Published On: Jan 26 2026
Deadline: Feb 16, 2026
Abstracts are now being accepted for the 7th ELSI Congress, which will be held on June 22 – 24, 2026 in Chapel Hill, NC. For over three decades, the National Human Genome Research Institute’s Ethical, Legal, and Social Implications (ELSI) Research Program has advanced scholarship on the ELSI of genetics and genomics. The ELSI Congress brings together scholars who are dedicated to understanding and shaping the impact of genomic science on society, and to share research, exchange ideas, and influence the future of the field. We welcome submissions from all disciplines and methodologi...
Published On: Jan 26 2026
Deadline: Feb 1, 2026
The Sexual Health Exploration Project is excited to share that with support from the Humanities Research Center and the Department of Gender, Sexuality and Women’s Studies at Virginia Commonwealth University, a virtual symposium on Authority & Health-Science-Knowledge will take place April 17–19, 2026. If you and/or your colleagues, students, and community connections are doing work in any areas of health, science, and knowledge production, we encourage you to view the full call for proposals on our website. We are open for submissions now and our initial deadline is February 1...
Published On: Jan 26 2026
Deadline: Feb 28, 2026
How does geopolitical authority in AI get performed through signals, imaginaries, and staged infrastructures rather than enforceable control? This experimental roundtable invites scholars and practitioners to co-design and deliberate with AI agents that represent geopolitical actors or political imaginaries. As part of the EASST2026 Krakow conference, we welcome 300–500 word proposals engaging AI sovereignty, signaling, deterrence, and political futures through STS, IR, political theory, or performance studies.
Published On: Dec 30 2025
Deadline: Mar 26, 2026
For this year’s annual HPS conference, we are seeking a variety of perspectives on the phenomenon of “scientific expertise”: How have sciences, expertise, and the state been co-constitutive and mutually reinforcing? How have (and how do) practices of quantification and categorization contribute to colonial expansion and reification of racial hierarchies? How can we assess “good judgment” within scientific practices? Can such assessments be articulated and generalized to domains “outside the lab,” or are they inevitably “tacit” and context-s...
Published On: Dec 30 2025
Deadline: Feb 15, 2026
We are pleased to announce that the Call for Papers and Panels for the first Digital Commons conference is now open on our website: www.digicommons.org.
The conference, titled Digital Commons: Infrastructures, Design & the Ethics of Autonomy, will take place in Athens, Greece (8–10 October 2026). It is co-organized by the Department of Social Anthropology, Panteion University of Social and Political Sciences, and the Institute of Informatics and Telecommunications, National Centre for Scientific Research “Demokritos.”
Published On: Dec 30 2025
Deadline: May 14, 2026
Dear Collegues, We are writing with reference to the VI Annual International Conference promoted by the International Lab for Innovative Cultural and Social Research (ILIS).
The mission of ILIS is to promote theoretical, epistemological and methodological advances in the field of social sciences.
The title of this year conference is “Epistemic Shifts in the Post-Digital Society. The dilemma of knowledge production between generative models and quantum futures” and it will be held on the 14th and the 15th of May 2026 according to a hybrid format (online and on-site).
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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: Oct 18 2025
Deadline: Dec 1, 2025
As part of the Desirable AI programme – a collaboration between Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn and the University of Cambridge – this interdisciplinary conference, will explore the profound implications of large language models (LLMs), affective computing, and emotionally responsive AI. As machines venture into realms once thought uniquely human – emotion, creativity, irrationality – we ask: What does this mean for language, ethics, and the future of human expression? We welcome theoretical, empirical, and practice-oriented contributions from schola...
Published On: Nov 27 2025
Deadline: Dec 5, 2025
We are convening this workshop to foster synergies among scholars across diverse disciplines to reflect on the integration of data-driven tools and digital logics into agrifood systems and environmental policy and management. We are interested in i) the drivers, interests, institutional contexts, and development strategies structuring investment and innovation, ii) how questions of ontology and knowledge systems can inform analyses of innovation processes, with particular attention to the biases, assumptions, exclusions and relations of power embedded in data and design, and iii) progressive e...
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...