[NORSLIS] CfP: Accelerated academy 4

[Björn Hammarfelt]

(Please circulate/ sprid gärna)

CFP: Accelerated Academy #4

Academic Timescapes: Perspectives, Reflections, Responsibilities
May 24-25 2018, Villa Lanna, Prague, Czech Academy of Sciences

After meetings in Prague, Warwick and Leiden, the fourth Accelerated 
Academy conference calls for a more nuanced perspective in order to 
advance our understanding of academic temporalities as experienced, 
understood, controlled, managed, imagined and contested across different 
institutional contexts. The question of temporality – the human 
perception and social organization of time – in and of the academy has 
been attracting considerable attention across the social sciences in 
recent decades. Notable accounts have demonstrated that time is an 
important research object potentially offering new insights into the 
complex and shifting nature of the contemporary academy and its future. 
Existing studies tend to stress how pressures intrinsic to the 
imperatives of the knowledge economy and academic/epistemic capitalism 
co-shape policies and subsequently impact how time is perceived and 
experienced on the level of individuals and institutions, leading to 
concerns over their temporal relation to wider society. Taking the cue 
from the long tradition of sociology of time the conference aims to 
tackle various pressing question in the emerging field of the social 
studies of academic time. The conference will address the following 
themes but the organizers welcome other cognate problematics:

· Theorizations and different disciplinary takes on temporality in academia

· (Possible) methods of inquiring into academic temporalities

· Temporal design(s), temporal policies

· Temporal justice vs/and temporal autonomy

· The promises and limits of ‘the slow’ in academia

· Temporalities in/of teaching; temporalities in/of research – tensions, 
complementarities, (in)compatibilities

· Temporal interfaces with wider society and its implications for 
science communication

· Temporality of science communication via social media

· Digitalization, temporal intersections and emerging temporalities in 
academia

· Temporality, metrics, evaluations

Please submit short abstract (250 words) and bio to vostal at flu.cas.cz by 
28 February 2018. We intend to generate an edited volume from the 
conference so please indicate whether you’d be interested in 
contributing to the volume.

See the full CfP here: http://accelerated.academy/

Best regards,
Björn

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Björn Hammarfelt, PhD
Lektor / Senior lecturer
Bibliotekshögskolan / Swedish School of Library and Information Science
Högskolan i Borås / University of Borås
E- mail:bjorn.hammarfelt at hb.se
Work: 033-435 40 00
Cell: (0046)-737277921
http://www.hb.se/Forskning/Forskare/Hammarfelt-Bjorn/
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