Call for Papers: "Constructing the Knowledge Society: A Gl obal Challenge" at the 7th Pan-European SGIR Conference in Stockholm

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VIII Latin American Meeting of Social Studies of Science and Technology (ESOCITE 2010)

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VIII Latin American Meeting of Social Studies of Science and Technology

Science and Technology for Social Inclusion in Latin America July 20 – 23, 2010 Buenos Aires

www.esocite2010.escyt.org

Call for abstracts Fifteen years after the first Latin American Meeting of Social Studies of Science and Technology, Buenos Aires will be host again the host for the 2010 ESOCITE Meeting. The growing attendance and the development of new institutions noticed throughout the past meetings, highlights the rising consolidation of the field of Social Studies of Science and Technology within the Latin American countries.

Nowadays, the VIII ESOCITE Meeting faces two important challenges: to further strengthen the field of Social Studies of Science and

Extended Submission Deadline-March 15: International Journal of Technoethics

CALL FOR PAPERS

 EXTENDED SUBMISSION DEADLINE: MARCH 15, 2010

INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF TECHNOETHICS (IJT)

52 members have posted 79 papers on Academia.edu

Dear EUROGRAD members,

We just wanted to let you know about some recent activity on the EUROGRAD group on Academia.edu. In the EUROGRAD group on Academia.edu, there are now:

• 52 people (28 in the last month)
• 79 papers (16 in the last month)
• 21 new status updates (8 in the last month)
• 33 photos

EUROGRAD members’ pages have been viewed a total of 11,691 times, and their papers have been viewed a total of 500 times.

To see these people, papers and status updates, follow the link below:

http://lists.academia.edu/See-members-of-EUROGRAD

Richard

Dr. Richard Price, post-doc, Philosophy Dept, Oxford University. Founder of Academia.edu

CfP DIGITAL GAME PLAY AS SOCIOTECHNICAL PRACTICE

Dear Colleagues, We would like to invite you to submit an abstract to the track on

DIGITAL GAME PLAY AS SOCIOTECHNICAL PRACTICE

to the EASST 2010 Conference.

The Digital Game industry has become one of the fastest growing, innovative and globalised industries in advanced Western economies and Digital Games have become a key cultural artefact and leisure practice in contemporary societies. Developing out of the American military industrial and academic complex in the 1970s the study of Digital Games design and play is the study of a range of sociotechnical practices and the negotiations between a range of human and non-human actors operating within systems of rules. The complexity of these relationships brings forth a series of questions that can be investigated using Science and Technology Studies approaches. However,

Postdoctoral research position at CIRCLE

The position is connected to the project

“Organisational Change for Innovation and Institutional Entrepreneurship in Health-Care Systems”

Deadline for applications is March 31st, 2010.

For more information, see the attachment, which is also available at

http://www.circle.lu.se/o.o.i.s?id=9727&news_item=4454

Web Exhibit: "Bright Idea: The First Lasers," American Institute of Physics

New Web Exhibit Tells Story of Laser’s Invention

“Bright Idea: The First Lasers,” American Institute of Physics http://www.aip.org/history/exhibits/laser/

College Park, MD (February 2, 2010) — Military agencies wanted a death ray, and they were willing to pay for it. That was one of the forces spurring scientists in a race that ended with the invention of the laser in 1960, fifty years ago this May. A new exhibit on the award-winning Web site of the Center for History of Physics, American Institute of Physics (AIP) tells the remarkable story of the laser’s invention using the voices of the scientists themselves.

“Bright Idea: The First Lasers,” which AIP created in cooperation with several leading scientific and engineering societies, is told by noted author and historian Spencer Weart, who worked with the leading historians of lasers to prepare it. Find it at: http://www.aip.org/history/exhibits/laser

CFP: Asia Pacific Computing and Philosophy, Wellington, NZ - July 16 Deadline

Goldberg Graduate Award in Computing and Philosophy - Call for Nominations

Nicolas C. Mullins Award: 4S Student Essay Competition

Please distribute widely

Nicholas C. Mullins Award

Student Essay Competition

Deadline for Submission: May 15, 2010