Teknologiens Janus-ansigt

Centre for Advanced Security Theory (CAST) in Copenhagen has the pleasure of inviting you to a workshop on security:

The Duality of Technology

Monday 22 October 2012: 13.00-16.00    
Technology is often taken to be apolitical. Three researchers have taken on the task of discussing how technology is indeed highly political: How can we understand the political nature and securityness of technology? What role does technology play in juggling and producing risks and security threats? How is the technology-security nexus involved in the production of both openness and secrecy, two apparently conflicting demands in contemporary politics?

Blandt oplægsholderne er David Koepsell, Delft University of Technology; Kathleen Vogel, Cornell University; og Nisha Shah, University of Ottawa.

Arrangementet finder i Frokoststuen (lokale 4.2.26) på Institut for Statskundskab fra kl. 13 til 16, og deltagere bedes venligst melde sig til på kkc@cast.ku.dk senest på fredag den 19. oktober.

Yderligere info kan findes i det vedhæftede program.

Tænk på medicinske ting

On the 8th-9th of march 2013, Medical Museion at the University of Copenhagen will host a workshop entitled 'It's Not What You Think - Communicating Medical Materialities'. 

The workshop builds from a central concern with materiality, asking what can be communicated about and through it, and will be an experimental meeting place for people with a wide range of interests in materiality, medicine and communication. The workshop is less about presenting current work in paper form; rather, participants will be asked to bring along their problems with materiality, medical objects, and their communication. Then, through object sessions, shared discussions and trips to the archives, the participants will work together to come up with partial solutions, pragmatic fixes, and novel approaches.

Invited participants confirmed so far include Sam Alberti (Royal College of Surgeons), Ken Arnold (Wellcome Collection), Annamaria Carusi (U Copenhagen), Sarah Davies (Arizona State University), Sandra Dudley (School of Museum Studies, University of Leicester), Anthony Dunne (Royal College of Art, London, and Dunne & Raby Design Studio), Maja Horst (U Copenhagen), Jenell Johnson (U Madison-Wisconsin), Angela Last (Central Saint Martins College Of Art and Design, London), Zoe Laughlin (Institute of Making, Kings College London), Lucy Lyons (City & Guilds of London Art School), David Pantalony (Canada Science and Technology Museum, and U Ottawa), and Thomas Söderqvist (U Copenhagen).

The remaining spaces will be filled via an open call: potential participants are invited to submit up to 300 words, one page, a short audio or video piece or a small package communicating their interest in the workshop to itsnotwhatyouthink at sund.ku.dk by December 1st. Decisions will be announced after Christmas.

You can read much more about the workshop here, and find a flyer here, or email Louise Whiteley and Adam Bencard on itsnotwhatyouthink at sund.ku.dk with questions. The workshop is supported by the NNF Center for Basic Metabolic Research section for Science Communication.

Workshop for ingeniørstudier

Fra dastsamfundets sider www.dasts.dk :

We are very proud to announce the realization of our international workshop INES 2012 in Copenhagen the afternoon of Oct 16 and the morning of Oct 17. In the webpage www.ines2012.dk you will find the Program for the workshop. We have 14 full papers submitted. They are available for members of the DASTS community willing to post commentaries in the webpage. If you are interested in doing so, please write to Andrés Valderrama afvp@plan.aau.dk in order to obtain access. We welcome the participation of any of you, your students and your colleagues appreciating and supporting the authors of these 14 papers to move forward in their contributions to the INES and the STS community. The organizers of the workshop are Ulrik Jørgensen and Andrés Valderrama (in representation Aalborg University, the Project on Challenges and Opportunities for the Future of Engineering in Denmark PROCEED and the STS-Engineering node of INES in Copenhagen)

Teknologiforståelse i humaniora - legerum og miniværksteder

http://www.dpu.dk/3rum/

Fire workshops og en konference om teknologiforståelse i humaniora

I dag er det vigtigere end nogensinde at også humanister på universiteter lærer teknologiforståelse - både i forhold til deres hverdagsliv som undervisere og forskere og i forhold til de kompetencekrav, som også deres studerende vil blive mødt med, når de er færdige.

Det tredje rum er et kompetenceprojekt, som gennemføres på Arts på Aarhus Universitet i efteråret 2011.

Formålet er at åbne for at få humanister til at gå ind i 'det tredje rum', et legerum hvor teknologiforståelse og innovation går hånd i hånd. Folk fra sundhedsvidenskaberne, samfundsvidenskaberne og ikke mindst naturvidenskaberne har den fordel, at teknologiforståelse til en vis grad allerede er bygget ind i deres fagligheder - mens det i dag kun er humanister, der af egen kraft har opbygget teknologiforståelse, der kan ’lege med’. Selvom de humanister, der har bevæget sig i STS (Science and Technology feltet), har opbygget en mere funderet teknologiforståelse, bliver denne sjældent sat i spil i forhold til de humanistiske fagligheder.

I efteråret 2011 gennemføres således fire workshops og en konference for forskere og studerende. Tre workshops gennemføres på Campus Aarhus mens den sidste workshop og den afsluttende konference gennemføres på Campus Emdrup.

Teknologi vil blive bredt præsenteret af en vifte af oplægsholdere, der på forskellig vis har krydset mellem teknologi og humaniora – og alle oplæg har særligt henblik på hvordan humanister kan få noget ud af en udbygget ’technological literacy’.

Hver workshop består af en åben forelæsning for alle interesserede efterfulgt af to parallelle miniværksteder, hvor der i alt er 30 pladser pr. gang. Miniværkstederne er både være en introduktion/inspiration til hvad forskellige teknologier kan i koblingen med humanistiske forskning og en mulighed for at få konkrete svar på konkrete udfordringer, som de enkelte forskere og studerende står med. Tilmelding til workshops og foregår efter først til mølle princippet. Til hvert workshop følger forskellige bøger, som udleveres gratis til deltagerne, og der er gratis frokost.

