Hybrid Participation

Published On: Jan 24 2025

Deadline: Aug 20, 2025

An important update to the planning for the 4S Meeting in Seattle in September. In a change of course, we are planning to enable hybrid participation. This meeting will be predominantly in person, but with hybrid set-up to enable online participation as well. Submissions to the conference are due one week from today, on Friday January 31st: https://www.4sonline.org/meeting.php
 
All best,
Anne
4S President

Editor(s), Open-Access Journal Engaging Science, Technology, and Society

Published On: Jan 17 2025

Deadline: Mar 31, 2025

The Publications Committee of the Society for Social Studies of Science solicits nominations and proposals for Editor(s) to lead the 4S-sponsored diamond open access journal, Engaging Science, Technology, and Society. ESTS is a vibrant peer-reviewed venue for addressing how science and technology infuse the world in which we live.
The journal publishes peer-reviewed content in both long-form and short-form genres: original research articles, thematic collections, engagements, perspectives, and research data. Content is organized into three issues annually, and includes work that represents ...

United Nations Call for Science-Policy Briefs for the Multi-stakeholder Forum

Published On: Jan 23 2025

Deadline: Feb 4, 2025

The UN Interagency Task Team on Science, Technology and Innovation for the Sustainable Development Goals (IATT) is calling upon scientists, engineers, economists, policy analysts, and UN staff experts to contribute science-policy briefs on science and technology issues that they would like to bring to the attention of policy and decision makers. The briefs will provide background knowledge to inform discussions at the MultiStakeholder Forum on Science, Technology and Innovation for the Sustainable Development Goals (STI Forum), to be held at UN Headquarters in New York from 7 to 8 May 2025, wi...

4S Palestine Forum | Contributions Call

Published On: Jul 30 2024

The 4S Palestine Forum, launched earlier this year as the initial project of the Working Group on War and Genocide that was initiated at 4S Honolulu in 2023, is welcoming further contributions.

Please submit new short blog-style entries, as well as references to published work, syllabi, and other resources by writing info@4sonline.org.

View the Palestine Forum in its entirety here: https://www.4sonline.org/palestine_forum.php

Urban Speculations: Cities, Technologies, Futures conference

Published On: Jan 7 2025

Deadline: Feb 4, 2025

4-6 February 2025, Lüneburg, Germany | Host: Centre for Digital Cultures | Keynote and keynote panel speakers: Lauren Bridges, Liza Cirolia, Constance Carr, Berlin vs. Amazon, Max Haiven, Aris Komporozos-Athanasiou, Andrea Pollio, Katja Schwaller, Niloufar Vadiati, Daniel Wetzel.
If you’d like to attend in person, please make sure to register.
Cities brim over with speculation. Urban futures are conceived, dreamt of and calculated through a wide variety of speculative practices and in their social, cultural, political, economic and technological dimensions. Finance banks on ...

British Academy | Evidence-informed policymaking grants

Published On: Jan 13 2025

Deadline: Feb 19, 2025

The British Academy is inviting proposals related to evidence-informed policy-making in Brazil, Egypt, Indonesia, Jordan, Kenya, Malaysia, Philippines, South Africa, Turkey, Thailand, Vietnam and/or Least Developed Countries.
This programme is part of the £337m International Science Partnerships Fund, which is designed to enable potential and foster prosperity. It puts research and innovation at the heart of the UK’s international relationships, supporting UK researchers and innovators to work with peers around the world on the major themes of our time. It is managed by the Depa...

AAAS-TWAS | Course on Science Diplomacy

Published On: Jan 13 2025

Deadline: Jan 23, 2025

The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), Washington, DC, USA, and The World Academy of Sciences (TWAS), Trieste, Italy, are seeking candidates to participate in the annual summer course on science diplomacy to be held on 21-24 July, 2025 in person in Trieste, Italy.
The AAAS-TWAS Science Diplomacy training program was established in 2014 to expose scientists, decisionmakers, diplomats and other interested stakeholders and institutions to science diplomacy concepts, explore key contemporary international policy issues relating to science, technology, environment and he...

UCLA Center for the Study of Women|Barbra Streisand Center | Thinking Gender 2025: “Gendered Labors & Transnational Solidarities”

Published On: Jan 23 2025

Deadline: Mar 7, 2025

We are thrilled to announce that on Friday, March 7, 2025, our center will host the 35th Annual Graduate Student Research Conference: Thinking Gender 2025! This year’s theme, “Gendered Labors and Transnational Solidarities,” will spotlight organizing strategies and campaigns led by precarious workers around the globe. We aim to bring together feminist, queer, and BIPOC scholars, artists, and organizers to reflect on labor solidarity and care, imagining pathways to a more livable and equitable society.

CfP | InterAcademy Partnership Competitive Grants

Published On: Oct 18 2024

Deadline: Dec 2, 2024

The InterAcademy Partnership (IAP) invites proposals from IAP member academies and regional networks, for projects that would help advance IAP’s mission and strategic goals. Proposed projects should preferably be collaborative across member academies and regional networks. Priority will be given to project proposals that aim to establish or continue support for collaborations across disciplines (for example, collaborations across academies of science, medicine and engineering), especially in areas linked with recent or ongoing IAP projects, and/or involve long-term IAP member academies a...

Repertoires: A Series on Scholarly Ways of Working

Published On: Jan 23 2025

The Association of Research Libraries, a membership organization of research libraries and archives in the United States and Canada, has launched a blog series called Repertoires, which will feature quarterly posts about recent STS books that highlight changing research practices in scholarly communities. Led by Marcel LaFlamme, ARL's Director of Research Policy and Scholarship as well as a 4S member, the series aims to distill actionable insights that library leaders can use to develop scholar-focused services at their institutions and beyond. In doing so, Repertoires hopes to play a role in ...

View All