Themes
- Environment, and sustainability transitions (eg, climate change adaptation, energy transformations, sustainability science)
- Regional cultures
- Indigenous people, science and technologies*
- Life techno/sciences (eg, stem cell technologies, biobanks, nanotech, forensics DNA technologies, GMOs, cloning, transhumanism, AI)
- Governance, public policy, community and cititzenship(eg, community engagement, science democratisation, risk and trust, media and democracy)
- Utopia and dystopia: Science and technology for the new millennium
- Conceptual and methodological innovations
*It is envisaged that this theme will attract enough submissions to also hold a special caucus session of indigenous STS researchers
| Abstract submissions | Status | Date |
|---|---|---|
| Call for Abstracts (all presentation types) | Opens | Tuesday 2 June 2009 |
| Call for Abstracts (at standard registration rates) | Closes | Friday 6 November 2009 |
Presentation types
A formal paper
- an oral presentation allocated 20 minutes presentation plus 10 minutes question and answer (may be a full paper or work in progress)
A roundtable/panel presentation
- A more informal presentation around issues, research, conceptual or methodological initiatives, ideas for collaboration and/or networking, etc. Each participant is allocated a ‘kick-off’ statement, followed by interactive discussion among the participants, and then the audience, moderated by the session/panel Chair of each session.
A poster
- a conference announcement of 2 minutes is allocated followed by display and interactive spaces
Guidelines for Presentations
Publication information
- Publication of papers: instead of conference proceedings, the organisers after identifying themes, abstracts and potential co-editors from the conference abstracts will post calls for papers after the conference for invitation of papers for special issues of peer reviewed international journals such as Science, Technology, and Human Values; East Asian STS International Journal; New Genetics and Society; Science as Culture; Global Environmental Change; and so forth.