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, Centre for Integrated Research on Culture and Society (CIRCUS)
• Key-note lecture: Undisciplining
  Helen Small, 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, Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies, Erin Leahey, University of Arizona, Victoria McGuinness, TORCH, University of Oxford, Veronica Strang, affiliated with the University of Oxford
• Final wrap-up
  Claes-Fredrik Helgesson, Centre for Integrated Research on Culture and Society (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, Centre for Integrated Research on Culture and Society (CIRCUS)
• Mixing Disciplines Around Methods: Using Methods to Spark Interdisciplinary Dialogue
  David Moats, University of Helsinki
• Nationella språkbanken: Language at the Crossroads of Disciplines
  Lars Borin, University of Gothenburg
  Jens Edlund, Royal Institute of Technology
• 'But We Can All Agree on the Meaning of 'Text', Right?'
  Rune Rattenborg, Department of Linguistics and Philology
• Combining Geometric Data Analysis (GDA) and Qualitative Methods in Collaborative Research
  Håkan Forsberg, Department of Education
• Academic Uses of the Uppsala Conflict Data Program
  Magnus Öberg, Department of Peace and Conflict Studies
• Negotiating the Ethical-Political Aspects of Methods in Inter- and Transdisciplinary Research
  Simon West, Stockholm University
  Caroline Schill, 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, Department of Peace and Conflict Studies
• When Bibliometrics Moved from the Scientometric Laboratory to the Policy Control Rooms
  Gustaf Nelhans, Swedish School of Library and Information Science, Borås University
• Attempting to Determine Origin by Using Language Analysis in Asylum Procedure
  Daniel Hedlund, 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, University of Colorado, Boulder
• Peer Review and the Management of Controversy: A Short History,
  Alex Csiszar, Harvard University

Caring for the scholarly debate in different arenas

• Caring for the Academic Commons: Colloquia, Conferences, Corridors and Canteen
  Marie Cronqvist, Lund University
• Editorial Practices and the Caring for the Scholarly Conversations: Reflections from a Re-tired Editor
  Professor Claes-Fredrik Helgesson, Centre for Integrated Research on Culture and Society (CIRCUS)

Shoddiness and challenges

• Equality in the Higher Seminar
  Ulrike Schnaas, University Administration
• Disagreements in Scientific Peer-Review: Challenges and Opportunities
  Lambros Roumbanis, 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, Lund University
• The art of vibrant intellectual debate
  Professor Ann-Katrin Bäcklund, 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, Department of Informatics and Media
• Timeout - Why do we need ground rules for constructive societal discussions?
  Laura Arikka, Dialogpaus, Finland