EASST Review Volume 31 (1) European Association for the Study of Science and Technology March 2012

EASST Review Volume 31 (2012) Number 1 Editor: Ann Rudinow Saetnan (NTNU) EASST Review (ISSN 1384-5160) is published Tel:(+47) 73 59 17 86 quarterly, in March, June, September and email:[email protected] December. Membership queries: The Association's journal was called the EASST [email protected] Newsletter through 1994. EASST Review on the Web: http://www.easst.net Subscription: Full individual membership fee (waged and resident in high income countries): Guest Editor this issue: EUR 40 annual. Estrid Sørensen, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Students, unwaged or resident in all other Germany. EASST Council member countries pay a reduced fee of EUR 25.

Council of the European Association for the Library rate is EUR 45. Study of Science and Technology: Please note that subscriptions can be made Marc Audetat (University of Lausanne) through the EASST website by following the ‘Join Ingmar Lippert (student representative) EASST’ link. Pierre-Benoit Joly (National Institute of Agronomic Research, Paris) Member benefits: Travel stipends for Ph.D. Laura Watts (IT University of Copenhagen) students, young scholars and researchers from Attila Bruni (University of Trento) developing countries are available. Fred Steward, President (Policy Studies Institute, Reduced registration rates for EASST events Westminster University) apply. Estrid Sørensen (Ruhr-Universität, Bochum) Harro van Lente (University of Utrecht) For other benefits see website. Claire Waterton (Lancaster University) Judy Wajcman (President of the Society for Social Studies of Science, ex-officio Cover Illustration: ‘Title: Atlantic Road; Photographer: Victor Pelaez Torres;Company: EASST's Institutional Members: Somatuscani EASST is in the process of rethinking its approach to institutional membership and its relationship with national STS organizations and centres.

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EASST's Past Presidents: Christine Hine, 2005-2008; Sally Wyatt, 2000- 2004; Rob Hagendijk, 1997-2000; Aant Elzinga, 1991-1997; Stuart Blume, 1987-1991; John Ziman, 1983-1986;Peter Weingart, 1982.

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2 EASST Review Volume 31 (2012) Number 1 Organising STS Editorial By Estrid Sørensen, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, EASST Council member

Increasingly often scholars who are This loosely associated group of scholars working in the larger STS centres are visited and has not only become larger and its scholars grown interviewed by younger colleagues who are older. We have become bound up in the interested in mapping the scholarly history of increasing complexity of structural constraints in STS. Our field has reached a stage where there is the contemporary academic world. Many of us are a need to define it, not only in terms of its involved in organising infrastructures for STS to empirical fields and theoretical approaches, but as meet the diverse needs that have developed over a tradition. This work of identification is the years. Sometimes such efforts are co-ordinated accompanied by louder and louder voices more broadly, and sometimes they are the result discussing how the future of STS will and should of either individual activity or of local groups. look. Arguments and disagreements often pivot Even though a view-from-above makes some around the issue of institutionalisation: should we major accomplishments visible – such as the strive for institutionalising STS as a field with international ESST masters degree and the STS degrees, professorships and an acknowledged representation in the ERC – the various efforts to status throughout the academic fields, or will such develop our field seem rather randomly scattered stratification restrict the creative theoretical and across the European landscape. empirical nerve of STS, which flourishes at its In 2010 the EASST Council hosted a best in open-minded and unconstrained networks? meeting of representatives of STS associations Sheila Jasanoff (2010) has metaphorically and other similar interested groups from most described a similar distinction as one between European countries to discuss the position in the STS as an autonomous island coalescing out of an different national situations. These situations are archipelago of knowledge-making, with its own indeed extremely diverse. Some countries have native habits of production and trading or as a few competing centres, others are characterised by program of interstate highway constructions networks of smaller groups. In some countries it is among existing disciplinary states. possible to gain STS degrees; some have For some thirty years STS has been professorships and STS scholars represented on primarily a heterogeneous group of scholars academic political bodies. In some countries STS coming together to share their common is primarily represented by senior academics enthusiasm and insights in the study of science while in others early career scholars are the most and technology. Maybe we are still such a bunch, active. Some national academic systems but we are also professors teaching STS, we are categorise STS as an established scholarly field, researchers searching for young scholars to while other more disciplinary oriented systems continue and develop the work we have started, have no category into which STS can possibly be we are actors on the labour market looking for fitted. In some countries STS scholars tend to STS vacancies, we are applicants who want to see prefer a situation of loose networks, while in STS projects funded, and we are members of others they strive for institutionalisation. departments wishing that the journals in which we As is often the case in Europe, different publish will be ranked at the top in the bibliometic national situations create different needs and system of our country or our discipline. We are require different types of solutions. There does not also authors feeling exploited by commercial seem to be any one solution as the best way publishing houses which are profiting forward for STS in the European countries, economically from the hard work we put into our whether by institutionalisation or through books and articles and we are experts saddened to networks. For either way of developing STS see scholars in the broader fields of social nationally, increasing visibility and broader sciences and humanities expressing their views on acknowledgement of STS on a cross-national science and technology in ways which we feel are European level seem beneficial. The EASST inferior to the explanations we could have given, Council over the past few years has taken steps in had we ourselves been consulted, etc. this direction, some of which will be launched in 2012. Among these is the introduction of three

EASST Review Volume 31 (2012) Number 1 3 new awards. The awards are meant to support and offer support for whatever strategies are followed acknowledge scholars in our field who have nationally and regionally to organise the field. engaged in particularly productive ways to STS has moved from its initial start-up enhance the field of STS. Just as important as the endeavour to becoming a consolidated field in awards is the need to increase awareness of STS Europe. It is exciting to be part of this important as a field in its own right. Apart from paying development. Decisions to be taken over the tribute to the individuals receiving the rewards coming decade about the ways to organise STS and to the activities for which they are awarded, will be decisive for how our field will develop in awards draw attention to the awarding Europe. In this process it will be imperative that organisation. We all gain from being in a field that lively discussions and ideas and experiences are has awards as instruments to increase visibility shared in our field about the way forward for STS and acknowledgement of the field. The awards in Europe. The cover image of this Review were introduced in the last issue of the EASST suggests metaphorically that a combination of an Review and the procedure for applications will be archipelago island and interregional highway available shortly. In subsequent Reviews there constructions is indeed thinkable. will be launches of more measures taken by the EASST Council to both create visibility and also

Easst Awards

In EASST Review 30 (4) December 2011, Selection will be based on the successful EASST announced three new awards that will be development of social approaches to the dynamics made at the EASST / 4S Conference in October of innovation, originality, and better 2012. A full description can be found there but in understanding of the pursuit of innovation for summary these are: societal and environmental goals. Ziman Award The general conditions of the awards are as In honour of John Ziman this award will follows: be made for a significant innovative cooperation  An award of €1000 will be made in each case in a venture to promote the public understanding  Activities or publications in the time period 1 of the social dimensions of science. July 2010 to 30 June 2012 This could involve, for example, a forum  Call for nominations – deadline 30 June 2012 or discussion community, or an interface with non  Collaborations should have a distinctive academic users. Selection will be based on European dimension originality and influence.  Self-nominations accepted Amsterdamska award  The award process will be managed by the In honour of Olga Amsterdamska this EASST Council and may involve appropriate award will be made for a significant creative reviewers from outside the Council collaboration in an edited book in the broad field  Submissions for one award may be of science and technology studies. considered for another if deemed appropriate Selection will be based on an anthology in  Council members and reviewers are not the broad field of STS, a substantive contribution eligible for the award during the time of their to the field; the quality of the editing, as reflected service in the quality of the volume as a whole; A form for making nominations will be interdisciplinarity, while not a requirement, will available shortly. Please look out for further be valued; inclusiveness across career stages will announcements via the website and Eurograd or also be valued. contact the EASST office (admin at easst.net) if Freeman award you would like to be kept informed. The Freeman award will be made for a publication which is a significant collective contribution to the interaction of science and technology studies with the study of innovation.

4 EASST Review Volume 31 (2012) Number 1 EASST / 4S Conference Copenhagen, October 17-20 2011 Design and displacement – social studies of science and technology

The EASST / 4S conference is little more than 6 not only the city of Copenhagen, but also the months away and there are lots of exciting phenomenon of Copenhagenization. This concept developments! refers to the status the city has acquired as a site Final Reminder about Conference Abstract for experimental design, green city development, and bicycling. When Broadway on Manhattan was Submissions turned into a bike path, this was talked about as an For the Joint EASST/4Sconference 2012 instance of Copenhagenization. we invite papers that broadly address the In line with the overall theme of the 2012 dynamics and interrelationships between science, 4S/EASTS conference, Design and Displacement, technology and society. Papers which address the the local organizing committee wishes to discuss meeting’s theme ‘Design and Displacement’ are Copenhagen as a socio material space, which especially relevant, but papers on any topic in constantly evolves through design experiments STS are welcome. and their partly unexpected effects. On Abstracts can be submitted to open Wednesday October 17th (the day before the streams or to one of the 106 panels which have formal conference begins), they aim to ‘localize’ been grouped into 10 subject clusters see the conference and address the concept of www.easst.net/conferences/easst2012.shtml . ’Copenhagenization’ as an example of a range of You are also able to submit closed session specific design experiments in relation to city proposals. th planning and sustainability. There will be an  Deadline 18 March 2012 submissions opportunity to zoom in on interventions in relation must be made via the conference to traffic planning, bicycling, culture, gastronomy, submission website at etc., and look at how they disturb existing http://convention3.allacademic.com/one/ssss/ technical, organizational, and cultural spaces. 4s12/index.php?&rr_key=true Throughout the conference New Nordic food will  Please note that this is a site independent of be served, and on Wednesday there will be tasters and exhibitions about this theme in the EASST and 4S and you need to set up a registration area. (free) account with it before submitting (if EASST welcomes this initiative which you don’t already have one). encourages delegates to reflect on the conference location. Further details of these pre-conference You have heard about Copenhagen but activities will be available shortly. If you have what about Copenhagenization? any comments or questions you are welcome to contact Ursula Plesner, Department of The city of Copenhagen was founded Organization, CBS (email: up.ioa (at)cbs.dk) . more than 800 years ago, and is known for combining the old-world charm of its medieval origins with the vibrant life of a modern European EASST 2012 Pre-conference Doctoral metropolis. Copenhagen is the capital of Workshop linked to the Conference – Call Denmark, but with merely 1.5 million inhabitants, for Submissions the city is human in scale. A network of car-free What does it mean to do STS at the margin? pedestrian zones and cobbled squares creates a 16th October 2012, Copenhagen lively and attractive downtown area with cafés, This workshop is inspired by the great cinemas and museums. The high quality public experience at the EASST 2010 Trento Pre- transportation system, consisting of the metro, conference PhD workshop: ‘Weeds, Offcuts, buses, and trains connects the centre with its Issues and Troubles’ and the series of 'Flows, suburbs and the airport (a 20-minute ride). For Doings, Edges' workshops held over the past tourist information: years. At these events, participants discussed www.visitcopenhagen.dk/tourist. issues from their research, relating to empirical or At the 4S/EASTS conference 2012, the theoretical issues which did not fit, practical and local organizing committee invites you to explore technical obstacles or frozen themes.

EASST Review Volume 31 (2012) Number 1 5 At the 2012 Pre-conference Workshop we EASST Support for Conference engage with a theme which crops up again and Attendance again in lots of PhD students' research practice: EASST is inviting applications from those feeling isolated in the position from which we do needing financial support to attend the EASST/4S our research from. To address this theme, the conference in Copenhagen 2012. Funding is main idea of the workshop is to develop limited and will be concentrated on those coming conversations about experiences of doing STS at a from countries which are normally under- variety of margins, including – but not limited to – represented at EASST conferences (particularly margins in terms of discipline, those from Southern or Eastern Europe). It will location/geography, gender, race, economic status, also be targeted at students or others without age-related and language. institutional support for conference attendance. Drawing on our distributed experiences we will engage in collective reflection about General rules strategies and tactics of being positioned as an  Applicants must be EASST members. STS student at a margin. Which are the paths that  Applicants must have had an abstract students and scholars are following? Are there accepted for the EASST/4S conference or for other ways? Do we have to build niches – e.g. the pre-conference PhD Workshop. sub-specialities, feminist inspired solidarity  Financial support will take the form of free groups, ...? Are there spaces for these ideas within conference registration. Applicants must have the community of STS scholars? How can we create mechanisms for a productive interaction other means to cover travel and from our own positions? accommodation costs. At this workshop we will talk about  The Allocation Committee will aim to make possible similarities/dissimilarities among the awards to a variety of institutions and will problems and frustrations we experience and not normally make awards to those who have (more or less) cope with at these marginal(ised) received EASST funding in the past. positions. Therefore, the workshop will provide ample room for informal discussions in workable  Applications need to include the following: groups that allow new spaces of possibilities to  A completed application form. The form will open up; new points of view can emerge. be available shortly from our conference Please send us an abstract in which you page at describe your research and how you conceptualise www.easst.net/conferences/easst2012.shtml yourself and your work to be positioned at a margin. How does your research take place at a  Confirmation from the track conveners or margin; how is your position marginalised? What conference organisers of an accepted abstract does it mean for you to do STS at a margin? (available after May 1st) or confirmation of  The abstract should be up to 500 words an accepted abstract from the PhD Workshop and submitted to [email protected] by organisers. 15th May 2012.  Complete Applications (including evidence The workshop is organised by Ingmar of support) must be sent to Lipert (Augsburg University) and Juan F. [email protected] and be received Espinosa Cristia (University of Leicester). by 15th May. Decisions will be notified by  Participation Requirements June 7th. Participants have to show evidence of After the event: registration at the EASST / 4S conference.  Those who receive awards are required to If you apply at the same time for send a short report (500-1000 words) conference support by EASST (free registration), regarding the theme or a plenary session please note this when submitting an abstract to us. The number of participants will be attended to the editor of the EASST Review limited. EASST is providing financial support for for consideration for publication. Details of this workshop. deadlines and address to send reports will be provided with information about the award.

