The STS Conference Graz 2014 invites interested researchers (especially postgraduates and young researchers) in the areas of science and technology studies and sustainability studies to give presentations. The conference provides a forum to discuss on a broad variety of topics in these fields – especially abstracts are encouraged which include some aspects of the conference themes or special sessions:
- Gendered careers and disciplinary cultures in science and technology
- Life Sciences/Biotechnology
- Towards Low-Carbon Energy Systems
- Challenges in Green Public Procurement (GPP) Research
- Sustainable Food Systems
- Social justice and Diversity
- Energy systems in transition – strategies of incumbent actors
- Energy Consumption in Organizational Settings
- Foodscapes Beyond the Alternative/Conventional Food Networks Binary
- Key Concepts of Agro-Food Studies
- Bodies – Technologies – Gender
- The politics of ICTs
- Inside the Parliament
- From STS to SSH: Translating STS concepts for the study of social sciences and humanities (SSH)
- Societal discourse on Synthetic Biology
