8th annual S.Net meeting: The Co-Production of Emerging Bodies, Politics and Technologies

8th annual S.Net meeting: The Co-Production of Emerging Bodies, Politics and Technologies

Date: 
12/10/2016 (All day) to 14/10/2016 (All day)

The 8th annual S.Net meeting will take place in Bergen, Norway under the heading "The Co-Production of Emerging Bodies, Politics and Technologies". It will focus - though not exclusively - on the various meanings of the “politics of new and emerging technologies”, addressing questions such as:

  • How do emerging technologies such as nanotechnology, synthetic biology or ICTs shape institutions, citizen organizations and other political agencies?
  • And, vice versa; how are these emerging technologies shaped by politics?
  • In what new ways are the bodies of citizens’ subjected to technological intervention and what are the political effects of such interventions?
  • What new forms of politics can be seen to emerge together with technological emergence?

S.Net 2016 is organized around the following themes:

  • Innovation policies, imaginaries and practices
  • Narratives and imaginaries of emerging and future technologies
  • Public engagement, citizenship and emerging forms of expertise
  • Politics in the era of emerging technologies
  • Safety and security
  • Emerging technologies and human nature
  • Cancer: Emerging technologies, bodies and politics

Keynotes will be delivered by Sheila Jasanoff, Silvio Funtowicz and Joseph Dumit.

A call for papers is available online on the conference website. The deadline for submission of abstracts is 10 March 2016. Further information will become available in the next few months.

 

Location: 
University of Bergen
5020 Bergen
Norway