Call for Abstracts Extension and Reminder
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The Call for Abstracts is open and the deadline has been extended to 23:59 CET on 9 March 2026. During this time we welcome contributions to all Open Panels and Closed Panels.
How to submit an abstract to an Open Panel
All submissions to panels must be made online, not by email. There is a 'Propose’ button in the title section of each open panel.
Please navigate to the panel you are interested in and click on this button to propose directly to that panel.
There are two types of Open Panels:
- Traditional Open Panels only welcome regular academic papers.
- Combined Format Open Panels may include academic paper presentations, while also welcoming experimental formats of knowledge expression. Read the panel abstract to see which kind of contributions are welcomed and make sure to specify which kind of contribution you are submitting in your proposal.
Submissions to panels must consist of:
- a title
- the name/s and email address/es of author/s
- a short abstract of fewer than 300 characters
- a long abstract of fewer than 250 words. If proposing to a Combined Format Panel, make sure to specify which kind of contribution you are submitting.
After submission, the authors will receive an automated confirmation email. If you do not receive this email, please first check the conference login environment to see if your proposal is there (the login link is in the top right corner of this page). If it is, it simply means your confirmation email got spammed/lost; if it is not, you will need to re-submit, as for some reason the process was not completed.
Proposals will be marked as pending until the end of the Call for Abstracts (9 March 2026). Convenors will then be asked to make their decisions over the papers proposed to their panel by 30 March 2024 and to communicate those to the proposers, marking them up within the login environment.
Transfer process
Papers which are neither accepted nor rejected, but marked for 'transfer' by the panel convenors (usually for having strong scholarly merit, but not fitting quite into the panel proposed to), will be given the opportunity to be re-housed into other panels. The conference organisers will contact authors of such proposals asking them to modify their abstracts to fit another panel of their choosing that has room for additional papers.
Authors will be asked to select the panel to send in their paper in the second round to the convenors’ consideration. If the panel rejects the proposal, the paper will be withdrawn from the conference. We aim to resolve all transfers by 20 April 2026.
Remember that there are guidelines to the number of roles you can take at the conference (how many papers one present, if you can be a convenor and a presenter etc) - you can find the details on the Delegate info page.
Useful information for later in this process
Editing your paper
Paper authors can use the login link in the top right corner of this page to enter the conference login environment and edit their proposals.
Pre-circulation of papers
There is no rule about this, but many convenors are keen to pre-circulate completed papers. To facilitate this and save on email traffic, if requested by convenors, authors can upload PDFs of their papers within the online system, which will then show as downloadable files beneath the abstract on the public panel page on the site.
Timing of presentations
Each panel session slot will be 90 minutes long, accommodating a maximum of five presenters. How you allocate the time of your sessions is largely your decision, however the norm is to allot each presenter a maximum of 15-20 minutes (for presentation and questions/discussion) for panels of five papers. The key is to respect the fact that many presenters have travelled a long way in order to be able to contribute and clearly need time to set their argument.
The division of a panel into sessions will be indicated in the programme, and the papers ordered within these sessions. While convenors may wish to amalgamate discussion time, they should try to stick to the published distribution, where possible.
Communication between authors/convenors
While convenor/author email addresses are not displayed on the panel pages for privacy reasons, the in-built secure email messaging system allows site visitors to email convenors with queries. If you cannot work that, please email conference@easst.net to obtain relevant email addresses.
Participation and delegate guidance
- An individual may have each conference role only once during the conference:
- convene a Traditional Open Panel OR a Workshop OR a Roundtable OR a Combined Format Open Panel once;
- present once in a Traditional Open Panel OR a Workshop OR a Roundtable OR a Combined Format Open Panel;
- present one contribution to the STS Making & Doing program;
- be a discussant once (either as a Roundtable participant or a discussant in a Workshop or a Traditional Open Panel or a Combined Format Open Panel OR be a chair once (in any of the formats).
- Please note that if a convenor decides to present in their own panel, regardless of the format, that counts as fulfilling the presenter role (as well as their convening role). These presentations must be included in the panel as panel submissions.
- It is assumed a convenor will chair their own panel/combined format panel - unless they name someone else in that role - but this is not counted as chairing once. It is part of the convening role.
- It is allowed to be a co-author on additional papers if you are not the one presenting them.
- Open Panel convenors will decide on the selection of papers/contributions within their panel. However the Program Committee remains the overall arbiter of the programme and reserves the right to make changes if deemed necessary
- While adherence to the conference theme is not the main criteria for panel selection, EASST encourages convenors (those proposing/organising a panel) to explore if there is a meaningful connection between their panel and the ideas outlined in the theme description.
Conference format and times
The EASST2026 Krakow conference will be a face-to-face (f2f) event with a programme running for four full days, 8-11 September 2026 at the AGH University of Krakow. Plenary sessions will be streamed; other virtual participation will not be facilitated.
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