{"id":790,"date":"2025-12-22T10:19:53","date_gmt":"2025-12-22T10:19:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/global-science-and-epistemic-justice\/?p=790"},"modified":"2026-01-05T14:15:03","modified_gmt":"2026-01-05T14:15:03","slug":"call-for-papers-commoning-socio-technical-frontiers-easst-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/global-science-and-epistemic-justice\/2025\/12\/22\/call-for-papers-commoning-socio-technical-frontiers-easst-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"Call for Abstracts- Commoning Socio-Technical Frontiers (EASST 2026)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>GSEJ members Dr. <a href=\"https:\/\/research.kent.ac.uk\/global-science-and-epistemic-justice\/person\/821\/\">Oliver Pritchard-Moore<\/a>,\u00a0Dr. <a href=\"https:\/\/research.kent.ac.uk\/global-science-and-epistemic-justice\/person\/katharine-dow\/\">Katie Dow<\/a> and Dr. <a href=\"https:\/\/research.kent.ac.uk\/global-science-and-epistemic-justice\/person\/833\/\">Matthew McKenna<\/a> are convening an <strong>o<\/strong><b>pen panel P014-<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span><\/b><b><i>Commoning socio-technical frontiers: Navigating cutting-edge science and technology through the lens of sympoiesis <\/i><\/b>for the European Association for the Study of Science and Technology&#8217;s (EASST) Biennial Conference, to be held in Krakow, Poland, 8-11 September 2026.<b><i><\/i><\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>Abstract submission link: <\/b><a href=\"https:\/\/nomadit.co.uk\/conference\/easst2026\/p\/17737\"><b>https:\/\/nomadit.co.uk\/conference\/easst2026\/p\/17737<\/b><\/a><b> <\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>Submission Deadline: 28<\/b><b><sup>th<\/sup><\/b><b> February 2026.\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n<p><strong>Panel description &#8211;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>How socio-technical frontiers can be collectively reimagined by addressing epistemic and power asymmetries toward more sympoietic futures? <span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Frontier technologies are entangled with narratives about nature and our relation to it. Such narratives are simultaneously affective (shaping hope, fear, and belonging) and instrumental (mobilised to legitimise innovation, governance, and collective futures), particularly in divided societies.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>This panel seeks to investigate these dynamics through dialogue with perspectives from STS, feminist theory, political ecology, decolonial thought, and cosmopolitics, among others, to explore questions of power, epistemic asymmetries, and the governance of shared resources.<\/p>\n<p>We welcome both empirical and conceptual explorations on \u2018frontier technologies\u2019. This may include but not limited to engineering biology, agricultural science, biomedical technology, sustainability\/biodiversity, space technology, AI, digital technologies and other emerging innovations.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GSEJ members Dr. Oliver Pritchard-Moore,\u00a0Dr. Katie Dow and Dr. Matthew McKenna are convening an open panel P014-\u00a0 Commoning socio-technical frontiers: Navigating cutting-edge science and technology &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/global-science-and-epistemic-justice\/2025\/12\/22\/call-for-papers-commoning-socio-technical-frontiers-easst-2026\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":78017,"featured_media":794,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/global-science-and-epistemic-justice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/790"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/global-science-and-epistemic-justice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/global-science-and-epistemic-justice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/global-science-and-epistemic-justice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/78017"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/global-science-and-epistemic-justice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=790"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/global-science-and-epistemic-justice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/790\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":801,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/global-science-and-epistemic-justice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/790\/revisions\/801"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/global-science-and-epistemic-justice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/794"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/global-science-and-epistemic-justice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=790"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/global-science-and-epistemic-justice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=790"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/global-science-and-epistemic-justice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=790"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}