[Athena] Appel à com. 'nanosciences et nouvelles technologies', Darmstadt, 29 09 - 02 10 2010

[Jean-François PICARD <jean-francois.picard AT mouchez.cnrs.fr>]

Call for Papers 

Second Annual Conference of the Society for the study of Nanoscience and Emerging Technologies

 

Darmstadt, Germany – Sept 29 to Oct 2, 2010 

 

The Society for the Study of Nanoscience and Emerging Technologies (S.NET) is an international association that promotes open intellectual exchange towards the advancement of knowledge and understanding of nanotechnologies in society. S.NET represents diverse communities, viewpoints, and methodologies in the social sciences 

and humanities. It welcomes contributions from scientists and engineers that advance the critical reflection of nanotechnologies and related developments.   

The program committee invites all discussions of anthropological, cultural, economic, ethical, historical, philosophical, political, and sociological aspects of 

nanosciences and emerging technologies. This can take the form of individual abstracts, proposals for sessions with three to five presentations, and other formats. 250-word 

abstracts for individual papers, up to 1000-word-abstracts for sessions and other formats can be submitted online until March 15 at www.theSNET.net. Notifications of acceptance will be mailed by April 30, 2010. Graduate students are encouraged to submit. 

In the spirit of an emerging society that looks at emerging technologies as an emerging field of inquiry, we welcome all innovative suggestions about themes and 

session-formats to foreground critical issues. These can be submitted informally at any time to the program committee. – Where needed, we will try to secure travel stipends 

for speakers. – This year’s plenary speakers include Armin Grunwald, Richard Jones, Bernard Stiegler, and Jan Youtie. 

More information about S.NET, the past meeting in Seattle, and the upcoming conference in Darmstadt can be found at www.theSNET.net. 

  

Program Committee  

Diana Bowman (Public Health and Law, University of Melbourne, Australia)  

Julia Guivant (Sociology and Political Science, Santa Catarina, Brazil) 

David Guston (Political Science/Center for Nanotechnology in Society, Arizona State University, USA) 

Barbara Herr Harthorn (Feminist Studies, Anthropology, Sociology/Center for Nanotechnology in Society, University of California Santa Barbara, USA) 

Brice Laurent (Sociology, Mines ParisTech, France)

Colin Milburn (English, University of California Davis, USA)   

Cyrus Mody (History, Rice University, United USA) 

Alfred Nordmann (Philosophy/nanoOffice, Darmstadt Technical University, Germany - chair)  

Ingrid Ott (Economics, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany - co-chair)  

Arie Rip (Philosophy of Science and Technology, University of Twente, Netherlands) 

Ursula Weisenfeld (Business Administration, Leuphana University, Lüneburg, Germany)  

contact snet2010 AT phil.tu-darmstadt.de – conference website www.nanoOffice.eu/snet2010   

Brice Laurent

Centre de Sociologie de l'Innovation

Ecole des Mines de Paris

60 Bd Saint-Michel

75006 Paris

France

brice.laurent AT ensmp.fr

(33) 1 40 51 92 80