Published On: Jul 18 2025
Deadline: Aug 15, 2025
Call for a small in-person workshop on “Lay Expertise: Empirical Studies of Lay Social Knowledge”, to be held at Copenhagen Business School on 29–30 October 2025
The aim of the workshop is to bring together researchers from across the social sciences who study how non-traditional "experts"—from citizen scientists and political influencers to patient advocates and financial YouTubers—produce, circulate, and contest knowledge outside formal institutions. We're open to empirical work from areas such as management, sociology, political economy, STS, anthr...
Published On: Jun 17 2025
Deadline: Aug 15, 2025
As climate risks intensify, the idea of “climate havens”—and the identification of regions like the Great Lakes as more resilient to environmental change—raises pressing questions about space, belonging, justice, resources, and community. This symposium will explore climate havens through historical, philosophical, artistic, literary, and cultural perspectives, organized around three central themes: 1. What Is a Haven? 2. Whose Haven Is It? 3. Climate Havens and Natural Resources
Published On: Jul 18 2025
Deadline: Aug 31, 2025
The 12th SCAR Open Science Conference will be held in Oslo, Norway, from 10-14 August 2026, hosted by the Norwegian Polar Institute. The conference will feature an interdisciplinary programme that includes plenary lectures, parallel sessions, mini-symposia, workshops, panel discussions, posters, and social activities. We invite you to express your interest in proposing a new parallel session or convening a session from the draft list, mini-symposium, workshop, other event. This is an excellent opportunity to contribute your expertise and insights, and engage with the broader Antarctic research...
Published On: May 22 2025
Deadline: May 28, 2025
Full-day, onsite workshop at Aarhus 2025 Computing [X] Crisis Conference. Synthetic data promises to address three key concerns for data-driven technologies: sparsity, privacy, and bias or lack of diversity. This workshop will interrogate the promise of creating better, more diverse, more representative datasets, by critically examining how data are understood to be “representative” in different senses, for example, statistically, through stereotype, or more qualitative and individual depictions of identity and other qualities. We invite participation from anyone interested in the ...
Published On: Apr 10 2025
Deadline: May 15, 2025
The Spiral Research Centre at the University of Liège is celebrating its 30th anniversary in 2025. Created in 1995, Spiral has developed into a vibrant STS community practicing fundamental and applied research, methodological innovation and interdisciplinary conversation across the social sciences and humanities. An anniversary provides the occasion to pause and reflect on past, present and future; it is a moment of recollection and anticipation: to single out and emphasize what matters. Remembering, looking ahead, and celebrating work best in the good company of others, which is why Sp...
Published On: Apr 8 2025
Deadline: May 20, 2025
Colonial and Postcolonial Landscapes International Congress
We welcome contributions that examine the interrelationships between labor and spatial typologies such as fields, mills, irrigation systems, packing plants, cold-storage warehouses, factories, or transport networks. Approaches across architecture, history, geography, anthropology, labor studies, and environmental humanities are encouraged.
Agriculture has been instrumental in shaping modern space, entangled with colonialism, extraction, consumerism, depletion, and dispossession, with labor at its core. From plantation economies ...
Published On: Mar 17 2025
Deadline: Mar 31, 2025
As digital humanities continue to grow, the creation, maintenance, and accessibility of databases are becoming critical to scholarly practice. However, databases in the humanities face a unique set of challenges: How can we represent the complexity and ambiguity of humanities data in digital forms? What strategies help build sustainable communities of practice to maintain and develop databases in new directions? How can we ensure long-term sustainability for humanities databases? Should there be specialized funding programs for databases in the humanities? How do we document and re-use data an...
Published On: Mar 17 2025
Deadline: Apr 15, 2025
SciDataCon is the international conference for scrutiny and discussion of the frontier issues of data in research. The scope of SciDataCon covers policy matters and the place of data in the scientific endeavour and scholarly communications; the opportunities of the data revolution for the global research enterprise; innovations in data science and data stewardship; and the challenge of developing a sustainable data ecosystem, including the role of education and capacity building. Since 2016, SciDataCon has been organised as an integral part of International Data Week. 15 April 2025, 23:59 AE...
Published On: Mar 17 2025
Deadline: Apr 22, 2025
In light of a dwindling public trust in science (Oreskes 2019) and ambiguous calls for a ‘return to truth’ (Cain et al. 2019), understanding the relationship between science and a democratic public, the delineation of appropriate scientific practices, and how to reconcile conflicting interpretations of reality seems to be more relevant than ever. In the 1990s, struggles over these issues culminated in the Science Wars that consisted of a series of heated academic-public discussions, among them the infamous ‘Sokal Hoax’. The Science Wars represent a historic peak and int...
Published On: Mar 3 2025
Deadline: Mar 15, 2025
This symposium explores Artificial Intelligence (AI) as a catalyst for rethinking foundational debates in agency, ontology, epistemology, and ethics. Contemporary AI systems—whether seen as radically externalized, affective, distributed, simulated, or emergent—have striking precedents in medieval scholastic inquiries into non-human intelligences. Angelic intellects, demonic adversaries, and phantasmata (machines of illusion) were central figures in premodern ontologies, raising enduring questions about the nature of intelligence, will, and moral accountability. IACAP/AISB Conferen...