CONF: 2010 Annual Conference of the Israeli Society of History and Philosophy of Science

Dear All,   The 10th ISHPS annual Conference will be held on May 30, 2010 in Bloomfield Science Museum, Jerusalem. The program of the conference can be found in the following link: http://www.ishps.org/default.asp  Please help us distribute the conference in your networks.   All Best, Conference Steering Committee (Nadav Davidovitch, Oshrit Ikne, Yifat Rosenman, Ariel Zimmerman & Moshe Cohen)

FW: Junior Researcher (PhD student) in Interactive Media and Learning (closing: MAY 8, 2010)

FW: Junior Researcher (PhD student) in Interactive Media and Learning (closing: MAY 8, 2010) F.y.i.
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Junior Researcher (PhD student) in Interactive Media and Learning
http://wwwen.uni.lu/university/jobs/flshase/doctorantsassistants/juniorresearcherphdstudentininteractivemediaand_learning

Application End :  Saturday May 08 2010

The University of Luxemburg invites applications for the following vacancy in its Faculty of Language and Literature, Humanities, Arts and Education

FW: Virtual Reality and its Application to Healthcare: Early-career workshop May 24th-25th

Early-career researchers are invited to attend the following workshop at the University of Warwick:   Virtual Reality and its Application to Healthcare May 24th - 25th 2010.   The workshop will include a  lecture from Rachel Prentice (Cornell University) and a guided visit to the International Digital Laboratory (with Vinesh Raja, University of Warwick).

Lecture: Tim Bayne (Oxford) "Agency as a Marker of Consciousness" - Department of Philosophy, University of Milan

COGNITION IN ACTION 2010University of MilanDepartment of Philosophy10th May 2010 10.30 am - Room 309

The governance of problems - a new book from The Policy Press

Posted on behalf of Claire Sollars, The Policy Press

Ageing with technologies: a participative conference on care in Europe (13 & 14 th Sept. Barcelona, SPAIN)

Ageing with technologies: a participative conference on care in Europe

CONFERENCE OF THE EC FP7 EFORTT PROJECT: Ethical Frameworks for Telecare Technologies for older people at home

Casa de la Convalescencia, BARCELONA

EASST Conference 2010 - Call for convenors and thematic tracks

EASST Conference, 2-4 September 2010

University of Trento, Italy

Call for convenors and thematic tracks

PRACTISING SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY, PERFORMING THE SOCIAL

The 2010 EASST conference, to be held in Trento (Italy), from the 2-4 September is the biennial forum of the European Association for the Study of Science and Technology (EASST) for contributions on topics from the range of disciplines found within science, technology and innovation studies.

As in previous years the conference provides a broad platform for presentations based on contemporary research on the wide variety of topics in which STS and innovation scholars are active. These include risk and regulation, environmental sustainability, systems of innovation, sociology of expectations, sociotechnical transitions, science and technology policy, ethics of health & medicine, governance of emerging technologies, gender and science.

Call 4S/EASST

Society for the Social Studies of Science (4S) and European Association for the Study of Science and Technology (EASST) 2008 Joint Annual Meeting, Rotterdam, The Netherlands

Acting with science, technology and medicine

The four-yearly joint conference of The Society for Social Studies of Science (4S) and European Association for the Study of Science and Technology (EASST) will take place in Rotterdam, The Netherlands from 20th to 23rd August 2008. As with previous 4S/EASST conferences, the conference welcomes contributions on topics from the range of disciplines found within science, technology and innovation studies communities. The theme for this conference is “Acting with science, technology and medicine”. This meeting responds to some remarkable and interesting changes in the concerns of STS research. STS-approaches are no longer only relevant for understanding the production of science, technology and innovation; they also are relevant for understanding the co-production of science and technology with policy, democracy, law, and the organization of health care, among other major institutional matters. Similarly STS researchers have become increasingly involved with practices of technology development, policymaking, legal decision-making and governance in different fields, such as science and technology policy, environmental regulation, and health care. The balance between observation and participation seems to have changed in these consequential practices of ‘acting with’. Such engagement is currently a major topic of discussion within the STS field. Several workshops, editorials and special issues have already been published or are under way. The ‘acting with’, or interventionist approach is likely to have consequences for research methodologies, for researchers’ obligations toward different publics, and for the kind of products STS-researchers deliver.  In addition, like other aspects of science and technology, interventions by STS researchers are themselves subject to contingencies and negotiations that can lead to unanticipated consequences. This conference provides a forum to explore responses across the broad range of disciplinary perspectives found within science, technology and innovation studies. Papers are encouraged which explore diverse aspects of:  the sponsors and audiences for STS research; the constitution of and relations with research objects and participants; the influences on methodological choices; and the construction of research products.

For each paper proposal, the lead author should submit a one-page abstract by 15 February 2008. Abstracts for papers should be 400 words or less, and must include both an outline of the paper, including a summary on methodology, and a brief statement on the contribution to the STS literature. Each participant in the conference will be limited to one first-authored submission and one other activity (such as session chair or discussant but not a second paper) for a maximum of two appearances. Session proposals should be limited to 450 words total, and should contain a summary and rationale for the session, and a brief discussion of its contribution to the STS community. Session proposals should list names of all session organizers and panelists, including institutional affiliations and (electronic) addresses.  Do not submit your paper individually if a session organizer is submitting your paper as part of a panel. Session proposals should be based on the assumption of two-hour time slots with twenty minutes per presentation. A typical session may have five papers, one discussant, and a ten-minute open discussion slot. Proposals for double and triple sessions on a single topic may receive a request to consolidate the topic into one panel or to break the multiple sessions into different topics. The program committee may need to assign additional papers to sessions in order to accommodate the number of submissions and reduce the rejection rate.