Dear all,
We would like to invite you to join us for our panel on "Universities
and Grand Societal Challenges. Disrupting academic work and modern
knowledge-making ecologies" at the Nordic STS conference in Oslo from
June 7-9
.
Convenors: Kyriaki Papageorgiou, Helen Gansmo, Vivian Anette Lagesen,
and Knut H. Sørensen
Panel abstract
Universities are some of the oldest and most robust modern institutions.
Their size and their importance in contemporary societies have increased
substantially over the past century, due to their establishment as main
hubs for the making, evaluation, and dissemination of knowledge, not the
least through higher education. Since the 1990s, concerns have been
voiced over the trajectory of universities and academic work,
particularly how they have been reshaped by neo-liberal ideologies,
especially managerialism and new public management. Today, universities
face critical challenges, related to funding and relevance to society,
but also in terms of the impact of and trust in the knowledge academics
generate. Policymakers increasingly present universities and research
institutes with so-called grand societal challenges, expecting these
institutions to play a major role in the engagement with these
challenges. This is an opportune moment, therefore, to examine and
rethink the position and role of universities and the knowledge-making
ecologies within which they are enmeshed. This task is even more
relevant for the STS community to uptake, since at the core of the field
are fundamental questions about the relationship between science and
society.
This panel aims to contribute to better understanding the complexities
and diversities of current university practices and explore
alternatives. More specifically, we welcome submissions that examine the
following challenges:
• Academic freedom, epistemic politics, and collegiality
• Audit cultures, academic assessments, academic precarity and the
future of tenure
• Open science and the academic publishing cultures
• New theories of knowledge and science
• Effects of digitalization and machine learning
• Usefulness of university degrees and universities’ engagement with
life-long learning
• Repairing academic citizenship
• University utopias and hopeful futures.
Submission deadline: March 1 2023
Submission form:
https://www.sv.uio.no/tik/english/research/news-and-events/events/conferences/2023/nordic-sts/submission.html
We look forward to your submission.
Cheers,
Kyriaki, Helen, Vivian and Knut
--
Knut H. Sørensen
Professor emeritus, affiliated with the Department of Interdisciplinary Studies of Culture
Centre for Technology and Society, NTNU Norwegian University of Science and Technology
Email:knut.sorensen@ntnu.no
Web pages :http://www.ntnu.edu/employees/knut.sorensen
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Knut_Sorensen2
Recent publications:
Knut H. Sørensen and Sharon Traweek. 2022. Questing Excellence in Academia.
A Tale of Two Universities, Routledge. Open access fromhttps://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/oa-mono/10.4324/9780429290633/questing-excellence-academia-knut-s%C3%B8rensen-sharon-traweek
Knut H. Sørensen. 2021. STS as a Lens to Study Disciplines and Interdisciplinarity. A Comment on Sharon Traweek’s ‘I Prefer the Map.’ Engaging Science, Technology, & Society 7.2: 88–96.
https://doi.org/10.17351/ests2021.857.
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