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Please, notice the following phd-courses. Religion and politics. (22.-25 October 2007) Democracy in transition. (3-7 December 2007) Management, Politics and Philosophy: Elbow room – the construction of managerial space (26-28 sep, 2007) Knowledge Management (22-26 October 2007) The Analysis of Hybrids in Society and Organizations. Networks, partnership, hybrid contracts, hybrid law. (12-14 November 2007) Flemming Bjerke The Danish Political Science Research School http://nepos.net Religion and Politics ====================== 22.-25 October 2007 University of Copenhagen Within the last 30 years religion has anew become a factor in public and political life. From Islamist movements to Hindu-nationalism and the rise of conservative Protestantism in the United States, the imprint of religion on politics has become an undeniable fact. This ‘return’ of religion in the political sphere constitutes a political and scientific challenge, since it questions some of the fundamental ideas of a European conception of modernity. In particular, it triggers the question of whether the current appearance of religion in the political sphere implies a transformation or even a phasing out of secularism, i.e. the principle that religion and politics should be kept clearly separate. The aim of this Ph.D.-course is to address this and related questions and to present a variegated picture of how the religion/politics nexus is currently being articulated and transformed. However, the ambition goes further since we intend to also critically debate the very terms of the discussion, i.e. the question of whether the religious/secular divide is the appropriate way to deal with the changing boundaries between religion and politics. The course will touch upon Christianity, Islam, Hinduism, Judaism, and Sikhism, and the way they currently interfere with or are being transformed by political discourses and practices, and will consist of a mix of lectures, presentations and discussions. http://nepos.net/course_full_view?nn=1814 ______________________________________________________________________ Democracy in Transition ============================ 3-7 December 2007 Roskilde University This Phd-course is a theoretical and methodological introduction at the highest level to the recent research n how the current transformations of the political systems influence the democratic quality of societal governance. The political system changes due to a number of factors: Political globalisation challenges the supremacy of national borders in organizing democratic decision making. New Public Management reforms lead to an increased pluricentrism and fragmentation of the public sector. Reformulation of the distinction between politics and administration, and an increased use of networks as a strategic means to enhance policy koordination and policy implementation blurs the boundaries between public and private - between state market and civil society. The course treat questions like: How and to what extent does the transformation of the political systems in the western world influences the democratic quality of societal governance? Why do different studies of power and democracy reach very different conclusions? Which are the potential benefits and short comings of doing policy analysis in studies of democracy? To what extent does it make sense to define a set of general indicators for democracy and if so what such indicators should be? http://nepos.net/course_full_view?nn=1823 ---------------------------------------------------------- Management, Politics and Philosophy: Elbow room ==================================================== – the construction of managerial space 26.-28.sep, 2007 Copenhagen Business School Modern organizational life is becoming increasingly unpredictable and complex, and the demands made on management are therefore growing increasingly open-ended. It is for this reason that the Department of Management, Politics and Philosophy (MPP) has established an interdisciplinary platform to foster a variety of approaches to the modern business organisation. This course provides a range of perspective and tools that have been drawn from this platform to understand current management conditions, reflecting current trends within the literature. Here, some call for a shift in the strategy debate towards an appreciation of the evolutionary development of detailed processes and practices in the day-to-day micro-activities of organisational life. Others, however, suggest that the challenge remains to select and use administrative processes to gain competitive advantage; that is, they endorse a “design perspective” and reject the idea of “emergent strategy”, which they equate with leaving things to chance. The perspectives that the researchers at MPP employ, operate on the fertile ground between these extremes. http://www.cbs.dk/mppcourses ----------------------------------------------------------- Knowledge Management ===================== 22-26 October 2007 Copenhagen Business School The knowledge management course will focus on the concept of knowledge and organization, and specifically the relationship between knowledge management, research- and innovation management and how the knowledge management perspective is contributing to the understanding of management in the knowledge society. The course will stress the epistemology of the concept of knowledge, and the consequences of new organisation of knowledge especially for knowledge creation and communication and how to address the research on these issues. In relation to the research and innovation perspectives the boundary of knowledge opens the perspective of management of knowledge under high-level of uncertainty and complexity. http://www.cbs.dk/mppcourses __________________________________________________ The Analysis of Hybrids in Society and Organizations. Networks, partnership, hybrid contracts, hybrid laws ====================================================== 12-14 November 2007 Copenhagen Business School In late modernity all communicative systems tend to continually differentiate and specialize internally. This makes them increasingly immune to each others argumentation creating quite complex conditions of communication. One of the answers to this complexity seems to be to create new organizational forms and new processes of interaction trespassing the traditional forms of organization and their logics: - hybrids. These may create new forms of logics, new forms of interaction or uncertainty and vagueness depending on what perspective it is seen from. Inspired by Niklas Luhmann's theories on communicative systems Gunther Teubner has in several articles written on the emergence of hybrids: - hybrid organizations, hybrid laws, networks etc. and how they deal with the paradoxes of communication in late modernity. Teubner combines a high theoretical distinctiveness with extremely informed discussions of specific cases from law and politics and their boundaries. Teubner also contrasts Luhmann's systems theory perspective with Derrida's deconstructive theories. This makes his texts extremely useful study material for a phd-course. http://www.cbs.dk/mppcourses