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This seminar will take place as the first of the series “Science and (semi)peripheries”. Our guests will be Adam Płoszaj and Andrzej W. Nowak and our starting point will be the book The geography of scientific collaboration, which is co-authored by Adam Płoszaj. We will focus on the most important patterns in modern research collaboration and the ways they shape the knowledge production in the (semi)peripheries.
While we can observe an increase in scientific collaboration, it does not seem to lead to an end of the division on the center and the peripheries. Increased collaboration can even strengthen international academic hierarchies, although it can also weaken them. We will discuss the recent trends in scholarly collaboration and how they shape the international hierarchy of knowledge. We will also try to answer the questions: How does studying changing trends in collaboration could help us to overcome limitations of the modern international science? And what are the possible ways of initiating scientific collaboration that will lead to more equal academia?
Adam Płoszaj is an assistant professor at the Centre for European Regional and Local Studies EUROREG, University of Warsaw. He specialises in interdisciplinary studies of regional and local development, R&D policy, science of science, and policy evaluation. Visiting scholar at Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada (2011), the University of Groningen, the Netherlands (2014), University College London, England (2014), and Indiana University Bloomington (2016), Adam frequently advises national and international institutions―including the European Commission, World Bank, UNDP, National Centre for Research and Development, National Science Centre, Polish National Agency for Academic Exchange, and Polish Agency of Business Development―on regional development and research policy.
He is the co-author of the book The geography of scientific collaboration (2019) published by Routledge and the author of the book Networks of institutions of the business environment (2014, in Polish).
Andrzej W.Nowak is a professor in the Philosophy Department of Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań, Poland. His current research focus is on (social) ontology and social studies of science and technology. He is a propagator of Immanuel Wallerstein’s theory of the modern world-system and is particularly interested in the study of semi-peripherality. He published books Ontological imagination. Philosophical (re)construction of phronetic social science (2016, in Polish), Agency, system, modernity (2011, in Polish) and is the co-author of Whose fear? Whose science? Structures of knowledge and socio-scientific controversies (2016, in Polish). He also writes articles for the LeftEast (http://www.criticatac.ro).
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