[Galileo] 2013 APSTSN Conference ABSTRACT DEADLINE EXTENDED, KEYNOTES ANNOUNCED

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*** ABSTRACT DEADLINE EXTENDED TO FEB 15 ***

Asia-Pacific STS Network Biennial Conference 2013<http://www.apstsn2013.com/>
Co-hosted by Asia Research Institute and Tembusu College, NUS

Knowing, Making, Governing - across Asia and the Pacific, the work of science, technology and society calls attention to the region’s plurality of socio-technical projects and ways of knowing.

The Asia-Pacific Science, Technology and Society Network<http://apstsn.org/> is an association of regional scholars for fostering collaboration and encouraging science, technology and society research, teaching, and critical discussion on current STS themes and issues in the Asia-Pacific region. The conference will be held on 15-17 July 2013 at the National University of Singapore.

Keynote speakers will be Warwick Anderson (Sydney) and Daiwie Fu (National Yang Ming University, Taiwan). Other distinguished speakers will include Mike Fischer (MIT), Aihwa Ong (Berkeley), Hideto Nakajima (Tokyo Inst. Technology), Sungook Hong (Seoul National), and Suzanne Moon (Oklahoma). Already, there are over 100 confirmed guests and we expect at least 150 speakers.

Extended deadline for proposals is 15 February, 2013. The conference website may be viewed here<http://www.apstsn2013.com/>, including submission guidelines<http://www.apstsn2013.com/?page_id=11> and information about registration and fees<http://www.apstsn2013.com/?page_id=54>. Please forward any queries to conference organisers at apstsn2013 at gmail.com<mailto:apstsn2013 at gmail.com>

The conference accepts proposals for all themes pertaining to science, technology and society, including:

Potential Themes


Biosciences     Food, Water & Agriculture       Medicine
Business, Finance, & Markets    Gender  Modeling and Numbers-work
Care    Indigenous Knowledges   Normativity and Normalization
Citizenship & Activism  Information & Media     Posthumanities
Disaster        Inter-Species Relations Publics & Participation
Energy  Knowledge & its Limits  Risk
Environment & Ecology   Government, Policy & Politics   Theory & Method

The conference accepts proposals for all STS-related themes; the above are only some of the most common.

APSTSN Biennial Conference 2013 is jointly hosted by the STS Research Cluster of the Asia Research Institute (ARI), the STS Research Cluster of the Faculty or Arts and Social Sciences (FASS), and Tembusu College (at University Town), all at the National University of Singapore (NUS). Support has also been received from the Humanities and Social Science Research Fund at NUS and from the Singapore Tourism Board.

We hope you see you in Singapore this July!


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Jerome Whitington<http://nus.academia.edu/JeromeWhitington>

National University of Singapore
Asia Research Institute<http://www.ari.nus.edu.sg/> & Tembusu College<http://tembusu.nus.edu.sg>
Science and Technology Studies (STS) Cluster
Accounting for Atmosphere<http://accountingforatmosphere.wordpress.com>

+65 9091 9079
+1 415 763 8605

Co-Convenor, Asia-Pacific STS Network<http://apstsn.org>
Organizer, Asia-Pacific STS Network Biennial Conference 2013<http://apstsn2013.com>





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