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: May 22 2025
Deadline: Jul 31, 2025
The Berggruen Prize Essay Competition, in the amount of $50,000 USD, is calling for essay submissions in English and Chinese on the theme of consciousness. It is given annually by the Berggruen Institute with the goal to stimulate new thinking and innovative concepts while embracing cross-cultural perspectives across fields, disciplines, and geographies. Inspired by the pivotal role essays have played in shaping thought and inquiry, we are inviting essays that follow in the tradition of renowned thinkers such as Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Michel de Montaigne, and Ralph Waldo Emerson. Submissions s...
Published On: Jun 10 2025
Deadline: Jun 18, 2025
The Global Development Awards Competition (GDAC) is GDN’s largest and longest-running programme that brings together a rich community of researchers and development practitioners. It is an award scheme that: Identifies talent and supports the career advancement of researchers in the Global South; Funds innovative social development projects implemented by NGOs that benefit marginalised groups in the developing world.
THEME - 2025 EDITION: Digital Transformation for Universal Health Coverage
Digital health is a cultural transformation of traditional healthcare. Digital technologies ...
Published On: Jan 23 2025
Deadline: Feb 4, 2025
The UN Interagency Task Team on Science, Technology and Innovation for the Sustainable Development Goals (IATT) is calling upon scientists, engineers, economists, policy analysts, and UN staff experts to contribute science-policy briefs on science and technology issues that they would like to bring to the attention of policy and decision makers. The briefs will provide background knowledge to inform discussions at the MultiStakeholder Forum on Science, Technology and Innovation for the Sustainable Development Goals (STI Forum), to be held at UN Headquarters in New York from 7 to 8 May 2025, wi...
Published On: Jun 5 2025
For half a century, innovation served as a universal good in an age of fracture. That consensus is cracking. While the imperative to innovate for a better future continues to fuel systemic change around the world, critics now assail innovation culture as an engine of inequality or accuse its do-gooders of woke groupthink. What happened? Drawing on a decade of research, Every American an Innovator by Matthew Wisnioski investigates how innovation—a once obscure academic term—became ingrained in our institutions, our education, and our beliefs about ourselves.
Published On: Jan 23 2025
The Association of Research Libraries, a membership organization of research libraries and archives in the United States and Canada, has launched a blog series called Repertoires, which will feature quarterly posts about recent STS books that highlight changing research practices in scholarly communities. Led by Marcel LaFlamme, ARL's Director of Research Policy and Scholarship as well as a 4S member, the series aims to distill actionable insights that library leaders can use to develop scholar-focused services at their institutions and beyond. In doing so, Repertoires hopes to play a role in ...
Published On: Jun 5 2025
New and emerging technologies, especially ones that infiltrate intimate spaces, relations, homes, and bodies, are often referred to as creepy in media and political discourses. In Technocreep and the Politics of Things Not Seen, Neda Atanasoski and Nassim Parvin introduce a feminist theory of creep that they substantiate through critical engagement with smart homes, smart dust, smart desires, and smart forests toward dreams of feminist futures. Contributing authors further illuminate what is otherwise obscured, assumed, or dismissed in characterizations of technology as creepy or creeping. Con...
Published On: Jun 3 2025
Deadline: Jul 9, 2025
On behalf of the Australian & New Zealand Society of the History of Medicine (ANZSHM) we look forward to welcoming you to the 2025 conference. The conference will take place between 8-11 July at the University of Sydney, Camperdown Campus. The biennial ANZSHM conference provides a unique opportunity for anyone interested in the history of health and medicine to network and to explore medical histories of all kinds. The theme for 2025 will focus on how medical and health history continues to be made in our own times and what is its impact? Social highlights include Welcome Drinks on Tuesday...
Published On: May 22 2025
This groundbreaking collection draws together case studies of social medicine in the Global South, radically shifting our understanding of social science in healthcare. Looking beyond a narrative originating in nineteenth-century Europe, a team of expert contributors explores a far broader set of roots and branches, with nodes in Sub-Saharan Africa, South America, Oceania, the Middle East, and Asia. This plural approach reframes and decolonizes the study of social medicine, highlighting connections to social justice and health equity, social science and state formation, bottom-up community ini...
Published On: May 22 2025
Manorial Capitalism, Enslavement, and the Logic of Dividuation proffers three perspectives on the plantation slave economy of the Antebellum South. The first explores the paternal function as exemplified in the structural authority of the lord of the manor both symbolically and operationally. This figure of masculine authority persisted from the Medieval period to orchestrate what is called here Manorial Capitalism. The second examines the exploitation and alienation that epitomize the logic of capitalism from the plantation economy to the present. And the third deploys retroactively the logic...