Conference Announcement and Call for Working Papers
We invite you to the first IAS International Conference, to be held at Lancaster University, 31 August-2 September 2006. The Conference is an opportunity to engage in interdisciplinary dialogue about the nature and future of the knowedge-based economy. Proposals for working papers or presentations within the Parallel Sessions of the Conference should be made in the form of abstracts of no more than 250 words to [log in to unmask] by 14 July 2006.
You can visit the Conference website at www.lancs.ac.uk/ias/conference
Papers will be presented that engage critically with the knowledge-based economy in terms of different academic disciplines and interdisciplinary scholarship, different professional, practitioner and stakeholder interests, and policies and strategies that take the knowledge-based economy in one or another guise as their starting point. Indicative topics for papers and parallel sessions include:
* Consumers and Consumption
* Corporations in the Knowledge-Based Economy <http://www.lancs.ac.uk/ias/conference/docs/Corporations%20and%20the%20Knowledge.doc>
* Creative Industries and Cultural Policy (Session including invited speaker, Iain Bennett, Head of Creative Industries, NWDA)
* Discourses and Narratives of the Knowledge-Based Economy (Session led by Professor Norman Fairclough) <http://www.lancs.ac.uk/ias/conference/docs/Discourses%20and%20Narratives%20of%20the%20Knowledge.doc>
* Economics and the Knowledge-Based Economy
* Gendering the Knowledge-Based Economy
* Governing the Knowledge-Based Economy: markets, states and networks (Session led by Professor Bob Jessop)
* Innovation, including bioeconomy and nanotechnology <http://www.lancs.ac.uk/ias/conference/docs/Knowledge%20as%20Technology.doc> (Session led by Dr James Wilsdon and Professor Brian Wynne)
* Learning Organisations in the Knowledge-Based Economy
* Knowledge-Based Organisations and their Management
* Professions in the Knowledge-Based Economy (Session led by Professor David Sugarman)
* Regions in the Knowledge-Based Economy
* Space and Mobility in the Knowledge-Based Economy <http://www.lancs.ac.uk/ias/conference/docs/IAS%20Space%20and%20Mobility.rtf> (Session led by Professor John Urry)
* Trade Unions and Industrial Relations
* Knowledge work and its Value
Papers on other topics and proposals for other streams are also welcome. Papers will be published in the Conference Proceedings on CD-ROM. We will be supporting symposium organizers in publishing selected papers in special issues of refereed journals or themed edited collections.
To submit a paper proposal, please e-mail it to [log in to unmask]
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