Re: Call for Abstracts | STS Graz Conference 2026

Reminder I

Dear Colleagues,

This is a gentle reminder to submit your abstract for Session ID-23: "Green Hydrogen Energy Transitions in the Global South: Pathways, Potentials, and Challenges" at the STS Graz Conference 2026.

The session invites interdisciplinary contributions examining green hydrogen and low-carbon energy transitions in the Global South, with a focus on governance, policy, resource dependencies, equity, and just transition pathways.

The conference will be held in a hybrid format, allowing for both onsite and online presentations.

·         Abstract submission deadline: 27 January 2026

·         Full paper submission deadline: 16 June 2026

Abstracts should be 400–600 words, include up to five keywords, and contain authors' contact details. Submissions must be made via the official conference portal.

If your research aligns with the session's themes, we warmly encourage you to submit your abstract before the deadline. We look forward to your contributions and to an engaging discussion at STS Graz 2026.

Warm regards,
Sanoj, Independent Researcher, India sanoj156@gmail.com

Dwarkeshwar Dutt, Consultant, School of Public Policy, IIT Delhi dwarkeshwar@gmail.com

 

On Tue, Dec 16, 2025 at 12:38 PM anup kumar das <anupdas2072@gmail.com> wrote:

Call for Abstracts | STS Graz Conference 2026

Submission Link: https://stsconf.tugraz.at/calls/call-for-abstracts/   

📅 Abstract deadline: 27 January 2026

📄 Full paper submission: 16 June 2026.

We cordially invite abstract submissions for the session titled ID-23 "Green Hydrogen Energy Transitions in the Global South: Pathways, Potentials, and Challenges" at the STS Graz Conference 2026.  As countries in the Global South develop their green hydrogen production capacities, pertinent questions concerning sustainability, industrial development, technological dependence, and equitable energy futures gain importance. This session will critically examine governance frameworks, resource dependencies, equity concerns, and its global to local implications for green hydrogen transitions in the Global South. We welcome contributions from scholars, policymakers, and practitioners who engage with the above themes.
Abstracts should be 400–600 words, include a maximum of five keywords, and contain authors' contact details. Submissions must be made through the online form. If you have any questions or require further information, please do not hesitate to contact us.

With Best Regards                                                                

Sanoj and Dwarkeshwar                                                             

Email Address: Sanoj- sanoj156@gmail.com                  

Dwarkeshwar - dwarkeshwar@gmail.com                                                  

Call for Abstracts: 6th IPPN Conference | Bengaluru, 1-4 June 2026

Dear All,

I hope this email finds you well. I am writing to share the Call for Papers for the 6th India Public Policy Network (IPPN) Conference, hosted by the National Law School of India University (NLSIU), Bengaluru, 1-4 June 2026.

The call for abstracts is now open, and the deadline for submitting conference abstracts is January 31, 2026.

I am also convening a panel titled "NR36. Bridging Innovation and Inclusion: Governance Challenges in the Digital Age." The panel invites papers on accountability, data governance, and responsible innovation in the context of emerging technologies, with a focus on India and the Global South.

Panel details and submission information are available at the following link:

https://www.ippapublicpolicy.org/conference/6th-india-public-policy-network-conference/panel-list/26/panel/bridging-innovation-and-inclusion-governance-challenges-in-the-digital-age/1973

I have attached the Call for Papers document for your reference and circulation.

Thank you very much for your support.

Warm regards,
Neha Sehra

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Other Panels

• 51 Panels:  https://www.ippapublicpolicy.org/conference/6th-india-public-policy-network-conference/panel-list/26/panel/policy-making-for-india-s-evolving-energy-transition-landscape/2024 
• Panel NR05: Policy making for India's evolving energy transition landscape, led by Dwarkeshwar Dutt & Sanoj (JNU)

UNWDF Webinar on Commit to Data on the Road to Riyadh | 20 January at 15:30 IST

UN World Data Forum Webinar on Commit to Data on the Road to Riyadh

Tuesday 20 January at 15:30-16:30 IST / 11:30-12:30PM CET

Register for the webinar.

As part of the Road to Riyadh toward the 2026 UN World Data Forum this November, the UN Statistics Division, together with the General Statistics Authority of Saudi Arabia, Open Data Watch, and PARIS21, will host a webinar on the UNWDF's Commit to Data. Launched at the 2024 UN World Data Forum in Medellín, Commit to Data brings together governments, international organizations, civil society, and the private sector around concrete commitments to strengthen data systems and data use. This webinar will share updates on the initiative, highlight existing and new commitments, and provide the latest information on how to get involved, including the call for session proposals deadline of 26 January.