6 EASST Review Volume 31 (2012) Number 1 What Works Where and for Whom? Notes of the workshop Science Technology and Development, held 12-14 December 2011 at the University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands Rob Hagendijk, Harro Maat and Annapurna Mamidipudi

A global map of scholarly activity in STS The programme alternated presentations from will show spots on all continents but undoubtedly invited speakers with presentations from the larger dabs are in the US and Northwest participants. In the following sections we will Europe. This geographical concentration reflects highlight some of the themes and issues that came overall global differences in academic facilities up during the workshop. and research investments that, again in very The central theme of the workshop was general terms, conditions the geographical and the identification and analysis of geographical, topical focus of research. The field of STS is not institutional and conceptual change. We coined an exception to the rule. Yet, there are good the localities where change is most prominent arguments to say that STS could (and should) ‘hotspots of development’. Rather than a map- employ more of its conceptual toolkit and making exercise to find all the possible hotspots, scholarly energy to issues and phenomena in other the idea was to see how concepts and approaches parts of the world. These arguments have been in STS are able to identify and understand presented at EASST and 4S conferences over the particular hotspots and what insights an STS years through individual papers, sessions and approach reveals. In other words, the workshop’s roundtable discussions. In a roundtable session at aim was to explore and discuss theoretical the last 4S conference in Cleveland, Sheila questions and empirical cases of the ‘hotspots’ Jasanoff nicely summarized these arguments by where science, technology and development stating that STS takes asymmetries and intersect. In the exchanges, the variety of study symmetries seriously. And that also applies to the areas and topics the participants were engaged in political and intellectual geographies of STS. appeared to match very well with the more This note presents the activities and some general and conceptual issues brought forward by of the outcomes of the workshop ‘Hotspots of the speakers. In this respect the workshop was a Development’, held last December in Amsterdam. creative, stimulating and rich experience. The workshop was yet another opportunity to Shifting the attention to development does address the asymmetric geographical distribution not imply an entirely unfamiliar set of topics and of STS in a hands-on manner. It actually is the issues to deal with. STS studies in Western third in what is now a series of such workshops settings dealing with the (imagined) social following the 4S/EASST Roundtable about the underpinning of path-breaking science and problem. And as in previous years EASST and experimental technologies have their equivalents other sponsors helped to create facilities to invite in non-Western settings. An example is young scholars from outside Western countries to neuroinformatics (combining nano-, bio-, and bridge, if only partly and temporarily, the information and communication technologies) and institutional gaps that obstruct exchange and how this entwines with India as one of world’s collaboration. Once again, the overall workshop largest democratic nations (Ravi Shukla)1. If and format was to connect early-career STS scholars how new technologies such as nanotech an (originating from or focusing in their work on biotech travel from one part to the other and how developing countries) with each other, create an this creates new symmetries and asymmetries opportunity to present their current work and between and within countries was a recurrent explore further issues in the STS field through issue in other work as well. Despite a long record sessions with invited speakers. We received over of dissent, protest and unfulfilled promises, twenty applications of which in the end a group of biotech solutions to food crops keep on nineteen early-career scholars attended the reappearing as a silver bullet against hunger and workshop. All participants worked on poverty. A recent example is Bt Brinjal, a pest- development-related topics and by and large half resistant GM variety of aubergine, experimented of the group had their undergraduate training from an institution outside Europe or the US. There was 1 Names in brackets refer to workshop participants and a relatively large share of participants from India. speakers.

EASST Review Volume 31 (2012) Number 1 7 with in India (Andreas Mitzschke). can be connected or integrated in formal centres Nanotechnology seems to move along a similar of knowledge and policy (Arie Rip). path of what Nick Cullather called imagineering, Several workshop participants worked on exemplified in a study on (dis)similarities of areas where government control is much less nanotech research in the Netherlands and Chile established or in a state of recovery after (Carla Alvial). Some of the presentations provided disruption. A clear example is a study on interesting comments on these developments, for evaluation research in Afghanistan (Tjitske example by questioning the notion of ‘advanced Holtrop). The absence of a strong state perhaps science’ by showing how Indian scientists made a creates all sorts of extra (official and unofficial) low-cost ‘tinkered’ nano-microscope (Wiebe layers of protocols and rules. Similar dynamics Bijker). Moreover, these technologies assume come forward in studies in Israel (Adi Inbar) or in innovation is about distribution of top-notch specific disaster-stricken areas in India equipment from high-tech labs and centres where (Chandrika Parmar). What comes out is that in analysis of global innovation processes point places where activities of established governing towards a more bottom-up or bottom-of-the- agents disappear or are disrupted, local power pyramid model (Luc Soete). dynamics fill in these gaps by creating rules and In cases where innovative changes in regulation on their own terms. An interesting society are more widespread and have a longer example came from a presentation on farmer history, the picture does not seem to be very suicides in India where rural elites hijack the different. A study on the introduction of soy-bean situation to defend their position towards a global in India in the 1970s shows almost equal high audience (Esha Shah). Similar dynamics come out levels of expectation among scientists and in a study on foreign aid agents in Kyrgyzstan and politicians and as much dissent and adjustment their interaction with the country’s patron-client from the side of the proclaimed beneficiaries, in relations (Yulia Poskakukhina). Such this case farmers in rural India (Richa Kumar). environments not only restrict research work but Typically in agriculture user conditions depend on also create opportunities for new creative ways to a range of factors, many of which are beyond make use of ‘power gaps’ in local circumstances, immediate control, resulting in diverging shown in a presentation on research in remote meanings in engineering contexts and user areas in former Soviet territory where area maps contexts of, for example, a notion like efficiency. were discussed with local people to blend Studies on irrigation technologies in Morocco different forms of knowledge (Shailaja Fennell). (Saskia van der Kooij) or a comparative study on Various studies focused on climate issues. the use of hydrodynamic models in the deltas of Where much of the debate seems to concentrate the Netherlands and Bangladesh (Arjen on atmospheric studies and global effects, in Zegwaard) showed many of such tensions. reality a variety of new research and technologies Uncontrolled and unknown factors also spoil are promoted as dealing with climate change. STS engineers’ dreams in urban context as for example has an extensive conceptual toolkit to challenge in a study on shifting fuel sources (natural gas assumptions and envisioned effects. This equally instead of diesel and petrol) in urban transport in applies to technologies to exploit wind and solar Ahmedabad (Lakum Mukesh). These examples energy (Suyash Jolly) or anticipated effects of also showed the close connection between growing a crop like Jatropha for biofuel (Eveline science, technology and governing institutions, de Hoop). Many of the issues and themes in these trying to regulate and control developments. A studies also appeared in related topics that seem to strong case is the global network of disease strengthen the ties between global relevance and control, in particular the development of vaccines, universal knowledge. Sustainability and largely determining from their administrative biodiversity are examples of this and came out centres what is supposed to work where and how, clearly in studies sustainable consumption (Vivek therewith eroding local competencies to work on Mathur) and conflicts over natural resource diseases (Stuart Blume). Interestingly, attempts to conservation (Aarthi Sridhar). One study looked portray global solutions from a single source can at how such dynamics intersect with issues of also be found outside official institutions, poverty and community development (Kirsten exemplified by the System of Rice Intensification Ulsrud). Various of these studies are framed as (Dominic Glover). This raises all sorts of question transitions studies, putting emphasis on the fact about the way so-called indigenous knowledge that research and technology operate under changing conditions. This is central in a study on

8 EASST Review Volume 31 (2012) Number 1 how governments and research institutes in Asia studies in which global dynamics, international portray such changes (Frans Sengers) and how development and humanitarian principles are they materialise this in new technologies and central. An interesting effect of the shared regulatory mechanisms (Micha Velthuis). These background of various participants was an various dynamics were nicely put together in a invitation to hold the next workshop in India. more systemic account, showing how systems Whether this will be realized or not, the workshop respond differently to different forms of shock has proved that STS has increasingly become a and stress (Andy Stirling). field that stretches beyond Europe or other A workshop like this proves the relevance Western nations throwing up new exciting and variety of ways in which STS can contribute questions, research opportunities and challenges.

The birth of the Belgian Network for Science, Technology and Society (BSTS network) Pierre Delvenne and François Thoreau, for the Belgian STS network

Overview Nevertheless these young researchers The inaugural conference of the Belgian somehow shared a same general spirit, which they STS Network took place on September 30, 2011 felt in fact belonged to the field of social studies at the Royal Academy for Arts and Sciences of science and technology; a spirit of reflexivity, (Brussels, Belgium). Before getting into the openness, engagement, and enthusiasm about details of this event and addressing the future mutual learning from multiple perspectives. challenges, we first want to look back on what has So they arranged to meet again — by train been achieved in this respect over the past years this time. What started with one or two informal or so. discussion gatherings between a few people, soon The roots of the idea of a Belgian STS became regular and more structured meetings, network can be traced back about 2 years to a few including people from all over the country that PhD students carrying out their research within hadn’t met before, from political science, law, the broad field of social studies of science and sociology, philosophy and so on. And there you technology. Working within the same tiny go, the idea of a network, whatever clear shape it country, they couldn’t refrain from noticing how would take, was born. much easier it was to meet each other by plane Up until now we’ve had about 6 of these than by train, for instance at international meetings, where in the morning we mainly conferences such as the ones of 4S or EASST. brainstormed about the opportunities for a Belgian They came to discuss how Belgium STS Network, and in the afternoon the different indeed doesn’t seem to really have an STS participants presented their institute and work, culture, compared to other European countries discussion always receiving a central place like France, the United Kingdom or the throughout the day. Netherlands. Indeed, it is quite difficult to trace We have zoomed in on specific topics like back a history of STS in Belgium. It is more Technology Assessment, sustainable energy correct to say that there have always been systems, GMOs, nanotechnology, radioactive researchers interested in STS (perhaps especially waste management, electromagnetic fields. But in the late 1980s, not really in the 1990s, before a we’ve also discussed more methodological issues, recrudescence in the late 2000s) while there was like the difference between quantitative and no real feeling of belonging to a community of qualitative approaches, the merits and challenges scholars from the field — notwithstanding some of participation and so on. individual exceptions. Conventional boundaries Along the way more fundamental between universities, faculties, disciplines and questions also came to the foreground, like do we methodologies are quite strong in our country, see STS as transdisciplinary or multidisciplinary, with academics being rather separated from do we want to stick to description or do we also practitioners, not to mention the North from the want to be more explicitly normative, how dominant is or should constructivism be within South . the field of STS, or how do we deal with the

EASST Review Volume 31 (2012) Number 1 9 feeling of the risk of irrelevance and South of the country. The next step will be to disengagement on the one hand, that of lack of formalise the network and appoint a President, a scientific thoroughness and respectability on the vice-President, and 5 regular members. This other hand. should be done at the next meeting, which will To briefly address the roots and the happen in Liège in early May, 2012. Members of rationale for establishing a network such as BSTS, the steering committee are presently busy with one important point contrasts with the past writing a constitution for the BSTS network. activities related to STS in Belgium. Indeed, from Some personal contacts have already been the earlier meetings on, there has been a strong established, for instance with some BSTS feeling, which we believe is widely shared among members visiting Sally Wyatt, the President of the the members of the network, that we were making very active Dutch WTMC, and one invited lecture community. This might sound like a caricature, to the second meeting of the Spanish STS network but the Belgian STS network is building bridges (to be held on 23-25 May, 2012, in Gijón, — with English as a working language — in a Asturias). Getting closer to EASST activivities country that keeps tearing itself apart. and networks also stands as one very important Now, in a short timeframe, we have objective for the BSTS network’s near future. already achieved significant steps. The network The inaugural conference of the BSTS greatly contributed to mapping and locating the network different emanations of STS thinking in Academia So let’s get back to our inaugural and beyond. It helped people to better identify conference. We had the great honour to hear three which kind of topics are currently being addressed distinguished speakers who greatly contributed to in an STS manner, and how. As a matter of fact, shape the field of STS as we know it today. The the network gained recognition as a “group of way we conceived the conference was to slightly contact” from the FNRS (the Federation move from theoretical knowledge and most Wallonia-Brussels’ research funding agency), fundamental questioning to more practical which is a first step towards institutionalisation. insights into how this knowledge is or may be Lastly, it obviously brought to light the existence relevant in nowadays societies. The first two of an active and dynamic STS community, as the speakers, Dominique Vinck and Robin Williams, presence of a number of colleagues from France, addressed the big issues in contemporary STS; the Netherlands, Spain or the UK at the inaugural which are the driving forces? Which are the most conference attests (around 90 participants pressing issues to address with technological so- attended the inaugural conference). called “innovations”? Then the third speaker was Obviously, we wish to go further and to Arie Rip, who situated STS theory in the real take steps towards formal institutionalisation. As a world, at the interface with other relevant network, we wish to provide the STS-related institutions. Finally, a panel of high-level researchers with critical insights and a relevant practitioners, including an STS scholar very active learning framework. Sure enough, we will in the field of public engagement, engaged further strengthen the communication on the initiatives with these debates, speaking from their taken by each of the members. But we also wish professional situation and experience. Throughout to organize events on our own. There are many the day, we decided to allow much time for options. One of them is to organise an annual discussion and for opening the floor to debate. meeting, possibly less formal than this one, and Lastly, but most importantly, BSTS today maybe more organised around a single topic. has received some funding from a number of Another one is to organise seminars or reading partners who agreed to become “institutional groups, around specific authors or major texts that members” of the network. This made the attract the interest of a significant amount of organization of the inaugural conference possible. members. Yet another one consists in organizing In addition, we also need to mention the FNRS for intensive summer schools, on the model of the its support within the framework of the “group of Dutch WTMC for instance. A last one, if it contact”. The institutional members of BSTS appears to make sense and there is enough today are: capacity around, would be to launch a dedicated high-quality publication. But that takes us too far - Spiral — a research institute from the Université in the future. At the moment, BSTS is driven by a de Liège that already has a specific unit of rather informal steering committee, made of 6 research dedicated to STS PhD students or postdocs from the North and the

10 EASST Review Volume 31 (2012) Number 1 - CITA and CRIDS at the Faculté universitaire Wolfgang Eberle (IMEC) ND de Namur Sarah Davies (Center for Nanotechnology in - IST – “Instituut voor Samenleving and Society, Arizona State University) Technologie” (TA institute in Flanders) Discussion - “Modern and Contemporary worlds unit” at the 16:30-17:30: Reception Université Libre de Bruxelles Mission statement of BSTS - SCK-CEN: Center for the study of nuclear The Belgian “Science and Technology energy Studies” (STS) Network brings together scholars - SEED – Centre for the sociology of the from a wide range of scientific disciplines, from environment at the Université de Liège (Arlon) Belgium and beyond. It provides an open and - The Université catholique de Louvain – Mons, flexible interface in order to share disciplinary and the service of Professor Schiffino, perspectives, foster collaborations and raise the voice of a community of scholars, under the previously at Fucam. banner of STS. - VITO – Center that deals with technology for The Belgian STS Network follows three ecology and economy (vision on technology). key goals: VITO, Vlaamse instelling voor technologisch 1. Foster learning and genuine cross‐fertilization onderzoek. from multiple disciplinary perspectives, e.g. The programme of the inaugural conference, held through established and less established on September 30, 2011, was the following: methodological reflections or concerns. It focuses mostly on a series of relevant thematic issues: Inaugural Conference of the Belgian a. Energy and sustainable development Network for Science, Technology and b. Information and Communication Technologies Society (ICT) Royal Academy of Belgium, Room King c. New and Emerging Science & Technologies Baudouin (NEST) 1 Rue Ducale, Brussels September 30th, 2011 2. Reinforce collaborations and partnerships among the different academic units, research 09:30 – 10:00: Registration and coffee centres and Technology Assessment (TA) 10:00 – 10:15: Welcome and introduction institutions active in the arena of STS, in Belgium 10:15 – 11:15: Session 1 – Trends in STS but also on the international scene. For this questioning purpose, it aims at working on joint publications Keynote speaker : Dominique Vinck (Université of high scientific standards as well as organizing Pierre Mendès, France, Grenoble, FR) conferences and workshops open to practitioners Discussion and decision‐makers. 11:15 – 12:15: Session 2 – STS: Anticipating 3. Strengthen the voice and visibility of the STS socio-technical futures? Or caught in the community, especially in the Belgian novelty trap? science‐policy landscape. The Belgian STS Keynote speaker : Robin Williams (University of Network promotes a research agenda of Edinburgh, UK) anticipatory governance of science and Discussion technologies: foresight, engagement, integration 12:15 – 13:30: Lunch break and reflexivity. For this purpose, it takes positions 13:30‐14:30: Session 3 – STS in the wider world on societal issues according to the experience of Keynote speaker: Arie Rip (Universiteit Twente, its members, and it has a communication strategy NL) aimed at reaching both the scientific, the industrial Discussion and the political community. 14:30‐15:00: Coffee break The Belgian STS Network brings together scholars from disciplines such as sociology, law, 15:00‐16:30: Session 4 – On the potential political science, history, philosophy, engineering, contributions of a STS network economics, anthropology, psychology and Chair: Francois Mélard (Université de Liège, B) environmental policy. It is also open to interested Panel: Nicole Dewandre (European Commission) natural scientists, engaged professional bodies or Robby Berloznik (IST, Flemish Parliamentary relevant policy actors. Naturally, it is open to Technology Assessment)

