From 7d44c87fb0087c21324408f3f0bdd4a9b6fc004b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Thomas Berker Date: Fri, 6 Dec 2024 13:15:47 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] schedule 0.8 --- docs/program.md | 123 +++++++++++++++++++++++++----------------------- 1 file changed, 63 insertions(+), 60 deletions(-) diff --git a/docs/program.md b/docs/program.md index 1aa35c8..46d9768 100644 --- a/docs/program.md +++ b/docs/program.md @@ -11,18 +11,9 @@ This is a draft! Changes are quite likely. ## 28 April: Introduction and Philosophy and Research Ethics I (day 1) -0900-1030 Thomas Berker: Welcome, about the course, structure, course assignment, and other practical information, also: some getting to know each other +**0915-1030** Thomas Berker: Welcome, about the course, structure, course assignment, and other practical information, also: some getting to know each other -1100-1215 Rune Nydal: What makes a social theory right? - -*Reading:* - -Taylor, Charles. 1983. Social Theory as Practice. New York: Oxford University Press. (available [here](https://learn.kultwiki.net/thomas/TOS/raw/branch/main/Readings/Day%201+2:%20Philosophy%20of%20science%20and%20research%20ethics/Readings/Taylor.pdf)) - - -1215-1315 Lunch - -1315-1500 Hannah Winther: Research ethics +**1030-1200** Hannah Winther: Research ethics This session deals with three levels of research ethics: @@ -41,12 +32,11 @@ This session deals with three levels of research ethics: Browse through the NESH guidelines, available in both Norwegian: https://www.forskningsetikk.no/retningslinjer/hum-sam/forskningsetiske-retningslinjer-for-samfunnsvitenskap-og-humaniora/ or English: https://www.forskningsetikk.no/en/guidelines/social-sciences-humanities-law-and-theology/guidelines-for-research-ethics-in-the-social-sciences-humanities-law-and-theology/ +**1200-1300** Lunch (Sandwiches are provided) -## 29. April: Philosophy and Research Ethics II (day 2) +**1300-1500** Jonathan Knowles: Philosophy of Science: Objectivity, Method, and Truth -0900-1200: Jonathan Knowles: Philosophy of Science: Objectivity, Method, and Truth - -**This session introduces the classical issues of the philosophy of science, framed through the lens of the nature and possibility of objectivity in research.** +*This session introduces the classical issues of the philosophy of science, framed through the lens of the nature and possibility of objectivity in research.* *Essential readings:* @@ -62,9 +52,20 @@ Browse through the NESH guidelines, available in both Norwegian: https://www.for - Jonathan Knowles, Theory of science: A Short Introduction: Ch. 4: Further Developments in Philosophy of Science: Lakatos, Feyerabend, Laudan, The Sociology of Scientific Knowledge. - M. Foucault 'The Discourse on Language' Appendix to The Archaeology of Knowledge. New York, Pantheon Books 1972, https://commons.princeton.edu/shakespeares-language/wp-content/uploads/sites/41/2017/09/Foucault-The-Discourse-on-Language.pdf (and [here](https://learn.kultwiki.net/thomas/TOS-H23/raw/branch/main/Readings/Day%201+2:%20Philosophy%20of%20science%20and%20research%20ethics/Readings/Discourse%20on%20Language_Foucault.pdf)) -1200-1300: Lunch -1300-1500: Ståle Rainer Strøm Finke: The body as the locus of knowing + +## 29. April: Philosophy and Research Ethics II (day 2) + +**0915-1000**: Thomas Berker: Introduction to day 2 + +**1000-1200**: Rune Nydal: What makes a social theory right? + +*Reading:* + +Taylor, Charles. 1983. Social Theory as Practice. New York: Oxford University Press. (available [here](https://learn.kultwiki.net/thomas/TOS/raw/branch/main/Readings/Day%201+2:%20Philosophy%20of%20science%20and%20research%20ethics/Readings/Taylor.pdf)) + + +**1100-1200**: Ståle Rainer Strøm Finke: The body as the locus of knowing This session deals with two enabling factors within science and their impact on our understanding of science: The body and literacy. @@ -81,40 +82,22 @@ This session deals with two enabling factors within science and their impact on - Molander, B. (2015). Chapter 9: Two sides of the same coin. Professional knowledge and the culture of knowledge. In: The practice of knowing and knowing in practices (pp. 237-262). Peter Lang Edition. ([here](https://learn.kultwiki.net/thomas/TOS-H23/raw/branch/main/Readings/Day%201+2:%20Philosophy%20of%20science%20and%20research%20ethics/Readings/Molander9.pdf)) - Young, I.M. (1980) ‘Throwing like a Girl: A Phenomenology of Feminine Body Comportment Motility and Spatiality’, Human Studies, 3(2), pp. 137–156. ([here](https://learn.kultwiki.net/thomas/TOS-H23/raw/branch/main/Readings/Day%201+2:%20Philosophy%20of%20science%20and%20research%20ethics/Readings/Young1980.pdf)) +**1200-1300**: