forms.
Abstract Submission Abstracts for individual papers or panel sessions should be submitted by 30 November 2009. Abstracts for individual papers should not exceed 200 words and should be accompanied by the author’s short curriculum vitae (1 page). Proposals for panel sessions should comprise: an outline of the session (200 words), abstracts for the three individual papers (200 words) and CVs (1 page) for each of the contributors. All submissions should be emailed as an MS Word file attachment to: .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) by 30 November 2009.
A registration fee may be charged for presenters at this conference. Please indicate in your email if you would like to be considered for assistance in this regard.
Further Information For enquiries about the academic content of the conference please contact: Prof. Graeme Gooday, .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) tel. 0113 343 3274 Centre for History & Philosophy of Science, Department of Philosophy, University of Leeds, UK For administrative enquiries please contact Dr Stathis Arapostathis, .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) tel. 0113 343 8027, Centre for History & Philosophy of Science, Department of Philosophy, University of Leeds For information on the ‘Owning and Disowning Invention’ project, please see http://www.philosophy.leeds.ac.uk/Invention/invention.htm
Biomedical Visualisations and Society: 3D Foetal Ultrasound
For more information, visit the project website:
http://www.warwick.ac.uk/go/biomedicalvisualisationsandsociety
Or email: .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)
3D Foetal Ultrasound
6th- 7th July 2010
Keynote Speaker: Lisa M. Mitchell, University of Victoria, Canada
Includes a visit to 4D scan provider ‘Babybond’, with company director Jan Steward.
The International Symposium on Wikis and Open Collaboration
July 07 2010 | Gdańsk, Poland.
Deadline: March 07 2010
Updated: February 14 2010
WikiSym, the International Symposium on Wikis and Open Collaboration,
will be held this summer in Gdansk, Poland. Starting this year,
WikiSym aims to explicitly broaden its scope, exploring not only the thriving wiki community, but also other open movements and open collaboration initiatives. This includes related areas such as open online communities, collaborative creation of multimedia content (with or without wikis), and open journalism and publishing, just to list a few examples.
Furthermore, our goal is to establish WikiSym as a venue for the
exchange of information, experiences and practices among an interdisciplinary audience, including researchers, practitioners, industry representatives and experts with a wide variety of different backgrounds.
As a result, WikiSym has established 3 complementary tracks to merge
the contributions from such a diverse community:
* Wiki track: Focused on research in wiki technology,wiki websites, wiki communities, and in general any kind of initiative pivoting around wiki software.
* Industry track: This new track will focus on the specific needs of enterprises and private companies interested in sharing and promoting their experiences around wikis and open collaboration projects/products/initiatives.
* Open collaboration track: This track is a dedicated venue for sharing research results and experiences in initiatives that may not be built specifically on wiki software, but share the "wiki way" of organization. These may include open collaborations, open communities,
and open movements that allow the interchange of ideas and contributions
from participants with a range of interests and motivations.
Research manuscripts may be sent to any of these tracks. However, submitting the same manuscript to more than one track at the same time is not allowed. Therefore, please select the most appropriate track for the topic covered in your manuscript before submitting.
IMPORTANT DATES
* March 7th: Submission deadline for research papers.
* March 21st: Submission deadline for Doctoral Symposium
proposals, posters, demonstrations, workshops, panels, tutorials.
* May 4th: Notification of acceptance for research papers.
* May 11th: Notification of acceptance for Doctoral Symposium
proposals, posters, workshops, tutorials, panels.
* July 7-9: WikiSym 2010!
Given the interdisciplinary nature of wikis and open collaboration initiatives, WikiSym invites contributions in a wide range of fields.
Society for the Social History of Medicine Conference
July 08 2010 | Durhan and Newcastle, UK
Deadline: November 01 2009
www.sshm.org.
Updated: January 13 2010
The Society for the Social History of Medicine invites submissions for its 2010 Conference ‘Knowledge, Ethics and Representations of Medicine and Health: Historical Perspectives’, to be held at Durham and Newcastle (UK), 8-11 July 2010, organised by the Northern Centre for the History of Medicine (NCHM).
Deadline for proposals: 1 November 2009
The organisers welcome proposals for 20-minute papers under the theme ‘Knowledge, Ethics and Representations of Medicine and Health: Historical Perspectives’. We particularly encourage papers addressing questions such as:
* What processes have generated knowledge about the body, illness and health that has become authoritative in different societies?
* How have claims of medical expertise been justified vis à vis claims from other domains of social and cultural authority such as religion and law?
* What did it mean for medical practitioners in different cultural and social contexts to claim to be ethical as well as knowledgeable?
* How did they present themselves to the public?
* What kind of material, visual and textual representations of body, mind, health and disease have gained ‘defining power’ exerting influence on medical practice and research until today?
Submissions covering all periods (from Antiquity to the 21st Century) and all regions of the world are welcome.
In addition to individual papers, we seek proposals for panel sessions (with 3 papers), as well as suggestions for suitable chairpersons.
Abstracts of up to 250 words should include the title of the paper, information concerning the research question examined, the sources used and preliminary results. Please also include on the abstract your contact details (name, affiliation, e-mail-address).
All papers are to represent original work not already published.
Please send your proposal by 1 November 2009 to the NCHM (Email: .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)). Decisions on papers will be made by January 2010.
For more information on the SSHM please see www.sshm.org. For more information on the NCHM, a collaboration of historians of medicine from Durham and Newcastle universities, please see www.nchm.ac.uk.
CFP: AAHPSSS in Sydney, July 2010
July 09 2010 | Sydney, Australia
Deadline: May 31 2010
Updated: February 14 2010
The next conference of AAHPSSS (the Australasian Association for the History, Philosophy, and Social Studies of Science) will take place at the University of Sydney, in the Unit for History and Philosophy of Science (New Law School building), on July 9-11, 2010. Information about accommodation and registration is on the AAHPSSS website at http://www.usyd.edu.au/aahpsss/AAHPSSS2010-conference.html . If you need accommodation you are strongly encouraged to book early as the hotels and hostels will fill up.
The conference will take place immediately after the AAP meeting at UNSW in Sydney (more information at http://www.aap-conferences.org.au/) .
Membership in AAHPSSS (now 25 $ yearly, 10 $ for students) allows you to register for the conference at a lower fee. Members register at a cost of 40$ for both days or 20$ / day; non-members register at a cost of 80$ for both days or 40$ /day. Students and unwaged: 20 $ / day or 40 $ / both days. Remember, your membership dues contribute to student bursaries and prizes. Registration information is available on the AAHPSSS website; for further matters concerning payment contact the Treasurer, Dean Rickles, at .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)
Student assistance will be available via the Ian Langham Memorial Bursaries
Please send electronic submissions either of individual papers, panels (typically 3 speakers, maximum 4), or book sessions to the Secretary, Charles Wolfe, at .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)
Submissions are due by 31 May 2010; registration must be completed by 15 June 2010; afterwards a late fee of 30$ will be added.
RC 25 Language and Society XVII ISA World Congress of Sociology, Sociology on the Move
July 11 2010 |
Deadline: January 03 2010
Updated: January 13 2010
The Research Committee on Language and Society, RC 25, of the International Sociological Association (ISA) is calling for abstracts for the ISA World Congress on the theme of Sociology on the Move.
RC 25 conceives of studies of language broadly including all varieties of sociological analyses of language/representation. We welcome proposals of on the conference theme that are of specific relevance to language and society. Please submit an abstract of (350 words maximum) by January 3, 2010 directly to the session organizer. The abstract should include your name, organization affiliation, country of residence, and email address. Please do not send your abstract to more than one session.
Hegemonies in Classification Processes
Gianluca Miscione, International Institute for Geo-Information Science and Earth Observation, The Netherlands, .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)
Daniela Landert, University of Zurich, .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)
Classifications serve as shared systems to organize and handle knowledge in any given domain. Classifications depend on language to provide labels for classes and on linguistic practices to establish, apply and reproducing classifications. Successfully established classifications affect thinking and coordination of social activities across different settings and actors. The role of classifications is becoming more evident since organizing processes are increasingly taking place across dispersed individuals, groups, organizations and contexts, a development that is supported by information and communication technologies (ICT). Indeed, when the common understanding and coordination are not facilitated by co-location, classifications are expected to keep patterns of action aligned.
Clear examples for this development can for instance be found in the two empirical fields of health care and of online communities. In the case of health care, information about patients needs to travel with and beyond the patients themselves, in order to allow consequent actions to be performed by a variety of actors. In the case of online communities, classifications are often negotiated collaboratively among globally dispersed laypersons. This leads to shifts in power between these laypersons and the experts of hegemonic classifications.
The mutual dependency of power and classifications raises the question how changes in the roles of the actors who negotiate classifications affect and maybe challenge power relations and hegemonies in a wider sense. Therefore, the “double hermeneutic” between those who are usually termed ‘subjects’ and ‘objects’ has to be revised, mutual dependency between classifications and their objects needs to be highlighted.
FOR MORE INFORMATION ABOUT THE WORLD CONGRESS GO TO:
http://www.isa-sociology.org/congress2010/
http://www.isa-sociology.org/congress2010/rc/rc25.htm
http://www.language-and-society.org/conferences/index.html
RC 25 Language and Society XVII ISA World Congress of Sociology, Sociology on the Move
July 11 2010 |
Deadline: January 03 2010
Updated: January 13 2010
The Research Committee on Language and Society, RC 25, of the International Sociological Association (ISA) is calling for abstracts for the ISA World Congress on the theme of Sociology on the Move.
RC 25 conceives of studies of language broadly including all varieties of sociological analyses of language/representation. We welcome proposals of on the conference theme that are of specific relevance to language and society. Please submit an abstract of (350 words maximum) by January 3, 2010 directly to the session organizer. The abstract should include your name, organization affiliation, country of residence, and email address. Please do not send your abstract to more than one session.
Hegemonies in Classification Processes
Gianluca Miscione, International Institute for Geo-Information Science and Earth Observation, The Netherlands, .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)
Daniela Landert, University of Zurich, .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)
Classifications serve as shared systems to organize and handle knowledge in any given domain. Classifications depend on language to provide labels for classes and on linguistic practices to establish, apply and reproducing classifications. Successfully established classifications affect thinking and coordination of social activities across different settings and actors. The role of classifications is becoming more evident since organizing processes are increasingly taking place across dispersed individuals, groups, organizations and contexts, a development that is supported by information and communication technologies (ICT). Indeed, when the common understanding and coordination are not facilitated by co-location, classifications are expected to keep patterns of action aligned.
Clear examples for this development can for instance be found in the two empirical fields of health care and of online communities. In the case of health care, information about patients needs to travel with and beyond the patients themselves, in order to allow consequent actions to be performed by a variety of actors. In the case of online communities, classifications are often negotiated collaboratively among globally dispersed laypersons. This leads to shifts in power between these laypersons and the experts of hegemonic classifications.
The mutual dependency of power and classifications raises the question how changes in the roles of the actors who negotiate classifications affect and maybe challenge power relations and hegemonies in a wider sense. Therefore, the “double hermeneutic” between those who are usually termed ‘subjects’ and ‘objects’ has to be revised, mutual dependency between classifications and their objects needs to be highlighted.
FOR MORE INFORMATION ABOUT THE WORLD CONGRESS GO TO:
http://www.isa-sociology.org/congress2010/
http://www.isa-sociology.org/congress2010/rc/rc25.htm
http://www.language-and-society.org/conferences/index.html
3rd International Deleuze Studies Conference: Connect, Continue, Create
July 12 2010 | Amsterdam
Deadline: March 01 2010
www.deleuze-amsterdam.nl
Updated: January 13 2010
The third annual International Deleuze Studies Conference will explore how the three ...creative domains of thought - art, science and philosophy - connect, continue and create together. The visionary quality of the profoundly generous and complex philosophy of Gilles Deleuze may provide new and productive ways of understanding connections, in a world that is increasingly globally linked and technologically mediated.
Please send your abstract (max. 200 words) and a short bio to .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) before the 1st of March, 2010. Confirmation of acceptance will be emailed before April 15th, 2010. Selections will take place on the basis of the number of
panel presentations. www.deleuze-amsterdam.nl
Everyday Life in the Segmented City
July 22 2010 | Florence, Italy
Deadline: March 15 2010
Updated: February 14 2010
For the first time in human history, a majority of the world's population
lives in urban areas, and by 2050 more than 2/3 will live in metropolitan
regions across the globe. At the same moment metropolitan regions confront
unprecedented economic, social, and political challenges, the meanings of
everyday life are put into question because of the changing structure and
interdependence of urban economies. North American cities register the
largest number of foreign-born persons in their history, while cities in
Europe confront issues of social integration with emergent minority
populations in the suburbs and inner city neighborhoods. The rapidly growing
urban regions in China and India confront the continuing pressures of rural
to urban migration that will produce the largest urban populations in human
history. While the focus on the global city often emphasizes similarities
in the development of metropolitan regions and neo-liberal regimes, we are
interested in better understanding how individuals and groups respond to and
create dynamic change in everyday life within the ever changing urban
environment.
We invite contributions for a conference on everyday life in the segmented
city to be held in Florence this July 22-25, 2010. The presentations will
be grouped into the following subject areas:
Cinematic urbanism: Images and representation of the segmented city;
emergent symbolic economics of consumption and production; tourism and
visual consumption of the city.
Governance and planning: Multicultural cities and ethnic spaces; strategies
to govern the multicultural city; citizenship and participation in the
segmented city.
Suburbanization and the post-urban city: Suburban growth and urban sprawl;
revolt of the banlieues; social exclusion in the inner suburbs; urbanity and
urbanism in the suburban fringe
Appropriations of urban space: Emerging patterns of social exclusion and
personal security; privatization and surveillance of urban space; reclaiming
public space
The right to the city: Migration and immigration in the 21st century
metropolis; social participation in the segmented city; contested urban
spaces.
We invite submissions for papers on these and related topics. Please send
abstract of your paper or presentation by March 15, 2010 to the address
listed below.
Papers on cinematic urbanism: Dr. Lorenzo Tripodi, Berlin
(.(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address))
Papers on governance and planning: Dr. Camilla Perrone, Università degli
Studi di Firenze (.(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address))
Papers on Suburbanization and the post-urban city: Dr. Gabriele Manella,
Università degli Studi di Bologna (.(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address))
Papers on appropriations of urban space: Dr. Circe Monteiro, Universidade
Federal de Pernambuco, Brazil (.(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address))
Papers on the right to the city: Dr. Milan Prodanovic, University of Novi
Sad (.(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)) or Dr. Ray Hutchison University of Wisconsin-Green
Bay (.(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)).
Participants will be contacted with information concerning participation in
the conference by March 15th, 2010. Completed papers will be required by
May 30, 2010.
For other general inquiries concerning Everyday Life in the Segmented City,
contact Ray Hutchison, University of Wisconsin-Green Bay (.(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address))
Selected papers from the conference will appear in special edited volume
titled Everyday Life in the Segmented City (a volume in the series Research
in Urban Sociology, published by Emerald Press).
Discounted hotel accommodations in Florence will be available to
participants in the conference. This conference is supported with funding
from the Del Bianco Foundation in Florence.
More information concerning conference location and lodging may be found on
the web at Everyday Life in the Segmented City. This will be updated with
additional information concerning housing and other conference details as it
becomes available.
Eleventh Annual Northeast Historic Film Summer Symposium: Filmic Representations of Indigenous Peopl
July 23 2010 | Maine
Deadline: April 01 2010
Updated: January 13 2010
Scholars, particularly during the last two decades, have sought to understand cultural representations of Indigenous peoples. In Dressing in Feathers: The Construction of the Indian in American Culture, anthropologist Elizabeth Bird explains that when we seek to understand popular constructions of the Native more clearly, we are then better able to counter the mythmaking process and transform those representations. The 2010 Northeast Historic Film Summer Symposium will explore how amateur and noncommercial filmmakers around the world have created a wide range of representations regarding Indigenous peoples and cultures. We are interested in presentations focusing on interpretations of moving images that will improve our historical, cultural, global and critical understanding of how filmmakers working outside of the mainstream have been informed by, contributed to, and countered popular representations of Indigenous peoples.
The NHF Summer Symposium is a multi-disciplinary gathering devoted to the history, theory, and preservation of moving images. NHF is located in Bucksport, a town of 5,000 on the coast of Maine (for more info on NHF, please visit: http://www.oldfilm.org). Typically, presentations are in English, and last 45 minutes, followed by 15 minutes of discussion. The symposium is open to archivists, artists and scholars from all disciplines. NHF houses a 125-seat cinema with 35mm, 16mm, videotape, and DVD projection. We especially encourage presentations that include interesting moving images.
We prefer e-mail submissions. Please send 250-500 word abstracts outlining your paper ideas to the symposium organizers at the address below. We are happy to discuss your presentation ideas with you in advance of a formal submission. The Symposium Program Committee (Snowden Becker, Univ. of Texas; Janna Jones, Northern Arizona University; and Mark Neumann, Northern Arizona University) will begin reviewing proposals on April 1, 2010.
Please email questions and submissions to .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address).
Desiree Alliance 2010 Conference for the Academic Track
July 25 2010 | Las Vegas, NV
Deadline: March 01 2010
http://www.desireealliance.org/conference.htm
Updated: February 14 2010
CALL FOR PROPOSALS: Working Sex and the Twilight of Liberation
What is the significance of academic research and theory when it comes to sex work practice and policy? Where should academic researchers stand at a time when sex workers are becoming increasingly vocal in both call and response for social justice?—and in this endeavor sex workers are challenging the Academy through interrogation, deconstruction, and reconstruction of academic methods, theory, and praxis. What is the relationship between research and activism? As human rights activists across the globe call for decriminalization, what should our goals be? How can we reevaluate the ways that we write, think, and apply research among diverse sex work communities, especially where questions of sex work policy are of material concern?
The 2010 meetings of the Desiree Alliance, July 25-30 in Las Vegas, Nevada, will provide a critical space to tackle these scholarly, theoretical, and political concerns head-on as we examine our academic and public roles in relation to the most pressing problems confronting sex work policies and sex workers today. We intentionally offer the double meaning of “twilight” (as both a state of promise and uncertainty) in order to focus attention upon academia’s changing relationship with sex workers and publics who remain concerned with a wide array of interrelated exchange networks and practices. An interrogation of our contemporary goals, contributions, and intellectual heritage must critically examine the relationship between social justice and decriminalization in this twilight of hazy anticipation. We hope to generate serious conversation about these issues as we continue to reinvent sex work as a space of study and activism for this new millennium. Themes we hope to explore include, but are not limited to, the following:
(1) Global Models and Cross-Cultural Comparison: Global models from Australia, New Zealand, Germany, Sweden, and the US are examples of places where an array of policies have been implemented to various degrees of success. But success for whom? We encourage papers that offer a critical engagement and cross-cultural comparison to tease out the intricate meanings of policy from macro-level politics to micro-level personal experiences. Furthermore, while decriminalization has been the primary call to action in terms of social justice for sex workers, it has been under direct attack because the rhetoric and realities of global human trafficking remains the most prominent point of discussion in contemporary public discourse. How can we balance our investment in decriminalization with an understanding of popular public discourse on trafficking? How might we continue to renegotiate (and defend) the fundamental call for decriminalization as a basic human right in such a hostile political environment? This theme seeks to illuminate the relationship between policy, practice, and publics.
(2) The Interrelations Between Violence Against Sex Workers and Legal Policy: Violence against sex workers, and those identified as sex workers by law enforcement authorities, continues to be an area that is under-examined and under-theorized. How do we re-think notions of violence over time, space, and identities as sex workers increasingly articulate experiences with violence from private military contractors, police, military personnel, and other government officials? How do we conceptualize the complex of engagements and negotiations that materialize where legal policy and violence against sex workers meet? How do we develop and disseminate research that effectively addresses such serious concerns? This theme aims to interrogate the interrelationship between violence against sex workers and legal policy.
(3) Health Education and Outreach: Contemporary sex work research has championed sex workers as active partners rather than static subjects in health education and outreach projects. However, we continue to struggle to make sense of complex relationships between identity and power. For example, involving sex workers as active partners may often be met with resistance from colleagues. Funding agencies may be reluctant to fund projects that involve sex workers when laws criminalize sex work. How can sex work researchers challenge these obstacles and continue to further develop and deploy research methods and applications that take seriously sex-worker-as-partner paradigms? This theme seeks to explore historic, contemporary, and envisioned projects that holistically address health education and outreach across diverse sex work populations.
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We encourage submissions from all areas, genders, backgrounds, and ethnicities.
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A PROPOSAL SHOULD INCLUDE:
+ Title for your presentation
+ Affiliation with an organization or university you'd like to have listed (not required)
+ A short paragraph with your background and experience, or interest, in sex work, the adult entertainment industry, or the sex workers rights' movement
+ A bio which will appear in the program and on the website (approx. 200 words)
+ A detailed abstract (the description that will appear in the program and on the website- 500 words or fewer)
+ Technical support needs (e.g., projector, AV, Mac/PC, etc.)
DEADLINE:
Proposals must be submitted by March 1st, 2010 to be considered, and all submissions will be notified of acceptance by March 30th, 2010. Please let us know in advance if you need extra time or if you need to be notified of acceptance earlier. In some cases, panels will be suggested if more than one outstanding proposal on a specific topic is accepted.
CONTACT:
Please submit your proposal to Elizabeth Nanas at .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) and copy .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address), with the subject line, "Academic Proposal". Please also feel welcome to contact her through Skype at enanas72, or by phone at 313-915-4933. You may also contact the Desiree Alliance toll-free at 866-525-7967 or through email at .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address).
ABOUT THE DESIREE ALLIANCE:
The Desiree Alliance is a diverse, volunteer-based, sex worker-led network of organizations, communities and individuals across the US working in harm reduction, direct services, political advocacy, and health services for sex workers. We provide leadership and create space for sex workers and supporters to come together to advocate for human, labor and civil rights for all workers in the sex industry. For more information about our organization, please visit us at http://www.desireealliance.org/default.htm
Bringing STS Into Environmental History
August 05 2010 | Trondheim, Norway
Deadline: February 05 2010
http://sts-eh2010.miljohistorie.net/
Updated: January 16 2010
This workshop focuses on the intersection of STS and environmental history, paying particular attention to how conceptual tools, approaches, and insights from science and technology studies might enrich historical studies of interactions between humanity and the natural world. We aim to bring together a variety of international scholars, primarily environmental historians but also historically-minded sociologists, ethnographers, and anthropologists to consider how, for instance, the social construction of science, public understanding of science, actor-network theory, and technological systems can be used in historical studies of human-natural interactions. Participants will present papers that develop specific empirical case studies while also being explicitly reflective about the STS methodological basis and theoretical contributions of that study.
The workshop is limited to 14 participants. Each participant will prepare a draft text that will be pre-circulated to workshop attendees in June 2010. At the workshop, each paper will be briefly presented by the author and then fully discussed by the group in a one-hour session. After the workshop, participants will be asked to revise their papers for possible inclusion in an edited volume to be submitted to an international academic press.
The workshop schedule will be as follows:
Wednesday, 4 August: Arrival, pre-workshop social event.
Thursday, 5 August: Morning and afternoon sessions.
Friday, 6 August: Morning session. Afternoon excursion.
Saturday, 7 August: Morning and afternoon sessions.
Sunday, 8 August: Departure.
Through generous grants from the Research Council of Norway, Norwegian University of Science & Technology, and Cornell University, all participant travel expenses, conference fees, and accommodation and meals during the conference will be paid.
To be considered as a workshop participant, please send an abstract of up to 300 words and a brief CV (2-3 pages) to .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) by 5 February 2010.
We aim to include a range of scholars at various stages of professional development, so advanced Ph.D. students and junior scholars are especially encouraged to apply.
For more information, please visit the workshop web page at http://sts-eh2010.miljohistorie.net
EASA Maynooth, Crisis and Imagination
August 24 2010 | Scotland
Deadline: March 01 2010
http://www.easaonline.org/conferences/easa2010/index.htm
Updated: January 13 2010
Launching ‘Engaging Anthropology in Practice’ a project based in Scotland, this panel will showcase anthropological engagements being carried out in Europe that challenge the division between non-academic/academic audiences, to learn from these experiences and to create possible links of cooperation
The conference theme for the 2010 EASA biennial meeting asks whether at this time of global economic crisis anthropologists should resist the pressure to reframe the discipline in terms of what ‘practical use’ it may have. Rather, we believe that this is a very opportune moment to explore what ‘practical use’ entails. We also ask what imaginative acts are necessary to construe the ‘practical’ as opposed to the ‘theoretical’. It is necessary to trace the theoretical threads of this conceptual opposition in order to avoid reproducing it implicitly in the work we choose to carry out as ‘engaging anthropology’.
During the panel we will launch “Engaging Anthropology in Practice”, a project based within the Scottish Programme of Advanced Training in Social Anthropology (STAR). The project aims to develop a training agenda for postgraduate students and early career anthropologists by creating exchanges with gatekeepers of different forms of media in the UK. The aim of this panel is to showcase this sort of work already being done in Europe, to learn from these and to create possible links of cooperation.
The panel explores what imaginative acts are needed to practice anthropology in a way that reflexively engages in the world without reductionism. We welcome accounts of such engagements and especially ones that identify particular training issues, contributions that challenge the academic/non-academic division of audiences and contributions that are ‘imaginative acts’ in their form as well as content. Non-anthropologists will be invited to present and participate in this panel.
You must supply a paper title, a short 300-character abstract, and a 250-word abstract (NB: the electronic submission software is strict about this and the character count includes spaces).
Call for abstracts will open in mid-December and the deadline for abstracts is 1st March 2010. If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact either of the panel convenors.
For general information on the conference, see http://www.easaonline.org/conferences/easa2010/index.htm
4S Panel: Portrait of the ARTist: Cross-cultural constructions of ‘woman’ in the context of assiste
August 25 2010 | Tokyo, Japan
Deadline: January 20 2010
Updated: January 13 2010
Category: Biomedicine
Reproductive technologies push the envelope of existing discourse, requiring new definitions of kinship, and new subjectivities to accurately represent the issues at hand. Embedded within this discourse, however, is a larger, long-unresolved paradox in the simultaneous construction of reproductive service users as patient and as consumer; a tension which has been further complicated by the emergence of a globalised “reproductive market” in which gametes, embryos and even wombs are bartered, borrowed and sold. While theorists have wrestled with the meanings and regulatory dilemmas of concepts such as ‘mother’, ‘father’, ‘life’ and ‘choice’, and scientists in the fields of gene therapy and regenerative medicine have become increasingly dependent upon human ova for the technologies they seek to perfect, the discourse of reproductive and genetic technologies relies increasingly on compartmentalization, separating the woman as knowing-subject from her constituent body parts, and leaving her largely outside the frame of debate.
