Digitizing nature - A workshop on the use of digital environmental technologies in everyday life

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...

Workshop on How to Research Academic Communities

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.

CfP | Synthetic Data: Representation and/vs Representativeness

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 ...

CfP | Laboring Landscapes: Workers’ Agency in Transforming Agricultural Spaces

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 ...

CfP | "Radiant Futures" Spiral Research Centre

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...

CfP | Truth Politics between Science and Society

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...

CfP | SciDataCon 2025

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...

CfP | Platform for Advanced Scientific Computing

Published On: Oct 28 2024

Deadline: Dec 6, 2024

The Platform for Advanced Scientific Computing (PASC) is co-sponsored by the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) and the Swiss National Supercomputing Centre (CSCS). PASC25 will be held from June 16 to 18, 2025, at FHNW Campus Brugg-Windisch, Switzerland. Proposals that emphasize the theme of PASC25 - “Supercomputing for Sustainable Development” - are particularly welcome. The conference will focus on exploring how supercomputing can be utilised to help address the 17 UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), which underpin the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, adopted ...

Shifting AI Controversies: Prompts, Provocations & Problematisations for Society-Centered AI

Published On: Oct 13 2023

Deadline: Oct 30, 2023

Controversies about AI abound, especially since ChatGPT took over the Internet by storm, becoming the most popular applications in the Web’s history within only a few months. The current excitement about the perils and prospects of general purpose AI applications like ChatGPT is only the most recent wave of public interest in the long history of “artificial intelligence” (AI). With its metaphysical imaginaries of human-machine symbiosis, anthropomorphic robots and machine thinking, oversized scientific claims and technological developments in this field have always raised con...

Call for Papers - The 3rd Global STS Conference: Rethinking Technological Change

Published On: Oct 11 2023

Deadline: Nov 30, 2023

We are excited to announce the Call for Papers for the upcoming conference, "3rd Global STS Conference: Rethinking Technological Change: Transdisciplinary Perspectives of Science, Technology, and Society," scheduled to take place on the 22nd and 23rd of February 2024. This conference aims to bring together scholars, researchers, and practitioners from around the world to explore and discuss the most pressing issues related to the intersection of science, technology, and society.

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