4TU.Ethics-BAC21: It's Alive! - 4TU.Ethics bi-annual conference on Ethics and Technology Onsite (t.b.a) and Online Wageningen, Netherlands, October 14-15, 2021 |
Conference website | https://ethicsandtechnology.eu/4tu-ethics-bac-2021/ |
Submission link | https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=4tuethicsbac21 |
Submission deadline | April 15, 2021 |
IT'S ALIVE!
4TU.Ethics Bi-annual Conference 2021
Novel technologies enable us to manipulate and shape phenomena that have long been taken to be given and natural. At the same time, our control of nature is limited, as the covid-19 pandemic and climate change show. Moreover, technologies themselves are also increasingly exerting influence on us – artificial intelligence, robotics, health surveillance. The boundaries between technological artefacts and living entities are becoming less and less clear, and this is raising ethical and political debate at all societal levels, from local to global. We welcome contributions that will engage with the conceptual, ethical, and political issues associated with the way in which humanity can manipulate living systems and nature and how technologies are changing us as well. We especially encourage global and intercultural contributions to this conference.
Submission Guidelines
You can submit an abstract for a complete symposium, a discussion paper, or a poster presentation. All abstracts will be peer-reviewed; abstracts for papers might receive a decision that they are accepted for the poster session.
Symposia: a symposium is an 75 minutes session around one theme, with 5 short presentations and a general discussion. An abstract for a symposium contains (a) title, (b) names and affiliations of 5 contributors, (b) description in 350 words including a brief explanation of the setup of interaction with the audience. Note that there is room for not more than 8 symposia in the conference. All contributors must register for the conference.
Panel discussions: a panel discussion is an 75 minutes session in which two separate discussion papers are discussed in depth. If the submitted abstract (350 words) is accepted, the papers to be discussed will be available to the audience to read in advance and the authors are committed to submit this paper (4000 words maximum) by 15th September at the latest. The author does not present their paper, and instead has ample opportunity to respond to a critique of a designated commentator.
Poster presentations: posters will be publicly available online during the conference. Authors of accepted poster abstracts (350 words) will be given timeslots in which they give a short online presentation (5 minutes) next to their poster after which the audience can ask questions.
Scientific Programme Committee
- Marcel Verweij (Chair)
- Lily Frank
- Zoë Robaey
- Patrick Smith
- Elena Ziliotti
- Karen Buchanan
Keynote Speakers
To be announced
Venue
At the start of 2021 it is unclear what the possibilities are for a conference in October. We are looking forward to meet our colleagues in person but realize that many will be reluctant or unable to travel to Wageningen. Therefore, we opt for a combination of in-person and online activities. On 14 October we will hosta safe in-person meeting in Ede/Wageningen, The Netherlands, with possibilities for remote online participation. We hope to make it a real social event onsite – of course, taking all Covid-19 measures seriously. On 15 October all sessions will be online only. We will see to it that also online participation will be stimulating, engaging and fun.
If meetings are still not allowed, the whole conference will be online.
Contact
All questions about submissions should be emailed to the Scientific Committee c/o Karen Buchanan k.s.buchanan@tue.nl