Neuigkeiten & Blog
“Utopias for our Times”: IPSP Authors Speak at UC Louvain–KU Leuven Conference
On September 29-30, the Université catholique de Louvain (UCL) and the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium, will host a conference in honor of the 500th anniversary of Thomas More's Utopia as well as the 25th anniversary of UCL's Hoover Chair of Economic and...
Spotlight on Chapter 14: Advocating “Principled Distance” between State and Religions
This is an abridged version of section 2.2 of Chapter 14 "Inequality as a Challenge to Democracy" In a society with multiple religions, members of one religious group may treat members of other religious groups as unequals: Let this be called inter-religious...
Spotlight on Chapter 1: Social trends and new geographies
This excerpt from chapter 1 analyzes the tension between capitalism and democracy, under the light of historical trends (This is a much compressed version of section 4 of the chapter.) The paradox of the present During the final decade of the twentieth century,...
IPSP session at the 50th anniversary SPRU conference, Sept. 8, 2016
At the SPRU 50th anniversary conference organized by Johan Schot on Sept. 7-9 at the University of Sussex, a special session on IPSP will gather several IPSP authors. More details can be found here.
Plenary on IPSP at the EASST Conference in Barcelona, Aug. 31, 2016
Rethinking Society for the 21st Century: Developing a Science and Technology Studies Perspective Panelists: Johan Schot, Introduction to the IPSP and the STS contribution Saurabh Arora, Social Progress a Compass Eden Media, Supranational Organizations and Technologies...