Call for Papers for the 2nd Beijing Graduate Academic Forum on the History of Science and Philosophy

Call for Papers for the 2nd Beijing Graduate Academic Forum on the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology

In order to promote scholarship, foster exchanges among young scholars in the field of dialectics of nature at universities across the Beijing area, and create more opportunities for understanding and communication between senior and junior scholars, the Institute for Science, Technology, and Society Studies at the School of Humanities, Tsinghua University, together with the Center for Studies of Science and Society at Peking University and other institutions, jointly initiated and organized last year the Graduate Academic Forum of Beijing’s philosophy of science and technology circles. The inaugural forum was successfully held at Tsinghua University in November 2010, creating a positive atmosphere in Beijing’s academic community of philosophy of science and technology.

This year, the 2nd forum will be hosted by Peking University and renamed the “Beijing Graduate Academic Forum on the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology,” with a focus on graduate students in all programs related to the history and philosophy of science and technology in the Beijing area. This forum will be co-organized by institutions with doctoral programs (including Tsinghua University, Renmin University of China, Beijing Normal University, the Graduate School of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, the Institute for the History of Natural Sciences of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, which participated last year, as well as Beijing University of Science and Technology, the Central Party School, and others newly joining this year), and all institutions with master’s programs will also be invited to participate (for a total of about 18 institutions), truly forming a public platform for exchange among graduate students in the history and philosophy of science and technology in the Beijing area.

As with the first forum, this one will also be entirely run and organized by students, but distinguished professors from the academic community will be invited to provide commentary. Peking University will provide the relevant funding and venue.

This forum will still not pre-set a specific theme; as long as the paper is related to the “history and philosophy of science and technology” field (history of science and technology, philosophy of science and technology, science, technology, and society, etc.), submissions are welcome. Authors of outstanding papers will present at the conference, and teachers and students in relevant fields will be invited to comment. Papers that are not selected for presentation will also be shared through poster displays, printed collections, and other means.

The time of the forum has not yet been finalized; it is tentatively scheduled for November 2011, with the deadline for submissions at the end of October. We hope students from all universities will help publicize it and submit papers enthusiastically.

For information and the latest updates about the forum, please pay attention to the news section of this forum’s BBS: http://bbs.yilinhut.com/thread.php?fid=4。

Please send the electronic version of your paper to the contact person at your institution, or post it directly in the submission section of the forum BBS here (see Submission Guidelines). All submissions will be reviewed through public discussion + anonymous voting.

If you have any questions or suggestions, please feel free to contact the general liaison for this forum, Hu Yilin (HYL510@gmail.com, QQ: 160467), or speak on the BBS.