Dear EASST colleagues,
We write to share with you a Call for Papers (below) for a workshop on “Constitutionalism in Digital and Environmental Transformation” that will take place March 14-16 at ETH Zürich.
Best,
Margo Boenig-Liptsin and Nicole Bassoff
Constitutionalism in digital and environmental transformation
ETH Zürich, March 14-16, 2024
Since the turn of the new millennium, STS scholars presciently pointed to the constitutional dimensions of science and technology, observing how tacit transformation to constitutional orders are enacted around emergent technoscientific developments (Jasanoff 2003; Callon et al. 2009; Jasanoff 2011; Hurlbut et al 2020). Twenty years later, societies around the world are said to be at the threshold of unprecedented digital and environmental transformation. Numerous initiatives by scientists and technologists, civil society, and governments to respond to and shape the perceived twin transformations make the relevance of tacit constitutionalism increasingly apparent. At the same time, societies' commitments to constitutions and processes of constitution-making today are frequently challenged by the emergency actions authorized in the revolutionary framing of the present transformations.
The Constitutionalism in digital and environmental transformation workshop invites scholars to investigate the forms of tacit constitutionalism in contemporary projects of digital and environmental transformation and the significance of this for just and democratic societies. Participants will work together on an edited volume to bring empirical insights into processes of digital and environmental transformation today, contribute to the development of theory for the analysis of science, technology and democracy, and articulate the significance of the commitment to constitutionalism in the context of the contemporary world.
Publication
This conference will be a forum for participants to workshop papers in preparation for publication in an edited volume. Accepted participants will be asked to submit a partial or full draft paper (at least 4000 words for partial drafts, max. 8000 words for full drafts) and give a short presentation on their material for feedback from the group. We will have a 2nd authors' workshop in July 2024 to finalize the papers. Please submit your abstracts to the conference only if you are willing to eventually submit your paper for the edited volume. We aim to submit the volume to a publisher by the end of October 2024.
Submission
Please submit your 400-word abstract (not including references) and bio (up to 250 words) by January 8 via this submission form. Authors invited to the conference are expected to provide a partial or full draft of their paper two weeks before the conference, by March 1.
Timeline
January 8, 2023: Abstracts due
January 30, 2024: Decisions communicated to authors
March 1, 2024: Submit draft papers for workshop
March 14-16, 2024: In-person workshop in Zürich, Switzerland
July 12 2024: 2nd authors' workshop in Zürich, Switzerland (this is an approximate date, exact date to be coordinated among participants)
October 31, 2024: Edited volume submitted to publisher
For the full Call for Papers, please visit the workshop page.
Please send any questions to mboenig@ethz.ch.
Organizers
Margarita Boenig-Liptsin / Ethics, Technology and Society, ETH Zürich / mboenig@ethz.ch
Nicole West Bassoff / Public Policy, Harvard University / nbassoff@fas.harvard.edu
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Prof. Dr. Margarita Boenig-Liptsin
Assistant Professor for Ethics, Technology and Society
Department of Humanities, Social and Political Sciences
ETH Zürich
STB F 20.2
Stampfenbachstrasse 69
CH-8006 Zurich / Switzerland
mboenig@ethz.ch
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