FW: Formidle CfP til seminariet for teknik- och vetenskapshistorie

[Per Lundin]

Intressant CFP (ESHS) för kännedom! Per

 

From: Annette Lykknes <annette...@ntnu.no>
Sent: den 1 december 2021 23:07
To: gustav....@lir.gu.se; Per Lundin <per.l...@chalmers.se>; Jens Millkrantz <jens.mi...@chalmers.se>
Cc: Mattias Bäckström <mattias....@ntnu.no>
Subject: Formidle CfP til seminariet for teknik- och vetenskapshistorie

 

Hei

Mattias Bäckström tipset meg om teknik- och vetenskapshistorisk seminarium, og vi lurer på om dere kunne formidle oppslaget under på deres epostliste?

I så fall tusen takk.

Hilsen Annette Lykknes, NTNU, Trondheim

 

CfP: THE OFFICE AS A PLACE OF PRODUCTION, ADAPTATION AND CIRCULATION OF SCIENTIFIC AND ACADEMIC KNOWLEDGE, ESHS, BRUSSELS 7-10 SEPTEMBER 2022

 

While the laboratory as a site of research has been amply studied by historians and sociologists, less attention has been given to the academic office as a place of production, adaptation and circulation of scientific and academic knowledge. Public discourse on the built environment for academic work is today to a large degree dominated by cost-efficiency thinking, and the idea of so-called open, activity-based office spaces has been met with resistance from academic staff. Temple (2008) asserts that the purpose of teaching and learning spaces, including how the offices are used, has to a large extent been absent from accounts on campus design.

And while there is abundant scholarship demonstrating the promises and pitfalls of activity-based open-plan workspaces (Kaufman-Buhler 2020), little is known about the importance, functions, and meaning of individual offices for academic work, and to which extent and how academics use the individual offices as a multipurpose and flexible workplace. Coming from the field of education and management, Ruth (2015) points to the importance of materiality in academic life, including the furnishing of stuff and things in the office, and how that material contexts help shape academics’ identities.

In this symposium, we intend to investigate the office and other built environments for academic work as places of scientific knowledge production and circulation through history. We are interested in understanding these places and spaces both from the institutional history point of view, as a part of strategic planning and university policy, and from the point of view of the individual historical actor: Which role did the built environments play in the professor’s professional life, and how did they contribute to shaping scientific and scholarly identities in different historic and geographic contexts? How have academics used the individual office as a multipurpose and flexible workplace?

Contributions may address topics including, but not limited to, the following:

• The historical importance of the built environment for academic work
• The organization and planning of research and teaching in academia
• The material conditions for knowledge production in higher education institutions
• The role of built environments in academia for shaping professional identities
• The office and the material culture of science, and as academic heritage
• The office as a gendered learning space, as an individual vs. collective space of teaching and learning, as a hierarchical space

 

Interested contributors are invited to send an abstract of maximum 250 words and a bio of maximum 50 words to Thomas Brandt (Thomas...@ntnu.no) and Annette Lykknes (annette...@ntnu.no) no later than 17 December. Please also include your current affiliation.