[Commlist] Luhmann Conference 2022

*Call for papers to the Luhmann Conference 2022 on “Scientific 
communication. Observed with social system theory”
*
/Venue:/ Inter-University Centre (IUC), Dubrovnik, Croatia

/Address:/ Don Frana Bulicá 4, 20000 Dubrovnik, Croatia

/Dates:/ 13-16 September 2022


*Theme*

Science is a dynamic social system. New scientific topics and fields 
emerge from the system’s continuous observations of society, its 
environment, and science itself. Reflection on scientific communication 
as both self- and hetero-referential is thus essential to science and to 
the reproduction of its code, true/false. But science is by no means 
unchallenged as thesystem devoted to truth. During the COVID-19 crisis, 
science has seen its monopoly on the definition of truth being disputed, 
as various claims on the reliability and trustworthiness of, for 
example, COVID-19 vaccines have been discussed in public debates defined 
by power struggles over ‘the truth’ and the use labels such as ‘fake 
news’ as a strategy for epistemic discreditation. At the same time, 
political actors have as often repurposed scientific knowledge for the 
legitimation of drastic political decisions as they have changed them. 
Moreover, political decision-makers have presumed to judge what science 
is and what is not, thus causing symptoms of a great irritation of the 
scientific by the political function system. The COVID-19 pandemic 
thereby illustrates a broader trend to substantial challenges or 
outright dismissals of scientific truths, thus seemingly turning them 
into a matter of opinion.


*Read the full CFP here:* 
https://luhmannconference.com/2022/03/04/cfp-luhmann-conference-2022-scientific-communication-observed-with-social-system-theory/ 
<https://luhmannconference.com/2022/03/04/cfp-luhmann-conference-2022-scientific-communication-observed-with-social-system-theory/> 


*Deadline for submission: 15 June 2022. *

/Best paper award sponsored by the Next Society Institute at the 
Kazimieras Simonavicius University in Vilnius./


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