Dear colleagues

I'm writing to encourage you to get your proposals in to run sessions at the
forthcoming 4S/EASST conference in Vienna next September. I've been asked by
the EASST Council to encourage sessions on the theme of "science, technology
and innovation", and I know you are all working in this area (not least from
the papers you've given at previous EASST meetings and elsewhere).

As you can see from the formal call below, the deadline for suggestions -
though they are not especially demanding - is very soon - December 15. So,
please do get moving on this and contact either the conference organisers
(as indicated below in the formal call) or me if you would like any
assistance/advice on running a session. Please note that each session should
carry only three papers - so you can probably enlist such a mighty number
within half an hour!

Good luck and hope to see you in Vienna.

C A L L  for  P A P E R S  and  S E S S I O N S


The Society for Social Studies of Science (4S) and the European Association
for the Study of Science and Technology (EASST)
will hold their Joint


                      4S/EASST Conference 2000


                        WORLDS in TRANSITION:
       Technoscience, Citizenship and Culture in the 21st Century


                        September 27 - 30,  2000
                                 at the
                     University of Vienna, Austria




Call for SESSIONS: December 15, 1999

Each session will be allotted a time-slot of 1.5 hours and should ideally
contain not more than 3 papers (15 minutes of presentation and 15 minutes
of discussion for each paper).
Sessions with a larger number of participants will be split over several
time-slots.
Each session proposal should contain:
  - Name, address (as well as e-mail and phone number) and affiliation of
the
session organiser
  - Abstract of the session proposed (length: 250 words)
  - List of all participants, their respective affiliations, and the titles
of their contributions.


Call for PAPERS: February  15, 2000

Each speaker will have about 15 minutes for her/his presentation and about
the same amount of time for discussion. We will only accept one paper per
participant.
Submission of proposals for papers should contain:
  - Name, address (as well as e-mail and phone number) and affiliation of
the
speaker
  - Abstract of the paper proposed (length: 250 words)

ALL proposals should be either
mailed to [log in to unmask] (attached as RTF document) or
sent by fax to +43 1 4277 9476 with the mentioning of 4S/EASST (Ulrike
Felt) on the fax cover page.
Proposals received after this date will be considered on a space-available
basis.

A web-page with extensive informations is accessible via:
http: //www.univie.ac.at/Wissenschaftstheorie/

Local Organizer: Department of Philosophy of Science and Social Studies of
Science (University of Vienna)

Contact persons: Ulrike Felt, Judith Kroell or Tina Thiel at
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Professor Andrew Webster
Director SATSU
Department of Sociology
University of York
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