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PhD & ECR summer school on Contesting Claims for Expertise in a Post-secular Age: In Search of Intellectual Life

CALL FOR APPLICATIONS:

Contesting Claims for Expertise in a Post-secular Age: In Search of Intellectual Life

IAS Summer School, University of Warwick, 15-19 July 2013

DEADLINE for applications: 15th March 2013

The current moment seems to be one of ‘crisis’ or at least of dramatic change for the authority of academic expertise. Policy debates over climate change, embryology and the like have often seen scientific knowledge politicised, problematised and reduced in public imagination to just another partial ‘perspective’. These issues are particularly acute where scientific expertise runs up against that of, or associated with, markets. Whilst authority that is grounded in the experience of practicing natural and social science seems to flounder, authority that is associated with market forces seems only to gain in stature – despite recent disasters wrought under the watch of just such expertise. This creates and compounds a series of dilemmas for critical academic practice that are bound up with changing conceptions of what constitutes public life. The arrival of a post-secular moment in which religion has re-entered the public sphere further unsettles debates about expertise, science and religion. This summer school provides a space for postgraduate students, postdoctoral fellows and other early career academics to come together to respond to this ‘crisis’ and to think through new avenues for intellectual life, practice and collaboration – reaching across boundaries of science, religion, critique, participation, pragmatism, vitalist ethics, and explanation. Together, we will work through the challenges of the present moment and ask whether there is a conceptual language or theoretical framework for addressing such challenges beyond disciplinary divides. The summer school offers a mix of expert lectures and participant-led discussion groups as well as workshops organised by members of the Authority Research Network. For more information about the summer school, please visit our website: http://buff.ly/UzqIhe

Keynote academics:

Bob Antonio (University of Kansas), Fern Elsdon-Baker (Coventry University), John Holmwood (University of Nottingham), Steve Fuller (University of Warwick), Amy Levine (Changwon National University), Celia Lury (University of Warwick), Andrew McGettigan (Independent), Alice Mah (University of Warwick), Thomas Osborne (University of Bristol), Stephen Turner (Florida University), Sarah Whatmore (University of Oxford)

Application process:

1. Please complete an application form (attached) and return toalexander.smith@warwick.ac.uk by 5pm, March 15th 2013

2. We will consider all applications, and inform successful applicants, by April 15th 2013

3. All successful applicants will be required to register for the summer school by May 15th 2013

Registration fee: £200 to include accommodation and food for the duration of the summer school. Applicants are required to cover their own travel costs.

Bursaries: We have some money available for fee waivers and travel bursaries. If you would like to be considered for either or both of these, please indicate this on the application form. Our resources are limited, and we will prioritise those applicants without sources of institutional support.

Organisers:

Alex Smith, Claire Blencowe and Gurminder K. Bhambra, Department of Sociology, University of Warwick