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Published On: Jul 8 2025
Deadline: Sep 15, 2025
Please nominate publications for the International Network for Engineering Studies' 2025 Paper Prize. The prize celebrates an excellent refereed journal paper or book chapter addressing the relationships among the technical, social and philosophical dimensions of engineering practices, and how these relationships change over time and from place to place. This year, the prize committee is calling for articles published in 2024 or 2025 in media other than the Engineering Studies journal.
Published On: Aug 13 2025
We are saddened here at the Society to share the passing of one of our field’s luminaries, Michel Callon. His foundational work in actor network theory has inspired generations of STS scholars, and Callon was president of 4S from 1998 to 2000. He was awarded the Bernal Prize in 2002. We thank the Center for the Sociology of Innovation for sharing this in memorium: https://www.csi.minesparis.psl.eu/en/featured-articles/michel-callon-1945-2025/
Published On: Jun 10 2025
Deadline: Aug 1, 2025
The SG Academies South-East Asia Fellowship (SASEAF) Programme aims to facilitate meaningful collaborations between Singapore’s distinguished research institutions and promising postdoctoral researchers from South-East Asia. This fellowship offers a 2-year opportunity to engage in impactful research that contributes to advancements in their respective fields.
Published On: Aug 8 2025
4S Member Dr. Sophie Chao has published a monograph with Duke University Press, titled Land of Famished Beings: West Papuan Theories of Hunger. The book draws on Chao's ethnographic fieldwork in West Papua and examines how Indigenous Marind communities understand and theorize hunger in the context of mass deforestation and industrial oil palm plantation expansion. Instead of seeing hunger as an individual, biophysical state defined purely in nutritional, quantitative, or human terms, Chao investigates how hunger traverses variably situated humans, animals, plants, institutions, infrastructures...
Published On: Jun 5 2025
Deadline: Aug 15, 2025
The Luddy School of Informatics, Computing, and Engineering at Indiana University (IU) in Bloomington, Indiana invites applications for the position of department chair of the Department of Information and Library Science (ILS), to begin January 1, 2026. We seek tenured candidates, at the rank of full professor, who demonstrate an excellent scholarly and teaching record with a forward-looking research and teaching agenda, a documented record of leadership experience in an academic setting, and familiarity with the ALA accreditation process. We look for candidates with a vision for the future o...
Published On: Jul 8 2025
Deadline: Sep 1, 2025
The High Meadows Environmental Institute (HMEI), (https://environment.princeton.edu/) invites applications for postdoctoral research associates and more senior research positions focusing on the scientific, technical, policy, and human dimensions of environmental issues. These areas include issues surrounding global change; energy and climate; biogeochemical cycles; molecular geochemistry; biodiversity; conservation; environmental science and policy; infectious disease and global health; and sustainable development in impoverished and resource-challenged regions of the world.
Published On: Jul 18 2025
Deadline: Aug 15, 2025
Call for a small in-person workshop on “Lay Expertise: Empirical Studies of Lay Social Knowledge”, to be held at Copenhagen Business School on 29–30 October 2025
The aim of the workshop is to bring together researchers from across the social sciences who study how non-traditional "experts"—from citizen scientists and political influencers to patient advocates and financial YouTubers—produce, circulate, and contest knowledge outside formal institutions. We're open to empirical work from areas such as management, sociology, political economy, STS, anthr...
Published On: Aug 8 2025
Concerns regarding brain injury in sport have escalated into what is often termed a “concussion crisis,” fueled by high-profile lawsuits and deaths. Although athletes are central figures in this narrative, they comprise only a small proportion of the people who experience brain injuries, while other high-risk groups—including victims of domestic violence and police brutality—are all too often left out of the story. In Violent Impacts, Kathryn Henne and Matt Ventresca examine what is and what isn’t captured in popular discourse, scrutinizing how law, science, and s...
Published On: Aug 8 2025
The Transnationalizing Theory in Science and Technology Studies Series is a groundbreaking intervention in the global landscape of Science and Technology Studies (STS). It proposes a much-needed expansion of the theoretical canon by showcasing conceptual work developed in regions historically peripheral to the field’s dominant Euro-American centers. Building on the momentum of increased scholarly transnationalization, the collection seeks to establish a series of edited books—each devoted to a different regional constellation such as Southeast Asia, Eastern Europe, South Asia, and ...
Published On: Jun 17 2025
Deadline: Aug 15, 2025
As climate risks intensify, the idea of “climate havens”—and the identification of regions like the Great Lakes as more resilient to environmental change—raises pressing questions about space, belonging, justice, resources, and community. This symposium will explore climate havens through historical, philosophical, artistic, literary, and cultural perspectives, organized around three central themes: 1. What Is a Haven? 2. Whose Haven Is It? 3. Climate Havens and Natural Resources