The annual STS symposium of the The Finnish Society for Science and Technology Studies will be held first time at the University of Tampere, 14-15 June, under the topic: Ideals and practice of interdisciplinary research.

We welcome presentations and sessions that explore different areas of interdisciplinary research from everyday academic challenges to philosophical considerations of conducting interdisciplinary research.

Keynote speakers:

Jane Calvert, University of Edinburgh, http://www.stis.ed.ac.uk/people/academic_staff/calvert_jane

Caterina Marchionni, University of Helsinki, https://sites.google.com/site/caterinamarchionni/home

Jaana Parviainen, University of Tampere, http://www.uta.fi/yky/en/research/tasti/Staff/Parviainen.html

Juha Tuunainen, University of Oulu, http://www.oulu.fi/kauppakorkeakoulu/henkilokunta/tuunainen-juha-0

We would like to invite you to propose a session. CfP will be published in early February. If you want to include your session in CfP, please send your abstract (max. 300 word ) to reetta.muhonen@uta.fi by 31 January. Sessions in English and Finnish are accepted.

Please feel free to forward this invitation to any people you think may be interested in attending this event.

Kind regards,

Reetta Muhonen (also on behalf of the organising committee)

Chair of the Finnish Society for Science and Technology Studies

Research Center for Knowledge, Science, Technology and Innovation Studies, TaSTI

University of Tampere, Finland