EASST Review Volume 31 (2012) Number 1 11 insights and advice from leading international sciences and humanities in contemporary scholars active in STS. Lastly, the Network societies. encourages scrutiny with regard to its own Website: www.stsn.be functioning, i.e. the role of scholars from social EASST Review hopes to run a series of reports about STS developments in different countries / regions with information about new or existing national STS associations. We are happy to receive further contributions

EASST and the EASH Harro van Lente, EASST Council member

In general, the funding of science in constituent ‘Grand Challenges’ are organized into Europe is under stress. The social sciences and three priorities, which all focus on growth: humanities even seem to be at greater risk. On 20  Intelligent Growth: developing an economy December 2011, I attended the founding meeting based on knowledge and innovation in Amsterdam of the European Alliance for Social  Sustainable Growth: promoting a more Sciences and Humanities (EASH) to represent EASST. The meeting was an initiative to mobilize resource efficient, greener and more the countervailing powers of the social sciences competitive economy and humanities (SSH) in Europe, in particular in  Inclusive Growth: fostering a high response to the sober outlooks of the European employment economy delivering social and funding scheme. While the budgets of the territorial cohesion Framework programs have gone up during the last This tension between the generic social decade, the relative portion for SSH has science ambitions that are voiced and the decreased. For instance, the total budget for FP 6 diminishing support for social sciences has led to has been 18 billion euros and for FP7 it has been the formation of EASSH. The idea is to form an around 50 billion, including amounts of 270 alliance of alliances, to mobilise the SSH million and 620 million for SSH, respectively. At community across Europe by facilitating their first sight, these are impressive numbers, as is the interactions at EU and national level. There have total number of researchers involved. Estimates been, for instance, meetings with members of are that in higher education and public sector European Parliament and with Commissioner research the EU has about 1,2 million researchers; Geoghegan-Quinn. An open letter has been about 380.000 of them in SSH (source: EU-Büro drafted and signed by many, including EASST des BMBF). At the meeting, for instance, was a president Fred Steward. The Open Letter seeks to representative of the CARMEN network, a global bring to the attention of the European body of about 20,000 researchers of the Middle Commission and national governments the Ages. Therefore, with its membership of around concerns of the SSH research communities in 1000 at peak level, EASST is a small player in Europe. The letter stresses the necessity for a this setting. Yet, EASST has a special position varied and strong research programme in SSH. It here, given our relationships with natural argues that the EU strategy to develop innovative, scientists and engineers, as subject of study and inclusive and sustainable societies, asks for collaborators in many projects, such as technology research areas such as cultural change, assessments. demography, education, the economy and Under the new 80 billion EU framework globalisation, identity politics and social cohesion, programme, now introduced as Horizon 2020, not poverty relief and global governance as well as only the relative portion, but also the absolute many others. funding of SSH will probably diminish. Yet, the For more information see: general ambition of Horizon 2020 seems to http://www.eash.eu/openletter2011/ . EASST will invoke a lot of social science themes. The continue to contribute to the development and ambitions are elaborated into targets concerning actions of EASH and attend the First General employment, R&D, reduction in greenhouse gas Assembly of EASH on 27 – 28 March in Brussels. emissions and energy consumption (the ‘20-20- 20’ targets), education and poverty. The

12 EASST Review Volume 31 (2012) Number 1 A pioneer in trouble: Danish Board of Technology are facing problems Michael Søgaard Jørgensen, Department of Management Engineering, Technical University of Denmark. Member of the Danish Board of Technology’s Board of Representatives; [email protected]

Incredible, but true! statutory body in 1986. The Parliament's Research In October 2011 the new Danish centre- Committee is the Board's liaison to the left government proposed to cut the whole public Parliament. funding of one of the important Danish The work of the Board has also been democratic public institutions, the Danish Board important outside Denmark where it is seen as one of Technology, and use the annual public funding of the pioneers within participatory methods to (1.5 million Euros) for other research activities. assess societal impacts of new technologies and The proposal came from a unanimous research develop visions for a more sustainable and policy committee in the Danish parliament as part democratic future. The Board has, for example, of the proposal for financing an increase in the inspired the development of the scenario national research budget with around 40 million workshop method. Euros within the Danish national budget for 2012. What now? Many persons within the Danish The Ministry sent the bill on the abolition community of technology assessment and of The Danish Board of Technology out for public technology and democracy practitioners were consultation and got around 111 responses back, shocked. How could this happen? Also many both from Danish and international stakeholders. politicians were astonished and criticized the Almost all responses argued against the proposal decision. to abolish the Board and described the importance We had just one month earlier got a new of the Board both nationally and internationally. government after 10 years of right wing This included Fred Steward’s response on behalf government. Who would have expected that a of EASST which said, like other international centre-left government as part of its first annual stakeholders, that Denmark loses a lot of budget would accept a proposal from civil international credibility if the Board is closed servants in the Ministry of Finance to reduce the down. public funding of Board of Technology to zero?! At the first discussions in the Parliament The explanation seems to be lack of knowledge of the bill on the abolition of The Danish Board of about the Board of Technology among the several Technology on 9th February 2012 the responsible new parliamentary research spokespersons in the Minister Morten Østergaard and almost all the research policy committee. The Ministry of political parties’ research spokespersons Science, Innovation and Higher Education who is expressed the wish to continue The Danish Board the supervising authority of the Board of of Technology's work and expertise. Technology tried afterwards to get support for the The spokespersons focused on the controversial proposal by playing down the role of Board’s efforts to date as an international role the Board of Technology in Danish discussions model for democratic dialogue. The Minister, as about technology and the impacts on people, on well as the spokespersons, referred to the positive society and on the environment. The Ministry impression the many national and international proposed to close down the Board arguing that the responses had made on them. The spokespersons Danish society ‘is facing new challenges’. also mentioned the Board’s skills in methodology, The Board is supposed to organise foresight and facilitation. ‘discussions about technology, to evaluate This debate in the Parliament and the technology and to advise the Danish Parliament recent discussions between the Ministry and the (the Folketing) and other governmental bodies in Board seem to imply that the Board of matters pertaining to technology’. The Board is an Technology will survive, but in a modified independent body established by the Danish structure, maybe as a foundation. Parliament in 1995 and is the successor to the The political parties’ spokespersons Technology Board, which was set up as a expressed the need for the Board to continue to

EASST Review Volume 31 (2012) Number 1 13 ‘serve the democracy’. However, besides Our members in several European developing the modified structure of the Board a countries have worked very productively with the very crucial aspect of the future of the Board is Danish Board of Technology in recent years, in whether all the nice words about the need for the particular with the project on World Wide Views activities of the Board from the Minister and the on Global Warming. political parties’ spokespersons will materialise The Danish Board of Technology has into funding from the Parliament. This is needed played, for over 20 years, an inspiring innovative for the Board to actually carry out, for example, role in designing forms of pluralist and foresight activities and democratic processes for participative expertise, both in Denmark and in the Parliament and the different political Europe overall. Because of its experience and committees in the Parliament. An important legitimacy, its abolition would mean a real loss indication will be the negotiations about the for society at large and for Denmark’s pioneering national budget for 2013, which will start in a few achievements in particular. The reasons that it was months. Will funds be set aside in that budget for set up remain the same today – the need to link the then fund-based Board of Technology to the world of scientific and technical research with organise democratic dialogues etc. or will the the general public. The knowledge produced by Board have to organise themselves like any other DBT has a large and increasing community of consultancy company who has to find customers users, in research policy, industry, academics, with own funding for every activity? NGOs, etc., and the demand for this kind You can continue to follow this emerging of knowledge and assessment is higher than ever. story via Our research community has been http://www.tekno.dk/subpage.php3?article=1851 encouraged by the stance of the current Danish &toppic=kategori11&language=uk&category=11 government on climate change. It is seen as a renewal of Denmark’s role as a global leader on EASST made the following submission to environment, innovation and the linking of the consultation on the proposed closure of scientific knowledge with societal challenges. the Danish Board of Technology: The termination of the Danish Board of The European Association for the Study Technology would send an entirely different of Science and Technology represents more than message to the wider world. 1000 professors and researchers in Europe It is difficult to believe that this is the specializing in the social, political and economic intention. If there is an argument that it is a small aspects of science and technology. Founded in sacrifice that must be made to maintain 1981 we are holding our 15th international expenditure on scientific research then this is conference at Copenhagen Business School in deeply mistaken. The reality is quite the October 2012. opposite. The future of science and technology Europe increasingly recognizes that depends on building a deeper relationship of trust science, technology and innovation policy needs between academics and the public. To abandon to engage more effectively with the grand societal an institution that has made a unique contribution challenges of our time such as climate change. to this goal would actually be a disservice to the We are therefore astonished and dismayed that the research community itself as well as the wider future of the Danish Board of Technology, an society. international pioneer in public engagement in the We sincerely hope that further social assessment of technological innovation, is consideration by all of the interests concerned will under threat. agree that the proposal to end the Danish Board of Technology should be rejected.

14 EASST Review Volume 31 (2012) Number 1 Book Review Making and Unmaking Intellectual Property: Creative Production in Legal and Cultural Perspective, edited by Mario Biagioli, Peter Jaszi, and Martha Woodmansee. By Migle Laukyte

“We want to make IP ‘strange,’” say the building blocks of IP have been exploited to make editors of this book, and certainly they succeed in moral claims about what is legitimate in the use doing so. As is suggested by the book’s title, and development of software, thus indirectly Making and Unmaking Intellectual Property, that supporting the thesis offered by M. Strathern in purpose is achieved by unmaking the received “Social Invention,” arguing that property (and wisdom about intellectual property (IP) so as to other concepts related to it, such as property make it anew, an objective the book’s twenty-six rights) are all boundary objects subject to the contributors work toward in an effort to forge interpretation of the parties involved. what P. Jaszi calls postmodern copyright, and The third grouping—“IP Crimes and what, by extension, might be called postmodern Other Fictions”—is centered around the practice IP. of piracy and overturns the classical negative The effort, in short, is to give us new tools connotation that typically attaches to the pirate as with which to rethink IP in light of the social, a freebooter. L. Liang, for example, argues that IP technological, and cultural changes which make piracy is what we need to fight the practice of up the new context of creative production, with its “earning vast sums of money from the nothing of new set of challenges, and the “ground plan” for data and culture” (p.178), while M. Woodmansee this reconstructive endeavor is also the map that illustrates how eighteenth-century pirate- guides us as we move through the book. However, publishers contributed to the rise of many world- this layout—giving us five different angles from famous humanists, arguing that what the pirates which to approach IP—in no way boxes the did then was “not only lawful but morally subject matter into closed compartments, for the justifiable” (p. 192). The other authors grouped boundaries are fluid and the map is actually a tool under this heading proceed in a similar vein by we can use in making connections of our own deconstructing other ideas and practices related to among the ideas presented to us. Let us see, then, piracy. In “Characterizing Copyright in the what these five subject headings are. Classroom,” for example, T. Gillespie questions The first of them—“High and Low: IP the intentions of corporations in supplying schools Practices and Materialities”—looks at patents with educational material that imparts lessons from a historical point of view, with a focus on about not infringing IP: in a discussion that takes such basic patent notions as invention (M. us back to Benkler’s “possessive individualism,” Biagioli), patent text (Kara W. Swanson), and Gillespie argues that this material is predicated on patent drawings (William J. Rankin): the idea of copyright as an exclusive property conventionally regarded as a technical part of the regime, and thus serves only the interests of patent process (this is especially true of patent corporations. texts and drawings), these notions are cast in a Under the fourth heading—“Old Things new light that enables us to appreciate how into New IP Objects”—the reader again finds an integral they are to this process and how they opportunity to question some old assumptions affect it. about patent law. Thus, in a historical account, D. The second grouping of titles—“Before J. Kevles illustrates how the new system for and after the Commons and Traditional protecting property was built from scratch by Knowledge”—revolves around the Anglo- animal breeders and plant innovators. A. Pottage American conception of IP as based on a creed and B. Sherman explain how cloning techniques described as “possessive individualism” (Y. in plant breeding have forced us to revisit our Benkler), from which flows a range of ideas, the familiar distinction between what is tangible and building blocks of IP, such as property, public what is not. In a discussion of pharmaceutical IP domain, and ownership. Thus, for example, in policy in Argentina and Mexico, C. Hayden “Inventing Copyleft,” C. Kelty argues how these brings out some deep flaws in the whole idea of

EASST Review Volume 31 (2012) Number 1 15 the public domain in distinction to the sphere of its use in the academic and research community. IP protection. J. Kahn brings race and ethnicity The book ends with the previously mentioned into the equation, drawing our attention to the role discussion by P. Jaszi, who discusses the shift that these aspects play in shaping patent law. And P. copyright has made from modernism (in the Samuelson draws us into the world of software 1990s) to postmodernism (currently and in the interfaces in yet another insightful illustration of future to come) through the lens of such IP what it means to make and unmake IP. concepts as fair use and authorship. In so doing he The final grouping of articles—“Doing picks up the ideas scattered throughout the book and Undoing Collaborative IP”—lays out the and links them up in a statement of “postmodern variety of ways in which collaboration is possible copyright” considering what it would look like if in the IP domain. In a historical analysis it could answer the concerns raised in the book, complementing the arguments K. W. Swanson and whether the conceit of postmodern copyright puts forward in the first grouping in “Authoring is at all possible. an Invention,” E. Lincoln undoes the traditional This book, in summary, offers a forward- concept of author, this time focusing on women looking discussion alerting us to the limitations of printmakers in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century IP law as a body of ideas, rules, and practices that Italy. In a discussion of stand-up comedy, D. Oliar may have run their course: in pointing out these and C. Sprigman challenge the belief that the best limitations, the book urges us to “look beyond the way to protect one’s IP is by legal instruments, necessarily tight boundaries of IP textbooks” (p. arguing that social norms afford better IP 10) and to discover “the interesting slippages protection than any institutionalized anti- between practice and its legal conceptualization” infringement policy. In “Patenting Life,” F. (p. 11). And so, in responding to this exhortation, Murray analyzes the way the academic and the it becomes our challenge to take the insights and economic cycles of credit interact (the former analyses we are offered and work them into revolving around publications, the latter around something of an overarching scheme that can be patents): she does so by discussing the so-called used as a basis on which to proceed in solving “on onco-mouse patent, again shedding new light on a the ground” the many issues brought to our basic IP concept (that of a patent), by considering attention.