This panel is seeking an international selection of papers which explore similarities and differences in the construction of women within the discourse of assisted reproductive technology (ART) emanating from different political and cultural contexts. By examining these discourses from a more global perspective, we may begin to uncover patterns that can lead to a greater understanding of the differential impact of these technologies upon the bodies of women worldwide, and explore possibilities for returning the woman-subject to the center of the frame. We cordially invite submissions for inclusion on the above panel, particularly from a non-Western perspective.
Possible areas for discussion are (but are not limited to): - construction of the woman user of ART in the popular media, legislative debate, medical literature, etc - self-created support networks for women ART users - rights-based vs other discourses in the regulation of ART services - use of ART on fertile partners of infertile men, or for the production of biologically unrelated children – at what price motherhood? - women ART users’ construction of themselves - motherhood and “desperation” in the context of expected social roles - physical and psychological impact of ART on women’s health
ABSTRACT SUBMISSION Abstracts of 500 words or less should be submitted to .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) Word or RTF attachments, or in the body of your email. This must include a summary of the paper’s main arguments and methodology, as well as a brief statement on the contribution to the STS literature. You are very welcome to contact us to discuss possibilities for submission in the first instance.
DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSION: 20th January, 2010.
Applicants will be notified of the outcome by 25th January.
Further information may be found on the 4S website:
http://www.4sonline.org/meeting.htm
Tokyo 2010: 35th 4S Annual Meeting
August 25 2010 | Komaba I Campus, University of Tokyo, 3-8-1, Komaba, Meguro, Tokyo
Deadline: January 15 2010
http://4sonline.org/meeting.htm
Updated: January 13 2010
Call for Papers: “SS in Global Contexts”
EPIC2010 道 Dō / The way of ethnography
August 29 2010 | Midtown Conference Center, Tokyo, Japan
Deadline: March 14 2010
http://www.epiconference.com/epic2010
Updated: February 17 2010
The start of this new decade marks an exciting new departure for EPIC, as we move beyond North America and Europe for the first time – to Tokyo.
EPIC is the premier international forum bringing together artists, computer scientists, designers, social scientists, marketers, academics and advertisers - and others! - to discuss recent developments and future advances around ethnographic praxis.
We seek original, high quality and engaging papers, workshops, artifacts and presentations concerning ethnographic praxis in industry, including case studies on research investigations, methodological & theoretical advances, discussions on outcomes, standards, and new applications of ethnography around this year’s conference theme:
Dō captures the sense of individual mastery that is achieved only with the help of a community and its rich heritage. Dō implies a body of knowledge and tradition with an ethic and an aesthetic.
Dō is the “path” we have travelled and also the way ahead of us.
EPIC 2010 will feature a wide range of ethnographic applications in industry, different “ways” forward. Ethnographic praxis in industry is global in scope, but adapted to different geographies (Asia, Latin America, Middle East, Europe, North America), different contexts (academia, business, NGO’s, government), different industries (technology, healthcare, consumer goods, advertising) and different purposes (product innovation, strategy, interorganizational collaboration, communications, policy making).
Join Epic 2010 and help define Ethnography’s Dō. Show others “the way” of doing ethnography in your context, in your industry, in your geography, for your goals.
Send any inquiry about the conference to .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)
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“Probing Technoscience” - a track within the EASST conference 2010
September 02 2010 | Trento
Deadline: March 15 2010
Updated: January 13 2010
Track 8: PROBING TECHNOSCIENCE
The term technoscience emphasises the convergence of the scientific and the technological realm within a new technoscience paradigm. After the terms initial coining by the Belgian philosopher Hottois in the late 1970s, it has been re-introduced by Latour and Haraway, elaborating on the specific relationship of natural and artificial objects or, more broadly, nature and culture. In discussing technoscience, both authors not only point at the ontological differences between what they call technoscience and normal science (referring to the relationship of the epistemic realm of science and the constructionist approach of technology), they also focus on the cultural and material dimension, especially within the everyday perceptions and practices prevalent either within science or, more generally, within western society. During the past decade, an increasing number of scholars have begun to adopt the concept of technoscience, drawing on Latour and Haraway as well as on other literature. The concept has been applied in analytical as well as critical approaches. Technoscience has been discussed as a theoretical concept within STS and as an epistemic approach within science. The latter strand also refers to analyses and research on epistemic cultures initiated by Hacking, Pickering, Knorr Cetina and Rheinberger. The main aim of the proposed track is to probe the concept of technoscience in empirical and theoretical terms. The core of the concept is seen in the (proposed) convergence of science and technology, of representing and intervening, of understanding and performing and of the natural and the artificial. The track is open for discussions on the state of the art of the theoretical conceptualisation as well as for empirical analyses of technoscience (s), e.g. in the fields of nanotechnology, biotechnology, biomedicine, systems biology, neuroscience and converging technologies, but also ecotechnologies. Furthermore, reflections on the significance of the concept of technoscience for STS, science and technology governance and society in general are welcome. Contributions should address one or more of the following questions: - Do emerging technosciences differ from traditional sciences (e.g. concerning the relationship between science and technology)? - Or does the concept of technoscience mainly represent an alternative analytical background to be applied to all scientific fields alike? - What does the label “technoscience” bring to light and what does it obscure?- What are the societal implications and governance issues raised by the concept of technoscience?- Is it possible to build upon and further develop the concept of epistemic cultures against the background of technoscience studies? Abstracts of no more than 500 words can be submitted online following website instructions on submission between January 20th and March 15th. We plan to organise for sessions with rather empirically grounded approaches (drawing on technoscience case studies) as well as for sessions starting from rather theoretical discussions - depending upon your submissions. Abstracts will be reviewed by the convenors. Authors will be notified by May 15th.
EASST 010 – Practicing science and technology, Performing the social
September 02 2010 | Trento
Deadline: March 15 2010
Updated: February 14 2010
TRACK 16. BIO-OBJECTS – LIFE IN THE 21st CENTURY
Bio-objects, or concepts, materialities and processes that are related to "life", play a crucial role in the 21st century in which increasing knowledge of life and its components are fundamentally transforming what life means and where its boundaries lie. New developments in the biosciences - especially the molecularisation of life - and their influence on healthcare and other aspects of our society are analysed in a diverse body of literature, looking into ethical, legal
and social implications of these new developments. New bio-objects deserve a special focus, because they are produced by, and in their turn, are producing these developments in special ways.
In our terms "bio-objects" are a new mixture of relations to life, or perhaps more specifically spatio-temporal configurations to which 'life' is attributed. They are new ongoing boundary projects between entities that were once considered 'pure' substances making up particular, discreet forms of living organisms. As a consequence, the boundaries between human and animal, organic and nonorganic, living and suspension of living, time and space, subject and object, agency and effect are questioned, destabilised and in some cases re-established.
Making the study of bio-objects explicit enables us to use it as a heuristic device – to point out and start tracing the new relations that make speaking about life and living as objects possible. However, with the concept we do not intent to reduce life to a thing or an entity - a mute object without agency. Rather, by questioning
life’s status as an 'object' –bio-object – of current technological innovations we want to point out how life is in constant interplay with novel techniques aiming at re-routing, diversifying, collecting and commodifying the vital processes that 'life' consists of. Thus, bio-objects cannot be reduced to any pure form preceding them
- rather, their plane of existence is something that could be seen as a network of unstable ontologies, an ongoing process rather than a stable form of being. As such, bio-objects contest the boundary lines between entities we have accustomed to take for granted, as existing by themselves and for themselves, and open up a new space for thinking what is it that we think is scientifically graspable in ‘life’.
The session on bio-objects traces a variety of contemporary bio-objects in their emergence, stabilisation and circulation through a number of countries. It will consist of diverse empirical investigations that provide new ways of thinking about how novel bio-objects enter our contemporary life and societies. They range
from traditional to advanced configurations of life and living such as artificial hips, cloned animals, embryos, cybrids, genetic resources, biobanks and the forms of governance that surround them.
Abstracts of no more than 500 words should be sent through the abstract submission portal on the conference wbsite (http://events.unitn.it/en/easst010) by 2010 March 15th.
Design, performativity, STS
September 02 2010 | Trento, Italy
Deadline: March 15 2010
www.studioincite.com, www.gold.ac.uk/sociology/staff/
Updated: January 15 2010
This track provides the opportunity to explore the extent to which forms of enactment, rather than description, might allow us to talk about the different material and temporal textures of design, innovation, interventions and STS. It aims to consolidate and push so far dispersed discussions about the relation of concepts of performativity and design through an exchange of ideas and methods from STS and design practice, conceived broadly to include empirical examples and theoretical reflections as well as art-design-STS interventions (Jeremijenko).
There is a longstanding interest amongst STS scholars in the design of new technologies, products and services (e.g. Cockburn & Ormrod, Shove, Suchman, Woolgar), as well as extensive research on design interventions in the fields of science and medicine (e.g. Clarke, Dumit). In addition designers themselves are moving beyond the design of discrete products and have started to look to STS for ways in which open and thus more uncertain challenges may be conceptualized (Kimbell, Whyte). This track encourages papers from those working in a variety of institutional locations, both inside and outside academic research.
There is now a large body of work that explores how realities and representations are enacted simultaneously in user representations, prototypes, concepts and scenarios. A debate about the implications of the performative aspects of these representational and translation devices is long overdue. How does the current developments of non- representation and ‘messy’ approaches relate to process and the performative (Thrift, Law). How does mess relate to the performative? Are designers working in a non-representational way?
The aim of the track is to expand the debates about performativity in relation to processes of enactment and becoming, the material and temporal. These might include papers dealing with scripting, affordance, liveness, ‘performance’ as well as enactments in relation to technical objects, materials and mess.
Presentations might be ethnographic fieldwork reports, synthetic analyses from secondary data or mappings of the field. However following the implication of the conference theme to take seriously the performing of the social, as well as traditional papers we also invite presentation formats which themselves might take on a more experimental or performative mode in relation to design and STS, or are materially ambitious. What kind of materials might perform the social? In this way we recognise that the material and temporal conditions of the EASST conference situation - it’s own liveness in Trento - might themselves be re-designed to explore performativity. We hope this will encourage design practitioners or those working with art, design and STS materials to take up our challenge to intervene and interrogate STS’s own enactments.
Abstracts of no more than 500 words should be sent by email (following website instructions) by 2010 March 15th.
Digital Game Play as Sociotechnical Practice
September 02 2010 | Trento, Italy
Deadline: March 15 2010
http://events.unitn.it/en/easst010/abstract-submission
Updated: January 15 2010
The Digital Game industry has become one of the fastest growing, innovative and globalised industries in advanced Western economies and Digital Games have become a key cultural artefact and leisure practice in contemporary societies. Developing out of the American military industrial and academic complex in the 1970s the study of Digital Games design and play is the study of a range of sociotechnical practices and the negotiations between a range of human and non-human actors operating within systems of rules. The complexity of these relationships brings forth a series of questions that can be investigated using Science and Technology Studies approaches. However, to date games studies, with few exceptions, have failed to adopt STS approaches and the STS community has largely ignored this area of study.
This track seeks to develop the relationship between the game studies community and the STS community. Several research questions can be used to guide this: What STS theories can be used to understand Digital Games as sociotechnical phenomenon? Is the concept of practice and the practice-based approach useful to investigate Digital Games? Is there a relationship between power as inscribed and imposed by artefacts and the technical dimensions of Digital Games? What rules are inscribed into Digital Games technologies and what social worlds do these rules describe? What contribution can the study of Digital Games make to the STS discipline at large? And what contribution can an STS approach make to game studies? Can we foresee an after-method approach for Digital Games? We invite papers that tackle the sociotechnical dimensions of Digital Games and address some of the questions outlined above. Contributions might include (but are not restricted to):
• Digital Games as material semiotic artefacts
• Digital Games as sociotechnical assemblages
• The mess of digital games
• Innovation in game design as actor-networking and social shaping
• Digital Game design and/or play as performance and practice
• Disruptive sociotechnical users’ practices (e.g. hacking, modding)
• The scripting of gendered gaming practices
• Governance and regulation of gaming practices
Abstracts of no more than 500 words should be sent by email (following website instructions:
http://events.unitn.it/en/easst010/abstract-submission) by 2010 March 15th. Please include also a preliminary references list (up to 4). Contact for inquiries: .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)
Convenors
Aphra Kerr is a lecturer in the Department of Sociology at the National University of Ireland Maynooth. Her research focuses on the regulation, production and consumption of digital media and in particular of digital games; she established and runs the industry and community website. (http://www.gamedevelopers.ie)
Helen W. Kennedy is Deputy Head in the Department of Culture, Media and Drama at the University of the West of England (UWE) in the UK. She has been researching and writing about games since 1993 and co-founded and chaired (from 2004 – 2009) the Play Research Group at
UWE.
Jennifer Jenson is Associate Professor of Pedagogy and Technology in the Faculty of Education at York University. Her research interests include gender and gameplay and the design and development of digital games for education.
Stefano De Paoli is postdoctoral researcher at the Department of Sociology at the National University of Ireland Maynooth. Stefano has worked in STS since 2004 and recently his research interest has embraced Massive Multiplayer Online Games http://www.nuim.ie/nirsa/people/postdocs/stefano_de_paoli.shtml)
Practices and the Environment: Performing Sustainability and Doing STS
September 02 2010 | Trento, Italy
Deadline: March 15 2010
http://events.unitn.it/en/easst010/abstract-submission
Updated: January 15 2010
This track focuses on sustainability technologies as practices, including the practices of innovation, governing and consumption that underlie sustainable and unsustainable behaviours, and the adoption of behaviours that are held to be more sustainable (for example, lower energy consumption, choosing particular modes of transport and waste reduction). Our interest in sustainability as a practice emerges in part from Elizabeth Shove’s (2003) observation that unsustainable patterns of consumption are inscribed in every day, taken-for-granted human activities. Employing Theodore Schatzki’s notion of practice as a nexus of temporally emerging, tangled, differentiated and dispersed performances, sayings, emotions, technologies, people and things, we ask what kinds of understandings, procedures and engagements (Schatzki, 1996; Warde, 2003) mobilize and stabilize practices of sustainability. Further, rather than bracketing sustainability technologies as discrete entities, we ask how a practice-based approach might help us to understand their social shaping within practices. Finally, we ask what a practice-based approach means for doing STS.
We welcome theoretical and empirical papers. Suggested contributions might include, but are not limited to, the following approaches, topics and questions:
• Advantages and disadvantages of a practice-based approach to sustainability
• Social learning and behaviour change; the evolution and adoption of sustainable practices
• The role of institutions in performing sustainability; governance, policy and planning
• Interactions of lay, expert and professional practices of sustainability
• Practice-based approaches to socio-technical systems of sustainability
• Research methods for STS studies of practices
• Case studies of sustainable technologies
• The role of community in sustainability practices
• Normativity and analytical-distance in STS studies of sustainability practices
• The politics of sustainability practices; public participation and democracy
• Language and discourse of sustainability practices
• The role of technology in the performance of visions and expectations (un)sustainability,
• Sustainable technologies as practices
• Global, cultural and gendered variations in (un)sustainability practices
Gameplay as SocioTechnical Practice
September 02 2010 | Trento, Italy
Deadline: March 20 2010
Updated: March 16 2010
EASST Conference 2010, European Association for the Study of Science and Technology 'Practicing Science and Technology, Performing the Social,' University of Trento, Italy, 2-4 September 2010. Abstract submission deadline: 15 March 2010. http://events.unitn.it/en/easst010 **************************************************************************************************************
TRACK:
DIGITAL GAME PLAY AS SOCIOTECHNICAL PRACTICE
The Digital Game industry has become one of the fastest growing, innovative and globalised industries in advanced Western economies and Digital Games have become a key cultural artefact and leisure practice in contemporary societies. Developing out of the American military industrial and academic complex in the 1970s the study of Digital Games design and play is the study of a range of sociotechnical practices and the negotiations between a range of human and non-human actors operating within systems of rules. The complexity of these relationships brings forth a series of questions that can be investigated using Science and Technology Studies approaches. However, to date games studies, with few exceptions, have failed to adopt STS approaches and the STS community has largely ignored this area of study.
This track seeks to develop the relationship between the game studies community and the STS community. Several research questions can be used to guide this: What STS theories can be used to understand Digital Games as sociotechnical phenomenon? Is the concept of practice and the practice-based approach useful to investigate Digital Games? Is there a relationship between power as inscribed and imposed by artefacts and the technical dimensions of Digital Games? What rules are inscribed into Digital Games technologies and what social worlds do these rules describe? What contribution can the study of Digital Games make to the STS discipline at large? And what contribution can an STS approach make to game studies? Can we foresee an after-method approach for Digital Games?
We invite papers that tackle the sociotechnical dimensions of Digital Games and address some of the questions outlined above. Contributions might include (but are not restricted to):
? Digital Games as material semiotic artefacts ? Digital Games as sociotechnical assemblages ? The mess of digital games ? Innovation in game design as actor-networking and social shaping ? Digital Game design and/or play as performance and practice ? Disruptive sociotechnical users? practices (e.g. hacking, modding) ? The scripting of gendered gaming practices ? Governance and regulation of gaming practices
Abstracts of no more than 500 words should be sent by email (following website instructions: http://events.unitn.it/en/easst010/abstract-submission) by 2010 March 20th. Please include also a preliminary references list (up to 4).
EASST Conference 2010, European Association for the Study of Science and Technology
September 02 2010 | Trento, Italy
Deadline: March 22 2010
Updated: March 16 2010
EASST Conference 2010, European Association for the Study of Science
and Technology
'Practicing Science and Technology, Performing the Social,'
University of Trento, Italy, 2-4 September 2010. Abstract submission
new deadline: 22 March 2010.
http://events.unitn.it/en/easst010
New Deadline for All Tracks: March 22, 2010
Re-thinking Global Society, The Bauman Institute - International Launch Conference School of Sociolo
September 06 2010 | University of Leeds UK
Deadline: January 31 2010
http://sociology.leeds.ac.uk/bauman
Updated: January 13 2010
We are delighted to announce that the School of Sociology and Social Policy at the University of Leeds will formally launch the Bauman Institute in September 2010, established in honour of Leeds’s Emeritus Professor of Sociology Zygmunt Bauman.
In recognition of the launch, we are holding an International Conference here at the University of Leeds on Monday 6th and Tuesday 7th September 2010. The Conference aims to bring together international expertise amongst scholars, researchers, practitioners, and postgraduate students, working in a variety of fields across the arts, humanities and social sciences. As such, we are delighted to announce amongst our confirmed plenary speakers:
We invite abstracts of not more than 150 words and tied to any of the above themes to be submitted not later than 31st January 2010 to the email address below. All abstracts will be subject to peer-review and should be sent to the Director of the Bauman Institute, Dr Mark Davis: .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)
For further details: http://sociology.leeds.ac.uk/bauman
Terrorism and New Media
September 08 2010 | Dublin City University, Ireland
Deadline: May 17 2010
Updated: May 17 2010
Conference: TERRORISM and NEW MEDIA
Dublin City University, Ireland 8 - 9 September 2010
WEBSITE: http://www.dcu.ie/~cis/TNM/index.html
ORGANISERS
? Conference Chair: Dr. Maura Conway ? Co-Organiser: Lisa McInerney
All queries and conference-related correspondence should be directed to: .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)
PLENARY SPEAKERS
- Dr. Jarret Brachman, North Dakota State University - Dr. John Horgan, International Center for the Study of Terrorism, Pennsylvania State University - Prof. Philip Seib, Annenberg School, University of Southern California
RATIONALE
The purpose of this conference is to bring together academics from a broad range of disciplines with policy-makers and security practitioners that have knowledge and/or expertise that can facilitate advances in the study of Terrorism and New Media, particularly the Internet, in novel ways.
PROGRAMME
This is the first academic conference to subject the relationship between terrorism and new media, particularly the Internet, to truly multi-disciplinary scrutiny. The one-day conference (Wednesday, 8 September) will feature a series of panels and a number of plenary addresses. The conference will be followed on Thursday, 9 September by a workshop devoted to the robust debate and analysis of currently ?hot? topics in the realm of terrorism and the Internet, particularly the question of the role of the Internet in processes of radicalisation.
CALL FOR PAPERS
We welcome papers or panels reporting on innovative research into any aspect of terrorism and new media. We particularly welcome papers or panels that report novel results or describe and employ innovative methodological approaches.
Papers or panels on the following topics will be of particular interest:
? Online radicalisation ? The Internet and recruitment ? Old terrorism and new media ? Methodologies for terrorism-related Internet research ? Terrorism informatics ? Network analysis and online terrorist activity ? New Internet tools/platforms and radicalisation/terrorism (for example, online gaming, video-sharing, photo-sharing, social networking, micro-blogging, online payment mechanisms, etc.) ? Cyberterrorism ? Violent Islamism and the Internet ? The content and functioning of jihadi Internet forums ? Jihadi video producers and content ? Children/youth, terrorism, and new media ? Women/gender, terrorism, and new media ? Case studies of particular groups? use of new media (e.g. al-Qaeda, FARC, Hamas, Hizbollah, dissident Irish Republicans, etc.) ? Policy/legislative responses to terrorists? online presence ? Critical responses to research on, reporting of, and governmental responses to the conjunction of terrorism and the Internet ? Ethical issues surrounding online terrorism-related research
Perspectives from any academic discipline are welcomed, particularly: communications, computer science, cultural studies, information science, international relations, internet studies, law, media studies, philosophy, political science, psychology, and sociology.
Authors of individual papers should submit a 300-word abstract via the conference website (http://www.dcu.ie/~cis/TNM/index.html) on or before 17 May 2010.
A selection of accepted papers will be considered for publication in a special issue of the journal Media, War & Conflict.
TRAVEL FUNDING FOR GRADUATE STUDENTS
The Center on Public Diplomacy at the Annenberg School, University of Southern California (USC) will provide US$700 in sponsorship for a graduate student to attend at *and blog* from the conference for the Center. Graduate students wishing to apply for this funding should indicate same when submitting their abstract.
The conference organisers are also in a position to provide a number of travel grants for graduate students. Support may be requested for transportation and accommodation. Students should provide a breakdown of the estimated cost of travel and accommodation upon submitting an application. Graduate students wishing to apply for funding can do so when submitting an abstract. Award decisions will be made by 14 June 2010.
REGISTRATION
The conference will open for registration from 1 June 2010. Registration Fees are as follows:
Standard: ?130 (Late reg., post 8 July: ?195) Graduate Student: ?65 (Late reg., post 8 July: ?110)
Conference fee includes teas/coffees, lunch, welcome reception on the evening of Tuesday September 7 and the conference dinner on the evening of Wednesday September 8.
DEADLINES
? Abstract deadline: 300 words to be submitted by 17 May 2010 ? Registration: from 1 June 2010 ? Decision on abstracts: 14 June 2010 ? Decision on travel funding awards: 14 June 2010 ? Early bird registration deadline: 8 July ? Hotel reservation deadline at conference rate: 19 July 2010
CONVENORS
This conference is convened by the Centre for International Studies, School of Law & Government, Dublin City University in partnership with the International Communication Working Group of the British International Studies Association (BISA).
Envisioning Science, Imagining the Body
September 10 2010 to September 11 2010 | University of Alberta in Edmonton
Updated: August 15 2010
Envisioning Science: Imaging the Body
Visual perception might seem to be a strictly natural process, and yet it has a history. Scholars from a range of disciplines now study visuality, moving beyond biological understandings of vision to examine historically and culturally specific ways of seeing the world. Our goal for the conference is to encourage the investigation of “how we see, how we are able, allowed, or made to see, and how we see this seeing or the unseen therein.” Visuality emphasizes practices of looking as well as concealing, noting how they are informed by conceptions of gender, status, and power. Diverse research has revealed complex `scopic’ regimes or ways of seeing in ancient, medieval, and early modern times, but many recent publications feature modern visuality and consider the scientific modes of looking produced by microscopy, ultrasound and MRI in particular. Much of this research demonstrates how ways of seeing and the technologies that facilitate them become embedded in cultural life, creating new identities, social institutions, ethical questions, or ways of relating. Inspired by this research, the conference “Envisioning Science: Imaging the Body,” to be held at the University of Alberta in Edmonton on September 10th and 11th 2010, addresses issues of seeing, looking, and imaging in relation to scientific and medical practices, both past and present.
The keynote speaker will be Lisa Cartwright (University of California-Sand Diego). Professor Cartwright will speak on the evening of Friday September 10th and there will be paper sessions on Saturday September 11th. Other confirmed speakers include Alex Choby (University of Alberta), Lianne McTavish (University of Alberta), Letitia Meynell (Dalhousie), Cameron Murray (York University), artist Marilene Oliver, and Steven Turner (University of New Brunswick). Principal support for the Workshop has been provided by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada’s `Cluster Grant’ on “Situating Science: Science in Human Context.”
For more information, please contact Alex Choby (.(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)).
Health – A new religious awakening in Western Societies?
September 13 2010 | Department of Organization, Copenhagen Business School
Deadline: March 01 2010
Updated: January 13 2010
Some scholars claim that health has taken over the role of religion in contemporary Western societies. Health has become synonymous with happiness and the possibility of living a perfect life. Health has become a matter of truth, intertwining norms, human practices and power relations. Today life itself is permeated by different kinds of health strategies, which situates the medicalised body as subject and object of regulation. The individual subject is now expected to experience the inner and outer world, and rebuild its own identity in relationship to a discourse of health and well-being. Speaking in the light of health is, as Monica Greco claims, a very powerful rhetoric. In this conference we have invited some of the most influential scholars working in the fields of sociology, history of medicine and the body, politics of bioethics, critical theory etcetera to discuss the prominent, normative role of health today. They will touch upon questions such as: How does the sociology of the body and the way we reflect upon diseases connect to neoliberal thinking? How do technologies of health differ from other technologies of subjectification? How does health and well being discourse define us as human beings? How does the normal differs from the pathological in these discourses? And are we all becoming somatic individuals?
