7 June 2017 (10.00-18.00) at the University of Leicester, UK
Camps offer an increasingly visible form of housing and shelter in the contemporary world. Notionally temporary, camps seem to form a permanent social reality reflecting an increasingly permanent state of crisis of social reproduction globally. We witness, on the one hand, state and supra-state agencies employing camps as attempts to manage flows of migration and refuge, or in responses to natural disasters. On the other hand, camps emerge more autonomously, in defiance of the control associated with the managerial provision of care, and in response to the limits of state and supra-state care provision. Finally camps have become an ever more present social movement tactic, often explicitly addressing concerns of social reproduction. More information and Registration here https://protestcamps.com/2017/04/26/upcoming-workshop-june-7th-at-university-of-leicester/ [link broken] CFP: Accelerated Academy #4
Academic Timescapes: Perspectives, Reflections, Responsibilities May 24-25, 2018, Villa Lanna, Prague, Czech Academy of Sciences After meetings in Prague, Warwick and Leiden, the fourth Accelerated Academy conference calls for a more nuanced perspective in order to advance our understanding of academic temporalities as experienced, understood, controlled, managed, imagined and contested across different institutional contexts. The question of temporality – the human perception and social organization of time – in and of the academy has been attracting considerable attention across the social sciences in recent decades. Notable accounts have demonstrated that time is an important research object potentially offering new insights into the complex and shifting nature of the contemporary academy and its future. Existing studies tend to stress how pressures intrinsic to the imperatives of the knowledge economy and academic/epistemic capitalism co-shape policies and subsequently impact how time is perceived and experienced on the level of individuals and institutions, leading to concerns over their temporal relation to wider society. Taking the cue from the long tradition of sociology of time the conference aims to tackle various pressing question in the emerging field of the social studies of academic time. The conference will address the following themes but the organizers welcome other cognate problematics: · Theorizations and different disciplinary takes on temporality in academia · (Possible) methods of inquiring into academic temporalities · Temporal design(s), temporal policies · Temporal justice vs/and temporal autonomy · The promises and limits of ‘the slow’ in academia · Temporalities in/of teaching; temporalities in/of research – tensions, complementarities, (in)compatibilities · Temporal interfaces with wider society and its implications for science communication · Temporality of science communication via social media · Digitalization, temporal intersections and emerging temporalities in academia · Temporality, metrics, evaluations Please submit short abstract (250 words) and bio to [email protected] by 28 February 2018. We intend to generate an edited volume from the conference so please indicate whether you’d be interested in contributing to the volume. Organized by Centre for Science, Technology, and Society Studies, Institute of Philosophy of the Czech Academy of Sciences & University of Minho, Research Centre on Communication Studies (CECS). Funded by Czech Science Foundation, Czech Academy of Sciences (Strategie AV21) & Portuguese Science Foundation, CECS, University of Minho. http://accelerated.academy
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