Conference/Event Announcements and Calls for Papers The following announcements first appeared on the EASST-Eurograd email discussion list. To join easst- eurograd and receive messages as they are posted follow the instructions at http://www.easst.net/joineurograd.shtml Messages are also included in EASST Review if they are still relevant at the time of publication. For this edition we are not including all the separate calls for papers to panels of the EASST / 4S conference. Please see the article above for information about the conference and you can download all the panel descriptions at http://www.4sonline.org/files/open_panels_12.pdf. It is also possible to view the EASST-Eurograd archive via the link above.

Call for Conference Papers - No conference fee for participants. "NeuroCultures - NeuroGenderings II" We will do our best to provide travel University of Vienna funds, but strongly encourage participants to Date: 13 - 15 September 2012 apply for travel funding at their home institutions. Please find attached and below the CfP http://neurocultures2012.univie.ac.at for this international and transdisciplinary http://gender.univie.ac.at/ conference. Email: [email protected] For paper submissions, please use the In March 2010, participants of the online tool on our conference site international and transdisciplinary conference http://neurocultures2012.univie.ac.at “NeuroGenderings” put together an expert group Abstracts should be submitted by 25 to critically examine research on the sexed brain. March 2012. Scientists from Europe, the US, Canada and

16 EASST Review Volume 31 (2012) Number 1 Australia from different disciplines such as socio-cultural relations are (re-) negotiated within neuroscience, neurocultures, the humanities, research, neuro-(technological)applications, and social and cultural studies, gender studies, public discourses. We use the notion of the feminist science studies, and science and “cerebral subject” – the cultural figure of the technology studies, launched this network to human according to which all we need to be improve reflective analysis within/of the ourselves is our brains (Ortega & Vidal 2007) – to neurosciences and to initiate dialogue across describe how thought, behaviour, subjectivity and disciplinary borders. The aim of this group is to identity are collapsed with the brain’s biology in elaborate innovative theoretical and empirical these neurocultural fields. The cerebral subject is approaches to address the question of sex and a specific kind of subject; the brain vocabulary gender in the brain; to analyze the social and produces a culturally and historically specific political underpinnings of the ongoing version of the human and, as such, impacts “cerebralization” of human life and especially of individual, social, cultural and political spheres. gender; to evaluate the current state of Gender aspects have to be seriously taken neuroscientific methods, evidence, and into account within these endeavours on various interpretations regarding sex/gender in the brain, levels: their empirical significance, the close and to discuss the impacts of neuroscientific entanglement of neuroscientific research with gender research in socio-political and cultural society, the impacts of neurofacts and fields. neurotechnologies (in the broadest sense) on Some of these approaches can already be socio-cultural gender symbolisms and gendered read in a special issue of Neuroethics, power relations. Additionally, the hybrid “Neuroethics and Gender” (papers published conceptions of neurocultures have to be online first available at: questioned in terms of their potentials for http://www.springerlink.com/content/120989/?Co disrupting nature-culture dichotomies on both ntent+Status=Accepted; the final issue will be material and epistemological levels. available in late 2012). Contributions to these discussions are In co-operation with the network welcome in the following thematic strands: NeuroGenderings, the Gender Research Office at I. Empirical NeuroGenderings: Empirical the University of Vienna will launch a three-day research on aspects of gendering the brain Conference entitled “NeuroCultures – including biological and socio-cultural aspects; NeuroGenderings II”. We aim to expand the analyses on methodological aspects and biases in network an invite scholars and student who the construction of sex/gender in brain research; engage with neuroscientific research as research on the constructive processes in brain neuroscientists and/or brain science studies imaging, their relevance in knowledge production scholars with insights from the social and cultural and in the transgression of brain concepts and studies of science, technology, and medicine, as findings into popular discourse; approaches from well as from feminist and queer theory to discuss feminist and queer neuroscience in relevant fields. current developments in the field of neurocultures II. NeuroCultures and Brain Plasticity: and gender. Analyses of empirical research on brain plasticity, Call for Papers including a critical discussion of the concept itself The aim of the conference and its impact on gender-related aspects in “NeuroCultures – NeuroGenderings II” is to society; discourses on current forms of improve reflective scientific approaches neurobiological determinism that frame all concerned with sex/gender and the brain, and to processes of thought and action explainable and gain particular insight into the transformation or predictable in terms of the brain’s structures and persistence of gendered norms and values that functions, irrespective of whether these structures accompany the mutual entanglements between and functions are innate or formed by experience. brain research, various disciplines and public III. Image and Politics of the Cerebral discourse. With the expansion of the domains of Subject: Social movements’ uses of brain neuroscientific knowledge, today we are arguments on gender and sexuality for progressive witnessing an abundance of emerging or conservative agendas; re-politicizations of neurocultures (such as neuropedagogy, critical analyses of the cerebral subject and neuroeconomics, neuromarketing, neurotheology, gender; questioning the lack of societal, political neuroaesthetics, among others) in which bio- and economic situatedness and reflections of gender and intersectional categories; the cultural

EASST Review Volume 31 (2012) Number 1 17 appeal of using the brain to account for gender The Amsterdam Privacy Conference and sexuality; social and political uses of brain- (APC) is a biennial conference organized by the based arguments on sex, gender, sexuality, but Amsterdam Platform for Privacy Research also class, race, age. (APPR), a group of more than 50 researchers at IV. Power und Politics of the University of Amsterdam who are involved NeuroCultures/NeuroGenderings: Emergence of a with privacy aspects in their daily activities. They neurogovernmentality with its technologies of all approach this topic from different angles, such power and the market economy, as these are as law, philosophy, economics, computer science, implemented into technologies of the self, where medicine, communication studies, science and the individual brain functions as the target of technology studies, political science, etc. Through control, repair and manipulation; gender an interdisciplinary approach and joint discussion, dimensions of social neurosciences, APPR increases both the Understanding and neuroeconomy, neuropedagogy, awareness of privacy issues. More information neurotechnologies in general, and particularly in can be found on: http://www.appr.uva.nl/appr- neuroenhancement technologies where these en/main.cfm , converge with notions of convertibility and modifiability of the brain, and are embedded in submission of abstracts deadline March 15th paradigms of individual optimization within From smartphones to cloud computing, modern meritocracy. from big data to social media, the exploding use V. Transdisciplinary and of information technology and its many NeuroGenderings: Studies on gendered brain applications will be a source of massive social and narratives from the perspectives of history, economic changes for years to come. Privacy is sociology, philosophy, cultural studies, and arts; one of the areas widely believed to be affected by analyses of popular culture’s accounts of brain these changes. Developments such as digital and gender. surveillance, electronic profiling, social media, VI. Theory and Epistemology of ‘do not track’, privacy-friendly business models, NeuroGenderings: Theoretical and digital records, database interconnection, business epistemological discussions about concepts as intelligence and behavioral marketing have a feminist materialism; approaches from gender, profound effect on privacy in all its facets. feminist & queer technoscience that address the In the past, privacy has mostly been fragmentations of the border between nature- addressed from a single perspective, for example culture-technology, the relations between sex, legal, philosophical, sociological, technical, gender, and brain; other important notions/critical medical or psychological. At present, however, it tools that are developed in feminist and queer is acknowledged that privacy has many facets, and scholarship. researchers and professionals worldwide are VII. Other gender relevant fields of working together to address privacy from a truly research. interdisciplinary approach. Contributions to this conference can be This unique interdisciplinary conference submitted for oral presentation (20 min) or for a is taking place October 7-10 at the intimate venue poster presentation. For paper submissions, please of Felix Meritis in the heart of Amsterdam, The use the online tool on our conference site: Netherlands. It is organized by the Amsterdam http://neurocultures2012.univie.ac.at and Platform for Privacy Research (APPR), an indicate the strand in which you aim to present initiative of the University of Amsterdam with your paper/poster. Abstracts for papers/posters active participants from such diverse disciplines should not exceed 3000 characters (including as philosophy, law, economics, informatics, social spaces). sciences, medical sciences and media sciences. Deadline for proposal submission: 25 APC 2012 will bring together leading March 2012. experts in the field of privacy who will formulate, The papers will be selected within a short discuss and answer the challenging privacy time frame and confirmed by mid-May 2012. questions that lie ahead of us. On behalf of the Gender Research Office Keynote speakers will include renowned and the NeuroGenderings Network scholars and leading practitioners, such as Prof. Dr. Sigrid Schmitz Alessandro Acquisti (Carnegie Mellon University), Peter Hustinx (EDPS), Helen ------Nissenbaum (New York University), Sandra

18 EASST Review Volume 31 (2012) Number 1 Petronio (Indiana University), Priscilla Regan Wednesday March 28th 5:30 PM, EPFL, (Washington), and many more. Room ELA 2 The conference will explore emerging and "The Governance of Innovation People's critical trends in privacy, including but not limited Participation in Technological Choices Today" to:  Privacy by design Location: http://plan.epfl.ch/?room=ELA%202  Value and principles of privacy Information: Claude.Zwicky [at] epfl.ch  Privacy and healthcare  Economics of privacy ------

 Privacy in the internet age Flying University of Transnational  Privacy and security Humanities See http://www.apc2012.org/ for more and up-to-data information. - Summer School for Graduate Students For further information and questions, and Young Scholars - please contact Bart van der Sloot: July 15-18, 2012 [email protected] Hanyang University, Seoul, Korea

------Application deadline March 16th Introduction The College of Humanities of the EPFL is The Flying University of Transnational pleased to invite you to a series of four public Humanities (FUTH) is an annual summer school lectures by Dominique Pestre, Professor at Ecole for graduate students and young scholars des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (EHESS), interested in the transnational paradigm of Paris, and Invited Professor at the College of humanistic inquiry. FUTH takes its name and Humanities, EPFL, Switzerland. immediate inspiration from Poland’s Flying Science, Technology, Economy and Society. University, an underground institution that offered Contemporary World and its Heritages an alternative education outside the confines of Science and technology are central in state control and government censorship. The today's world – but some of their consequences program is particularly concerned with developing are highly debated. These debates are not critical understandings that resist the ideological launched by irrational people and raise important and conceptual hegemony of the nation-state and questions. The four conferences that Dominique the epistemological and hermeneutic conventions Pestre will give in March will consider the variety that support it. This does not mean that FUTH of today's sciences, the scientific and economic seeks to dispense with the “national” and changes that happened over the last decades, the construct a reified “transnational” with which to way risks are evaluated and managed, the replace it, or to foster “transnationalism” as an demands of civil society to be part of the solutions ideological alternative to “nationalism.” Rather, – and the way scientists and engineers could FUTH aims to free our imaginations from answer them essentialist approaches to the nation or the state and to offer new ways of thinking about the Wednesday March 7th 5:30 PM, EPFL, political, social and cultural order of the world, Room ELA 2 both past and present. "The Logic of Scientific Knowledge. The Flying University of Transnational Evidence, Experimentation and Ignorance in Humanities is accordingly: Physics and Biology"  Trans-cultural: FUTH not only Wednesday March 14th 5:30 PM, EPFL, critically examines the production and circulation Room ELA 2 of (trans-)national knowledge and culture, but it "Risk and Risk Societies. Two Centuries also problematizes imagined geographies of the of Knowledge and Risk Management" “East” and the “West.” We explore periods, places, and subjects as fluid and hybrid, rather Wednesday March 21th 5:30 PM, EPFL, than as confined and constrained by geopolitical Room ELA 2 or cultural boundaries. "The Great Transformation. Science,  Trans-disciplinary: FUTH seeks to Economy and Society over the Last Thirty Years" comprehend the complex nature of various trans-

EASST Review Volume 31 (2012) Number 1 19 cultural issues through trans-disciplinary empirical studies in intellectual history, sociology approaches. To that end, FUTH is open to of knowledge, and history/sociology/anthropology scholars, educators, researchers and students from of the social, human, and natural sciences have all academic specializations. convincingly demonstrated for several decades,  Trans-institutional: FUTH is an the production, dissemination and use of intellectual network, founded and run by a global knowledge, though seemingly universal, are consortium of scholars, departments, and always embedded in specific social, cultural, and institutions. With the support of this network, we historical contexts. Often, the subject, the object hope to facilitate trans-cultural and trans- and the modus operandi of knowledge are defined, disciplinary collaborations. construed, and constrained by (national) borders. Program Knowledge and its associated practices thus Started in 2010, the Flying University of shaped may in turn reinforce, reproduce or Transnational Humanities is organized annually— redefine those very borders. How then, does usually in the summer—by the Research Institute knowledge travel across borders? Rather than of Comparative History and Culture (RICH), following the naïve modernist assumption that Hanyang University, Seoul, Korea. FUTH knowledge is spread because it is true and/or is consists of a series of advanced lectures, student channeled through universally transferable presentations and feedback sessions where methodical practices, one should approach the renowned scholars from RICH’s partner and other travels of knowledge as themselves explananda institutions are invited to share their knowledge, rather than merely explanans for other insights and perspectives. Student participants are phenomena. For instance, one may ask, what are required to study the recommended readings in the ways in which locally-produced knowledge is advance. They are also expected to present their translated, adapted, appropriated, or contested in own scholarly work related to the theme of each different local contexts? By the same token, one year. The official language of FUTH is English, may also ask, how does knowledge, despite its although the possibility of trans-lingual practices local origins, come to acquire a proclaimed is being considered. Graduate students and recent universality or globality? With such questions as a PhDs interested in the transnational turn in the basis, the third FUTH in 2012 aims to provide humanities and social sciences are welcome to graduate students and young scholars with a apply with a presentation proposal. unique opportunity to critically examine the The overarching theme for the first three making and unmaking of the borders of years (2010-2012) is “borders.” There have been knowledge—including the social sciences, numerous studies on how borders are constructed, humanities, natural sciences, and other forms of negotiated, and policed and how they are knowledge. simultaneously transgressed, challenged, and Lecturers (surname-alphabetical order) renegotiated. Borders are no longer seen simply as · Alice L. Conklin (Department of History, physical divisions but as discursive practices and Ohio State University, U.S.A.) cultural institutions. However, the multiplicity and · Christian Fleck (Department of Sociology, hybridity of borders (e.g., national, cultural, University of Graz, Austria) geographical, gender, political, economic, etc.), as · Sari Hanafi (Department of Social and well as their transnational scalability (e.g., local, Behavioral Sciences, American University of national, supranational, global, etc.), have yet to Beirut, Lebanon) be intensively investigated. To address this gap, the first FUTH “Regions and Regionalization” in · Johan Heilbron (Centre Européen de 2010 examined regions as sites of bordering Sociologie et de Science Politique de la practices and processes. In 2011, the second Sorbonne, France / Erasmus University FUTH “Border-crossing Self” extended the scope Rotterdam, The Netherlands) of discussion to explore the ways in which the · Michael Kim (Graduate School of construction and performance of subjectivities and International Studies, Yonsei University, Korea) identities are connected to the demarcation and - And other lecturers will be announced soon. transgression of borders. The third FUTH will take place at Eligibility / How to Apply Hanyang University, July 15-18, 2012, under the FUTH 2012 welcomes applications from title of “Borders of Knowledge.” As numerous graduate students as well as recent PhDs of all fields who are interested in the transnational

