CFP for Book Manuscript Workshop

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The Ann Johnson Institute (AJI) for Science, Technology and Society at the University of South Carolina welcomes applications for a one-day book manuscript workshop to be held in Winter/Spring Term 2022. 

3/1/2021

The Ann Johnson Institute (AJI) for Science, Technology and Society at the University of South Carolina welcomes applications for a one-day book manuscript workshop to be held in Winter/Spring Term 2022. 

 

This workshop is targeted towards individuals at any career stage who have not previously published a monograph. The successful applicant will have a first-time book manuscript near completion at the time of applying. He or she will invite, and the AJI will fund, up to three senior experts in the author’s field to campus. A small group of relevant experts within the South Carolina community may also attend.

 

The purpose of this workshop is to support stronger and more rigorous manuscripts from first-time STS authors. Equally, it is geared toward developing communities of colleagues from different disciplines and geographical locations. The AJI is committed to building such communities from the bottom up, seeding them and positioning them to question and reframe complex problems. The AJI takes a broad approach to STS, envisioning it in partnership with historical, philosophical, scientific, engineering and medical approaches, because at the AJI community is the method.

 

The deadline for submissions is 1 March 2021. Please apply via email to aji4sts@gmail.com with “AJI book manuscript workshop” in the subject heading. In the attachment to your email, please include:

• Short CV
• One-page description of the book project, including its current stage of development
• Four to five names of senior experts to invite, please include their rank, University or home department, their field/specialty, and briefly why you would like to invite them (two sentences)

Questions should be sent to the above email with the subject heading "Book Workshop Question".

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