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Here's the full announcement:
Call for Papers
In marking the 10th Anniversary of the School of Humanities
and Social Sciences, Nanyang Technological University, the Humanities, Science,
and Society Research Cluster (HSS@HSS) will hold an international conference
entitled Global STS: Exploring Transnational Dimensions of Science, Technology,
and Society on 14 and 15 March 2014 at the NTU campus in Singapore.
For the past forty years, the field of Science, Technology,
and Society (STS) has significantly contributed to our understanding of how
science and technology mutually interact with society. Numerous concepts,
frameworks, and theories have been developed by STS scholars but only a few
touch upon the transnational dimensions of scientific production and
technological development. The production system of science and technology has
expanded beyond nation-state borders and implications and repercussions of
technoscientific risk are rapidly spreading at the global scale. The conference
aims to take STS across new frontiers where the global features of science and
technology that increasingly shape the future of society in the 21st century
are critically examined. Can we build better explanations to understand rapid
developments of science and technology in the globalized society? How have
transnational networks of scientific systems transformed epistemological
contents and practices of science? How should the notion of technological
politics be applied in diverse political regimes across the globe? These
questions provide the grounds for exploring what we might consider as “Global
STS”.
The conference aims to provide a venue for an
interdisciplinary interaction between sociologists, historians, anthropologist,
philosophers, and political scientists to examine how precisely globalization
shifts the structures and cultures of technoscientific production and how
transnationalization of technoscience produce far-reaching implications on the
globalized society in terms of the application and commercialization of
scientific knowledge and technical systems. As today's world is marked by the
rise of Asia as a new center of technoscience production, we also invite STS
researchers to probe the future development of STS looking into Asia's
influences on global technoscientific enterprises in the 21st century. As an
academic event, the conference seeks to extend the existing STS scholarship in
exploring new territories to unpack science-technology-society relations,
taking into account the histories, cultures, and institutions that mark the
global contestation of technoscience.
Topics of interest include but not limited to:
- · Transnational Technoscience
- · Sustainability and Global Development
- · Risk and Disaster
- · New Media and Game Studies
- · Large-scale Infrastructures
- · Gender and Technoscience
- · Cities and Urban Systems
- · Future Energy
- · Health and Biomedicine
- · Governance and Institutions
Selected conference papers will be collected and published
in an edited volume or a special issue for international circulation.
Keynote Speaker
Wiebe E. Bijker is professor of Technology & Society at
the University of Maastricht. Professor Bijker is the author of “Of Bicycles,
Bakelites, and Bulbs: Toward a Theory of Sociotechnical Change” and a co-editor
of influential volumes such as “The Social Construction of Technological
Systems: New Directions in the Sociology and History of Technology”, “Shaping
Technology/ Building Society. Studies in Sociotechnical Change”, and “Paradox
of Scientific Authority: the Role of Scientific Advice in Democracies”. He is
former president of the Society for Social Studies of Science and the recipient
of the 2012 Leonardo da Vince Medal awarded by the Society for the History of
Technology.
Accommodations and Travel
Subsidies
Participants will be provided with accommodation at Nanyang
Executive Center (this does not apply to Singapore-based participants). Partial
travel subsidies are offered to graduate students and participants from
non-OECD countries. Please note that only one person for each paper is to be
accommodated.
Submissions and
Deadline
To participate in the conference, please write an abstract
of 300 words using the template available here: http://bit.ly/absform and send
it to STSConference@ntu.edu.sg by 15 January 2014. Accepted abstracts will be
notified by 1 February 2014. For further
information, please check the conference website at http://Global-STS.org or
contact Sulfikar Amir at sulfikar@ntu.edu.sg.
This event is
officially endorsed by the Society for Social Studies of Science.
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