I am very happy and honored to have been invited as a keynote speaker to the 1st STS-CAT International Conference, “STS Encounters in the Mediterranean,” organized by the Associació Catalana d’Estudis de la Ciència i la Tecnologia (STS-CAT). The conference will take place from 3–5 February 2027 at the Institut d’Estudis Catalans in Barcelona. I […]
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Call for submissions: Working Papers Cultural and Sociotechnical Studies
I am very happy to announce that submissions (in German or English) to the series Working Papers kultur- und techniksoziologische Studien (Working Papers Cultural and Sociotechnical Studies) are welcome at any time. All papers are published open access via an OJS platform, receive a DOI, and are embedded in the German sociological research infrastructure SocioHub. […]
ICIRR 2026 Call for Contributions: Innovation in Rural Regions
I would like to draw attention to the Call for Contributions of the International Conference on Innovation in Rural Regions (ICIRR), which will take place in Siegen (Germany) from 13–15 September 2026. I am pleased to be part of the Program Committee for this conference and to invite colleagues in my network to consider submitting […]
CfP: “Children as Active Agents in STS: Participatory Approaches and Beyond” (Panel @ 4S 2025 Conference, Seattle)
Dear colleagues, I am excited to invite submissions for my open panel, “Children as Active Agents in STS: Participatory Approaches and Beyond”, which will be part of the 4S Annual Meeting 2025 in Seattle, celebrating the 50th anniversary of the Society for Social Studies of Science. Short Abstract Children are gaining recognition in STS as […]
Call for EASST-4S Session Papers: Transformed Social Differentiation Through Digital Transformation
📢 Exciting News! 🎉 My colleague Prof. Dr. Diego Compagna (Hochschule München) and I are thrilled to announce that our Open Panel Proposal for the EASST-4S 2024 Conference in Amsterdam has been accepted! Our panel is themed “Transformed Social Differentiation Through Digital Transformation,” and we’re now inviting abstract submissions to make this discussion as diverse […]
STS Meets Ethics – STS TURKEY & METU Applied Ethics Research Center Joint Conference 2023, October 31 – November 2 2023 (Ankara, Turkey)
We are thrilled to announce that this year’s STS TURKEY conference will be a joint conference, organized in collaboration with Middle East Technical University (METU) Applied Ethics Research Center (UEAM), and with the valuable support of UEAM, Bilkent University and STS Turkey. The event will take place at the Kültür ve Kongre Merkezi, METU Ankara, […]
CfP: Theoretische Polarisierungen zwischen Humanismen und Post-/Trans-Humanismen (deadline: 15.4.2022)
Call for Papers: Theoretische Polarisierungen zwischen Humanismen und Post-/Trans-Humanismen Veranstaltung der Sektion Soziologie des Körpers und des Sports auf dem 41. Kongress der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Soziologie, 26.-30.9.2022, Bielefeld Organisation: Hanna Göbel (Hamburg), Melike Şahinol (Istanbul) Körper gelten im soziologischen Denken seit jeher immer auch als Orte theoretischer Polarisierungen. Dieser Befund lässt sich etwa rekonstruieren […]
CfP: Bewegte Ordnungen. Mobilität(‑en) als Spiegel gesellschaftlicher Verhältnisse (deadline 31.1.22)
Gemeinsame Frühjahrstagung der DGS Sektionen ‘Methoden der qualitativen Sozialforschung’ und ‘Soziologie des Körpers und des Sports‘ Universität Bayreuth, 24. – 25. März 2022 Mobilität wird als konstitutives Merkmal von Gesellschaft und sozialem Leben in der soziologischen Forschung auf vielfältige Weise empirisch adressiert und prägt die Theorie- und Methodenentwicklung entscheidend. Dabei sind es oft Impulse aus […]
CFA: Is there a Middle Eastern Body? (IUAES-Annual Conference of the Commission of the Middle East) deadline 11th June together w PD Dr. Claudia Liebelt
I would like to draw your attention to a panel that I am currently co-organising with my colleague Claudia Liebelt (Associate Professor in Social Anthropology, University of Bayreuth), as part of the IUAES-Annual Conference of the Commission of the Middle East (CME, see https://www.waunet.org/iuaes/comm/list.phtml). The conference will be hosted by the Orient Institute Istanbul and take […]
Call for submissions – Panel 148. Rethinking Expertise under COVID-19: a New Look at Digitization and Decentralization
We invite you to consider submitting an abstract to “Rethinking Expertise under COVID-19: a New Look at Digitization and Decentralization”, panel @ 4S Annual Meeting, 6-9 October, Toronto and worldwide. Submission Deadline: March 8, 2021 via https://convention2.allacademic.com/one/ssss/ssss21/Keywords: enabling technologies, maker movement, expertise, healthcare, 3D printing This session takes its inspiration from transformations in manufacturing and […]