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                Call for Posters for the International Symposium of the Volkswagen
<br>Foundation
<br>
<br>(Extended Deadline / Program Update)
<br>
<br>Academia in the Age of Comparison: Methodological and Empirical
<br>Perspectives in an Interdisciplinary Dialogue
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<br>Conference Center Herrenhausen Palace, Hannover, Germany, 13-14th June 2019
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<br>organized by Anna Kosmtzky, Julian Hamann and Frerk Blome, Leibniz Center
<br>for Science and Society (LCSS), Hannover, Germany
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<br>Academia is in an age of comparison. Momentous processes like globalization,
<br>marketization, and digitalization are not only of general societal
<br>relevance, but are also pushed by and simultaneously push comparisons in
<br>academia. In this climate, comparison strikes back. Scholars not only
<br>conduct comparisons as a research method, but also turn into units of
<br>comparison themselves. Instead of conceiving comparisons as a mere
<br>intellectual operation with few social consequences, or as a social process
<br>that is not based on very specific methodological implications, we would
<br>like to emphasize the double role of comparisons as an intellectual
<br>operation in research practice, and as a social practice that contributes to
<br>creating an academic social order. The symposium will facilitate, first, an
<br>interdisciplinary dialogue among researchers who pursue methodological and
<br>empirical perspectives on comparisons, and, second, provide a more detailed
<br>understanding of comparisons in and of academia. We have invited
<br>internationally renowned scholars of the field of comparison to pursue these
<br>perspectives. The program of the symposium (see below) is structured
<br>alongside the following four topics:
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<br>1. The relations between comparator and the compared
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<br>2. Devices and instruments of comparison
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<br>3. Consequences of comparison
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<br>4. Histories and trajectories of comparison
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<br>Call for Posters:
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<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 audience.
<br>
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<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. To
<br>our delight, we are able to sponsor both travel and accommodation for all
<br>poster presenters.
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<br>Proposal Submissions and Deadlines
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<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 18.03.2019. We will send our responses to the applications on
<br>25.03.2019.
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<br>Contact:
<br>
<br>Frerk Blome
<br>
<br>Leibniz Center for Science and Society (LCSS), Leibniz Universitt Hannover
<br>(LUH) Lange Laube 32, 30159 Hannover, Germany
<br>
<br>Email: frerk.blome@lcss.uni-hannover.de Phone: +49 511 762 14585
<br>https://www.lcss.uni-hannover.de
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<br>Symposium Program
<br>
<br>Wednesday, 12.06.2019
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<br>18:00 get together, drinks and snacks at LCSS
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<br>19:00 Dinner
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<br>Thursday, 13.06.2019
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<br>10:00-10:30 Coffee
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<br>10:30-11:00 Anna Kosmtzky, Julian Hamann, Frerk Blome (LCSS, Hannover):
<br>Introduction: Academia and the Double Role of Comparison
<br>
<br>11:00-12:00 David J. Frank (University of California, Irvine): Keynote: The
<br>University in Comparative Perspective: Sameness and Difference.
<br>
<br>12:00-13:00 Lunch
<br>
<br>13:00-15:00 Slot 1: Histories and trajectories of comparison
<br>
<br>Tobias Werron, Leopold Ringel, Jelena Brankovic (University of Bielefeld):
<br>Where do rankings come from? The emergence and institutionalization of
<br>rankings in different societal fields
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<br>Angelika Epple, Walter Erhart (University of Bielefeld): Is There an Age of
<br>Comparison? Comparative Practices from Antiquity to Present Times
<br>
<br>Annette Simonis (University of Gieen): From Comparison of Arts to
<br>Comparative Media Studies
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<br>David Kaldewey (University of Bonn): Comment
<br>
<br>15:00-15:30 Coffee
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<br>15:30-17:30 Slot 2: The comparator and the compared
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<br>Ruth Mller (Technical University Mnchen): Bigger, better, faster, more?
<br>Narratives of excellence in contemporary academia
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<br>Joe Deville (Lancaster University), Michael Guggenheim (Goldsmiths,
<br>University of London): How to Make Good Comparators
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<br>Justin Powell, Marcelo Marques (University of Luxembourg): From Ratings to
<br>Rankings: Research Evaluation and Strategic Organizational Actors
<br>
<br>Romy Whlert (University of Leipzig): Comment
<br>
<br>17:30-19:00 Poster and Pitch(ers) Session
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<br>19:30 Dinner
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<br>Friday, 14.06.2019
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<br>09:00-10:00 Bernhard Ebbinghaus (University of Mannheim/Oxford University).
<br>Keynote: Are welfare regime typologies an ideal or realistic comparison of
<br>and for public policy?
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<br>10:00-10:30 Coffee
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<br>10:30-12:30 Slot 3: Devices and instruments of comparison
<br>
<br>Michael Sauder (University of Iowa, IA): Rankings as Devices of Comparison
<br>
<br>Wolfgang Kaltenbrunner (CWTS, Leiden): Filling in the gaps: The
<br>interpretation of CVs in peer review
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<br>Martina Franzen (WZB Berlin Social Science Center): Comment
<br>
<br>12:30-13:30 Lunch
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<br>13:30-15:30 Slot 4: Consequences of comparison
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<br>Richard Watermeyer (University of Bath), Jennifer Chubb (University of
<br>Sheffield): REFability and the insidious effects of institutional and
<br>individual competitiveness
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<br>Lars Alberth (University of Hannover): Universities between comparability
<br>and incomparability
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<br>Frank Meier (Helmut-Schmidt-Uni Hamburg): Competition between Higher
<br>Education Institutions
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<br>Merle Hummrich (University of Frankfurt): Comment
<br>
<br>15:30-16:00 Coffee
<br>
<br>16:00-17:00 Final discussion and closing remarks
<br>_______________________________________________
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