Call for Abstracts, 2015 Science and Democracy etwork Annual Meeting, June 25th-27th, 2015

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Science and Democracy Network 13th Annual Meeting, 2015

 

June 25-27, 2015

Harvard University

Cambridge, MA USA

 

On behalf of the SDN Governing Council, I would like to remind you that the Fourteenth Annual Meeting of the Science and Democracy Network (SDN) will be held at Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA,  Thursday, June 25th-Saturday, June 27th, 2015.

 

Call for Abstracts

 

The Workshop Planning Committee invites abstracts (up to 300 words) on a theme appropriate for discussion at the workshop. The closing date for abstract submissions is April 1, 2015. We will make decisions on which abstracts to accept by about a month from that date.

 

The workshop will be organized as in previous years around the following themes:

            Institutions: Role of governmental and non-governmental institutions in producing, using, disseminating or contesting authoritative knowledge; institutions with claims to epistemic authority include NGOs, corporations, international governmental organizations, scientific institutions, the state and its agencies.

            Citizenship and Participation: Forms and modes of citizen mobilization and expression around scientific or technological issues, including (new) social movements, new forms of participation, consumer activism, patient groups, indigenous peoples, and “liminal citizens” (endangered species, animals, embryos, and stem cells, for example).

            Communication and Representation: Intersection between political and expert or professional discourses; role of mass media in presenting science, with particular interest in visual representation; political implications of information and communication technologies, databases, identification technologies, etc.

Under each theme, priority will be given to work that effectively integrates issues of political and epistemic authority. We plan to accept somewhere between 16-20 abstracts in all. Preference will be given to abstracts from people who did not present last year (though this is not an absolute rule).

 

As in prior years, we will accept proposals not only for individual papers but also for panels of 3-4 papers on topics of broad interest under the heading of science and democracy. Such proposals must meet high standards of theoretical significance and/or political or policy salience. Please note that, to ensure widest participation, only one panel proposal can be accommodated in the final program. If you submit a panel proposal, but would also be willing to have the entries considered individually, please so indicate.

 

You should submit your abstracts via the online form. Decisions will be made in April. Questions should be directed to Shana Rabinowich atshana_ra...@hks.harvard.edu.

 

If your abstract is accepted by the Workshop Planning Committee, you will be expected to provide a final paper for circulation to other workshop participants no later than June 4, 2015. Please keep this date in mind as you respond to the call for abstracts.

 

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