Seminarium „Global Knowledge Production and Academic (Semi)Peripheries” w Pracowni Komunikacji Naukowej UAM

01 09 2025

Pracownia Komunikacji Naukowej UAM zaprasza na Global Knowledge Production and Academic (Semi)Peripheries Seminar Series

Our seminar series examines the changing role of science in the semi-peripheries—spaces historically mediating between scientific centers and peripheries—whose bridging function is waning in a networked, globalized world. We resist narrowing semi-peripheries to mere conduits for others’ agendas. Instead, we foreground their creative capacity to generate alternative pathways of modernization in and through science (“alter-modernization”). Because both pathways have long histories in semi-peripheral contexts, we ask how their potential can be renewed today. Across sessions we will address: alternative routes to modernization via science; the politics and practices of measuring science; and lived experiences of doing science at the margins. Emphasizing the materiality of semi-peripheral scientific enterprise—its institutions, infrastructures, and everyday epistemic projects—we invite participants and speakers to move beyond reductive neither/nor dichotomies and to engage the alter-modern character of semi-peripheral science as a source of positive, tangible transformation.

4 September 2025 (Thursday) 04:00 PM (CET)

George Steinmetz – Marginality, Domination, and Strangeness in Social Science

Link: https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/d3orLrjhS9Kejn0kHgxSmg

18 September 2025 (Thursday) 12:00 PM (CET)

Raewyn Connell – The global economy of knowledge and its dynamics

Link: https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/GgjdO3tZRk-WxDwNCYPlAg

Podgląd filmu:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QxvhjjqNfaM