Why Interdisciplinarity? Promises, Problems, Practices
- Date
- 24 September 2019, 09:15–17:00
- Location
- Humanities Theatre
- Type
- Conference
- Organiser
- The Centre for Integrated Research on Culture and Society (Circus)
- Contact person
- Claes-Fredrik Helgesson
Welcome to CIRCUS’ symposium 2019.
9:15-10:45 Session 1: Mapping interdisciplinarities
Opening remarks
Claes-Fredrik Helgesson, Professor and Research Director at Circus, Uppsala University
The contours of interdisciplinarity
Erin Leahey, Professor and Director, School of Sociology, University of Arizona
Interdisciplinarity and impact
Sven Widmalm, Professor, Department of History of Science and Ideas, Uppsala University
Asymmetries in Interdisciplinarity
Uskali Mäki, Professor of Practical Philosophy and Director of Centre for Philosophy of Social Science, University of Helsinki
Break for coffee and small talk
11:15-12:30 Session 2: Practices, outcomes and assessments
How have we worked and what have the results been?
Insights from two cross-cutting collaborative endeavours at Uppsala University
- The Higher Education as Research Object (HERO) Network. Mikael Börjesson, Professor, Department of Education, Uppsala University
- Exploring Citizenship – A Research Programme. Johan Wejryd, Researcher at Department of Government, Uppsala University
Challenges in Assessing Interdisciplinary Research
Veronica Strang, Professor in Cultural Anthropology and Executive Director at Institute of Advanced Study, Durham University
Lunch
13:45-15:00 Session 3: Parallel workshops (choose one)
A) Interdisciplinarity and the academic career
Thematic question: What can the engaging with multi-, inter- or trans-disciplinary endeavours mean for the career of younger researchers?
B) To lead interdisciplinary endeavours
Thematic question: What are the particular challenges with leading multi-, inter- and/or trans-disciplinary research endeavours?
C) Studying Interdisciplinary research
Thematic question: In what ways and with what questions have and can we interrogate different forms of inter-disciplinary research?
Break for coffee
15:30-16:15 Session 4: Interdisciplinarity and methods
A template for multidisciplinary research projects
Michael Dunn, Professor of General Linguistics, Department of Linguistics and Philology, Uppsala University
Compounding the problem: Methods in interdisciplinary research
Celia Lury, Professor, Centre for Interdisciplinary Methodologies, University of Warwick