Resources

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, Director of CIRCUS
• Key-note lecture: Undisciplining
  Helen Small, Merton Professor of English Language and Literature, University of Oxford
• The Automated Public Servant
  Sandra Friberg, Department of Law
• National Christianities in the Nordic Region – a Circulation of Knowledge
  Erika Boije, Department of Theology, Gustaf Forsell, Department of Theology, Emma Hellström, Department of Education
• The Ethics of Cultural Heritage in Armed Conflict
  Elisabeth Schellekens Dammann, Department of Philosophy
• From Greenwashing Sins to Green Marketing Virtues: Rhetoric, Law and Beyond
  Erik Bengtson, Department of Literature, Oskar Mossberg, Department of Law
• Justice, Sustainability and Arctic Futures
  Johanna Ohlsson, Institute for Russian and Eurasian Studies, Corine Wood-Donnelly, Institute for Russian and Eurasian Studies
• 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, Director of 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, Director at 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 at the Department of Swedish, Multilingualism, Language Technology, University of Gothenburg
  Jens Edlund, Associate Professor at the Division of Speech, Music and Hearing, Royal Institute of Technology
• 'But We Can All Agree on the Meaning of 'Text', Right?'
  Rune Rattenborg, Researcher at the Department of Linguistics and Philology
• Combining Geometric Data Analysis (GDA) and Qualitative Methods in Collaborative Research
  Håkan Forsberg, Associate Professor at the Department of Education
• Academic Uses of the Uppsala Conflict Data Program
  Magnus Öberg, Researcher at the Department of Peace and Conflict Studies
• Negotiating the Ethical-Political Aspects of Methods in Inter- and Transdisciplinary Research
  Simon West, Researcher at Stockholm Resilience Centre, Stockholm University
  Caroline Schill, Researcher at the Beijer Institute of Ecological Economics, Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences

Day 2: The Dynamics of Methods in the Wild

• The Uppsala Conflict Database in the Wild
  Magnus Öberg, Researcher at the Department of Peace and Conflict Studies
• When Bibliometrics Moved from the Scientometric Laboratory to the Policy Control Rooms
  Gustaf Nelhans, Senior Lecturer at the Swedish School of Library and Information Science, Borås University
• Attempting to Determine Origin by Using Language Analysis in Asylum Procedure
  Daniel Hedlund, Associate Professor at the Department of Social Work, Stockholm University

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 Professor of Journalism and Media History, Lund University
• Editorial Practices and the Caring for the Scholarly Conversations: Reflections from a Re-tired Editor
  Professor Claes-Fredrik Helgesson, Director at CIRCUS

Shoddiness and challenges

• Equality in the Higher Seminar
  Ulrike Schnaas, PhD in German Literature and Educational Developer at the Division of Quality Enhancement
• 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 all 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 of Journalism and Media History, Lund University
• 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 of Media and Communication Studies
• Timeout - Why do we need ground rules for constructive societal discussions?
  Laura Arikka, Chief Executive Officer at Dialogpaus, Finland