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4S Honolulu Paraconference

Mar 23 2023

In collaboration with the Environmental inJustice: Building a Global Record project and local EJ activists in Hawai’i, interested 4S members will re-analyze their research on colonialism, militarism and/or environmental injustice and para-site it by situating it in the matters of concern in Hawai’i for the paraconference.

CfP: Google, a major stakeholder in local governance?

Mar 21 2023

The Digital Cities Chair of the Urban School of Sciences Po, in partnership with the Center for European Studies and Comparative Politics, is organizing an international conference on July 10, 2023, on "Google, a major stakeholder in local governance?".

CfP — Environmental Materialities of the Digital

Mar 21 2023

Reset is an open-access journal publishing empirical studies on digital technologies in French and English. The abstracts (500 words maximum) are due by May 02, 2023.

Call for Applications: AusSTS 2023 Conference [July 17+18]

Mar 21 2023

We are pleased to announce that the Call for Applications for AusSTS 2023 is now open! We welcome participants at all career stages to share research and other work via short presentations or in a workshop format with pre-circulated written pieces.

CfP "Governing heterogeneous energy infrastructures: Global North and South perspectives", International Roundtable Workshop, Limburg, Netherlands, 20-23 June 2023

Mar 21 2023

This international roundtable workshop will bring together scholars from different disciplines to reflect on the increasing complexities of urban energy governance from 20 to 23 June 2023 in the 16th-century country estate Winselerhof in the Southern Netherlands (near Maastricht and Aachen).

UMD iSchool Faculty Position: Lecturer (Open Rank) - Data Science and Cybersecurity

Mar 21 2023

The College of Information Studies at the University of Maryland, College Park (Maryland’s iSchool), invites applications for a full-time, professional track lecturer, who is highly competent, energetic, collegial, and flexible, to join our exciting environment.

Two-year postdoc at USC on mapping aquifers in Costa Rica - apps due 3/31

Mar 21 2023

Andrea Ballestero (USC Anthropology) is hiring a postdoc for her NSF-funded project, Expanding the Social World Downwards, which examines how the increasing scientific and governmental attention paid to aquifers in Costa Rica is transforming both spatial imaginaries of the underground and the meaning of private property. Applications are due by March 31st for full consideration.

CfP to the 2023 9th EUGEO Conference, 4th September - 7th  September 2023 in Barcelona

Mar 20 2023

This session seeks to explore the integration of AI into smart city initiatives (agendas). It aspires to stimulate discussion about conceptual, methodological, and empirical aspects of AI technological advancements and experiences embedded in smart cities. It also seeks to elaborate on the impacts of AI in smart cities in terms of public value, citizen participation, urban infrastructure, urban governance, urban planning, urban economy, urban platforms, and urban sustainability.

RGS-IBG 2023 CfP: Just Urban Thermal Geographies

Mar 20 2023

This session asks how rising temperatures impact on urban life forms, past and present, and seeks to explore how geographers might contribute to advancing urban climate justice, by focusing on heat. The session responds directly to the Chair’s theme, Climate Changed Geographies, by considering how temperatures are changing our disciplinary engagement with urban environments and thus, how thermal fluctuations and mediations in cities change the kinds of thermal geographies we might investigate.

[TransAsiaSTS] SSN symposium on Research systems, seminar on Twins adopted apart

Mar 20 2023

Please join us for two fascinating upcoming events.

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