Speakers 

• Shantanu Mukherjee, Acting Director, United Nations Statistics Division

• Dr. Fahad Aldossari, President, General Authority for Statistics of Saudi Arabia (GASTAT)

• Shaida Badiee, Managing Director, Open Data Watch

• Johannes Jütting, Executive Head, PARIS21

• Amelia Greaves, Senior Program Manager, Equality Insights, International Women's Development Agency

• Professor Samuel Annim, Director, African Centre for Statistics, United Nations Economic Commission for Africa

• Ian Rutherford, Statistician, UN Statistics Division

CfPs: STI for Social Good: Adapting Policy, Society and Industries for Sustainable Development | 22–24 July, Malaysia

STI for Social Good: Adapting Policy, Society and Industries for Sustainable Development

22–24 July 2026 | Kota Kinabalu, Malaysia

https://umevent.um.edu.my/ICONSTS2026

The global call for sustainability demands more than innovation—it requires the strategic alignment of science, technology, and innovation (STI) with societal needs, policy agendas, and industrial transformation. The International Conference on Science, Technology and Society 2026 seeks to catalyze a dynamic dialogue between academics, policymakers, and thought leaders to explore how STI can advance social good in the face of climate change, inequality, and rapid technological change. This conference offers a critical space for cross-sector dialogue and policy-relevant knowledge exchange, bridging research with real-world impact across Asia and the Global South. We invite empirical studies, conceptual papers, and policy briefs that examine the evolving intersections of science communication, public engagement, and STI policy for sustainable development. The conference welcomes interdisciplinary contributions that address the following themes: We especially encourage participation from early-career scholars, government think tanks, and regional innovation or science policy agencies.

Conference Themes

1. Science Communication 

• Science Literacy: Measurement, Evaluation and Monitoring

• Science Communication and Public Engagement for Sustainable Development

• Science Communication Industry Development (e.g., STEM Education, Science Fiction)

• Impact Assessment for Science Communication

2. Innovation Ecosystems 

• Technology Development and Management

• Science, Technology and Innovation Policy

• Economics of Science, Technology and Innovation

• Blue Economy

• Green Economy

3. Socio-Cultural Deliberation & Science Diplomacy 

• Global Public Deliberation in Science and Technology,  Knowledge Pluralism and Policy Interface (the O.D.E.SS.I. stream)

• Action Research for Sustainable Development

• Ethics and Social Values in STI

• History and Philosophy of Science

Submission portal: https://umevent.um.edu.my/iCONSTS2026=20125fd9b2d43e340a35fb0278da235d 

Submission deadline: 1 February 2026

Call for Abstracts: Global Public Deliberation in Science and Technology: Knowledge Pluralism and the Policy Interface | 22–24 July, Malaysia

Call for Abstracts

Global Public Deliberation in Science and Technology: Knowledge Pluralism and the Policy Interface

Abstract length: up to 250 words

Submission deadline: 1 February 2026

 22–24 July 2026 | Kota Kinabalu, Malaysia

 

In 2025, an international group of academics and civil society partners jointly called for a new Odyssey—O.D.E.SS.I. (Open, Deliberative, Enabling, Sensible & Sensitive, and Innovative)—for public engagement in science and science diplomacy, responding to growing challenges of epistemic fragmentation, governance asymmetries, and declining public trust at science–policy interfaces.

 

The International Conference on Science, Technology and Society 2026, taking place 22–24 July 2026 in Kota Kinabalu, Malaysia, has established a dedicated conference stream titled 'Global Public Deliberation in Science and Technology: Knowledge Pluralism and the Policy Interface', building on the O.D.E.SS.I. framework.

 

This stream is envisioned as a space for critical engagement, conceptual extension, and empirical exploration of global public deliberation. We warmly invite abstract submissions (maximum 250 words) from scholars, policymakers, practitioners, and civil-society actors seeking to critique, deepen, and expand O.D.E.SS.I. and broader practices of global public deliberation in science and technology.

 

Submission portal:
https://umevent.um.edu.my/iCONSTS2026=20125fd9b2d43e340a35fb0278da235d

Call for Papers: SCSNEI-JNU National Seminar on "Empire, Frontier and the Agrarian World"

Call for Papers

National Seminar on "Empire, Frontier and the Agrarian World"

12-13 March 2026

Organized by:  Special Centre for the Study of North East India, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi

