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Our
2011 meeting will be in Salt Lake City (Utah, USA) July 10th-16th 2011
Preliminary Call for papers
The deadline for the final call for papers will be February
28, 2011.
ISHPSSB Program Co-Chairs Chris Young and
Mark Largent hope you are already thinking about papers and sessions for the
2011 meeting in Salt Lake City.
To be sure you are getting the most up-to-date information about the
meeting, subscribe to the ISHPSSB listserv by clicking on the "Listserv"
link <http://www.ishpssb.org/listserv.html>at
www.ishpssb.org
In the coming months, we will be setting up
a bulletin board where you can suggest a session, or review sessions that
have been proposed so far. For now, only members can post on this bulletin
board, so you might check on your membership status and then start sharing
ideas. The bulletin board
link is
http://ishpssb.onefireplace.com/
Now, a few comments on audience, posters, and themes:
Our expectation for the Salt Lake City meeting is that we will have more
cross-disciplinary sessions than ever before. In addition, we expect that
all sessions will be geared toward wider audiences. This was a major thrust
of the discussions that came out of the Brisbane meeting in 2009. Every
scholar has numerous meetings in which to present work to her or his peers:
historians speaking to historians, philosophers speaking to philosophers,
sociologists speaking to sociologists, and biologists from across the
spectrum speaking to biologists within their specialty. ISHPSSB is uniquely
situated to provide us the opportunity to talk to each other, across
disciplinary boundaries, about biology studies. In order for this to happen,
we need to think broadly about each other as an audience. We hope you will
begin now to look for ways of collaborating.
A new feature of the program for 2011 will be the creation of a poster
session. This is intended as a dynamic setting for scholars to present
their work in progress as well as expanding on the implications of work
completed in an interactive setting. The program co-chairs intend to
solicit posters from a wide range of scholars, providing for interaction
among all participants. We expect that this setting will engage biologists,
historians, sociologists, and philosophers alike. Our local arrangements
team is working to make this happen in a comfortable setting with
refreshments readily available.
As we begin planning for how sessions will be organized, we ask that
presenters think about ways their work will potentially connect to other
sessions throughout the meeting. We hope this can be accomplished by
thinking about the larger themes that are illuminated by your work. These
themes are meant to be broad and overlapping, but will help to provide
benchmarks for organizing sessions as well as signposts for people at the
conference seeking out areas of inquiry. Some themes we have identified
include: Civic engagement; Race; Policy, science funding, and scientific
progress; Sustainability, environment, energy, and economics; Gender and
LGBT; Genetic testing; Evo-Devo; and Education. Please note that not all
papers and sessions are expected to fit into one of the themes, and we hope
that as we see work that pushes beyond these categories we can all be more
aware of the new directions scholars and members of ISHPSSB are taking.
It is still too early to submit a freestanding paper proposal, in part
because we are not yet to that stage in the planning, but primarily because
there is still plenty of time for you to be looking for colleagues
throughout the world who will complement your work in a session. We would
like the next six months to be a productive time for identifying
collaborators.
During this time, we will also be soliciting scholars to take up leadership
in addressing specific themes as described above. If you are in a position
to provide leadership in coordinating a theme, or if you would like to
suggest a theme that will strengthen our multi-disciplinary and
cross-session collaboration, please contact Chris Young and Mark Largent at
program@ishpssb.org
The deadline for the
final call for papers will be February 28, 2011. We hope you will be checking back regularly on the bulletin board
http://ishpssb.onefireplace.com/ to identify how your work may connect
with other potential proposals.
Please also keep in mind the ISHPSSB policy on multiple participation: no
one may present in more than one session; exceptions are made for those who
organize another session, comment in another session, or give a short
plenary address. Individuals may serve more than one function in a given
session, e.g., chair and presenter. If you have questions about your
session or paper idea, or about procedures, please contact the Program
Co-Chairs, Chris Young and Mark Largent:
program@ishpssb.org Chris Young,
Department of Biology, PO Box 343922, Alverno College, Milwaukee, WI 53234;
(414) 298-9138.
ISHPSSB would like to encourage sessions that:
a) combine more than one disciplinary perspective;
b) include participants from more than one institution and/or nation;
c) promote the interaction of junior and senior scholars, including
students.
Program guidelines include:
(1) The program co-chairs, in consultation with the program committee, and
consistent with site constraints, will organize a rich, diverse, and high
quality program. While it is the intention of the Society to be as inclusive
as possible, the program co-chairs have the discretion to reject papers or
sessions that are truly inappropriate for these meetings or that do not meet
basic standards of communication. The program committee is available to
assist the program co-chairs in judging borderline cases.
(2) No one may present in more than one session. An exception is made for
those who organize another session, comment in another session, or give a
short plenary address. Individuals may serve more than one function in a
given session, e.g. chair and presenter.
(3) Each regular session must have a minimum of three presenters.
(4) Multiple sessions on a given topic should be identified with titles that
distinguish the particular focus of each session, rather than merely
serialize the topic.
(5) All accepted participants must pre-register for the conference in order
to be included in the program.
Members of the 2011 Program Committee include:
Largent, Mark, Program Co-chair
Young, Chris, Program Co-chair
Callebaut, Werner
Millstein, Roberta
Santesmases, María de Jesús
Suárez, Edna
Stotz, Karola
El-Hani, Charbel
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