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Published On: Oct 4 2024
Deadline: Nov 26, 2024
The DFG research training group (RTG) „Fixing Futures“ will offer 8 doctoral researcher positions at Goethe University in Frankfurt, starting May 1, 2025. The mission of the RTG „Fixing Futures“ is to investigate ‘technologies of anticipation‘ – that is, socio-material orderings and temporal orientations that have the capacity to define entire domains of knowledge, forms of social organisation, or even societies as a whole. We have now published the information and guidelines for applicants and the application form on the Fixing Futures website. Applic...
Published On: Oct 18 2024
Deadline: Dec 2, 2024
The InterAcademy Partnership (IAP) invites proposals from IAP member academies and regional networks, for projects that would help advance IAP’s mission and strategic goals. Proposed projects should preferably be collaborative across member academies and regional networks. Priority will be given to project proposals that aim to establish or continue support for collaborations across disciplines (for example, collaborations across academies of science, medicine and engineering), especially in areas linked with recent or ongoing IAP projects, and/or involve long-term IAP member academies a...
Published On: Jul 30 2024
The 4S Palestine Forum, launched earlier this year as the initial project of the Working Group on War and Genocide that was initiated at 4S Honolulu in 2023, is welcoming further contributions.
Please submit new short blog-style entries, as well as references to published work, syllabi, and other resources by writing info@4sonline.org.
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Published On: Oct 4 2024
Deadline: Nov 30, 2024
The High Meadows Environmental Institute (HMEI) at Princeton University is accepting applications for the 2025-2026 HMEI Environmental Fellows Program. This postdoctoral program seeks scholars from all disciplines across the sciences, engineering, policy, and the humanities. The fellowship supports early career scholars in developing their research within a highly collaborative community of environmental scholars.
Published On: Nov 11 2024
Deadline: Nov 29, 2024
The McCoy Family Center for Ethics in Society is seeking an Assistant Director to develop and manage innovative, dynamic, and diverse opportunities for the Stanford community and broader public to engage in rigorous ethical reflection about ethics, society, and technology topics. The Ethics Center is home to a diverse and growing portfolio of initiatives that reach audiences across campus and outside the university. Much of the Center’s expanding work is in the arena of technology ethics, including ethical issues related to artificial intelligence, bioengineering, and climate tech, which...
Published On: Mar 2 2024
Deadline: Mar 15, 2024
The 4S community is invited to submit nominations for two prizes from the American Sociological Association (ASA) recognizing antiracism scholarship and practice it the intersection of science, knowledge, technology, and society.
Published On: Nov 4 2024
Deadline: Dec 1, 2024
The Department of Humanities at Michigan Technological University seeks an experienced scholar and leader committed to interdisciplinarity to serve as department chair at the rank of associate or full professor. The chair will lead our collaborative, multidisciplinary department in implementing a shared vision for excellence in scholarship, creative work, and teaching. The chair will be responsible for developing and supporting new departmental initiatives as well as ongoing efforts to foster innovative interdisciplinary research and advance graduate and undergraduate programs.
Published On: Mar 7 2024
Deadline: Jun 21, 2024
The editorial group of Science, Technology, & Human Values announces the journal’s 2024 Call for Proposals for Special Issues. Interested scholars should submit a proposal by 21 June 2024. In August 2024, the editors of ST&HV will choose one Special Issue proposal to proceed. The editors may also select and invite other proposals to proceed as shorter Thematic Collections if suitable. Diversity of contributions from scholars internationally, and at different career stages, is encouraged.
Published On: Oct 11 2024
Deadline: Dec 1, 2024
As a partnership between NASA’s Astrobiology Program and the Library of Congress, the Blumberg Chair, an annually selected position, supports a scholar in the sciences, humanities, or social sciences to take up residence in the Library’s John W. Kluge Center. The Blumberg Chair provides an opportunity for high-level scholarship to understand the interface between human society and the scientific exploration of the cosmos. The program is most interested in proposals that consider the philosophical, humanistic, legal, ethical, and policy dimensions of exploration.
Published On: Nov 4 2024
Deadline: Dec 2, 2024
We invite applications for our Embedded Ethics postdoctoral fellowship based at the McCoy Family Center for Ethics in Society and the Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence (HAI). Stanford Embedded Ethics is a collaborative program that embeds the teaching of ethics directly into the core undergraduate courses of Stanford’s computer science curriculum. Working in collaboration with CS faculty and graduate students, the fellows create curricular materials, course assignments, and teach ethics modules in CS courses.