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Filip Vostal from the Centre for Science, Technology and Sociology Studies of the Institute of Philosophy, CAS was elected a member of the EASST Council, an organization representing academics and researchers from the fields of science, technology and innovation studies. The Association brings together a variety of both natural science/engineering and social sciences disciplines and its objective is to foster within Europe the scholarly study of science and technology including their historical development and their role in society. 

Joint doctoral programme of the Institute of Philosophy, of the CAS and the Faculty of Arts, University of West Bohemia (Pilsen), enables PhD students to participate in projects of both these institutions, to choose a supervisor from any of them and to do part of their studies at their alma mater and part at the Institute of Philosophy of the Czech Academy of Sciences. Application deadline is 31 May 2021. For further information about the programme click HERE.

Joint doctoral programme of the Institute of Philosophy, of the CAS and the Faculty of Education, Charles University (Prague), enables PhD students to participate in projects of both these institutions, to choose a supervisor from any of them and to do part of their studies at their alma mater and part at the Institute of Philosophy of the Czech Academy of Sciences. Application deadline is 30 April 2021. For further information about the programme click HERE. Leaflet in pdf.

A recent workshop organized by the editorial team of the Contradictions journal highlights dissident concepts that are based on non-liberal-minded intellectual traditions. See our YouTube channel.

The spread of the Covid-19 virus has in many cases significantly affected the usual mode of scientific work. It has also produced new challenges for the existing "rules" for the development and use of technologies. The aim of thematic issue of the Theory of Science journal is to address the question of what is an "emergency situation" in relation to science and to do so from the perspective of studies of in science and technology. Call for papers.

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Have you held an international conference in uncertain Covid times? Have you challenged a sequence of decisions whether to move it online or cancel it? Then you had to quickly re-order all the organizational ordering and to give a hard thought how to “translate normal physical conference“ into a virtual meeting of hundreds of people…?! Share experiences of your colleagues in a reflection written by Filip Vostal who talks about the preparations of this years´ conference entitled “Locating and Timing Matters: Significance and Agency of STS in Emerging Worlds.”

CONTRADICTIONS, billingual journal dedicated to professional research and discussions about history and presence of critical social thought in Central and Eastern Europe was included in Scopus, the largest index database of reviewed literature. The Scopus brings a complex overview of world´s research outcomes in science, technology, medicine, social sciences and humanities.