__________________________________________________
Call for Papers Theme: International Circulation of Knowledge Subtitle: Academic and Scientific Issues for Developing Countries Type: International Conference Institution: Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD) Centro de Investigación y de Estudios Avanzados (CINVESTAV), Instituto Politécnico Nacional Instituto de Investigaciones sobre la Universidad y la Educación (IISUE), Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México University of Panama Location: Mexico City (Mexico) Date: 9.–11.10.2012 Deadline: 31.12.2011 __________________________________________________ This international conference wishes bring together in Mexico City, emblematic place for the meetings of ideas, located at the crossing of Americas, researchers of any disciplines and invite them to present works on the international circulation of knowledge between the North (industrialized) and the South (developing countries). We wish to open a space for dialogue to reflect how international collaborations are forged between remote locations, distant by their geographical situation, their language, their history and their position in global scientific output. We wish particularly focus on how collaborations are part of the disciplinary traditions of cooperation, consolidated since sometimes more than a century or, in the contrary, out with them. Similarly, we want to sort out how the priorities of international cooperation in scientific research have been affected by the quality assurance procedures and the increasing homogenization of evaluation criteria used by national academic agencies. In this framework, we shall analyze the continuities and ruptures, which, in various disciplinary fields, characterized the intellectual co-operations that vary from reciprocity to dependence. We are interested in schemes of classical collaborations as well as emerging forms of it. We want to focus on their impact on models of legitimating of science, rewarding systems regarding researchers and reproduction of the intellectual elites. Similarly, we wish to identify the experiences of mutual exchange of knowledge between schools of thought, moving from North to South as well as from South to North. We will look at the "side effects" of international collaborations such as the brain drain and its consequences, the mutual acquisition of knowledge and know-how or/and the erosion of independent scientific development capabilities. We will try not only to observe the effects produced by interim and definitive migrations of highly qualified human resources but also, to understand their logics in terms of strengthening disciplines and research areas, renewing of themes, consolidation or cleavage of research fields, processes of internationalization and hybridization of knowledge. Finally, we will analyze the results of these phenomena, interpreting them with conceptual approximations in competition, in order to bring to light the shared gains (scientific, political, social, symbolic ...) as well as the reconfiguration of hierarchies between countries and research teams, based on inequalities less visible but just as efficient as those noticed in the postwar period that was reflecting so exactly the metaphor of "brain drain". We do not know the exact impact of these new motilities, physical or virtual, on the evolution of disciplinary fields, on the emergence of networks, as well as on the training of academic and scientific elite in Mexico. We do not know how the globalization of science can justify the implementation of reforms in the organization of research administration even if the experts choise too often the "knowledge economy" scenario as baseline. We do not know any more how works the knowledge exchange process and what are the co-production and dissemination of knowledge, models regarding relations between Mexico and others countries. Nor do we know the role of knowledge transfer in the emergence of new scientific instruments in the development of working organization as well as its impact on government or institutions priorities. For the most part, we ignore the impact of policies regarding attraction of highly skilled migrants, in receiving countries as well in sending ones. Nor do we know the impact of policies aiming repatriation of scientists living abroad or those regarding linking expatriates with home colleagues through the development of mutual interest projects. Regarding the former, we have to think about the programmes networking the scientists and repatriation ones and to discuss concepts such as diasporas; and to think about the movement of people and ideas in a world characterized by the increase of nomadism and strong temptations of endogenous development, legitimized by the results of policies aiming at developing scientific capacity in countries with intermediate level of development. Thus the following questions will form the backbone of this conference: What is the weight of mobility in the configuration of "generations of intellectuals" and in those of research teams? What implications in the building of scientific knowledge and in the reproduction of elites? What is the part of international mobility that impacts the trajectories considered as prestigious? What is the role of scientific networks, social and economic ones, regarding the management and the visibility of the most recognized teams of scientists? And finally, in which terms, the governance of research or the researchers’ strategies (collective and individual) are involved in the creation of a global education and research market? Indicators of research output (based on bibliometric data) lead at standardized the production of knowledge on an increasingly global scale. The use of these indicators is every thing but neutral in the organization of