20 EASST Review Volume 31 (2012) Number 1 paradigm of humanistic inquiry and also currently within the humanities and social sciences over the conducting research on topics related to the theme last three decades. However, most of the canon as of the making and unmaking of borders of well as recent scholarly work concentrate on knowledge. All student participants are expected Euro-American techno-science. Social scientists to give a full paper presentation on their own involved in STS focused mainly on the centres of scholarly work. western scientific knowledge production, thereby Applicants should fill out the form on our neglecting large parts of the world. While the website (http://www.rich.ac/eng/fly/apply.php) relationship between technoscientific knowledge and send it as attachment to and postcolonial orders has been the subject of [email protected] along with their CV, increasing discussion within the last two decades research statement and an abstract of proposed (Seth 2009), it is only recently that scholars have presentation. The deadline for applications is tried to establish a more sustained dialogue with March 16, 2012. postcolonial perspectives on science and Costs / Accommodation technology (Harding 1998; Anderson 2002; There is a registration fee of USD 80. Redfield 2002;Rottenburg 2009; Philip, Irani & While accommodation including breakfast and Dourish 2011). In 2008, Richard Rottenburg, lunch will be provided, participants are expected Trevor Pinch, Otto Sibum and Suman Seth to arrange their own funding for travel and daily organized a conference on Places of Knowledge: living expenses. Partial travel grants may be Relocating Science and Technology Studies at awarded to a limited number of applicants. Cornell University. This workshop is a follow-up to this meeting. By focusing on the concept of the For further details, please contact: 'Global South' in conjunction with that of Research Institute of Comparative History and 'postcolonialism' we wish to draw attention to ever Culture more globalizing dynamics of power, fashion, College of Humanities, Hanyang University money or institutional problematizations. Seoul 133-791, Korea Accordingly, the workshop asserts the need to E-mail: [email protected] relocate STS by re-considering the Fax: +82-2-2298-0542 interconnectedness of knowledge production, Website: technology design and transfer, geopolitical http://rich.ac/eng/fly/introduction.php?pageNum= categories and the particular issues, that different 5&subNum=1 contexts produce. It is our contention that perspectives from the Global South may ------contribute not so much in describing nation states or specific regions in a historical moment, but Relocating Science and Technology. Global enable us to better understand the interconnected Knowledge, Traveling Technologies and processes that drive science and technology within Postcolonialism. Perspectives on Science a globalized world. We particularly call for and Technology Studies in the Global contributions and participants that focus on non- South classical STS contexts (i.e. the Global South). Max-Planck-Institut für ethnologische Forschung; Contributions with case studies from Africa, Latin organisiert durch America and Asia are expected to challenge or at Richard Rottenburg (Max Planck Institute for least to comment on existing methodological and Social Anthropology/Martin theoretical concepts within STS. Taking the Luther University Halle-Wittenberg); Norman interstitial spaces in global networks of science Schräpel (Martin Luther and technology production as a starting point we University Halle-Wittenberg); Vincent Duclos especially encourage contributions on the (University of Montreal) following themes: 19.07.2012-20.07.2012, Halle, Max-Planck- Interconnectedness Institut für ethnologische We are interested in exploring the ways in Forschung which science, technology and place are Deadline: 15.03.2012 interconnected. This involves the analysis of As an interdisciplinary endeavour to study power relations, patterns of networks or the ways knowledge systems and technologies, Science and technology and knowledge travels. Topics Technology Studies (STS) have become popular covered will include, but are not limited to: - The

EASST Review Volume 31 (2012) Number 1 21 linkages between global capital flows, economic Mann ([email protected]) by 15 June 2012 at the growth, and the emergence of local latest. technoscientific practices (in biomedicine, IT, Link to complete Call for Papers: agriculture etc.). - How relations between http://www.eth.mpg.de/cms/files/events_pdf/2542 different epistemic communities are reshaping the /12_CFP_Relocating_Science_Technology_final1 map of global knowledge production. - The .pdf reconfiguration of the experiences of space, proximity, or belonging triggering by technologies ------apparently 'flattening' the world through constant All postgraduate researchers are invited to take expansion. part in the Historicity University of Salford’s Postgraduate The involvement of historical events and Annual Research Conference (SPARC). developments play a crucial role in understanding This year’s conference is taking place on today's knowledge and technical systems. We Wednesday 30 and Thursday 31st May 2012. would like to produce a diachronic perspective It’s free to attend and a great way of from contexts in Africa, South America and Asia developing presentation skills, sharing ideas, on topics like: - The impact of colonial legacies publicising your research to new audiences, on current technoscientific practices - Postcolonial getting feedback, and meeting researchers from dependencies and knowledge production - other disciplines and universities. Perspectives on the History of Sciences in the We are inviting 250-word abstracts for a Global South range of presentation formats. Please see the Locality website for more details about SPARC and how to Context and practice is at the heart of a apply www.salford.ac.uk/research/sparc social science perspective on Science and The closing date for abstracts is Friday 16 Technology. Especially in the Global South March 2012 scholarly work on locality is lacking. We would Any queries, please contact us on like to bring a number of studies together that may [email protected] concentrate on the following and other topics: - The incommensurability and invisibility of other ------cultures of science - A critical outlook on the participation of STS in PhD level research students invited to submit a development aid paper for DPhil Day 2012. Monday 28th / - The multiple uses or misuses or science and Tuesday 29th of May 2012 technology in development agendas (ICT4D, e- 18TH SPRU DPHIL DAY, University of governance etc.) Sussex. SPRU - Science and Technology Policy Submission of Abstracts & Participation Research at University of Sussex invites abstracts Keynote speakers will be invited and announced from all disciplines and topics related to the study in late February 2012 on the website of the Max of science, technology and innovation in society. Planck Institute for Social Anthropology The abstracts will be peer-reviewed by SPRU (http://www.eth.mpg.de). Please send your doctoral students and research staff. Whether you abstracts (250 words) before 15 March 2012 to are a conference veteran, or you are yet to submit Bettina Mann ([email protected]) and Norman your first conference paper, we want your Schräpel ([email protected] abstract. halle.de). You will receive a notification of DPhil Day is an established platform from acceptance in April 2012. The deadline for papers which current PhD researchers can share their of approximately 5.000 words is 15 June 2012. work and receive critical feedback from peers and Travel costs will be covered for all presenters, the wider academic community in a relaxed and who send in their papers in time. friendly atmosphere. The day is organised entirely There is no registration fee, however the by research students, with SPRU academic faculty number of participants is limited. If you are and researchers in attendance. The purpose of the interested in joining the workshop as a participant day is not to discuss the results of finished on your own account, please register with Bettina projects but rather works in progress. Advanced progression through your PhD is not required.

22 EASST Review Volume 31 (2012) Number 1 Presentations for second year students and On behalf of the local organizing committee: onwards should be a maximum of 15 minutes.  Marianne Boenink (Department of Special sessions will be run for first year students, Philosophy), [email protected] with presentations of 10 minutes each.  Bärbel Dorbeck-Jung (Department of Legal Abstracts should not exceed 250 words, and Economics Studies), b.r.dorbeck- showing in a concise manner the research [email protected] question that is being addressed, its relevance and  Anne Dijkstra (Department of Science the methods used to answer it. Communication), [email protected] Submission deadline: Monday 16th April  Kornelia Konrad (Department of Science, Please use the form at the following link Technology and Policy Studies), to submit an abstract: [email protected] http://www.sussex.ac.uk/spru/documents/dphil------day-app-form.doc. Completed forms should be sent to Call for papers [email protected] Acceptance of the abstract will be notified by e- One-day Conference Associations and mail to the author. Science Lisbon, 11th June 2012 th If you would like to express interest Deadline 20 March without committing to a specific abstract please Scientific associations are among the email us now at [email protected] so most under-studied subjects in the sociology of that we may kindly remind you nearer the time. science. Although being part of the array of DPhil Day also incorporates D’Skills institutions that participate in the Mode 2 Day, a series of workshops and panels delivered production of knowledge, their role in by SPRU research staff and aimed specifically at contemporary science is seldom discussed. PhD students. Previous workshops have included Scientific societies, professional associations, topics such as funding post-doctoral research and non-profit organisations devoted to promoting publishing your work. public understanding of science, there is a General information including a list of multitude of associations, some new, some last year’s papers can be found at the SPRU DPhil centuries old, some national, some international, 2012 website. Please contact Jake or Cian by that can fit the label of scientific associations. email at [email protected] with any Their involvement in issues such as the questions. development of scientific disciplines, scientific We look forward to welcoming you to publication, research ethics, policy advice, career SPRU in late May, advancement, or knowledge dissemination needs Cian, Jake, Diego, Chux and the DPhil to be addressed. Day 2012 organising team. This one-day conference aims discuss the final results of a research project concerning ------scientific associations but also to give an opportunity for other researchers to present their Please find attached the call for papers for the 4th work in this and other connected areas. Papers annual meeting of The Society for the Study of from an historical, sociological, or Nanoscience and Emerging Technologies anthropological (or other sciences) perspective are (S.NET), to be held at the University of Twente, welcome. Please send an abstract (200 words the Netherlands, on October 22-25, 2012. The max) until the 20th of March to four-day conference will assemble scholars, [email protected]. world interested in the development and Project SOSCI Scientific Societies in implications of emerging technologies. Contemporary Science, PTDC/CS- Contributions from philosophy of technology, ECS/101592/2008 STS and innovation studies are more than Team: Ana Delicado (coord.), Raquel welcome! Rego, Inês Pereira, Cristina Palma Conceição, Deadline for submission of abstracts is Cristiana Bastos, Patrick Figueiredo and Luís April 2, 2012. Junqueira For more information: Institutions: Institute of Social Sciences - www.utwente.nl/snet2012 University of Lisbon, CIES-ISCTE-IUL,

EASST Review Volume 31 (2012) Number 1 23 SOCIUS-ISEG-UTL Innovation in the energy area is of http://www.socsci.ics.ul.pt/english essential importance for changing the energy systems in direction of more sustainable and ------climate friendly systems. In recent years an increasing number of studies of characteristics and Egenis and GARNet Workshop: dynamics of the energy innovation systems have Making Data Accessible to All appeared. Parallel to the growing scientific University of Exeter 12-13th July 2012 attention, there is a considerably growing societal REGISTRATION NOW OPEN: attention in many countries to energy innovation; http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/sci/lifesci/news/g also as an important industrial matter and a matter eworkshop of economic development, competitiveness, and Plant scientists are often required to job creation. Hence, there is tendency to perceive donate data to open access databases (for instance, the search for solutions to the climate and by the BBSRC data management policy). They sustainability challenges, not as an external issue, are also encouraged to make use of these outside societal economy, but as an integrated databases in order to boost their research and part. Research on energy innovation systems and speed up discovery. It is not yet clear, however, their dynamics constitutes an important scientific whether and how these practices are affecting field for assessing and discussing the experimentation within the plant sciences, and opportunities and realism of this perspective. whether data donation and use on a large scale has The ‘EIS PhD Summer School on Energy been effective in fostering innovative research. Innovation Systems and Their Dynamics’ is an The focus of this workshop is to discuss issues advanced course for PhD students that work with surrounding data donation, publication and use aspects of innovation and technological change in from the viewpoint of plant biologists, with the the energy area. aim to produce a series of recommendations about The summer school brings together the problems involved in data dissemination in leading scientists in the field of innovation system plant science, which could be used to inform studies in the energy area with a small group of funders/publishers’ policies. PhD students to share their own and others’ On the first day, participants will discuss knowledge and experience on the topic and to issues surrounding data donation and use. On the discuss research perspectives and research second day, we will consider how data can and potentials in the field. Moreover, the summer should be disseminated, and examine possible school will include a one day event of mutual metrics to track data use and thus evaluate the discussions between researchers and practitioners usefulness of data dissemination tools within the in the energy area. plant sciences. Course contents For more information please visit the The summer school will introduce the workshop website: participants to contemporary analysis approaches http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/sci/lifesci/news/g and key concepts in the study of energy eworkshop innovation systems and their dynamics. This Or contact one of the organisers: Sabina includes approaches focusing on the energy sector Leonelli [email protected]; Ruth Bastow in general, on particular energy technologies, on [email protected]; Irene Lavagi industrial areas/product areas related to energy [email protected] or Berris Charnley change, and on the resulting effects with respect [email protected] to moving towards sustainability and climate friendly systems. ------The PhD course will have special

Call for Participation attention to the theme ‘globalizing networks and local anchoring’. In addition to different EIS PhD Summer School: Energy innovation system perspectives (e.g. national, Innovation Systems and Their Dynamics regional, sector-specific, technology-specific), Globalizing Networks and Local network and interaction oriented approaches are Anchoring discussed. Moreover, indicators of energy 21-25 May 2012 in Aalborg, Denmark innovation systems are addresses. Empirical material from a broad range of energy

24 EASST Review Volume 31 (2012) Number 1 technologies will be discussed and strategy and summer school and, in addition, time for writing policy perspectives will be addressed. an extended abstract and preparing a presentation Discussion and feedback on the of own research. Reading material and participants’ own PhD projects will be included in assignments will be sent to the students in due the course. All participants will act as junior time before the summer school. discussants during this part of the course. 4 ECTS points will be granted to PhD Faculty at the EIS PhD Summer School is students that complete the course. amongst others: Venue: Hotel Scheelsminde, Aalborg,  Poul Houman Andersen, Aarhus Denmark, http://www.scheelsminde.dk, see more University (main organiser of the summer below. school) Course fee: Due to funding from the  Staffan Jacobsson, Chalmers University Danish Council for Strategic Research it is possible to offer a course fee of only 6000 DKK of Technology (approximately 800 Euro) including  Bengt-Åke Lundvall, Aalborg University accommodation and all meals.  Mads Borup, Technical University of Contact and information: Denmark Section secretary Jette Gents, Technical  Antje Klitkou, Nordic Institute for University of Denmark, [email protected], (+45) 4525 Studies in Innovation, Research and 4427. Education (NIFU). About Aalborg  Marko Hekkert, Utrecht University Hotel Scheelsminde is situated 4 The final program and contents might be kilometres from centre of Aalborg - next to a large subject to change. green area, open for walks and runs. Aalborg is a multi-faceted city, they say, - full of contrasts. A Attendance: city with a lust for life and all of its pleasures. It’s The number of participants is limited to also grand on a manageable scale. All the major maximum of 20 PhD students. city attractions are concentrated within easy We welcome applications from PhD distance. From fast-paced fun to peaceful oases. students in innovation system studies and related From a foaming draft beer to sublime gastronomy. analysis fields with empirical focus on the energy From the Viking era to the Middle Ages, to area, on ‘green’ technology development in the modern art. The city has about 150.000 energy area, etc. inhabitants and a well-known university, as well Application and deadline: as the famous Jomfru Ane Gade. The birth place Applications should be sent to Jette of Utzon (the Sydney Opera House), the place Gents, [email protected]. Please write ‘Application for where Aalborg Akvavit is brewed. EIS summer school’ in email’s subject field. www.visitaalborg.com. Deadline for applications: April 10, 2012. Aalborg is easy reachable, thanks to good The application shall include flight connections to Copenhagen and direct flight  Name connections to Amsterdam, Berlin, Paris, Oslo  Start date and expected end date of PhD and London (check out www.aal.dk). The city is study also within reasonable driving range  Institutional affiliation (approximately driving time from Hamburg or Copenhagen: 4.5 hours). Taxi fare between the  Educational background prior to PhD hotel and Aalborg Airport is approximately DKK study 250 (EUR 34), and between the hotel and Aalborg  Brief description of the PhD project (max city centre is DKK 120 (EUR 16). 15 lines). The project description must About EIS include project title and description of the EIS - ‘Strategic research alliance on project’s subject including theoretical- Energy Innovation Systems and their dynamics’ is analytical approach and empirical focus. a collaboration between nine universities and The applicants will be given notice research institutions in Denmark and abroad that shortly after the deadline. carry out leading research on the topic of energy The PhD students are expected to spend and innovation: Technical University of Denmark, approximately a week of reading before the Aarhus University (Denmark), Aalborg University

