The first annual conference of the Asia Pacific STS Network brings together researchers involved in STS studies in the Asia-Pacific region (East Asia, Southeast Asia, and Australasia near the Pacific Ocean plus the states in Oceania) for stronger regional STS networking and critical discussions about S&T for the new millennium, environmental sustainability, and STS issues of interest to indigenous peoples.

Abstracts are invited in 3 categories (formal papers, roundtable discussion presentations, and posters) on the themes:
 

• Environment, and sustainability transitions
• Indigenous people, science and technologies
• Life techno/sciences
• Governance, public policy, community
• Utopia and dystopia: Science and technology for the new millennium
• Conceptual and methodological innovations

For more details, keynote speakers, sponsors, events, registration fees, and online submission of abstracts: see APSTSNetwork Conference website at:

http://www.griffith.edu.au/conference/asia-pacific-science-technology-society-network-conference-2009/
 
Submissions close 15 September (see submission form for details and postgraduate/indigenous researcher travel bursaries)