Published On: Aug 21 2025
Deadline: Sep 1, 2025
Globally, in a world of interlocking networks, the likelihood that most residents will experience a major disaster in their lifetimes is increasing significantly. Whether caused by natural, technological, synergistic, social, cyber, or new means, disasters are becoming more complex, frequent, stronger, longer-lasting, and more devastating in their impacts. As each disaster receives only limited national attention, the extended, slow recovery process forces change and transition at all levels of society, reshaping the pathways forward. Disasters force endings and offer new beginnings. Their des...
Published On: Jul 8 2025
Deadline: Sep 15, 2025
Please nominate publications for the International Network for Engineering Studies' 2025 Paper Prize. The prize celebrates an excellent refereed journal paper or book chapter addressing the relationships among the technical, social and philosophical dimensions of engineering practices, and how these relationships change over time and from place to place. This year, the prize committee is calling for articles published in 2024 or 2025 in media other than the Engineering Studies journal.
Published On: Aug 8 2025
The Transnationalizing Theory in Science and Technology Studies Series is a groundbreaking intervention in the global landscape of Science and Technology Studies (STS). It proposes a much-needed expansion of the theoretical canon by showcasing conceptual work developed in regions historically peripheral to the field’s dominant Euro-American centers. Building on the momentum of increased scholarly transnationalization, the collection seeks to establish a series of edited books—each devoted to a different regional constellation such as Southeast Asia, Eastern Europe, South Asia, and ...
Published On: Apr 13 2025
Deadline: Jun 21, 2025
The editorial group of Science, Technology, & Human Values is happy to announce the journal’s annual Call for Proposals for Special Issues. Since 1972, Science, Technology, & Human Values has provided a forum for cutting-edge research and debate in the field of Science and Technology Studies (STS). This is a collectively edited, peer-reviewed, transnational, interdisciplinary journal containing research, analyses and commentary on the development and dynamics of science and technology, with a focus on their relationship to politics, economy, society and culture. ST&HV publi...
Published On: Nov 11 2024
Deadline: Apr 30, 2025
‘Security’ has become an increasingly dominant frame in recent decades, linking issues such as climate, biodiversity, borders, energy, food and military activities. Ever-more societal issues have been framed as security problems, even as existential threats. These frames seek to justify pre-emptive management through technoscientific expert systems, imagining control over everything and fostering an authoritarian culture. This SaC special issue will explore linkages among three dynamics: modern pre-emptive techno-securitisation, today’s active colonial relations, and the mili...
Published On: Jun 10 2025
Deadline: Jul 2, 2025
We announce this issue during an unprecedented attack by the current US administration on the largest public research funds in the world. The AI boom is the latest in a series of economic shocks further pushing the academy towards private interests. We are in the midst of ongoing imperialist war and genocide that are inextricable from the politics of science and technology, and stumbling recovery efforts from a pandemic that left the world more dependent on, and yet less trusting of, public health institutions. Under such conditions, a discussion of political economy in science is timely. Howe...
Published On: Jun 10 2025
Deadline: Jul 28, 2025
Third-party conception or reproduction involves using donated eggs, sperm or embryos, or a surrogate, to help individuals or couples have a child. Being able to start and build a family is frequently seen as personally, culturally and socially important. The Universal Declaration of Human Rights, for example, describes the family as the “fundamental unit of society”. For many people, third-party conception is critical in achieving this goal, particularly for single individuals, individuals in same-sex relationships, and mixed-sex couples experiencing infertility.
Published On: Oct 14 2024
Deadline: Dec 15, 2024
Can robots be sensual? In our era of technological advancements, the once clear demarcation between humans and machines is becoming increasingly blurred. As robotics and artificial intelligence continue to evolve, there is a remarkable confluence of situations that beckons us to ponder the profound implications of human-robot interactions. Sexual robots, or partners like Replika, are just an example. This edited issue puts on the table the relationship between aesthetics and philosophy, seeking to understand the intricate interplay of sensuality and robots.
Published On: Oct 10 2024
The editorial team behind the new series Imagination, Annotated, from the MIT Press, is inviting proposals for edited books in the series. Imagination, Annotated features speculative fiction texts from the 19th and 20th centuries that envisage possible futures, each annotated by a diverse group of experts, scholars, and practitioners. It aims to open up great works of speculative fiction to new readers and contemporary concerns, inspire reflection, and include readers in a continuing conversation about what kind of world we want to live in.
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