Call for Posters for the International Symposium of the Volkswagen Foundation: "Academia in the Age of Comparison: Methodological and Empirical Perspectives in an Interdisciplinary Dialogue"
Call for Posters for the International Symposium of the Volkswagen
Foundation
(Extended Deadline / Program Update)
Academia in the Age of Comparison: Methodological and Empirical
Perspectives in an Interdisciplinary Dialogue
Conference Center Herrenhausen Palace, Hannover, Germany, 13-14th June 2019
organized by Anna Kosmtzky, Julian Hamann and Frerk Blome, Leibniz Center
for Science and Society (LCSS), Hannover, Germany
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 (see below) is structured
alongside the following four topics:
1. The relations between comparator and 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 18.03.2019. We will send our responses to the applications on
25.03.2019.
Contact:
Frerk Blome
Leibniz Center for Science and Society (LCSS), Leibniz Universitt Hannover
(LUH) Lange Laube 32, 30159 Hannover, Germany
Email: frerk.blome@lcss.uni-hannover.de Phone: +49 511 762 14585
https://www.lcss.uni-hannover.de
Symposium Program
Wednesday, 12.06.2019
18:00 get together, drinks and snacks at LCSS
19:00 Dinner
Thursday, 13.06.2019
10:00-10:30 Coffee
10:30-11:00 Anna Kosmtzky, Julian Hamann, Frerk Blome (LCSS, Hannover):
Introduction: Academia and the Double Role of Comparison
11:00-12:00 David J. Frank (University of California, Irvine): Keynote: The
University in Comparative Perspective: Sameness and Difference.
12:00-13:00 Lunch
13:00-15:00 Slot 1: Histories and trajectories of comparison
Tobias Werron, Leopold Ringel, Jelena Brankovic (University of Bielefeld):
Where do rankings come from? The emergence and institutionalization of
rankings in different societal fields
Angelika Epple, Walter Erhart (University of Bielefeld): Is There an Age of
Comparison? Comparative Practices from Antiquity to Present Times
Annette Simonis (University of Gieen): From Comparison of Arts to
Comparative Media Studies
David Kaldewey (University of Bonn): Comment
15:00-15:30 Coffee
15:30-17:30 Slot 2: The comparator and the compared
Ruth Mller (Technical University Mnchen): Bigger, better, faster, more?
Narratives of excellence in contemporary academia
Joe Deville (Lancaster University), Michael Guggenheim (Goldsmiths,
University of London): How to Make Good Comparators
Justin Powell, Marcelo Marques (University of Luxembourg): From Ratings to
Rankings: Research Evaluation and Strategic Organizational Actors
Romy Whlert (University of Leipzig): Comment
17:30-19:00 Poster and Pitch(ers) Session
19:30 Dinner
Friday, 14.06.2019
09:00-10:00 Bernhard Ebbinghaus (University of Mannheim/Oxford University).
Keynote: Are welfare regime typologies an ideal or realistic comparison of
and for public policy?
10:00-10:30 Coffee
10:30-12:30 Slot 3: Devices and instruments of comparison
Michael Sauder (University of Iowa, IA): Rankings as Devices of Comparison
Wolfgang Kaltenbrunner (CWTS, Leiden): Filling in the gaps: The
interpretation of CVs in peer review
Martina Franzen (WZB Berlin Social Science Center): Comment
12:30-13:30 Lunch
13:30-15:30 Slot 4: Consequences of comparison
Richard Watermeyer (University of Bath), Jennifer Chubb (University of
Sheffield): REFability and the insidious effects of institutional and
individual competitiveness
Lars Alberth (University of Hannover): Universities between comparability
and incomparability
Frank Meier (Helmut-Schmidt-Uni Hamburg): Competition between Higher
Education Institutions
Merle Hummrich (University of Frankfurt): Comment
15:30-16:00 Coffee
16:00-17:00 Final discussion and closing remarks
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