23-29 Jul 2017
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
The interface between the study of cultural diversity in science and
decision-making in science policy
Symposium at ICHST 2017
Rio de Janeiro, July 23-29, 2017
C a l l f o r A b s t r a c t s
The International Association for Science and Cultural Diversity (IASCUD)
is hosting a symposium titled "The interface between the study of cultural
diversity in science and decision-making in science policy" at the 25th
International Congress of History of Science and Technology to be held in
Rio de Janeiro, 23-29 July 2017. The organisers of the symposium are Nina
Atanasova (Toledo OH, U.S.A.) and Benedikt Loewe (Amsterdam, The
Netherlands & Hamburg, Germany).
The following speakers have tentatively accepted to present at the
symposium:
Annamaria Carusi, University of Sheffield, England
Matthew Inglis, Loughborough University, England
Arun Sharma, Next Einstein Forum, Rwanda
A description of the aims and scope of the symposium can be found at the
bottom of the call for abstracts.
We have 3 to 5 open slots for 30 minute presentations plus 15 min Q&A.
Interested historians, philosophers, anthropologists, sociologists and
other scholars of science and technology are invited to submit abstracts
of no more than 2500 characters, including spaces, and short biographical
notes to the organizers of the symposium at
nina.atanasova@utoledo.edu
by
November 10, 2016.
Please use "Abstract for ICHST symposium" as the subject of your email.
Aims and Scope of the Symposium. Scientific practices show a great deal of
diversity that is reflected in different values, aims, goals, criteria for
success, and measures of quality. Diachronic diversity means that what
were the values and the practice of a field in the past, may not be its
values and practice anymore now, nor will they be its values and practice
in the future; synchronic diversity separates scientific cultures along
lines of disciplines, sectors, geographical regions, and other criteria.
Issues involving geographical cultural diversity connect naturally to the
conference theme Science, Technology and Medicine between the Global and
the Local. Historians, sociologists, and philosophers study the
multi-faceted cultural differences and their effect on science and its
practice.
Decisions in both national and international science policy are intimately
connected to the mentioned cultural diversity of values, aims, goals, and
practices. E.g., the aim that a funding instrument is supposed to achieve
may be seen as desirable in one cultural context, but not in another; even
if two different cultural contexts agree about the desirability of a goal,
a funding instrument that helps in achieving that goal in one cultural
context may be ineffective or even detrimental in another.
In this symposium, we wish to explore the actual and potential connections
between researchers who study the cultural variety of science from
historical, sociological, and philosophical perspectives and the deciders
and stakeholders in both local and global science policy: Are policy
makers informed about the effects of scientific cultural diversity? If so,
how does this affect their decisions? If not, what can researchers of
cultural diversity in science do in order to connect to the decision
makers?
IASCUD (International Association for Science and Cultural Diversity) is
an inter-division commission shared by the two divisions of the
International Union for History and Philosophy of Science and Technology
(IUHPST), the the Division for History of Science and Technology (DHST)
and the Division for Logic, Methodology and Philosophy of Science and
Technology (DLMPST). It was founded in the year 2000 during the VII
Congreso Mexicano de Historia de la Ciencia y la Tecnologia and was
officially commissioned by the DHST/IUHPST in 2001 and by DLMPST/IUHPST in
2015. For more about IASCUD: http://www.iascud.org/
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