Over 200 open panel proposals have been accepted for the Toronto meeting. The purpose of calling for Open Panel proposals is to stimulate the formation of new networks around topics of interest to the STS community. Open panels have been proposed by scholars working in nearly every continent and relating to just about every major STS theme.
When submitting papers to open panels on the abstract submission platform, you will select the Open Panel you are submitting to. Papers submitted to an open panel will be reviewed by the open panel organizer(s) and will be given first consideration for that session.
Also at the time of submission, you will also be asked to nominate two alternative open panel preferences for your paper. In the event that your paper is not included in the open panel of your first preference it will be considered for the alternative panels indicated in your submission.
As digital data continues to rapidly proliferate, sustained by the ever-expandin...
Care practices were addressed in STS by Annemarie Mol (2002, 2008, 2010) as capt...
This panel aims to generate comparative insights into the ways in which AI techn...
The dominant governance discussions imagined around autonomous systems and artif...
Bioscientific approaches to identifying, classifying and diagnosing cancer have ...
Since the discovery in 2015 of the CRISPR/Cas9 gene editing system, research int...
STS scholarship on technopolitics typically examines the role that governments a...
The deepening datafication of urban life has had profound impacts on the organiz...
In recent years, an increasing amount of STS and STS-aligned scholarship has use...
Over the last 70 years, computational and networked media have become deeply int...
“Objects, processes, or events that in some ways disclose, generate, or in...
In recent years, Science and Technology studies have paid increasing attention t...
Much excellent work has documented how contemporary artificial intelligence (AI)...
The Exquisite Corpse (Le Cadavre exquis, https://www.artsy.net/article/artsy-edi...
This open panel stream proposes up to three panels exploring themes in the Routl...
In recent decades there has been an enduring call for STS research to offer prac...
There’s something in the water. Mosquitos swimming in still puddles, oil f...
Critical STS scholars have exposed “lab life” as a key arena of agen...
Critical feminist STS has constructively challenged the cisheteronormativity and...
Social scientific scholarship on agriculture often focuses on food systems, but ...
We propose a post-solutionist reflection on what is Responsible AI, to discuss i...
Biometric practices have moved around the world through colonial and postcolonia...
Machines are central artifacts in the study of science and technology. As both t...
Knowledge production in interaction among different actors –be it specific...
Science is an increasingly global activity. Due to the globalization of the scie...
An obsession with “scaling up” has captured contemporary innovation ...
This session explores the multitude of ways that colonial, settler science in Ca...
Current changes in cannabis regulatory policies, fueled by the debate over its m...
Whether tendered as an intimately interpersonal exchange or in the form of techn...
This panel builds on feminist STS commitments to a knowledge politics of care an...
Despite its continued importance as an analytical category in the social life of...
Science and technology communities come in many forms, from the elite community ...
Though healthcare provides fundamental conditions of (im)possibility for life in...
Whether one characterises STS as an interdisciplinary field of inquiry, a full-f...
While hurricanes, fires, floods, and droughts threaten much of the planet, the o...
In this panel, we consider the role of method in citizen science – broadly...
Climate change and climate policies relate to various regimes of time: geologica...
In these times of shifting climate relations, we find technoscience regimes boun...
Coasts are resurging worldwide, as centers of commerce, nodes in global supply c...
The nature of ‘going to work’ is changing in fundamental ways. First...
As a result of the devastation wrought by the COVID-19 pandemic, many newly unde...
Composting, as a feminist practice, has been taken up by an open, cross-institut...
Despite the ongoing interest in the history, epistemology, sociology, and cultur...
The world is at stake. Pandemics, climate change, species extinctions, and toxic...
Techno-science, and the changes wrought by techno-science, frequently result in ...
Predicting and planning for the future is an inherently uncertain exercise. In t...
The SARS-CoV-2 pandemic created a global crisis challenging humankind to develop...
Situated Computations is an approach to design and computation that grounds tech...
Often considered a pinnacle of medical technoscience, solid organ transplantatio...
Academic conferences are prime sites of exchange in global science. As events wh...