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，该研讨会将在三个领域探索科学和技术的宪法层面：生命科学、信息技术和经济学。研讨会参与者将讨论一些相关问题。科学和技术在塑造、制定和/或改变现有宪法秩序方面发挥了什么作用？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？在一个日益技术化的世界里，加深对科学和技术的宪法层面的理解可以给法律和民主治理的理论和实践带来什么？讲习班将汇集大西洋两岸的初级和高级学者，以促进大西洋两岸的协同作用和合作，以促进科学和技术研究中关于科学、技术、法律和治理相互作用的研究。会议将于2017年秋季在华盛顿特区举行，将有来自STS和相关学科的约50名学者和从业者参加。研究生和博士后将通过专门的课程得到特别支持。讲习班成果将通过网络广泛传播。讲习班将产生新的教学和研究资源和学术出版物，可能以同行评议的期刊特刊或编辑卷的形式，以及广泛传播的、可供公众查阅的写作形式。研讨会亦将致力建立新的专业联系，包括学者与政策实践者之间的联系。会议将汇集有关科技科学规范层面的最新思考，以及它与传统宪制秩序概念的关系。在这样做的过程中，它将建立在STS和其他一些领域最近的工作基础上，包括生物宪政、本体论和治理、基础设施政治和关键的法律研究。利用多个领域的学术和经验范例，研讨会将探讨“技术科学宪政”这一题目下的交叉主题。通过将德国和美国的学者聚集在一起，研讨会将邀请对文化差异的显著形式进行研究，这些形式塑造了新兴的科学和技术形式如何融入、扰乱或改变不同宪法制度下的社会和法律秩序。通过汇聚来自德国和美国的STS和其他学科的学者，研讨会将促进合作，并为未来跨越地理和学科边界的研究铺平道路。一群不同的初级和高级学者将有组织的机会与更多的资深学者合作，展示他们的研究，并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.