Seminar Series by Scholarly Communication Research Group, Adam Mickiewicz University Poznan: Global Knowledge Production and Academic (Semi)Peripheries
Our seminar series examines the changing role of science in the semi-peripheries—spaces historically mediating between scientific centers and peripheries—whose bridging function is waning in a networked, globalized world. We resist narrowing semi-peripheries to mere conduits for others’ agendas. Instead, we foreground their creative capacity to generate alternative pathways of modernization in and through science (“alter-modernization”). Because both pathways have long histories in semi-peripheral contexts, we ask how their potential can be renewed today. Across sessions we will address: alternative routes to modernization via science; the politics and practices of measuring science; and lived experiences of doing science at the margins. Emphasizing the materiality of semi-peripheral scientific enterprise—its institutions, infrastructures, and everyday epistemic projects—we invite participants and speakers to move beyond reductive neither/nor dichotomies and to engage the alter-modern character of semi-peripheral science as a source of positive, tangible transformation.
4 September 2025 (Thursday) 04:00 PM (CET)
George Steinmetz - Marginality, Domination, and Strangeness in Social Science
Link: https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/d3orLrjhS9Kejn0kHgxSmg
18 September 2025 (Thursday) 12:00 PM (CET)
Raewyn Connell - The global economy of knowledge and its dynamics
Link: https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/GgjdO3tZRk-WxDwNCYPlAg
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