5 / SCIENCE, EXPERTS AND POLICIES

Conference organizers:

Thomas Brante, University of Lund, Sweden
Nico Stehr, Zeppelin University, Denmark

Conference description:

Thematically, the week is organized to provide participants with an opportunity to immerse themselves in the interrelated topics of “Science, Experts and Policies.” Participants will learn, discuss, and debate the many different theoretical perspectives from which they can research issues such as knowledge governance, the meanings of scientific knowledge, the relationship between the market and scientific production, and the complicated dynamics between experts and “lay people” in democratic governance, to name but a few possibilities.

Conference: Science, Experts and Policies

Location: Inter University Centre, Dubrovnik, Croatia

Dates: May 3 – 7, 2010

Tentative Conference Schedule:

Day Morning

9:15-12:00 Afternoon

13:30 – 16:15 Evening

(to be announced – TBA)

Monday

Student/Early Researcher Welcoming Session

(all welcome)

Nico Stehr, Zeppelin University

Worlds of Knowledge and Experts

Tuesday

Thomas Brante, Lund University

Professions as Governed, Governing, and Producers of Governability

Discussion

Wednesday

Helmut Willke, Zeppelin University

Collective Intelligence and the Resilience of Democracy

Free

Thursday

Jason Mast, Zeppelin University

Knowledge, Democracy, and Civil Society

Discussion

Friday

Round Table and Open Discussion

Closing Remarks Free

Schedule: IUC Dubrovnik May 2010, http://www.iuc.hr/index.php,

Thomas Brante is Professor of Sociology, University of Lund. He has published books and articles in the areas of philosophy and sociology of science, science-based controversies, sociology of the professions, methodology, medical sociology. His recent research interest concerns relations between psychosocial and biomedical explanatory models of human conduct, esp. deviant behaviour.

http://itservice2.sam.lu.se/personal_soc/index.php?id=58

Thomas.Brante@soc.lu.se

Jason Mast is a Research Assistant to the Karl-Mannheim-Professor of Cultural Studies, at Zeppelin University, in Friedrichshafen, Germany. He received his Ph.D. in Sociology from the University of California, Los Angeles. His research is in the field of culture, politics, and civil society, in which he examines the relationships between the state, media, and multiple publics. He co-edited the volume, Social Performance, and is currently finishing a book manuscript titled, “Power and Performance,” which will be published by Cambridge University Press.

http://www.zeppelin-university.de/deutsch/zeppelinuniversity/koepfe.php?navid=34

Jason.mast@Zeppelin-University.de

Nico Stehr is Karl-Mannheim-Professor of Cultural Studies, Zeppelin University, Friedrichshafen, Germany. Nico Stehr has published approximately 100 referred journal articles and has written and edited numerous books (i.e. published by Columbia University Press, Routledge, Edward Elgar, University of Toronto Press, Suhrkamp, Sage, Transaction Books, de Gruyter, C.H. Beck, Paradigm Publishers etc.). His books have been translated into Chinese, Japanese, French, Italian, Hungarian and Russian. Recent book publications in English include: The Governance of Knowledge (Transaction Books, 2004); Knowledge Politics: Governing the Consequences of Science and Technology (Paradigm Publishers, 2005), Biotechnology: Between Commerce and Civil Society (Transaction Books, 2004), Knowledge (Routledge 2005), Moralization of the Markets (Transaction Books 2005); Who owns Knowledge? Knowledge and the Law (Paradigm Publishers, 2008); Moral Markets (Paradigm Publishers, 2008); Knowledge and Democracy (Transaction Books, 2008) and Society (Routledge, 2008).

http://www.zeppelin-university.de/index_de.php?navid=0

Nico.Stehr@Zeppelin-University.de

Helmut Willke has a Law degree, a doctorate in law (University of Tuebingen, Germany) and a second doctorate (“Habilitation”) in sociology (University of Cologne, Germany). He has been professor of planning and decision theory at the University of Bielefeld, Germany, from 1982 to 2004, from 2004 to 2008 professor of state theory and global governance at the same university. Since 2008 he is professor for Global governance at the private Zeppelin University at Friedrichshafen, Germany. His research activities are in the fields of Systems theory, Systems governance, State theory, Global governance and Knowledge management. He has published eighteen books and some 150 articles in all relevant German journals.

www.uni-bielefeld.de

helmut.willke@zeppelin-university.de

Conference readings

Landemore, Helene, Democratic Reason: The Mechanisms of Collective Intelligence in Politics. Conference paper. (45 pages)

Shils, Edward. Science and Scientists in the Public Arena. Published in The American Scholar. (18 pages)

Stehr, Nico, and Reiner Grundmann. What Do Experts Do? Excerpt from Expert Knowledge. Forthcoming from Routledge. (19 pages)

Tsingou, Eleni. The Role of Policy Communities in Global Financial Governance: A Critical Examination of the Group of Thirty. (11 pages)

Willke, Helmut. Governing the Knowledge Society. (17 pages, single spaced)