July 1, 2010
The journal “Sociology of Science and Technology” specialises in problems in sociology of science and technology. It is published under scientific guidance of the Institute for the History of Science and Technology named after Sergey I. Vavilov, St. Petersburg Branch, Russian Academy of Sciences. Founded in 2009, it is published 4 times a year, in Russia.
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July 1, 2010
Russia’s only educational establishment in sociology of science and technology will hold its XXVI session on October 18-20, 2010
Science, Technologies, Innovations: Looking Through a Sociological Lens
Program
- Information technologies, their role in the globalizing world
- Universities and the Academy community
- New research objects and new perspectives in the sociology of science
- Sociological portrayal of science in the 21 st century
- Mobility of scientists in the global society: current and future conditions
- Scientist elite and scientist diaspora
- Modernizing country: prospects of the innovative development
- Transformation of the Russian science in the social and economic contexts
- Mobility as the mechanism of bringing Russia into the world scientist community
- Science in St Petersburg: main features and problems
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June 18, 2010
Issue No. 6 of the RC23 newsletter is now available online (see “Newsletter”). It features the following research articles:
Multiple Trajectory Evolution of Information Societies: Some Prospective Remarks and Reflections
Lech W. Zacher
Higher Scientific Competence and Opponents to Use of New Technologies
Olga Shuvalova
It also features Prof. Jaime Jimenez’s introduction to the RC23 sessions at the 2010 World Congress of Sociology.
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April 14, 2010
Session 1: Science, technology and innovation on the move: Changing trends in global society. Special session on the Congress theme, A.
Organizer: Hebe Vessuri, IVIC, Venezuela, hvessuri@gmail.com 12 July, Monday, 15:30-17:30
New Technologies on the Move: A Focus on Nanotechnology in India. Subhasis Sahoo
Current Practices and Perceived Risks Related to Health, Safety and Environmental Stewardship in Nanomaterials Industries. C. Engeman, B. Baumgartner, B. Carr, A. Fish
Will Nanotechnology be the Vapour Machine of the Sixth Kondratieff Wave? Rui Vieira Cruz
The Social Inequalities in the Information and Knowledge Society. The Digital Divide in Spain. Cristóbal Torres Albero, José Manuel Robles Morales, Carlos Fernández Rodríguez, Oscar Molina Molina
Unintended Consequences of use: Energy-Sustainable Innovation and the Hybrid Electric Vehicle. Ritsuko Ozaki, Isabel Shaw
University Research Institutes: New Missions in Ancient Structures. Laura Cruz-Castro, Luis Sanz-Menéndez
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April 6, 2010
October 28-29, 2010, University of Twente, The Netherlands.
The conference is organized by the Institute of Innovation and Governance Studies (IGS) of the University of Twente (http://www.universiteittwente.nl/research/igs). Internationally, the conference will be run as a key event of the European Forum for ‘Studies into Policies for Research and Innovation’ (Eu-SPRI Forum; succeeding the PRIME Network of Excellence; <http://www.euspri-forum.eu/> http://www.euspri-forum.eu/).
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April 6, 2010
METU Science and Technology Policies Reserach Center (METU TEKPOL), The Scientific and Technological, Research Council of Turkey (TUBITAK) and the Joint Research Center (JRC) of the European Commission
International Workshop on the Internationalization of R&D
May 2010
Ankara, Turkey
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November 5, 2009
The International Sociological Association is organizing its XVII World Congress of Sociology in Gothenburg, Sweden, July 11-17, 2010. The Research Committee RC 23: Sociology of Science and Technology invites proposals for papers and sessions.
Main theme: SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY ON THE MOVE
In a world that is in perpetual flux, Sociology of Science and Technology (and Innovation) changes at the same pace with the new ways of doing science, new purposes for the development of technology, and new impetus and organization for innovation. Thus, the RC23 sessions in the XVII World Congress of Sociology carry with them a central and important agenda: to understand the transformations in the social and cultural spaces of science, technology and innovation. Countries that traditionally have been behind in the production of science are now in the forefront. New inter-disciplines and trans-disciplines consolidate by their own right. New opportunities evolve for scientific development of Third World countries. New means for information interchange open unexpected opportunities for collaboration between the countries that “have” and those that “have not”, between their respective scientists, and between scientists and other social actors in a myriad of new fora outside the traditional channels of academic exchange. New “invisible colleges”, connecting scientists both North and South emerge. Technologies offer new modes of work and leisure. These and many other topics will be examined in our sessions on Science & Technology on the Move.
Deadline: November 30, 2009>
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August 28, 2009
Russia’s only educational establishment in sociology of science and technology will hold its XXV session on October 26-28, 2009.
THE SOCIAL PORTRAYAL OF A SCIENTIST
History of the International School of Science&Technology Sociology:
International School of Science&Technology Sociology was established in St.Petersburg in 1992. The founders of the School are: St. Petersburg Scientific Center, Russian Academy of Science; St. Petersburg Branch S.I. Vavilov Institute for the History of Science and Technology of Russian Academy of Sciences; RAS, St.Petersburg Scientific Center, Scientific Council for Science Studies and Research Management; Department of Sociology, St.Petersburg State University; St.Petersburg Polytechnical State University; Institute for sociology, RAS; St.Petersburg State University of Economics and Finance. Its lecturers are the leading scholars from academic and educational institutions, both Russian and foreign. Each session includes lectures, seminars, round-table discussions and conferences on actual problems of STS. Additional courses include economy and psychology of science, sociology of deviant behavior etc. Each session has its own topic and title, it is not just “sociology of science”.
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June 27, 2009
ICTs and Development: An International Workshop for Theory, Practice & Policy
11-12 March 2010 | New Delhi
For more details, please visit http://www.iitd.ac.in/events/ICTD2010/
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January 21, 2009
The conference is being jointly organised by the Centre for Sociology of Science and Science-Studies Research (IHST) of the Russian Academy of Sciences, St. Petersburg (http://ihst.nw.ru/), by the Council for Science-Studies of the St. Petersburg Scientific Center of the Russian Academy of Sciences (http://www.spbrc.nw.ru/), and by the Research Committee RC23 Sociology of Science and Technology of the International Sociological Association http://www.dsa-ateneo.net/rc23/
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