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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 Technology in Latin America and to argue for a public discussion about the role of scientific and technological knowledge in the region, its uses in societies which requires the mobilization of S&T in order to find solutions for long-standing and important problems such as that of democratization, inequality, development and social cohesion, among others.

Indeed, throughout the last decades, citizens, governments and researchers in Latin America have done vast efforts to develop institutions and projects to produce both: useful knowledge for its societies and relevant findings for the international scene. However, social inequalities at most of these countries have barely diminished until today. In broad terms, the employment of scientific and technological knowledge in order to mitigate this situation has been only marginal.

In this sense, the motto for the VIII ESOCITE Meeting: “Science and Technology for Social Inclusion” means the chance to boost the debate about the ways in which science and technology can (or should) contribute to improve the social cohesion and to reduce the social gap in Latin American countries.

Main topics

1. Science and Technology policies in Ibero-america. History and challenges
2. Institutions, disciplines and fields of science and technology
3. Technology, innovation and society
4. Process of production and use of scientific and technological knowledge
5. Public participation, public communication and democratization of science
6. Risk of science and technology
7. Theoretical and methodological issues in the study of science and technology
8. International dimensions of science and technology
9. STS Education and Higher Education
10. Rising technosciences

ABSTRACT SUBMISSION GUIDELINES

On-line registration: http://www.esocite2010.escyt.org/envio_resumen.php You should create your username on the site. This will allow you to upload your abstract.

The submission should include: Title, Author(s), institutional references of the author(s) (Institution, work address, phone number, e-mail, area of research), Topic number (1-10), Keywords, and abstract.

The abstract should include: Title, Author(s), institutional references of the author(s) (Institution, work address, phone number, e-mail, research area); Topic number (1-10), Keywords. The abstract should also mention: the problem to develop, central argument of the article, key conclusions, theoretical and methodological approach. Maximum length: 3000 characters (counting spaces) in Word format or PDF archive.

Abstract approval will be required to upload your paper to the ESOCITE web page (A complete uploading guide is available on the web site)

IMPORTANT DEADLINES Second Communication and On-line registration: Available from 3 December, 2009 Third Communication: 8 February, 2010 Abstract submission deadline: 5 March, 2010 Evaluation results: April 2010

Meeting registration: Early registration: until 22 May, 2010 Late registration: until 3 July, 2010 Paper submission deadline: 19 June, 2010

Questions and queries, please send an e-mail to: esocite2010@escyt.org

Official languages for submission of abstracts and papers: Spanish, Portuguese, English and French