STS ITALIA CONFERENCE 2023 ANNOUNCED

The 9th STS Italia conference had been announced. The call for panels is available on the conference website. The 2023 STS Italia Conference will be held in Bologna, 28 to 30 June 2023, in collaboration with the Department of Philosophy and Communication and the Department of Political and Social Sciences of the University of Bologna. We are now inviting proposals for open panels. The panels are meant to engage with the general theme of the conference: “Interesting Worlds to Come. Science & Technology Studies facing more-than-human challenges”. Deadline for open panel submission is October 25th, 2022.

As the last couple of years has taught us once more, current challenges interest heterogeneous networks of human and non-human beings in a long-term perspective. While marking the advent of a new viral form of life, the COVID-19 pandemic has affected a number of other species, including but not limited to humans. War in Ukraine has reminded us not only of the multiple ongoing wars in and outside the Global North, but also of the destructions they bring about for the future generations of living beings and their environments, and of the extractive deluge needed to conduct them. Draughts and floods in many areas of the world have revealed not only the interdependence of remote locales, but also the differentiated, situated outcomes of climate changes for diverse species, milieus and generations.

STS pursue an understanding of “interest” that transcends mere affection and assumes agency, involvement and intervention. Given the more-than-human nature of those challenges, more-than-human alliances need to be interested to address them. Humans alone are failing to meet the IPCC goals, to curb ongoing wars and to prevent future pandemics. We have been told that we must either adapt or perish, but the truth is that we need help. We need help to set benchmarks, to measure, to model and even to forecast.

Key dates

Call for panels

  • Open: September 19, 2022
  • Close: October 25, 2022
  • Panel organizers informed by November 21, 2022

Call for abstracts

  • Open: November 28, 2022
  • Close: January 15, 2023
  • Notification of abstract acceptance / rejection by February 20, 2023

Early-bird registration

  • Deadline: March 19, 2023

Late registration

  • Deadline: April 16, 2023

Publication of the conference program

  • May 23, 2023

Conference dates

  • June 28–30, 2023
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