EASST Review Volume 31 (2012) Number 1 25 (Denmark), Chalmers University of Technology linked presentations. Individual presentations will (Sweden), Copenhagen Business School be approximately 15 - 20 minutes in duration, (Denmark), EAWAG (Switzerland), NIFU - with additional time left within each session for Nordic Institute for Studies in Innovation, questions and discussion. Research and Education (Norway), Utrecht 2) Panel proposals – Within a panel University (the Netherlands), and ZEW - Centre proposal you should describe the overall theme of for European Economic Research (Germany). the panel, as well as the areas of focus for each of EIS is funded by the Danish Council for the contributors within the panel. Please also Strategic Research, the Programme Commission clarify what format your panel will take – e.g. a on Sustainable Energy and Environment and by series of individual (linked) presentations, or a the partners. See www.eis-all.dk. Contact: Mads more discursive format. We are particularly keen Borup, [email protected]. to encourage interdisciplinary panels from The EIS PhD Summer School is planned multiple different institutions / research projects to run again in 2014. on key public science issues e.g. climate change, geo-engineering, energy policy. Panel proposal ------submissions should include an overarching panel abstract as well as individual abstracts for each of Science in Public Conference 2012 the presentations on the panel. Panel sessions will Hosted by the Department of Science and be allocated a 1.5 hour slot. Technology Studies, University College London Potential contributors should email an 20th and 21st July 2012 at UCL abstract of up to 300 words to Yin Au CALL FOR PAPERS ([email protected]) by 2nd April 2012. In Now in its 7th year, the Science in Public addition to your abstract(s) please include a conference brings together those strands of presentation / panel title as well as full contact academia which consider the relationships details (name, affiliation, email) of all contributors between science and ‘the public’, multiple and session organisers. publics, and the public sphere. This conference All submissions should be emailed to provides a wide-ranging platform for discussing ([email protected]). For any wider queries and debating emerging cross-disciplinary regarding the conference or to discuss the perspectives, as well as showcasing recent and suitability of your session ideas please contact developing research findings. Delegates come either Simon Lock ([email protected]) or from many disciplines: science and technology Karen Bultitude ([email protected]). Successful submissions will be notified studies, history of science, geography, st psychology, cultural studies, media studies, by 1 May 2012. We look forward to welcoming sociology, science communication, development you to the conference in July, and to continuing studies, English literature, science policy studies the lively discussions in this area. and more. The conference website can be found This year, the conference will host the at: www.ucl.ac.uk/sts/sip2012 initial meeting of the Science in Public Research ------Network: an opportunity for academics and others interested in research to meet, discuss the field, and stay in touch beyond the conference. Cycle de conférences de Charles Edquist This year, we invite two main types of sur les politiques de l’innovation submissions: 6 mars, 20 mars, 3 avril 2012 de 16h30 à 18h00 1) Single presentations – You are CNAM, Paris welcome to submit an outline for a proposed Charles Edquist donnera trois presentation on any topic falling broadly under the Conférences sur les politiques d’innovation. Ces remit described above. Presentations can build on conférences sont conçues de façon à intéresser un work by multiple authors (e.g. a team of large public, parmi les membres de l’IFRIS et au- researchers or a graduate student and their delà. Charles Edquist, spécialiste de l’analyse des supervisor(s)), however it is normally expected systèmes d’innovation, discutera des politiques that only a single person will present the work on d’innovation en faisant référence à la fois aux STS the day. Accepted presentations will be grouped et aux études de l’innovation. together into similar thematic areas to produce a wider streamed session consisting of multiple

26 EASST Review Volume 31 (2012) Number 1 Public Procurement for Innovation as highly neglected in innovation research. The Mission-oriented Innovation Policy knowledge basis of the innovation process also 20 mars 2012 includes knowledge about innovation processes CNAM 2 rue Conté, 75003 PARIS. Accès 35 - and about the operation of innovation systems as Amphi G. Planté (35.1.1) such. Discutant : Benjamin Coriat, CEPN, Université Charles Edquist is the Holder of the Paris 13 Ruben Rausing Chair in Innovation Research at This seminar focuses on public CIRCLE, Lund University, Sweden. During procurement for innovation as a very powerful October 2011 - April 2012, he is a guest professor demand-side innovation policy instrument to be at Institut Francilien Recherche Innovation exploited in the mitigation of grand global Société (IFRIS), Paris. He has published around challenges (climate, energy, health, etc). The 15 books and numerous articles on innovation paper intends to provide some clarification on processes, innovation systems and innovation what should be regarded (and what should not) as policy. This includes his 1997 book entitled innovation procurement. We define what we mean “Systems of Innovation: Technologies, by public procurement for innovation and Institutions and Organizations” and “Small categorize it according to three dimensions: (i) the Country Innovation Systems: Globalization, user of the purchased good; (ii) the character of Change and Policy in Asia and Europe” (2008), as the procurement process; and (iii) the cooperative well as various publications on innovation policy. or non-cooperative nature of the process. In The impact of his research is indicated by the fact addition, we illustrate which are the main stages the he is among 50 (or so) most cited innovation in innovation procurement processes and researchers in the world. He was one of the exemplify them with six cases. These six cases founders of CIRCLE (Centre for Innovation, evidence the potential of public procurement for Research and Competence in the Learning innovation which can contribute to satisfying Economy) in 2004 - www.circle.lu.se - as well as unsatisfied human needs and to solving societal its director during the first seven years, when the problems. research staff increased from zero to 40 persons. Currently he works mainly on issues related to The Knowledge basis of the Innovation innovation policy as a writer and an advisor. Process 3 Avril 2012 ------CNAM 2 rue Conté, 75003 PARIS. Accès 37 - 1er étage - Salle des conseils (37.1.49) CALL FOR PAPERS - INNOVATIVE Discutant : Pascal Petit, CEPN, Université Paris STUDIES: INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL 13 (ISIJ) This seminar will focus upon the Volume 2, Issue 1 important links between research, Info. at learning/education and innovation in public http://www.cscjournals.org/csc/journals/ISIJ/journa policies. Research and Development (R&D) and l_cfp.php?JCode=ISIJ competence building are two important inputs to Computer Science Journals (CSC the innovation process. R&D increases the stock Journals) invites researchers, editors, scientists & of available knowledge. Basic R&D, dominantly scholars to publish their scientific research papers resulting in radical innovation, has traditionally in Innovative Studies: International Journal (ISIJ) been an activity partly financed and carried out by Volume 2, Issue 1. public agencies. Much of applied R&D, mainly The Innovative Studies: An International resulting in incremental innovation, is financed Journal is an independent, peer-reviewed journal and performed by firms. The relations between devoted to sharing ideas and discussing on science firms, universities and public research agencies and technology innovations. It publishes scholarly are important mechanisms in innovation systems. and practitioner-oriented papers, books, case Competence building is a matter of transferring studies, review essays, and book reviews related existing knowledge among individuals and to innovation, creativity, change management, organizations in the systems. Both formal learning case studies, technology strategy and planning etc. (schooling) and informal learning (taking place in CSC Journals anticipate and invite papers firms and in networks) are important processes in on any of the following topics: Case Studies; innovation systems, but – as opposed to R&D – Knowledge Assets and Management; Change

EASST Review Volume 31 (2012) Number 1 27 Management; Management of Emerging/ Human and social Dimensions of Science and Disruptive Technologies; Creativity; New Technology to take place on Sunday and Monday Product/Process Development; Diffusion of June 3 and 4, 2012 at the University of Calgary. Innovation; New Venture Management; Entrepreneurship/New Technology Start-Up; CALL FOR PROPOSALS Project and Program Management; Environmental Individuals interested in submitting a Issues in Technology Management; R&D panel or paper proposal for presentation during Management; Innovation; Technology Alliances the conference are requested to complete the and Collaboration; Innovation in SME; attached form. Technology Assessment and Evaluation; Proposals are to be submitted by April Innovative Studies in Computer Science and 15, 2012. Engineering Fields; Technology Strategy and Panel and paper proposals are invited in Planning. the following areas: Important Dates - ISIJ CFP - Volume 2, Issue  Religious and Cultural Perspectives on 1. Science and Technology Paper Submission:March 31, 2012  Humanities and Digital Media Author Notification: May 15, 2012  Art, Architecture and Environment Issue Publication: June 2012  Energy, Environment, and Sustainability For complete details about ISIJ archives  Food Sustainability: Agricultural production, publications, abstracting/indexing, editorial board Food distribution, and Accessibility and other important information, please refer to  Water: Resource management for life ISIJ homepage. sustainability We look forward to receive your valuable  Nano Technology: Critical Human and Social papers. If you have further questions please do not Issues hesitate to contact us at  Age, Gender and Health [email protected].  Education Technologies and Accessibility Our team is committed to provide a quick and Conference Theme supportive service throughout the publication Scientific and technological research can process. and has contributed significantly to solving J. Stewart sustainability and development challenges in our Computer Science Journals (CSC Journals) world today. As an important complement to this B-5-8 Plaza Mont Kiara, Mont Kiara research, a better understanding of the human and 50480, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia social dimensions of science and technology is Tel: + 603 6207 1607, + 603 2782 6991 essential in order to ensure that new scientific Fax:+ 603 6207 1697 ideas are applied appropriately in diverse cultural Url: http://www.cscjournals.org contexts, and support improvements that are equitable among and within nations. It is therefore ------essential that the relationships between science, Shastri Indo-Canadian Institute technology, and society be integrated into the Engaging India: Human and Social broader sustainability and development research Dimensions of Science and Technology June 3 & agenda. 4, 2012 University of Calgary Calgary, Alberta The rapid changes that our contemporary Trouble viewing? Go to link: societies are undergoing today in response to a http://campaign.r20.constantcontact.com/render?ll series of distinct but interrelated dynamics, among r=6o7fofcab&v=001GW57Qq- which are advances in science and technology, hwGRaLtXryPw_U1yWKmeLBOl8-OyD2- offer the potential for social change conducive to wVy0MzTH8D0rUJEOjbXMfepMJVnRZemJ3G peace, nonviolence, sustainable development, 6oTPmXUYoHQLiqpMxZ9s_tN8BEMfzcJXOgE justice and respect for human rights. However, if LTG7fsRQcc9C7vMD- pressures such as demographic change, ZaxEC3TJdHhPD7AaFSKPg5OP- urbanization, competition for scarce resources, PXszXXDdmoR migration and diversity are inadequately managed, It is our pleasure to announce that the they may also give rise to major challenges such Shastri Indo-Canadian Institute will be organizing as intolerance and conflict. In order to analyze a national conference entitled Engaging India: such challenges, to make sense of their implications and to respond to them adequately,

28 EASST Review Volume 31 (2012) Number 1 the resources of the social and human sciences are responsible for their own local and international indispensable. Similarly, humanities studies, travel expenses. Subject to availability of funds, which have a crucial role in promoting critical some modest travel subsidy may be available to thinking, have a major contribution to make to graduate students and junior faculty whose global, regional and national responses to proposals have been accepted and are to present at contemporary social and ethical challenges faced the conference for travel within Canada. by major strides of scientific and technological For further information about this advancements. conference please contact: Conference Objectives: Mariam Elghahuagi • To provide the opportunity for Communications Officer colleagues from humanities, social sciences, and Shastri Indo- Canadian Institute science and technology disciplines to have Tel. 403 220 2847 dialogues on significant issues involving Canada- Cell 403 478 7950 India research and scholarly collaborations around [email protected] the major theme of the conference. www.sici.org - Canada Office • To showcase the current India-focused www.sici.org.in - India Office research and scholarly activities being conducted ------by the faculty and researchers at Canadian Universities. St. Antony’s International Review • To bring together representatives from A peer-reviewed journal of international Academy, Industry, Government, and Non- affairs based at the University of Oxford - is governmental Organizations to reflect on the currently seeking submissions for a special issue strategic directions for Canada-India academic, entitled “Power, the State, and the Social Media economic, and business collaborations. Network.” Panel Proposals: We welcome the submission of abstracts Panel_Proposal_Form_1_of_2_- (max. 400 words) on themes pertaining to the _Presentation_Information: relationship between state power, social media, http://www.sici.org/images/uploads/application_f and political communication, conduct, and orms/EI_-_Panel_Proposal_Form_1_of_2_- control. _Presentation_Information_distributed.pdf The deadline for abstracts is May 4th, 2012. Panel_Proposal_From_2_of_2_- Please see the call for papers for further _Presenter_Information: information on style, topic, and submission http://www.sici.org/images/uploads/application_f guidelines. orms/EI_-_Panel_Proposal_From_2_of_2_- Please submit any queries, _Presenter_Information_distributed.pdf correspondence, and abstracts to the editors. Individual Paper Proposals: Scott Hamilton & Benjamin Martill Individual_Proposal_Form : [email protected] http://www.sici.org/images/uploads/application_f [email protected] orms/EI------Individual_Proposal_Form_distributed.pdf

Panels and papers that deal with 17th EURAS Annual Standardisation contemporary India-related issues of human and Conference - Standards and Innovation social impact of scientific and technological 18 - 20 June 2012 knowledge on development and sustainability are Kosice, Slovakia particularly encouraged. Panel and paper EXTENDED DEADLINE: 18 March 2012 proposals in other areas of India studies are Organised by the Faculty of Economics at welcome. All decisions on the acceptance of the Matej Bel University in Banska Bystrica (UMB) panel and paper proposals will be made by a Faculty of Economics at the Technical University multidisciplinary National Program Committee. of Kosice (TUKE). Local hospitality including We welcome original and innovative submissions accommodation and meals will be provided by the papers from all areas of standardisation. But the conference to presenters and panelists. Canadian theme of the 17th EURAS conference is the and Indian conference presenters will be significance of standards and standardisation for

