Newsletter 86/2011

Bernese Winter School 2012 - TransForming Knowledge and Epistemic Cultures

Deadline: 11. Dezember 2011 (verlängert)

TransForming Knowledge and Epistemic Cultures

In post-industrial societies, due to the impact of globalisation and technological development, we are witnessing a growth and diversification of the sites of knowledge production and the ways in which a variety of actors articulate and circulate knowledge. As a result, the privileged position of ‘scientific’ knowledge is contested, making knowledge the symbolic and material capital not only of academic ‘experts’. By the same token, the authorization of ‘knowledge’ becomes a matter of debate and changing power structures. The Winter School analyses and discusses these changes from a historical, sociological, cultural and philosophical perspective. It reflects in particular on the challenges for the humanities and the social sciences regarding their role in the knowledge society of (post)modernity and their contribution to larger processes of transformation.

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Date & Venue:
22-27 January 2012
University of Bern, Schloss Münchenwiler, Switzerland
 
Application: Dr. Anke Barzantny, Geschäftsführerin Heidelberger Graduiertenschule für Geistes- und Sozialwissenschaften (HGGS)
anke.barzantny@zegk.uni-heidelberg.de
Fon 06221 54 3783
Fax 06221 54 3664
Website: www.hggs.uni-heidelberg.de