Category Archives: Conferences Upcoming

Graduate Student Research Symposium – TWU Federation of North Texas Area Universities – Texas Woman’s University

The Federation of North Texas Area Universities is pleased to sponsor its fifth annual Graduate Student Research Symposium on April 25, 2014, at Texas Woman’s University (Symposium Location & Directions). At the Symposium, graduate students from Federation disciplines across the three universities–Texas A&M-Commerce, … Continue reading

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CFP: HASTAC 2014 – Hemispheric Pathways: Critical Makers in International Networks | HASTAC

The challenges facing the Western hemisphere are multidimensional  and complex.  Urban agglomeration, economic development, ecological crisis, military conflict, digital privacy, impediments to advanced learning, negotiations of multiple cultural and historical perspectives—these are problems with scientific and human factors that must … Continue reading

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Institutions starting to walk the Broader Impacts walk

CSID’s own Robert Frodeman is slated to keynote an upcoming Broader Impacts Infrastructure Summit. This summit marks the first of its kind for its focus on institutional infrastructure, primarily at universities and colleges, to support faculty and staff in coordinating, … Continue reading

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INIT Interdisciplines virtual seminar on transdisciplinarity

Welcome to the INIT series on Interdisciplines: INIT, the International Network of Interdisciplinarity and Transdisciplinarity, is continuing to host a Virtual Seminar on Interdisciplinary and Transdisciplinary Horizons on the platform Interdisciplines. We invite everyone to participate in a new forum … Continue reading

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Occupy Impact – the 1st Annual CASRAI International Conference | CASRAI

These guys are on the right track, if you ask me! We feel the ‘occupy’ meme fits the subject well. In our case occupy is not about protest or revolution. It is about getting inside a difficult issue and tackling … Continue reading

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The Future of the European University – WorldWise – The Chronicle of Higher Education

The Future of the European University – WorldWise – The Chronicle of Higher Education.

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Delange Conference – Rice University

The Future of the Research University in a Global Age via Delange Conference – Rice University.

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CFP: Deman – Innovation – Policy

The current policy focus is on the intelligent use of public procurement of innovation, but increasingly a more comprehensive mix of tools are being applied. However, current ‘demand-side’ policy practices are not broadly underpinned by academic studies on appropriate designs and … Continue reading

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CFP: Science-Policy Interactions & Social Values. April 13-14, 2012

Occurring at the University of Texas at Dallas: The Center for Values in Medicine, Science, and Technology seeks proposals for papers and symposia for a conference to wrap up our 2011-2012 public lecture series on Funded and Forbidden Knowledge: Science, Politics, … Continue reading

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Fuller on “The Techno-Human Condition”

Steve Fuller’s review of the book authored by Brad Allenby and Dan Sarewitz appears just in time for the three to get together here at UNT on September 7th, 3:30 — 5:00pm, in Wooten Hall 222. Times Higher Education – … Continue reading

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Cutting Edge Mapping Science Exhibit

CSID is a proud co-sponsor of the Spaces & Places: Mapping Science exhibit. The University of North Texas is pleased to be the first Texas host of this important exhibit as well as the world premier site for the 7th set of … Continue reading

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Community Connectivities / Temporal Belongings

An interdisciplinary residential workshop is being held at the University of Manchester. The meeting will explore the interconnections between time and community (broadly conceived). This is a part of the new UK cross-council research theme of Connected Communities and is … Continue reading

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THATCamp Texas

CSID Fellow Andrew Torget (UNT-History) is coordinating an “unconference” at Rice University. This is part of a nationwide movement to bring together folks from across the humanities & info-tech. According to Wikipedia, an unconference is “a conference where the content … Continue reading

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Multidisciplinary Ethics Conference

September 7-8, 2011: University of Bristol To Receive is Never Neutral: A multi-disciplinary workshop towards an Ethics of Reception This workshop will re-address the diverse responses, receptions, and rejections of ethical theorising to “Classical” narratives, here and now.

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