Published On: Apr 13 2025
Deadline: Jun 21, 2025
The editorial group of Science, Technology, & Human Values is happy to announce the journal’s annual Call for Proposals for Special Issues. Since 1972, Science, Technology, & Human Values has provided a forum for cutting-edge research and debate in the field of Science and Technology Studies (STS). This is a collectively edited, peer-reviewed, transnational, interdisciplinary journal containing research, analyses and commentary on the development and dynamics of science and technology, with a focus on their relationship to politics, economy, society and culture. ST&HV publi...
Published On: Jun 5 2025
Deadline: Jun 30, 2025
Expressions of interest are sought for contributions to a planned Special Issue (SI) of Australian Feminist Studies devoted to underexplored and novel feminist methods and interventions on AI ethics. While dominant approaches to AI ethics have been focused on reductive notions of bias or value checklists for reducing harms, intersectional feminist scholars have built upon genealogies of feminist scholarship to identify and outline the broader and more nuanced ethical issues that arise in the design and application of such technologies. For example, conversations around bias often assume that b...
Published On: Jun 10 2025
Deadline: Jul 2, 2025
We announce this issue during an unprecedented attack by the current US administration on the largest public research funds in the world. The AI boom is the latest in a series of economic shocks further pushing the academy towards private interests. We are in the midst of ongoing imperialist war and genocide that are inextricable from the politics of science and technology, and stumbling recovery efforts from a pandemic that left the world more dependent on, and yet less trusting of, public health institutions. Under such conditions, a discussion of political economy in science is timely. Howe...
Published On: Jun 10 2025
Deadline: Jul 28, 2025
Third-party conception or reproduction involves using donated eggs, sperm or embryos, or a surrogate, to help individuals or couples have a child. Being able to start and build a family is frequently seen as personally, culturally and socially important. The Universal Declaration of Human Rights, for example, describes the family as the “fundamental unit of society”. For many people, third-party conception is critical in achieving this goal, particularly for single individuals, individuals in same-sex relationships, and mixed-sex couples experiencing infertility.
Published On: May 22 2025
Deadline: Jul 31, 2025
The Berggruen Prize Essay Competition, in the amount of $50,000 USD, is calling for essay submissions in English and Chinese on the theme of consciousness. It is given annually by the Berggruen Institute with the goal to stimulate new thinking and innovative concepts while embracing cross-cultural perspectives across fields, disciplines, and geographies. Inspired by the pivotal role essays have played in shaping thought and inquiry, we are inviting essays that follow in the tradition of renowned thinkers such as Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Michel de Montaigne, and Ralph Waldo Emerson. Submissions s...
Published On: Mar 17 2025
Deadline: Jul 31, 2025
Echoing US President Eisenhower’s warning about the rise of a ‘military-industrial complex’ over 60 years ago, President Biden’s farewell address in January 2025 did something similar, stating: “Today, an oligarchy is taking shape in America of extreme wealth, power and influence that threatens our entire democracy, our basic rights, the freedoms and the fair shot for everyone to get ahead”. Cautioning against the concentration of wealth and concomitant political influence it brings, Biden’s words can be seen as the most visible statement of the growin...
Published On: Nov 11 2024
Deadline: Apr 30, 2025
‘Security’ has become an increasingly dominant frame in recent decades, linking issues such as climate, biodiversity, borders, energy, food and military activities. Ever-more societal issues have been framed as security problems, even as existential threats. These frames seek to justify pre-emptive management through technoscientific expert systems, imagining control over everything and fostering an authoritarian culture. This SaC special issue will explore linkages among three dynamics: modern pre-emptive techno-securitisation, today’s active colonial relations, and the mili...
Published On: Oct 10 2024
The editorial team behind the new series Imagination, Annotated, from the MIT Press, is inviting proposals for edited books in the series. Imagination, Annotated features speculative fiction texts from the 19th and 20th centuries that envisage possible futures, each annotated by a diverse group of experts, scholars, and practitioners. It aims to open up great works of speculative fiction to new readers and contemporary concerns, inspire reflection, and include readers in a continuing conversation about what kind of world we want to live in.
Published On: Apr 8 2025
Deadline: May 15, 2025
This proposed special issue invites contributors to explore how “negative space”, whether as a theoretical heuristic or research methodology, produces new meanings, responses, and relationships. In visual arts, negative space refers to the constitutive background, or the surrounding imprint that helps to shape the foregrounded subject or object in a visual field. Inspired by this concept, this special issue brings together multidisciplinary researchers and artists who engage with the political implications of reorienting our gaze away from the so-called “positive space”...
Published On: Apr 8 2025
Deadline: May 1, 2025
The editors of Impact: The Journal of the Center for Interdisciplinary Teaching & Learning are pleased to announce an open call for articles for a forthcoming issue. Impact is a peer-reviewed biannual online journal devoted to interdisciplinary teaching, learning, and scholarship. The editors especially value pieces that demonstrate the need for interdisciplinary solutions to twenty-first-century problems. Articles of interest will engage the advantages, challenges, and modes of interdisciplinary work.