Published On: Nov 8 2025
Deadline: Nov 19, 2025
Please join us for an open seminar with the authors of "A Call for Multilingual Inclusiveness in Science and Disaster Research"--recently published in the Journal of Disaster Studies (JDS). The event is co-hosted by JDS and University of California Irvine EcoGovLab.
Authors: Rodolfo Hernandez (Howard University, US), Jen Henderson (Texas Tech University, US), Kim Fortun (University of California Irvine, US). Discussants: Leandro Rodriguez Medina (Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana-Azcapotzalco), Wen-Hua Kuo (National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University), Noela Invernizzi (Feder...
Published On: Aug 8 2025
Deadline: Apr 24, 2026
The Cascadia Seminar in Medical Anthropology is an experiment in creating a dedicated intellectual space for medical anthropology. This biennial conference was founded in 2011 to establish regional expertise, regular research sharing, networking and collaboration, graduate student training, and cooperative teaching and publication support in the medical anthropology field. It is a small, intimate, high-interest, low-cost weekend conference organized collaboratively by medical anthropologists on faculty at a number of different universities and colleges in the US Pacific Northwest and British C...
Published On: Feb 10 2025
Deadline: Mar 14, 2025
We are excited to announce a workshop focused on researching academic communities, featuring six distinguished speakers from a range of disciplines. This workshop aims to provide junior scholars with insights into the research opportunities on this subject and to support their professional development through role models and networking opportunities.
Published On: Feb 10 2025
Deadline: Apr 17, 2025
An invitation to a workshop organized by MISTRA environmental communication and The Department of Arts and Cultural Sciences, Lund University, Sweden, October 23, 2025.
This workshop invites scholars in the humanities and social sciences to discuss and explore the role and use of digital environmental technologies in policies, in professional use and in everyday life. We particularly invite papers that critically engage with environmental data as an everyday practice, and welcome participants to reflect on questions such as: In which ways do digitized ways of obtaining environmental data ch...
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 and short-form genres: original research articles, thematic collections, engagements, perspectives, and research data. Content is organized into three issues annually, and includes work that represents ...
Published On: Jan 13 2025
Deadline: Jan 23, 2025
The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), Washington, DC, USA, and The World Academy of Sciences (TWAS), Trieste, Italy, are seeking candidates to participate in the annual summer course on science diplomacy to be held on 21-24 July, 2025 in person in Trieste, Italy.
The AAAS-TWAS Science Diplomacy training program was established in 2014 to expose scientists, decisionmakers, diplomats and other interested stakeholders and institutions to science diplomacy concepts, explore key contemporary international policy issues relating to science, technology, environment and he...
Published On: May 15 2025
Deadline: Dec 31, 2025
The Advanced Institute of Humanities and Social Sciences (AI-HSS) of The University of Electronic Science and Technology of China (UESTC) is seeking outstanding scholars at all career stages to strengthen our research and teaching capabilities in the ethics and philosophy of science and technology. Successful candidates will join either the Research Center for Ethics and Governance of Science and Technology or the Research Center for Philosophy, Logic, and History of Science and Technology, conducting cutting-edge research on ethical, philosophical, and governance issues related to emerging te...
Published On: Jul 8 2025
In recent decades, there has been a call for decentering knowledge in the social sciences and humanities, bringing to light perspectives from previously ignored or undervalued groups or areas of the world. Feminist epistemologies and postcolonial studies have led this trend. However, there has been less interest in the specific infrastructures and practices that make decentering possible. Drawing from science and technology studies, Decentralizing Knowledges examines how to bring about such change. Contributors explore the multiple practices of knowledge production and circulation that favor a...
Published On: Sep 24 2025
Deadline: Oct 10, 2025
Registration is open for a one-day, online pedagogy workshop on integrating Latin American and Caribbean history of science and environmental history into teaching in adjacent fields. The workshop aims to inspire historians to teach about Latin American science and environment, with a specific focus on the nineteenth and twentieth-century periods. Participants will come away with concrete ideas for teaching modules that can be integrated into existing courses or used to design new ones. The modules will include peer-reviewed readings, primary sources, and ideas generated from discussion. The w...
Published On: Oct 18 2025
From the smart phone to the smart home, smartness has become an almost inescapable reality of everyday life. Supposedly intelligent, interconnected technologies, smart systems have taken on their own forms of life, and it is no longer easy to determine who these systems benefit and what their long-term social and ethical implications may be. In twenty contributions spanning the social sciences, humanities, and the arts, The Smartification of Everything offers a deep dive into a variety of studies that critically interrogate smartification processes and systems.The book is edited by exper...