Concept Note
Empire building in the 19th century led to a range of transformations in spaces which were construed as frontiers. A significant element in this regard pertained to the encounters and transformations that came to characterise the agrarian world of such spaces. Focusing on the Northeast frontier of British India, this Seminar (Webinar) aims to explore how imperial expansion in the region brought about a range of transformations in the region's agrarian world. For instance, some of this includes new forms of land classifications and land relations; revenue structures; agrarian technologies; village systems; practices of resource regimes; labour relations; plant capitalism; animal, labour and transport; insects; diseases; imperial knowledge production to forms of anti-colonial resistances; cultural representation of and by the agrarian world; as well as social transformations that impacted, and also restructured, existing social, moral and ecological ideas and understandings. The trans-regional networks and mobilities that characterized the socio-economic and moral lifeworld of different communities of the region were also significant aspects in the changing agrarian world of the region in the 19th to mid-20th century. In addition to the above dimensions, this Seminar (Webinar) is also interested in exploring the entanglements of agriculture and trade under imperial conditions, practices and representations of cash economy as well as new forms of commodity practices, the scale and role of imperial opium economy among different agrarian communities of the region, agrarian transformations in the foothills during the period, agrarian cycles and the social reproduction of village under imperial conditions, and agrarian relations and new ideas and practices of identity. This Seminar (Webinar) not only aims to engage with the rich body of existing studies on the agrarian world of the region during the period, but also with new research that not only provides important insights at specific spatial or social level, but also open up understanding wider regional and global trajectories. The National Seminar (Webinar), "Empire, Frontier and the Agrarian World", focusing on the period from the 19th to mid-20th century, organized by Special Centre for the Study of North East India, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, invites scholars at various stages of their careers, including advanced PhD scholars, to submit abstracts that engage with some of the above issues and concerns. Some of the broad themes which the Seminar (Webinar) aims to engage with, but not limited to, are as below:

•    Agrarian knowledge and technology

•    Empire, frontier, and the agrarian world
•    Colonialism, village economy and agrarian policies
•    Plant capitalism (rice, jute, tea, opium, rubber, silk, etc.)
•    Forms of labour: human and non-human
•    The agrarian world of the peasant
•    Agriculture, transport, mobility
•    Trade, market, agents, institutions
•    Commodities, frontier
•    Diseases, medicine and the agrarian world
•    Hunting, forests, and the agrarian world
•    Agrarian practices, region, global
•    Writing, telling and representing the agrarian

Interested scholars may kindly send in their abstracts of 300 words, along with a brief bio, by 31 January 2026 to the following email addresses: manjeetbaruah@gmail.com; lipokmardzuvichu@gmail.com. The selected abstracts will be notified by 06 February 2026. For abstracts that have been selected, a working paper of 3000-4000 words will be due by 27 February 2026 for pre-circulation.

FDP on Systematic Review, Meta-analysis, Bibliometrics, and Responsible AI in Scientific Research | 16-22 February; Kolkata, India

FDP on Systematic Review, Meta-analysis, Bibliometrics, and Responsible AI in Scientific Research

Date: 16-22 February 2026

Venue: Institute of Development Studies Kolkata, Salt Lake, Kolkata, West Bengal, India

The Institute of Development Studies Kolkata (IDSK), the Indian Statistical Institute (ISI), Kolkata, and Presidency University, Kolkata jointly invite applications from scholars, faculty members, and postgraduate students from all disciplines for a seven-day Workshop-cum-Faculty Development Programme on Systematic Review, Meta-analysis, Bibliometrics, and Responsible AI in Scientific Research, scheduled for 16–22 February 2026.
Objectives:
The programme is designed to strengthen the methodological competencies of early-career researchers in systematic review, meta-analysis, and bibliometric techniques, with a focus on open-source analytical environments. It integrates training in scientific writing, research integrity, and responsible AI to support transparent and high-quality scholarly communication. Participants will receive hands-on training in data management, analysis, and visualisation. The curriculum introduces structured and reproducible review methodologies aligned with PRISMA standards, including protocol development, advanced search strategies, data extraction, critical appraisal, effect size estimation, and research mapping. Training will incorporate R- and Python-based workflows, VOSviewer, Biblioshiny, ASReview, and other open platforms to promote openness, reproducibility, and robust research practices.
Target Participants: The workshop is intended for the faculty members, doctoral researchers, and postgraduate students including those preparing for doctoral enrolment, as well as independent researchers across STEM fields, medicine and public health, social sciences, business studies, and interdisciplinary domains. Librarians, information professionals, data stewards, and practitioners engaged in evidence synthesis, research evaluation, or research support services are also encouraged to apply. No prior experience is required, although basic familiarity with research design will be helpful.
Intake Capacity: 30 (Thirty)
How to Apply:
Applications must be submitted through the following link: https://forms.gle/hKRUBYJVZDYBRFvv8 . Selected applicants will be required to pay the registration fee (Payment details will be shared with selected participants in due course).  Registration Fee: INR 4,499/- for Faculty and Working Professionals; INR 3,999/- for Scholars, Students, and Others. What we provide: Workshop Kits; Tea/coffee and Lunch on all seven days; Certificate of participation. Note: Participants should bring their own laptops. Accommodation: Participants must arrange their own accommodation; however, assistance in getting nearby options can be provided upon request.
Important Dates

• Last date of submitting application: January 25, 2026
• Last date of making payment: January 28, 2026

Further Details | Registration Form