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Critical Environmentalism Call for Book Reviewers
Publicado por: Gabriela Bortz | Publicado en: Convocatorias trabajos de investigación (CFP), PublicacionesCritical Environmentalism is searching for engaging STS writers to review the following books:
– Alone Together: Why we expect more from technology and less from each other (Sherry Turkle)
– The Economics of Enough: How to run the economy as if the future matters (Diane Coyle)
– The End of Country (Seamus McGraw)
– The View from Lazy Point: A natural year in an unnatural world
(Carl Safina)
– World on the Edge: How to prevent environmental and economic
collapse (Lester Brown)
– Triumph of the City: How our greatest invention makes us richer, smarter, greener, healthier, and happier (Edward Glaeser)
– Cinderella Ate my Daughter: Dispatches from the front lines of the new girlie-girl culture (Peggy Orenstein) [For this title, we are searching for a writer who can prepare an analytical review situating this trade book among critiques of consumerism and gender roles/stereotypes]
** We invite guest editors (send CV or Bio link).
** We accept queries for reviews recent books with both academic and policy relevance.
If you’d like to prepare a review, please send:
1) Name & affiliation (if applicable)
2) Writing sample(s)
3) Title of the book you’d like to review
4) Your mailing address
To: CriticalEnvironmentalism@gmail.com
Critical Environmentalism is a new interdisciplinary peer-review journal and review of books on the social studies of environmentalism. Critical Environmentalism publishes peer-review articles (launch forthcoming) and book reviews (launch summer 2011).
Call for papers: Eä - Journal of Medical Humanities & Social Studies of Science and Technology
Publicado por: admin | Publicado en: Convocatorias trabajos de investigación (CFP), Publicaciones, Red ArgentinaEä – Journal of Medical Humanities & Social Studies of Science and Technology (ISSN 1852-4680) is a periodical free online journal in an interactive format publishing papers on Medical Humanities and Social Studies of Science and Technology. It is permanently available at http://www.ea-journal.com.
Eä aims to combine in an academic publication of excellence two disciplinary fields: the biomedical, exact and natural sciences, technology, and the social sciences, the humanities and the arts, along with the need to integrate these disciplines with the latest information and communication technologies (ICTs).
The journal gathers a prestigious editorial committee, is peer reviewed by international referees and meets the requirements of periodical publications indexes, being already approved for indexation at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México’s databases CLASE and PERIODICA for Social Sciences & Humanities, and Science & Technology publications, respectively. It publishes three issues a year (April, August, and December), is presented in Spanish and English, and accepts texts in Spanish, English, Portuguese and French, reaching global impact. This publication has been created under the Web 2.0 paradigm, with a dynamic layout that promotes user-reader’s interaction between them and with the website.
Next deadline for paper submission is May 18, 2011. Information for manuscript submission is available at the Information for authors (www.ea-journal.com/en/information-for-authors) section of our website. Any further enquiries please contact us to submit@ea-journal.com.
We invite you to go through our academic contents and through the news that are permanently updated in our website and social network spaces, as well as to submit papers for publication for next issues.
Yours sincerely,
Jaime Elías Bortz, MD, PhD - Academic Director
Lic. Gabriela Mijal Bortz - Editorial Director
Abel Luis Agüero, MD, PhD - Associate Director
Eä - Journal of Medical Humanities & Social Studies of Science and Technology
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S.NET Tercera Reunión Anual. Convocatoria y plazo extendido hasta el 21 de Marzo
Publicado por: Sebastian Montaña | Publicado en: Eventos, PublicacionesCall for Papers: S.NET Third Annual Meeting
Mission Palms Hotel, Tempe, Arizona, USA – 7-10 November 2011
Invitation. S.NET invites contributions to the Third Annual Meeting of the The Society for the Study of Nanoscience and Emerging Technologies (S.NET) to be held in Tempe (Phoenix), Arizona. The workshop will engage diverse scholars, practitioners, and policy makers in the development and implications of emerging technologies.
About S.NET. S.NET is an international association that promotes intellectual exchange and critical inquiry about the advancement of nanoscience and emerging technologies in society. The aim of the association is to advance critical reflection on developments in a broad range of new and emerging fields of science and technology, including, but not limited to, nanoscale science and engineering, biotechnology, synthetic biology, cognitive science, and geoengineering.
Eligibility. S.NET includes diverse communities, viewpoints, and methodologies from across the social sciences and humanities, and welcomes contributions from scientists, engineers, and other practitioners.
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Libros de Diana Cazaux
Publicado por: Sebastian Montaña | Publicado en: Integrantes, Publicaciones, Red ArgentinaEstimados colegas:
Diana Cazaux hace saber a los interesados que sus libros: “Historia de la divulgación científica en la Argentina” y “El ADN del periodismo científico: el reportaje interpretativo” se encuentran disponibles en las siguientes direcciones: libreria@lacrujialibros.com.ar ó librería@lacrujialibros.com.ar.
Los interesados deben escribir a las citadas direcciones electrónicas para conocer la forma de envío.
Seminario Interamericano de Periodismo y Comunicación Científica
Publicado por: Sebastian Montaña | Publicado en: Eventos, Publicaciones, Red ArgentinaComo parte de las actividades de divulgación y formación científica, la Organización de los Estados Americanos (OEA) y la Dirección Nacional de Relaciones Internacionales del Ministerio de Ciencia, Tecnología e Innovación Productiva realizarán el Seminario Interamericano de Periodismo y Comunicación Científica.
Lugar: Fundación Pablo Cassará (Av. de Mayo 1190. Ciudad de Buenos Aires)
Fecha: 13, 14 y 15 de octubre de 2010
Se requiere inscripción previa a dirinfo@mincyt.gov.ar
Objetivos de la actividad
- Fortalecer el periodismo científico en América Latina y el Caribe para la popularización y apropiación de la ciencia y la tecnología en altos funcionarios de gobierno y la sociedad.
- Promover el crecimiento cuantitativo y cualitativo de periodistas abocados a la divulgación científica.
- Estimular a científicos a la divulgación y comunicación de la ciencia básica y aplicada, y los resultados de sus investigaciones.
- Estimular a las casas de estudio y perfeccionamiento profesional a generar una oferta de capacitación curricular y extracurricular en divulgación científica.
- Facilitar la interacción, la reflexión y el debate de temas de interés para la divulgación científica, entre comunicadores de todo el país, América Latina y el Caribe.