Travelling Knowledge (I): Concepts, Practices and Institutions

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, his panel shows how practices of knowledge production, institutions (from universities to scholarship programs) and concepts have played a fundamental role in knowledge circulation.

Sub Unit

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

Chair

• Claudio Ramos Zincke

Individual Presentations

• Millenarian Metropoles: Science, Empire, and the Production of Novelty in Contemporary Liberalism - Aaron Neiman, Stanford University

• Naming Institution After Neologism As Marker Of The Institutionalization Of New Discipline. - Philippe GORRY, University of Bordeaux

• On “Arbitrariness” of World University Rankings - Masashi Shirabe, Tokyo Institute of Technology

• International Educational Assessment as a Device for the Circulation of Knowledge and Global Governmentality - Claudio Ramos Zincke; Alejandra Falabella, Universidad Alberto Hurtado

Session Organizer

• Leandro Rodriguez Medina, Universidad de las Americas Puebla