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Иногда так хочется заглянуть в будущее. И это будущее взглянуло на нас со страниц презентации доклада.
Но, конечно, нас всех — и слушателей, и организаторов Школы — волнует ее судьба: в какой-то момент начинаешь понимать, что старые мехи уже не годятся для молодого вина. Сегодня Школа нуждается в обновлении.
DWIH
МОСКВА
16 июня 2011 года в СПбФ ИИЕТ им. С. И. Вавилова РАН состоялась встреча сотрудников Центра социолого-науковедческих исследований с директором Германского дома науки и инноваций (ОМЯН), www.dwih.ru госпожой доктором Алике Ландгребе. В доброжелательной атмосфере обсуждались проблемы, связанные с реформами образования в России и в Германии, с расширением сети академических обменов, с мобильностью научных кадров. Предлагаем вниманию читателей материал о Германском доме науки и инноваций в Москве, предоставленный его экс-директором Алике Ландгребе.
DWIH — мост научного сотрудничества между Россией и Германией
В 2010 году в Москве при содействии Министерства иностранных дел ФРГ и Федерального министерства образования и научных исследований Германии открылся Германский дом науки и инноваций (Deutsches Wissenschafts- und Innovationshaus — DWIH). Это своеобразный форум для обмена опытом между Россией и Германией в сфере науки, научных исследований и технологий, направленный на углубление сотрудничества и партнерства между обеими странами. Цели DWIH выражаются в слогане: «сотрудничество — информирование — создание единой сети».
В Германии существует множество исследовательских организаций, в которых непросто ориентироваться. DWIH объединяет своеобразные «бренды», «самое лучшее», что есть в немецкой науке: Немецкое научно-исследовательское сообщество (DFG), Германская служба академических обменов (DAAD), Фонд им. Александра фон Гумбольдта (AvH), Объединение им. Гельмгольца научно-исследовательских центров Германии (HGF). DWIH способствует созданию единой сети ученых из Германии и России, собирает вместе экспертов из академических и исследовательских кругов, а также представителей сферы промышленности и правительства.
Важнейшая задача DWIH — представление различных сторон научно-иссле-довательского ландшафта Германии, расширение взаимных научных контактов, информирование российских ученых о достижениях их немецких коллег в области инноваций, проведение маркетинговых исследований в тесной кооперации науки и экономики.
Одной из приоритетных областей сотрудничества является сфера естественных наук (что не означает отсутствия интереса к гуманитарным наукам) и организация
междисциплинарных проектов. Пример междисциплинарности — организованный □\У1 Н 16 июня на площадке СПбГУ семинар по научной журналистике, на котором ученые-естественники, социологи и журналисты из Германии и России обсуждали актуальные проблемы востребованности научно-популярной литературы в обществе.
В области научно-технического сотрудничества 0\У1Н особенно поддерживает новую генерацию молодых ученых через интегрирование их в научные международные связи, что соответствует современным стратегиям интернационализации науки. Германский дом науки призван информировать немецких ученых о состоянии современных научных исследований и образовательной среды в России, чтобы преодолеть некоторые барьеры и стереотипы, которые мешают ученым из Германии работать в российских исследовательских и образовательных учреждениях.
Партнерство в области модернизации и стратегического развития между двумя странами являются неотъемлемой составляющей программы В\У1Н. Деятельность В\¥1Н способствуют установлению научной коммуникации между Россией и Германией и обсуждению сложнейших проблем XXI века.
Проекты БМИ:
— научные лекции и научные беседы в разных городах России;
— Неделя молодого ученого;
— круглый стол для журналистов и ученых России и Германии;
— российско-германские семинары и (специализированные) конференции;
— ознакомительные поездки в научные центры регионов России;
— научные конкурсы среди ученых России и Германии;
— создание информационного интернет-портала;
— развитие новых стратегий в сфере научного сотрудничества обеих стран.
Call for papers1
The Second ISA Forum of Sociology Social justice and democratization Buenos Aires, Argentina August 1-4, 2012
The Research Committee on Sociology of Science and Technology, RC23, will be organising a full programme of sessions during the Second ISA Forum of Sociology in Buenos Aires, Argentina, 1—4 August 2012. We are planning a high quality and intellectually stimulating programme, which addresses a wide range of issues within Sociology of Science and Technology relevant to researchers from a diversity of countries.
We invite you to submit abstracts to the RC23 sessions for the ISA Forum.