Den afsluttende konference finder sted på DPU, AU, Tuborgvej 164, 2400 København. Den er for alle, der har deltaget i de tre workshops og desuden åben alle andre interesserede.

Forløb
Workshops
Det Tredje Rum kører af stablen oktober-december 2011. Der er et begrænset antal pladser og tilmelding er derfor obligatorisk. Tilmeldinger følger ’først til mølle’-princippet. Hvert arrangement består af en åben forelæsning for alle interesserede og en efterfølgende workshop for et begrænset antal deltagere. Tilmelding til workshops foregår efter først til mølle princippet.

Tilmelding til de enkelte workshops og den afsluttede konference, kan ske via links i boksen til højre på denne side.

De tre workshops i Campus Aarhus besøges af forskere fra Campus Emdrup i København og omvendt vil workshoppen på Campus Emdrup i København være domineret af forskere fra Campus Aarhus. På den afsluttende konference i København deltager forskere fra både Campus Aarhus og Campus Emdrup.

Alle deltagerne i miniværkstederne vil gratis modtage en bog, knyttet til workshoppens forskellige overordnede tematikker.

Program
Hver workshop følger samme program:

9.00-9.30:
kaffe og croissant

9.30-10.30:
Åben forelæsning for alle interesserede ved forskere med forskellige perspektiver på teknologiforståelse

10.40-13.00:
2 parallelle miniværksteder med plads til 30 deltagere med ’teknologi-undervisere’, der præsenterer teknologier med relevans for humanistisk forskning fx videobriller, mindmap-programmer, weblogs i undervisningen, videostreaming. Det er være to forskellige ’emner’ pr. gang. Seminarerne er en introduktion/inspiration til hvad forskellige teknologier kan i koblingen med humanistiske forskning og en mulighed for at deltagerne kan få konkrete svar på de udfordringer, som de enkelte forskere/undervisere står med.

13.00
Fælles opsummering og en afsluttende gratis frokost

Senest 14 dage forinden kan de udvalgte deltagere indsende konkrete spørgsmål til oplægsholderne, hvis de har noget helt konkret, de gerne vil have en uddybende introduktion til. Der er dog ingen garanti for, at alle spørgsmål vil blive behandlet på seminaret.

:-) :-) :-)

Aarhus: Workshop I, 25. oktober

The Shock of the Old: Technology and Global History since 1900
Sted: Richard Mortensen salen, Aarhus Universitet

Oplægsholdere: Professor Cathrine Hasse, Professor Hans Siggaard Jensen og Post.doc. Jamie Wallace

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Aarhus: Workshop II, 8. november

Visuel kulturpædagogik som undervisningskompetence

Sted: Richard Mortensen salen, Aarhus Universitet

Oplægsholdere: Professor Cathrine Hasse, Lektor Mie Buhl og Lektor Lisa Gjedde

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Aarhus: Workshop III, 15. november

Teknologi og forskningserfaringer
Sted: Richard Mortensen salen, Aarhus Universitet

Oplægsholdere: Professor Cathrine Hasse, Lektor Lisa Gjedde og Post.doc Jamie Wallace

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Emdrup, Kbh.: Workshop IV, 22. november

Teknologi og Sundhed
Sted: Auditorium D169, DPU, AU Campus Emdrup

Oplægsholdere:Professor Cathrine Hasse, Lektor Claus Bossen og Ph.d. stipendiat Kasper Schiølin

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Konference i Emdrup

Konference om teknologiforståelse i humaniora, 6. december

Sted: Festsalen, Emdrupvej, Campus København, Aarhus Universitet

Tid: 11-14.30

Oplægsholdere: Professor Cathrine Hasse, professor Hans Siggaard, professor Don Ihde, John R. Dakers, Lektor Finn Olesen, professor Helle Mathiasen og professor Jacob Wamberg

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Workshop 1: Overvågningsteknologi og Overvågningskultur
(I forbindelse med konferencen 6. december)

Tid: 14.30-16.00

Oplægsholdere Lektor Peter Lauritsen og Ph.d. stipendiat Jørgen Tietze

Miniværksteder: Anders Albrechtslund, "Lokationsbaseret selv-overvågning" og Ask Risom Bøge "Biometrisk overvågning". Læs mere her

Kun 30 pladser og derfor separat tilmelding

Tilmeld dig workshoppen på konferencen her

Workshop 2: Personlige læringsmiljøer
(I forbindelse med konferencen 6. december)

Tid: 14.30-16.00

Oplægsholdere: Lektor Christian Dalsgaard og Christian Winther Bech, Center for Undervisningsudvikling og Digitale Medier

Kun 30 pladser og derfor separat tilmelding

Tilmeld dig workshoppen på konferencen her

Datadrevet videnskabsfilosofi

WORKSHOP:

EMPIRICAL PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE --

QUALITATIVE METHODS

Sandbjerg (Denmark), March 21-23, 2012

Call for Papers

Conference venue: Sandbjerg Estate, Denmark (http://www.sandbjerg.dk/eng/welcome.aspx)

Keynote Speakers: Nancy Nersessian (Georgia Institute of Technology), Lisa Osbeck (University of West Georgia), Erika Mansnerus (London School of Economics), Hauke Riesch (Imperial College London)

Organizers: Hanne Andersen (Aarhus University), Susann Wagenknecht (Aarhus University)

The workshop seeks to explore the benefits and challenges of an empirical philosophy of science: What do philosophers gain from empirical work? How can empirical research help to develop philosophical concepts? How do we integrate philosophical frameworks and empirical research? What constraints do we accept when choosing an empirical approach? What constraints does a pronounced theoretical focus impose on empirical work?