Lunch + +**1300-1500**: Finke cont.d + ## 12 May: Science in context I (day 3) -0900-1200 Thomas Berker: Navigating without a (complete) map, lecture and group work +**0915-1200** Thomas Berker: Navigating without a (complete) map, lecture and group work *Essential reading:* - Latour, Bruno (1983) Give me a laboratory and I will raise the world. In: Latour, Bruno, Knorr-Cetina Karin, Mulkay MJ (eds.) Science observed. Perspectives on the social study of science. Sage: London: 141-170. Online: http://www.bruno-latour.fr/sites/default/files/12-GIVE-ME-A-LAB-GB.pdf -1200-1300 Lunch +**1200-1300** Lunch -1300-1500 Knut H. Sørensen: The university as a place and a context for research: Academic freedom and autonomy, the quest for excellence, and strained collegiality. - -*Essential reading:* - -- Knut H. Sørensen and Sharon Traweek: Questing Excellence in Academia: A Tale of Two Universities (Routledge 2022). Chapter 3. In the Shadows of Excellence and Neoliberal Interventions: Enactments of Academic Autonomy and Strained Collegiality (33 p.) The whole book is available here: https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/9780367259334 - - -## 13 May: Science in context II (day4) - -0900-1200 Terje Finstad: History of science and changes in scientific life. Situating and historicizing your own discipline/subject. - -*Essential reading:* - -- William Clark. 2008. Academic charisma and the origins of the research university. University of Chicago Press, p. 183-238 (chapter 6: The doctor of philosophy). ([here](https://learn.kultwiki.net/thomas/TOS/src/branch/main/Readings/Day%203+4:%20Science%20in%20context/Readings/William%20Clark%20-%20Academic%20Charisma%20and%20the%20Origins%20of%20the%20Research%20University%20%282006%29.pdf)) - -*Additional readings:* - -- Lorraine Daston and Peter Galison. 1992. The image of objectivity. In: Representations 40, p. 81-128 ([here](https://learn.kultwiki.net/thomas/TOS-H23/src/branch/main/Readings/Day%203+4:%20Science%20in%20context/Readings/Daston%20and%20Galison.pdf)) -- Steven Shapin. 2010. Never pure. Historical studies of science as if it was produced by people with bodies, situated in time, space, culture, and society, and struggling for credibility and authority. The Johns Hopkins University Press, p. 1-15. ([here](https://learn.kultwiki.net/thomas/TOS-H23/src/branch/main/Readings/Day%203+4:%20Science%20in%20context/Readings/Shapin%20never%20pure.pdf)) - -1200-1300 Lunch - -1300-1500 Govert Valkenburg: Science as practice +**1300-1500** Govert Valkenburg: Science as practice *Essential readings:* @@ -125,12 +108,36 @@ This session deals with two enabling factors within science and their impact on *Additional reading:* - Valkenburg, G. (2021). Engineering as a socio-political practice. In D. P. Michelfelder & N. Doorn (Eds.), The Routledge Handbook of Philosophy of Engineering. Routledge. [While strictly about engineering and not scientific research, much of this chapter resonates and pertains to science.] ([here](https://learn.kultwiki.net/thomas/TOS-H23/src/branch/main/Readings/Day%203+4:%20Science%20in%20context/Readings/Valkenburg%20-%20Engineering%20as%20SocPol%20Practice%20NOT%20FOR%20DISTRIBUTION.pdf)) + +## 13 May: Science in context II (day4) + +**0900-1200** Terje Finstad: History of science and changes in scientific life. Situating and historicizing your own discipline/subject. + +*Essential reading:* + +- William Clark. 2008. Academic charisma and the origins of the research university. University of Chicago Press, p. 183-238 (chapter 6: The doctor of philosophy). ([here](https://learn.kultwiki.net/thomas/TOS/src/branch/main/Readings/Day%203+4:%20Science%20in%20context/Readings/William%20Clark%20-%20Academic%20Charisma%20and%20the%20Origins%20of%20the%20Research%20University%20%282006%29.pdf)) + +*Additional readings:* + +- Lorraine Daston and Peter Galison. 1992. The image of objectivity. In: Representations 40, p. 81-128 ([here](https://learn.kultwiki.net/thomas/TOS-H23/src/branch/main/Readings/Day%203+4:%20Science%20in%20context/Readings/Daston%20and%20Galison.pdf)) +- Steven Shapin. 