APSTSN Biennial Conference July 15-17 2013, National University of Singapore
The National University of Singapore is
pleased to open the Call for Papers for APSTSN Biennial Conference July 15–17
2013.
The Asia-Pacific Science,
Technology and Society (STS) Network is an association of regional
scholars for fostering collaboration and encouraging science, technology and
society research, teaching, and critical discussion on current STS themes and
issues in the Asia-Pacific region.
Knowing,
Making, Governing -
across Asia and the Pacific, the work of science, technology and society calls
attention to the region’s plurality of socio-technical projects and ways of
knowing. The conference accepts proposals for all themes pertaining to science,
technology and society, including:
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Themes
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Biosciences
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Gender
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Modeling and
Numbers-work
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Business,
Finance, & Markets
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Indigenous
Knowledges
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Normativity
and Normalization
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Care
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Information
& Media
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Publics &
Participation
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Citizenship
& Activism
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Inter-Species
Relations
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Posthumanities
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Disaster
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Government,
Policy & Politics
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Risk
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Energy
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Limits of
Knowledge
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Theory &
Method
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Environment
& Ecology
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Medicine
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Food &
Agriculture
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This conference is jointly organized by
the STS Research Cluster of the Asia Research Institute (ARI), the STS Research
Cluster of the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (FASS), and Tembusu College
(at University Town), all at the National University of Singapore (NUS).
Support has also been received from the Humanities and Social Science Research
Fund at NUS.
Abstract
submission will open on December 1, 2012 and the deadline for submitting proposals
is January 7, 2013.
Accepted participants will be notified in February 2013.
Proposals will be reviewed by the NUS
Conference Organizing Committee, with the objective to accept all properly
prepared proposals. Please note that Science, Technology and Society (STS) is a
broad but distinct inter-disciplinary field pertaining to science, technology
and their historical and social implications and conditions of
possibility.
Check
the conference website for further information on submitting
abstract, panel and plenary proposals.
Attached is a flyer for
email distribution. Please email jwhitington@nus.edu.sg for
a larger file version for printing and display, and for any conference
queries.
The NUS conference
organising committee and the APSTSN look forward to seeing you in Singapore
next July 15-17.
Kind regards,
Emma