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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 | Special Issues in Science, Technology, & Human Values

Published On: Apr 13 2025

Deadline: Jun 21, 2025

The editorial group of Science, Technology, & Human Values is happy to announce the journal’s annual Call for Proposals for Special Issues. Since 1972, Science, Technology, & Human Values has provided a forum for cutting-edge research and debate in the field of Science and Technology Studies (STS). This is a collectively edited, peer-reviewed, transnational, interdisciplinary journ...

The Heartware approach: how cultural values drive sustainable socio-technical change

Published On: Apr 7 2025

Zeeda F. Mohamad explores the “Heartware approach” in sustainability science: a visualisation tool to enable community-based participation that emphasizes the integration of cultural values into environmental sustainability governance frameworks.

Sandra Harding Feminist Philosophy Memorial Fund

Published On: Apr 3 2025

Professor Sandra Harding was a path-breaking scholar in Feminist Philosophy and Science Studies, and her many books and contributions will inspire future scholars for decades to come. She was a founding associate editor for Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy and this fund is being managed by the non-profit Board of Hypatia together with the Society for Women in Philosophy (SWIP, Pacific Div...

Interspecies Agencies: Controversies, Ontologies, and New Forms of Cohabitation (Part 3)

Published On: Apr 1 2025

This report on an EASST/4S 2024 panel is the third in a three-part series about interspecies agencies. Part Three rethinks STS through the lens of multispecies relations.

Interspecies Agencies: Controversies, Ontologies, and New Forms of Cohabitation (Part 2)

Published On: Mar 24 2025

This report on an EASST/4S 2024 panel is the second in a three-part series about interspecies agencies. Part Two highlights methodologies for studying multispecies relationships.

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...

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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2024 STS School in Singapore

Published On: Nov 6 2023

Sponsored by Science, Technology, & Human Values (STHV), hosted by National University of Singapore & Singapore Management University, and with support from Sydney Southeast Asia Centre & Deakin Science and Society Network.

Catalyst Call for Applications - Co-Editors and Associate Editors

Published On: Dec 15 2023

The Editorial Board of Catalyst: Feminism, Theory, Technoscience invites applications for the following positions for a term of three years: Co-Editor of Peer Review; Co-Editor of Design, Production, Social Media; Associate Editor of Special Sections; Associate Editor of Design and Social Media.

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