History of Science and Governance of Technology

Two more calls for papers, which might be of interest to participants in this course:


  HSS 2013 Annual Meeting: Call for Papers
Celebrating the 100th anniversary of Isis

Boston, Massachusetts
21-24 November 2013

The History of Science Society will hold its 2013 Annual Meeting in the Westin Boston Waterfront Hotel in Boston, Massachusetts. The meeting will mark the 100th anniversary of the Society's journal Isis, one of the premiere international journals in the history of science.
Submissions on all topics are encouraged. All proposals must be submitted on the HSS Web site (http://www.hssonline.org) or on the annual meeting proposal forms that are available from the HSS Executive Office: info@hssonline.org. Participants do not need to be members of the HSS, but all participants must register for the meeting. Applicants are encouraged to propose sessions that include diverse participants: a mix of men and women, and/or a balance of professional ranks (i.e., mixing senior scholars with junior scholars and graduate students). Strong preference will be given to panels whose presenters have diverse institutional affiliations. Only one proposal per person may be submitted. An individual may only appear once on the HSS program -- workshops and other non-typical proposals are excluded from this restriction. Prior participation at the 2011 (Cleveland) or 2012 (San Diego) meetings will be taken into consideration.
All proposals (sessions, contributed papers, and posters) must be submitted by 1 April 2013 to the History of Science Society's Executive Office. Poster proposals must describe the visual material that will make up the poster. The HSS will work with organizers who wish to pre-circulate papers.
To encourage and aid the creation of panels with strong thematic coh




Governance of Emerging Technologies: Law, Policy and Ethics
Monday-Tuesday, May 20-21, 2013
Sheraton Wild Horse Pass Resort & Spa
Chandler, Ariz.
The GRINN technologies (genetics, robotics, information technology, nanotechnology, neuroscience) present unique governance issues and challenges, due to their rapid pace of development (faster than traditional regulatory systems can keep up with), profound impacts that go beyond health, safety and environment risks, and ethical and social concerns affecting a broad range of stakeholders and interests around the globe. This conference will feature top experts in a fascinating and crucial exploration of the overlapping regulatory, governance, legal, policy, social and ethical issues of such technologies.

Submit an abstract

Abstracts for proposed presentations should be submitted here by March 1.
The abstract should not exceed 500 words.
Depending on final funding availability, at least 15 presenters will be selected to receive full funding from the conference co-sponsors, including travel costs, hotel and conference registration. This will include some young scholars and graduate students. Other accepted presenters for whom conference funding is not available will be required to pay their own transportation, hotel and registration fees.
When submitting an abstract, you will be asked to select one of the following three options:

• I will only be available to present if I receive conference funding.
• I prefer to receive conference funding, but may be willing to present if funding is not available.
• I am able to fund my own travel and registration.

Authors of accepted abstracts, including conference funding decisions, will be notified by March 22. Draft full papers are encouraged but not required by the conference date, and will be circulated to all conference participants. We are planning on submitting sets of conference papers for publication in one or more special issues of journals.

Submit an abstract.