Qualitative methods such as interviewing, fieldwork and qualitative text analysis gain increasingly appeal among philosophers of science. More and more scholars in philosophy resort to empirical work in order to study scientific practice. At the same time, the results produced through empirical work are very different from those gained through the kind of introspective conceptual analysis more typical of philosophy. Empirical work based on qualitative methods has a long and rich research tradition rooted in the social sciences. The use of qualitative methods in philosophy of science therefore also brings philosophers in close contact with philosophically inclined social scientists studying science.

This workshop will provide participants with the opportunity to explore some of the methodological, conceptual and practical challenges of conducting qualitative empirical work with philosophy of science. The discussion will focus on recently accomplished or ongoing research projects, and will address questions concerning the quality of empirical work and its explanatory power and theoretical significance for philosophy of science. In order to ensure a comprehensive discussion we invite papers both from scholars in philosophy and the social sciences who study scientific practice with the help of empirical methods. Of particular interest are submissions that introduce examples of empirical work in philosophy of science, discuss first-hand experiences with qualitative methods and/or provide reflections upon the scope of an empirical philosophy of science.

To apply: Proposals for papers (in either Word or pdf format) should include title, an abstract of ~800 words as well as the participant’s name, e-mail, phone and institutional affiliation.

Deadline for the submission of abstracts: November 15, 2011. Decisions will be announced by December 1, 2011.

Please send submissions to: Susann Wagenknecht / su.wagen@ivs.au.dk

Conference fee: The all-inclusive conference fee (415 Euro) will cover accommodation and food at Sandbjerg Estate for March 21-23, 2012. An additional night’s accommodation and breakfast can be booked for 118 Euro per person. PhD students can apply for a 50% reduction. Please contact Susann Wagenknecht regarding availability.

Click here for a printer-friendly pdf version of our call for papers.

Travel details: The conference venue, the Sandbjerg Conference Centre, is located near Sønderborg in Southwest Denmark.

By train: The conference centre is situated 6 km from Sønderborg Railway Station. We recommend to take a direct train from Copenhagen (Airport) to Sønderborg.

By plain: Convenient airports are located in Copenhagen (DK), Billund (DK) and Hamburg (D).

Further information for traveling by car can be found here. In addition, we are happy to help you individually with planning your journey to Sandbjerg.

Workshop website

Sanselige objekter i tilfælde af afbud

En international workshop på temaet The Sensuous Object afholdes på Medicinsk Museion torsdag 29. - fredag 30. september:

http://www.corporeality.net/museion/2011/09/15/the-sensuous-object-workshop-29th-30th-september-programme/

Desværre er workshoppen nu helt fuldtegnet, men der findes en venteliste i tilfælde af afbud.

For adgang til abstracts, kontakt postdoc Lucy Lyons, lucyly [at] sund.ku.dk eller +45 5194 8068.

Thomas Söderqvist
Medicinsk Museion

Saml dig et liv - møde om syntesebiologi

Engineering Life

Philosophical and Societal Perspectives on Synthetic Biology

Date: Friday, September 2, 2011, 9.00-16.00
Venue: Building 23, room 23.4.39 at Ny KUA, Njalsgade 76

Program:

9.00-10.00: Mette Ebbesen (AU),
Does the creation of new biological functions require a new ethics?
10.15-11.15: Sune Holm (KU),
Do environmentalists have reason to worry about synthetic biology?
11.30-12.30: Janus Hansen (CBS),

Synthetic biology in the public sphere: What do we know about the roots of public controversies and what is to be done about them?
12.30-13.30: Lunch
13.30-14.30: Maja Horst/Cecilie Glerup (CBS),
Scientific Social Responsibility: Tracing efforts to socialize science
14.45-15.45: Steen Rasmussen (ISSP/SDU),

TBA

Synthetic biology is guided by a vision about a future in which humans are routinely engaging in large-scale design and engineering of living systems. While the development of this emerging area of research promises to bring about extremely beneficial applications in areas such as energy, medicine, and agriculture, it is also widely recognized that the field may have a significant impact on the future of humans, society, and the environment.

This workshop brings together researchers from synthetic biology, philosophy, and the social sciences in order to explore some of the important questions that synthetic biology raises from the point of view of ethics, social responsibility and public engagement.

Registration is free, but please e-mail Sune Holm if you would like to attend: suneh@hum.ku.dk

Syntesebiologien mellem organisme og maskine

The Department for Media, Cognition, and Communication of the University of Copenhagen, in association with the Oxford Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics of Oxford University, are pleased to present

Organism and Machine:

The Conceptual and Normative

Challenges of Synthetic Biology

Date: Friday, January 14, 2011, 9.00-17.30
Venue: University of Copenhagen, Faculty of Humanities, KUA

Program
9.00-9.15: Welcome
9.15-10.15: Peter McLaughlin (Heidelberg), ‘The Blindness of the Watchmaker and the Super-vision of the Breeder’
10.15-11.15: Tim Lewens (Cambridge), ‘Does Mother Nature Know Best? On Rational Organic Design’
Break
11.45-12.45: Randolph Nesse (Michigan, Ann Arbor), ‘How the Machine Metaphor Holds Back Biology and Medicine’
Lunch
13.45-14.45: Mark Bedau (Reed College), ‘How Emergence Drives the Ethics and Politics of Synthetic Biology’
14.45-15.45: Julian Savulescu (Oxford),’The Ethical Implications of Designing Life’
Break
16.15-17.15: Jacob Boomsma (Copenhagen), ‘Will the Services of Synthetic Organisms be Brief, Transient and Ultimately Dangerous?’
17.15-17.30: Concluding Remarks

