Extended - Call for Abstracts: 8th STS Italia Conference

Publication date
January 20, 2020
Deadline
February 21, 2020
Short description

To satisfy the many requests, the deadline for abstracts submission within the 8th STS Italia Conference (University of Trieste, Italy, June 18 through 20, 2020) has been extended to February 21, 2020 (23:59 CET). More information on the conference website.

These are the updated dates:

  • February 21, 2020: Deadline for abstract submission
  • March 2, 2020: Notification of abstract acceptance or rejection
  • March 29, 2020: Early registration deadline
  • April 19, 2020: Closing date for registration
  • May 24, 2020: Publication of the final conference programme
  • June 18-20, 2020: Conference

STS Italia offers 4 scholarships, for talented PhD students, post-doc and non-tenured academics. The scholarshipwill cover registration fees, accommodation and social dinner (see more details about scholarships on the conference website).

In addition,19 scholarshipsfor participants from CEI Member States are available thanks to the generous support of the Central European Initiative (CEI) Cooperation Fund. The Central European Initiative is a regional intergovernmental forum committed to supporting European integration and sustainable development through cooperation between and among its Member States and with the European Union, international and regional organisations as well as with other public or private institutions and non-governmental organisations.

DIS/ENTANGLING TECHNOSCIENCE: vulnerability, responsibility and justice

The 8th STS Italia Conference will be hosted by the University of Trieste, Italy, June 18 through 20, 2020, by the Italian Society of Science and Technology Studies.

The conference will be an opportunity to present empirical and theoretical work from a variety of disciplines: sociology, anthropology, design, economics, history, law, philosophy, psychology and semiotics. The focal theme of the 8th STS Italia Conference will be "Dis/Entangling Technoscience: Vulnerability, Responsibility and Justice”. This broad theme refers to the complex and ambivalent role of technoscience and innovation in constituting societies – making possibilities flourish, but also creating new vulnerabilities.

 

The conference will include 33 tracks, which are clustered into five thematic streams. The tracks focus on several topics, including: biomedicine, digital platforms and media, work and organizations, expertise and public policy, ethics of technology and innovation, and governance of science and technology at large.

The conference’s keynote speakers include: Amade M’charek (University of Amsterdam); Dimitris Papadopoulos (University of Nottingham) and René von Schomberg (European Commission)

Abstracts (written in English, or in Italian in case of tracks in two languages) should be submitted by February, 21 to the conference email address (stsitaliaconf@gmail.com) and to the emails of convenors' selected track. Track Convenor(s) will be responsible for reviewing, accepting/rejecting and organising submissions in their track.

THEMATIC STREAMS

  • Biomedicine, bodies and technoscience
  • Platforms, digital technologies and media environments
  • Rethinking science, technology and innovation: emerging challenges
  • Including, excluding and connecting through / within technoscience
  • Governing and reshuffling technoscience and innovation processes
  • Open Track :Science and Technology Studies in Post-socialist countries/in Central and Eastern European countries

Check the conference website www.stsitaliaconf2020. for further information and to read the 33 specific calls for abstracts.

To contact the organization team write to stsitaliaconf@gmail.com.

Download the call for abstracts HERE

Type
  • Other
Geographical focus
  • International; Other
  • Italy
Scientifc field / Thematic focus
  • Cross-thematic/Interdisciplinary

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Modified on February 13, 2020