FYI the call for papers of the annual graduate conference organized by the
PhD students of the department of Sociology and Social Anthropology at the
Central European University in Budapest. Please contact Iulius
Cezar-Macarie with any further inquiries:
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> Department of Sociology and Social Anthropology Budapest | 1051 |Zrínyi utca 14
> Graduate Conference | Central European University | Budapest 5-6 June
> 2014
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> CALL FOR PAPERS
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> *Deadline 10 April 2014*
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> Blurring the Boundaries: Fields of Expertise and Spaces of Intervention in
> Collective/Hybrid Knowledge Production
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> Recent scholarship on the production and diffusion of knowledge has been
> increasingly concerned with bringing such figures as the scientist, the
> expert or the intellectual closer to an increasingly fragmented assemblage
> of 'publics'. Sociologies of 'intervention', 'translation', or
> 'techno-political' democratic experiments have multiplied and, alongside
> them, their objects of study. The aim of this conference is to explore the
> production of such hybrid 'collectives'*,* where experts, laypersons,
> artifacts and nature(s) create new networks and reconfigure the boundary
> struggles between expert knowledge and newly emerging publics.
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> We invite papers that engage through ethnographic, sociological, and
> historical accounts with this blurring of boundaries between the field of
> expertise and spaces of interventions, papers that critically engage with
> first, processes of translation and enframing through which knowledge
> travels and gains hold in a field of intervention, second, interplay of
> different communities of belief that produce visions of the future (both
> religious and scientific) and new practices based on that, and third,
> accounts that trace the entangled histories and geographies of how certain
> ways of knowing and acting become dominant.
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> Keynote Speaker: *Zsuzsa Gille*
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> Associate Professor of Sociology at the
> University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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> The conference will include panel sessions on:
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> *Translating Power and Enframing Society*
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> Convener | *Sergiu Novac*
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> How do certain scientific or expert discourses gain legitimacy? What role
> do science, technology and technocratic expertise play in structuring power
> relationships? Which actors become spokespersons for others in a network
> when dealing with an issue of public controversy? How does a certain way of
> enframing a field of intervention lead to disenfranchisement of alternative
> ways of acting, knowing and organizing? What can sociology and anthropology
> learn from 'post-normal' science? In this panel we invite papers that
> engage with these questions; we are specifically interested in the way
> ethnographic imagination can draw upon these recent attempts at blurring
> the boundaries between science and society and fruitfully engage in an
> ongoing trans-disciplinary conversation that touches upon urgent
> contemporary public controversies.
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> *Competing Visions of the Future*
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> Convener | *Victoria Fomina*
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> This panel seeks to address the process of production of ideologies
> (whether pertaining to the scientific or to the religious paradigm), their
> consolidation in the form of beliefs, and their dissemination and
> transformation. It will attend both to the cognitive peculiarities, which
> condition the formation of beliefs and internalization of ideologies on
> the individual level, as well as to the structural macro processes and the
> larger socio-historical context, which contributes to making certain
> inferences more likely and intuitive and certain ideologies more appealing
> to the larger segment of a community than others. As any ideology involves
> a projective dimension - a narrative of the past and the present, which
> determines how an epistemic community envisions its future - specific local
> historical and socio-political circumstances play crucial role in shaping
> the ceaseless dialectical process of production, transmission, translation,
> and transformation of ideologies.
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> *Uncertain Transitions in a Historical Perspective*
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> Convener | *Eva Schwab*
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> Both expert knowledge and concrete interventions are based on complex
> assemblages of material devices, accounting tools, institutional and
> political arrangements. In this panel we invite papers that look at the
> acquisition of 'agency of intervention' (Eyal/Buchholtz 2010), which is not
> so much based on the autonomy and objectivity of expert knowledge, but on a
> specific interplay of some of the above mentioned components. This panel
> partly overlaps with the first panel, yet it brings the whole question of
> intervention at a whole different level: Through what historical
> circumstances do certain ideas become hegemonic, what makes them reach
> their 'tipping point' (Sassen 2008) or, on the contrary, what forms of
> resistance hinder them from gaining broader consensus? We welcome
> sociological or anthropological contributions engaging in a comparative
> framework with histories and unequal geographies in the production and
> diffusion of knowledge.
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> *300 words abstracts and a short CV should be submitted electronically,
> using the online submission form below.*
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> *IMPORTANT INFORMATION*
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> *Accommodation in the CEU dormitory and meals during the day will be
> provided by the department. *
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> *We cannot cover accommodation elsewhere or reimburse meal costs.
> Unfortunately, we cannot cover the travel costs of the participants.*
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> Depending on your specific inquiry, please contact:
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> *Accommodation*:
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> Lilla Nagy| Program Coordinator
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