REGISTRATION is free, but please e-mail Sune Holm by January 6, 2011 if you would like to attend (suneh [at] hum.ku.dk)

SYNTHETIC BIOLOGY is rapidly emerging as one of the most promising fields of science and technology, with the potential to deliver enormous benefits in a wide range of areas, including pharmaceuticals, energy, agriculture, pollution and climate change. The vision of synthetic biologists is a future where humans engage in the large-scale design and creation of new forms of life that are exquisitely tailored for human purposes. The genetic engineering of organisms, and the wholesale design and manufacture of living things from virtual genetic sequences, are blurring the line between machine and organism, life and nonlife, and the natural and the artificial, transforming the relationship between humankind and nature in ways that are exciting to some people but unsettling for others.

THIS WORKSHOP will bring together an interdisciplinary group of experts, including specialists in evolutionary biology, medicine, bioethics, and philosophy of science, to explore the conceptual, theoretical, and ethical dimensions of the machine-organism distinction. It will aim to address the following questions: Is the traditional machine-organism comparison one of analogy or disanalogy? How do engineering principles and machine metaphors figure into biological and biomedical science, and what are the limits to their utility? How shall we situate the products of synthetic biology vis-à-vis our traditional ontological categories of ‘engineered machine’ and ‘naturally selected organism’? Are these distinctions of normative significance? How might these categories inform (or misinform) bioethical discussions in relation to emerging biotechnologies? A central goal of the workshop will be to highlight the ways in which the conceptual problems associated with synthetic biology inform and shape the ethical analyses.

The workshop is sponsored by UNIK Synthetic Biology, University of Copenhagen

STS-seminarrække på RUC

During the fall, RUC will host a series of STS-workshops in the seminar room at Department of Philosophy & Philosophy of Science, 3.1.3, 13.00-15.00, followed by a reception. Everybody is welcome to join.

Schedule:

17. september
Emmanuel Didier (Centre national de la recherche scientifique / École des hautes études en sciences sociales, Paris): ’What is America About? Statistics, the New Deal, and Democracy’.

1. oktober
Matthias Heymann (Aarhus Universitet): ’Constructing evidence and trust: How did climate scientists’ confidence in their models and simulations emerge?’

15. oktober
Kirsten Simonsen (Roskilde Universitet): ’Practice, Spatiality and Embodied Emotions: An Outline of a Geography of Practice’.

29. oktober
Mats Fridlund (Københavns Universitet): ’The Terror and Security of Things: Recovering a Material and Phenomenological History of a Lost Fear’.

12. november
Fernando Flores (Lunds Universitet): ’Broken Technologies: The Humanist as Engineer’.

26. november
Thomas Söderqvist (Københavns Universitet): ’Cultures of Meaning and Cultures of Presence: The Use of Material Objects in the History of Science, Medicine and Technology’.

10. december
Gert Goeminne (Vrije Universiteit Brussel / Universiteit Gent): ’Does the climate need consensus? Rethinking science as politics’.

Event information:
September 17, 2010
1:00 pm to 3:00 pm
October 1, 2010
1:00 pm to 3:00 pm
October 15, 2010
1:00 pm to 3:00 pm
October 29, 2010
1:00 pm to 3:00 pm
November 12, 2010
1:00 pm to 3:00 pm
November 26, 2010
1:00 pm to 3:00 pm
December 10, 2010
1:00 pm to 3:00 pm

Denmark at an Open Access crossroads

Public meting: Workshop on

Denmark at an Open Access crossroads

– mandate or a peoples’ movement?

Time: September 3, 2010, at 13:15 to 15:15

Place: Niels Bohr Institute, Auditorium A, Blegdamsvej 17, Copenhagen (entrance to auditorium A via the reception in the basement of the villa at Blegdamsvej 17)

Meeting programme:

13:15

Claus Emmeche (CPNSS): Welcome note.

Key notes and repliques:

13:20

Juha Suoranta: Towards a global folkehøjskole? (abstract below)

13:40 - replique by Anne-Mette Wehmüller (member of Frederiksberg City Council and Candidate for the Danish Parliament, website): Denmark as a knowledge society

13:45 - Juha Suoranta: replique

13:50 - questions and general discussion

13:55

Stevan Harnad: Mandating (Green) Open Access to Maximize the Usage and Impact of Danish Research Output (abstract below)

14:15 - replique by Mette Thunø (dean of research, Faculty of Humanities, University of Copenhagen): The open door and the big books.

14:20 - Stevan Harnad: replique

14:25 - questions and general discussion

Actors, Brief statements, and Discussion

14:30

Kaspar Kirstein Nielsen (physicist, EliteForsk2009 price receiver; Danish Technical University): Ask a scientist what is do be done

14:35

Bo Öhrström (Danish Agency for Libraries and Media; Denmark's Electronic research Library (DEFF), chairman of the Danish Open Access Committee): The recent recommendations for implementation of Open Access in Denmark

14:40

Questions

14:45

Karen Skovgaard-Petersen and Lars Hem (The Danish Council for Independent Research | Humanities (FKK); Det Danske Sprog- og Litteraturselskab; Dept. of Psychology, Aarhus University): Humanities and Open Access.

14:50

Discussion

14:55

Jørgen Burchardt (researcher and chairman of The Society of Danish Science Editors): Can an Open Access mandate avoid destroying a well functioning publication system? (abstract below)

15:05: Discussion

15:15: End of meeting.