research, the structure of disciplines, the concentration of infrastructures... What are the effects and are there any alternatives? One of the ways to tackle this issue is that of historical perspective. To demonstrate this process, we want to engage in discussions with specialists interested in the historical exchange of knowledge, practices, and objects, from approaches located. The idea is to examine the policies, conditions and practices that made possible the meetings and collaborations as well as disagreements and conflicts. A second perspective through the sociology of elites and ideas lead to analyze the operation of scientific groups as "reference" in their national and international framework, within different chronological substrates starting with the tradition of abroad study tours, until the current situation characterized by new international divisions of scientific work. Thinking the flow of knowledge as historiographical and sociological approaches, particularly through the evaluation of public policy must ultimately allow us analyzing the contexts in which communication practices are changing and identifying how sites of knowledge production (laboratory, field of study) are renewing themselves. We shall approach, from this perspective, how the introduction of virtual tools affects the forms of knowledge production. We will seek to establish how the new proximities between researchers from institutions, countries and different cultural areas, transform (renew) the scientific disciplines, alter the workspace and the rules of scientific production. And to what extent they induce an evolution in the scientific instruments’ design or in the ways of using them. This international conference therefore aims to open a space for exchanging ideas, experiences and issues around: - The development, the renewal of scientific practices of international collaboration and their implications in terms of circulation of knowledge, especially among so-called North (hegemonic) and South (non-hegemonic); - The academic and scientific mobility between the same countries, focusing on analyzing the associated programs and their results in terms of knowledge transfer; - The degree of localization of research and innovation networks by analyzing the role of different types of proximity (geographic versus non-geographic) in the formation of these networks and by questioning the relevance of public policies to support the development of local networks ; - Changes in the organization of the laboratory, in the ways of founding and management of research bodies, the geographical location of teams in the framework of international and inter-institutional research consortium that may be multi-located as well as totally virtual. This conference is a continuation of discussions that initiated in the framework of two scientific initiatives that took place in 2009 in Mexico: the international seminar "Fuga Cerebros, movilidad académica científicas y redes" organized in March by the CINVESTAV and the IRD with the support of IESALC of UNESCO, the Mexican Academy of Sciences, the Autonomous Metropolitan University, the PADES program of SEP, the ANUIES and the international conference "De la sociedad de la información a la sociedad del conocimiento " held in August of the same year by the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), University of Strasbourg and the French Society of Information and Communication (SFIC). THEMES - Historical perspective of the international circulation of disciplinary knowledge, between continents and countries - The mobility of highly skilled individuals and the reorganization of the profession of scientists - The virtual mobilities and their impacts on the scientific research work: online collaboration, knowledge sharing within virtual teams and laboratories REGISTRATION FEES Participants from Europa / The United States: 900 pesos (50,00 EUR / 70 USD) Participants from Mexico and Latin America: 350 pesos (20,00 EUR / 25 USD) Students: 100 pesos IMPORTANT DATES Call for papers: Starts on September 30th, 2011 Closes on December 31st, 2011 ([email protected]) Acceptances notification: January 31, 2012 Deadline for reception of the final paper: 30th April 2012 Decision of acceptance of the final paper : June 15th, 2012 Deadline for registration of participants: September 15, 2012 Conference dates: 9-11 October 2012 Proposals for papers include: - The title of the paper - A summary of 400 words - Keywords - A preliminary bibliography - Authors name, institutional affiliation, contact information, professional, and email address. RECOMMENDATIONS The final paper should not exceed 35 000 characters (including spaces). Presentation rules will be specified on the conference website. Accepted papers will be available to participants from the website, authors will be requested to allow it. The inclusion of papers in a printed book planed to be publish after the conference will depend on a process of academic selection (double-blind review). ORGANIZED BY the IRD (Institut de Recherche pour le Développement, France). CINVESTAV (Centro de Investigación y de Estudios Avanzados del Instituto Politécnico Nacional / Departamento de Investigaciones Educativas, México), UNAM-IISUE (Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México / Instituto de Investigaciones Sobre la Universidad y la Educación, México) and the University of Panama, with the support of OBSMAC program of IESALC/UNESCO. Working languages: Spanish, French, English Contact: Conference "International Circulation of Knowledge" Email: [email protected] Web: http://cic.rio.net __________________________________________________ InterPhil List Administration: http://interphil.polylog.org Intercultural Philosophy Calendar: http://cal.polylog.org __________________________________________________
