Engineering, Social Justice and Peace

Está aberto até dia 1 de Fevereiro de 2010 o período para o envio de resumos para apresentação na conferência "Engineering, Social Justice and Peace" a realizar em Agosto de 2010 em Londres.
Descrição do evento retirada do site:

"The Engineering, Social Justice, and Peace (ESJP) network are delighted to announce their Sixth Annual International Conference, to be co-hosted with the Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce (The RSA) in London from August 4th to 6th 2010 in collaboration with the Higher Education Academy Engineering Subject Centre and Engineers Against Poverty.

Abstracts for presentations are welcome which:

1. Critique of existing or past practices and presentation of just alternatives especially in relation to the engagement of engineers with the communities, which they serve.
2. Critique of or alternative forms of equitable engineering organization and management.
3. Examples of pedagogies, curriculum or community service learning which promote socially just engineering practice.
We also welcome newcomers and students who are interested and have not yet begun to work in this area. Introductory sessions will be designed with this group in mind.

The international interdisciplinary ESJP network formed in 2004 and has grown in its passion and mission to create a knowledge base, support network, scholarship, and educa­tion to promote the education of engineers who promote social justice and peace. The first five conferences have been held in North America and we are particularly pleased that this meeting will be the first in Europe where we hope to grow our network.

The RSA through their ‘Design and Society’ program, whose aims are very similar to our own, are excited to work with us and we are developing a two day meeting which will include papers, interactive discussions, creative workshops and the chance to network with RSA Fellows in an evening reception with an invited speaker.

When: From noon August 4th 2010 to 1pm August 6th 2010.

Where: The Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce (The RSA) at 8 John Adam Street, London, which is close to Trafalgar Square, Leicester Square, Piccadilly Circus and next to the Thames. The closest tube stations are Charing Cross and Embankment.

Cost: £150

Accommodation: If you are on a budget, accommodations for as low at 26 pounds per night for a single can be found here. For accommodations closer to the conference venue albeit more expensive, check out the Strand Palace.

A list of other accommodations is available here.

Agenda: We are pleased to announce the call for papers at the present time. We would like to invite submissions of abstracts of between 100 and 200 words, to include a summary of the content of your paper and how this relates to the themes of the conference. It should also include a short statement of your proposed presentation style. We offer the following suggestions for styles. We will not have any formal lecture presentations. [Note this will not affect travel funding. Institutions who require a paper to be presented at the workshop do not impose presentation styles].

Short presentation (ten minutes max) followed by discussion around key questions (30 min in total)
Workshop (one hour)
Facilitated round table or panel discussion on key issues (30 min)
Any alternative interactive style of presentation such as forum theatre (one hour)
Deadline for abstracts Feb 1st 2010

Special issue International Journal Engineering, Social Justice and Peace (IJESJP): We are delighted to announce that we will launch the IJESJP with a special issue focused on the 2010 annual conference. We will invite full papers to be submitted one month after the conference.

Contact: For conference enquiries contact Caroline Baillie, Chair of Engineering Education at the University of Western Australia (caroline.baillie@uwa.edu.au). Please submit abstracts by email to Jens Kabo, the ESJP secretary at secretary@esjp.org."