Workshop: Exploring New Horizons in STS Research at the Intersection of Science, Technology, Law, and Governance

该奖项为德美联合研讨会提供支持，该研讨会将在生命科学、信息技术和经济学三个领域探索科学和技术的宪法层面。研讨会与会者将讨论一些相关问题。科学和技术在塑造、颁布和/或改变现有宪法秩序方面发挥什么作用？它们对改变我们对权利、责任、公民身份、治理和监管的理解有什么影响？在一个日益技术科学化的世界里，对科学和技术的宪法层面的深入理解能给法律和民主治理的理论和实践带来什么？该研讨会将汇集来自大西洋两岸的初级和高级学者，以促进跨大西洋的协同作用和合作，以推进科学技术研究中科学，技术，法律和治理相互作用的研究。会议将在华盛顿，华盛顿特区举行，在2017年秋季，将有大约50名学者和从业者从STS和相关学科。研究生和博士后将通过专门的会议特别支持。讲习班的成果将通过网络广泛提供。讲习班将产生新的教学和研究资源，以及学术出版物，可能是同行评审期刊特刊或编辑卷的形式，以及广泛传播的、公众可获得的写作形式。研讨会还将寻求促进新的专业联系，包括学者和政策实践者之间的联系。会议将汇集有关技术科学规范层面及其与宪法秩序传统观念关系的最新思考。在这样做的过程中，它将建立在STS和超越，包括生物宪政，本体论和治理，基础设施政治，关键的法律的研究领域的一些最近的工作。研讨会将借鉴多个领域的学术和经验范例，探讨“技术科学宪政”标题下的交叉主题。“通过吸引来自德国和美国的学者，研讨会将邀请对文化差异的突出形式进行研究，这些形式塑造了新兴的科学和技术如何融入，扰乱或改变不同宪法制度中的社会和法律的秩序。通过汇集来自德国和美国的STS和其他学科的学者，研讨会将促进合作，并为未来跨地域和学科的研究铺平道路。一个多元化的初级和高级学者群体将有结构化的机会与更高级的学者一起工作，展示他们的研究和发展新的知识和专业联系。该奖项由国际科学与工程办公室共同资助。

This award provides support for a joint German-US workshop that will explore the constitutional dimensions of science and technology in three domains: life sciences, information technology, and economics. The workshop participants will address a number of related questions. What roles do science and technology play in shaping, enacting and/or transforming existing constitutional orders? What implications do they have for changing our understanding of rights, responsibilities, citizenship, governance, and regulation? What can a deepened understanding of the constitutional dimensions of science and technology bring to the theory and practice of law and democratic governance in an increasingly technoscientific world? The workshop will bring together both junior and senior scholars from both sides of the Atlantic to foster transatlantic synergies and collaborations oriented to advancing research in Science and Technology Studies on the interplay of science, technology, law and governance. The conference will take place in Washington, D.C., in the fall of 2017 and will feature about 50 scholars and practitioners from STS and related disciplines. Graduate students and postdocs will be especially supported through dedicated sessions. Workshop outcomes will be made widely accessible via the web. The workshop will generate new teaching and research resources, and scholarly publications, likely in the form of a special issue of a peer-reviewed journal or an edited volume, as well widely disseminated, publicly accessible forms of writing. The workshop will also seek to foster new professional connections including those between scholars and policy practitioners.The conference will draw together recent thinking about the normative dimensions of technoscience and its relation to conventional ideas of constitutional order. In doing so, it will build upon recent work across a number of domains in STS and beyond, including bio-constitutionalism, ontology and governance, infrastructure politics, and critical legal studies. Drawing on scholarship and empirical examples from multiple domains, the workshop will explore cross-cutting themes under the rubric of "technoscientific constitutionalism." By drawing together scholars from Germany and the US, the workshop will invite research on salient forms of cultural variation that shape how emerging forms of science and technology are integrated into, perturb, or alter social and legal order in different constitutional regimes. By bringing together scholars from STS and other disciplines from both Germany and the U.S., the workshop will foster collaboration and pave the way for future research across geographical and disciplinary boundaries. A diverse group of junior and senior scholars will have structured opportunities to work together with more senior scholars, showcase their research and develop new intellectual and professional connections. This award is cofunded by the Office of International Science and Engineering.