CFP: Spatial mobility among professionals – Transnational co-operations
Helena Pettersson
CFP:
Spatial mobility among professionals – Transnational
co-operations
Panel No. 16 at the 33rd Nordic Ethnology & Folklore Conference
Copenhagen August 18-21 2015
http://conferences.saxo.ku.dk/33-nordic-ethnology-and-folklore-conference/
Panel organizers:
Helena Pettersson,
Dept. of Culture & Media Studies, Ethnology, Umeå University
Katarzyna Wolanik
Boström, Dept. of Culture & Media Studies, Ethnology, Umeå University
Magnus Öhlander,
Department of Ethnology, History of Religion and Gender Studies, European
Ethnology, Stockholm University
International
cooperation among professionals takes many different forms, e.g. face-to-face
meetings, shorter or longer periods of work at a co-company or at a university
in another country. For some professionals travelling is a recurring part of
the job, e.g. businesspersons or cultural workers. Spatial mobility is not only
about professional cooperation; it is also a way to develop networks, learn new
things and build experience. In many countries, international mobility is
encouraged among highly skilled professionals in order to gain new knowledge
benefiting the local industry, cultural sector or research. The other way
around, some professionals as engineers, physicians or scientists spend a
limited period of time in another country in order to contribute with knowledge
and expertise. This panel welcomes papers discussing different types of
professions who are transnationally mobile, for shorter or longer periods of
time. Primary we look forward to empirical studies analyzing mobility in
following aspects:
- as a cultural
ideal among professionals and/or policy-makers;
- co-constructions
of transnational or mobile cultures among professionals;
- intercultural
learning;
- knowledge
transfer;
- mobility as a
condition of cooperation;
- touring
professionals as e.g. cultural workers;
- methodological
and theoretical aspects of studying mobility among professionals.
Panel discussion
and paper presentation language: English
Please submit your abstract on 250 words to the conference organizers at the conference web page. Deadline is December 5th Central European Time.
http://conferences.saxo.ku.dk/33-nordic-ethnology-and-folklore-conference/panels-and-papers/
If you have any questions, please contact us!
Helena Pettersson helena.p...@kultmed.umu.se
Katarzyna Wolanik Boström kata...@kultmed.umu.se
Magnus Öhlander magnus....@etnologi.su.se