Seminars & Lectures
Colonialism in the new knowledge economy
Lecture by Sally Wyatt in the Studium General Parkstad series on Monday 12 October 2009 in Heerlen.
More information on www.SGParkstad.nl
New Course by Clement Levallois
September 3, 2009. Clement Levallois lectured on the ‘History and current status of Neuroeconomics’ at Erasmus University. ‘Neuroeconomics: How Brain Makes Decisions’ is a new course for Bachelor degree students developed in collaboration with the Department of Marketing of the Rotterdam School of Management and the Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behavior, Radboud University, Nijmegen.
WTMC summer school
Willem Halffman (Universiteit Twente) and Sally Wyatt organised the WTMC summer school, held in Ravenstein from 24-28 August. The guest teacher this year was Professor David Nye, University of South Denmark and the theme was ‘Networks of Energy and Culture’.
Summerschool in Rotterdam
In collaboration with Trent Hill, lecturer at Washington University (WU), the VKS has organised a four-week exchange programme during August/September 2009 for a group of approximately 20 students of the WU School of Information. Rotterdam was the basis.
The Erasmus Studio organized three lectures: three by VKS members, Andrea and Paul; two by postdocs involved in the NWO/CATCH programme, and one by a researcher from the Huygens Institute (KNAW).
The Architecture of Knowledge
Lecture by Charles van de Heuvel at NAi: 7 July
The Architecture of Knowledge. The Public Library of the Future: Lecture Series and Workshop.
Event at NAi Rotterdam: 06 July 2009 – 17 July 2009.
Ethics of e-research
In June, the VKS has organized and taken part in activities on ethics of e-research. At a workshop on e-research organised by Nick Jankowski in the framework of NCeSS 2009, we presented on this topic. This work is based on the experiences of the VKS in the past 3 years and on two workshops on ethics organized by the VKS in June 2008 and June 2009 (with KNAW). We have given our contribution a somewhat unusual form, putting forth our insights as a set of ‘frequently asked questions’. These FAQs can be found here. Reactions to these are very welcome, whether face to face or via email.
Can You See What I Know?
Work in Progress Lecture by Paul Wouters – Said Business School,
June 19, 2009, Oxford
In this lecture, I will present recent work developed in the Virtual Knowledge Studio at the interface between scholarly research and the arts. This is very much work in progress, so I will not present “firm outcomes” but rather engage you in the search for interesting novel ways of thinking about the role of knowledge creation in the arts and the role of performance in the study of science and technology. I will present recent projects developed by the VKS in cooperation with artists and with cultural organizations in Amsterdam. I will also present the theoretical agenda underlying these projects. Key questions that I will discuss include the role of visualization of knowledge (in contrast with the more familiar problem of data visualization), in particular 1) how interests are made visible and thereby recognizable; and
2) how to deal with, and accommodate, failure and uncertainty. Paul Wouters.
Erasmus Studio Seminar 19 June 2009
Friday 19 June 2009, 13.00-15.00 hrs.Location: H4-02, Erasmus university.
Speakers:
Prof. Dr. Johan Heilbron (EUR/FSW)
Prof. Dr. Peter van den Besselaar (Rathenau Institute, VU)
Title:
“(Inter/Multi) Disciplinary identities and knowledge production”
Please read the abstract and further information on the Erasnmus studio website.
Lecture by Paul Wouters: e-Research and the end of theory
Wednesday 10 June 2009, at Oxford Internet Institute
In this lecture, Paul Wouters will explore a number of questions in the framework of an exploration of the different scenarions of the future of scientific and scholarly knowledge creation that are currently en vogue.
More information on the site of the Oxford Internet Institute
Erasmus Studio Research Seminar
Date: Friday 15 May 2009
Speakers:
- Dr. Karina van Dalen-Oskam (Huygens Instituut)
- Prof.dr. Sally Wyatt (Maastricht University, VKS)
Data floods in the humanities and social studies: opportunity or threat?
As most scientific and scholarly domains, the humanities and the social studies have to face new philosophical and methodological issues due to the availability of digital resources and data. Some see the introduction of ICT as a catalyst for new developments. Others take the position that ICT has caused a crisis. Whether information and communication technologies are the problem or the solution, the emergence of digital scholarship calls for reflection on the role of empirical investigations in various fields. The seminar aims to will start from two cases, introduced by the speakers, that both illustrate how new data types can change the scene.
More information on the Erasmus Studio site
Paul Wouters gave a lecture in the Communication Science Seminar Series
Wageningen University, 13 May 2009
The seminar was entitled ‘E-science and the End of Theory’. Paul Wouters reflected on the article “The End of Theory” by Chris Anderson, editor of the cyberhip journal Wired. The main question was: What are the implications of the emergence of massive searchable amounts of data for scientific and scholarly research?
More information on the site of Wageningen University
Workshop about e-Science at the Curating Science Workshop
Paul Wouters gave a workshop about e-Science at the Curating Science Workshop organized by the National Library in The Hague on Friday 17 April 2009.
Please read more via http://www.kb.nl/hrd/congressen/curatingresearch2009/programme-en.html
Erasmus Studio Research Seminar
Date: 20 March 2008
Speaker: dr. Tiago Mata (School of Economics, UvA)
Title: Imagination and narratives in online media about the financial crisis
Since the summer of 2007 the media has been devoting special attention to economic information and commentary. In all varieties of publications, financial, business, political, learned, mass public, the nature of the current economic crisis has been the subject of scrutiny. The drama of the financial debacle has sparked the imagination of journalists, politicians and the public. As a result narratives have emerged that set the characters and their decisions into a meaning succession, making the crisis intelligible. Whether the economic issues facing our democracies are new or a repetition of past experiences is hotly debated. However, few would disagree that communication and debate about the current crisis has been done in radical new fashion through the use of blogs, web video, and the new multimedia and social network opportunities give by the world wide web. My purpose is to review some of the main narratives that have appeared in print and online about the financial crisis. I will conclude by arguing that our ability to grasp this material is still very limited and that we need new ways to harvest, catalogue and study online financial chatter.
Virtual Knowledge Studio Summer school, August 2007
Building on last year’s success, the University of Washington Honors program will repeat the experience of the Virtual Knowledge Studio (VKS) summer school for graduate and advanced undergraduate students.
The topic of the summer school is Pragmatic Tolerance & Urban Culture in Amsterdam:
International research through the lens of Interdisciplinarity and with the use of e-research practices.
The summer study abroad program will explore the city of Amsterdam as a node of socio-cultural interaction through two intellectual streams; one is focused on art and literature and the other is focused on contemporary use of urban space. Students will work in small (2-3 people) research groups and are encouraged to choose research topics that draw on one or both of these themes. Each research group will develop e-Research designs in preparation for engaging the people, places, and institutions of Amsterdam.
Learning partners will include the University of Washington Undergraduate Honors Program, The Virtual Knowledge Studio (VKS), Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the University of Amsterdam (UvA) International School for Humanities and Social Sciences. Inspired by the VKS initiative, this program incorporates social science and humanities research with the exploration of digital data-gathering devices and e-Research techniques. To this end, the VKS will play a key role in co-developing e-Research methodologies and collaborative analytical techniques that will inform the execution of student research projects. The research projects, as well as the coursework at UvA, will retain a contextual grounding within the unique setting of Amsterdam. Experts from UvA will provide instruction on contemporary social issues within these broad topic areas while the UW instructors will facilitate student research projects and provide instruction on broader notions of knowledge production in research.
LINK: http://depts.washington.edu/uwhonors/international/amsterdam.htm
