Travelling Knowledge (III): Networks of Scholars and Objects

Session Submission Type: Open Panel

Abstract

Despite opposite forces recently observed, globalization still seems to be a driving force for much of current trends in science and technology. The increase of internationalization of scientific and technological practices, from faculty/student mobility to co-authorship of articles, is an indicator of a process that still needs further understanding. In this panel, we want to explore in depth how the circulation of knowledge between different spaces of production transform such knowledge, the actors involved, the procedures through which it travels and the means of diffusing the outcome of research. In particular, we want to illustrate how asymmetries between groups, institutions, and countries play a crucial role in shaping the circulation of knowledge. In this sense, this panel authors present historic, empirical and theoretical analyses on the circulation of knowledge by studying the movement of people and objects throughout history.

Sub Unit

• Papers for Open Panels / Travelling knowledge: theories, methods and empirical research made in circulation

Chair

• Leandro Rodriguez Medina, Universidad de las Americas Puebla

Individual Presentations

• Knowledge Accretion and Dispersion of Agricultural Bioinformatics products within Aboriginal Groups in Jharkhand (India) - diwakar kumar, central university of gujarat

• Knowledge through the media and the perception of public policy effectiveness - Andre Sica de Campos, Unicamp; Janaina Costa, Unicamp

• Politics, Ideology, and Hegemony in ‘Truly International’ Mathematics - Michael Barany, Dartmouth College

• Technical appropriation and global circulation of instruments at the National Astronomical Observatory of Chile (1886-1887) - Sanhueza Carlos, Universidad de Chile; Lorena B. Valderrama, Universidad Alberto Hurtado

• Transcendental networks: scholars, objects and internationalization - Leandro Rodriguez Medina, Universidad de las Americas Puebla

Session Organizer

• Leandro Rodriguez Medina, Universidad de las Americas Puebla