NB: The recent recommendations for implementation of Open Access in Denmark in a report from the Open Access Committee be downloaded in a Danish and an English version.

Present voices in the audience will also include Thorkil Damsgaard Olsen (OA deputy of the rector of University of Copenhagen), Marianne Gauffriau and Thomas Sinkjær (Danish National Research Foundation), science manager Ulla Jakobsen (the Lundbeck Foundation), senior advisor Leif Hansen (Copenhagen Business School; cf. the CBS OA policy), director Marianne Alenius (Museum Tusculanums Press, University of Copenhagen), professor Karen A. Krogfelt (The Danish Council for Independent Research | Technology and Production Sciences (FTP)) and principal Inger Schow (Centre for Independant Research and Research Training, The Danish Agency for Science, Technology and Innovation).

Abstracts:

Juha Suoranta (Professor in Adult Education at the University of Tampere, Adjunct Professor at the Sibelius Academy, Helsinki):

Towards global folkehøjskole?

What is the largest educational endeavor at the moment? It is not the world's higher education systems nor all adult education combined. It is Wikipedia, with its sister projects (Wikiversity etc.) and other platforms of sharing and interacting in the Internet. The age of Wikipedia, or Wikiword in general, is marked by a change, or perhaps even a revolution, in the we way we learn and educate each other: institutionalized learning is transforming into new forms of

collaborative learning projects and sharing our ideas and knowledge in the Internet via wikis. In these venues learning has little to do with individual rote learning (as many times in classrooms) and much to do with collective sharing and participating in learning. Learning is not so much reading and listening than evaluating and editing, which is a new, vital form of literacy. Thus Wikiworld is another step forward in the process of progressive, democracy enhancing educational thinking in the best liberal fashion of N. Grundtvig and the tradition of
Nordic folkehøjskole.

Literature:

• See list of Juha's works at http://en.wikipedia.org./wiki/Juha_Suoranta and his blog

• Wikiworld. Revisited edition (with Tere Vadén), 2010 (about) (buy), (free download)

• Juha Suoranta: "Learners and Oppressed Peoples of the World, Wikify! Wikiversity as a Global Critical Pedagogy" (2010, preprint download)

• Juha Suoranta & Tere Vadén: "Wikilearning as Radical Equality" (2010, preprint download)

• Juha Suoranta: Wikilearning vs Formal Learning (Table 1)

• Leinonen, Teemu, Juha Suoranta & Tere Vadén: "Learning in and with an open wiki project: Wikiversity's potential in global capacity building" (link to the peer-reviewed paper)

Stevan Harnad (Canada Research Chair in Cognitive Science at Universite Quebec a Montreal and Professor in Electronics and Computer Science at University of Southampton, UK):

Mandating (Green) Open Access to Maximize the Usage and Impact of Danish Research Output

Open access (OA) means making peer-reviewed scientific and scholarly journal articles accessible for free online to all of their potential users rather than -- as now -- only to those users whose universities can afford subscription access to the journal in which
they are published. OA has been shown to increase research usage and impact metrics substantially, in every field. There are two ways to provide OA: The author self-archives a copy of the final draft in his institution's OA repository ("Green OA") or the author publishes the article in a journal that makes the article OA ("Gold OA"). Gold OA depends on publishers and costs extra money per article; Green OA depends only on researchers, their institutions and their funders, requires no extra payment, it can be mandated, and universities
and research funders the world over have already begun to mandate Green OA self-archiving, including among the early adopters Harvard, MIT and Stanford plus the National Institutes of Health in the US, Edinburgh, University College London and Southampton plus all
the RCUK councils in the UK, the EC and ERC councils in Europe, and, in Scandinavia: both the Swedish and Norwegian Research Councils, the universities of Bergen, Blekinge and Chalmers plus all the Finnish Universities -- but in Denmark so far only the Copenhagen Business
School! OA is optimal and inevitable, but there is a competitive advantage in being among the first to mandate OA, rather than the last. The Houghton Report has also shown that the benefit to cost ratio of mandating Green OA is 40/1. My talk will be about how universities and funders can mandate Green OA, why and how.

Addendum:

As the studies of Alma Swan and Bo-Christer Björk have shown, although researchers know and value the benefits of Open access (OA), just as with "publish or perish," they will not provide OA spontaneously; they will only do so only if OA is mandated by their institutions and funders. A decade of evidence has now shown that to keep waiting for OA to be provided by a spontaneous "people's" impetus is to keep waiting in vain.

The reason OA's primary target content is peer-reviewed journal articles rather than books is that, without exception, journal articles are written solely for research uptake, usage and impact, not for author royalty income. This is not true of books in general, hence book OA cannot be mandated -- but the increasingly palpable impact benefits of article OA will no doubt inspire more and more researchers to consider making their books OA too.

See:

• Swan, Alma (2006) Open Access Self-Archiving: An Introduction. JISC Technical Report.
• Harnad, Stevan (2008) Open Access Book-Impact and "Demotic" Metrics. Open Access Archivangelism.

Literature:

Harnad, S. (2010) The Immediate Practical Implication of the Houghton Report: Provide Green Open Access Now. Prometheus, 28 (1). pp. 55-59. http://eprints.ecs.soton.ac.uk/18514/

Gargouri, Y., Hajjem, C., Lariviere, V., Gingras, Y., Brody, T., Carr, L. and Harnad, S. (2010) Self-Selected or Mandated, Open Access Increases Citation Impact for Higher Quality Research. (in press) http://eprints.ecs.soton.ac.uk/18493/

Harnad, S. (2008) Waking OA’s “Slumbering Giant”: The University's Mandate To Mandate Open Access. New Review of Information Networking 14(1): 51 - 68 http://eprints.ecs.soton.ac.uk/17298/3/giantpaper1.pdf

The Immediate-Deposit/Optional-Access (ID/OA) Mandate: Rationale and Model

http://openaccess.eprints.org/index.php?/archives/71-guid.html

Optimizing OA Self-Archiving Mandates: What? Where? When? Why? How?

http://openaccess.eprints.org/index.php?/archives/136-guid.html

How to Integrate University and Funder Open Access Mandates

http://openaccess.eprints.org/index.php?/archives/369-guid.html

Jørgen Burchardt (researcher and chairman of The Society of Danish Science Editors):

Can an Open Access mandate avoid destroying a well functioning publication system?

