Science, Technology and Gender: Challenges and Opportunities
FEMMSS5/CSWIP 2014: Call for Proposals
Submission deadline February 15, 2014
Submissions
are invited for the fifth meeting of The Association for Feminist
Epistemologies, Methodologies, Metaphysics, and Science Studies (FEMMSS)
to be held at the University of Waterloo, August 10 to 13, 2014.
FEMMSS is a multidisciplinary organization.
We welcome feminist papers, posters, panels, and workshops related to Science, Technology and Gender.
Conference presentations are eligible for submission for consideration and review in a resulting anthology or special journal issue.
Topics can include but need not be limited to:
1.
Challenges to and challenging scientific literacy
2.
Implicit bias and stereotype threat
3.
Creating equitable Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics organizations and institutions
4.
Gender, oppression, and the public understanding of science
5.
Rhetoric, argumentation, and gendered communication
6.
Epistemologies of ignorance
7.
Policy of/for Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics
8.
Intersectionality in practice and study of science and technology
9.
The ethics and politics of science and technology
10.
Science, technology and global justice
11.
Feminist methodologies in the humanities, social and natural sciences
12.
Production of biological “differences”
13.
Feminist scholarship of teaching and learning
14.
Professional development (ex. interdisciplinary communication/ teaching/ research)
Submission instructions
You
are permitted one submission, unless you are submitting a poster. If
you are submitting a poster, you can additionally submit an abstract for
a paper,
panel, or workshop.
To submit please go to
https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=stg2013
and sign up for an account. If you have questions, email science.technology.gender@gmail.com.
·
Individual papers and posters: Please
provide a title, 300-word abstract, and 3-10 keywords. At the beginning
of the abstract please indicate if your submission is a poster.
There is no need to upload anything, so please
tick the box that says, "abstract only."
·
Panels: Please
provide a title, 300-word abstract, and 3-10 keywords for the panel as a
whole. Also, upload a single document that includes the title and
300-word abstract for each paper. Please take care not to identify
authors.
·
Workshops: Please
provide a title, 300-word abstract describing the workshop rationale, and 3-10 keywords.
Also, upload a 300-word description of the activities in which
your audience will engage. Please take care not to identify authors.
This conference will be held in conjunction with CSWIP 2014.