2010. Never pure. Historical studies of science as if it was produced by people with bodies, situated in time, space, culture, and society, and struggling for credibility and authority. The Johns Hopkins University Press, p. 1-15. ([here](https://learn.kultwiki.net/thomas/TOS-H23/src/branch/main/Readings/Day%203+4:%20Science%20in%20context/Readings/Shapin%20never%20pure.pdf)) + +**1200-1300** Lunch + +1300-1500 Knut H. Sørensen: The university as a place and a context for research: Academic freedom and autonomy, the quest for excellence, and strained collegiality. + +*Essential reading:* + +- Knut H. Sørensen and Sharon Traweek: Questing Excellence in Academia: A Tale of Two Universities (Routledge 2022). Chapter 3. In the Shadows of Excellence and Neoliberal Interventions: Enactments of Academic Autonomy and Strained Collegiality (33 p.) The whole book is available here: https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/9780367259334 + ## 26 May: Critical perspectives I (day 5) -0900-1100 Sofia Moratti: Situated knowledge and feminist critique of science +**0915-1100** Thomas Berker: Introduction to days 5+6 - In this session we will work on the concept of objectivity based in feminist critique of universality in science and discuss the relevance and importance of acknowledging researcher positionalities. +**1000-1200** Sofia Moratti: Situated knowledge and feminist critique of science + +In this session we will work on the concept of objectivity based in feminist critique of universality in science and discuss the relevance and importance of acknowledging researcher positionalities. *Essential readings:* @@ -144,16 +151,11 @@ This session deals with two enabling factors within science and their impact on - Haraway, Donna 1988. ”Situated Knowledges: The Science Question in Feminism and the Privilege of Partial Perspective” Feminist Studies, 14(3): 575-599 (24 s) ([here](https://learn.kultwiki.net/thomas/TOS/src/branch/main/Readings/Day%205+6:%20Critical%20perspectives/Haraway-SituatedKnowledgesScience-1988.pdf)) - Harding, Sandra, 2001 “Feminist Standpoint Epistemology” in Lederman, M. & Bartsch, i The Gender and Science Reader, London: Routledge: 145-165 ([here](https://learn.kultwiki.net/thomas/TOS/src/branch/main/Readings/Day%205+6:%20Critical%20perspectives/Harding%202001.pdf)) -1100-1200 Thomas Berker: Introduction to the "ledger of grievances" +**1200-1300** Lunch -1200-1300 Lunch +**1300-1500** Astrid Rasch: Decolonising academia -1300-1500 Astrid Rasch: Decolonising academia - - In this session, we will explore the historical entanglement of science and colonialism and consider the enduring legacies of this entanglement. We will discuss whether and how these considerations affect our own research practice. - - -*Readings* +In this session, we will explore the historical entanglement of science and colonialism and consider the enduring legacies of this entanglement. We will discuss whether and how these considerations affect our own research practice. *Essential readings:* @@ -167,7 +169,7 @@ This session deals with two enabling factors within science and their impact on ## 27 May: Critical perspectives II (day 6) -0900-1100 Elisabeth Stubberud: Decolonizing knowledge production and objectivity +**0915-1100** Elisabeth Stubberud: Decolonizing knowledge production and objectivity *Essential readings:* @@ -180,18 +182,19 @@ This session deals with two enabling factors within science and their impact on - Dankertsen, Astrid (2022) ' Avkolonisering av akademia fra et samisk perspektiv' ([here](https://learn.kultwiki.net/thomas/TOS/src/branch/main/Readings/Day%205+6:%20Critical%20perspectives/Dankertsen%20under%20publisering%20-%20Avkolonisering%20av%20akademia%20fra%20et%20samisk%20perspektiv.pdf)) +**1100-1200** Thomas Berker: The many uses of science: interdisciplinarity, innovation and sustainability -1100-1200 Thomas Berker: From the ledger of grievances to a constructive critique of science - -1200-1300 Lunch - -1300-1500 Thomas Berker: The many uses of science: interdisciplinarity, innovation and sustainability - -*Essential readings:* +*Essential reading:* - Pfotenhauer, Sebastian M., Joakim Juhl, and Erik Aarden. “Challenging the ‘Deficit Model’ of Innovation: Framing Policy Issues under the Innovation Imperative.” Research Policy, New Frontiers in Science, Technology and Innovation Research from SPRU’s 50th Anniversary Conference, 48, no. 4 (May 1, 2019): 895–904. ([here](https://learn.kultwiki.net/thomas/TOS/src/branch/main/Readings/Day%205+6:%20Critical%20perspectives/Pfotenhauer%20et%20al.%20-%202019%20-%20Challenging%20the%20%E2%80%9Cdeficit%20model%E2%80%9D%20of%20innovation%20Fra.pdf)) + +*Additional reading:* + - Berker, Thomas. “Negotiating research norms between academic and industrial research. The case of a research centre on zero emission buildings in Norway”, to be published in Nordic Architectural Research. ([here](https://learn.kultwiki.net/thomas/TOS/src/branch/main/Readings/Day%205+6:%20Critical%20perspectives/Berker_Negotiating_research_norms.pdf)) +**1200-1300** Lunch + +**1300-1500** Thomas Berker: cont.d ## 6 June: Conference