Burchardt is among the pioneers for Open Access, and he got the first Danish scholarly peer-reviewed journal on-line in 2001. Besides, he knows from his own research how the conditions are for publishing in countries with small culture groups and speech areas.

The most optimistic theories about OA are built on experiences from international STM (Science, Technology, Medicine) areas. Unfortunately those can not be transferred to small countries like Denmark. Mandating OA author self-archives would be pure poison for the existing publishing system and a catastrophe for researchers and society because qualified publishing would disappear. Self-archived manuscripts are of a considerably lower quality than articles from professional publishers.

Mandating OA paid by authors could be a solution. The model is, however, not useful in the humanities, social sciences, and other topics with poor single researchers. Some topics will lose twenty-five percent of their results (from researchers, who are unemployed, retired, or from non-research institutions). Simultaneously the researchers will lose their freedom to publish when non-researchers in reality decide about economic support or not.

A hybrid OA model with a protection period for sale, together with a compensation for lost income, could be a solution. It keeps economic resources for the editorial process and the editorial freedom will to some extent be kept.

In general, researchers and students will not have any advantage of OA at all! The research libraries give by and large all the necessary literature. However, OA will be an advantage for the economy and the population because of the understandable research from the humanities and social sciences, together with the Danish language popular science magazines within STM.

Literature:
”Videnskabelig redaktion og forskningspublicering – en glemt forudsætning for forskningsformidling”.

http://www.videnssamfundet.dk/c.aspx?ItemId=103

”Da bibliotekarer kvalte dansk forskningsformidling”, Ingeniøren 7/6 2010 Hvad hvis forskerne bestemte?

http://ing.dk/artikel/109447-da-bibliotekarer-kvalte-dansk-forsknings-formidling

”Stop planen som nedlægger de danske videnskabelige tidsskrifter.” Høringssvar til DEFF’s Open Access udvalg

http://www.videnssamfundet.dk/a.aspx?ItemId=99

”Selvarkivering – en vej til fri og gratis forskning?”

http://www.videnssamfundet.dk/a.aspx?ItemId=101

”Tvang, propaganda og uhyrlige påstande” Kommentarer til bibliotekernes OA forslag. http://www.videnssamfundet.dk/a.aspx?ItemId=98

”Hvidbog om dansk forskningsformidling” – med anbefalinger. http://www.videnssamfundet.dk/d.aspx

”Fra universitet til samfund. Forskningsformidlingens infrastruktur”. Bog 2007. http://www.videnssamfundet.dk/d2.aspx

The meeting is organized by CPNSS, Center for the Philosophy of Nature and Science Studies at the University of Copenhagen.

Postscript:

slides and notes from the meeting:

• Juha Suoranta's lecture notes (pdf)
• Stevan Harnad's slides (ppt)
• Jørgen Burchardt's slides (ppt)
• Bo Öhrström's slides (ppt)

Experimental Medical Philosophy

Vi vil gerne invitere til workshoppen ”Experimental Philosophy and Experimental Medical Philosophy”, som afholdes i Nordforsk regi d. 2. - 4. juni 2010 på Institut for Folkesundhedsvidenskab, lokale 7.0.08, København (CSS – ”Kommune hospitalet”).

På mødet deltager betydende forskere indenfor feltet fra bl.a. USA og England. Mødet vil præsentere metoder i og eksempler på eksperimentel filosofi og deres mulige betydning for medicinsk filosofi og etik vil blive diskuteret. Fx spørgsmål som:

What is Experimental Philosophy? Is a methodological fusion of experimental philosophy and medical philosophy possible? Is there such a thing as a “folk concept of free will” – and what if it’s incoherent? What would an experimental approach to emotions, moral psychology, and meta-ethics look like? Is there any primate heritage” to human morality and sociality? How to interprete intentions in clinical contexts?

Talere:
Niels Lynøe, Karolinska Institute, Sweden
Edouard Machery, University of Pittsburgh, U.S.A.
Michael Norup, Copenhagen University, Denmark
Henrik Høgh-Olesen, University of Aarhus, Denmark
Michael Berg Petersen, University of Aarhus, Denmark
Bryony Pierce, University of Bristol, UK
Jesse Prinz, CUNY, U.S.A.
Peter Rossel, Copenhagen University, Denmark

Interesserede bedes melde tilbage til: Jan Kyrre Berg Olsen Friis, e-mail: jkof [at] sund.ku.dk gerne inden den 17. maj hvis man er interesseret i at komme. Tilmeldingen er ikke bindende, men skal give et overblik over, hvor mange vi bliver.

Jan Kyrre Berg Olsen Friis, Center for Medical Science and Technology Studies-CMSTS, Københavns Universitet, Institut for Folkesundhedsvidenskab, Afdeling for Sundhedstjenesteforskning.