Email contact information: .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) Abstracts should be approximately 500 words (ONE page, Word document, single spaced, excluding references).New and young scholars with ‘work in progress’ papers are welcomed. In the case of co-authored papers, ONE person should be identified as the corresponding author. Note that due to restrictions of space, multiple submissions by the same author will not be timetabled. Abstracts should be emailed .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address). Abstracts should includeFULLcontact details, including your name, institutional affiliation, mailing address, and e-mail address.State the title of the track to which you are submitting your abstract.
Beyond Knowledge Society: Scientific knowledge production, consumption and transformation
September 13 2010 | Inter University Centre, Dubrovnik, Croatia
Updated: April 14 2010
We would like to draw your attention on our International Graduate Summer School with the title “Beyond Knowledge Society: Scientific knowledge production, consumption and transformation”. It will take place at the Inter University Centre (IUC) in Dubrovnik (Croatia) from September 13 – 17, 2010. Please find attached our call for paper including information about the program and the course directors.
All information about the International Graduate Summer School can be gathered from our homepage: http://www.itas.fzk.de/v/dubrovnik/
Beyond Knowledge Society: Scientific knowledge production, consumption and transformation
September 13 2010 | Inter University Centre (IUC) in Dubrovnik (Croatia)
Updated: May 16 2010
The importance of scientific knowledge has changed in the past decades. Science's cognition-oriented self-concept as a place for academic contemplation, for the art of experimentation and theory formation, which corresponded to the ideal of classical physics — and from there, set out on its triumphant advance — is now to be found in only some of the sciences. Other sciences, however, are drawn into society's decision-making processes, and are changed by them. The background of this development is that, in decision-making and organizational processes, knowledge is retrieved which is also needed for political opinion formation. Through comprehensive research programs and new forms of organization (like, for example, the Helmholtz Association), new methods of scientific knowledge production are being firmly institutionalized. Science is called for to subject these scientific production methods to a re-evaluation, and to examine them with regard to the question, to which extent basic research should and can be societally relevant. The performance potentials of this "new" form of scientific knowledge must, for that reason, be analyzed with respect to its societal relevance, and be oriented on higher-ranking formulations of problems. Besides (1) the production of scientific knowledge, closer examination of (2) the consumption and (3) the trans- formation of scientific knowledge can provide an analytical framework.
All information about the International Graduate Summer School can be gathered from our homepage: http://www.itas.fzk.de/v/dubrovnik/
Conference on health in a sociological/political/philosophical view Department of Organization, Cope
September 13 2010 | Copenhagen
Deadline: March 01 2010
Updated: January 14 2010
Health – A new religious awakening in Western Societies?
Some scholars claim that health has taken over the role of religion in contemporary Western
societies. Health has become synonymous with happiness and the possibility of living a perfect
life. Health has become a matter of truth, intertwining norms, human practices and power
relations. Today life itself is permeated by different kinds of health strategies, which situates the
medicalised body as subject and object of regulation. The individual subject is now expected to
experience the inner and outer world, and rebuild its own identity in relationship to a discourse
of health and well-being. Speaking in the light of health is, as Monica Greco claims, a very
powerful rhetoric. In this conference we have invited some of the most influential scholars
working in the fields of sociology, history of medicine and the body, politics of bioethics, critical
theory etcetera to discuss the prominent, normative role of health today. They will touch upon
questions such as: How does the sociology of the body and the way we reflect upon diseases
connect to neoliberal thinking? How do technologies of health differ from other technologies of
subjectification? How does health and well being discourse define us as human beings? How
does the normal differs from the pathological in these discourses? And are we all becoming
somatic individuals?
The conference will involve a combination of plenary lectures from four key note speakers, and
the presentation of papers by conference participants in smaller, themed groups. The groups will
be organized in following tracks:
1) Health as religion: the normative role of health in contemporary Western societies
2) The politics of bioethics: bio-medicine, neo-liberalism and health
3) Health care professionals, patients, citizens and the re-organizing of private and public
domains.
4) Identity formation in health discourses: the sick body as object and subject of regulation
Important dates:
March 1 2010: Abstract
March 15 2010: Notification of decision of acceptance
June 15, 2010: Full Paper
Email contact information:
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Abstracts should be approximately 500 words (ONE page, Word document, single spaced,
excluding references). New and young scholars with 'work in progress' papers are welcomed. In the case of co-authored papers, ONE person should be identified as the corresponding author. Note that due to restrictions of space, multiple submissions by the same author will not be timetabled. Abstracts should be emailed .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address). Abstracts should include FULL contact details, including your name, institutional affiliation, mailing address, and e-mail address. State the title of the track to which you are submitting your abstract.
Price of conference: 100 Euro (including lunch, coffee, conference materials)
Sentient creatures: Transforming biopolitics and life matters
September 15 2010 | Oslo, Norway
Deadline: March 15 2010
Updated: January 15 2010
The concepts of biopower and biopolitcs, so eloquently and significantly laid out by Michel Foucault, are quite possibly insufficient to our understanding of past and contemporary living. Just think about zoonoses including the ?swine flue? pandemic, and the ways in which the production of facts about the human body have been and continue to be built upon the observation and manipulation of animals. These and similar examples suggest that two correctives or re-emphases are required. First, studies of life and the living alert us to the fact that biopolitics is not only about humans, in the form of the human individual, or in the form of the human population, it is rather about an assemblage of matters of life. Second, there is neither a self evident or totalising human power over life, nor an unproblematic politics of life. The relation between life and politics needs both theoretical and empirical specificity. To expand slightly on each of these:
First, even a narrow focus on the life of living humans immediately takes in nonhumans and other than human lives. Securing life and making life live is always more than human. Indeed, humans are and always have been conditioned upon non-humans: as in laboratory medicine, in our ways of producing and taking life - for food, and as crucial entities in debates about who ?we? think ?we? are. Animals are objects, but also subjects, symbols and signs.
Second, if lives are practised in many places and with many others, then how do we start to understand the lives that are being and have been made? Past work has tended to underline various practices of control and technologies of knowledge and surveillance. Perhaps rather than an overarching framework we need narratives and ethnographies of the living, taking in the multi-sited, multi-logic and multiple ways in which lives are and have been assembled, disassembled, practised and possibly policed and politicised. Instead of asking only how is and has control and knowledge been extended over life, we should also look at the imperfect living practices which often defy orders, escape detection, fail to produce or only loosely hang together.
An aim of this conference is to bring historically oriented narratives and approaches together with contemporary studies, hence to bring the archive into an exchange with, for instance, ethnographic ways of working. It is to link the ways in which we narrate the past now, with ways of approaching and re-presenting the present. Thus our questions will not only evolve around what´s going on, what are these transformations, but also the question of method; how to do the work ? empirically as well as theoretically.
Possible topics for sessions and papers are: Protecting, caring, conserving, killing, enhancing, ordering, securing, displaying, naming, modeling lives
How do we understand current and past interventions in lives and living processes?
Are current and past attempts to politicize biology,and to biologize politics, or biopolitics, sufficient to understand who and what is at stake?
How are practices as diverse as public health, health care, agriculture, field and laboratory science, politics and war changing lives and altering as those lives change?
The conference will take place at the Thorbjørnrud hotel outside Oslo. The event is a joint venture? with CULTRANS (http://www.cultrans.uio.no) and the projects Newcomers to the farm, Animals as objects and animals as signs standardisation and visualization of animals, Nature and Science in Politics and Everyday Practices and the Research network DRUGS.
If you want to take part in the conference: Send an abstract of about 400 words to .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) presenting your research interest and the paper you want to present at the conference. Deadline March 15 2010. Deadline for a short version of the paper will be May 15. There will be a conference fee covering hotel and food expenses.
Medical Anthropology in Global Africa: Current Trends in Scholarship and Practice
September 16 2010 | University of Kansas
Deadline: May 15 2010
Updated: April 13 2010
We are writing to invite you to present your research as part of the conference, Medical Anthropology in Global Africa: Current Trends in Scholarship and Practice to be held at the University of Kansas, September 16 - 18, 2010. This conference aims to bring together Africanist anthropologists and scholars in related disciplines whose research concerns the intersections among cultural anthropology and medicine, public health, psychology, history, population & development, and science & technology studies. Few fields in the social sciences have witnessed such growth over the past decade as that of medical anthropology. Within this seemingly boundless sub-discipline of anthropology, this conference poses the question: What makes Africanist projects unique? What contributions have anthropological or ethnographic studies of Africa made to health sciences? And what, in turn, does contemporary medical anthropology and health science scholarship offer Africanists? When scholars of health in Africa trace their concerns beyond the boundaries of the continent, what lasting impact have their experiences had on the trajectory of their work? Finally, what draws the current generation of medical anthropologists and ethnographically oriented health scientists to pursue research in sub-Saharan Africa? We hope these discussions will reinvigorate the efforts of African Studies Centers to explore these novel intersections through curricular and collaborative research initiatives. Professor Carolyn Sargent of the Department of Anthropology at Washington University in St. Louis will give the conference’s keynote address. Panel chairs will include: Daniel Smith (Brown University); Claire Wendland (University of Wisconsin); Kristin Peterson (University of California, Irvine); and Ama de Graft-Aikins (University of Ghana). We are looking forward to compiling the papers given at the conference into an edited volume. If you are interested in attending, we ask that you submit an abstract of 250 words by May 15th. Conference panels will include: • Global aid, development, and governance • Technologies, pharmaceuticals, and bioethics • Human development, disability, and chronic disorders • Public health, development and medical professionalization • Violence, trauma, memory, and spirituality • Epidemiology, population, and migration studies • Gender, sexuality and reproductive health • Other Topics The registration fees for full-time faculty will be $60 if submitted before June 30, 2010. ($80 if submitted before September 10th or $100 if registering on-site). The cost for students will be $25. Abstracts should be emailed to Professor Kathryn Rhine, Department of Anthropology, University of Kansas: .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address). More information can be found on the conference website:http://www.kasc.ku.edu/HC.shtml . We look forward to hearing from you. Yours sincerely, Kathryn A. Rhine, John M. Janzen, Glenn Adams, and Heather Aldersley Kansas African Studies Center - Medical Anthropology in Global Africa Forum .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)
Contemporary medical science and technology as a challenge for museums
September 16 2010 | Copenhagen
Updated: January 15 2010
The 15th biannual conference of the European Association of Museums for the History of Medical Sciences (EAMHMS) will be held at the University of Copenhagen, 16–19 September, 2010.
This year’s cross-disciplinary conference focuses on the challenge to museums posed by contemporary developments in medical science and technology.
The image of medicine that emerges from most museum galleries and exhibitions is still dominated by pre-modern and modern understandings of an anatomical and physiological body, and by the diagnostic and therapeutical methods and instruments used to intervene with the body at the ‘molar’ and tangible level – limbs, organs, tissues, etc.
The rapid transition in the medical and health sciences and technologies over the last 50 years – towards a molecular understanding of human body in health and disease and the rise of a host of molecular and digital technologies for investigating and intervening with the body – is still largely absent in museum collections and exhibitions.
As a consequence, the public can rarely rely on museums to get an understanding of the development and impact of the medical and health sciences in the last 50 years. Biochemistry and molecular biology have resulted in entirely new diagnostic methods and therapeutic regimes and a flourishing biotech industry. The elucidation of the human genome and the emergence of proteomics has opened up the possibility of personalised molecular medicine. Advances in the material sciences and information technology have given rise to a innovative and highly productive medical device industry, which is radically transforming medical practices. But few museums have so far engaged seriously and in a sustained way with these and similar phenomena in the recent history of medical sciences and technologies.
The contemporary transition in medical and health science and technology towards molecularisation, miniaturisation, mediated visualisation, digitalisation and intangibilisation is a major challenge for the museum world; not only for medical museums, but also for museums of science and technology, and indeed for all kinds of museums with an interest in the human body and the methods for intervening with it, including art museums, natural history museums and museums of cultural history.
Contemporary medicine is not only a challenge to exhibition design practices and public outreach strategies but also to acquisition methodologies, collection management and collection-based research. How do museums today handle the material and visual heritage of contemporary medical and health science and technology? How do curators wield the increasing amount and kinds of intangible scientific and digital objects? Which intellectual, conceptual, and practical questions does this challenge give rise to?
The conference will address questions like (but not limited to):
+ How can an increasingly microanatomical, molecularised, invisible and intangible (mediated) human body be represented in a museum setting? Does the post-anatomical body require new kinds of museum displays?
+ How can museums make sense of contemporary molecular-based and digitalised diagnostic and thereapeutic technologies, instrumentation and investigation practices in their display practices?
+ How can museums make use of their older collections together with new acquisitions from contemporary medicine and health science and technology?
+ What is the role of the visual vs. the non-visual (hearing, smell, taste, touch) senses in curatorial practice and in the public displays of contemporary medical science and technology?
+ What can museums learn from science centers, art-science event venues etc. with respect to the public engagement with contemporary medical science and technology? And, vice versa, what can museums provide that these institutions cannot?
+ How can museums draw on bioart, ‘wet art’ and other art forms to stimulate public engagement with the changing medical and health system?
+ How does physical representations of contemporary medicine in museums spaces relate to textual representations in print and digital representations on the web?
+ How can museums integrate emerging social web technologies (Wikipedia, Facebook, Twitter, blogs, etc.) in the build-up of medical and health exhibitions?
+ What kind of acquisition methods and policies are needed for museums to catch up with the development of contemporary medical science and technology, especially the proliferation of molecular and digital artefacts and images?
+ What kind of problems do museum encounter when they expand the acquisition domain from traditional textual, visual and tangible material objects to digital artefacts (including software, audio- and videorecordings, and digitally stored data) and non-tangible scientific objects.
+ How can participatory acquisitioning, crowd-sourcing, wiki-based methods, etc. (‘museum 2.0’) be employed for the preservation and curation of the contemporary medical heritage?
+ How can curatorial work in museums draw on medical research and engineering and on academic scholarship in the humanities and social sciences? And, vice versa, how can museums contribute to medical teaching and research and how can their collections stimulate the use of physical objects in the humanities and social sciences?
The conference will employ a variety of session formats. In addition to keynotes and sessions with individual presentations of current research and curatorial work there will also be discussion panels and object demonstration workshops.
We welcome submissions from a wide range of scholars and specialists – including, for example, curators in medical, science and technology museums; scholars in the history, philosophy and social studies of medicine, science and technology; scholars in science and technology studies, science communication studies, museum studies, material studies and visual culture studies; biomedical scientists and clinical specialists; medical, health and pharma industry specialists with an interest in science communication; engineers and designers in the medical device industry; artists, designers and architects with an interest in museum displays, etc.
We are especially interested in presentations that involve the use of material and visual artefacts and we therefore encourage participants to bring illustrative and evocative (tangible or non-tangible) objects for demonstration.
100-300 word proposals for presentations, demonstrations, discussion panels, etc. shall be sent before 28 February 2010 to the chair of the program committee, Thomas Soderqvist, .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address).
For further information, see http://tinyurl.com/ylx5atx or contact Thomas Soderqvist, .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address). For practical information about travel, accommodation, etc., please contact Anni Harris, .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address), after 4 January 2010.
Knowledge on the Move: Conflict, Displacement and Re-Engineering Society—1933 to 1989
September 19 2010 to September 21 2010 | Canada Science and Technology Museum, and Canada Aviation Museum, Ottawa
Deadline: June 11 2010
Updated: June 14 2010
The mass movement of people displaced in Europe was a transformative social phenomenon of the period leading up to and following the Second World War. Many of those immigrants were scientists, engineers, designers and others with technical skills and pent up innovative energies. Their institutions and innovative technologies were left behind or unceremoniously stripped away but their knowledge of science and technology, aesthetic theories and convictions invigorated their new environments and adopted institutions. The result, from the turbulent ‘30s to the end of the Cold War, was a technological and cultural transformation of their – and our -- world. This Artefacts workshop will investigate that transformation and movement of scientific and technological artefacts -- from communications, to computers, art, music, and, of course, science. Deadline for receipt of proposals for sessions and papers is: Friday, June 11th. Proposals should indicate how the selected object(s) will play a critical role in your presentation(s). A decision on proposals accepted for the workshop will be made by early July. Submission of abstracts should be sent to Sharon Babaian at: .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) For further information contact Danielle Naoufal at .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) Secure Conference Registration: https://nt8.magma.ca/technomuses.ca/artefact/artefact_e.asp
States of Belonging An Anthropology Graduate Student Conference Call for Papers
September 24 2010 to September 25 2010 | University of Colorado, Boulder
Deadline: June 15 2010
Updated: June 14 2010
States of Belonging is a two-day conference organized by graduate students in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Colorado at Boulder. Belonging is at once comforting and painful, a process and performance of separation and fusion. Etienne Balibar describes “a sense of belonging” as “both what it is that makes one belong to oneself and also what makes one belong to other fellow human beings.” Pushing further, Veena Das asks about the consequences involved in social belonging: “If societies hide from themselves the pain which is inflicted upon individuals as prices of belonging, then how do social sciences learn to receive this knowledge?” In this conference on States of Belonging, we hope to tend to experiences, structures, and epistemologies of belonging as involving both sense and consequence. How, for example, do we understand the complexities of what it means to belong? We contend that the concept of belonging is crucial for understanding issues across the humanities and social sciences: from generational shifts and dislocations, questions of migration and (trans)nationality, issues for refugees and citizenship, changing gender roles and identities, and neoliberal transitions and pretenses, to communities formed through postcolonial and postsocialist orders, new media and cyberworlds, styles in fashion or music, new reproductive technologies and shifting notions of kinship, and unexpected disruptions of everyday life through war, violence, or natural disaster. If—as anthropologists have long contended—processes of belonging are as much about exclusion as inclusion, then how are such processes experienced, conceptualized, reproduced or transformed? How might we best understand belonging as both a project of states as well as a state of being? In highlighting the breadth of anthropological research and theorizing on belonging, we welcome papers on any and all topics speaking to our theme.
The conference will be held Friday, September 24 and Saturday, September 25 and will include panels moderated by University of Colorado faculty. Gyanendra Pandey, Arts and Sciences Distinguished Professor of History at Emory University, will give the keynote address. We invite participants to send a 250 word abstract by Tuesday, June 15th, 2010 to .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address).
For further information, please see the States of Belonging Conference website, http://www.colorado.edu/anthropology/statesofbelonging/ or contact Carole McGranahan, Associate Professor of Anthropology, at .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address).
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Making and Opening: Entangling Design and Social Science
September 24 2010 | Ben Pimlott Lecture Theatre Goldsmiths, University of London
Updated: May 16 2010
How might design and social science speak to each other’s practices? How might social science and design remake one another’s objects?
Bringing together a group of leading practitioners and academics, this day conference will explore innovative ways of further entangling Design and Social Science disciplines through a range of open issues: Speculation/Anticipation; Participation/Impact; Discipline/Contamination; Making/Method.
Speakers will include: Bill Gaver, Pelle Ehn, Mike Michael, Bill Moggridge, Harvey Molotch, Michelle Murphy, Lucy Suchman, Nina Wakeford.
Sponsored by: Centre for the Study of Invention and Social Process, Interaction Research Studio, INCITE - Incubator for Critical Inquiry into Technology and Ethnography.
For further details see http://www.gold.ac.uk/sociology/events/
Translations between social research and design/innovation: a workshop for PhD students and early ca
September 25 2010 | Ben Pimlott Building, Goldsmiths, University of London
Deadline: June 01 2010
Updated: May 16 2010
Translations between social research and design/innovation: a workshop for PhD students and early career researchers Recent years have seen a burgeoning of creative research practice at the intersection of social science and design. This workshop will explore the ways in which social research is used by those involved in design and innovation processes. It will give the participants the opportunity to think about a variety of ways in which their research might be presented and developed in these contexts, and critically reflect on these translations.
Sponsored by the Economic and Social Research Council Research Fellowship Scheme
Applications due 1st June. For details see
http://www.gold.ac.uk/sociology/events/
Transnational Times: Locality, Globality and Mobility in Technology Design and Use
September 26 2010 | Copenhagen, Denmark
Deadline: June 15 2010
Updated: May 17 2010
A workshop at Ubicomp 2010 September 26, 2010 Copenhagen, Denmark Organizers: Irina Shklovski, Silvia Lindtner, Janet Vertesi, Paul Dourish We seek interdisciplinary scholars interested in exploring the role of ubiquitous computing, the use of information and communication technologies and the politics of technological design in transnational settings to participate in our workshop, TRANSNATIONAL TIMES, at Ubicomp 2010. Through this workshop we aim to expand our current scholarly vocabulary for the conceptualization of information and communication technologies (ICTs) in addressing the interplay of local and global user interaction. Current work in Ubiquitous computing is already considering the use of technologies in the developing world and marginalized users in the developed world. This workshop extends such an interest to examine interactions with ubiquitous technology in a transnational context. After all, technologies such as mobile phones, social networking applications and the internet writ large complicate the framing of use and culture as bounded by national or geographical borders, as such illuminating diverse user practices and identities. In this analytical frame we take inspiration from theorists of the global in anthropology, sociology, and HCI who focus on flows across boundaries, hybridity and transnationality. Examples of possible papers or research topics of interest include (but are not limited to): the use of pervasive technologies such as multiplayer gaming across borders, studies of the use of social network sites among diaspora communities, use of the internet and other ICTs in censorship state zones, the role of mobile technologies in reconfiguring the local and the global, technology in the context of international migration networks, ubiquitous computing and cross- cultural collaboration, and the role of technology in international politics. Papers that develop theoretical approaches, that examine or report on empirical work, or that design technological artifacts are welcome, and need not be limited to "developing world" sites of interest. We hope to attract submissions from scholars working in a range of fields across computational, social and humanistic studies, such as human computer interaction, anthropology, media studies, sociology, science and technology studies and social and cultural geography. The goal of the workshop is to assemble like minds and projects, to develop a language and toolset appropriate for the study of ubiquitous technologies in transnational spaces, and to engage a wider community of researchers working in this area. We also hope this workshop will interest technology designers and developers currently working in non- western contexts. Full papers may later be solicited for a potential edited volume. TO APPLY: Interested participants should submit a 2-4 page paper in Ubicomp Archival Format describing your current project and its contribution to the workshop topic and themes. As you prepare your paper we suggest you visit our website at September 28 2010 to October 02 2010 | Bowie, Maryland Deadline: May 28 2010 Updated: May 16 2010 CFP: Humanities and Technology Association Annual Meeting: 9/28/10 - 10/02/10 http://www.humanitiesandtechnology.org/HTA%202010%20Conference/index.html September 29 2010 | Darmstadt, Germany Deadline: March 15 2010 Updated: February 14 2010 The Society for the Study of Nanoscience and Emerging Technologies September 30 2010 | Tacoma, Washington Deadline: March 31 2010 http://www.historyoftechnology.org/ Updated: January 15 2010 October 03 2010 | Tacoma, Washington Deadline: July 01 2010 Updated: May 16 2010 SIGCIS Workshop 2010: Materiality and Immateriality in the History of Computing October 04 2010 | The Hague Updated: February 14 2010 The International Metropolis Project is an international network of October 07 2010 | Workshop at the Max-Planck-Institute for the History of Science, Berlin. Deadline: January 31 2010 http://www.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/workshops/en/Membranes-Surfaces-Boundaries.html Updated: January 13 2010 The world, more of than not, is and has been conceived in its compactness, as stuff, things, and objects; far less so, in its interstices. Science, technology and culture, of course, are permeated and traversed by boundary phenomena: From the materialities of life itself, whether cellular membranes, skin, immune-systems or ecological habitats, to surface, separation and purification processes in chemistry and industry to the making, processing and exhibition of photographs and films, things coalesced at surfaces. They are palpable as well in the history of geography and politics, of urban and private spaces, of literature, art, psychology and the self, and certainly enough, as interfaces, in contemporary media theory. Humanities and Technology Association Annual Meeting: Technology and Development: The Human Benefits
The sustainable use of technical and natural resources makes it possible to alleviate world hunger, eliminate illiteracy, deliver basic health care services, and raise living standards worldwide. Yet, we still face significant political, economic, environmental, and social challenges in reaching the United Nations Millennium Development Goals of eliminating extreme poverty in all its forms by 2015. Some of these challenges evoke questions about the use and abuse of technologies with regard to development. What have been the human benefits and burdens of the introduction of new technologies in the past and what are the challenges facing both the developed and developing countries today? Paper submissions may address, but are not limited to, the following themes:
1. The response of the arts to the issue of technology and development 2. Technology, development, and the environment, including land and water use, mining, and the burden of mitigating greenhouse gases 3. New technologies and the impact on workforce development 4. Agricultural revolution, industrial revolution, other issues in the history of technology 5. Country studies of the interface between technology and development 6. Theories of economic development in light of new technologies 7. North versus South: the benefits and burdens of development 8. The politics of access to technology: gender, race, and class 9. Hunger, technology, and development 10. Religion, technology, and development 11. Health care, technology, and development 12. Biotechnology and human nature 13. Net neutrality
Submission Guidelines: Papers should be designed for a twenty-minute presentation. Submit a two-to-three page proposal by May 28, 2010 to Dr. George Sochan, Conference Chairman, Department of History and Government, Bowie State University, via MSWord attachment, to .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address). Notification of acceptance or rejection of proposals will be sent by email by June 4, 2010. The Society for the Study of Nanoscience and Emerging Technologies
(S.NET) is an international association that promotes open intellectual
exchange towards the ad-vancement of knowledge and understanding of
nanotechnologies in society. S.NET represents diverse communities,
viewpoints, and methodologies in the social sciences and humanities. It
welcomes contributions from scientists and engineers that advance the
critical reflection of nanotechnologies and related developments.
The program committee invites all discussions of anthropological,
cultural, economic, ethical, historical, philosophical, political, and
sociological aspects of nanosciences and emerging technologies. This can
take the form of individual abstracts, proposals for sessions with three
to five presentations, and other formats. 250-word abstracts for
individual papers, up to 1000-word-abstracts for sessions and other
formats can be submitted online until March 15 at www.theSNET.net.
Notifications of acceptance will be mailed by April 30, 2010. Graduate
students are encouraged to submit.
In the spirit of an emerging society that looks at emerging technologies
as an emerging field of inquiry, we welcome all innovative suggestions
about themes and session-formats to foreground critical issues. These
can be submitted informally at any time to the program committee. -
Where needed, we will try to secure travel stipends for speakers. - This
year's plenary speakers include Armin Grunwald, Richard Jones, Bernard
Stiegler, and Jan Youtie.
More information about S.NET, the past meeting in Seattle, and the
upcoming conference in Darmstadt can be found at www.theSNET.net.
