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Conference announcement: Asia Pacific Science Technology and Society network in Singapore next year.

Contact: e.kowal@unimelb.edu.au


The National University of Singapore is pleased to open the Call for
Papers for APSTSN Biennial Conference July 15–17 2013.

The Asia-Pacific Science, Technology and Society
Network<http://www.esr.cri.nz/competencies/socialscienceandsystemsthinking/Pages/AsiaPacificSTSNetwork.aspx>
is an association of regional scholars for fostering collaboration and
encouraging science, technology and society research, teaching, and
critical discussion on current STS themes and issues in the
Asia-Pacific region.

Knowing, Making, Governing - across Asia and the Pacific, the work of
science, technology and society calls attention to the region's
plurality of socio-technical projects and ways of knowing. The
conference accepts proposals for all themes pertaining to science,
technology and society, including:

Themes



Biosciences


Gender


Modeling and Numbers-work


Business, Finance, & Markets


Indigenous Knowledges


Normativity and Normalization


Care


Information & Media


Publics & Participation


Citizenship & Activism


Inter-Species Relations


Posthumanities


Disaster


Government, Policy & Politics


Risk


Energy


Limits of Knowledge


Theory & Method


Environment & Ecology


Medicine


Food & Agriculture


This conference is jointly organized by the STS Research Cluster of
the Asia Research Institute (ARI), the STS Research Cluster of the
Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (FASS), and Tembusu College (at
University Town), all at the National University of Singapore (NUS).
Support has also been received from the Humanities and Social Science
Research Fund at NUS.

Abstract submission will open on December 1, 2012 and the deadline for
submitting proposals is January 7, 2013. Accepted participants will be
notified in February 2013.

Proposals will be reviewed by the NUS Conference Organizing Committee,
with the objective to accept all properly prepared proposals. Please
note that Science, Technology and Society (STS) is a broad but
distinct inter-disciplinary field pertaining to science, technology
and their historical and social implications and conditions of
possibility.

Check the conference
website<http://www.ari.nus.edu.sg/cluster/events_details.asp?clusterid=ST&eventid=1357>
for further information on submitting abstract, panel and plenary
proposals.
 Please email jwhitington@nus.edu.sg<mailto:jwhitington@nus.edu.sg>
for any conference queries.

The NUS conference organising committee and the APSTSN look forward to
seeing you in Singapore next July 15-17.


Kind regards,
Emma


Dr Emma Kowal
ARC Senior Research Fellow
Anthropology, School of Social and Political Sciences
University of Melbourne
Victoria  3010
Australia

T: 61 3 8344 3856
e.kowal@unimelb.edu.au<mailto:e.kowal@unimelb.edu.au>
http://www.ssps.unimelb.edu.au/about/staff/profiles/kowal

Convenor, Asia-Pacific Science, Technology and Society Network