Call for Open Panels

Dear Colleagues,

We are pleased to announce the Call for Open Panels for the 4S (Society for Social Studies of Science) 2025 conference Reverberations, to be held at the Sheraton Hotel in Seattle from September 3-7, 2025. The theme offers layered meaning, sitting at the nexus of transmission and repercussion, and across multiple sightlines and frequencies—historical, geological, sonic, and otherwise. Please submit your open panel proposals by November 15th, 2024.

Open Panel Types

There are two types of Open Panels:

Traditional Open Panels
Composed of academic paper presentations, possibly followed by reflections by a discussant.
Combined Format Open Panels
Includes academic paper presentations and experimental formats of knowledge expression, such as dialogue sessions, theater experiments, workshops, etc. For example, you could have one session with academic papers, a second session for a workshop, and a third session for a dialogue as part of the same Open Panel. Describe the types of submissions you welcome in the long abstract field of the panel submission form.

Submissions Instructions:

Panel title
Name/s and email address/es of panel convenors
Short abstract of fewer than 300 characters
Long abstract of fewer than 300 words. Include a brief discussion of its contribution to the field.

Please Note:

Combined Format Open Panels must be open to submissions during the Call for Abstracts dates.
Stand-alone workshops or roundtables can be submitted during the Call for Abstracts, which opens on December 15, 2024.

Accepted Open Panel topics will be included in the general Call for Abstracts, where authors can propose their papers or other types of contributions. Convenors of Open Panels must agree to receive abstract proposals during the Call for Abstracts, must be able to review the submissions they receive within two weeks, and are responsible for determining which abstract submissions will be accepted into their session. Panels can extend across a maximum of four 90-minute sessions, containing up to twenty papers/contributions.

Submission link coming soon for Open Panels