Seminar - hybrid event: Changing Infrastructures, Changing Worlds: The Academy as a Case Study

Date: 31 March 2022, 16:15–18:00
Location: SCAS, SCAS, Linnéanum, Thunbergssalen, Thunbergsvägen 2 Uppsala
Type: Seminar
Lecturer: Patrik Svensson, Senior Global Horizons Fellow, SCAS. Independent Scholar
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Organiser: Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study (SCAS)
Contact person: Klas Holm

Patrik Svensson, SCAS, gives a seminar on "Changing Infrastructures, Changing Worlds: The Academy as a Case Study". The talk will be followed by a Q&A session.

Abstract

Since about the 1980s we live in an increasingly infrastructural world, a world understood, negotiated, and made through infrastructure. Infrastructures are often taken to be fixed (foundational, technological, long-term, instrumental, useful, and difficult to change) even when seen as failing or analyzed relationally. In this paper, I argue that enacting change requires challenging such models of infrastructure and that infrastructural change is also about institutional, epistemological, and societal change and should be informed by the ideas and values we want to be driving such change. The category of ‘research infrastructure’ serves as a case study and ‘academic events’ provides a current example.

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