CfP Reminder: "Fields of Inquiry," Grad Student/Early Career PhD Conference, UC Berkeley, March 7-8, 2014
Call for Papers: "Fields of Inquiry: Science
Crossing Scales,
Epistemologies, and Environments"
March 7-8, 2014
Abstract Deadline: 15 January 2014
Sponsored by UC Berkeley's Center for Science,
Technology, Medicine &
Society (http://cstms.berkeley.edu)
and Office for History of Science
and Technology (http://ohst.berkeley.edu)
Graduate students and early career Ph.D.s from across the
humanities
and social sciences whose work focuses on the study of
science in
society are invited to submit proposals for this
interdisciplinary
graduate student conference to be held at UC Berkeley in
Spring 2014.
We welcome proposals that chal- lenge scales,
epistemologies, and
environments, that is to say the “space and place†of science, in ways
that advance the understanding of the relationship
between science
and society. Panelists will broadly discuss the
relationships between
sci- ence and space. Possible topics include: natural
environments;
private and public spaces; architectural artifacts; and
laboratory and
fieldwork. In addition to presentations of research, some
conference
panels will discuss the pedagogical aspects of research
techniques,
particularly in STEM fields, including K-12 and
undergraduate.
Submit an abstract of no more than 300 words to cstms@berkeley.edu.
Include sufficient detail explaining your proposed paper,
panel idea,
or workshop, and how it relates both to the
conference’s theoretical
approach toward the study of science in society, as well
as the
general thematic area it addresses (e.g., teaching,
innovative
research, etc.). To keep the conference intimate and
generate a
collaborative atmosphere, we expect to take only 15-20
papers.