The conference below may be of interest to some design researchers?
Best wishes,
Terry
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Knowledge/Culture/Social Change International Conference
7 to 9 November 2011
Sydney, Australia
The humanities and social sciences today struggle to come to terms with the
explosion of knowledge in increasingly complex, diverse and networked
societies. Which forms of knowledge work best for managing, challenging or
engaging with rapid social change? Do new kinds of information play an
increasing role in economic and social management? Do these changes raise
questions about what 'knowledge' is, or is to become? What are the new rules
for engagement between academic and other knowledge practices and
institutions?
This conference will bring together theorists and practitioners from a range
of backgrounds and knowledge institutions to debate these questions in
relation to the following themes:
- Shifting knowledge maps
- Knowledge and globalisation
- A(Post)humanities?
- Digital knowledge practices
- Knowledge and governance
Keynote speakers include:
- Dawn Casey (Director, Powerhouse Museum; Chair, Indigenous Business
Australia)
- Dipesh Chakrabarty (Lawrence A. Kimpton Distinguished Service Professor of
History, University of Chicago, USA)
- Penny Harvey (Professor of Social Anthropology, University of Manchester,
UK; Director in the ESRC Centre for Research on Socio-Cultural Change)
- Bruno Latour (Scientific Director, Professor and Vice-President for
Research, Sciences-Po, France)(via videolink)
- Nikolas Rose (James Martin White Professor of Sociology, London School of
Economics; Director, BIOS Centre for the Study of Bioscience, Biomedicine,
Biotechnology and Society)
The deadline for abstracts/proposals is 3 June 2011.
Enquiries: [log in to unmask]
Web address:
http://www.uws.edu.au/centre_for_cultural_research/ccr/events_and_news/kcsc_
conference
OR:
http://tinyurl.com/5sw3lob
Sponsored by: Centre for Cultural Research, University of Western Sydney
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