Begrebsdannelse i STS - en case

På en af sessionerne i det (her) tidligere omtalte årsmøde i Dansk Selskab for Filosofi (fredag d. 5. og lørdag d. 6. marts 2010 på Danmarks Pædagogiske Universitetsskole, Tuborgvej 164, Festsalen, bygning A, 2400 København NV) diskuteres et eksempel på begrebsdannelse i videnskabsstudier:

Saterday, March 6, 2010, at 13.15 - 14:45, in Sal 407:

The Philosophy of Science Studies:

A Case Study in Theorizing

Philosophy of science has traditionally been keen at investigating forms of inference, theory structure and theory choice, scientific explanation, modeling, and realism. As a discipline it is not often self-reflexive about the fact that it employs its own high-level, "meta-scientific" theories, models, and concepts. In contrast, science studies, which focuses on practice and norms in science, as well as ethnographic, sociological, and historical investigations of actual scientific work, seems to be more self-reflexive. In this session, we bring together a science studies scholar and a philosopher of science to exchange perspectives upon how we, as meta-scientists, could see our own theorizing, modeling, and conceptualization.

Workshop program:

13:15 - 13:20: Claus Emmeche: Workshop introduction.

13:20 - 13:35: Mercy W. Kamara: The Typology of the Game that American, British, and Danish crop and plant scientists play.

Discussion 13:35
13:50-14:05: Rasmus G. Winther: Abstraction and Conceptualization in/of Science.
Discussion 14:05

14:20 - 14:45: Panel and Plenum discussion: How to make models in science studies.

See abstracts and read the case paper here: http://lagerrum.pbworks.com/teoretisering-i-STS

Symposion: 'Senses and Materiality. The Senses at Work'

Forskningsnetværket Materiel Kultur, Kognition og Natur organiserer 26. november et symposium med titlen "Senses and Materiality. The Senses at Work".

Den centrale omdrejningspunkt for dette symposium vil være at give en passende opmærksomhed til kroppen og vores sanser. Selvom vores sanser og krop spiller en afgørende rolle for vores forhold til materielle elementer, så ignorerer vi dem ofte for at fokusere på indholdet af vores oplevelser og den information vi modtager. Vi ønsker at tematisere vigtigheden af sanser og kroppen i relation til, hvordan vi reagerer på materielle elementer omkring os, samt hvordan de reagerer på os.

Registrering: Deltagelse i arrangementet er gratis, men tilmeld dig venligst på ‘senses_and_materiality@hum.au.dk’ senest 18. november.

Sanse-frokost: Det er muligt at tilmelde sig en speciel sanse-frokost tilberedt af Claus Brænder, men der er et begrænset antal pladser. Prisen er 110 kr. Skriv til ‘senses_and_materiality@hum.au.dk’ for at reservere en plads. Sidste tilmeldningsfrist til sanse frokosten er 18. november.

Foredragsholdere:
Brian Moeran - Copenhagen Business School
Ansa Lønstrup - Aarhus Universitet
Tim Flohr Sørensen - Aarhus Universitet
Nina Schriver - Movementum APS og Aarhus Universitet
Anders Moe Rasmussen - Aarhus Universitet
Torben Nielsen - Aarhus Arkitektskole

Tid og Sted: 26. november På Aarhus Arkitektskole, "gymnastiksalen", indgang fra Paradisgade 4 og Nørreport 17.

Mere information kan findes her.

Hugin og Munin 248

Kære Hugin og Munin-læser

Så er Hugin og Munin på banen igen. Efter en kortere pause i nyhedsbrevet og den tilhørende blog, opdaterer vi nu igen bloggen løbende og udsender nyhedsbreve.

Det betyder også, at indsendte forslag til opslag på bloggen og nyhedsbrevet nu igen ekspederes med relativ kort varsel.

Denne udgave af Hugin og Munin annoncerer bl.a. en række af efterårets foredragsrækker, så husk at orientere dig om i de tilhørende links.

God læsning!


Indhold

Ph.d.-forsvar
7. oktober forsvarer cand.mag. Nana Benjaminsen sin ph.d.-afhandling:
AUTORISATIONS - A STS approach to computer based teaching (7. okt., KBH)

Gæsteforelæsninger
Gæsteforelæsning af Bruno Latour på CBS (30. okt., KBH)

Call for abstracts
Der er call for abstracts til konferencen 'Biological Explanation - Systems, Levels and Causes' (10.-12. dec., Olso) OBS: Deadline for abstracts er 12. oktober.

Arrangementer
Oktober hos Fagmiljø for Pædagogisk Filosofi og Idéhistorie (7. okt., 29. okt. og 31. okt., KBH)

Workshop på ITU: 'Numerical Practices' with Dr. Helen Verran (12. okt., KBH)

Efterårets program for Forum for Eksistens og Videnskab (okt, nov. og dec., KBH)

History of Science-seminar med Christoph Lehner: 'The Resolution of the Particle-Wave Dualism: Pascal Jordan and the Quantum Field Theory Program' (19. okt., KBH)

Symposium hos forskningsnetværket Materiel Kultur, Kognition og Natur: 'Senses and Materiality. The Senses at Work' (26. nov., Aarhus)

Nyt fra Etisk Råd:
Konferencer annonceret via Etisk råd (21. okt., Stokholm, 6.-7. nov., Tyskland, 17. nov., Finland)

Arrangementer 2010
EASST konference annonceret: Practicing Science and Technology, performing the Social (2.-4. sep., 2010, Italien)

Studiegrupper
Den københavnske læsekreds har annonceret efterårets program:
Efterårets program for STS-læsekredsen (okt., nov. og dec., KBH)

Jobopslag

PSBio-gruppe i Oslo tilbyder ph.d.-stilling til projektet: "Philosophical Foundations of Systems Biology" OBS: Ansøgningsdeadline 20. november.