EASST Review Volume 31 (2012) Number 1 29 innovation. At this point in our history, innovation For more detailed information please is critical for helping to move forward from the consult the EURAS website www.EURAS.org. global economic crisis, mitigate the impact of Organisers climate change, reduce greenhouse gas emissions, The EURAS Board and help resolve the food crisis. The critical role General Co-Chairs of standards and standardisation for innovation Marta Orviska (UMB, SK) has long been recognised. As codified knowledge, Vincent Soltes (TUKE, SK) standards acquire an even greater role in the development of the global knowledge economy. Programme Committee We particularly welcome theoretical and empirical Knut Blind (Fraunhofer FOKUS & TU papers that will contribute to greater awareness of Berlin, DE; RSM. NL) Tineke Egyedi (TU Delft, how and where standards can facilitate, hamper, NL) Vladislav Fomin (Vytautas Magnus U., LT) or otherwise impact on innovation in all its many Stephan Gauch (TU Berlin, DE) Ian Graham (U. dimensions. Examples include, but are not limited of Edinburgh, UK) Jean-Christophe Graz, (UNIL, to: CH) Vladimir Hiadlovsky (UMB, SK) John * Standardisation & infrastructure development Hudson (Bath University, UK) Eric Iversen * Standards, globalisation and national (NIFU STEP, NO) Kai Jakobs (RWTH Aachen authenticity U., DE) Geerten van de Kaa (TU Delft, NL) Peter * Conformity assessment for innovation Kristofik (UMB, SK) Detlev Langmann (AKM, * The relation between standards and the DE) Pauline Mazumdar (U. of Toronto, CA) development of science / technology / society / Arturas Medeisis (Vilnius Gediminas TU, LT) economy Ivana Mijatovic (Belgrade U., SRB) Marta * Standardisation, globalisation and innovation Orviska (UMB, SK) Megan Quinlan (Imperial * Education on standardisation and innovation College London, UK) Tomas Sabol (TUKE, SK) * Legal and regulatory issues in standardisation Eberhard Seifert (WU Vienna, AT) Vincent Soltes * Standards setting and implementation processes (TUKE, SK) Klaus Turowski (Magdeburg, U., * History and future of standards DE) Taavi Valdlo (Ministry of Economic Affairs, * Standardisation policies EE) Henk de Vries (Erasmus U. Rotterdam, NL) * Economics of standardisation Marc van Wegberg (U. of Maastricht, NL) * Management of standards Deadlines * Research and standardisation Paper submission: 18 March 2012 * Standards and technology transfer Notification: 8 April 2012 * Quality standards and management strategies Final paper due: 29 April 2012 * Markets and dominant technologies * International accounting standards Local Organisation and Enquiries Marta Orviska, [email protected] Full papers (up to 40 double-spaced Emilia Jakubikova, emilia.jakubikova@tuke,sk pages; pdf, rtf, or .doc format) should be Conference Venue submitted to Kai Jakobs at [email protected] Hotel Yasmin, Kosice, http://www.hotel- aachen.de. yasmin.sk/. Authors of accepted papers are expected to serve as discussants upon request. All papers For more information about Kosice: will be reviewed (double blind) by members of http://www.kosice.sk/. the Programme Committee. All accepted papers For more information about EURAS will be published in the conference proceedings, http://www.euras.org. as part of the 'EURAS Contributions to Standardisation Research' book series. Particularly ------good and relevant papers will be fast-tracked to Images and Visualisation: Imaging the review process of either the EURAS- Yearbook or the Int. Journal of IT Standards and Technology, Truth and Trust Standardization Research (JITSR). The 17-21 September 2012 conference provides the opportunity to get Norrköping, Sweden feedback on standardisation education papers Chaired by: intended for the special issue of the International Brigitte Nerlich, University of Nottingham, UK Journal of Technology and Design Education. Andrew Balmer, University of Manchester, UK Annamaria Carusi, University of Oxford, UK

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Both Leonardo da Vinci and John PHYSICS, ASTRONOMY AND Constable claimed that painting is a science. This ENGINEERING science has been explored extensively in XXXII Congress of The Italian Society of traditional aesthetics and art history. Given recent the Historians of Physics and Astronomy (SISFA) advances in science and visual engineering, which is being held in Roma in collaboration with creating images for science, of science and for the the Research Centre For Theory and History of translation (interpretation) of science has become Science (RCTHS) and Faculty of Engineering, at one and the same time commonplace, even University of Roma La Sapienza. easy, and even more scientific. The aim of Venue: Faculty of Engineering, this conference is to bring together experts from University of Roma "La Sapienza", Italy across the natural and social sciences, with International Plenary Speakers curators, artists, producers and users of images  Marco Ceccarelli (University of Cassino, based on advanced visual engineering. By Italy) exploring emerging challenges at the interface  Jean Dhombres (Centre Alexandre between advanced visualisation technologies, Koyré/CNRS/EHESS, France) truth and trust we want to stimulate talk,  Peter Heering (University of Flensburg, interaction and collaboration between the arts, Germany) humanities and (natural, medical, engineering,  Radim Kocandrle (University of West computer) sciences, in a context where both Bohemia in Pilsen, Czech Republic) science and (visual) art are increasingly  Walter Noll (Carnegie Mellon University, converging and, at the same time, disciplinary United States of America) boundaries still separate those working across ...... Further information is coming them. To learn more about this conference, Please deadlines, presentation, aim et al here: please visit: http://www.rcths.eu/ http://www.esf.org/index.php?id=9115 ------4th annual meeting of The Society for the British Academy Conference: Modelling Study of Nanoscience and Emerging for Policy Technologies 17-18 May 2012, London University of Twente, the Netherlands, How well models and computational on October 22-25, 2012. techniques produce evidence to predict and The four-day conference will assemble manage infectious disease risks? This conference scholars, practitioners and policy makers from discusses what kinds of tools models and around the world interested in the development computational techniques are available to and and implications of emerging technologies. used within public health policy-making Contributions from philosophy of technology, processes. By contributions from epidemiology, STS and innovation studies are more than climate research, risk governance and economics, welcome! we will engage in a dialogue on the benefits and Deadline for submission of abstracts is limitations of modelling methods across research April 2, 2012. and policy domains. For more information: www.utwente.nl/snet2012

Welcome! On behalf of the local organizing committee: More information and registration: Marianne Boenink (Department of Philosophy), http://www.britac.ac.uk/events/2012/Mod [email protected] elling_for_Policy.cfm Bärbel Dorbeck-Jung (Department of Legal and Convenors: Dr Erika Mansnerus and Economics Studies), Professor Tony Barnett, LSE Health, London [email protected] School of Economics Anne Dijkstra (Department of Science Communication), [email protected]

EASST Review Volume 31 (2012) Number 1 31 Kornelia Konrad (Department of Science, policy fields. It addresses policy makers, NGO- Technology and Policy Studies), representatives (patient, consumer, and animal [email protected] rights organizations), researchers, practitioners in citizen participation and participatory technology ------assessment as well as in the area of bioethics and xenotransplantation research and, last but not CIT-PART Final Workshop least, the interested public. The CIT-PART project Decision-Making on Complex and Sensitive is being funded by the European Commission Issues - A Case for Citizen Participation? under the Socio-economic Sciences and Experiences with Xenotransplantation Humanities Programme of the Seventh Tuesday, 12 June 2012 Framework Programme. 09.00 – 17.00 Wien-Haus, Avenue de Tervueren 58, Brussels For more information see: The workshop aims at stimulating a discussion www.cit-part.at/final_bruessel.php about the particular challenges of citizen Contact and registration: [email protected] participation in complex and knowledge intensive

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The MSc in Digital Anthropology at 2. Anthropological theories of virtualism, UCL, now accepting applications for its fourth materiality/immateriality and digitisation. year, is a world leader in the training of 3. Understanding the consequences of researchers in the social and cultural dimensions digital culture through the ethnographic study of of information technologies and digital media. its social and regional impact and issues of the www.ucl.ac.uk/anthro/digital-anthropology/ digital divide. Facebook and YouTube. eBooks and University College London is one of the massively-networked gaming. Mobile highest rated universities in the world according communications and the Internet of Things. to the Academic Ranking of World Universities Digital technology has become ubiquitous, woven and the Times Higher Education World University not only into pedestrian artefacts and the built Rankings. environment but into our social and spiritual Alumni of the Digital Anthropology lives. Museum displays migrate to the Internet, programme have secured positions in both the family communication in the Diaspora is public and private sectors, at organisations in dominated by new media, artists work with digital fields ranging from design to marketing, game films and images. Anthropology and ethnographic development to open content advocacy. The research is fundamental to understanding the local programme has fostered research engagements consequences of these innovations, and to creating and placements with Skype, Microsoft, and theories that help us acknowledge, understand and Google among others. A major grant just awarded engage with them. Today's students need to to department staff by the European Research become proficient with digital technologies as Council will focus on social networking across a research and communication tools. Through disparate array of countries, and a foundational combining technical skills with appreciation of edited volume on Digital Anthropology (edited by social effects, students will be trained for further and featuring a number of staff within our own research and involvement in these emergent department, along with many other leaders in the worlds. field) is scheduled to be released this summer This MSc (nominally one year of full- from Berg Publishers. time study) brings together three key components The programme is suitable both for those in the study of digital culture: with a prior degree in anthropology but also for 1. Skills training in digital technologies, those with degrees in neighbouring disciplines including our own Digital Lab, from multimedia who wish to be trained in anthropological and fieldnotes and video editing to digital asset related approaches to digital culture. There is management and virtual ethnography. scope for those with specialist interests to work closely with information system designers,

32 EASST Review Volume 31 (2012) Number 1 curators, communication specialists as well as our The Department encourages pure and own digital studio. In addition to its importance theoretical research as well as providing strong for careers such as media, design and museums, links with applied and development projects. As digital technology is also integral to development, well as holding top research standing, the theoretical and applied anthropology. Department has been rated excellent in successive For further information about this teaching quality audits. There are 8 taught Masters programme contact Dr. Lane DeNicola courses and several undergraduate degrees (BSc ([email protected]). General and country- Anthropology, BSc in Human Sciences, and specific information for international applicants Intercalated BScs in Medical Anthropology). can be found at the International Office website: http://www.ucl.ac.uk/prospective- Dr. Lane DeNicola students/international-students/ Lecturer in Digital Anthropology Applications are now handled exclusively online: Department of Anthropology http://www.ucl.ac.uk/prospective- University College London students/graduate-study/application-admission While the general application deadline is ------not until 3 August 2012, applicants who may have funding or visa contingencies are advised to apply The University Paris Est Marne-la-Vallée by 1 March (or earlier, depending on the funding (UPEMLV), France, invites applications programmes being applied to). for a full-time tenured position at the rank University College London has over of reader, assistant professors with 3,500 research staff and 17,000 students, ranking seniority or full professor, for a University among the top three multi-faculty research and professor specialized in science and teaching universities in the UK. Located in the technology studies and/or organization heart of Bloomsbury among the unique research studies. resources of central London, which include Application deadline March 27th excellent museum facilities as well as a dense The position will start on September network of specialist research and higher 2012, and is open to French scholars with HDR education institutions, the College provides an and "qualification", as well as to non-French outstanding research base. The Department of candidates without "qualification" currently Anthropology combines social and biological teaching as readers or full professors in a anthropology and material culture. Members of university. the Department carry out research in 49 countries, Applicants will have a solid record of edit four international journals and run five research, peer reviewed publications at research seminar series and specialist international level, and teaching experience in the postgraduate research groups. There are over 140 field of science and technology studies and/or postgraduate students funded by AHRC, ESRC, organization studies. Experience of public and/or NERC, MRC, London University, British private technical and/or scientific organizations is Academy, Institute of Zoology, Natural History expected. Museum, Overseas Research Studentships, staff research programme awards, and various national Research governmental and international awards. UCL is The successful candidate will join one thus one of the largest centres in the world for the UPEMLV’s research teams belonging to the training of PhD students in Anthropology. Laboratory of Excellence SITES (www.ifris.org) The Dept. of Anthropology at UCL is the SITES is a multidisciplinary network of world's leading centre for the study of Material research groups which head is located on Cité and Visual Culture (we have eight specialist staff Descartes in the environment of University Paris in material and visual culture). We currently Est Marne-la-Vallée (www.univ-paris-est.fr/fr/). It supervise approximately fifty PhD students gathers about 150 researchers, belonging to specifically in this field, including many with several higher education and research institutions topics in Digital Anthropology. Amongst other located in the Parisian area: Université Paris Est activities members of this group edit the Journal Marne-la-Vallée, Université Paris Nord, EHESS, of Material Culture, the journal Home Cultures, CNAM, CNRS, INRA, INSERM, IRD. and several book series and (in collaboration with SITES focuses on the study of innovation NYU) the weblog at materialworldblog.com. processes in society. It deals with changes of

EASST Review Volume 30 (2011) Number 4 33 knowledge regimes through the transformations in associated with the SSHRC Strategic Knowledge the social conditions of production and Cluster grant, “Situating Science” governance of science and technology at various (www.situsci.ca), a national cluster promoting scales of time and space. communication and networking between SITES includes a platform that develops humanists and social scientists studying science and offers tools and methodologies for analyzing and technology. and characterizing textual databases, in order to Qualifications: trace scientific and technical knowledge The successful candidate should have dynamics. completed a PhD in History, Philosophy or Teaching Science, Technology and Studies by September Teaching responsibilities span all levels 2012. Applicants exploring sub-themes of from 1st year from BA to Doctoral levels. epistemology and/or history of experimentation Teaching load varies between 128 and 192 hours a are preferred. year depending upon courses taught. The Project: Undergraduate courses are delivered in French. The successful candidate will work English or French can be used at the Masters and closely with faculty and graduate students at the doctoral levels. University of Saskatchewan associated with the Service Situating Science Cluster. In particular, the post- The position requires involvement in the doctoral fellow will help coordinate an organization and management of training international conference and a smaller workshop activities, especially in the frame of the Masters associated with the Cluster’s activities. Salary programs linked to SITES research groups at the and benefits to $35,000 with the possibility of Cité Descartes (LATTS and SenS). teaching opportunities that may be negotiated. Application Office space will be provided. Candidates are invited to get in touch with The University of Saskatchewan has a Professors Catherine Paradeise strong group of faculty and thriving graduate ([email protected]) or Ashveen programs in the Department of History, Peerbaye ([email protected]) to Philosophy and English whose expertise range detail the formal content of applications and from early modern science and medicine to procedure. contemporary philosophy of science and technology, and history of medicine and Salary psychiatry. Gross yearly salary amounts between More information on the objectives and 41 000 € and 65 000 € depending upon past themes of the Situating Science Cluster can be experience in similar duties. found on the website: www.situsci.ca/project- Application forms can be downloaded summary More information on the University of from the Galaxie national website where Saskatchewan Node can be found here: completed files have to be uploaded (we can http://www.situsci.ca/node/university- help!) between February 23 and March 27. saskatchewan-0 Selection interviews between April 3 and May 25 How to Apply: ------Applications must include: a research proposal (maximum 3 pages), curriculum vitae, Opportunities for one Situating Science and 2 letters of reference sent directly to the Strategic Knowledge Cluster in Canada address below by April 1, 2012. (www.situsci.ca) Post-Doc to be held at the Please send inquiries and complete applications to: University of Saskatchewan Larry Stewart, Department of History Post-doctoral Fellowship in the University of Saskatchewan Philosophy and History of Science and Medicine Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada S7N 5A5 Deadline April 1, 2012. E-mail: [email protected] The Departments of Philosophy and A detailed description of the Cluster grant History at the University of Saskatchewan invite behind “Situating Science” can be found here: candidates for a one-year (renewable for a second http://www.situsci.ca/project-summary. year) post-doctoral fellowship. This award is

