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The Centre for Environmental Law Decisions and Corporate Ethical Certification of the University of Padua – CIGA (Italy) and the Institute for Technology Assessment and Systems Analysis (ITAS) at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology – ITAS (Germany) invite submissions of abstracts to be presented at Workshop Dilemmas of choice.
Responsibility in nanotechnology development. The conference will take place on June 6-7, 2011 in Rovigo (Italy), hosted by the University of Padua.

The workshop aims to discuss the important issue of responsible nanotechnology development. Though this notion is crucial to policy and research alike, the notion of responsibility is far from being clear and shared, affecting also the coherence of policy formulation and implementation.

Thus, the main objectives are:

§ To provide a platform for discussing the complex meanings of responsibility in nanotechnology R&D
§ To create a multidisciplinary forum for analysing the relationship between responsibility and nanotechnology policy in Europe and beyond

Tentatively, two thematic strands were formed:
§ Regulation, responsibility and uncertainty
§ Coordination mechanisms of responsibility in nanotechnology policy and R&D processes

Examples of research topics to be addressed include:

§ Relationships between ethics and regulation

§ Participatory mechanisms as a resource for responsibility
§ Risk and environmental safety
§ Corporate social responsibility
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Though the primary focus of the workshop is nanotechnology, abstracts focusing on other emerging technological fields (e.g. Biotechnology,Bioinformatics, Energy technologies, Information technology, Material Sciences, Robotics) are most welcome as they provide exemplary cases and valuable lessons. All abstracts (maximum 1000 words) should be prepared and sent in electronic form (.doc or .pdf) to: ciga@unipd.it by March 31, 2011.

Attendees are not required to pay any registration fee. Financial support for travel and accommodation is available for selected speakers. Inquiries and applications for financial support to: ciga@unipd.it.

All submitted abstracts will be subject to a peer review. All abstracts shall be submitted online to ciga@unipd.it

Important dates

Abstract submission: March 31, 2011
Notification of Acceptance/Rejection: April 15, 2011
Workshop: June 6-7, 2011

For further information on the workshop, see: http://www.ciga.unipd.it

Compartimos a continuación una convocatoria para candidatos a una escuela de verano para estudiantes del campo cts que investiguen problemas relacionados con el urbanismo (en inglés):

STS ITALIA SUMMER SCHOOL

1st EDITION: “CITIES, INFRASTRUCTURES, NETWORKS”

ALGHERO, SARDINIA (ITALY), 28th of JUNE - 1st of JULY 2011

STS Italia, the Italian Society for the Study of Science and Technology - in collaboration with the University of Sassari, Faculty of Political Sciences and Faculty of Architecture - invites you to join the Summer School “Cities, Infrastructures, Networks”, to be held in Alghero, Sardinia (Italy), from 28th of June to 1st of July 2011.

Download the Call for Participation: http://www.stsitalia.org/STSItalia_SummerSchool2011_Call.pdf

Download the Application Form: http://www.stsitalia.org/STSItalia_SummerSchool2011_ApplicationForm.rtf

Contact: summerschool@stsitalia.org

Applications deadline: 15th of April 2011.

Five Sessions with a Latin American Emphasis
Society for Social Studies of Science (4S)Annual Meeting.
November 2-5, 2011, Cleveland, Ohio USA.

This year the 4S gathers in Cleveland, Ohio. The issues dominating the news continue to be the global economic crisis, human rights (freedom, education, health), energy constraints, climate change, sustainable development, and global terror. These inter-dependent challenges inspire much popular and scholarly attention, while advances in science and technology over the past century are often framed as both the culprit and panacea in discussions of how we arrived in these troubled global waters and how we might navigate our way out of them.

As has been noted in past STS work, the manner in which science and technology are produced or translated and then employed to address challenges depends greatly on historical and national contexts. The production of knowledge about the interactions of science, technology and society is not exempt from this contextualization. Yet much like the production of tehno-scientific knowledge, STS knowledge production remains primarily EuroAmerican despite the field’s attempts to broaden its conceptual perspectives.

The 4S has committed to reducing the geographical and intellectual barriers that have divided and at times isolated global STS communities. To this end, the 2014 4S meeting is scheduled for Buenos Aires, Argentina in conjunction with the annual meeting of its Latin American counterpart ESOCITE. To continue the dialogue on Latin American STS (that stretches back to the 2004 Paris 4S joint meeting with EASST), the 4S Latin American section is proposing five thematic sessions for this year’s conference in Cleveland, Ohio.

The general goal of these five sessions is three-fold:
(1) To explore the contributions to thinking about science, technology and society by scholars in Latin America: past and present.
(2) To provide scholars from around the world working on Latin American STS issues a space to showcase their investigation and findings.
(3) To further contextualize how science and technology innovation, diffusion and adaptation in Latin America are antecedents for, and perhaps solutions of, global and local challenges in this region.

Papers are invited to contribute to the following five thematic sessions:

1. In search of “lines of flights” in Latin America Leer el resto de la entrada »