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