CFP: The Promise and Pitfalls of Citizen Science | American Philosophical Society

"Inspired by its 2021 exhibition Dr. Franklin, Citizen Scientist, the American Philosophical Society’s Library & Museum is organizing a symposium that explores citizen science as a phenomenon....Potential topics include (but are not limited to): ...

• The role of citizen science in promoting environmental and social justice, and for climate science....
• Issues of inequality in limiting access to scientific knowledge and participation, both historically and in the present.
• Challenges to collecting data and building trust through projects (including issues of scale), as well as possible solutions to those problems.
• Failed citizen science projects and the lessons they offer.
• The relationship between professional science and citizen science, over time and in the present, including the ways in which professionalization has changed the way scientific work is done and who can conduct it.
• International perspectives on citizen science.

 Applicants should submit a title and a 250-word proposal along with a C.V. by December 18, 2020 via Interfolio: https://apply.interfolio.com/79883

Decisions will be announced in February 2021.

The symposium will be held the week of April 5, 2021 in Philadelphia...."