Asia-Pacific SCIENCE, Technology & Society (STS) Network Conference 2009
 
griffith university, Brisbane, Australia, 23-25 November 2009
 
Call for abstracts
 
The first annual conference of the Asia Pacific STS Network brings
together researchers involved in STS studies in the Asia-Pacific region
(East Asia, Southeast Asia, and Australasia near the Pacific Ocean plus
the states in Oceania) for stronger regional STS networking and critical
discussions about S&T for the new millennium, environmental
sustainability, and STS issues of interest to indigenous peoples.
 
Abstracts are invited in three categories (formal papers, roundtable
discussion presentations, and posters) on the following themes:
 
·         Environment, and sustainability transitions
·         Indigenous people, science and technologies
·         Life techno/sciences
·         Governance, public policy, community
·         Utopia and dystopia: Science and technology for the new millennium
·         Conceptual and methodological innovations 


For full details, keynote speakers, sponsors, events, registration fees,
and online submission of abstracts: go to the APSTSNetwork Conference
website at:
http://www.griffith.edu.au/conference/asia-pacific-science-technology-society-network-conference-2009/

Submissions close 15 September (please see the submission form for
details and postgraduate and indigenous researcher travel bursaries)
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Organising Committee:
·         A/Prof Richard Hindmarsh Griffith University (Chair)
·         Dr Karen Cronin, (STS), Environmental Science and Research, Wellington, NZ
·         Ms Virginia Baker, ESR, Wellington, New Zealand
·         A/Prof David Mercer, A/Prof (STS) University of Wollongong, Australia
·         Mr Bevan Tipene-Matua, STS researcher, Porangahau, New Zealand

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