[Commlist] CfP for SECAT conference: Scientific Expertise, Communication and Trust

27-28 September 2022

Virtual scientific conference

The Scientific Expertise, Communication and Trust (SECAT) conference, 
run by the (Mis)trust of Scientific Expertise research group at Aarhus 
University, will take place as a free, online international event. We 
aim to promote equity and sustainability at the conference, and welcome 
contributions for potential inclusion in a subsequent publication.

The organizing committee is delighted to announce the keynotes and call 
for papers for SECAT 2022!

Global challenges and local perspectives

This conference provides a platform for critical scholarly engagement on 
matters relating to science, communication and trust. SECAT provides 
scholars with the opportunity to focus on these topics, especially as 
the last few years have brought matters relating to science, 
communication and trust to the forefront of our lives.

Legacy and social media in the 2020s have been dominated by narratives 
about the pandemic and climate change. These existential threats have 
highlighted humanity’s indebtedness to scientific knowledge, as well as 
the challenges of mediating scientific recommendations, and the 
significance of values and culture for science.

Although such risks are global, their effects are uneven and are 
experienced locally, posing moral questions about social justice. How 
can one communicate about science in ways that promote trust and foster 
engagement?

This conference encourages critical exploration of the topics of 
science, communication and trust from different disciplinary angles. It 
recognizes the central importance of context, encouraging contributions 
from scholars around the world.

Keynote speakers

* Brian Trench, Senior lecturer emeritus, School of Communications, 
Dublin City University, Ireland

* Maja Horst, Professor, Division for Responsible Innovation and 
Design, DTU Technical University of Denmark

* Maria Baghramian, Professor, School of Philosophy, University College 
Dublin, Ireland

Plenary discussants

* Megan Bang, Professor, School of Education and Social Policy, 
Northwestern University, USA

* Douglas Medin, Emeritus Professor, Department of Psychology, 
Northwestern University, USA

What kind of topics are relevant?

We welcome contributions that are empirical, theoretical and/or 
methodological in nature and that relate to the conference themes of 
science, communication and trust. Topics of interest include the 
following (NB: other topics relating to the conference themes are also 
welcome):

Scientific knowledge and expertise

* The evolving scientific expert

* The cultural authority of scientific expertise and other forms of knowing

* Discourses of scientific expertise

* Communicating science online – discourses, narratives and visualisations

* Contextualised or context-sensitive science

* Methodological approaches to the analysis of science communication

* The role of the media and social media in communicating scientific 
knowledge

* Mediated communication of science topics where trust may be at stake, 
e.g., climate change, vaccines, Covid-19, GMO crops, etc.

* Values and scientific knowledge

* Ethical issues in science communication

Communicating with publics

* Evolving paradigms of science communication

* Promoting dialogues with publics

* The role of values when communicating with publics

* Science communication for more just societies

* Media and public engagement (e.g., in climate science)

* Social media and public participation in science

* Grassroots initiatives

* Challenges/success stories of public engagement

* The ethics of public engagement

Trust/mistrust

* Epistemic trust and mistrust

* Promoting trust in science

* Trusting the science communicator/trusting publics

* Trust/mistrust of science as a cultural phenomenon, including 
national/local aspects and cultural values

* Viral qualities of mistrust, including conspiracy theories

* Measuring public trust and mistrust of science

* Methodological approaches to analysing discourses, narratives and 
visualisations of trust/mistrust of science

* Ethics relating to trust and mistrust of science

Please upload abstracts for 20-minute papers via the conference website: 
https://events.au.dk/secat2022/abstract-submissionnew

Important dates

Deadline for abstracts: 1 May

Notification of acceptance: 1 June

Deadline of registration: 1 September

SECAT conference: 27 & 28 September

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