Asia-Pacific STS Network Biennial Conference 2013, 15 - 17 July, 2013 at the National University of Singapore

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 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. The conference website may be viewed here, including submission & registration guidelines.

Deadline for proposals is 7 January, 2013. Contact conference organizers at apstsn2013@gmail.com

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