Hi there
Apologies for cross posting, but we are now announcing the call for participants for the second in the Old Industrial Knowledges working group. Bursaries are available for researchers and students from eastern European countries.
Regards
Paul
CALL FOR PAPERS AND PARTICIPANTS
The role of ‘industrial knowledges’ in economic development of post-industrial regions A working group of the REGIONAL STUDIES ASSOCIATION
Gdańsk-Gdynia-Sopot, 20th – 21st February 2006
Following a very successful workshop in February 2005, we are very pleased to announce a call for expressions of interest for a second meeting on “The role of ‘industrial knowledges’ in economic development of post-industrial regions”. The meeting will take place in the Tri-City of Gdańsk-Gdynia-Sopot, Poland on 20th-21st February 2006, with the Department of Economic Geography at the University of Gdańsk as hosts. http://geografia.univ.gda.pl/kat/kge/eng/indeng.htm
The first seminar introduced a wide range of different accounts of old industrial knowledges being used, adapted, transferred and abandoned in the new economy, with presenters and participants looking at varying notions of knowledge, different sectors and scales, and different actors and institutions.
The consensus towards the end of that meeting was that a useful focus for the second seminar would be on ‘doing’ old industrial knowledges - that is on how we might think about policy developments and transfers (east-west, west-east and east-east) in the area, and on how we can identify and establish the significance of old industrial knowledges in a variety of contexts. The second meeting then will focus on these policy and methodological issues.
We invite offers of papers along the following themes:
• what methodologies can help us identify, interrogate and theorise old industrial knowledges?
• at what scales, with which institutions, actors, can we research old industrial knowledges and their contemporary redeployment?
• how can we work with policy practitioners and other relevant institutions in researching old industrial knowledges?
• in what ways have old industrial knowledges been employed in economic development policies?
• how can policies relating to old industrial knowledges be shared, transferred and developed between cities, regions and countries, east and west?
There will also be a optional field tour of Gdańsk and the tri-city areas on the morning of 20th which will provide an atmospheric opening for the seminar, as well as a policy perspective on ‘doing old industrial knowledges’ in practise. The field tour will be free to participants in the seminar.
The seminar will be free to attend but participants will have to cover their own travel and accommodation costs. There are limited bursary funds to support cover the travel and two nights accommodation for some central European participants. These will be allocated on a ‘first come, first served’ basis; to maximise participation, the value of these per person will be limited to zl. 800 (€200/ £150).
For further information, to express an interest, and to apply for a bursary please contact the organisers before 2nd December 2005. Updates to this announcement will be made through the conference website at:- www.staff.ncl.ac.uk/p.s.benneworth/oirs/index.htm
Alison Stenning & Paul Benneworth
Centre for Urban and Regional Development Studies
School of Geography, Politics and Sociology
University of Newcastle upon Tyne
Newcastle upon Tyne NE1 7RU
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Mariusz Czepczyński
Department of Economic Geography
University of Gdańsk
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Further information on the Regional Studies Association is available at their website www.regional-studies-assoc.ac.uk
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Dr. Paul Benneworth
Research Councils UK Academic Fellow
Centre for Urban and Regional Development Studies
Institute of Policy and Practice
University of Newcastle upon Tyne
NE1 7RU
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