'Web Page ofRC23 of ISAhttp://www.isa-sociology.org/buenos-aires-2012/rc/rc.php?n=RC23
Programme Coordinator
Ralph MATTHEWS, University of British Columbia, Canada, [email protected]
Programme Committee members:
• Nadia ASHEULOYA, Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia
• Binay K. PATTNAIK, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, India
• Juha TUUNAINEN, University of Helsinki, Finland RC23 Liaison in Argentina
Mariana Versino, Universidad Nacional de La Plata, [email protected] Number of allocated sessions including Business meeting: 14.
Deadlines
• On-line abstract submission will be open from August 25 to December 15, 2011.
• All Forum participants (presenters, chairs, discussants, etc.) need to pay the early registration fee by April 10, 2012, in order to be included in the programme. If not registered, their names will not appear in the Programme or Abstracts Book.
• On-line registration will open August 25, 2011.
Proposed sessions
in provisional order
Only abstracts submitted through ISA website platform will be considered.
Session A Leisure and digital transformation:
Emerging patterns of communication and electronic community/
El ocio y las transformaciones digitales/
Les loisirs et les transformations numériques
Joint session of RC13 Sociology of Leisure [host committee], RC14 Sociology of Communication, Knowledge and Culture and RC23 Sociology of Science and Technology
Session B
Knowledge based economies and networks of knowledge transfer
Joint session of RC02 Economy and Society [host committee] and RC23 Sociology of Science and Technology
Session C
Gender, science and technology: Post-colonial and feminist perspectives
Joint session of RC23 Sociology of Science and Technology and RC32 Women in Society [host committee]
Session D
Democracy and surveillance technologies:
Relationships between global South and global North
Organisers
David LYON, Queen’s University, Canada
Nelson ARTEAGA, Universidad Autónoma del Estado de México, Mexico
The session seeks to understand the impact of surveillance society in the reconfiguration of relationships between global South and global North. It will focus primarily on analyzing the way in which nation states in both regions establish an interchange of personal or group information collected by different forms of surveillance as such as census, ID cards, population and migrants. This starting point allows the articulation of particular questions: How do the governments in the global North and South organize legal regulation regarding consent of the flows of information? What is the global process of transference of surveillance technology, and “know how” skills of surveillance?
These questions are important because they open a new reconfiguration of citizenship, the public and private, and the manner in which social sorting occurred. Cross national studies are important to comprehend the effects of surveillance between national states in global north and global south. Which is the impact in the construction of democratic institutions in both regions? The session particularly welcomes cross national studies of different types of surveillance and papers which relate to the development of surveillance institutions in Latin America.
Session E
The new frontiers of the digital divide:
Technological inequalities and social justice
Session in English, French and Spanish. Participants shall be asked to either deliver the oral presentation in English or to provide the support material for the presentation (power point, handouts, etc.) in English.
Organiser
José Manuel ROBLES MORYLES, Universidad Complutense, Spain
The increasing penetration rate of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) in general and of the Internet in particular, has led to a profound academic debate regarding the social function of this type of technology. Within the field of Internet usage-associated risks, specialists have paid special attention to the problem of the Digital Divide. Originally, studies on the Digital Divide focused on the inequalities arising as a result of the differences in access to and use of the Internet. In this regard, their interest focused on the geographic and social inequalities between citizens who use and citizens who do not use the Internet.
The current debate takes these studies as reference in order to inquire into the consequences of certain uses of the Internet. Given that the Internet penetration rate is unequal, what consequences might this have in terms of equality and social justice? Digital inequality focuses on
the inequalities arising as a result of the advantages provided by certain uses of the Internet. The aim of this session is to discuss from an empirical, theoretical and methodological perspective the in-egalitarian effect of the use of the services and tools offered by Information and Communication Technologies. We particularly seek papers that focus on the following issues: The extent to which Information and Communication Technologies imply a problem for social inequality? To what extent do they pose a new challenge for social justice? Internet.
Session F
The social and environmental impacts of nanotechnologies and other emerging technologies
Organisers
Alison ANDERSON, University of Plymouth, United Kingdom
Paulo MARTINS, Brazilian Research Network in Nanotechnology, Society and Environment, Brazil
This session will examine the range of social environmental and ethical challenges posted by ‘nanotechnlogy’ and other new technologies. While consumer nano-products available on the market now exceed 1,000 and applications of other new technologies are similarly extensive, there is little public awareness of these developments. The proposed session will focus on the important issues regarding responsibility, accountability and ownership in relation to nanotech and other technologies. Papers dealing with issues of potential risk, inequality, social justice, governance and decision-making and the role of the media in framing such issues are particularly welcomed.
