CIRCUS Interdisciplinary Symposium

Bridging disciplinary differences to make a difference
Efforts to navigate and span the divides between Humanities and
Social Sciences, STEM, and Medical Sciences

The pressing issues of our time require solutions that transcend traditional disciplinary boundaries. Efforts to bridge the larger disciplinary divides is a long-held promise and aspiration for interdisciplinary research. But how do we overcome the challenges that such radical interdisciplinarity presents?

Join us for a half-day symposium where researchers working in co-creation with stakeholders and engaging with society, will discuss how they navigate larger disciplinary divides. The symposium will conclude with a mingle, offering a chance to further discuss the topics at hand.

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Program:

13.00-13.15
Opening remarks
Claes-Fredrik Helgesson, Professor and Director of CIRCUS

13.15-14.00
Radical Interdisciplinarity: Interdisciplinarity by Design and the Futures Institute
Marion Thain, Professor of Culture and Technology, Chair-Director of the Digital Futures Institute (which contains the Centre for Attention Studies and others), and Executive Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Humanities, King’s College London

14.00-14.30
Bridging Disciplines: Interdisciplinary Research at the Centre for the Human Past
Carina Schlebusch, Professor at the Department of Organismal Biology, and Co-Principal Investigator at Center for the Human Past, Uppsala University.

Jenny Larsson, Professor at the Department of Slavic and Baltic Studies Finnish Dutch and German, Stockholm University, and Co-Principal Investigator at Center for the Human Past, Uppsala University.

14.30-15.00 Coffee break

15.00-15.30
Interdisciplinary collaboration at Mind Intelligence Lab: From the struggles to the breakthroughs
Nazar Akrami, Professor at the Department of Psychology, Uppsala University, and CEO at Mind Intelligence Lab

15.30-16:00
Challenges and Opportunities within Multi-Disciplinary Precision Health Research
Phillip Tretten, Associate Professor of Human Work Sciences and Leader of Precise Research School, Innovative Precision Health, Luleå University of Technology

16.00-16.20
Mini-workshop: questions and reflections on bridging larger disciplinary divides
Facilitator: CIRCUS staff

16.20-16.50
Panel discussion: Learning Opportunities across Interdisciplinary Initiatives
Panelists: Marion Thain, Carina Schlebusch, Nazar Akrami, Phillip Tretten

Moderator: Claes-Fredrik Helgesson

16.50-17.00 Closing remarks

17.00-18.00 Mingle