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Past events and conferences sponsored by Science, Technology, and Society
| April 2008 | |||||||||
| Call For Papers for Whose Technology? Perspectives of Researchers for Underrepresented Populations- Conference | |||||||||
| Whose Technology? Perspectives of Researchers from Underrepresented Populations Conference will be held April 22, 2008 on the ASU Tempe Capus. This conference is being co-sponsored by CNS-ASU and the Hispanic Research Center at ASU. | |||||||||
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Tuesday, 22 April, 2008 ;
All Day Event ASU Tempe Campus |
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| Sponsor(s): Science, Technology, and Society Center |
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| December 2007 | |||||||||
| Deadline for papers/abstracts submissions and Invited sessions Proposals for WMSI 2008: The 12th World Multi-Conference on Systemics, Cybernetics, and Informatics- Conference | |||||||||
| December 12th is the new deadline for papers/abstracts submissions and Invited Sessions Proposals for WMSCI 2008: The 12th World Multi-Conference on Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics (Orlando, Florida, USA. June 29th-July 2nd, 2008) http://www.sciiis.org/wmsci2008
Authors Notification: January 21st, 2008 Camera ready, full papers: February 14th, 2008 All Submitted papers will be reviewed by a double-blind (at least three reviewers), non-blind, and participative peer review. These three kinds of review will support the selection process of those that will be accepted for their presentation at the conference, as well as those to be selected for their publication in JSCI Journal. Details are given in the conference web site. The registration fee of effective invited session organizers will be waived and they will receive at the registration desk, for free, 1) a package of 4 DVDs and one CD containing the 6-hour tutorial "Fundamentals and History of Cybernetics: Development of the Theory of Complex Adaptive Systems" and 2) a second 4-DVDs/1-CD package 6-hours tutorial titled "Cybernetic Management". The market price of each of these packages is US $ 295. Twelve more benefits for invited session organizers are listed at WMSCI 2008 web page. For submissions or Invited Sessions Proposals, please go to the web site: http://www.sciiis.org/wmsci2008/organizer.asp Authors of the best 10%-20% of the papers presented at the conference will be invited to adapt their papers for their publication in the Journal of Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics. Each session to be included in the conference program will have corresponding electronic pre-conference and post-conference sessions for 15 days each. In the electronic pre-conference sessions authors will have access to the papers to be presented at their session and to an associated electronic forum, so they can be better prepared for their conference face-to-face session. Similarly, electronic post-conference sessions will complement and support a follow-up of the respective conference sessions, via an electronic forum and the possibility of evaluating papers presented at the associated session. These evaluations will also support the selection process for the papers to be published in JSCI journal. |
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Saturday, 15 December, 2007 ;
All Day Event |
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| Sponsor(s): Science, Technology, and Society Center |
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| Engineering in the 21st Century: Risk, Ethics and Education- Lecture | |||||||||
| W.E. Kastenberg, Daniel M. Tellep Distinguished Professor of Engineering, UC Berkeley |
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| Refreshment served from 3:45, Speaker 4:00-5:00 PM
Prof. W.E. Kastenberg, Daniel M. Tellep Distinguished Professor of Engineering, UC Berkeley Part I (December 3rd) will focus on the Contextual shift in Science and Technology in the 21st Century and its implications for Ethics and Risk. Part II (December 10th) will focus on how and why this Contextual shift requires a new vision for Engineering Education in the 21st Century http://www.nuc.berkeley.edu/colloquiums/Fall%202007/12-3-10Kastenberg.html |
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Monday, 10 December, 2007 ;
03:45 PM to 05:00 PM 3105 Etcheverry Hall, UC Berkeley |
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| Sponsor(s): Science, Technology, and Society Center College of Engineering |
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| Bio/Politics of Contemporary Motherhood- Lecture | |||||||||
| Elly Teman, BBRG Scholar and STSC Scholar |
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| Michele Pridmore-Brown, BBRG Scholar |
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| Dr. Teman is a medial anthropologist specializing in reproductive technologies. She is a BBRG Scholar and STSC Scholar furthering her work on surrogacy. Dr. Pridmore-Brown has written extensively on Virginia Woolf, including a prize-winning essay on Woolf, gramophones, and fascism in PMLA and is now working on a book on the bio/politics of "late" motherhoow. She is a BBRG Scholar. Moderator: Barrie Thorne Chair of Gender & Women''s Studies and Professor of Sociology. Panelists: Elly Teman Surrogacy as "Innkeeping" in Israel Michele Pridmore-Brown Reproductive Timing and the Cultural Meaning of Post/Menopausal Motherhood in the U.S. | |||||||||
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Wednesday, 05 December, 2007 ;
04:00 PM 3335 Dwinelle, Level C, UC Berkeley |
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| Sponsor(s): Beatrice Bain Research Group Science, Technology, and Society Center |
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| November 2007 | |||||||||
| From Science Information''s Concilium Bibliographicum of the 1890''s to Espionage andCommunist Dungeons in the 1950''s- Lecture | |||||||||
| Colin Burke, University of Maryland, Baltimore |
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| This talk describes a forthcoming book on the history of an 1890''s attempt to create and sustain a world-wide, random-access, cumulative, andupdatable data-base of all scientific information indexed in an "international language", a language that helped to develop the UDC. The Zurich Concilium''s history was deep and long. It''s fate was tied to the birth of the American research university, the wealth and values of aliberal American Quaker family, the struggles between pragmatic andtheoretical information specialists, the internationalist movements(including the work of Paul Otlet), the rise of America''s eastern liberal elite and its institutions, the nationalist urge in American science information, and, much, much more,--including the modern art movement. The history of the Concilium''s founder, and his family, are also linked to: the ambitions of the American intelligence agencies in World Wars I and II; Soviet espionage in the 1930''s and 1940''s; the brutal purges in Eastern and Central Europe in the 1940''s and 1950''s; and, the shaping the cold war''s science information systems. | |||||||||
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Friday, 09 November, 2007 ;
03:10 PM South Hall 107 |
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| Sponsor(s): Science, Technology, and Society Center School of Information |
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