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Science & Technology in
Society: An International Multidisciplinary Graduate Student
Conference: This annual conference provides a venue for graduate students
from Science & Technology Studies, Science & Technology Policy,
Environmental Studies/Policy and related fields to present and
receive constructive feedback on their research. In developing the
agenda for the conference, the organizing committee's primary goal
is to create a forum that encourages intellectual exchange between
STS, S&T Policy, and Environmental Studies/Policy by assembling
diverse and exciting panels around similar themes.
Click here for more information.
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Technological Enhancement of
Humans? Perspectives of Researchers from Underrepresented
Populations: This research conference, will bring together
undergraduate and graduate researchers (and their mentors) from
across the country who are contributing perspectives on human
enhancement that are not (yet) part of the dominant dialogue, the
conference will begin to create a network whose purpose is steering
these converging technologies toward more representative and more
just outcomes.
Call for papers: electronic submission of abstracts of January 24,
2007
Sponsored by the NSEC/Center for Nanotechnology in Society at
Arizona State University (CNS-ASU) and More Graduate Education
at Mountain States Alliance (MGE@MSA) and the Western Alliance
to Expand Student Opportunities (WAESO) both headquartered in
the Hispanic Research Center at ASU, in collaboration with the
NSEC/Center for Nanotechnology in Society at the University of
California, Santa Barbara, the NanoSTS group at the University
of South Carolina, and the nanotechnology-in-society group of
Harvard University and the University of California, Los
Angeles.
Where: Arizona State University, Tempe Campus
When: April 24, 2007
For more information:
http://cns.asu.edu/about/documents/nbic-final.pdf or
MGE@ASU.EDU.
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CSPO enLIGHTeNING LUNCHES:
Once a month, the Consortium for Science, Policy, & Outcomes will
host a twenty-minute presentation followed by twenty minutes of
discussion on topics related to science and society. Pizza and
drinks will be provided.
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Decision Making Under Uncertainty: Scientists’ Ranking Stressors on
the Central Arizona Water Supply:
Population growth, economic development, and recreational needs
compounded by scientific uncertainty associated with climate
variability and change are increasing the complexity of water
management issues in Central Arizona. While climate
variability and change can affect supply of water, other, local
factors can have
multifaceted (and
sometimes deleterious) stress
on water resources.
These factors
include land-use/land cover change, pollutant loading,
inefficiencies in water supply system, growing demand for landscape
watering, and the persistence of water-intensive agricultural
systems.
Given the
large degrees of uncertainty about climate change and associated
variability evaluating sensitivity to other stressors form regional
and local levels would be appropriate for assessing societal
vulnerability of water resources.
It is in this
connection that CSPO is convening a 1 ˝ days workshop of scientists
(20-25) studying stress on water resources of the arid region of the
United States, as part of the Science Policy Assessment and Research
on Climate (SPARC) project. The goals of this workshop are: 1) to
generate a ranking based on the relative importance of the various
stressors; 2) to identify deficit in current research portfolio, and
3) to increase collaborative research among the scientists.
Sponsored by:
Arizona State University, Consortium for Science, Policy and
Outcomes
Arizona State University, Decision Center for a Desert
City
When:
Fall 2006
Where: Arizona State University
For more information, contact
cspo@asu.edu
Other Events
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Atlanta
Conference on Science, Technology, and Innovation
Policy 2007
The landscape of global
innovation is shifting, with new problems and actors
emerging on the scene. National governments are
looking for new strategies, and they are turning to
the science, technology, and innovation (STI) policy
research community for models and research results
to tell them what works and what doesn't, under what
circumstances. The Atlanta Conference provides an
opportunity for the global STI policy research and
user communities to test models of innovation,
explore emerging STI policy issues, and share
research results.
Click
here for more information
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IASA Young Scientists Summer
Program 2007
Summer Fellowship in Austria
for Graduate Students in Natural and Social Sciences, Math, Policy
and Engineering
Each summer, the International Institute for Applied Systems
Analysis (IIASA) near Vienna, Austria, hosts a selected group of
graduate students, primarily doctoral, from around the world in its
Young Scientists Summer Program (YSSP). These students work closely
with IIASA's senior scientists on projects within the Institute's 3
theme areas of Natural Resources & Environment, Population &
Society, and Energy & Technology. The U.S. Committee for IIASA
provides airfare and a modest living allowance for the applicants
from American institutions who are selected to participate.
Click
here
and
here
for
information on this program.
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"Converging Science and Technologies: Research
Trajectories and Institutional Settings" Workshop: Call for Papers
Click
here
for more information.
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"Futures of Life" Workshop: Call for Papers
This workshop will focus on the social dimensions
of anticipatory knowledge. The majority of the papers will
focus on the new life sciences, but other areas of
sociotechnical change will be included for comparative
purposes. In particular, we are interested in the creation
of anticipatory knowledge; the institutional capacities and
social machinery used to create it; its spread, uptake,
translation, and use; and its role in reshaping regimes of
governance. Click
here
for more information.
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International Association of Science, Technology &
Society's (IASTS) 22nd Annual Conference:
The organizing
committee invites you to submit an abstract for presentation
(250 words) and/or a panel proposal for the conference.
Topics may include, but not be limited to:
- Where are we going with
science and technology, and where are these
creations
taking us?
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The end of cheap oil and the beginning of an energy and
materials crisis.
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Rethinking the urban habitat.
- Understanding and
responding to the crisis in human work.
- The crisis of the
contemporary university.
- Developing information
technology, nanotechnology, and biotechnology
while
disregarding their implications.
- Science, technology and
ethics.
- The role of the mass
media and the internet around the globe.
- The growing role of the
transnational corporation.
- Gender and science and
technology.
- Health technologies.
Papers presented will be considered for publication in the
Conference Issue of the Bulletin of Science, Technology &
Society, or in subsequent issues. The conference
features a Graduate Student Paper Contest as well.
When:
February 1-3, 2007
Where:
Radisson Plaza Lord Baltimore Hotel,
Baltimore, MA
Abstract and Panel Proposal Deadline:
September 1,
2006
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Feminist Epistemologies, Methodologies, Metaphysics, and
Science Studies (FEMMSS) Conference:
"Knowledge that Matters." Questions
of
difference, democracy and justice have been at the forefront
of feminist discussions about what knowledge matters for
social justice. How knowledge is produced, distributed, and
taken up is intricately connected to questions of equality,
ethics, sustainability, power, identity, voice, and social
change. Activism and advocacy are so central to feminist
knowledge that Loraine Code argues “without advocacy and the
negotiations it commonly enlists knowledge is not possible,
in a strong sense, across diverse communities and
socio-ecological situations.”
We seek
feminist papers on the culture, structure, discourses and
practices of science; about the vexed relationship between
identity, experience and knowledge; and about the troubles
of translating knowledge into action and practice. We will
bring together an interdisciplinary group of feminist
scholars who pursue knowledge questions in the interstices
of epistemology, methodology, metaphysics, ontology, and
science studies.
When:
February
8-10
Where:
Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ
Paper Abstract and Panel Proposal Deadline:
September 15, 2006
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