Cari nexiani, approfitto di questa rete per invitarvi a presentare un abstract alla sessione "*How to Protect Communities from Sars CoV-2 through Co-production of Health and the Design of Commons-Based Ecosystems by Adopting Distributed Ledger Technologies?" *per la prossima conferenza di STS Italia. Ecco la nostra presentazione della Open Track on PANDEMIC AND STS: How to Protect Communities from Sars CoV-2 through Co-production of Health and the Design of Commons-Based Ecosystems by Adopting Distributed Ledger Technologies? <https://a7f67c59-118d-44bf-9b5c-7aae7deef875.filesusr.com/ugd/c5e005_950f20f...> *Convenors:* Sowelu Avanzo, Vincenzo Giorgino, Guido Boella e Valeria Poli *.* Per maggiori informazioni riguardo alla conferenza e alla sessione, affinchè possiate diffonderla all'interno della vostra rete, vi riporto il testo generale della call for abstract. The *8th STS Italia Conference* <https://www.stsitaliaconf2020.com/> will be hosted by the University of Trieste, Italy, June 17 through 19, 2021, by the Italian Society of Science and Technology Studies. It is our pleasure to announce that the calls for abstract are now open *until December 18th, 2020.* The conference will be an opportunity to present empirical and theoretical work from a variety of disciplines: sociology, anthropology, design, economics, history, law, philosophy, psychology and semiotics. The focal theme of the 8th STS Italia Conference will be "Dis/Entangling Technoscience: Vulnerability, Responsibility and Justice”. This broad theme refers to the complex and ambivalent role of technoscience and innovation in constituting societies – making possibilities flourish, but also creating new vulnerabilities. The conference will include 28 tracks, which are clustered into five thematic streams. The tracks focus on several topics, including: biomedicine, digital platforms and media, work and organizations, expertise and public policy, ethics of technology and innovation, and governance of science and technology at large. Please, see the submission guidelines below, or consult the complete list of tracks. *Abstracts (written in English, or in Italian in case of tracks in two language) should be submitted by December, 18* to the conference email address (stsitaliaconf@gmail.com) and to the emails of convenors' selected track. Track Convenor(s) will be responsible for reviewing, accepting/rejecting and organising submissions into their track. *THEMATIC STREAMS* · Biomedicine, bodies and technoscience <https://www.stsitaliaconf2020.com/call-for-abstracts>; · Platforms, digital technologies and media environment <https://www.stsitaliaconf2020.com/call-for-abstracts>s <https://www.stsitaliaconf2020.com/call-for-abstracts>; · Rethinking science, technology and innovation: emerging challenges <https://www.stsitaliaconf2020.com/call-for-abstracts>; · Including, excluding and connecting through / within technoscience <https://www.stsitaliaconf2020.com/call-for-abstracts>; · Governing and reshuffling technoscience and innovation processes <https://www.stsitaliaconf2020.com/call-for-abstracts>; · Open Track: Science and Technology Studies in Post-socialist countries/in Central and Eastern European countries; <https://www.stsitaliaconf2020.com/call-for-abstracts> · Open Track on PANDEMIC AND STS: How to Protect Communities from Sars CoV-2 through Co-production of Health and the Design of Commons-Based Ecosystems by Adopting Distributed Ledger Technologies? <https://a7f67c59-118d-44bf-9b5c-7aae7deef875.filesusr.com/ugd/c5e005_950f20f...> Un saluto cordiale, Vincenzo Giorgino -- A new book https://www.palgrave.com/de/book/9783319665917 "One of the great liabilities of life is that all too many people find themselves living amid a great period of social change and yet they fail to develop the new attitudes, the new mental responses that the new situation demands. They end up sleeping through a revolution." - Martin Luther King, Jr., "Remaining Awake Through a Great Revolution" Vincenzo Mario Bruno Giorgino, Ph.D. Dept. of Economic and Social Sciences, Mathematics and Statistics University of Torino - Italy