** High Priority ** Dear Colleagues Please see below for the CFP for a special themed edition of iJETS *Deliberating Converging Technologies*. Please circulate to all interested networks. All enquiries should be directed in the first instance to Dr Gerd Scholl. Kind regards Sue Malta Managing Editor, iJETS www.swin.edu.au/ijets smalta@swin.edu.au Dear colleagues, in October 2012, iJETS will be publishing a special themed edition entitled:*Deliberating Converging Technologies*. The issue will take an international comparative perspective on public engagement with emerging technologies, such as nanotechnologies. It will reflect upon the experiences made with different public engagement exercises on new technologies in different countries and cover a wide range of initiators of these processes, such as academia, public authorities, enterprises, NGO’s, et cetera. It will critically assess public participation especially on nanotechnologies from a cross national and cross cultural perspective. Based on the outcomes of these assessments, it will sketch possible perspectives of deliberation on converging technologies. Contributions may deal with different participation cultures and institutional settings of engagement, for example, one-off events versus network-oriented processes. They may elaborate on questions such as legitimisation and performance of deliberative dialogues, methodological aspects of engagement, for example, the role of electronic communication and new media, and relation to and impact upon (political) decision-making. Furthermore contributions are invited focussing on impacts of public engagement on innovation and technology governance and the shaping of future technologies. The Editors for this edition will be Gerd Scholl, Ulrich Petschow and Jan-Peter Ferdinand of the Institute for Ecological Economy Research (IÖW), Berlin, Germany. Gerd and Ulrich are senior researchers at IÖW and have co-organised the German Consumer Conference on Nanotechnologies (2006/2007). They were partners in the European NANOPLAT project (2008/2009) – a project that, amongst others, reviewed deliberative processes on nanotechnologies in Europe, both at the EU and national level. Jan-Peter is a research associate at IÖW with a background in science and technology studies. iJETS is a multi-disciplinary journal and, as such, speaks to a wide audience. We welcome contributions from all branches of the social and behavioural sciences and the humanities. We also welcome contributions from those in the physical and life sciences with a concern for the social dimensions of science. The different disciplines all have their own specialised languages, making communication between disciplines all but impossible. For this reason iJETS insists upon clear and direct language, facilitating communication between specialists and the general public. All papers will be subjected to double blind, peer-review. The tentativeschedule for the special themed edition is as follows: - 15 Oct 2011: submission of abstracts of approx. 250 words (title, some relevant details about the topic, and a short biography of the author or authors involved) - 15 Nov 2011: invitations to submit a full paper - 15 March 2012: submission of full papers - 15 May 2012: reviews: revisions or rejections - 15 Aug 2012: submission of revised papers - 15 Oct 2012: publication of special issue Please pass this Call for Papers on to anyone who could be interested in submitting an abstract. Thank you very much. If you require any further information, please do not hesitate to contact me. Kind regards Gerd Scholl Dr Gerd Scholl Head of Research Field Ecological Consumption Institute for Ecological Economy Research (IÖW) Potsdamer Str. 105 10785 Berlin Germany Tel. +49 (30) 884594-20 Fax +49 (30) 8825439 gerd.scholl@ioew.de www.ioew.de