In lead-up to the Ethnografilm Festival, we sat down for a quick Q&A with the director of the film festival, Wesley Shrum. Wesley is Professor of Sociology at Louisiana State University, USA, and president of the Society for Social Studies of Science. How did you get the idea to organise an international film festival that […]

The ISSC is pleased to announce the launch of a new global research funding programme, Transformations to Sustainability. Climate change, biodiversity loss, water and food security, energy production and consumption, poverty, growing inequalities — just some of the global problems the world is facing today. But how can we find solutions that will work, that will […]

The ISSC is pleased to announce the launch of the Proceedings of Transformation in a Changing Climate, that took place in June of last year at the University of Oslo, Norway. This proceedings contains 27 articles representing different themes and aspects of transformation and climate change. Some of these papers address larger questions related to the who, […]

The International Council for Science (ICSU) is seriously concerned that measures taken by some national authorities, ostensibly to prevent illegal immigration, are increasingly making the visa application process unpleasant, drawn out, obscure, expensive and unpredictable. In some countries, this has become a significant obstacle to the holding of international scientific meetings. ICSU promotes the free movement […]

UNESCO and the Research Council of Norway are holding a seminar and discssion in April to mark the Norwegian launch the World Social Science Report 2013: Changing Global Environments, jointly published last year in Paris by the ISSC, UNESCO and the OECD. Heide Hackmann, Executive Director of the International Social Science Council, will present the […]