Session G
Contested science, risk and governance
Organisers
Eugene A. ROSA, Washington State University, United States
Thomas DIETZ, Michigan State University, United States
Science is used to influence and also to legitimate risk governance decisions in contemporary society. But increasingly the legitimacy of science is contested by social movements organizations, corporate interests and political elites. In turn, sociologists around the globe have examined the dynamics of these struggles theoretically and empirically using diverse methods. The session will bring together leading papers examining the implications of contested science in risk governance for social change.
Session H Beyond risk: Governing unknowns
Organisers
Mathias GROSS, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research, Germany
Although the ‘sociology of ignorance’ has a long history, dating back at least to Herbert Spencer’s reflections on religion and the unknown, debates on ignorance, knowledge gaps or non-knowledge as inherent features of knowledge making in science and everyday life have only recently gained broader attention from sociologists, especially from STS scholars criticizing the potentially misleading role of risk assessments when clear knowledge about probabilities and outcomes are not available.
This raises questions about the conditions under which actors are legally entitled to point to their “non-knowledge” as explanation. It also raises questions on the varied ways that actors may seek to not know about certain things in the sense that they may consciously avoid knowledge from emerging in the first place. To the end, it needs to be asked on how much do actors need to know in order to make strategic use of deliberate knowledge avoidance?
This session seeks papers that build on the observation that it is more often things that are not known that are most important in decision-making and thus more pivotal for sociological analysis than risk related issues.
Session I
Latin America in the global science system
Organiser
Koen JONKERS, Centro Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Spain
In this session contributors analyse the relative position of Latin American research systems (LA) in the global science system. It explores the factors influencing collaborative and competitive relations between LA and research systems in North America, Western Europe and the Asia Pacific as well as the impact of these relations on the functioning of LA research systems. Factors that facilitate or hinder the development of such ties can, for example, include historical factors, language, institutional support (including programs), mobility flows, research topics and the access to resources.
Topics that can be addressed include:
• The influence of the “scientific centre” on research agendas in the “periphery” and its impact on the local relevance of research. Papers can explore whether this creates tensions. They can do so through critically addressing the relative potential of researchers in LA to follow research lines that are of relevance to their local socio-economic context and/or historical or emerging research traditions. Here we relate to the global conference theme.
• The importance or/not of international ties to the development of national research organizations and the institutional set up of national research systems (institutional learning) as well as the importance of these relationships to the careers of individual researchers.
• The relative importance of inter-LA relations in comparison to the relationship to and influence of other parts of the global science system. Is regionalization an emerging trend in LA and what are the consequences of this (or the lack of this) development?
• Comparisons of the organization of scientific research and relative performance of LA and, for example, Asian research systems and explanations for observed differences.
These topics can be tackled using quantitative as well as qualitative methodological approaches from a broad range of theoretical perspectives.
Session J
Risk, disaster, and sustainability: Remodelling on Fukushima
Organiser
Miwao MATSUMOTO, University of Tokyo, Japan
The sociology of science and technology, together with environmental sociology, risk sociology, and the sociology of disaster, has highlighted the importance of uncertainty in social decision-making on critical social issues in the science-technology-society interface. Based on this research tradition, this session attempts to illuminate afresh a complicated social process emerging from extreme events such as nuclear power plant failures, tsunami, earthquakes, and any other unexpected technological failure. The focus of the session is on the complicated social processes, made up of heterogeneous agents with different stakes and risk perception, involved in dealing with extreme events and/or their combination.
How does risk change into disaster? How could the precautionary principle work to prevent risk from changing into disaster? How could we conceive technological trajectories leading to sustainability beyond risk and disaster? How could we maintain the quality of the public sphere where heterogeneous agents such as governmental, industrial, academic and citizen sector are engaged in social decision-making on critical social issues? And, in particular, how could we keep social justice in all these complicated social processes? This session welcome sociological studies that challenge these questions, be it empirical or theoretical, Fukushima-related or not, from many varieties of experiences and viewpoints.
Session K New world, new knowledge:
Is an Asia-Pacific science and technology research area emerging?
Organiser
Richard WOOLLEY, University of Western Sydney, Australia
In a recent paper in Scientometrics, Haustein and colleagues (2010) suggested that coauthorship trends point toward the emergence of an Asia-Pacific scientific research area and speculated on factors contributing to this development.
This session invites contributions to the study of science in Asia and the Pacific. In general terms, it seeks submissions that help us better understand the complexities involved in collaboration between, and the coordination of, the diverse scientific communities of the Asia-Pacific region. It particularly welcomes contributions on international research collaboration within Asia, and/or studies of scientific practices and networks leading to joint knowledge production or diffusion activities. It also welcomes contributions focussed on the construction of regional institutions or policies that seek to further capitalise on the surge in scientific work in the Asia-Pacific region.
