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Hybrid Participation

Published On: Jan 24 2025

Deadline: Aug 20, 2025

An important update to the planning for the 4S Meeting in Seattle in September. In a change of course, we are planning to enable hybrid participation. This meeting will be predominantly in person, but with hybrid set-up to enable online participation as well. Submissions to the conference are due one week from today, on Friday January 31st: https://www.4sonline.org/meeting.php
 
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CfP | Medical and Health Humanities: Global Perspectives 2025

Published On: Oct 4 2024

Deadline: Dec 15, 2024

The 3rd international conference on Medical and Health Humanities: Global Perspectives 2025 in Doha, Qatar on February 7-8, 2025 invites abstracts for oral presentations and posters on the topics of: narrative medicine, medical sociology, philosophy of medicine, medical ethics and narrative ethics, literature and medicine, arts therapies and arts-in-health, healthcare communication, the history of...

Editor(s), Open-Access Journal Engaging Science, Technology, and Society

Published On: Jan 17 2025

Deadline: Mar 31, 2025

The Publications Committee of the Society for Social Studies of Science solicits nominations and proposals for Editor(s) to lead the 4S-sponsored diamond open access journal, Engaging Science, Technology, and Society. ESTS is a vibrant peer-reviewed venue for addressing how science and technology infuse the world in which we live.
The journal publishes peer-reviewed content in both long-form an...

CfP | InterAcademy Partnership Competitive Grants

Published On: Oct 18 2024

Deadline: Dec 2, 2024

The InterAcademy Partnership (IAP) invites proposals from IAP member academies and regional networks, for projects that would help advance IAP’s mission and strategic goals. Proposed projects should preferably be collaborative across member academies and regional networks. Priority will be given to project proposals that aim to establish or continue support for collaborations across discipli...

CfP | Science as Culture Special Issue: Colonial Relations in Modern Techno-Securitisation

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 an...

CfP | Sensuality and Robots: An Aesthetic Approach to Human-Robot Interactions

Published On: Oct 14 2024

Deadline: Dec 15, 2024

Can robots be sensual? In our era of technological advancements, the once clear demarcation between humans and machines is becoming increasingly blurred. As robotics and artificial intelligence continue to evolve, there is a remarkable confluence of situations that beckons us to ponder the profound implications of human-robot interactions. Sexual robots, or partners like Replika, are just an examp...

CfP Annotated Book Series | Imagination

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 r...

CfP | Unsettling Global Media and Communication Studies

Published On: Oct 10 2024

Deadline: Dec 15, 2024

The Center for Advance Research for Global Communication fellows are pleased to welcome submissions for the CARGC Fellows 2025 Biennial Conference. This conference is an excellent space for students, early career scholars, and practitioners. We welcome interdisciplinary and multimodal approaches and contributions from early career scholars across various fields. Keynote speech will be given by Dr....

CFP for Thematic Collection on "Critical STS Pedagogy"

Published On: Oct 11 2023

Deadline: Dec 5, 2023

The editors of Science, Technology, & Human Values and guest editors John Aggrey, Liora Goldensher, Marie Stettler Kleine, Christine Labuski, Jane Lehr, Cora Olson, Desen Ozkan, and Kari Zacharias are calling for short essays (up to 4,000 words max) for an upcoming Thematic Collection on Critical STS Pedagogy. Interested scholars should send proposals for full papers (200-250 word abstract, pl...

CFP for a special issue of Science, Technology & Human values

Published On: Aug 2 2023

Deadline: Sep 14, 2023

The editors of Science, Technology, & Human Values and guest editors Canay Özden-Schilling and Emily Chua are calling for proposed papers for an upcoming Special Issue.

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