Montevideo, July 21-24, 2020

SEGUNDA CIRCULAR: Convocatoria a mesas temáticas

El Comité Académico del I Congreso ESOCITE-LALICS comunica la apertura del llamado a presentación de Mesas Temáticas. Se podrán presentar mesas en cualquiera de los ejes orientadores publicados en la primera circular, disponible en http://esocite.lalics.org/ Continue reading →

Montevideo, July 21-24, 2020

La Asociación Latinoamericana de Estudios Sociales de la Ciencia y la Tecnología (ESOCITE) y la Red Latinoamericana sobre sistemas de aprendizaje, innovación y construcción de competencias (LALICS) invitan al Primer Congreso conjunto ESOCITE-LALICS “Democracia en cuestión, desigualdad en aumento, sustentabilidad en riesgo en América Latina y en el mundo: ¿qué propuestas de ciencia, tecnología e innovación?” Continue reading →

New York. April 23-25, 2020

Hosted by NYU’s Gallatin School of Individualized Study with support from the Center for Humanities.

With a keynote address by Brenda Chalfin (Florida), plenary address by Max Liboiron (Memorial University), and a Albert Gallatin lecture and exhibition of the work of Mierle Laderman Ukeles.

Organized by Rosalind Fredericks (NYU), Mohammed Rafi Arefin (NYU), and Robin Nagle (NYU). Continue reading →

Porto Alegre. July 14-18, 2020

Challenges of the 21st Century:
Democracy, Environment, Inequalities, Intersectionality

Twenty years after the start of our century, the optimism of the Millennium has faded and the challenges we face for living together on a limited planet are even more urgent.

While the expansion and the deepening of democratization was taken for granted at the turn of the Millennium, democracy has been at stake in an increasing number of countries, while its key component such as diversity and equal respect for all citizens are threatened. The hope for a global democracy able to tackle global issues such as climate change, migrations and rising inequalities have faded. It has now become clear that to face global challenges, democracy needs to be re-invented within and beyond the representative system. Continue reading →

Nantes. October 23-25, 2019

Theme

Following the 1st 2017 symposium and the 2nd international Conference “Lessons learned: Studying learning devices and processes in relation to technological accidents” organized in December 2018, this 3rd AGORAS Conference is intended above all to be a forum for exchange and dialogue between actors from the academic, industrial, institutional and political worlds, with different disciplines and affiliations, who are interested in risk governance, not limited to nuclear risks. It aims to enrich current reflections and efforts to improve risk governance practices through a hybridization of points of view, essential to provide concrete answers to the complex issues posed by risks and their governance. Continue reading →