CALL FOR POSTERS FOR THE SYMPOSIUM “ACADEMIA IN THE AGE OF COMPARISON:
<br>METHODOLOGICAL AND EMPIRICAL PERSPECTIVES IN AN INTERDISCIPLINARY
<br>DIALOGUE”
<br>
<br>The symposium is organized by Anna Kosmützky, Julian Hamann und Frerk
<br>Blome, Leibniz Center for Science and Society (LCSS), Leibniz University
<br>Hanover (LUH), 13-14th June 2019.
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<br>ABSTRACT:
<br>Academia is in an age of comparison. Momentous processes like
<br>globalization, marketization, and digitalization are not only of general
<br>societal relevance, but are also pushed by and simultaneously push
<br>comparisons in academia. In this climate, comparison ‘strikes back.’
<br>Scholars not only conduct comparisons as a research method, but also turn
<br>into units of comparison themselves. Instead of conceiving comparisons as a
<br>mere intellectual operation with few social consequences, or as a social
<br>process that is not based on very specific methodological implications, we
<br>would like to emphasize the double role of comparisons as an intellectual
<br>operation in research practice, and as a social practice that contributes
<br>to creating an academic social order. The symposium will facilitate, first,
<br>an interdisciplinary dialogue among researchers who pursue methodological
<br>and empirical perspectives on comparisons, and, second, provide a more
<br>detailed understanding of comparisons in and of academia. We have invited
<br>internationally renowned scholars of the field of comparison to pursue
<br>these perspectives. The program of the symposium will be structured
<br>alongside the following four topics:
<br>1. The relations between comparator und the compared
<br>2. Devices and instruments of comparison
<br>3. Consequences of comparison
<br>4. Histories and trajectories of comparison
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<br>CALL FOR POSTERS:
<br>We would like to invite six early career researchers to present their
<br>ongoing studies on relations, devices and instruments, consequences, and
<br>historical backgrounds of comparison(s) in academia. In a
<br>one-and-a-half-hour poster session, authors of posters will have the
<br>opportunity to present their work and discuss the posters with the
<br>audience.
<br>We welcome contributions from a variety of disciplines across science
<br>studies and higher education research and with a methodological,
<br>theoretical, or empirical focus on “Academia in the Age of Comparison.”
<br>To our delight, we are able to sponsor both travel and accommodation for
<br>all poster presenters.
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<br>PROPOSAL SUBMISSIONS AND DEADLINES:
<br>Please send your abstracts by email to frerk.blome@lcss.uni-hannover.de.
<br>They should contain a title and a maximum of 600 words. The deadline for
<br>submissions is 04.03.2019. We will send our responses to the applications
<br>on March 15th 2019.
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<br>Best wishes - also on behalf of Anna Kosmützky and Julian Hamann,
<br>Frerk
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