Dear colleagues, We would like to invite you to submit a proposal to our panel on /"STS and international security: Towards convergence?"/ (https://express.converia.de/frontend/index.php?folder_id=10435&page_id=#pane... <https://express.converia.de/frontend/index.php?folder_id=10435&page_id=#panel-124549>) at the upcoming *STS-CH 2025 Conference*, scheduled for *September 10–12, 2025*, in Zurich. Paper proposals are due*May 9, 2025*. Abstracts should not exceed 300 words and submissions must be made via Converia. Please find the panel's abstract below. For more information, visit the STS-CH 2025 Conference Website <https://sts-ch.org/sts-ch-2025/> Feel free to disseminate this CfP. We look forward to your submissions! Best regards, Jens Hälterlein & Matthias Leese --- International Relations (IR) scholars have, in order to grapple with the pre-eminent role of science and technology in international security affairs such as warfare, counterterrorism, or non-proliferation, increasingly turned to STS. Vice versa, while there are notable exceptions of STS scholars engaging the military or questions of secrecy (see Vogel et al. 2017), the discipline has, given the breadth of its work, been relatively reluctant to study matters of international security. Contemporary developments such as the use of AI-enabled weaponry, the tightening of bonds between the civil and the military sector, and the (re)militarization of politics and society would, however, so we contend, warrant much broader and systematic attention of and engagement by STS. Such engagement can be beneficial to deal with new conflicts, growing tensions, and uncertain futures in multiple ways. First, it can expand our understandings of complex, interconnected systems at scale (such as national AI innovation strategies, nuclear arsenals, cyber security infrastructures, and disaster preparedness efforts) and their entanglements with (science) diplomacy, policy-making, and geopolitical strategy. Second, it presents a challenging environment of ethical questions that arise from aspects such as dual-use, surveillance, and state secrecy that tend to interfere with norms of scientific autonomy and public accountability. And third, by engaging in international security matters, STS scholars can inform policy and offer critical perspectives that challenge overly technocratic or militarized approaches to security. This panel calls for contributions that engage the convergence between STS and international security through empirically informed, reflexive, and theoretically ambitious work. -- Dr *Jens Hälterlein (he/him/his)* Department of Media Studies Warburger Str. 100 33098 Paderborn Germany *Office*E0.101 *Telephone*+49 5251 60-3346 *E-Mail*jens.haelterlein@uni- paderborn.de <mailto:jens.haelterlein@uni-paderborn.de> *Web*www.uni- paderborn.de/en/person/94837 <http://www.uni-paderborn.de/en/person/94837> *Project*Meaningful Human Control. Autonomous Weapon Systems between Regulation and Reflexion (MeHuCo) https:// meaningfulhumancontrol.de/en/home/ <https://meaningfulhumancontrol.de/en/home/> *Bluesky*@jenshaelterlein.bsky.social *Academia*https:// zenmem.academia.edu/JensHälterlein <https://zenmem.academia.edu/JensHälterlein> *ResearchGate*https:// www.researchgate.net/profile/Jens-Haelterlein <https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Jens-Haelterlein> *ORCID*https:// orcid.org/0000-0002-0328-2029 <https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0328-2029> *New publications (selection)* Hälterlein, Jens: Governing Autonomies. Imagining Responsible AI in the “Future Combat Air System” European Armament Project. In: T. Bächle / J. Bareis (eds.): The Realities of Autonomous Weapons. Bristol University Press 2025 (forthcoming). Hälterlein, Jens: KI außer Kontrolle. In: IMI Ausdruck, 1/2025, pp. 25-27. https://www.imi-online.de/ download/09_Ausdruck_1_2025_haelterlein.pdf Hälterlein, Jens: Imagining and Governing Artificial Intelligence – the Ordoliberal Way: An Analysis of the National Strategy ‘AI Made in Germany’, In: AI & Society (2024), https://doi.org/10.1007/s00146-024-01940-0. Hälterlein, Jens; Weber, Jutta: "Meaningful Human Control” and Complex Human-Machine Assemblages – On the Limits of Ethical AI Principles in the Context of Autonomous Weapons Systems, In: Ethics and Armed Forces, 2024/1. Hälterlein, Jens: Versicherheitlichung. In: Diskursmonitor. Glossar zur strategischen Kommunikation in öffentlichen Diskursen. Hg. von der Forschungsgruppe Diskursmonitor und Diskursintervention. Veröffentlicht am 15.07.2024. https://diskursmonitor.de/glossar/versicherheitlichung. Hälterlein, Jens: Conflicting Values in Epidemiological Modelling, Simulation and Dashboard-Design. A Contribution to the Analysis of the Epistemisation of Pandemic Politics. In: M. Burkhardt, J. Kropf, C. Ochs & T. Seitz: Frictions. Conflicts, Controversies and Design Alternatives in Digital Valuation. Special Issue of Digital Culture & Society, Vol. 9, Issue 2, 2023, pp. 161-178. Hälterlein, Jens: Facial Recognition in Law Enforcement. In: C. Borch, and J. P. Pardo-Guerra (eds): The Oxford Handbook of the Sociology of Machine Learning. Oxford University Press 2023, pp. 343-360. Hälterlein, Jens: The use of AI in domestic security practices. In: S. Lindgren (ed): Handbook of Critical Studies of Artificial Intelligence. Edward Elgar Publishing 2023, pp. 763–772.