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Nachrichten, Termine, Experten
In the post-war era, many academic disciplines, especially in the United States, underwent an enormous professionalization and internal differentiation with increasingly self-referential scholarly communication, highly disconnected from the broader public sphere. As part of this process, large segments of academics lost their previously strong ties to non-academic groups (disembedding).
However, the decline of the public mission of academia has not simply been linear and uniform across disciplines and regions – nor is this trend irreversible. This conference and the larger initiative on Academia & the Public Sphere seek to establish a more nuanced picture of the historical transformations of the public role of the social sciences and humanities disciplines, looking at the manifold interdisciplinary and transatlantic variations. This also requires an account of the varying structuration of the public sphere itself. This collaborative effort to study those historical transformations comparatively is intended to inform and reinvigorate the search for pathways to the renewal of the public mission of the social sciences and humanities.
Leading scholars from both sides of the Atlantic who have studied the history and public mission of their disciplines will analyze the historical transformation of the public role of their professions comparatively and critically. The conference can build on the ongoing Academia & the Public Sphere Essay Series that the Social Science Research Council (SSRC) is hosting.
Information on participating / attending:
Conference registration: please register here (free, but RSVP required – limited room capacity): http://publicsphere.ssrc.org/initiative-academia-public-sphere/berlin-conference...
Date:
09/16/2011 - 09/17/2011
Registration deadline:
09/10/2011
Event venue:
Reichpietschufer 50, Raum A 300
10785 Berlin
Berlin
Germany
Target group:
Journalists, Scientists and scholars
Email address:
Relevance:
transregional, national
Subject areas:
Politics, Social studies
Types of events:
Conference / symposium / (annual) conference
Entry:
08/18/2011
Sender/author:
Dr. Paul Stoop
Department:
Informations- und Kommunikationsreferat
Event is free:
no
Language of the text:
English
URL of this event: http://idw-online.de/en/event36285
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