Society for the History of Technology (SHOT)
The Society for the History of Technology will hold its annual meeting in Tacoma, Washington from September 30 to October 3, 2010. The Program Committee invites paper and panel proposals on any topic in the history of technology, broadly defined. Sessions dealing with non-Western technologies are particularly welcome. Of special interest for 2010 are proposals that engage in themes that resonate with the concerns of the specific locale. These include:
Consumption: In the popular imagination, the Tacoma-Seattle area is associated with several important corporate entities (Boeing, Microsoft, Nintendo, Starbucks, etc.) whose goods and services are deeply embedded in global consumer culture. At a moment in time when consumption, sometimes excessive, sometimes globalized, sometimes exploitative, is of great concern to both the public and policy-makers, Tacoma is an appropriate place for historians to (re)consider technologies of consumption. We are especially interested in papers that see production and consumption as coterminous processes and which historicize consumption as part of broader processes in the history of technology. We define consumption very broadly to include the public's active engagement with technologies and technological systems, which may include environmental, communications, and obsolete technologies.
The Program Committee encourages sessions dealing with topics appropriate to the meeting location, such as aerospace and maritime history, labor history, forest products, information technology, and themes relevant to the Pacific world. We also encourage historians of technology to reach out to scholars in aligned and/or related fields when constructing research proposals as one way to create a more interdisciplinary environment. Finally, we invite papers and panel proposals that emphasize the longue durée, particularly those that problematize demarcations such as modern/premodern, colonial/postcolonial, and preindustrial/industrial. As always, sessions dealing with pre-modern, Medieval, and ancient topics are especially welcome.
The Program Committee's highest priority in evaluating paper and panel proposals is scholarly excellence. The Committee welcomes proposals for individual papers or sessions, as well as works-in-progress from researchers of all stripes (including graduate students, chaired professors, and independent scholars). It welcomes proposals from those new to SHOT, regardless of discipline. Multinational, international, and cross-institutional sessions are also desirable. We especially encourage proposals from non-Western scholars.
For the 2010 meeting the Program Committee continues to encourage unconventional sessions; that is, session formats that vary in useful ways from the typical three/four papers with comment. These might include round-table sessions, workshop-style sessions with papers that are pre-circulated electronically, or "author meets critics" sessions. We also welcome poster proposals for presentation in poster sessions. Please note that in general we discourage panels with more than three papers.
The deadline for proposals is 31 March 2010. Please submit your proposals to .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address).
Proposals for individual papers must include:
1. a one-page abstract (maximum 600 words)
2. a one-page curriculum vitae, including current postal and e-mail addresses
Proposals for complete sessions must include:
1. a description of the session that explains how individual papers contribute to an overall theme.
2. the names and paper titles of the presenters
3. for each presenter, a one-page summary (maximum 600 words) of the paper's topic, argument(s), and evidence used
4. for the commentator, chair, and each presenter: one-page c.v., with postal and e-mail addresses
Please indicate if a proposal is sponsored by one of SHOT's special interest groups.
Submission Instructions:
1. Materials should be sent as a single text attachment to an e-mail message to the Program Committee Chair, Asif Siddiqi at .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)
2. Proposals for complete sessions as well as individual papers should be submitted in one file.
3. Please adhere to the 600-word limit for each paper. Use no unusual fonts or special formatting, and save your attachment either as a Microsoft Word document (.doc or .docx) or as a Rich Text Format (.rtf) file. Nearly all word processing programs, including those used on Apple computers can save text in the Rich Text Format. Do not use Adobe Acrobat (pdf).
4. Name your attachment with your last name and the word 'proposal', e.g. 'Smith_proposal.doc'.
5. A session organizer should also deliver a description of the overall session. If you are organizing a session and proposing a paper in that session, you will be delivering both an "abstract" and "proposal", plus your c.v.
6. If you are proposing a non-traditional session you may indicate that in the "abstract." These also require a curriculum vitae.
General information:
While SHOT rules exclude multiple submissions (i.e., submitting more than one individual paper proposal, or proposing both an individual paper and a paper as part of a session), scholars may both propose a paper and serve as a commentator or session chair.
Generally speaking, the Program Committee discourages scholars from presenting papers at two consecutive meetings held in North America. Exceptions can be made for scholars traveling from overseas. Individuals are always welcome to serve as chairs and commentators and are encouraged to let the Program Committee know if they are available.
For more information about the Society for the History of Technology and our annual meeting, please see the SHOT webpage:
http://www.historyoftechnology.org/
For questions, please contact SHOT Secretary Bernie Carlson at .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)
SIGCIS Workshop 2010: Materiality and Immateriality in the History of Computing
Sunday October 3 2010,
http://www.sigcis.org/?q=workshop10
DEADLINE: 1 JULY 2010
The Society for the History of Technology’s Special Interest Group for Computers, Information and Society (SIGCIS – http://www.sigcis.org) welcomes submissions for its latest one day scholarly workshop on Materiality and Immateriality in the History of Computing. The workshop will be held in Tacoma Washington all day on Sunday, October 3 2010. This is the final day of the annual SHOT meeting. SHOT has reserved that day for SIG events and therefore the symposium will not overlap scheduled sessions in the main program. For details on the main SHOT meeting see http://www.historyoftechnology.org/annual_meeting.html.
In keeping with the conference theme contributions that consider material aspects of the history of information technology (people, things, places, physical technologies and their relationship to work, practice, users, standards, and so on), immaterial aspects of the history of computing (logical standards, program code, theory, virtual technologies/environments/communities) or the relationship between the two are particularly welcome. However our practice is to welcome contributions on all topics related to the history of computing whether or not there is an explicit connection with the annual theme. Our membership is interdisciplinary and proposals are expected from the perspectives of business history, labor history, social history, science studies and the history of science as well as from historians of technology.
Proposals for entire sessions and individual presenters are both welcome. We hope to run special sessions featuring dissertations in progress and other works in progress. The workshop is a great opportunity to get helpful feedback on your projects in a relaxed and supportive environment. All proposals will be subject to a peer review process.
All submissions should be made via the web by 1 July, 2010. Limited travel assistance for graduate students is available. For full information including detailed submission requirements please go to http://www.sigcis.org/?q=workshop10.
Questions should be addressed to Jeffrey Tang who is serving as chair of the workshop organizing committee. Email .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address). 2010 International Metropolis Conference The Hague
researchers, policy officials and NGOs sharing a common vision of enhancing migration and diversity policy by applying empirical social science research. Now the world's largest such network, it is perhaps best known for its major annual conferences, the next of which takes place in The Hague, 4 - 8 October 2010. Each conference attracts between 800 and 1000 delegates for high-level plenary sessions, a comprehensive study tour programme and more than 60 concurrent workshops. The conferences are an opportunity for delegates - both expert and novice - to discuss critical issues, identify research and policy gaps, compare international experiences and build the Metropolis network. The 2010 International Metropolis Conference will be of interest to policy makers, administrators and representatives from non-governmental organisations (NGOs) as well as academic researchers.
I would like to draw your attention to the Call for Workshop Proposals, and invite you to submit a proposal of your own. The deadline is April 1 for the Workshop proposals. The proposals will be adjudicated according to the strength of the proposal, best fit with conference themes, and representation of a broad range of perspectives from various countries. Workshops must have participation by representatives from more than one sector (academic, government/policy, and NGO/community). Workshops that do not meet this criteria will not be included. Metropolis is actively encouraging participation from Asian and African countries, and encourages workshops that address gender aspects of migration and diversity. Please read the attached calls carefully. Additional information can be found on the conference website (http://www.metropolis2010.org/).
This conference is an excellent opportunity to showcase your own research to a wide and diverse public, to exchange empirical data and theoretical ideas, to extend your network, and to prepare international publications.
Membranes, Surfaces and Boundaries: interstices in the history of science, technology and culture
The workshop Membranes, Surfaces and Boundaries aims to recover and bring together these interstices. We wish to attract contributions from a wide range of disciplines, including the natural sciences, that cross, straddle and make permeable these specialist divides, and that interrogate the historical being of surfaces. We wish to focus the workshop on the materialities of membranes, surfaces, and boundaries themselves. Possible anchors are surfaces and membranes as biological entities; chemical and technical phenomena at boundaries such as catalysis, filtration or electrophoresis; or films, photographic and otherwise, as media of projection and material surface processes. We invite contributions engaging with these and other spheres and their manifold intersections. Some illustrative questions include: In the history of science, can we generate cultural histories of the biological cell, a historiographically rather neglected object? Or related, of the similarly neglected but important, huge fields such as electro-chemistry or chemical engineering? Might we re-read through surface-objects disciplinary histories, experimental practices or the ways science is permeable to its social and cultural settings (and vice versa)? In film and media studies, how can attention to the materialities of surfaces incorporate the histories of science, technology or industry? Or again, more philosophically, how can we bring together concepts and materials, the abstract and concrete, metaphors and physical boundaries in re-thinking the histories of interstices? All submitted abstracts showing some relation to our main theme will be given careful consideration. Abstracts of up to 300 words should include your name, institutional affiliation, and email address. These should be submitted by email to Mathias Grote (mgrote@mpiwg- berlin.mpg.de) and Max Stadler (.(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)). The deadline for abstract submission is 31 January 2010.
Global Conference on Human Rights and Diverse Societies
October 07 2010 to October 09 2010 | Montreal, Canada
Updated: June 12 2010
The McGill University Centre for Human Rights and Legal Pluralism is privileged to host its second major international conference, the Global Conference on Human Rights and Diverse Societies, to be held October 7-9, 2010, in Montreal, Canada. The Conference will bring together from around the world academics, writers, journalists, legislators, diplomats, activists and others who are active in the field of international human rights and who devote their lives to building, supporting and studying diverse societies.
The conference seeks to challenge the mainstream narrative of the universality of human rights. Panelists will address how diverse societies around the world conceptualize human rights and deal with the implementation of human rights policies and norms. The conference also aspires to identify alternative frameworks that can facilitate the conceptualization of and help find solutions to global human rights issues. Some of the core themes of the conference include the power of education to spur and combat hatred; the role of the media in shaping public opinion and public policy on human rights and diversity issues; religious diversity; the manner in which real and perceived security threats have changed the global mindset; the role of human rights institutions.
For more information about our conference and registration, please take a look at our website: http://efchr.mcgill.ca/2010/eng/home.php
“Race-Making and the State: Between Postracial Neoliberalism and Racialized Terrorism”
October 08 2010 | University of Alberta Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
Deadline: March 30 2010
http://www.criticalraceconference.arts.ualberta.ca/
Updated: January 13 2010
Despite the ‘wilful forgetting’ evident in much Canadian and international studies scholarship, racial thinking, race-making and racial imaginaries long have served the imperial and colonial designs of empires and states alike. German philosopher Eric Voegelin was among the first to think through the relationship between race-making and the state. In Race and State, he insisted that the racial idea was a fundamental element of the modern state. For Voeglin, it was irrelevant whether race was a biological or genetic fiction; this did not belie its power or its real life political, material or social salience. Hannah Arendt in turn persuasively argued that race thinking has been wide-spread across the west since at least the eighteenth century, and functioned as a political device to differentiate the ‘primitive’, ‘savage’ and ‘barbarian’ from the ‘civilized’. Racism was a powerful ideological weapon in imperialist policies including the ‘scramble for Africa’ and in the dispossession of Indigenous lands. In Society Must Be Defended, the French social theorist Michel Foucault advanced the notion of ‘state racism’ as one expression of the biopower of the modern state, which unleashed governing technologies to ‘make live’ some groups and ‘let die’ others. Other important works on the ‘racial state’, prominent among them, Omni and Winant (1994), Anthony Marx (1998), David Theo Goldberg (2002), Sherene Razack (2008) and Sunera Thobani (2007), have linked imperial and colonial racisms to the conceits of modern liberal states, which purport to be race neutral, colour-blind and even postracial, while masking, reproducing and even reinforcing historical inequities.
The nature of race thinking and race-making are differently configured in two dominant logics of the twenty-first century: neoliberalism’s racial imaginaries of an individualized, atomized person who can leave behind her or his racial, ethnic and gendered self and the racial
imaginaries of 9/11 and the ‘war on terror’, which make clear that ‘outsider groups’ are always already shaped by racial and gendered markers. Arguably neoliberalism has depoliticized race and racism, indeed, all structural inequalities. It has reduced racism to a psychological shortcoming that can be mediated through the promotion of cross-cultural understanding. In this context, we are confronted with the paradoxical claim that while there may be racism, apparently there are no racists and no systemic conditions of racial inequality. This paradox disdains historical memory of institutional and structural racism and ‘forgets’ that racial thinking and race-making have shifted over time, space, and regimes with sometimes devastating effect. What is racism and who if anyone can be called a racist?
Race-making and the ‘racial state’ too often are imagined as cases of exceptions, such as Nazi Germany or apartheid South Africa. This too elides the everyday and normalized practices of race-making and racism and obscures meaningful anti-racist practices. In such contexts, what
do anti-racism and decolonization mean? How do they manifest intheories, practices and policies?
Please visit website for details of the organization. CALL FOR PAPERS: The primary purpose of this conference is to explore race-making, anti-racism, decolonization and the state. We encourage papers and panels that take an interlocking analysis with class, gender, sexuality and disabilities. Topics may include but are not limited to: the role of the state in producing racial classifications, hierarchies and imaginaries; racial projects including colonialism,indigenous dispossession, slavery and internments; 9/11, violence and the war on terrorism; state inventions of ‘black sites’ of rendition and torture as well as routinized practices such as photographing, fingerprinting, and surveillance of racial others; race in immigration and refugee policies, detention centres and similar securitized initiatives; the political economy of race in a neoliberal era; science, genetics and race; skin, body and identity; race, fantasy and desire; comedy, satire and race; the evasion and even erasure of race from many disciplinary efforts to understand the constitution of advanced liberal states and markets; colonial encounters and racism that informed dominant relations between indigenous peoples and white settler societies; and that think through anti-racisms, anti-colonialism, decolonization and social justice in theory, policy and practice.
The R.A.C.E. 2010 conference organizer is Dr. Malinda S. Smith, Political Science Department, University of Alberta. Please send a 300 words abstract in Word or RTF with title, keywords, institutional affiliation and contact to .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) and include a 150 words Bio locating your work in critical race /anti-colonial scholarship by 30 March 2010 to:
Dr. Malinda S Smith, 2010 R.A.C.E. Conference Organizer, University of Alberta, Telephone: 780.492.5380 / Fax: 780.492.2580, Email: .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address),
Web site: http://www.criticalraceconference.arts.ualberta.ca/
Globalizing Beauty: Body Aesthetics
October 14 2010 | German Historical Institute, Washington, DC
Deadline: March 15 2010
Updated: January 13 2010
Beauty matters. That it matters more and more in modern societies can easily be measured in the amount of money people spend on cosmetic surgeries, on fashion, on cosmetics, on looking at beautiful stars, and, since the 1990s in particular, in the number of scholarly articles and books analyzing exactly this phenomenon. Challenging the myth of eternal, unchanging, and cross-cultural beauty ideals, this conference inquires into the rise of powerful and yet ambiguous discourses on and practices of body aesthetics in the 20th century; it explores the interaction of hegemonic and non-hegemonic discourses on body aesthetics; and it tracks the impact of globalization and commodification on the struggle for beauty.
What is considered beautiful depends on time and space, that is, on cultural and social settings. Beauty is linked to other categories of difference—the good, the strong, the wealthy, the healthy people. Beauty is highly gendered, closely affiliated with racial hierarchies, and has
always been a tool of social distinction. Owning beauty and accessing beautiful things are privileges. As with consumerism in general, the acquisition of beauty relies on and reinforces preexisting social hierarchies. At the same time, the modern discourse on beauty is embedded
in ideas—one may say, illusions—of social advancement. Beauty defines identity, and it causes controversy.
Please submit materials via email to both - Hartmut Berghoff, Professor of Economic History, Director, German Historical Institute, Washington, DC, email: Ms. Baerbel Thomas (.(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)) - Thomas Kühne, Professor of History, Strassler Family Chair in the Study of Holocaust History, Clark University, Worcester, MA, email: .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)
University history, university collections and university practices
October 14 2010 | Trondheim, Norway
Deadline: April 15 2010
Updated: February 14 2010
After very successful meetings in Oslo in 2008 and Tromsø/Lofoten in 2009 we are pleased to announce the Third conference on the history of science in Norway, which will take place from 14 to 17 October 2010 at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) in Trondheim, Norway. The conference is being hosted in collaboration between the Forum for Kunnskapshistorie and the NTNU Anniversary History Project.
The theme of the conference will be “University history, university
collections and university practices”. In 2010 the Norwegian University of Science and Technology and the city of Trondheim will be celebrating the 250th anniversary of the foundation of the Royal Norwegian Society of Sciences and Letters in 1760 and the 100th anniversary of the Foundation of the Norwegian Institute of Technology in 1910. We invite submission of papers and organised sessions related to the theme as well as to the history of science in its broader sense, including the history of social sciences and humanities. Please send proposals of no more than 200 words (word doc or rtf format) to the email address below before 15 April 2010. Please include a short biography highlighting main research interests no more than 50 words. Proposals will be
reviewed by the Programme Committee. Participants will be notified by 31 May.
Presentations are limited to 20 minutes, with additional 10 minutes for
discussion. The conference language will be English.
For submission of abstracts and requests for more information, please
contact:
Ragnhild Green Helgås (.(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address))
28th Annual Meeting of the Association for Politics and Life Sciences
October 14 2010 | Bloomington, Indiana (Indiana University)
Deadline: May 31 2010
Updated: May 16 2010
Announcement: In celebration of our 30th birthday, the theme of this year’s Meeting is: “Towards Consilience: Thirty Years of the Association for Politics and the Life Sciences." Individual paper presentations, panel, and roundtable proposals are welcome on any topic that pertains to the following broad categories: New directions in politics and the life sciences, biobehavior, life science policies, neurology and politics, bioethics, bioterrorism, genetics and politics, biotechnology, and the environment. We are pleased to announce that 2009 Nobel Prize Laureate in Economic Sciences Elinor Ostrom will present the keynote address at this year’s meeting. Dr. Ostrom, the first woman to win the Nobel Prize in Economics, is the Arthur F. Bentley Professor of Political Science and Co-Director of the Workshop in Political Theory and Policy Analysis. Her work has examined the use of collective action and the role of trust and cooperation in the management of common pool resources. Her institutional analysis and development (IAD) framework has been used to show how common resources such as forest, fisheries, oil fields and grazing lands can be managed successfully by the people who use them without government regulation or privatization. We are also pleased to announce a series of roundtables with the Founders of Biopolitics, whose actions led to the creation of the Association for Politics and the Life Sciences. The Founders, including Odelia Funke, David Goetze, Samuel Hines, Gary Johnson, Roger Masters, John Orbell, Steve Peterson, Al Somit, and Lionel Tiger, will reflect on the origins, current findings and future of Biopolitics.
http://www.aplsnet.org/
Cross-National and Comparative History of Science Education: 4th European Society for the History
October 18 2010 | Barcelona, Spain
Deadline: January 20 2010
Updated: January 15 2010
This session assesses the need of further cross-national and comparative work in history of science, medicine and technology prompted by current perceptions of disciplinary crisis, around questions such as "big pictures", European centres and peripheries, the rise of global history, and the integration of non-Western science in the historical canon. It intends to do so, by focusing on the study of science education, and by promoting interdisciplinary communication between two subjects which rarely interact (the history of science and the history of education). Cross-National comparison was a major driving force in the nineteenth-century organization of education. Educationists, scientists and students circulated across national boundaries and compared different educational systems, producing accounts which contributed to inform educational reforms in their own national or local contexts. In the same period, the history of education emerged as a discipline aimed at illuminating contemporary educational research and organization through a historical perspective. Cross-National comparison was a key method, which, in spite of various epistemological challenges has survived up to our days, giving rise to well-established academic fields such as comparative education.
Historians of education have often approached the study of science from the point of view of institutions and curricula, producing in certain cases large scale international comparisons, and mainly focusing on primary education, and (increasingly) on secondary education. In contrast, historians of science have favoured tight accounts of pedagogy and training in local context, and commonly focused on higher education. In the last decade, some major works in this field have produced international pictures on science pedagogy, through the study of circulation of scientists and pedagogical tools. However, approaches are still too often restricted to local or national contexts, as they are in the history of science at large.
The aim of this session is to contribute to the historiographical development of the history of science and the history of education, by presenting papers dealing with more than one national context in comparative fashion, and including historiographical and methodological reflection on the characteristics, advantages, and limitations of this approach. The purpose of this session is neither to break national boundaries, nor to reaffirm them, but to discuss about them and through them and to show how cross-national comparison offers more accurate results than traditional approaches -explicitly or implicitly- restricted to the nation. Papers may not cover a whole country and can instead focus on comparison of regions or more local unities of analysis. Intra-national comparisons will be admitted if justified, although we will favour cross-national comparisons. Papers are invited to deal in comparative and cross-national perspective with the following objects and themes: - Pedagogical practices - Curricula - Pedagogical tools (teaching collections, pedagogical diagrams, pen and paper technologies, etc.) - Institutions - Examination frameworks - Textbooks - Teaching spaces - Teachers - Students - Comparisons by contemporary circulating or transnational actors (teachers, students, educationists) - Interactions between Pedagogy and Research
Abstracts for this session should include justification of What is going to be compared, Why, and How, and arguments explaining how you think that your comparative and cross-national analysis might contribute to change the current historiography of the topic tackled in your paper. Due to the complex nature of producing comparative research on more than one national context, collaboration between scholars from different countries -although not strictly required - is encouraged and always welcomed. Analogously, we seek to promote collaboration between historians of science and historians of education. Please, include name and affiliation, and a 300-word abstract, making clear the objects of your comparative and cross-national study and the relevance to this session (What, Why, How, Historiographical Arguments). Send it as a Word or RTF document to Josep Simon (.(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)). DEADLINE: 20th January 2010
Contacts previous to the deadline are more than welcome. If you intend to submit a paper for this session and wish to discuss your contribution, do not hesitate to contact Josep Simon (.(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)). For information on the conference and registration deadlines see: http://4eshs.iec.cat/
Canadian Science Policy Conference (CSPC 2010), 2nd Call
October 20 2010 to October 22 2010 | Montreal, Canada
Deadline: August 29 2010
Updated: June 15 2010
The Canadian Science Policy Centre invites proposals for presentations at the upcoming Canadian Science Policy Conference (CSPC 2010) in Montreal, QC, from October 20-22, 2010.* CSPC is an annual event, specifically designed as a multi-sector forum for fostering science policy discourse in Canada. Those who attend, organize, and fund CSPC come from diverse sectors of the Canadian science policy community - from government and industry officials to business people, scientists, and academics - and the hope is that panel presentations will be similarly inclusive of Canada’s diverse interests in national, provincial, and municipal science policy. Thus, we will consider submissions from Canadian science policy stakeholders of quite diverse backgrounds. Abstracts of no more than *300* words will be accepted until *August 10, 2010*. Please note that *all proposals must be submitted under one of the five conference themes*: - Increasing the Productivity of Canada’s Economy using Science and Technology - Global Perspectives on Science and Technology - Creating and Retaining Scientific Talent in Canada - A Glance at BioScience in Canada - Major Issues in Canadian Science Policy *Fifteen minutes* will be allotted for each presentation, and each panel will be followed by a discussion period. If you would like to present, please visit *www.sciencepolicy.ca/abstracts*to submit an abstract. Early bird registration for CSPC 2010 is now open. For more information on science policy in Canada visit www.sciencepolicy.ca Thank you, CSPC Team .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)
Sustainable Cities? Fifth Biennial Urban History Association Conference
October 20 2010 | Las Vegas, NV
Deadline: February 01 2010
Updated: February 14 2010
The Program Committee seeks submissions for panels, roundtable discussions, and individual papers on all aspects of urban, suburban, and metropolitan history for the Fifth Biennial Urban History Association Conference in Las Vegas, Nevada, on October 20-23, 2010. The local host is the University of Nevada, Las Vegas.
While “sustainability” has often been defined as planning for the future, we will be investigating the history of urban futures across many time periods in many metropolitan areas and many countries. We encourage submissions on questions of land use, energy, space, place, the built environment, and the natural environment in historical perspective. We would like sessions on the host city, Las Vegas, and its history of rapid, expansive growth. We welcome sessions on the history of urbanization in North America, as well as Latin America, Europe, Asia, Australia, and Africa, in ancient and pre-modern as well as modern periods.
Beyond the theme of the conference, the committee encourages all types of historical analyses, including:
Work on qualitative research methods across urban history and the social sciences
Work on digital humanities, geography, GIS mapping, and photography
Comparative, regional, transnational studies
Work focusing on race, gender, class, and space
Research on architecture, the environment, technology, and science
Presentations on historic preservation including small cities and towns
Sessions that revisit classic works of urban and suburban history
Preference will be given to complete panels. Panel proposals should designate a single person as contact and include a brief explanation of the overall theme as well as one-page abstracts of each paper and a 250-word biography for each participant. Round table proposals follow this format but organizers should submit one page on the theme and a 250-word biography for each presenter. Those submitting an individual paper, please include a one-page abstract and a 250- word biography. Submissions are due February 1, 2010 and should be sent via e-mail to Professor Janet R. Bednarek at .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address).
As part of the conference, the UHA will organize workshops for graduate students writing dissertations in urban and suburban history. Students who have written a prospectus and who wish to participate in a workshop should apply with a 2-4 page letter of interest by February 1, 2010 to Janet.Bednarek @ notes.udayton.edu.
Politics and Practices: The History of Post-war Women’s Health
October 22 2010 to October 23 2010 | Manchester UK
Deadline: June 15 2010
Updated: June 14 2010
This two-day conference will bring together scholars whose research involves the history of post-war women’s health. In contrast to most histories of women’s health which focus on the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, this conference aims to showcase research on the politics, policy and practice of women’s health after 1945, a much less studied yet dynamic era for women as patients, providers, caregivers, policy-makers, and activists.
We invite proposals for individual papers of 20 minutes in length. We especially look forward to receiving proposals on the following themes, in any national context.
n Women’s formal health care work: medical and nursing professionals, allied health workers
n Women’s informal provision of health care: home care, voluntary work
n Women as makers and objects of health policy in post-war states
n Women’s everyday health practices: self-care, pharmaceuticals, hygiene, prevention
n Sexual health/health and sexuality
n Reproductive health, reproduction, and mothering
n Mental health, institutions, and activism
n Women’s health activism and feminist health politics
n The gendering of self-help and the consumer health movement
n Women and biomedical research: standards, trials, consent practices
n “Female” diseases and their sufferers
n Women and post-war epidemics: AIDS and cancer
n Ageing and women’s health
n Intersections of biomedical and cultural narratives about femininity and womanhood
We particularly welcome submissions from postgraduate researchers. Bursaries to cover transportation and other costs for postgraduates may be available.