34 EASST Review Volume 31 (2012) Number 1 Faculty members and activities in the Background to the project: “Atlantic Node” of Situating Science can be found ‘Homeshare’ is a concept and a practice which at: http://www.situsci.ca/node/university-kings- aims to foster combined solutions to the need for college-0. care and the need for housing/employment. Further questions about the Cluster or the Someone who needs help to live independently in application procedure should be directed to Kregg their own home is matched with someone who has Hetherington: [email protected]. a housing need and can provide a little support. The research problem: Developing a ------‘Homeshare’ scheme involves creating understanding between multiple actors and ABOUT SITUATING SCIENCE agencies. It also requires an understanding of local (WWW.SITUSCI.CA) specificities and sensitivities. Further, researching Created in 2007 with the generous the development of ‘Homeshare’ involves funding of the Social Sciences and Humanities exploring the changing nature of ‘care’ and Research Council of Canada Strategic Knowledge ‘home’ in the current UK context of care Cluster grant, Situating Science is a seven-year governance and severe housing shortage and project promoting communication and identifying and attending to issues of effectiveness collaboration among humanists and social and also of safety and vulnerability of scientists that are engaged in the study of science homesharers. and technology. Situating Science explores a set In addition to empirical research of four interrelated themes through networking, facilitating and evaluating the development of conferences, workshops, lecture series, and other ‘Homeshare’ in the North West, the empirical activities. These themes are: research will be related to recent insights in social 1 - Historical Epistemology and Ontology studies of health and medicine and Science and 2 - Material Culture and Scientific/Technological Technology Studies in order to contribute to the Practices growing body of literature exploring the meanings 3 - Scientific Communication and its Publics of care in practice. 4 - Geography and Sites of Knowing The project is led by Dr Maggie Mort and More information on these and on our Dr Vicky Singleton. If you would like more activities, publications, videos, and network can information about the project please contact be found on our website: www.situsci.ca Vicky. ([email protected]) ------Funding: A 3 year stipend at £13,590

North West Doctoral Training Centre CASE p.a., (under review for 2012), plus £750 training award: Applications are invited for a PhD support grant and UK/EU student fees for 3 years Collaborative Studentship in Sociology jointly (subject to residency status) funded by the ESRC and by Lancashire County Essential pre-requisites: An ESRC Council, England, UK recognised Masters is preferred. However, applications from candidates with alternative Co-producing care and home: relevant experience are welcome. Part-time ‘Homeshare’ as an intervention in patterns applications are also welcomed. of social isolation and labour mobility Start date: 1 October 2012 This is a funded PhD studentship based in Application process the Department of Sociology, Lancaster Applicants should complete the standard University, 2013-2016. The proposed research is PhD in Sociology application procedure at an empirical and theoretical investigation of the http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/sociology/prospe implementation of a ‘Homeshare’ scheme in ctive/phd/application.htm. They should also North West UK. The project involves send a letter of application detailing their reasons ethnographic and online research and the for applying for this studentship to Rachel successful candidate will work with academic, Hemmings ([email protected]; policy and provider collaborators. This project is telephone: (01524) 594178). an opportunity to make a significant contribution Application due date: Friday 16th March 2012 to policy and practices of care and support. for both the letter of application and the online PhD in Sociology application form.

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Politics of Urban Runoff: Nature, in the University of Manchester’s School of Technology, and the Sustainable City Environment and Development and a Visiting Research Fellow at the Center for Andrew Karvonen Sustainable Development at the University The MIT Press, Urban and Industrial of Texas at Austin. Environments Series Endorsements Keywords “Karvonen tackles a complex Urban political ecology, science and environmental issue by providing very good case technology studies, sustainable urban studies and well- imagined solutions without development, civic environmentalism relying on clichéd approaches found in Synopsis other studies. The case studies provide concrete When rain falls on the city, it creates examples for explaining the shortcomings of more urban runoff that causes flooding, erosion, traditional and compartmentalized approaches and water pollution. Municipal engineers manage to environmental governance, and the possibilities a complex network of technical and natural of a more nuanced ‘civic environmentalism.’ That systems to treat and remove these temporary he has grounded his theory in concrete examples water flows from cities as quickly as possible. related to contemporary policy concerns is Urban runoff is frequently discussed in terms of refreshing.” technical expertise and environmental - Martin V. Melosi, Hugh Roy and Lillie Cranz management, but it encompasses a multitude of Cullen University Professor and Director of the such nontechnical issues as land use, quality of Center for Public History, University of Houston life, governance, aesthetics, and community “Andrew Karvonen blends literary theory, identity and is central to the larger debates on history, the social and natural sciences and other creating more sustainable and livable cities. In this disciplines to shed new light on the book, Andrew Karvonen uses urban runoff as a relationship between urban ecology and lens to view the relationships among nature, environmental politics. His book helps to reveal technology, and society. Offering theoretical the often hidden but important connections among insights from urban environmental history, people, nature, and technology and, at its human geography, landscape and ecological best, informs us about better, more effective planning, and science and technology studies as approaches to environmental policy well as empirical evidence from case studies, and management.” Karvonen proposes a new relational politics of - William Shutkin, President, Presidio Graduate urban nature. School; author of The Land That Could Be: After describing the evolution of urban Environmentalism and Democracy in the Twenty- runoff practices, Karvonen analyzes urban runoff First Century activities in Austin and Seattle—two cities known “In Politics of Urban Runoff, Andrew for their highly contested public debates over Karvonen explores the hydro-social dynamics of runoff issues and exemplary stormwater the modern city through a wealth of insights, not management practices. The Austin case study only spanning the bio-physical dimensions to highlights the tensions among urban urban space, but also changing cultural, development, property rights, land use planning, ecological, political and technological aspects of and citizen activism; the Seattle case study urban nature.” explores the city’s long-standing reputation for - Matthew Gandy, Professor and Director of the being in harmony with nature. Drawing on these UCL Urban Laboratory, Department accounts, Karvonen suggests a new relational of Geography, University College London; author politics of urban nature that is situated, inclusive, of Concrete and Clay: Reworking Nature in New and action-oriented to address the tensions among York City nature, technology, and society. ------About the Author Andrew Karvonen is a Research Fellow at the Manchester Architecture Research Centre

36 EASST Review Volume 31 (2012) Number 1 Where Nobody Has Gone Before: A The new issue of Tecnoscienza | Italian Journal of Collection of Commentaries about Science, Science and Technology Studies is now on line Technology, Society, and the Future by Tecnoscienza, Vol 2, No 2 (December 2011) Timothy McGettigan http://www.tecnoscienza.net/index.php/tsj/issue/c Available exclusively from Amazon in urrent/showToc Kindle format for (the insanely low price of) $0.99 US: Full issue download http://www.amazon.com/dp/B006UKHR3W http://www.tecnoscienza.net/index.php/tsj/article/ Some of the commentaries in this view/84/61 collection were written to be entertaining, while you have to be registered to open and others are more serious. What is common to all of download pdf files – you can register at the essays is an emphasis upon radical social http://www.tecnoscienza.net/index.php/tsj/user/re transformation. gister As each new day dawns in the Tecnoscienza (ISSN 2038-3460) is a information society, human civilization forges biannual on line, peer reviewed, open access ahead into new territory where, as the title of this journal in Italian and in English. book suggests, nobody has gone before. With www.tecnoscienza.net more than seven billion humans on our planet, Table of contents, Vol 2, No 2 precedent is literally upon us everywhere we look. For example, just imagine what might Cover I Am Whatever You Want Me To Be occur if Aubrey de Grey's prediction comes to by Daniela Kostova, p. 0 pass and scientists are able to achieve the Essays impossible: human immortality! Thanks to new Attila Bruni, Davide Modè frontiers in medical science, de Grey is certain 7+2: studiare le trame del lavoro in centrale that in the near future humans will age as slowly operativa, p. 3 as the Greek gods. [7+2: studying the texture of work in a This is pure speculation, but that is what centre of coordination – Eng. Abstract] humans do best. This is how humans have survived and thrived as the unique problem- Silvia Bruzzone solving creatures that we have become. We solve La sicurezza nella pratica dell’antincendio problems and redefine reality by inventing boschivo. Assonanze e dissonanze tra elaborate fantasies and then, through the magic of comunità di pratiche, p. 29 "problematic innovation" invent the facts that, [Safety in bushfire fighting – Eng. abstract] step-by-step, transform far-fetched fantasies into Debates bedrock realities. Paolo Landri, Bruno Latour If you doubt my word, then I invite you to Introducing “La fabrique du droit”. A read on. Conversation with Bruno Latour, p. 55 Where Nobody Has Gone Before: A Collection of Commentaries about Science, Claudia Attimonelli, Francesca De Ruggieri, Technology, Society, and the Future is exclusively Giuseppina Pellegrino, Vincenzo Susca available at Amazon Books in Kindle format for Tecnomagia, o del ritorno agli oggetti, p. 69 $0.99 US. [Technomagic, or going back to objects – http://www.amazon.com/dp/B006UKHR3W Eng. Abstract] Timothy McGettigan is a professor of Review Essays sociology at CSU-Pueblo and is the author of Andrea Mubi Brighenti numerous articles and books that explore the Tecnologie della visibilità. Annotazioni topics of science, technology, society and the sulle pratiche di sorveglianza, p. 85 future. [Technologies of Visibility. Notes on Prof. Tim McGettigan Current Surveillance Practices – Eng. Colorado State University Abstract] Pueblo, CO 81001 Tel 719-549-2416 Cartographies [email protected] Cornelius Schubert In the Middle of Things. Germany’s ongoing ------Engagement with STS, p. 103

EASST Review Volume 31 (2012) Number 1 37 Book Reviews http://www.tecnoscienza.net/index.php/tsj/about/s - Boris Castel, Sergio Sismondo, The Art of ubmissions#onlineSubmissions or to [email protected] Science, University of Toronto Press, 2008. by Chiara Ambrosio ------Adele E. Clarke, Laura Mamo, Jennifer Special issue of Science and Engineering Ethics Ruth Fosket, Jennifer R. Fishman, Janet K. Shim (eds.), Biomedicalization. Science and Technology Policy in the Technoscience, Health, and Illness in the Making: Observation and Engagement Issue 17, Volume 4, December 2011 U.S., Duke University Press, 2010. In response to science policies across the by Stefano Crabu industrialized world that imply expanded notions - Tomás Sánchez Criado (ed.), of science and technology governance, science Tecnogénesis: la construcción técnica studies scholars have sought to design exercises de las ecologías humanas aimed at better attuning science to its public [Technogenesis: the technical contexts. As demand increases for innovative and construction of human ecologies] (2 potentially democratic forms of public engagement with science and technology, so also Vols.) Editorial AIBR – Antropólogos do the prospects for insights from science studies Iberoamericanos en Red, 2008. to contribute to policy agendas and institutional by Celia Dìaz Catalan capabilities. This collection brings together an - Gabriele Balbi, Le origini del telefono international set of scholars in science, technology in Italia. Politica, economia, and society who inquire into the meaning, efficacy tecnologia, società [The Origins of the and responsibility of engaged science studies scholarship as a public matter. Telephone in Italy. Politics, http://www.springerlink.com/content/g410477816 economics, technology, society], Bruno 38/ Mondadori, 2011. by Simona Isabella EDITORIAL OVERVIEW Public Science and Technology Scholars: Mauro Turrini (ed.), Biocapitale. Vita e - Engaging Whom? - Erik Fisher corpi nell’era del controllo biologico [Biocapital. Life and bodies in the age OBSERVING ENGAGEMENT Constitutional Moments in Governing Science of biological control], Ombre Corte, and Technology - Sheila Jasanoff 2011. Commentary: The Broad Challenge of Public by Manuela Perrotta Engagement in Science - Rinie van Est - Mario Biagioli, Peter Jaszi and Martha Technologies of Democracy: Experiments and Woodmansee (eds.), Making and Demonstrations - Brice Laurent Unmaking Intellectual Property. Creative Commentary: Publics in the Making: Mediating Production in Legal and Cultural Different Methods of Engagement and the Perspective, The University of Chicago Publics These Construct - Alison Mohr Press, 2011. Questioning ‘Participation’: A Critical by Maurizio Teli Appraisal of its Conceptualization in a Flemish - Ulrich Dolata, Wandel durch Technik. Participatory Technology Assessment - Michiel Eine Theorie soziotechnischer van Oudheusden Transformation [Change by means of Commentary: Participating Despite Questions: technology: A theory of Toward a More Confident Participatory sociotechnological transformation], Technology Assessment - David H. Guston Campus, 2011. DESIGNING ENGAGEMENT by Paolo Volonté Constructing Productive Engagement: Pre- Contributions (in Italian or in English) are engagement Tools for Emerging Technologies - welcome, send them to Haico te Kulve and Arie Rip

38 EASST Review Volume 31 (2012) Number 1 Commentary: Engagement Agents in the Engaged, Embedded, Enjoined: Science and Making: On the Front Lines of Socio-Technical Technology Studies in the National Science Integration - Shannon N. Conley Foundation - Edward J. Hackett and Diana R. Negotiating Plausibility: Intervening in the Rhoten Future of Nanotechnology - Cynthia Selin Commentary: Doing Science, Technology and Society in the National Science Foundation - Commentary: On Identifying Plausibility and Michael E. Gorman Deliberative Public Policy - René von Schomberg ------Adding to the Mix: Integrating ELSI into a National Nanoscale Science and Technology The International Journal of Center - David J. Bjornstad and Amy K. Wolfe Transpersonal Studies Commentary: Nanoethics and the Breaching of http://www.transpersonalstudies.org/ Boundaries: A Heuristic for Going from Dedicated to theory, research, practice, Encouragement to a Fuller Integration of and discourse in the area of transpersonal studies. Ethical, Legal and Social Issues and Science - Transpersonal studies may be generally described Julio R. Tuma as a multidisciplinary movement concerned with the exploration of higher consciousness, expanded ATTESTING ENGAGEMENT self/identity, spirituality, and human potential. What Happens in the Lab Does Not Stay in the Now in its 31st year of publication, IJTS Lab: Applying Midstream Modulation to is published both online as an open access journal Enhance Reflection in the Laboratory - Daan and in print (produced on demand through Lulu Schuurbiers Press). Commentary: Lab-Work Goes Social, and Vice- Current issue is available at: Versa: Strategising Public Engagement http://www.transpersonalstudies.org/current_issue Processes - Brian Wynne .html Previous issues are available at: Taking Our Own Medicine: On an Experiment in Science Communication - Maja Horst http://www.transpersonalstudies.org/previous_issu es.html Commentary: Experimenting with Engagement - Bruce V. Lewenstein

EASST Review Volume 31 (2012) Number 1 39 Contents of this issue

3 Organising STS. Editorial by Estrid Sørensen

4 EASST Awards

5 EASST / 4S Conference October 2012 Updates Final reminder for conference abstracts You have heard about Copenhagen but what about Copenhagenization? EASST 2012 Pre-conference Doctoral Workshop – Call for Submissions EASST Support for Conference Attendance

7 What Works Where and for Whom? Notes of the workshop Science Technology and Development, held 12-14 December 2011 at the University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands. By Rob Hagendijk, Harro Maat and Annapurna Mamidipudi

9 The birth of the Belgian Network for Science, Technology and Society (BSTS network). By Pierre Delvenne and François Thoreau, for the Belgian STS network

12 EASST and the EASH – Social Sciences and Humanities Strike Back. By Harro van Lente, EASST Council member

13 A pioneer in trouble: Danish Board of Technology are facing problems. By Michael Søgaard Jørgensen, Department of Management Engineering, Technical University of Denmark. Member of the Danish Board of Technology’s Board of Representatives

15 Book Review. Making and Unmaking Intellectual Property: Creative Production in Legal and Cultural Perspective, edited by Mario Biagioli, Peter Jaszi, and Martha Woodmansee. By Migle Laukyte

16 Conference Announcement and calls for papers, Other Events

32 Opportunities Available

36 Publications

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