Session L
International science and technology cooperation:
The role of academic mobility
Organisers
Nadia ASHEULOYA, Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia
Mobility is seen as an important method of exchanging information, skills and experience between universities, the academic world, and industry, as well as between different countries and scientific institutions. The mobility of scientists, from students to senior, whether incoming or out-going, is vital for encouraging exchanges between R&D communities of different countries. The international mobility becomes a significant tool of increasing the cooperation in science.
The Session invites papers that explore the themes of processes of democratization and liberalization in S&T that are a condition for stronger international mobility and cooperation among scientists. The Session will look at the current situation regarding international S&T cooperation and academic mobility in different countries, providing an overview of recent initiatives, current challenges, new policy initiatives, barriers and existing trends
Session M
Forms of interaction between science, universities and society: Knowledge mobilization, regulation and the societal impacts of scientific knowledge
Organiser
Juha TUUNAINEN, University of Helsinki, Finland
The latter part of the 20th century witnessed a radical transformation in the ways of understanding the relationship between science, university and society. In science studies, the transformation of the university research was discussed in terms of changing norms of science and altering contract between science and society. In research policy and higher education research, the societal role of science and university was redefined in terms of academic capitalism, entrepreneurial university and Mode-two knowledge production. Research also began to address risks and ethical problems created by scientific and technological advancement as well as the roles of scientists as advisors and experts in different areas of the society. Finally, the traditional topic of public understanding of science began to give way to public engagement in science thereby emphasizing the democracy of science and technology.
In the policy arena, science and technology policy was transformed into more encompassing innovation policy with focus on institutional conditions of economic growth and competiveness of nations in the global knowledge-based economy. The Bayh-Dole Act of 1980 in the U.S. exemplified this transformation and constituted a model for university policies in many countries. The aim of the law was to accelerate industrial utilization of university research by enhancing patenting of research results. Intermediaries and technology transfer offices were established in universities overall the world to
achieve this goal. Subsequently, the model was heavily criticized. Not only was patenting regarded as a limited method of technology transfer but excessive patenting was also seen to inhibit development of new knowledge. Despite this, the third mission activities of the university in many countries are currently framed on the basis of ideas derived from the Bayh-Dole Act.
Today, the need for more complex view on the societal impact of the university research is pronounced. First, the perspective in developing science impact assessment procedures has been one of centralized administrative planning and control at the national level. At the same time, however, it has been noted that there are big differences between disciplines in terms of their typical societal influence mechanisms. What the current knowledge thus lacks is a satisfactory understanding of the various ways in which universities and academic researchers collaborate with other societal stakeholders and contribute to the society.
Second, the innovation systems approach has focused on the commercialization of research results, forms of technology transfer and the collaboration networks between universities and firms. It is only recently, however, that the need to understand other forms of knowledge transfer between university and the wider society was recognized. Third, the recent emphasis in innovation policy on the societal impact of university activities runs the risk of conceptualising the third mission of the university as a task separate from those of scientific research and education. To avoid this misconception there is a need to analyse and highlight the various ways in which these two basic tasks of the university are connected to the societal usefulness of the work done by academics.
The present session contributes to the understanding of the societal impact of academic research by addressing the diversity of forms and mechanisms of university-society interaction. It also seeks to increase knowledge about the various ways in which epistemic and social motives of research are intertwined, and strives for widening the perspective of assessing and measuring the university’s third mission activities. Finally, the session contributes to the understanding of the democracy of science by paying attention to the different ways in which societal stakeholders influence university practices in different countries and in different fields of research.
Session N
Changing dynamic in research organizations
Organisers
Laura CRUZ-CASTRO, Centro Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Spain Pablo KREIMER, Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas, Argentina Luis SANZ-MENÉNDEZ Centro Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Spain Hebe VESSURI, Instituto Venezolano de Investigaciones Científicas, Venezuela
This session is intended to provide in-depth perspectives on the way in which the role of scientific research organizations is changing in various countries and international contexts.
Session 0
Democratising science and technology through protests and mobilizations for social justice
Joint session of RC23 Sociology of Science and Technology [host committee] and RC48 Social Movements, Collective Action and Social Change
Session P
ICTs for science and technology development in Latin America and the economic South: Present and future
Joint session of RC07 Futures Research and RC23 Sociology of Science and Technology [host committee]
Session Q RC23 Business Meeting
Organiser
Ralph MATTHEWS, University of British Columbia, Canada, [email protected]