If you have questions or would like more information, please contact the conference organisers, Dr Emma Jones (.(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)) and Dr Elizabeth Toon (.(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)).
Please submit paper proposals (300 words) for consideration to .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address), by 15 June 2010.
http://www.chstm.manchester.ac.uk/newsandevents/conferences/postwarwomenshealth/
Sustenance and Globalization
October 22 2010 to October 24 2010 | College Station, TX
Deadline: July 15 2010
Updated: June 12 2010
The GLOBAL FUSION 2010 Media & Communication Conference will be held at Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, USA, October 22-24, 2010. This year’s conference theme is “Sustenance and Globalization.” We consider the concept of culture in relation to the nature of global communication processes. Those interested in the role of the print, electronic, and digital media might look at their role in sustaining and modifying cultures. For those interested in non-mediated communication, a focus could be brought to bear on the ways in which folklore, traditional cultural practices, and ecology can act to sustain and empower cultures. Researchers exploring the development perspective on international communication might consider addressing community building, sustainability, development, and the roles of communication in changing and sustaining cultures, polities, and societies. Among many other possibilities, this theme also allows for an exploration of the ways in which co mmunication technologies, both as software and hardware, can sustain and/or undermine cultures and environments. > > Submissions on this theme are preferred, but proposals for conference panels and papers may be on any topic related to global media and international communication. > > Panel and individual paper proposals may be submitted in the form of abstracts of 200-250 words, in MS Word or rich text format. Paper abstracts should be submitted anonymously, without the name or other identifying information about the author in the document. > > The Global Fusion conference offers a graduate student competition. Papers submitted for the graduate student paper competition should be full length (about 25 pages in APA format), and clearly marked on the title page as being a submission for the competition. > > The purpose of the Global Fusion conference series is to promote academic excellence in global media and international communication studies. These conferences bring together scholars and professionals interested in media and communication in global contexts. The conference series is sponsored by a consortium of schools including Texas A&M University, the University of Texas at Austin, Ohio University, Temple University and Southern Illinois University. The organizing committee members are Patrick Burkart, Antonio C. La Pastina, Srivi Ramasubramanian, and Marwan Kraidy. > > Submission deadline: Thursday, July 15, 2010 > Email address for submissions: .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) > Conference contact: Patrick Burkart, .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)
Commodification, Technoculture, and the Human: Rethinking Technology
October 23 2010 to October 24 2010 | Michigan State University
Updated: June 12 2010
http://www.msu.edu/~lotz/workshop2010/index.htm
Description:
An important connection explored in the humanities concerns the degree to which technological rationality changes our lives, whether in terms of our behavior, our conceptions of who and what human animals and non-human animals are, or the goals we set for ourselves. What are some of the new ways of living brought on by these changes? Are such changes consistent with the precepts of an inclusive democracy? Or have they unacceptably commodified our social, political, and cultural relationships? Do we now live in a world where what is understood as a meaningful life is in peril because technology and commodification are all that remain? This workshop in social and political thought will be dedicated to bringing important contemporary scholarship to MSU to address these questions with keynote addresses, commentaries, and other workshop activities. It demonstrates that philosophy and the humanities are central in understanding the world we live in.
VI Taller Internacional: Cartografías del cuerpo. Biopolíticas de la ciencia y la tecnología
October 27 2010 to October 29 2010 | Madrid, Spain
Deadline: July 15 2010
Updated: July 15 2010
Esta sesión especial del seminario tendrá lugar los días 27-29 de octubre de 2010 en el Centro de Ciencias Humanas y Sociales del CSIC y contará con la participación de Lynda Birke (U. Chester, Inglaterra), Maria Margaret Lopes (UNICAMP, Brasil) y Diana Maffia (U. Buenos Aires, Argentina) Se aceptarán comunicaciones o posters que aporten una reflexión feminista sobre el estatuto que los cuerpos ocupan y desempeñan en las prácticas científico-tecnológicas. En concreto, se aceptarán trabajos que a través del estudio de determinadas tecnologías (tecnologías terapéutico-reproductivas, tecnologías de asignación y reasignación de sexo y tecnologías de mejora y reforzamiento de los cuerpos) planteen cómo se representan los cuerpos sexuados, y en particular los de las mujeres, qué papel desempeñan en la tarea científica, y cómo sus cuerpos se convierten en receptores y proveedores privilegiados de biomateriales para esas tecnologías, a la vez que son producto de los procesos y relaciones promovidos por éstas. Las propuestas tendrán una extensión máxima de 500 palabras, incluyendo 3 ítems bibliográficos. Deberá ir, en hoja a parte: Nombre completo, Título, e-mail e institución o colectivo de pertenencia -Idiomas: español, inglés portugués. Plazo de presentación de propuestas hasta el 15 de julio de 2010. Se comunicará el resultado de la evaluación antes del 25 de julio Las propuestas se enviarán a la dirección de correo electrónico: .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) o a la siguiente dirección postal: Seminario Ciencias y Tecnologías del Cuerpo Instituto de Filosofía – Centro de Ciencias Humanas y Sociales (CSIC) C / Albasanz 26 – 28, 28037, Madrid, España Para más información, contactar con: .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) Tel: +34-91602-27-98/ 99
VI International Workshop: Cartographies of the body. Biopolitics of science and technology
October 27 2010 to October 29 2010 | Madrid, Spain
Deadline: July 15 2010
Updated: July 15 2010
The Seminar Science, Technology and Gender, organized by the Research Project FFI2009-07138 funded by the National R + D + I opens a call for papers to participate in the: VI International Workshop: Cartographies of the body. Biopolitics of science and technology This special session of the seminary on Science, Technology and Gender, will take place on 27 - 29th October, 2010 at the Centre of Human and Social Sciences, of the Spanish National Research Council (CCHS, CSIC) in Madrid. We will have the contributions of Lynda Birke (U. Chester, UK), Maria Margaret Lopes (UNICAMP, Brazil) and Diana Maffia (U. Buenos Aires, Argentina). Communications or posters will be accepted to provide a feminist reflection on the status that the bodies play in scientific and technological practices. In particular, there will be specially accepted those who focus on the study of certain technologies (therapeutic-reproductive technologies, technologies of sex allocation and reallocation of technologies and improvement and strengthening of bodies); or those which consider how sexed bodies are represented; how the multiple becoming of women bodies turn in collectors and privileged biomaterials suppliers, as products of the processes and relationships technologicallly promoted. Proposals should be no longer than 500 words, including three bibliographic items. They also must provide in a separate sheet: full name, title, e-mail and institution or group membership. Language: English, Spanish, Portuguese. Deadline for submission of proposals by 15th July, 2010. We will communicate the outcome of the assessment before 25th July. Please send the proposals to: .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) Or to the following postal address: Seminario Ciencias y Tecnologías del Cuerpo Instituto de Filosofía – Centro de Ciencias Humanas y Sociales (CSIC) C / Albasanz 26 – 28, 28037, Madrid, Spain For more info, contact: .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) Tel: +34-91602-27-98/ 99
Tentative Governance in Emerging Science and Technology - Actor Constellations, Institutional Arrang
October 28 2010 | Twente University, The Netherlands
Deadline: March 16 2010
Updated: March 16 2010
The conference is organized by the Institute of Innovation and Governance Studies (IGS) of the University of Twente (http://www.universiteittwente.nl/research/igs). Internationally, the conference will be run as a key event of the European Forum for ‘Studies into Policies for Research and Innovation’ (Eu-SPRI Forum; succeeding the PRIME Network of Excellence; http://www.euspri-forum.eu/).
Theme
For emerging science and technology (EST) governance becomes tentative when it is designed as a dynamic process to manage interdependencies and contingencies. Tentative governance aims at creating spaces of openness, probing and learning instead of trying to limit options for actors, institutions and processes. It answers political and organizational complexities with explorative strategies, instead of relying only on orthodox or preservative means.
Tentative governance is a particularly pertinent issue for EST such as nanotechnology, life sciences, genomics and other emerging fields of innovations with the potential to radically transform domains and sectors,. These fields are subject to a broad array of inherent uncertainties related to technological shape, configurations and applications and the resulting societal benefits and risks. At the same time, actor constellations and practices related to knowledge production, innovation and societal appropriation are in the process of emerging and largely differ from established technologies. This poses specific challenges to the governance of these fields, which has to address ill-defined and sometimes ‘moving targets’. Simultaneously, promises and expectations abound. Many actors from government, academia, industry, and civil society expect that EST will constitute “key technologies of the future” and that some may even lead to a “next industrial revolution”. Thus, developing appropriate governance modes seems all the more important. However, modes of governance are usually attuned to established technologies. Innovative modes of governance under headings such as ‘reflexive governance’, ‘transition management’, ‘Constructive Technology Assessment’, ‘Ethical, Legal and Societal Issues (ELSI) Studies’, or ‘Real-Time Technology Assessment’ are only now emerging. What we are seeing, in other words, is a co-evolutionary growth of innovative modes of governance and constellations, practices and technologies in EST. Hence, it can be argued that governance modes, be they regulatory approaches, institutional arrangements or modes of coordination among various actor constellations turn out – and probably even need – to be tentative in order to respond to the uncertainties and to be prepared for further dynamics. We assume that tentative governance is neither a particularly desirable or worrisome approach, but rather an empirical phenomenon.
The aim of the conference is to identify and elaborate the specific governance challenges of EST and to discuss ways of responding to them. Papers may address these issues conceptually or empirically for EST in general or for a specific innovation. We invite interdisciplinary contributions from policy and regulatory governance studies, legal studies, higher education studies, science and technology studies, technology assessment and innovation studies.
The International Programme Committee includes: Prof. Arie Rip, Prof. Stefan Kuhlmann, Dr. Bärbel Dorbeck-Jung, Prof. Jürgen Enders (University of Twente), Prof. Philippe Larédo (ENPC Paris, Manchester University); Prof. Susan Cozzens (Georgia Institute of Technology), Prof. Charles Edquist (Lund University) and Prof. Susana Borrás (Copenhagen Business School).
The Programme Committee is calling for proposals for papers, sessions or posters presenting research on the Governance of EST. The following gives a non-exhaustive list of topics the papers may address:
· Governance of Innovation Networks and Systems: Which constellations of innovation “enactors” and “selectors” in industry, public research organizations, policy, NGOs, users, consumer organizations and intermediary organizations are emerging; what are their particularities; how do they interact and which institutional arrangements are structuring these interactions? What is the role of public policies in this process? How do new socio-technical spaces and platforms for organized interaction between actors who, until now, have belonged to largely separate fields, open up and evolve? How do rules, institutional arrangements and informal prerequisites of coordination such as trust emerge?
· Governance of Science and Research Organizations: What is the interrelation between external and internal governance practices and research practices in public research organisations? What are appropriate governance models for cooperative knowledge production among universities, research institutes and industry? What are the specific governance challenges of emerging fields of research in science and technology, the humanities and social sciences?
· Regulatory Governance: Which regulatory problems does the governance of emerging technologies have to face? Which innovative governance approaches and methods are emerging to cope with these problems? What are the specific problems of legitimacy and effectiveness of certain governance arrangements? What can be learned from successes and failures in the regulation of other technologies?
· Governance of Promises and Risks: How can promising applications be explored and supported while taking risk concerns into account? How to assess promises and visions and how to identify and respond to hype? What are the generating processes, structures and institutions of expectation-building and how do they relate to the societal perception and dynamics of promises and risks? In the face of uncertain benefits and risks, what are the possibilities to avoid premature lock-ins and maintain reversibility while at the same time attaining a sufficient degree of stability?
· Governance Approaches to Emerging Science and Technology in long-term perspective: How have governance approaches and the emergence of new scientific and technology fields interacted in the past? How have governance approaches changed over time? To what extent are EST we observe today either similar or fundamentally different from former emerging science and technology fields?
· Methods, Measures, and Data for the Analysis of Governance Issues: How are existing methods being applied in new ways, including visualizing science and innovation dynamics? What analytic techniques and models are emerging, both quantitative and qualitative?
· Reflection on Concepts: Finally, we also encourage contributions reflecting on the underlying concepts and appropriate methods for investigating emerging science & technologies, such as the concepts of ‘emergence’, ‘innovation’, and ‘governance’.
Submission Guidelines and Additional Information
The Conference will extend over two days, with plenary and parallel sessions. The conference will convene internationally leading experts and scholars studying issues of the governance of EST. At the same time, early career researchers are welcome as well.
We invite proposals for presentations of papers, sessions or posters. Poster sessions are particularly targeted at PhD students, but PhD students may submit proposals for papers as well. Please indicate which of the above mentioned topics your paper addresses.
▪ The deadline for submission of proposals for papers, sessions or posters is March 16, 2010.
▪ Decisions on acceptance will be made by mid May, 2010, based on advice from the international programme committee (see above).
▪ Please submit all paper, session and poster proposals at http://www.igs.utwente.nl/international_conference_tenta/.
▪ Paper proposals should include an abstract of max. 400 words, describing the research question, methods, and preliminary results.
▪ Session proposals should include a max. 250 words description of the session and an abstract for each paper.
▪ Extended Abstracts for papers and posters can be submitted until September 30, 2010. These will be circulated at the Conference in the form of a booklet.
▪ Papers will be considered for post-conference edited volumes and special issues.
”Africa for Sale” Analysing and Theorizing Foreign Land Claims and Acquisitions
October 28 2010 | Groningen University, Netherlands
Deadline: May 15 2010
Updated: February 14 2010
While foreign land acquisitions in Africa are no recent phenomenon, the last several decades have witnessed an unprecedented level of large-scale land acquisitions all over the continent;
millions of hectares of land in Africa are increasingly claimed by and leased out to transnational entities, government businesses, multinational corporations, and international organisations.
Sometimes referred to as “neo-colonialism” due to their resemblance to colonial land exploits, these acquisitions have been largely driven by a global “scramble” for food security and access to natural resources. Foreign actors gain access to land in part by employing discursive tools and media to portray African farmland as “unused” or “unproductive” while the local farmers are portrayed as “backwards”, underdeveloped, environmentally destructive, and desperately poor.
Access is also secured through the market capitalist economy and often legitimized as “economic growth” or “sustainable development”. Indeed, proponents argue that land deals bring new technologies, improved agricultural practices, poverty alleviation, and modernisation to
developing countries.
However, the presence of foreign stakeholders in local territories also involves an encounter of often contradictory cultural paradigms, leading to pervasive social, economic and cultural changes and/or conflicts. In practice, these new land deals often result in the forced eviction of subsistence farmers from land which is simultaneously viewed as their “cultural heritage”, thereby severing them from their cultural and socio-economic attachments to past, present and
future.
While the nature and scope of large-scale, foreign land acquisitions has been taken up by the non-governmental arena (e.g. NGOs) very little academic scholarship has addressed these deals both analytically and theoretically, from [comparative] historical and contemporary perspectives. In turn, several important questions remain unanswered: What are the implications of foreign land leases for local populations? How are these deals mediated, structured and legitimized?
What is the role of multinational corporations in the economic, political, social, and environmental governance of developing countries in Africa?
Submissions addressing historical and contemporary aspects of foreign land acquisitions are welcome. We also encourage papers that offer methodological tools and theoretical models to analyse these land acquisitions. Due to the multifaceted theme of the conference, we seek and welcome abstracts from a variety of disciplines.
Contributions addressing the following four fields are particularly welcome:
1.) Food security: Foreign (government or company) investments in “unused,” arable land for large-scale agricultural production.
2.) Large-Scale Mining: Multinational claims to land for mineral exploitation.
3.) Conservation Projects: International environmental NGO acquisition or control of land for biodiversity conservation and/or protected area management.
4.) Tourism: Land acquisitions for purposes of tourism development.
The following thematic list is provided to help orient potential submissions:
Cultural Implications; Poverty and “Sustainable Development”; Food and Human Security; Neoliberalism; Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR); China's Engagement in Africa; Environmental, Social and Cultural
Impacts; Socio-cultural dimensions of “compensation”; Multinational Mining; Land Tenure Conflict; Food and Financial Crisis; Bio-engineering; Corporate Governance; Offshore Food Production;
Debt-for-Nature Swaps; REDD (Reducing Emission from Deforestation and Forest Degradation); Carbon Trades; Biopiracy; Ecotourism; Mining-Conservation Partnerships; Biodiversity Offsetting;
Climate Change; Land as Cultural Heritage; Cultural Change; Resettlement; Indigenous Environmental Knowledge; World Bank “Growth Poles” Project; Special Economic Zones (SEZs)
Important dates:
- 15 May 2010: deadline for abstract submission of individual papers (max. 400 words) including
brief biography of the author(s) (max. 100 words)
- 15 June 2010: selection of papers by the Conference Organising Committee and designing of the
final programme
- 1 September: deadline for submission of selected papers (max. 8.000 words)
Abstracts and papers should be written in English. The conference language is English. Please forward your submission to:
Conference Organising Committee: Michel Doortmont (Groningen University), Sandra Evers (VU University Amsterdam),
Froukje Krijtenburg (Institute of Historical Justice and Reconciliation), Caroline Seagle (VU)
Email: .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)
“Producing Knowledge, Producing Bodies:Cross Currents in the Sociologies of Sport and Physical Cultu
November 03 2010 to November 06 2010 | San Diego, CA
Deadline: June 25 2010
Updated: June 12 2010
We encourage those interested in organizing a session to send their proposal in the following format: Type of session. [Here, specify whether the session is one of the following 3 types: (a) paper presentations session (usually includes 3 or 4 papers that are presented orally); (b) a panel or round table session (usually allows for a session organizer to invite 3 or more participants to discuss a specific theme – such participants do not present a paper per se and do not submit an abstract); or (c) workshop session (these sessions are designed to incorporate a lot of interaction around a particular topic that may be more practically oriented). Title of the session (maximum of 20 words) A short description of the proposed session (maximum of 200 words) The name, affiliation (university or institution) and email address of the organiser(s). TO BE CONSIDERED, SESSION PROPOSALS MUST BE SUBMITTED NO LATER THAN JUNE 25, 2010 Please submit your proposal in the body of your e-mail (no attachments please). Please submit your email message to: .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) All those who submit their session proposals by the deadline (June 25th, 2010) will be contacted in early July 2010. We will then let them know whether their proposal has been accepted and provide them with information about the next steps leading to the conference.
(un)disciplined encounters: science as terrain of postcolonial interaction between Africa and Europe
November 05 2010 to November 06 2010 | Brussels, Belgiam
Deadline: August 31 2010
Updated: June 12 2010
Looking at science as a terrain of postcolonial interaction between Africa and Europe adds a vital dimension to the many commemorative and celebratory events related to the fiftieth anniversary of seventeen African countries. Although scholars often play a large part in these events, as experts, eyewitnesses, activists, or otherwise, they rarely or marginally seize these occasions to put their own positions — the vicissitudes of science and scientists throughout the postcolonial period — to academic and public scrutiny. One could object that such is perhaps easier done for the colonial period. After all, it is now widely acknowledged that scientific work — its practices and infrastructure as much as its insights and findings — in many different disciplines, ranging from the humanities and social sciences, to geography and the life sciences, were vital for the mise en valeur, the exploitation of human and natural resources, of the African colonies. But much the same can be said of the postcolonial period although it is clear that science and scientists now operate in knowledge/power configurations that differ considerably from the colonial ones and that have been variously identified as developmentalism, neoliberal governmentality, therapeutic domination, etc. But there are more (dis)continuities to reckon with in these matters. From the time when the mostly young African universities tried to turn their backs on the former metropolis through programmes of Africanisation until the present when the Bologna reforms or the World Bank's 'green' expertise are contested as undermining national scientific institutions and local expertise, the blame of 'colonisation' of knowledge/science, is never far away. The question is if, how and to what extent scientists themselves have been assessing their stances and interventions in connection with Africa in terms of decolonisation. This general question is not meant to be the licence for a navel-gazing retrospective but the starting point of an open-minded combination of historical reconstruction and reflexive prognosis on science as site of collaboration and distinction, antagonism and complicity between Africa and Europe. Without for that matter essentialising either the colonial vs. the postcolonial, science vs. 'non-science', or Africa vs. Europe, this conference is a transgressive as much as an interdisciplinary endeavour which addresses the overall theme in three different registers. 1. Postcolonial science: beyond the many limits of Postcolonial Theory 2. Science in the postcolony: states, institutions, and networks 3. Objects and subjects: processes of objectification and subjectification in heritage, conflict, and advocacy *Paper submission* The organising committee invites interested participants to submit proposals for inclusion in the conference programme. Submissions should include: - Paper title - Name(s) and affiliation(s) of paper proposer(s) - A 250 word (maximum) abstract Submissions should be made in pdf-format to secretariat-at-science2010-af-eu.com The official conference languages are English and French. The deadline for paper proposals is 31 August 2010 *Download:* full CFP (pdf)
Reimagining the Archive: Remapping and Remixing Traditional Models in the Digital Era
November 12 2010 to November 14 2010 | UCLA
Deadline: August 01 2010
Updated: July 15 2010
Reimaging the Archive will explore the changing role of archives and cultural heritage institutions, and the new opportunities presented by the remapping and remixing of traditional, cherished, and seemingly immutable
institutional models and practices.
Deadline for 500-word abstracts is August 1, 2010
More information:
http://is.gseis.ucla.edu/events/fliers/archives_symposium_2010.pdf
DIY Citizenship: Critical Making and Social Media International Conference
November 12 2010 | University of Toronto
Deadline: May 20 2010
Updated: April 13 2010
http://diycitizenship.com/
A renewed emphasis on participatory forms of digitally-mediated production is transforming our social landscape. ‘Making’ has become the dominant metaphor for a variety of digital and digitally-mediated practices. The web is exploding with independently produced digital ‘content’ such as video diaries, conversations, stories, software, music, video games—all of which are further transformed and morphed by “modders,” “hackers,” artists and activists who redeploy and repurpose corporately-produced content. Equally, communities of self-organized crafters, hackers, and enthusiasts are increasingly to be found online exchanging sewing and knitting patterns, technical guides, circuit layouts, detailed electronics tutorials and other forms of instruction and support. Many of these individuals and collaborators understand their work to be socially interventionist. Through practices of design, development, and exchange they challenge traditional divides between production and consumption and to redress the power differentials built into technologically-mediated societies.
“DIY Citizenship” invokes the participatory nature of these diverse “do-it-yourself” modes of engagement, community, networks, and tools—all of which arguably replace traditional with remediated notions of citizenship. The term “critical making” refers to the increasing role ‘making’ plays in critical forms of social reflection and engagement.
This interactive conference seeks to extend conversations about new modes of engaged DIY citizenship and politics evidenced by the exponential increase of DIY media, “user-generators”, “prosumers,” “hacktivists,” tactical media interventionists, and other ‘maker’ identities. We invite scholars, activists, artists, designers, programmers and others interested in the social and participatory dimensions of digitally-mediated practices, to engage in dialogue across disciplinary and professional divides. All methodological and theoretical approaches are welcomed. Submissions may include paper proposals, works of art and/or design, short video or audio segments, performances, video games, digital media, or other genres and forms. Potential topics include: the relation between social media and the ‘making’ of new forms of citizenship engagement—thus, for example, making movements; making community; making news; making play; making bodies; making health; making public; making education; making networks.
Plenary speakers include:
Suzanne de Castell, Professor (media, educational technologies) Faculty of Education Simon Fraser University, Vancouver: educational media theory, research, design and development, Founded Canadian Game Studies Association, co-editor of Loading…
Ron Deibert, Professor (Political Science), University of Toronto, Director of the Citizen Lab; a co-founder and a principal investigator of the OpenNet Initiative and Information Warfare Monitor projects; co-founder and VP of global policy and outreach for Psiphon Inc.
Paul Dourish, Professor of Informatics at the University of California, Irvine, co-conspirator in the Laboratory for Ubiquitous Computing and Interaction, and author of Where the Action Is: The Foundations of Embodied Interaction, MIT Press.
Jennifer Jenson, Professor of Pedagogy and Technology, York University, Toronto: video game designer, co-editor of Loading…: The Journal of the Canadian Game Studies Association
Natalie Jeremijenko, artist whose background includes studies in biochemistry, physics, neuroscience and precision engineering. Jeremijenko’s projects which explore socio-technical change have been exhibited by several museums and galleries, including the MASSMoCA, the Whitney, Smithsonian Cooper-Hewitt. Jeremijenko is the director of the environmental health clinic at NYU, assistant professor in Art, and affiliated with the Computer Science Dept.
Trebor Scholz, Professor of Culture and Media Study, The New School, New York: media activist and artist, founder of the Institute for Distributed Creativity
Conference organizers: Prof. Megan Boler, University of Toronto; Prof. Matt Ratto, University of Toronto. Sponsored by: Center for the Study of the U.S., Munk Centre, iSchool. and Knowledge Media Design, University of Toronto.
Please submit a 250-word proposal or description of work/presentation and a one-page artist or scholarly CV to .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) by May 20, 2010. Please include up to five images of work to be shown/discussed or a web URL if appropriate. Notifications will take place by June 15, 2010. For more information, .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) or visit our website at http://www.diycitizenship.com
Presenters will be invited to submit completed papers for an edited collection with a university press and/or a special issue of a peer-reviewed journal.
NACBS Roundtable Proposal: The “Object” of Early Modern Science
November 12 2010 | Baltimore, MD
Deadline: January 31 2010
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Updated: January 15 2010
This roundtable (4 papers) will treat the question of early modern scientific methods and instruments, particularly uses of a technology by which an object is examined, rendered, or recognized as scientifically significant. For example, papers might consider microscopes, medical instruments, or measuring devices. But the paper should also be focused on the particular object of study. Does the object under examination change through different technologies? Do different technologies yield different understandings of the same object? Are these understandings politically, ideologically, culturally inflected? How does that inflection temper our understandings of “science?” But papers could also “object” to the ways that early modern science is currently framed in the discipline. What do we need to consider now in order to understand science then? Are there helpful (or less helpful) ways of considering the idea of “objectivity?” (“Early Modern” here is broadly defined; papers pre-1800 or so will be considered) Please send a 300-word abstract and brief CV by January 31, 2010 to: .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)
CINESONIKA: The First International Film and Video Festival of Innovative Sound Design
November 12 2010 to November 21 2010 | Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Deadline: September 06 2010
Updated: May 16 2010
Second Call for Papers, Presentations and Works: CINESONIKA 2010
Venue: Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, British Columbia
Keynote Speaker: Don Ihde
CINESONIKA: The First International Film and Video Festival of Sound Design is extending its deadline for the conference component to Sept 6th.
