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: 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: Oct 18 2024
Deadline: Oct 28, 2024
This Call for Research is sponsored by the Coalition for Academic Freedom in the Americas and by the Latin American Council of Social Sciences, within the framework of its Platforms for Social Dialogue Project, and has the following objectives: to deepen knowledge and understanding of the issue of academic freedom in the Americas; to create a critical mass of researchers throughout the region capable of contributing to this field of research; to disseminate research findings in written and oral form, through CAFA and CLACSO websites, and through workshops and seminars, establishing dialogues w...
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: Oct 4 2024
Deadline: Dec 15, 2024
The 3rd international conference on Medical and Health Humanities: Global Perspectives 2025 in Doha, Qatar on February 7-8, 2025 invites abstracts for oral presentations and posters on the topics of: narrative medicine, medical sociology, philosophy of medicine, medical ethics and narrative ethics, literature and medicine, arts therapies and arts-in-health, healthcare communication, the history of medicine and other humanistic initiatives in health and medicine.
Abstract Submission Deadline: December 15, 2024 | Notification of Acceptance: January, 1 2025 | Event: Feburary 7–8, 2025
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: Oct 10 2024
Deadline: Dec 15, 2024
The Center for Advance Research for Global Communication fellows are pleased to welcome submissions for the CARGC Fellows 2025 Biennial Conference. This conference is an excellent space for students, early career scholars, and practitioners. We welcome interdisciplinary and multimodal approaches and contributions from early career scholars across various fields. Keynote speech will be given by Dr. Nabil Echchaibi (University of Colorado Boulder).
Published On: Nov 11 2024
Deadline: Jan 8, 2025
In recent years, perhaps stimulated by the growing awareness of the power of digital technologies, there have been calls for engineers and designers to advance values ‘by design’, such as democracy, participation, privacy and transparency. This builds on earlier inclusive design and access-for-all initiatives. But not all encounters with technologies are fulfilling, and some are designed to exclude or harm people, animals and nature. This workshop focuses on those technologies that could be described as hostile or exclusionary by design.
The workshop is supported by the Maastric...