Published On: Nov 27 2025
Deadline: Dec 15, 2025
The Society for the Social Studies of Science (4S) is looking for STS graduate students, postdocs or early career scholars from/based in the Global South (especially Africa, Middle East, Asia) who can contribute as Assistant Editors for 4S Backchannels.
The candidate will be part of the team sharing and disseminating STS news, research from/about Global South in the form of short academic writings. Besides some editorial skills, they will encourage potential authors to contribute with their works. The Assistant Editor will assist the collection, editing and publication of the writings in Ba...
Published On: Oct 18 2025
Deadline: Dec 15, 2025
Footprint, the open access Delft Architecture Theory Journal, is now welcoming abstracts on Conditions of Architecture. Footprint 40 (edited by Alina Paias and Catherine Koekoek) explores the theoretical and practical implications of situating architecture within its conditions of production. Architects are used to seeing themselves as the ones who set conditions, as the designers of spatial constraints within which certain activities will develop. Issue 40 of Footprint will explore what happens when we start to consider that architects are in turn also conditioned by social, cultural, economi...
Published On: Oct 18 2025
Deadline: Dec 31, 2025
The editors of East Asian Science, Technology and Society: An International Journal (EASTS), together with guest editors Tobias Burgers and Ian Kalman, invite submissions for an upcoming special issue. We welcome manuscripts that engage with the theme of the special issue. The abstract outlining its scope is included below. Scholars with relevant work are encouraged to submit full manuscripts directly through the EASTS submission system: https://www.tandfonline.com/journals/teas20
When submitting, please indicate your intention to be considered for this special issue.
Published On: Nov 27 2025
Deadline: Jan 6, 2026
We invite chapter proposals for a proposed collected volume on the theme of Tech/Money.
This volume will highlight a materialist, political economy approach to science and technology studies with work that emphasizes an understanding of the role played by money, financing, and business structures in the study of technology and science. This moves beyond an economic analysis, highlighting the role of capital and finance’s movements, norms, and infrastructures in animating science and technology, inflecting and directing the performance of these spaces and their own ideologies, imagina...
Published On: Nov 27 2025
Deadline: Jan 15, 2026
We are delighted to share a Call for Papers for an upcoming edited volume in the Turning Points in Media Studies anthology series, titled The Long 1990s in Global Internet Histories. This volume grows out of a multi-year collaborative project at the Center for Advanced Research in Global Communication (CARGC) at the University of Pennsylvania and a 2023 satellite event at the Association of Internet Researchers conference on the same theme.
Our aim with this collection is to bring together scholars, researchers, artists, and practitioners who are examining the development of the Internet an...
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...
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: 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: 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: May 22 2025
Deadline: Jul 31, 2025
The Berggruen Prize Essay Competition, in the amount of $50,000 USD, is calling for essay submissions in English and Chinese on the theme of consciousness. It is given annually by the Berggruen Institute with the goal to stimulate new thinking and innovative concepts while embracing cross-cultural perspectives across fields, disciplines, and geographies. Inspired by the pivotal role essays have played in shaping thought and inquiry, we are inviting essays that follow in the tradition of renowned thinkers such as Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Michel de Montaigne, and Ralph Waldo Emerson. Submissions s...