We are seeking interdisciplinary contributions on sound in relation to the moving image. Media thinkers, film scholars, art historians, performance theorists, composers, filmmakers, sound practitioners, multimedia semioticians, philosophers of perception - we invite these and others to submit proposals for 20 minute panel presentations. All accepted submissions will be considered for inclusion in a special issue of The Soundtrack journal (Intellect books), 1000-3000 words for short articles, 5000-6000 for long papers.
Submitting to the Conference:
Please write "Cinesonika - Paper Submission" in the subject heading.
EXTENDED Deadline for Abstracts (under 500 words): Sept 6th, 2010.
Please submit your abstract and short bio both as an attachment (.doc or .pdf) and also pasted into the body of your email submission, to .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)
For information on submitting audiovisual work to the festival, please visit:
http://www.cinesonika.com/pg.php?s=submit
Important Dates:
Festival Dates: Nov. 12th-21st, 2010. Conference Dates: Nov. 12th-14th, 2010.
Conference Organizers:
Michael Filimowicz (School of Interactive Arts and Technology, Simon Fraser University) Dr. Lisa Coulthard (University of British Columbia) Dr. Diane Gromala (Canada Research Chair, Simon Fraser University)
Sound and the Moving Image
November 13 2010 to November 14 2010 | Simon Fraser University- Surrey Campus (Vancouver, British Columbia)
Deadline: July 31 2010
Updated: June 29 2010
CINESONIKA: The First International Film and Video Festival of Innovative Sound Design is adding a conference component. We are seeking interdisciplinary contributions on sound in relation to the moving image. Film scholars, art historians, performance theorists, composers, filmmakers, sound practitioners – we invite these and others to submit proposals for 20 minute panel presentations. All accepted submissions will be considered for inclusion in an edited volume (papers should be expandable to 3000-5000 words if selected for final essay publication).
Website: www.cinesonika.com
Submitting:
Please write “Cinesonika- Paper Submission” in the subject heading.
Deadline for Abstracts (under 500 words): July 31st 2010.
Deadline for Papers (for 20 minute panel presentations): September 15th 2010.
Please submit your abstract and short bio both as an attachment (.doc or .pdf) and also pasted into the body of your email submission, to .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address).
Festival Dates: Nov. 12th-21st 2010. Conference Dates: Nov. 13th-14th 2010.
Location: Simon Fraser University- Surrey Campus (Vancouver, British Columbia)
Association for the Rhetoric of Science and Technology annual seminar
November 13 2010 | San Francisco, CA
Deadline: June 15 2010
Updated: May 16 2010
(held as a pre-conference preceding the National Communication Association convention)
The Association for Rhetoric of Science and Technology is again hosting its annual pre-conference prior to NCA. We invite scholars to submit works in various stages of progress. One of the strengths of the pre-conference is that it is a fairly intense day-long set of interactions, ideal for non-traditional presentations or projects in relatively early stages. Presentations addressing any aspect of the ways in which communication impacts the production, dissemination, and utilization of scientific knowledge are invited, using any methodological or theoretical approach. Our goal for this year’s pre-conference is to begin with a wide variety of brief scholarly presentations, and then build on those insights to address some of the perennial tensions in rhetoric of science. Conversation last year focused on several topics that we are looking to develop further, including:
* Risk communication and assessment * Public engagement * Negotiation of expertise * Private/public boundary * Health as scientific rhetoric * Governance in science/policy * Other issues as appropriate
Another traditional element of the pre-conference has been at least one interactive event. This year we will have an afternoon workshop in which groups will draft first attempts at “position papers” for the key problem-areas listed above. We will begin the day with an invited guest speaker who will address issues of governance, with some prepared responses and open questions afterward. After the conference we can use some of the new information technologies available to refine those drafts if the groups find it productive. As always, we especially invite interdisciplinary work, and student submissions are welcome.
To submit either a paper, an extended abstract (1-2 pages), or a proposal for a non-traditional presentation, please send a Word-formatted document to Dr. Karen Taylor via e-mail at .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address), or feel free to contact her with any questions by e-mail or phone at 907-474-6818. We look forward to your joining us for what should be an enjoyable pre-conference.
Circulation, Obstruction, and Decay in the Anthropology of Science, Technology, and Medicine
November 17 2010 | New Orleans, LA
Deadline: February 01 2010
Updated: February 14 2010
American Anthropological Association Meetings
New Orleans, LA, Nov. 17-21, 2010
Sponsored by the Science, Technology, and Medicine Interest Group of the
Society for Medical Anthropology
Organizers: Betsey Brada, Lara Braff, and Ian Whitmarsh
This session explores circulation in the anthropological study of science, medicine and technology. How might flow and obstruction, movement and stasis be constitutive of the circulation of bodies, medical systems, pharmaceuticals, or scientific techniques and ideas?
The movement, uptake, re-imagination, and reshaping of medical and scientific regimes have long been central themes in the social study of
science and technology. The circulation of medical and scientific models creates not merely new flows of pharmaceuticals and new modes of
treatment, but also different visions of the person and the body, and
new relations among patients and practitioners. Circulation relies on
infrastructures and regimes, often made invisible or masked in the
discourse of flow. Our focus on circulation leads us to consider not
only the structure of movement but also its viscosity or quality of
flow: What is allowed to travel and how? How might the regimes that
makes circulation within science and medicine possible be said to decay,
or dissolve? In addition to conceptualizing circulation as ordered
spatial distribution, we welcome explorations of temporal circulation,
of the future and past in constituting the present.
Circulation also draws attention to blockage, and to the central role of
constrictions and clogs. Indeed, flows might be said to rely on
constraints that obstruct or redirect previously active flows. For
example, the transnational movement of medicine relying on legislation
and regulation that constrains its distribution, while the institutional
configuration of NGOs, commerce, and research may redirect the movement
of scientific expertise. We also want to explore how occlusions may be
productive and important in and of themselves, not merely representing
the absence of flow or its precondition. How might anthropological
ideas of flow and circulation be productively troubled by explorations
of clogs, blockage, or decay?
We welcome abstracts based upon ethnographic work in the area of
science, technology, and medicine that challenge our understandings of
spatial or temporal circulation as flows and/or obstructions. Please
submit an abstract of 250 words to Betsey Brada at
early for consideration as an SMA invited panel.
Language as a Scientific Tool. Managing Language as a Variable of Practice and Presentation
November 29 2010 | Vienna, Austria
Deadline: March 01 2010
Updated: January 15 2010
Language has played an important and extended role in the history and philosophy of sciences, with language itself also becoming the subject of scholarship. Linguistic environments of scientists have unavoidably affected scientific research at various levels by, for instance, imposing cultural constraints and preconceptions, and by affecting the bounds of communication that structure science as social engagement. Despite the relevance of this phenomenon, insufficient historiographical and philosophical consideration has been paid to scientists' own thoughts on language as the essential medium of their practice, and as a malleable element that can be shaped to suit their goals.
The aim of this conference is, thus, to consider the history of language as an object of scientific concern, whether for epistemological or semantic reasons, stemming from scientists' understanding of language as a tool for conceptualising the world, from concerns on successfully communicating within the scientific community among specialists or merely between scientists and the general public. In either case the examination of the historical circumstances that have motivated such reflection appear paramount.
Language can also be considered as a consciously modelled tool for achieving definite scientific and political goals. Indeed, Bacon began his natural philosophy explicitly criticising scholastic ideas on language, which for him obscured nature instead of clarifying it. Therefore, it seemed to him that language had to be reformed and properly redefined to serve in the natural philosophic endeavour. Locke gave specific attention to language as a prior question to setting an epistemological basis to natural philosophy, in turn enforcing a separation between word and meaning that put natural philosophers in direct control over their language. This revolution in language was also one of the key points of the new science hailed by members of Royal Society such as John Wilkins, who was appointed a treatise on a new philosophical and universal language. Other voices argued that gaining explicit control over language was the only way to free it from past misconceptions. The claim that science needed to formulate a theory of language able to underwrite scientists' epistemic activity recurs right up until logical positivism. At the same time, the Renaissance witnessed the struggle between Latin and the vernacular languages as means for the written codification of knowledge. From a dominant and hegemonic position, Latin gradually ceased being the only appropriate means for learned discourse, the vernaculars taking its place. Then, language critics displayed diverse arguments intertwining language with politics. In Germany, for instance, the main argument in linguistic change at the universities was the need of the introduction of a "new science" requiring a language distinct from scholastic Latin (Christian Wolff, Christian Thomasius), and thus not pervaded with scholastic ideas. This conference focuses on the question of how the process of linguistic change was effected, perceived, and conducted by scientists. From the field of philosophical discussions, to the field of "language in use", it is possible to pose crucial questions such as the following: . How has science sought to manage language through philosophical conceptions or rhetorical techniques to obtain particular goals, epistemic or otherwise? To what extent have scientists engaged in linguistic argumentation to criticize competing paradigms? . Has language been considered to be perfectly manageable? How have influences from e.g. other languages been coped with? Can it be said that linguistic purism relates only to alien words, or also to changing reality such as technology or geographical discoveries? . How has the communication of science been discussed in relation to both the "existing world" and the learned community? Has science been seen as corresponding more accurately with the "reality" (following Herder) if written in the national language of a community? How has the communication of discoveries with other scientists been perceived if this was the case? Which were the points of conflict between perfect translatability and innate and unique features of natural languages in this respect? . In what contexts have issues of language been raised and to what ends? Is it a purely philosophically-driven debate for the purpose of articulating science, or are political and social factors (co)responsible for the crises of languages commonly used in the past? . Who were the actors of linguistic change? Did scientists/natural philosophers play only a minor role, or did the impulses and crises of used languages come from other sources? . Did scientists try to develop their own definitions of language as competing with philosophical ones? How did the endeavors for perfection of language differ among different groups?
Postgraduates are particularly encouraged to submit proposals for twenty-minute papers. The language of the conference is English. The organizers plan to publish a selection of papers from this conference. Please e-mail 300-word abstracts or proposals with a brief CV to Rocío Sumillera: .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) by Monday, March 1st 2010.
ABSTRACT SUBMISSION Abstracts of 500 words or less should be submitted to .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) Word or RTF attachments, or in the body of your email. This must include a summary of the paper’s main arguments and methodology, as well as a brief statement on the contribution to the STS literature. You are very welcome to contact us to discuss possibilities for submission in the first instance. DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSION: 20th January, 2010. Applicants will be notified of the outcome by 25th January.
Travelling Languages: Culture, Communication and Translation in a Mobile World
December 03 2010 to December 05 2010 | Leeds, UK
Deadline: July 15 2010
Updated: July 15 2010
10th Annual Conference of the International Association of Languages and Intercultural Communication
In association with the Centre for Tourism and Cultural Change, Leeds Metropolitan University
03-05 December 2010, Leeds, United Kingdom
The world is ever 'on the move'. The opportunities and challenges of both real and virtual travel are very much at the heart of the emergent interdisciplinary field of 'mobilities', which deals with the movement of peoples, objects, capital, information and cultures across an increasingly globalised and apparently borderless world. In the practices, processes and performances of moving - whether for voluntary leisure, forced migration or economic pragmatism - we are faced with the negotiation and re-negotiation of identities and meaning relating to places and pasts.
Within the increasing complexities of global flows and encounters, intercultural skills and competencies are being challenged and and re-imagined. The vital role of languages and the intricacies of intercultural dialogue have largely remained implicit in the discourses surrounding mobilities. This Conference seeks to interrogate the role of intercultural communication and of languages in the inevitable moments of encounter which arise from all forms of 'motion'.
This international and interdisciplinary event is the 10th anniversary conference of the International Association of Languages and Intercultural Communication (IALIC) and is being organised in association with the Centre for Tourism and Cultural Change. Through this event we aim to bring together many of the sub-themes of previous IALIC conferences and focus upon the issues of culture, communication and translation in a mobile world, including: languages and intercultural communication in local and global education, tourism, hospitality, migration, translation, real and virtual border-crossings.
CALL FOR PAPERS We are pleased to receive 20 -minute research papers or descriptions of pedagogical practice which address or go beyond the following themes: · Moving languages - continuities and change; · Real and virtual border crossings; · Tourist encounters and communicating with the 'other'; · Tourism's role in inter-cultural dialogue; · The languages of diasporas and diasporic languages; · Dealing with dialects and the evolution/dissolution of communities; · Hospitality and languages of welcome; · Learning the languages of migration; · Lingusitic boundaries and socio-cultural inclusions and exclusions; · 'Located' and 'dislocated' languages and identities; · Practices and performances of translation. Please submit an abstract of no more than 500 words including title and full contact details as an electronic file to Jane Wilkinson at .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address). You may submit your abstract as soon as possible but no later than 15th July 2010. For further details on the conference please visit: www.leeds.ac.uk/german/ialic_conference_2010.htm or contact us at .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) or via emailing to .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)
e-Science 2010
December 07 2010 to December 10 2010 | Brisbane, Australia
Deadline: July 16 2010
Updated: July 15 2010
CALL FOR PAPERS E-SCIENCE 2010
http://www.escience2010.org/
Scientific research is increasingly carried out by communities of researchers that span disciplines, laboratories, organizations, and national boundaries. The e-Science 2010 conference is designed to bring together leading international and interdisciplinary research communities, developers, and users of e-Science applications and enabling IT technologies. The conference serves as a forum to present the results of the latest research and product/tool developments and to highlight related activities from around the world.
Building on last year's emphasis, we are particularly interested in advances in the application of technology in a particular discipline. Accordingly, significant advances in practice will be considered as important as the development of new technologies themselves. Further, we welcome contributions in educational activities under any of these disciplines.
As a result, the conference will be structured around a number of e-Science themes, shown below:
Arts, Humanities and e-Social Science Bioinformatics and Health Physical Sciences and Engineering Climate & Earth Sciences Research Tools, Workflow and systems, novel infrastructure Digital Repositories and Data Management Education and e-Science practice It is expected that the proceedings will be published by the IEEE Computer Society Press, USA and will be made available online through the IEEE Digital Library.
SUBMISSION PROCESS
Authors are invited to submit papers with unpublished, original work of not more than 8 pages of double column text using single spaced 10 point size on 8.5 x 11 inch pages, as per IEEE 8.5 x 11 manuscript guidelines.
Templates are available from here: http://www.ieee.org/web/publications/pubservices/confpub/AuthorTools/conferenceTemplates.html.
Authors should submit a PDF or PostScript (level 2) file that will print on a PostScript printer. Papers conforming to the above guidelines can be submitted through the e-Science 2010 paper submission system.
It is expected that the proceedings will be published by the IEEE CS Press, USA and will be made available online through the IEEE Digital Library.
It is a requirement that at least one author of each accepted paper attend the conference.
Papers should be submitted to: https://cmt2.research.microsoft.com/ESCIENCE10/
IMPORTANT DATES :
Papers Due: Friday 16th July 2010
Notification of Acceptance: 3rd September 2010
Neurosociety and Neuroeconomics
December 07 2010 to December 08 2010 | University of Oxford, UK
Deadline: July 01 2010
Updated: June 12 2010
The Institute for Science, Innovation and Society (InSIS), and the European Neuroscience and Society Network (ENSN) are jointly organising an international conference on 7-8 December 2010 at the Saïd Business School, University of Oxford, UK. Keynote speakers include Professor Steve Woolgar (Oxford); Professor Nikolas Rose (London School of Economics), Professor Nigel Thrift (Warwick University) and Professor Gemma Calvert (Warwick University; Neurosense). The topic of the conference is the rise of the brain and the emergence of the brain industry or ‘neuro markets’. The aim is to explore how, why, and in what ways has the figure of the brain come to permeate so many different areas of thinking and practice in academic and commercial life. What are the consequences for academia, business, commerce and policy? The last twenty years have seen unprecedented advances in the neurosciences, in fields such as psychopharmacology, neurology and behavioural genetics. A growing number of ethicists, social scientists, legal scholars and philosophers have begun to analyze the social, legal and ethical implications of these advances, from the use of fMRI imaging in legal cases, to the medical benefits and risks of the increasing prescription of psychotropic drugs such as Prozac and Ritalin. Some attention has been paid to the economic questions raised by the commercial development and application of new technologies, and the extent to which subfields such as neuroeconomics and neuromarketing are generating commercially and clinically valuable findings. The conference aims to bring together academics and practitioners from this wide range of disciplines to attempt a critical evaluation of the current state and future prospects for neuro thinking. The Organising Committee welcomes proposals for individual papers which seek to make empirically based and conceptually innovative contributions to the analysis of the persuasive power of neuroscience in and outside academia. We particularly welcome papers that relate to the themes below, however we are also happy to consider contributions which address the general topic of the conference but do not align directly with these themes. 1) The rise and current configuration of the international neuroindustry The conference seeks to map the diffusion of neuroscientific technology and knowledge by examining in which disciplines and which business practices the figure of the brain has become prominent and why in other disciplines or practices this is not the case. We are particularly interested in historical research that explores how the prominence of the brain has come about. Can we also anticipate the demise of the brain and what will supplant it? After eyes, skin and brain - what will be the next site of human bodies and behaviour which will be exploited commercially? In addition to mapping the diffusion of the figure of the brain and exploring its historical specificity this conference seeks to address how the brain as a trope organises scholarly and commercial thinking in different disciplines and business fields. What then are the current and potential commercial application of the brain sciences, which companies are taking the lead in bringing new technologies to market, and how are policymakers and industry groups lobbying to change regulatory barriers toward the use of new technologies? 2) The economic and social value of the new brain sciences As neurological and psychiatric disorders place a significant economic and social toll on the health of populations internationally, much optimism surrounds the hope that developments in the neurosciences will help to find treatments for disorders such as depression, Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s and autism spectrum disorders. To what extent is this optimism warranted? Scholars have pointed out that a) in the past, the development of novel biomedical technologies has often tended to increase societal inequalities because access to them has been available only to a minority, and b) often the expectation surrounding new biomedical treatments exceeds the reality of their clinical usefulness. This theme will address whether, much like the optimism surrounding the benefit of advances in pharmacogenomics and gene therapy, the clinical usefulness of advances in the neurosciences has been exaggerated. In addition, we welcome papers that critically address the commercialisation of the new brain sciences and its implications for research priorities. 3) The ethical and social implications of biomarkets and neuromarketing Neuroeconomics - combining psychology, economics and neuroscience in order to understand the neural and social impulses behind decision- making – and neuromarketing - the study of the brain’s response to advertising techniques - are promising to revolutionize the fields of marketing and consumer choice. What are the likely consequences of this? What are the implications for consumer autonomy, the rise and pervasiveness of brand and advertising cultures, and the increasing adoption of reductive and/or deterministic models of human behaviour and decision-making? This theme will address the social, economic and political implications of new developments in neuroeconomics and neuromarketing, through drawing on the insights of ethicists, clinicians and industry representatives. There is no cost for the event, but accommodation and travel expenses are not provided. Please send abstracts (300 – 600 words) to .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address). Deadline for submission of abstracts is July 1, 2010. For any queries, please contact co-convenor of the meeting, Dr. Tanja Schneider: .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)
IASTE 2010 The Utopia of Tradition 12th Conference of the International Association for the Study
December 15 2010 | Beirut, Lebanon
Deadline: February 12 2010
Updated: February 14 2010
In recent years IASTE scholars have examined traditions and their multitude of built forms in an increasingly interconnected global landscape. To advance this effort, this conference seeks to study how tradition inspires and informs changing concepts of Utopia in theory and space. Utopian theories and plans emerge from a complex symbiotic relationship with traditions that are based on notions of the ideal. Indeed, utopias cannot be understood without understanding the traditions from which they develop.
At its etymological root, utopia embodies both the theoretical paradox of an ideal place, eu-topia, and a non-place, ou-topia, rendering it an impossibility. As an ideal place, utopia relies on tradition, but as a non-place it attempts to negate it. Although most utopias have spatial manifestations, they often attempt to harness and make static the traditions used to create these spaces. The geographies of utopia physically ground tradition, but tradition simultaneously controls these very same geographies. This contemporary moment of economic crisis necessitates a re-examination of this dynamic.
The word ‘utopia’ is no longer as commonly referenced in professional practice as it was a few decades ago. However, architects, planners, and politicians continue to look for and disseminate notions of ideal forms. Regulated by ethnicity, religion, or race, the identity enclaves of many modern nations use territory to perpetuate the vision of a perfect community based on specific traditions. The continuation and strengthening of tradition, cloaked in the language of utopia, may thus be seen to provide the focus for new gated communities in the developing world, the dreamscapes in cities around the Persian Gulf and the Pacific Rim, and the faux-colonial homes in American suburbs. On the other hand, there is an emerging discourse that reconceptualizes utopia itself, not as a product but as an open process aimed at transforming, rather than transcending, the existing condition.
Perhaps the relationship between utopia and tradition can best be understood by examining dystopia, utopia’s twin other. Dystopia finds its clearest manifestation in literary and filmic representations, such as 1984 and Blade Runner, which embody complex imageries of terror, control, and urban anxiety. Tradition, in these brave new worlds, has often been explicitly rejected, and new forms are introduced as alternatives.
The historical development of utopia both draws upon and creates anew certain traditions of space, citizenship, and government. Those engaged with the idea of utopia have always come back to its physical realization within space, however elusive and/or illusory. In writing his Republic, Plato drew heavily on Greek traditions of warfare, civic engagement, and physical form, while Augustine of Hippo’s City of God was a response to a particular moment of empire and decadence. Thomas More created a sketchy ideological geography of ‘no place’ as a mythical island with a-spatial intonations. Since the Renaissance, when architects and artists such as Vitruvius searched for the citte felice, practitioners have tried to create physical spaces that would provide Eden-like environments for humankind. In more recent times, the modernist schemes of Ebenezer Howard and Le Corbusier envisioned ideal spaces that claimed to erase difference. This IASTE conference will focus on the theme of utopia and tradition in the twenty-first century.
The conference will attract an interdisciplinary group of scholars and practitioners from around the world working in the disciplines of anthropology, architecture, art and architectural history, city and regional planning, cultural studies, geography, history, landscape studies, sociology, and urban studies. They will present papers related to the following three themes:
Track 1. Utopian Ideals versus Traditional Physical Realities
Central to the conference theme is the main tenet that utopias use tradition in their formulation and perpetuation of the ideal. Inquiries regarding attributes of utopia that may be rooted in certain traditional practices are encouraged in this line of inquiry. This track seeks to explore the convergence of ideals and realities as well as the underlying concepts of utopia and how they relate to a given traditional context or are manifested in space.
Track 2. The Practices of Utopia and the Politics of Tradition
The deployment of tradition demands a certain selectivity that negates some forms of the past while celebrating others, making this exercise inherently political. In constructing utopias, practitioners also draw upon traditional discourses, practices, and forms, thus politicizing the quest for ideal communities. A key component in interrogating utopia and tradition is the political backdrop against which they occur. Examining the linkages between utopias, politics, and tradition, papers in this track are encouraged to investigate how tradition is deployed within the political sphere, and the role the state plays in formulating notions of community and governance.
Track 3. Utopia and the Space of Difference
By the end of the twentieth century, the crisis within modernism and the critical opposition to authoritarianism had caused a retreat from the idea of utopia as an ideal and perfected spatial form. This track seeks to examine new concepts of utopia that have risen to question its previous incarnations and established traditions. Papers in this track are encouraged to explore how the latest utopias have become more of an open process that engages both the present condition and the forbidden, the unseen and the marginalized, straying from the imagined idyllic landscapes towards a new politics of difference.
ubmission requirements
Please refer to our website http://www.ced.berkeley.edu/iaste for detailed instructions on abstract submissions. A one page abstract of 500 words and a one page C.V. are required. For further inquiries, please email IASTE Coordinator Sophie Gonick at .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address).
Proposals for complete panels are welcome. All papers must be written and presented in English. Following a blind peer-review process, papers may be accepted for presentation in the conference and/or publication in the Working Paper Series.
Contributors whose abstracts are accepted must pre-register for the conference, pay registration fees of $400 (which includes a special discounted $25 IASTE membership fee), and prepare a full-length paper of 20-25 double-spaced pages. Registered students may qualify for a reduced registration fee of $200 (which includes a special discounted $25 IASTE membership fee). All participants must be IASTE members. Please note that expenses associated with hotel accommodations, travel, and additional excursions are not covered by the registration fees and have to be paid directly to the designated travel agent. Registration fees cover the conference program, conference abstracts, and access to all conference activities including receptions, keynote panels, and a tour of the Beirut Central District.
conference schedulE
February 12
Deadline for receipt of abstracts and CVs
May 5
Notification of accepted abstracts for presentation
July 15
Deadline for pre-registration and full paper submissions for possible publication in the Working Paper Series.
October 5
Notification of accepted papers for the Working Paper Series
December 15-18
Conference program
December 19, 20, 22, & 21
Optional trips
Conference Site & accommodations
The conference will be held at American University of Beirut’s West Hall with accommodation at nearby hotels. In order to be able to obtain special room rates, reservations should be made online, over the phone, or through email at the conference hotel:
Gefinor Rotana Hotel, Hamra, Beirut, http://www.rotana.com/property-.htm, E-mail: .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)
Other accommodations with a special IASTE discount:
Casa d'Or Hotel, Hamra, Beirut, http://www.casadorhotel.com/, E-mail: .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)
POST-CONFERENCE TRIPS
Two optional one day trips are offered at participant’s expense to Byblos and Tripoli, or to Baalbek and Anjar, on Sunday, December 19, 2010.
A two day/two night trip to Damascus, Syria, is also available on Monday, December 20-Wednesday, December 22, 2010.
To participate in any of the three additional trips, please contact Mr. Charbel Salem, Nakhal Travel, http://www.nakhal.com, E-mail: .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) or .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)
Note: An additional visa may be necessary for travel to Syria. Please check with your local consulate.
Inquiries
Please use the following information when making inquiries regarding the conference.
