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Undisciplined Explorations – Celebrating Cross-Disciplinary Knowledge-Making about Culture and Society.

• Welcome: (Almost) five years of Circus: Taking stock and looking forward
  Claes-Fredrik Helgesson, Föreståndare, CIRCUS
• Key-note lecture: Undisciplining
  Helen Small, Merton Professor of English Language and Literature, University of Oxford
• The Automated Public Servant
  Sandra Friberg, Juridiska fakulteten
• National Christianities in the Nordic Region – a Circulation of Knowledge
  Erika Boije, Teologiska institutionen, Gustaf Forsell, Teologiska institutionen, Emma Hellström, Institutionen för pedagogik, didaktik och utbildningssociologi
• The Ethics of Cultural Heritage in Armed Conflict
  Elisabeth Schellekens Dammann, Filosofiska institutionen
• From Greenwashing Sins to Green Marketing Virtues: Rhetoric, Law and Beyond
  Erik Bengtson, Institutionen för litteraturvetenskap och retorik, Oskar Mossberg, Juridiska fakulteten
• Justice, Sustainability and Arctic Futures
  Johanna Ohlsson, Institutet för Rysslands- och Eurasienstudier, Corine Wood-Donnelly, Institutet för Rysslands- och Eurasienstudier
• Panel discussion on interdisciplinary knowledge-making
  Bernd Kortmann, Professor of English Literature and Linguistics, Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies, Erin Leahey, Professor of Sociology, University of Arizona, Victoria McGuinness, Head of Cultural Programming and Partnerships and Head of TORCH, University of Oxford, Veronica Strang, Professor of Anthropology, affiliated with the University of Oxford
• Final wrap-up
  Claes-Fredrik Helgesson, Föreståndare, CIRCUS

Conducting Research Together – Methods and Methodologies in Cross-Cutting Research Endeavours. Circus symposium 2022.

Day 1: Methods and Methodologies as Bridges for Cross-Disciplinary Conversations

• Opening remarks
  Professor Claes-Fredrik Helgesson, Föreståndare, CIRCUS
• Mixing Disciplines Around Methods: Using Methods to Spark Interdisciplinary Dialogue
  David Moats, Assistant Professor, Research Fellow at Consumer Society Research Department, University of Helsinki
• Nationella språkbanken: Language at the Crossroads of Disciplines
  Lars Borin, Professor vid Institutionen för svenska, flerspråkighet och språkteknologi, Göteborgs universitet
  Jens Edlund, Associate Professor Divisionen för tal, musik och hörsel, KTH
• 'But We Can All Agree on the Meaning of 'Text', Right?'
  Rune Rattenborg, Institutionen för lingvistik och filologi,
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• Combining Geometric Data Analysis (GDA) and Qualitative Methods in Collaborative Research
  Håkan Forsberg, Associate Professor Institutionen för pedagogik, didaktik och utbildningssociologi
• Academic Uses of the Uppsala Conflict Data Program
  Magnus Öberg, Researcher, Institutionen för freds- och konfliktforskning
• Negotiating the Ethical-Political Aspects of Methods in Inter- and Transdisciplinary Research
  Simon West, forskare vid Stockholm Resilience Centre, Stockholms universitet
  Caroline Schill, forskare vid Beijer Institute of Ecological Economics, Kungliga vetenskaps akademien

Day 2: The Dynamics of Methods in the Wild

• The Uppsala Conflict Database in the Wild
  Magnus Öberg, Researcher, Institutionen för freds- och konfliktforskning
  
• When Bibliometrics Moved from the Scientometric Laboratory to the Policy Control Rooms
  Gustaf Nelhans, Senior Lecturer Akademin för bibliotek, information, pedagogik och IT (inklusive Bibliotekshögskolan)
• Attempting to Determine Origin by Using Language Analysis in Asylum Procedure
  Daniel Hedlund, Associate Professor, Institutionen för socialt arbete, Stockholm universitet

Debating Research Together - Explorations in the excellence and the shoddiness in how we in academia engage in cross-cutting scholarly debates. Circus symposium 2021.

Day 1: How and why do we debate research together?

• Pendulums of Regret: Revisiting Ideals for Academic and Public Discussion
  Karen Tracy, Professor Emerita in Communication, University of Colorado, Boulder
• Peer Review and the Management of Controversy: A Short History,
  Alex Csiszar, Professor of the History of Science, Harvard University

Caring for the scholarly debate in different arenas

• Caring for the Academic Commons: Colloquia, Conferences, Corridors and Canteen
  Marie Cronqvist, Associate Institutionen för kommunikation och medier, Lunds universitet,
• Editorial Practices and the Caring for the Scholarly Conversations: Reflections from a Re-tired Editor
  Professor Claes-Fredrik Helgesson, Föreståndare på CIRCUS

Shoddiness and challenges

• Equality in the Higher Seminar
  Ulrike Schnaas, Universitetsförvaltningen, Uppsala universitet.
• Disagreements in Scientific Peer-Review: Challenges and Opportunities
  Lambros Roumbanis, Associate Professor of Sociology, Stockholm University

How can we care for the scholarly debate?

• Panel discussion with presenters

Day 2: Should We Just Accept This Dismal State of Public Debate? – Or can academia constructively contribute to improve on the present societal condition?

New collaborations between research institutions and external actors

• Exploring future(s) through interdisciplinarity and mixed methods: Experiences from the LU Futura initiative
  Marie Cronqvist, Associate Professor Institutionen för kommunikation och medier, Lunds universitet,
• The art of vibrant intellectual debate
  Professor Ann-Katrin Bäcklund, Director at The Pufendorf Institute for Advanced Studies, Lund University

Debate climate - diagnosis of the present state and ways forward

• Discursive Shifts in Contemporary Public Debates: Resisting Challenges of Radicalisation and Polarisation
  Michal Krzyzanowski, Professor, Institutionen för informatik och media
• Timeout - Why do we need ground rules for constructive societal discussions?
  Laura Arikka, Chief Executive Officer at Dialogpaus, Finland