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*2nd CALL FOR PAPERS*
*EKSIG 2013: Knowing Inside Out - experiential knowledge, expertise and
connoisseurship*

International Conference 2013 of the DRS Special Interest Group on
Experiential Knowledge

Date: Thursday 4 and Friday 5 July 2013
Venue: Loughborough University, UK
Conference website: http://www.experientialknowledge.org


*CONFERENCE THEME*

With the theme Knowing Inside Out: experiential knowledge, expertise and
connoisseurship, the conference aims to provide a forum for debate about
expertise and connoisseurship by professionals and academic researchers,
exploring the role and relationship of generating and evaluating new and
existing knowledge in the creative disciplines and beyond.

The issue of expertise and connoisseurship has come to the fore in recent
years as professionals and scholars from many disciplines negotiate the
tension between the explicit justification required by research and the
tacit appreciation and judgment that expertise and connoisseurship entail.

Expertise is considered the highest level of skill acquisition and
knowledge within professional practice, being based on experience and tacit
understanding and an intuitive grasp and judgment of its processes and
situations (Dreyfus & Dreyfus 1986). Much expertise operates without
conscious effort and the tacit knowledge that sustains expertise is not
generally made explicit nor is it easily articulated. Deliberate practice
and extended experience result in automaticity and immediate intuitive
response. For example, a pianist’s hand movement, a designer’s choice of
material, a radiologist’s instant diagnosis, etc.

In contrast, connoisseurship can be defined as the external judgement or
‘the art of appreciation displayed in any realm in which the character,
import or value of objects, situations and performances is distributed and
variable’ (Eisner 1998: 63), and which relies on experience and tacit
knowledge. For example, curators utilise their tacit expertise and
connoisseurship together with their explicit knowledge in museology and
conservation to make judgements on which artefacts are suitable for
collections or exhibitions. This raises the question, for example, how
inquiry into the practice of curatorship may accommodate the requirements
of the practice of research and how we judge academic and creative output.

In many disciplines, expertise and connoisseurship pervades all parts of
practice, including processes, the creation of artefacts and/or other kinds
of physical manifestations and finally the interpretation through other
professionals, such as curators, critics, historians, gourmets etc. While
knowledge and experience generated from within creative and professional
practice have extensively been disseminated in the research context as a
written text and artefacts, the expertise and connoisseurship of
professionals have rarely been considered in this context. However, this
seems key to understanding, for example, procedural inquiry, using the role
of creative output within any inquiry as an illustration or demonstration
of the researcher’s knowledge or any embedded meanings (e.g. concepts,
function, user behaviour, etc.). How professionals develop their expertise
and connoisseurship and how these forms of tacit judgement facilitate
explicit justification in research, including the generation, evaluation
and communication of knowledge therefore remains open to questions and
debate.

With this conference, we wish to explore the roles of the researcher’s
professional knowledge and the different ways in which it can be utilised
and communicated within the framework of research. This may include, for
example, investigations into the nature, aims, evaluation, and/or necessity
of different forms of expertise and connoisseurship as well as modes of
communication and exchange for experiential and procedural knowledge.

We wish to bring together engaged professionals and scholars from various
disciplinary backgrounds, fields of knowledge production and methodological
approaches to explore these issues.  We invite contributions from creative
subjects and other disciplines, e.g. design, architecture, engineering,
craft, media, performance, music, fine art, curation, museology,
archaeology, philosophy, knowledge management, education, health, cognitive
science, gastronomy, oenology, sensory studies, etc., that are concerned
with the expertise and connoisseurship in research and in creative and
professional practice.


*KEY DATES*

29 August 2012                   First call for papers
1 October 2012                    Second call for papers
1 November 2012               Final call for papers
15 November 2012             Submission of abstracts ends
20 December 2012             Notification of accepted abstracts
15 February 2013                Submission of full
29 March 2013                     Notification of acceptance of papers
29 April 2013                        Submission of revised papers
4&5 July 2013                      Conference


*SUBMISSIONS*

For EKSIG 2013, we invite papers which offer new or challenging views on
the subject.  Papers will be selected subject to a double blind review
process by an international review team.  In the first instance we ask for
the submission of abstracts by 15 November 2012.  Authors of selected
abstracts will be asked to submit full papers.

We invite the submission of abstracts of 800 words (including references)
by 15 November 2012.  Authors of selected abstracts will subsequently be
invited to submit full papers (4000-5000 words) by 15 February 2013.

For further details please visit: http://www.experientialknowledge.org


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