Mailing address:
IASTE 2008
Center for Environmental Design Research
390 Wurster Hall #1839
University of California
Berkeley, CA 94720-1839
Phone: 510.642.6801
Fax: 510.643.5571
E-mail: .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)
Website: http://www.ced.berkeley.edu/iaste
MeCCSA 2011 Conference
January 12 2011 to January 14 2011 | The Lowry, Salford Quays, Salford, Greater Manchester
Deadline: September 22 2010
Updated: August 15 2010
The Media, Communications and Cultural Studies Association (MeCCSA) is the UK subject association for those researching and teaching in the area, whether in arts, humanities or social sciences departments.
In 2011 the conference will be hosted by the Communication, Cultural and Media Studies Research Centre which is situated within the School of Media, Music and Performance at the University of Salford.
The conference is to be held at the award-winning theatre and arts complex The Lowry, at Salford Quays in the city of Salford. This is adjacent to MediaCityUK, where the BBC, the University of Salford, and other media and creative organisations have new facilities and buildings.
As is usual, the conference will include papers, presentations of practice, posters and panels across the range of interests represented by the Association and its networks. Papers, posters and panels will cover all areas of media, communication and cultural studies.
*Instructions for Authors:*
Abstracts of papers, presentations of practice and posters, no longer than 250 words, should be submitted at http://www.meccsa2011.org.uk by 22 September in order for peer review to take place.
For panels, we require a short description and rationale for the whole (200 words), abstracts for each of the papers (250 words each) and the name of the person chairing. For practice proposals please ensure that you send DVD preview material (not the whole item) with the abstract via post (details to be provided on the conference website). Alternatively, include in your abstract a URL which points us to somewhere on the web where we can see preview material.
*Poster Competition*
There will be a poster competition with a prize of ?100, to be judged by members of the MeCCSA Executive Committee. The academic poster is highly valued by MeCCSA as an indicator of current research and there will be a space set aside at the 2011 conference for this activity.
*Important Dates:*
Submission of Abstracts, Posters and Panels: 22 September 2010
Notification of acceptance: 4 October 2010
*What's Next? *In the next few weeks we will be announcing our Plenary and Keynote speakers. In the meantime, get your submissions ready and do sign up for news via our RSS feed. You'll also be able to follow the conference on Twitter. Ben Light will be tweeting updates as we go along - his username is doggyb and the conference hashtag is #meccsa2011
For further information please contact Deborah Woodman -- .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) or indeed myself
CFP: iConf 2011, Poster and demo session
February 08 2011 to February 11 2011 | Seattle, Washington, USA
Deadline: August 23 2010
Updated: August 15 2010
CFP: iConf 2011, Poster and demo session, Design methods for the iSchool curriculum Organizers: Jean-François Blanchette, IS, UCLA; Matt Ratto, FI, Toronto; Amelia Acker, IS, UCLA; Lysanne Lessard, FI, Toronto. In an era of ubiquitous and pervasive information technologies and services, information professionals are increasingly tasked with the creation and implementation of novel, innovative and effective information infrastructures and practices. Such innovation involves intimate knowledge of the social context of activities and relationships within which new devices and services will be deployed, as well as an enhanced understanding of the constraints and possibilities of software and hardware platforms, infrastructure, and design methodologies. This session reports on experiments with the integration of design-based research methods in the iSchool curriculum aimed at providing the knowledge and experiences necessary for information professionals to act as innovators within this space. We propose a two-part event: first, a round-table on the role of design in information school teaching and research; secondly, a show-and-tell interactive poster and demo session of design-related work by students and faculty. This is a call for submission for the interactive posters and demos session. Graduate students and faculty will present interactive posters and demonstrate current projects, prototypes, videos, applications, and research that feature issues of design and usability in information technology. The interactive maker space will provide conference attendees with opportunities to engage and experience a variety of show-and-tell projects while unpacking and discussing design practices with the creators/designers/technologists/info professionals during demonstrations and as they experience/use the projects. The iConf 2011 will take place in Seattle, February 8-11, 2011: http://www.ischools.org/iConference11/2011index/ Please submit proposals to the demo and interactive poster session directly to Amelia Acker < aacker[at]ucla[dot]edu > by Monday 23 August 2010 at 9:00 am. Requirements for interactive presentation proposal: - Contact info - 50 word bio/statement of research interests - 250-500 description of your proposed demonstration, video, prototype, application, interactive or printed poster; and how it relates to, incorporates, or features design methods - Special requirements (wireless, easels, projectors) You will be notified of acceptance to the session by 30 August 2010. The organizers of the session will be responsible for applying directly to the iConference and will inform you of the session’s acceptance early November 2010. If you have any questions regarding submission guidelines please feel free to contact me at aacker[at]ucla[dot]edu. Sincerely, Amelia Acker
iConference 2011
February 08 2011 to February 11 2011 | Seattle, Washington, USA
Deadline: August 30 2010
Updated: June 14 2010
Seattle, Washington, USA February 8 - 11, 2011 http://www.ischools.org/iConference11/2011index/ ***PAPER SUBMISSION DEADLINE: August 30, 2010*** Greetings to everyone interested in HCI and Information! Please forward to your colleagues! We invite you to participate in the sixth annual conference sponsored by the iCaucus, a growing association of over 25 Schools, Faculties, and Colleges in North America, Europe and Asia that focus on Information. The iConference gathers researchers and professionals who share the goal of making a difference through the study of people, information, and technology. Under the banner "Inspiration - Integrity - Intrepidity" we seek to showcase diversity in research interests and approaches, and demonstrate how the field creates leadership and impact on a global scale. The four days will include peer-reviewed papers, posters, and alternative events. Also being organized is a Doctoral Student Colloquium and a Junior Faculty & Postdoc Colloquium, popular venues at past iConferences. Papers and poster abstracts will be published in the ACM Digital Library. The aim is to build community and promote and share excellence in research on information challenges and opportunities. We have identified cross-cutting themes: social inclusion, context, materiality, personalization, memory. The 2011 iConference should be an exceptional venue for sharing insights and collaborating with others who share your passion and research interests. For more information on the range of topics visit the iConference web site, which includes more detail and paths to past iConferences. But do not feel constrained, this is a dynamic field that you will help shape! The conference will be held at Seattle's Renaissance Hotel. The local host is the University of Washington Information School. Timeline: August 30, 2010: Papers, Poster Abstracts, Alternative Event proposals, Preconference Workshops November 1: Authors notified December 1: Final versions submitted Links and Contact Information: * CFP: http://www.ischools.org/iConference11/participation/ * Conference: http://www.ischools.org/iConference11/2011index/ * iCaucus: http://www.ischools.org/site/
AAAS Graduate Student Travel grants
February 17 2011 to February 21 2011 | Washington, D.C.
Deadline: October 25 2010
Updated: August 15 2010
Travel Grants for Graduate Students to Attend 2011 AAAS Annual Meeting
Thanks to a generous donation from a member, Section L (History & Philosophy of Science) of the American Association for the Advancement of Science will offer a limited number of travel grants to assist graduate students studying history or philosophy of science presenting posters at the Association's next Annual Meeting in Washington, DC, February 17-21, 2011 (http://www.aaas.org/meetings/).
The submission information for posters is at http://aaas.confex.com/aaas/2011/poster/cfp.cgi/ and October 25 is the submission deadline. The grant is to defray costs of travel, lodging, and registration, to a maximum of $500. Highest preference will be given to graduate students who are presenting posters or otherwise on the program; secondary preference will be given to those who serve as session aides at the meeting (see http://meeting2011.aaas.org/sessionaide/default.aspx).
To apply, send a CV, a statement of support from your advisor, and a brief statement why attending this meeting would benefit your program of study, to Jonathan Coopersmith, Secretary, Section L, AAAS, .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address). The deadline for application is December 1. Notification of awards will be made by December 15.
Science without Borders
February 17 2011 | Washington, D.C.
Deadline: April 27 2010
Updated: March 16 2010
The History and Philosophy of Science Section (L) of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), the world’s main science association, is seeking symposium proposals for the 2011 annual meeting in Washington, Held February 17-21, the meeting will attract thousands of participants and a thousand media. It is an excellent opportunity for historians and philosophers to work with scientists and engineers and to reach a wider audience.
The meeting theme is“Science Without Borders” with a submission deadline of April 27. For more information, go to www.aaas.org/meetings/2010/program/symposia/submit/. Historically, the acceptance rate is 50%. You do not need to be an AAAS member to propose or participate in a symposium. The Section may be able to offer some travel support.
Section L is coordinating the development of several symposia, including
Bridging the disciplines: Philosophy & biology
Escaping the gravity well: Increasing access to space exploration and exploitation
History of chemistry (2011 is the international year of chemistry honoring the 100th anniversary of Madame Curie)
Moral borders in science
Science with and without borders
Conceptions of data
Development of digital HST
Nanotech worries
Standards (or lack thereof) in doing science (especially biotech)
Peer review
In addition, poster sessions offer graduate students the opportunity to showcase their research. More information will be available later this year. If accepted, the Section may be able to provide some travel support.
To learn more about Section L or to participate in one of the proposed symposia, visit our webpage at www.aaas.org/aboutaaas/organization/sections/history/ or contact the Section Secretary, Jonathan Coopersmith at .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) (fax: 979 862-4314)
The Stimulated Body and the Arts: The Nervous System and Nervousness in the History of Aesthetics
February 17 2011 | Durham, UK
Deadline: July 31 2010
Updated: February 14 2010
International Interdisciplinary Conference
17-18 February 2011
Centre for the History of Medicine and Disease, Durham University, UK
Venue: Hatfield College, Durham, UK
Deadline for submission of abstracts: 31 July 2010
This conference will discuss the history of the relationship between
aesthetics and medical understandings of the body. Today's vogue for
neurological accounts of artistic emotions has a long pedigree. Since
G.S. Rousseau's pioneering work underlined the importance of models of
the nervous system in eighteenth-century aesthetics, the examination of
physiological explanations in aesthetics has become a highly productive
field of interdisciplinary research. Drawing on this background, the
conference aims to illuminate the influence that different medical
models of physiology and the nervous system have had on theories of
aesthetic experience. How have aesthetic concepts (for instance,
imagination or genius) be grounded medically? What effect did the shift
from animal spirits to modern neurophysiology have on aesthetics?
The medical effects of culture were not always regarded as positive. The
second focus of the conference will be the supposed ability of excessive
reading, music and so on to 'over-stimulate' nerves and cause
nervousness, mental and physical illness, homosexuality and even death.
It will consider questions regarding the effects of various theories of
neuropathology and psychopathology on the concept of pathological
culture. What kinds of culture could lead to such over-stimulation? How
was this medical critique of culture related to moral objections and
changes in gender relations, politics and society? How was it linked to
medical concern about lack of attention and willpower?
This interdisciplinary conference brings together scholars working in a
wide range of fields, including not only the history of medicine but
also in subjects such as art history, languages and musicology.
Abstracts for 20-minute papers (maximum 250 words) should be submitted
electronically to the organisers by 31 July 2010 at the following
address:
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Organisers
Dr James Kennaway
Professor Holger Maehle
Dr Lutz Sauerteig
http://www.dur.ac.uk/chmd/
Urban Affairs Association Conference
March 16 2011 to March 19 2011 | New Orleans, LA
Deadline: August 15 2010
Updated: July 15 2010
Call for Papers: Urban Affairs Association Conference, New Orleans, Louisiana; March 16-19, 2011
Session Title: Risk, Reward, and Real Estate: Doing Development in an Uncertain World
Organizers: Liza Weinstein and Shelley Kimelberg (Northeastern University)
Session Description: Drawing from the pioneering works of Luhman, Giddens, and Beck in the early 1990s, many social scientists have characterized post-industrial society as “risk society,” in which economic growth and increased productivity have unleashed a series of manufactured risks, from environmental disasters to financial crises. Meanwhile, recent external (or “natural”) risks are deepening existing inequalities, as the associated dangers are unevenly distributed and the heaviest burdens fall on society’s most vulnerable members. Yet while theories of risk society have influenced many fields in the social sciences, urban sociologists, geographers, and political theorists have only modestly engaged with this perspective. This panel explores the degree to which theories of risk can provide a useful framework for examining the politics of urban development in the context of real estate bubbles, financial crises, and large-scale disasters – natural or otherwise.
While theories of risk society have proven fruitful in examinations of decision making around environmental and technological matters, the primary focus of this panel will be on the financial risks associated with urban development. The panel organizers seek papers exploring how these risks are perceived, anticipated, constructed, framed, avoided, or mitigated by development professionals, business and political leaders, and the city residents impacted by urban development efforts. For example, have rising and falling fortunes in real estate over the past decade affected how various stakeholders engage in the politics of urban development? Who assumes these risks and who reaps the rewards? How have these relationships changed in an era of mortgage defaults and Wall Street bailouts? Given that real estate investment, property development, and infrastructure construction require significant outlays of financial resources, time, and political capital, how different actors conceptualize risks, and the steps they take to mitigate them, are critical questions for urban researchers. This panel aims to bring together empirically grounded papers that explore the application of risk society theories to studies of urban development. We encourage papers based on research conducted in various parts of the world and employing a variety of methodological approaches.
Please send abstracts (250-500 words) to Liza Weinstein .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) or Shelley Kimelberg .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) by AUGUST 15, 2010.
CSA’s Annual Conference, NEW DIRECTIONS IN CULTURAL STUDIES
March 24 2011 to March 26 2011 | Columbia College Chicago, Illinois
Deadline: September 17 2010
Updated: August 15 2010
Call for Proposals Cultural Studies Association Ninth Annual Conference
NEW DIRECTIONS IN CULTURAL STUDIES Columbia College Chicago Chicago, Illinois 24-26 March, 2011
Deadline for Proposals: 17 September 2010 Website for Submissions Opens: 21 July 2010 http://www.culturalstudiesassociation.org/
Conference Theme and Location
The Cultural Studies Association (CSA) invites participation in its ninth annual conference. The theme of this year's conference, New Directions in Cultural Studies, encourages the submission of proposals that reflect on the past(s) and present(s) of the field of cultural studies and endeavor to lay the groundwork of its future(s). We are particularly interested in work that addresses the current historical conjuncture, one characterized by crises and uncertainties of all kinds: social, economic, political, cultural, institutional, and intellectual. As at past CSA conferences, we welcome proposals from all areas and on all topics of relevance to cultural studies, including but not limited to literature, history, sociology, geography, politics, anthropology, communications, popular culture, cultural theory, queer studies, critical race studies, feminist studies, postcolonial studies, legal studies, science studies, media and film studies, material culture studies, visual art and performance studies.
This year's conference is hosted by Columbia College Chicago, the largest arts and media school in the United States with over 13,500 students pursuing degrees within over 120 undergraduate and graduate programs, including a well-established undergraduate program in Cultural Studies. Founded in 1890, the College houses a Museum of Contemporary Photography, the Center for Black Music Research, the International Latino Cultural Center, and the Institute for the Study of Women and Gender in Arts and Media, and is located in downtown Chicago, blocks from the Symphony Center of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Gene Siskel Film Center, the Museum Campus and the Theater District. The city is also home to over a dozen independent film festivals, around 200 theatre groups and venues, more than 88 colleges, several internationally recognized research libraries, over 35 radio stations (in several languages), and more than 25 magazines and newspapers, just to name a few cultural and media institutions.
We particularly invite proposals that engage with this conference location and its many resources.
Conference Formats: Papers, Panels, Roundtables, Workshops, Seminars, and Division Sessions
Conference formats are intended to encourage the presentation and discussion of projects at different stages of development and to foster intellectual exchange and collaboration. Please feel free to adapt the suggested formats or propose others in order to suit your session's goals. If you have any questions, please address them to .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address).
All of the conference session formats listed below will be 105 minutes in length.
The conference has a finite set of resources available in terms of space and technology. In your proposal, you can request specific space and technical accommodations, including audio-visual equipment such as video/data projectors and DVD/VCR combo players. You will be asked to provide a short justification for your request in terms of the goals and format of your session. Requests will be evaluated in terms of these justifications and available resources.
1. INDIVIDUAL PAPERS
Successful papers will reach several constituencies of the organization and will connect analysis to social, political, economic, or ethical questions.
Proposals for papers should include: the title of the paper; the name, title, affiliation, and email address of the author; and an abstract of the 20 minute paper (<500 words).
2. PRE-CONSTITUTED PANELS
Pre-constituted panels allow a team of 3-4 individuals to present their research, work, and/or experiences, leaving 30-45 minutes of the session for questions and discussion. Panels should include 3-4 participants.
Proposals for pre-constituted panels should include: the title of the panel; the name, title, affiliation, and contact information of the panel organizer; the names, titles, affiliations, and email addresses of all panelists, and a chair and/or discussant; a description of the panel's topic (<500 words); and abstracts for each presentation (<150 words).
3. ROUNDTABLES
Roundtables allow a group of participants to convene with the goal of generating discussion around a shared concern. In contrast to panels, roundtables typically involve shorter position or dialogue statements (5-10 minutes) in response to questions distributed in advance by the organizer. The majority of roundtable sessions should be devoted to discussion. Roundtables are limited to no more than five participants, including the organizer. We encourage roundtables involving participants from different institutions, centers, and organizations.
Proposals for roundtables should include: the title of the roundtable; the name, title, affiliation, and contact information of the roundtable organizer; the names, titles, affiliations, and email addresses of the proposed roundtable participants; and a description of the position statements, questions, or debates that will be under discussion (<500 words).
4. WORKSHOPS
Workshops allow a facilitator or facilitating team to set an agenda, pose opening questions, and/or organize hands-on participant activities. The facilitator or team is responsible for gathering responses and results from participants and helping everyone digest them.
Proposals for workshops should include: the title of the workshop; the name, title, affiliation, and contact information of the (lead) facilitator and of any co-facilitators; a description of the activities to be undertaken (<500 words). Please also include a description of space requirements, if appropriate
5. SEMINARS
Seminars are small-group (maximum 15 individuals) discussion sessions for which participants prepare in advance of the conference. In previous years, preparation has involved shared readings, pre-circulated ''position papers'' by seminar leaders and/or participants, and other forms of pre-conference collaboration. We particularly invite proposals for seminars designed to advance emerging lines of inquiry and research/teaching initiatives within cultural studies broadly construed. We also invite seminars designed to generate future collaborations among conference attendees. Once a limited number of seminar topics and leaders are chosen, the seminars will be announced through the CSA's various public e-mail lists. Participants will contact the seminar leader(s) directly who will then inform the Program Committee who will participate in the seminar. Seminars will be marked in the conference programs as either closed to non-participants or open to other conference attendees as auditors (or in other roles).
A limited number of seminars will be selected by the program committee, with a call for participation announced on the CSA webpage and listserv no later than 4 October 2010. Interested parties will apply directly to the seminar leader(s) for admission to the session by 12 November 2010. Seminar leader(s) will be responsible for providing the program committee with a confirmed list of participants (names, titles, affiliations, and email addresses required) for inclusion in the conference program no later than 22 November 2010. Please note: To run at the conference, seminars must garner a minimum of 8 participants, in addition to the seminar leader(s).
Proposals for seminars should include: the title of the seminar; the name, title, affiliation, and contact information of the seminar leader/team members; and a description of the issues and questions that will be raised in discussion, along with a description of the work to be completed by participants in advance of the seminar (<500 words). Examples of successful seminar descriptions are available on the conference website.
Individuals interested in participating in (rather than leading) a seminar should consult the list of seminars and the instructions for signing up for them, available at conference website after 4 October 2010. Please direct questions about seminars to S. Charusheela: .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address).
6. DIVISION SESSIONS
A list of CSA divisions is available at http://www.csaus.pitt.edu
Submission Deadline and Process
The CSA administers submissions electronically. Please prepare all the materials required to propose your session according to the given directions before you begin electronic submission. We recommend saving a copy of this information in a Word document. Then go to: http://www.culturalstudiesassociation.org/. You will be asked to enter the information into the fields provided (you may choose to cut and paste).
The Program Committee will send final notifications regarding session proposals no later than 1 December 2010.
In order to be listed in the program, conference registration - which includes membership in the CSA - must be completed online before 10 March 2010. All program information - names, presentation titles, and institutional affiliations - will be based on initial conference submissions.
Society for Applied Anthropology Annual Meeting
March 30 2011 to April 02 2011 | Seattle, Washington, USA
Updated: July 15 2010
Call for Papers: Society for Applied Anthropology Annual Meeting Seattle, Washington (March 30 - April 2, 2011)
Session Title: Purposive Economies in the Neoliberal Era
Brian J. Burke (University of Arizona) and Andrew Gardner (University of Puget Sound)
Nation-states and grassroots groups have adopted a number of responses to the pressures of capitalism and neoliberalism, including “exceptional spaces” that bound the spatial and social impacts of global economic processes (Ong) and “intentional economies” that seek to imbue economic processes with non-capitalist socio-political and ethical meanings (Gibson-Graham). This session seeks ethnographically informed papers that explore the purposive construction and maintenance of non-capitalist economies in the contemporary era. How, in various cultural contexts and geographical places, have people gone about building, reviving or preserving diverse/alternative systems of economic relations?
We hope to establish and apply a common analytical framework to each of the ethnographic case studies, thereby allowing us to clearly stake out the commonalities and discrepancies among ethnographic sites. We encourage each panelist to contribute analytical referents for this process of critical reflection, and we offer the work of Aihwa Ong and J.K. Gibson-Graham as starting points. Ong’s work on zoning technologies and graduated sovereignty suggests that nation-states have strategically configured exceptional spaces (e.g. free economic zones) to accommodate the neoliberal economy, a tactic that simultaneously insulates them from its deleterious impact. Her work encourages us to consider the careful construction of boundaries and articulations between capitalist and non-capitalist spaces. Gibson-Graham’s conceptualization of the diverse economy urges us to examine the nature of transactions in these purposive economies, the details of the labor process, the logic by which these systems and the surpluses they produce are organized and distributed, and the production of non-capitalist subjectivities.
Relevant questions that may arise through this encounter among experiences and theorists include: • What role does ideology play in establishing and maintaining these non-capitalist economies? • What sort of subjectivities do they produce? • How might we describe these economies’ relations with other (and often predominant) economic assemblages? • What are the mechanisms and processes through which capitalism asserts its power in both everyday experience and broader social/political affairs? • What social and cultural factors effectively generate and sustain resistance to capitalist hegemonic processes?
We intend to organize these papers into a session for the upcoming Society for Applied Anthropology meeting in Seattle, Washington (March 30 - April 2, 2011) and, eventually, carry this project to publication. If you are interested, please send a brief summary of your proposed contribution to .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) and .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)
Special Joint Conference of the International Convention of Asia Scholars (ICAS) and Association for
March 31 2011 to April 03 2011 | Honolulu, Hawaii
Deadline: August 01 2010
Updated: July 15 2010
Special Joint Conference of the International Convention of Asia Scholars (ICAS) and Association for Asian Studies (AAS) – 70 years of Asian Studies
Honolulu, Hawaii, 31 March–3 April 2011
PANEL – Asian border-crossing mobilities: On the road to (self)development
Conveners:
Pál Nyíri (Free University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands): .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)
Noel B. Salazar (University of Leuven, Belgium): .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)
Discussant:
Biao Xiang (University of Oxford, UK)
Panel abstract
Various forms of geographical mobility have long been linked to self-improvement. Today, boundary-crossing travels in particular are widely accepted as a desirable (not to say normative) path towards success, be it educational or scientific (student, faculty or staff exchange), occupational and financial (work experience abroad), religious (pilgrimage), or higher social status (tourism or lifestyle migration). Mobility is also often framed as serving the development of the places one travels to, or their people. Volunteers, missionaries, investors, doctors, teachers, engineers and “responsible tourists” all claim to be contributing to this noble goal. While cross-border mobilities in Asia have been associated with self-betterment since colonial times, mobility as the betterment of others, traditionally a preserve of the First and the now-defunct Second World, is becoming an increasingly common discourse, accompanying an expanding practice and span of mobilities. The ranks of Asian investors, missionaries, volunteers and eco-minded tourists abroad are growing rapidly and adding to the ranks of workers and students. Sometimes, a combination of entrepreneurial zeal and religious devotion coalesces into a discourse of mission that appears to parallel “the white man’s burden” from a century ago. This panel explores how voluntary mobility has become linked with various forms of self-improvement and the development of others – economic, social, cultural, environmental or soteriological – across Asian societies. Where do the currently dominant imaginaries of success-through-mobility and help-through-migration come from and which mechanisms and institutional regimes ensure their circulation? How are other- and self-improvement linked, and in which situations do both come into conflict?
Submission of abstracts:
Apart from contact details, paper proposers are asked to supply a paper title and a 250-word abstract.
Deadline for receipt of all proposals is 1 August 2010
General information on the conference:
http://www.asian-studies.org/annual-meeting/
Important:
- No individual is to be on the formal program of the conference in more than one session
- The Program Committee will expect strict compliance with the December 2 deadline for participant registration
If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact either of the panel conveners.
What is New About ?Neo-Liberal? Urbanism? Middle Eastern Cities in Comparative Perspective
April 06 2011 to April 08 2011 | Florence, Italy
Deadline: July 15 2010
Updated: June 12 2010
Since the 1980s, Middle Eastern cities have hosted several experiments in market-driven, or ?neo-liberal? urbanism, yet they remain off Urban Studies? disciplinary map. This workshop seeks to place regional cities squarely within contemporary debates about the nature of neo-liberal urbanism through historical and comparative studies of urban transformation.
We seek to evaluate two dominant approaches to urban transformations ? that derived from ?structuralist? accounts of the shift from state to market in the management of urban affairs, and the account rooted in the growing literature on ?governmentality? ? through historically-grounded case studies of transformations of Middle Eastern cities. How has market urbanism been adapted and adopted in the region? What local, regional and global structures facilitated or imposed the process? How have they reconfigured politico-economic institutions and practices, and so, the urban structure and fabric of regional cities? How does the region?s urban experience confirm, re-orient or undermine these currently dominant theorizations of market urbanism as drawn from western accounts?
Participants will evaluate dominant paradigms through a contemporary or historical episode of structural transformation or governmentalization of a regional city. In addition to contemporary cases, we suggest three historical moments that provide fertile terrain for the evaluation of dominant paradigms: a) late Ottoman modernization of urban administration and economy, b) colonial state formation, and c) the shift to Keynesianism and economic nationalism in the era of independence. Through concrete case studies, authors are asked to attend to the structures, institutions, technologies and strategies introduced, the problems they meant to address and the politico-economic forces that benefited from, resisted or were produced by them. The organizers hope that, in evaluating how the cases or comparisons confirm, redirect or contradict either or both of the dominant formulations discussed above, the panel will not only develop more rigorous understandings of neo-liberal urbanism in the Middle East, but to do so in such a way as to ensure the Middle East has a central place in the production of urban theory.
