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
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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
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Democracy in Transition
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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
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Management, Politics and Philosophy: Elbow room
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– 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
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Knowledge Management
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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
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The Analysis of Hybrids in Society and Organizations. Networks,
partnership, hybrid contracts, hybrid laws
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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
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