The 8th annual S.Net meeting will take place in Bergen, Norway under the heading "The Co-Production of Emerging Bodies, Politics and Technologies". It will focus - though not exclusively - on the various meanings of the “politics of new and emerging technologies”, addressing questions such as:

• How do emerging technologies such as nanotechnology, synthetic biology or ICTs shape institutions, citizen organizations and other political agencies?
• And, vice versa; how are these emerging technologies shaped by politics?
• In what new ways are the bodies of citizens’ subjected to technological intervention and what are the political effects of such interventions?
• What new forms of politics can be seen to emerge together with technological emergence?

S.Net 2016 is organized around the following themes:

• Innovation policies, imaginaries and practices
• Narratives and imaginaries of emerging and future technologies
• Public engagement, citizenship and emerging forms of expertise
• Politics in the era of emerging technologies
• Safety and security
• Emerging technologies and human nature
• Cancer: Emerging technologies, bodies and politics

Keynotes will be delivered by Sheila Jasanoff, Silvio Funtowicz and Joseph Dumit.

A call for papers is available online on the conference website. The deadline for submission of abstracts is 10 March 2016. Further information will become available in the next few months.