The complete workshop description can be viewed at:
http://www.eui.eu/RSCAS/Med/mrm2011/
Please find below important deadlines:
15 July 2010: Paper Proposals Due
Applications must be submitted on-line. The electronic application form is available at http://www.eui.eu/RSCAS/Med/mrm2011/
1 September 2010: Announcement of selected workshop participants.
15 February 2011: Final versions of papers due.
New Forms of Difference/ New Forms of Connection
April 15 2011 to April 19 2011 | TBA
Updated: June 12 2010
We encourage those interested in organizing a session to send their proposal in the following format: Type of session. [Here, specify whether the session is one of the following 3 types: (a) paper presentations session (usually includes 3 or 4 papers that are presented orally); (b) a panel or round table session (usually allows for a session organizer to invite 3 or more participants to discuss a specific theme – such participants do not present a paper per se and do not submit an abstract); or (c) workshop session (these sessions are designed to incorporate a lot of interaction around a particular topic that may be more practically oriented). Title of the session (maximum of 20 words) A short description of the proposed session (maximum of 200 words) The name, affiliation (university or institution) and email address of the organiser(s). TO BE CONSIDERED, SESSION PROPOSALS MUST BE SUBMITTED NO LATER THAN JUNE 25, 2010 Please submit your proposal in the body of your e-mail (no attachments please). Please submit your email message to: .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) All those who submit their session proposals by the deadline (June 25th, 2010) will be contacted in early July 2010. We will then let them know whether their proposal has been accepted and provide them with information about the next steps leading to the conference.
Perception, Reception and Deception: The role of the media in society
April 19 2011 to April 21 2011 | Dublin, Ireland
Deadline: September 30 2010
Updated: June 14 2010
The 4th biennial Media History conference will focus on the ways in which people have understood the social, cultural and political roles of the media over the past five centuries. The concept of 'the media' will be interpreted broadly, so as to include newspapers, magazines and one-off publications which included news and information, as well as manuscript, aural, visual, and broadcast and other electronic sources. A great deal of work has been done by scholars on the institutional, political and cultural history of various forms of media. 'Perception, Reception and Deception' will build on this literature to explore the ways in which print, manuscript, visual representations and the broadcast media have been understood, conceptualised, and imaginatively represented in the societies in which they were produced. It will, in other words, focus not on media production but on the reception, depiction and perception of the media by individuals and groups of individuals in a variety of different contexts over time. How have readers, consumers, and the industry itself framed arguments about the media as a force for good (or evil) at different points in time? Have contemporaries always seen the media as an agent of change, or is there a counter-history of the media to be written in terms of promoting conservatism, deference and order? How have people understood and represented the media in terms of concepts of personal and geographical space, time and changing belief systems? Can we think 'internationally' about the similarities and differences between perceptions of the media in different states and nations over time, or is the media still best understood and examined in largely local or regional contexts? How, in short, have men and women answered in different contexts the apparently simple questions, 'what is the media, and what is it for?' Abstracts, of no more than 200 words for papers of between 20 to 25 minutes duration, should be sent by close of business on 30 September 2010 to .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) We welcome proposals from a range of chronological, geographical and methodological backgrounds. 'Perception, Reception and Deception' is jointly organised by the Trinity Long Room Hub, Trinity College Dublin, the Centre For Media History, Aberystwyth University, and the journal Media History. Additional enquiries can be directed to one or more of the following: Dr. Jason McElligott, Dr Sian Nicholas or Professor Tom O'Malley..
*Call for papers Fifth Annual Conference on the History of Recent Economics (HISRECO)
April 29 2011 to April 30 2011 | Duke University, Durham, NC
Deadline: September 30 2010
Updated: August 15 2010
*Call for papers Fifth Annual Conference on the History of Recent Economics (HISRECO) 29-30 April 2011, Duke University, North Carolina, USA* The Second World War and its aftermath marked a major stage in the establishment of economics as one of the dominant discourses in contemporary societies. The spread of economic ideas into many areas of social life invites mutually profitable engagements between historians of economics and historians of other social sciences. It also presents great potential for those working on the history of economics to broaden their audience beyond those that they have traditionally addressed. The past decade has been witness to a surging interest in the history of economics post-WWII. This new scholarship has made good use of newly available source-materials, rehearsed new methodologies for the study of the past and looked across disciplinary boundaries for insights. In its fifth consecutive year, the HISRECO conference offers a venue for review and development of this work. We are inviting submissions of papers that deal with the post-WWII era. Though all proposals will be carefully considered, our preference is for papers that place post-war economics in a broader context, whether this is parallel developments in other social sciences, politics, culture or economic challenges. To this end, we solicit proposals from scholars trained in history, economics, sociology, or any field that may yield insights. Proposals from doctoral students and junior researchers are actively encouraged. If you are interested in participating, please submit a proposal containing roughly 500 words and indicating clearly the original contribution of the paper (if you have a draft of the paper, we would be happy to see that as well). The deadline for the submission of paper proposals is 30 September 2010. Notice of acceptance or rejection will be sent by 1 November 2010 and completed papers will be due on 15 February 2011 so that we can provide feedback and then give discussants time to prepare comments. Proposals should be sent to .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address). The organizing committee consists of Roger Backhouse (University of Birmingham) Bruce Caldwell (Duke University) Philippe Fontaine (École normale supérieure de Cachan and Institut universitaire de France) Yann Giraud (Université de Cergy-Pontoise) Tiago Mata (University of Amsterdam).
Cyber-Surveillance in Everyday Life: An international workshop
May 12 2011 to May 15 2011 | University of Toronto
Deadline: October 01 2010
Updated: August 15 2010
Cyber-Surveillance in Everyday Life: An international workshop May 12-15, 2011, University of Toronto, Canada Digitally mediated surveillance (DMS) is an increasingly prevalent, but still largely invisible, aspect of daily life. As we work, play and negotiate public and private spaces, on-line and off, we produce a growing stream of personal digital data of interest to unseen others. CCTV cameras hosted by private and public actors survey and record our movements in public space, as well as in the workplace. Corporate interests track our behaviour as we navigate both social and transactional cyberspaces, data mining our digital doubles and packaging users as commodities for sale to the highest bidder. Governments continue to collect personal information on-line with unclear guidelines for retention and use, while law enforcement increasingly use internet technology to monitor not only criminals but activists and political dissidents as well, with worrisome implications for democracy. This international workshop brings together researchers, advocates, activists and artists working on the many aspects of cyber- surveillance, particularly as it pervades and mediates social life. This workshop will appeal to those interested in the surveillance aspects of topics such as the following, especially as they raise broader themes and issues that characterize the cyber-surveillance terrain more widely: * social networking (practices & platforms) * search engines *behavioural advertising/targeted marketing *monitoring and analysis techniques (facial recognition, RFID, video analytics, data mining) *Internet surveillance (deep packet inspection, backbone intercepts) *resistance (actors, practices, technologies) A central concern is to better understand DMS practices, making them more publicly visible and democratically accountable. To do so, we must comprehend what constitutes DMS, delineating parameters for research and analysis. We must further explore the way citizens and consumers experience, engage with and respond to digitally mediated surveillance. Finally, we must develop alliances, responses and counterstrategies to deal with the ongoing creep of digitally mediated surveillance in everyday life. The workshop adopts a novel structure, mainly comprising a series of themed panels organized to address compelling questions arising around digitally mediated surveillance that cut across the topics listed above. Some illustrative examples: 1. We regularly hear about ‘cyber-surveillance’, ‘cyber-security’, and ‘cyber-threats’. What constitutes cyber-surveillance, and what are the empirical and theoretical difficulties in establishing a practical understanding of cyber-surveillance? Is the enterprise of developing a definition useful, or condemned to analytic confusion? 2.What are the motives and strategies of key DMS actors (e.g. surveillance equipment/systems/ strategy/”solutions” providers; police/ law enforcement/security agencies; data aggregation brokers; digital infrastructure providers); oversight/regulatory/data protection agencies; civil society organizations, and user/citizens? 3.What are the relationships among key DMS actors (e.g. between social networking site providers)? Between marketers (e.g. Facebook and DoubleClick)? Between digital infrastructure providers and law enforcement (e.g. lawful access)? 4.What business models are enterprises pursuing that promote DMS in a variety of areas, including social networking, location tracking, ID’d transactions etc. What can we expect of DMS in the coming years? What new risks and opportunities are likely? 5.What do people know about the DMS practices and risks they are exposed to in everyday life? What are people’s attitudes to these practices and risks? 6.What are the politics of DMS; who is active? What are their primary interests, what are the possible lines of contention and prospective alliances? What are the promising intervention points and alliances that can promote a more democratically accountable surveillance? 7.What is the relationship between DMS and privacy? Are privacy policies legitimating DMS? Is a re-evaluation of traditional information privacy principles required in light of new and emergent online practices, such as social networking and others? 8.Do deep packet inspection and other surveillance techniques and practices of internet service providers (ISP) threaten personal privacy? 9. How do new technical configurations promote surveillance and challenge privacy? For example, do cloud computing applications pose a greater threat to personal privacy than the client/server model? How do mobile devices and geo-location promote surveillance of individuals? 10.How do the multiple jurisdictions of internet data storage and exchange affect the application of national/international data protection laws? 11.What is the role of advocacy/activist movements in challenging cyber-surveillance? In conjunction with the workshop there will be a combination of public events on the theme of cyber-surveillance in everyday life: *poster session, for presenting and discussing provocative ideas and works in progress *public lecture or debate *art exhibition/installation(s) We invite 500 word abstracts of research papers, position statements, short presentations, works in progress, posters, demonstrations, installations. Each abstract should: *address explicitly one or more “burning questions” related to digitally-mediated surveillance in everyday life, such as those mentioned above. *indicate the form of intended contribution (i.e. research paper, position statement, short presentation, work in progress, poster, demonstration, installation) The workshop will consist of about 40 participants, at least half of whom will be presenters listed on the published program. Funds will be available to support the participation of representatives of civil society organizations. Accepted research paper authors will be invited to submit a full paper (~6000 words) for presentation and discussion in a multi-party panel session. All accepted submissions will be posted publicly. A selection of papers will be invited for revision and academic publication in a special issue of an open-access, refereed journal such as Surveillance and Society. In order to facilitate a more holistic conversation, one that reaches beyond academia, we also invite critical position statements, short presentations, works-in-progress, interactive demonstrations, and artistic interpretations of the meaning and import of cyber- surveillance in everyday life. These will be included in the panel sessions or grouped by theme in concurrent ‘birds-of-a-feather’ sessions designed to tease out, more interactively and informally, emergent questions, problems, ideas and future directions. This BoF track is meant to be flexible and contemporary, welcoming a variety of genres. Instructions for making submissions will be available on the workshop website by Sept 1: http://cybersurveillanceworkshop.wordpress.com/ See also an accompanying Call for Annotated Bibliographies, aimed at providing background materials useful to workshop participants as well as more widely; http://cybersurveillanceworkshop.wordpress.com/2010/08/04/call-for-annotated-bibliographies/ Timeline: 2010: Oct. 1: Abstracts (500 words) for research papers, position statements, and other ‘birds-of-a-feather’ submissions Nov. 15: Notification to authors of accepted research papers, position statements, etc. Abstracts posted to web. 2011: Feb. 1: Abstracts (500 words) for posters Mar. 1: Notification to authors of accepted posters. Apr. 1: Full research papers (5-6000 words) due, and posted to web. May 12-15 Workshop Sponsored by: The New Transparency – Surveillance and Social Sorting: http://www.sscqueens.org/projects/the-new-transparency/about
SPT 2011 Technology and Security 17th International Conference of the Society for Philosophy and T
May 26 2011 to May 29 2011 | Denton, TX, USA
Deadline: November 01 2010
Updated: June 29 2010
SPT 2011
Technology and Security
17th International Conference of the Society for Philosophy and Technology
May 26-29, 2011
University of North Texas Denton, TX, USA
https://spt2011.unt.edu/
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Deadline for abstracts: November 1, 2010
SPT 2011 welcomes high quality papers and panel proposals in all areas of philosophy of technology. Given the focus of this year’s conference, papers and panels dealing with technology and security are especially welcomed. We encourage submissions from an interdisciplinary spectrum, including but not limited to philosophers, engineers, natural scientists, historians, social scientists, and those involved in public or private policymaking. SPT 2011 tracks:
1. Security technology 1: Information, surveillance, and cyber security
2. Security technology 2: Environmental and agricultural security
3. Security technology 3: Terrorism, warfare, and emerging military technologies
4. Development and globalization
5. Technology, justice, and the good life
6. Sustainable technologies, energy, and built environments
7. Philosophy of engineering and design
8. Ethics and Technology
9. Philosophy/history of technology
10. Technology, gender, and culture
11. Biomedical technology, health, and enhancement
12. Religion and technology
13. Media and technology
14. Emerging and converging science and technology
15. Technologies of self and consciousness: drugs, exercise, meditation
16. Reflective engineering
Papers will be accepted on the basis of a submitted abstract, which will be refereed. An abstract must be between 500 and 750 words in length (references excluded) and submitted via email (.(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)) as embedded plain text or an attachment in RTF, WORD, or PDF format. It should also contain the name and number of the track to which the abstract is submitted. If an abstract does not seem to fit with any track, simply note that with the submission. All submissions are welcome, and authors should not feel constrained by the tracks. Abstracts must be submitted no later than November 1, 2010. Authors will be informed of the decision of the referees by January 1, 2011.
Paper presentations will be 30 minutes, divided into 20 minutes for presentation and 10 minutes for discussion.
Panel Proposals. We will also accept proposals for panel discussions, to be submitted to .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) by November 1, 2010. Panel proposals must be between 500 and 1,000 words in length, include a statement of the general topic, and an overview of the specific questions or issues to be addressed. In addition, the proposal should include a list of the panelists involved, their expertise in this area, and whether they have indicated that they are willing to participate.
Keynote speakers: TBD
Plenary sessions: TBD
SPT presidential address: Philip Brey, University of Twente, title TBD
Co-Directors: Adam Briggle and David Kaplan, University of North Texas
Keep checking the conference website at https://spt2011.unt.edu for further updates and information about the conference.
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Society for Philosophy of Science in Practice (SPSP) CFP
June 22 2011 to June 24 2011 | University of Exeter, Exeter, UK
Deadline: December 01 2010
Updated: June 14 2010
For registration and further information on the conference, please visit our website at http://www.genomicsnetwork.ac.uk/egenis/events/conferences/title,23552,en.html
For general information on SPSP, please see http://www.gw.utwente.nl/spsp/
Deadline for submission: 1 December 2010
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Notification of acceptance: 1 February 2011
The Society for Philosophy of Science in Practice (SPSP) aims to create an interdisciplinary community of scholars who approach the philosophy of science with a focus on scientific practice and the practical uses of scientific knowledge. For further details on our objectives, see our mission statement on our website (URL above).
The SPSP biennial conferences provide a broad forum for scholars committed to making detailed and systematic studies of scientific practices — neither dismissing concerns about truth and rationality, nor ignoring contextual and pragmatic factors. The conferences aim at cutting through traditional disciplinary barriers and developing novel approaches. We welcome contributions from not only philosophers of science, but also philosophers working in epistemology and ethics, as well as the philosophy of engineering, medicine, agriculture, and other practical fields. Additionally, we welcome contributions from historians and sociologists of science, pure and applied scientists, and any others with an interest in philosophical questions regarding scientific practice.
In addition to keynote lectures by invited speakers, who will include Bernadette Bensaude-Vincent (Université Paris-X Nanterre), Philip Kitcher (Columbia University), and Sandra Mitchell (University of Pittsburgh), the conference will feature parallel sessions with contributed papers. For the 2011 conference, we encourage submissions on any topic related to the organization’s objectives. For examples of previous topics, please consult our webpage for programs from our past two conferences.
We welcome both individual papers, and also strongly encourage proposals for whole, thematic sessions with coordinated papers, particularly those which include multiple disciplinary perspectives and/or input from scientific practitioners. You may wish to involve other members of SPSP (a listing is available on our website) or post a notice to the SPSP listserv describing your area of interest and seeking other possible participants for a session proposal.
Individual paper proposals: must include a title and an abstract of 500 words, and full contact information for the speaker(s).
Session proposals: must include an overall title for the session, a title and 500-word abstract for each paper (or an equivalent amount of depth and detail, if the format of the proposed session is a less traditional one), and full contact information for each contributor. Session proposals should be submitted as a group by the organizer of the session.
Multiple submissions of any form by the same person will not be allowed. Please direct all queries to .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)
To receive updates about this conference, please become a member of the SPSP mailing list at http://www.gw.utwente.nl/spsp/membership/Membership%20Mailinglist.doc/ and also check the SPSP website at http://www.gw.utwente.nl/spsp/events/Third_Biennial_SPSP_Conference/
5th International Conference on Communities & Technologies ? C&T 2011
June 29 2011 to July 02 2011 | Brisbane, Australia
Updated: July 15 2010
5th International Conference on Communities & Technologies ? C&T 2011
29 June ? 2 July 2011, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia
http://ct2011.urbaninformatics.net/
The biennial Communities and Technologies (C&T) conference is the premier international forum for stimulating scholarly debate and disseminating research on the complex connections between communities ? both physical and virtual ? and information and communication technologies.
C&T 2011 welcomes participation from researchers, designers, educators, industry, and students from the many disciplines and perspectives bearing on the interaction between community and technology, including architecture, arts, business, design, economics, education, engineering, ergonomics, information technology, geography, health, humanities, law, media and communication studies, and social sciences. The conference program will include competitively selected, peer-reviewed papers, as well as pre-conference workshops, a doctoral consortium, and invited keynote and panel speakers.
We look forward to welcoming you to an exciting conference in Brisbane, Australia's new world city.
Marcus Foth Conference Chair
IMPORTANT DATES
10 December 2010: Full papers and workshop proposals due 24 January 2011: Review reports due 18 February 2011: Notification of acceptances sent to authors 4 March 2011: Camera ready papers due 30 April 2011: Workshop papers, Doctoral Consortium and Student Volunteer applications due 29 June 2011: Pre-conference workshops and Doctoral Consortium 30 June ? 2 July 2011: C&T 2011 conference at QUT, Brisbane, Australia
CONFERENCE TOPICS
C&T 2011 welcomes contributions in all areas of community and technology research, design and development. In addition, we particularly invite authors to address any of the following topics:
Augmented Reality Civic Intelligence Context and Location Awareness Community-centred Design and Evaluation Methodologies Community Engagement E-research with Communities E-government and E-governance Participation Smart Community Services Sustainability Universal Usability and Accessibility Urban Informatics Tangible Interfaces for Community Interaction Technologies of Scale Making Visualisation Techniques Working across Cultures
PAPER SUBMISSIONS
All submissions must be written in English. Papers must be no longer than 10 pages, including all additional material such as references, appendices, and figures. Please format papers using the ACM SIGCHI two column layout available at http://www.sigchi.org/chipubform. Full papers must include a title, sufficient space for the author name(s) to appear on the paper, contact information and affiliations, abstract, keywords, body, and references. Papers submitted by the due date will undergo a double blind peer review process by an international panel and evaluated on the basis of their significance, innovation, academic rigour, and clarity of writing. Accepted papers will be included in the published conference proceedings if at least one author of any accepted submission has registered and attends the conference. Papers are submitted via an online submission system that will be opened in September 2010.
Please send any questions to Jesper Kjeldskov, Technical Program Chair: jesper AT cs.aau.dk
WORKSHOP PROPOSALS
Workshops are half day or full day sessions prior to the main conference program on 29 June 2011. Workshop proposals (max of 2 pages, using the ACM SIGCHI two column layout available at http://www.sigchi.org/chipubform) should be aimed at a community with a common interest. If you are working in an emerging area of Communities and Technologies, consider organising a workshop as an opportunity to advance the field and build momentum. C&T workshops might address basic or applied research and practice, new methodologies, emerging application areas, design innovations, management and organisational issues, or education. Each workshop should generate ideas that give the C&T community a new, organised way of thinking about the topic, or ideas that suggest promising directions for future research. Some workshops result in edited books or special issues of journals; you may consider including this goal in your workshop proposal.
Please send proposals to Jaz Choi, Workshop Chair: h.choi AT qut.edu.au
DOCTORAL CONSORTIUM
The Doctoral Consortium is scheduled prior to the main conference program on 29 June 2011. The Doctoral Consortium offers research students a special forum where they can present, discuss and progress their research plans with peers and established senior researchers. Research students wishing to attend the consortium should submit 4 pages, using the ACM SIGCHI two column layout available at http://www.sigchi.org/chipubform, addressing 4 headings: Aims and Background; Significance and Innovation; Methodology; Questions and Issues (that is, identify those areas you seek feedback on). Places at the consortium will be offered based on a review of the submitted proposals.
Please send applications to Christine Satchell, Doctoral Consortium Chair: christine.satchell AT qut.edu.au
VOLUNTEERS
C&T actively encourages students to volunteer at the conference. Being a student volunteer is a great way to support the research community, meet other students in the field, and attend an international ACM conference. You will help the conference organisers with the running of the conference and support the setting-up of presentations and workshops. You will see the latest in C&T research and development, and have fun while learning about running the conference. In return, you will get free registration. To apply, email us your contact details (email, phone, university), an abstract of your research project, a CV, and the reasons why you would like to be a student volunteer. Applications close on 30 April 2011.
Please send applications to Ronald Schroeter, Volunteers Chair: r.schroeter AT qut.edu.au
ISHPSSB Call for Papers
July 10 2011 to July 16 2011 | Salt Lake City, Utah
Deadline: February 28 2011
Updated: August 15 2010
Our 2011 meeting will be in Salt Lake City (Utah, USA) July 10th-16th 2011
Preliminary Call for papers
The deadline for the final call for papers will be February 28, 2011.
ISHPSSB Program Co-Chairs Chris Young and Mark Largent hope you are already thinking about papers and sessions for the 2011 meeting in Salt Lake City. To be sure you are getting the most up-to-date information about the meeting, subscribe to the ISHPSSB listserv by clicking on the "Listserv" link
In the coming months, we will be setting up a bulletin board where you can suggest a session, or review sessions that have been proposed so far. For now, only members can post on this bulletin board, so you might check on your membership status and then start sharing ideas. The bulletin board link is http://ishpssb.onefireplace.com/
Now, a few comments on audience, posters, and themes:
Our expectation for the Salt Lake City meeting is that we will have more cross-disciplinary sessions than ever before. In addition, we expect that all sessions will be geared toward wider audiences. This was a major thrust of the discussions that came out of the Brisbane meeting in 2009. Every scholar has numerous meetings in which to present work to her or his peers: historians speaking to historians, philosophers speaking to philosophers, sociologists speaking to sociologists, and biologists from across the spectrum speaking to biologists within their specialty. ISHPSSB is uniquely situated to provide us the opportunity to talk to each other, across disciplinary boundaries, about biology studies. In order for this to happen, we need to think broadly about each other as an audience. We hope you will begin now to look for ways of collaborating.
A new feature of the program for 2011 will be the creation of a poster session. This is intended as a dynamic setting for scholars to present their work in progress as well as expanding on the implications of work completed in an interactive setting. The program co-chairs intend to solicit posters from a wide range of scholars, providing for interaction among all participants. We expect that this setting will engage biologists, historians, sociologists, and philosophers alike. Our local arrangements team is working to make this happen in a comfortable setting with refreshments readily available.
As we begin planning for how sessions will be organized, we ask that presenters think about ways their work will potentially connect to other sessions throughout the meeting. We hope this can be accomplished by thinking about the larger themes that are illuminated by your work. These themes are meant to be broad and overlapping, but will help to provide benchmarks for organizing sessions as well as signposts for people at the conference seeking out areas of inquiry. Some themes we have identified include: Civic engagement; Race; Policy, science funding, and scientific progress; Sustainability, environment, energy, and economics; Gender and LGBT; Genetic testing; Evo-Devo; and Education. Please note that not all papers and sessions are expected to fit into one of the themes, and we hope that as we see work that pushes beyond these categories we can all be more aware of the new directions scholars and members of ISHPSSB are taking.
It is still too early to submit a freestanding paper proposal, in part because we are not yet to that stage in the planning, but primarily because there is still plenty of time for you to be looking for colleagues throughout the world who will complement your work in a session. We would like the next six months to be a productive time for identifying collaborators.
During this time, we will also be soliciting scholars to take up leadership in addressing specific themes as described above. If you are in a position to provide leadership in coordinating a theme, or if you would like to suggest a theme that will strengthen our multi-disciplinary and cross-session collaboration, please contact Chris Young and Mark Largent at
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The deadline for the final call for papers will be February 28, 2011. We hope you will be checking back regularly on the bulletin board http://ishpssb.onefireplace.com/ to identify how your work may connect with other potential proposals.
Please also keep in mind the ISHPSSB policy on multiple participation: no one may present in more than one session; exceptions are made for those who organize another session, comment in another session, or give a short plenary address. Individuals may serve more than one function in a given session, e.g., chair and presenter. If you have questions about your session or paper idea, or about procedures, please contact the Program Co-Chairs, Chris Young and Mark Largent: .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) Chris Young, Department of Biology, PO Box 343922, Alverno College, Milwaukee, WI 53234; (414) 298-9138.
ISHPSSB would like to encourage sessions that:
a) combine more than one disciplinary perspective;
b) include participants from more than one institution and/or nation;
c) promote the interaction of junior and senior scholars, including students.
Program guidelines include:
(1) The program co-chairs, in consultation with the program committee, and consistent with site constraints, will organize a rich, diverse, and high quality program. While it is the intention of the Society to be as inclusive as possible, the program co-chairs have the discretion to reject papers or sessions that are truly inappropriate for these meetings or that do not meet basic standards of communication. The program committee is available to assist the program co-chairs in judging borderline cases.
(2) No one may present in more than one session. An exception is made for those who organize another session, comment in another session, or give a short plenary address. Individuals may serve more than one function in a given session, e.g. chair and presenter.
(3) Each regular session must have a minimum of three presenters.
(4) Multiple sessions on a given topic should be identified with titles that distinguish the particular focus of each session, rather than merely serialize the topic.
(5) All accepted participants must pre-register for the conference in order to be included in the program.