The 10th ECPR General Conference will be held from 7 -10 September 2016, at Charles University, Prague; the oldest institution of higher learning in Central Europe. The Standing Group on Politics and Technology is organising the Section Politics and Technology: Technological Transformations in Society, and you can now submit your proposals for full Panels (which … Call for Panels (with Papers) and individual Papers for the 2016 ECPR General Conference

The IPSA Research Committee 11 “Science and Politics” organizes a session at the 24th IPSA World Congress of Political Science in July 2016 at Istanbul, Turkey. If you are interested in Politics and Technology, you may have a glance at this: https://istanbul2016.ipsa.org/events/istanbul2016/session/rc11-science-and-politics

On December 13 and 14, members of the Standing Group participate in a workshop on the role of the state for innovative technological developments in Beijing, China. The workshop is organized by Prof. Xiangdong Chen, School of Economics and Management, Beihang University.

We are proud to announce that the Routledge Handbook of Politics and Technology has been published in October 2015. Edited by the Standing Group Convenor Ulrich Hilpert, with contributions from Standing Group members, this handbook provides a comprehensive global survey of the politics of technology. For more information, see: https://www.routledge.com/products/9780415692014