The 8th annual S.Net meeting will take place from the 12th to the 14th of October 2016 in Bergen, Norway.
In spirit of the previous meetings it will continue to provide room for reflections on emerging technologies, this time with a special (though not exclusive) focus on politics. Former discussions at S.Net have often examined politics in the sense of governance of new and emerging technologies; regulation; RRI; research policies; sustainability. The S.Net 2016 conference also invites papers and other contributions that explore other and broader meanings of the “politics of new and emerging technologies”:
How do emerging technologies such as nanotechnology, synthetic biology or ICTs shape institutions, citizen organizations and other political agencies? And, vice versa; how are these emerging technologies shaped by politics?
In what new ways are the bodies of citizens’ subjected to technological intervention and what are the political effects of such interventions? What new forms of politics can be seen to emerge together with technological emergence?
We will dedicate a number of sessions to talks, workshops and other formats that examine new and emerging configurations of human nature, ethics (the good life) and politics (the good society) in the context of new and emerging technologies.
Confirmed speakers January 2016:
- Sheila Jasanoff, Pforzheimer Professor of Science and Technology Studies, Harvard Kennedy School
- Silvio Funtowicz, Adjunct Professor Centre for the Study of the Sciences and the Humanities
- Joseph Dumit, Professor of Anthropology, Director of the Institute for Social Sciences (ISS),University of California
Important dates:
Deadline for submission of proposal: March 10th
Notification of accepted proposals: March 31st
Registration deadline: August 15th
Conference: October 12 -14.
Further information:
www.uib.no/en/svt/92313/co-production-emerging-bodies-politics-and-technologies