Workshop “Numerical Practices” with Dr Helen Verran

The DOIT group, IT University invites you to "Numerical Practices" workshop, with Dr Helen Verran, University of Melbourne. Dr Helen Verran will present a work-in-progress "Number as Generative Device"

The workshop takes place October 12, 2009, from 9.00 am to 12.00 pm.


More information here.

Ethnographies of Educational Work and Reform

EPOKE: Education, Policy and Organisation in the Knowledge Economy

EPOKE's site

EPOKE Seminar:

Ethnographies of
Educational Work and Reform
Thursday 18 June, Room D219, DPU, Kbh.

Open discussion of work in progress by three guest researchers

10.00-11.15 ‘From teacher to bureaucrat: Passionate people and dead bodies, an ethnographic study of bureaucrats at work in an Australian state education bureaucracy’
Sarah Robinson, PhD student, University of Western Australia

11.30-12.45 ‘Universities, temporalities and the Research Practices of Sociologists’
Nicola Spurling, PhD student, University of Lancaster, UK

13.00-14.00 Lunch

14.15-15.30 ‘The Class Character of Higher Education Reform’
Elizabeth Rata, Associate Professor, University of Auckland, New Zealand

18.00: Dinner at Restaurant Riz Raz, Kompagnistræde 20, Kbh. K
OPEN TO ALL - Buffet DKK 89,-; to book a place contact
hmiah [at] dpu.dk - Deadline Wednesday 17 June noon

Abstracts
Sarah Robinson’s paper is based on a 10-month ethnographic study of the working lives of bureaucrats in an Australian state Department of Education. Through ethnography, she brings the actors onto centre stage to speak for themselves. They appear as passionate and committed people, who struggle to find a balance between the structural constraints of the bureaucratic world and their own beliefs, values and ethics. sarah [at] sarahrobinson.dk

Nicola Spurling asks: What does the everyday research practice of sociologists entail and how is it enabled and constrained by government policies and universities? Drawing on empirical research, this paper explores the intersections and interactions of policy, universities and the careers and everyday work of some UK sociologists. The paper discusses insights offered by conceptualising sociologists’ research practices from several different socio-temporal and institutional standpoints. n.spurling [at] lancaster.ac.uk

Elizabeth Rata’s new study examines how the reform of the governance and management of knowledge creation and distribution in New Zealand, England and Italy is deeply implicated in restructuring the new middle class. e.rata [at] auckland.ac.nz

Public Seminar - All Welcome

The Danish School of Education
Tuborgvej 164, 2400 Copenhagen NV

Comparative Relativism Colloquium

This is to let you know that information about the the Comparative
Relativism colloquium to be held at the IT-University of Copenhagen,
September 3-4, 2009 is now available from the webpage http://www.itu.dk/comprel

Comparative Relativism is a two day colloquium featuring presentations
and a roundtable discussion by Professor Eduardo Viveiros de Castro
(Museo Nacional, Rio de Janeiro), Professor Barbara Herrnstein Smith
(Brown University & Duke University), Professor Isabelle Stengers (The
Free University of Brussels) and Professor Marilyn Strathern
(Cambridge University) and discussants.

Please note that we accept a maximum of 100 participants, on a first
come, first served basis.

Official registration is not yet open, but it is possible to pre-
register for the event. To see how, visit http://www.itu.dk/comprel/Registration.html

In addition to the main event, Ph.D. students can sign up for a short
intensive discussion session with one of the key note speakers. Please
check the webpage for further information and requirements relating to
this.

Sincerely,

The program committee

Casper Bruun Jensen, ITU
Brit Ross Winthereik, ITU
Julie Thiesen Winthereik, ITU
Morten Axel Pedersen, Copenhagen University

Morten Nielsen, Copenhagen University

Philosophy of Mathematics and Mathematical Practice

Philosophy of Mathematics and Mathematical Practice
from Descartes to Bolzano
Summer School, University of Copenhagen
September 15-19, 2008
Prof. Paolo Mancosu, U.C. Berkeley

A common criticism of contemporary analytic philosophy of mathematics is its apparent irrelevance to mathematical practice both in the sense on not speaking to the concerns of practicing mathematicians and in the sense of ignoring the vast phenomenology offered by mathematics by limiting itself to logic, elementary number theory, and basic set theory. A new generation of philosophers of mathematics is now attempting to redress the imbalance by tackling a variety of issues of relevance to the relation between philosophy of mathematics and mathematical practice (see P. Mancosu, ed., The Philosophy of Mathematical Practice, OUP, 2008).

The summer school will study the interaction between philosophy of mathematics and mathematical practice using five different episodes of central importance:

· Descartes' analytic geometry and the mechanical/geometrical divide
· Torricelli's infinitely long solid and problems of infinity in the seventeenth century
· Berkeley's criticisms of the infinitesimal calculus
· Kant's philosophy of mathematics
· Bolzano's anti-Kantian philosophy of mathematics and the philosophical role of the intermediate value theorem.

Structure of the summer school: The summer school will consist of five two-hour meetings in seminar style. Paolo Mancosu will present the material for approximately 1.20 or 1.30 minutes and then there will be a discussion of approximately half an hour. Each section will present both the philosophical topics and the mathematical results that bear on the philosophical discussion.
Time and Place: Monday 3-5 pm.; Tuesday to Friday 2-4 pm. In Room D317, HCØ, Copenhagen
More information: http://www.phis.ruc.dk/FrameSet/mainFrameset_new.htm
Registration: Jesper Lützen: lutzen [@] math.ku.dk Participation is free

Ethical Aspects of Stem Cell Research in Europe

Ethical aspects of research on interspecies embryos and iPS cells


Lund, Sweden: 2-3 October 2008

http://www.estools.eu/estools/events/2nd-ethics-workshop