Great Expectations A symposium on the future of humanities and social sciences
You are invited by Riksbankens Jubileumsfond, in connection with
our 50th anniversary celebrations to an international symposium on
research at the Grand Hôtel in Stockholm on 6 May 2015.
Several international researchers have been invited to discuss
research today and tomorrow. Moderator is the writer, journalist and
broadcaster Johanna Koljonen.
Date: 6 May 2015
Time: 09.30 – 17.00
Location: Grand Hôtel, Södra Blasieholmshamnen 8, Stockholm
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| 09.30 |
Registration and coffee |
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| 10.00 |
Introduction |
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| 10.10 | Books, Libraries and the Digital future Robert Darnton is Carl H. Pforzheimer University Professor and University Librarian, Harvard University. He is a pioneer in the field of the history of the book and is writing about electronic publishing. Darnton is founder of the Gutenberg-e program, sponsored by Mellon Foundation. His latest book was Censors at Work: How States Shaped Literature 2014. |
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| 10.50 |
Understanding Governance and Local Development: Challenges and Prospects |
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| 11.30 |
Acceleration and Alienation: Fast Life, Slow Democracy? |
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| 12.10 |
Lunch |
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13.15 |
Research Challenges 1: Time, Mobility and the University |
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| 14.15 |
Research Challenges 2 – Reach out, Impact and Ranking |
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| 15.15 |
Coffee |
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| 15.45 |
The future - what can we learn and what shall we do? |
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| 16.30 | 50 years of Curiosity Göran Blomqvist, Chief Executive, Riksbankens Jubileumsfond |
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| 17.00 | The End |
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Ellen Lust is Professor in the Department of Political Science and Founding Director of the Program on Governance and Local Development at Yale University, as well as a Non-Resident Senior Fellow at the Project on Middle East Democracy. She is currently writing a book examining the impact of social institutions on political behavior in the Arab world, and a jointly authored volume (with Jakob Wichmann and Gamal Soltan) on the Egyptian transition.
Hartmut Rosa holds the Chair for Social Theory at Jena University, Germany. He also is the director of the Max-Weber-Kolleg/Institute for advanced study at Erfurt University and an affiliated professor of the New School for Social Research in New York. He authored the book Social Acceleration. A New Theory of Modernity and co-edits the international Journal Time and Society.