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The most recent issue of Economic Sociology - The European Electronic Newsletter (Vol. 10, No. 1, November 2008) is out. The contents include “Accounting for Economic Sociology” by Andrea Mennicken, Peter Miller, and Rita Samiolo; “Talking Numbers - Governing Immaterial Labour” by Uwe Vormbusch; “Accounting at the Heart of the Performativity of Economics” by Eve Chiapello; “Global or Local? Travelling Management Accounting Ideas” by Albrecht Becker; and an interview with Anthony Hopwood. Go to the Economic Sociology website or download the PDF directly from here.

Annemarie Mol will be giving a talk entitled “What medicine is” at the Centre for the Study of Invention and Social Process (CSISP) at Goldsmiths from 4pm to 6pm on Thursday 6 November 2008. Here is a PDF flyer for the event. Further details are available on the CSISP website. The abstract is reproduced below.

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Our warmest congratulations to professor Steve Woolgar for having been awarded the prestigious J. D. Bernal Prize by the Society for the Social Studies of Science (4S).

The announcement for Collapse V (entitled The Copernican Imperative) is out and it is full of tasty and tongue-twisting words such as Copernicanism, deanthropomorphisation, xenoscience, nemocentrism, scientism and correlationism, thus promising a thought-provoking encounter between science, philosophy and art.

The next biennial meeting (or the 16th International Conference) of the Society for Philosophy and Technology (SPT) will take place on 8-10 July 2009 at the University of Twente, the Netherlands. Convergence and ethics figure heavily as recurrent themes among the 15 different tracks. The full call for papers is available here.  The deadline for abstracts is 5 January 2009 has been extended to 31 January 2009. SPT also publishes the journal Techné: Research in Philosophy and Technology.