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Call for papers

“Interdisciplinary Futures: *Open the Social Sciences* 20 years later”

Conference on the occasion of the 20th anniversary of Open the Social  
Sciences (1996)

19-20 January 2017
Lisbon, Portugal

Organised by INTREPID <www.intrepid-cost.eu> and TINT  
<www.helsinki.fi/tint> with support from the Calouste Gulbenkian  
Foundation <https://gulbenkian.pt/en/>

Conference web site here: https://ifoss20.wordpress.com/

Keynote speakers:
Immanuel Wallerstein on "Forty Years Later: Are the Social Sciences  
More Open?”
Björn Wittrock on "Social Sciences in Their Contexts: Five  
Transformative Periods"
Felicity Callard on “The social sciences, life sciences and  
humanities: shifting plate tectonics”

BACKGROUND

The slim but remarkable volume (Open the Social Sciences: Report of  
the Gulbenkian Commission on the Restructuring of the Social Sciences)  
was published in 1996. The Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation had  
established, in 1993, the multidisciplinary Gulbenkian Commission on  
the Restructuring of the Social Sciences. After three years of work,  
led by Immanuel Wallerstein, the Commission published its report (with  
Stanford University Press). The Report analysed the situation in the  
social sciences, its origins, and possible futures, making  
recommendations for improvements, largely based on ideals of openness  
and interdisciplinarity. These deals have gained ground more broadly  
since then in the academia. The report attracted attention and incited  
commentary and some debate within the social sciences.

This year, 20 years have passed, and it is now an opportune time to  
revisit the themes and suggestions of the Report. Many of them are  
still very timely, awaiting further examination and debate. On the  
other hand, some things have changed in the social sciences and their  
various boundary conditions. It will be important to update the  
diagnoses and proposals accordingly. Reconsidering the Report and its  
messages collectively at a conference will provide an opportunity to  
address the challenges in a way that is respectful for historical  
continuity and generative of novel and updated insights.

CONFERENCE THEMES

The conference will focus on three general themes related to the  
Report of the Gulbenkian Commission:
1. The Report itself, its background, its context, its diagnoses, its  
messages, its arguments, its recommendations -- both historically and  
analytically considered.
2. The issue of how to update the Report, based on what has changed  
since 1996 regarding the themes and claims and arguments in the  
Report, asking how the report would look like if written today. How  
has the situation changed? What are the urgent issues of  
interdisciplinarity today?
3. Independently of the Report itself, contemporary developments and  
future scenarios, examining current trends plus anticipating and  
designing the future of the social sciences from the point of view of  
interdisciplinarity. This includes mutual relations amongst the social  
sciences as well as their relations to other disciplines (such as  
neuroscience, genetics, evolutionary biology, ecology, geography,  
archaeology, physics, computer science, and others), to methodological  
developments (e.g. computational and experimental techniques), to  
developments in the institutions and organisations of research and  
higher education, and to various non-academic partners and pressures.

We invite contributions that approach the themes in terms of case  
studies and detailed (more detailed than was possible in the short  
Report for the Gulbenkian Foundation) analyses of trends and practices  
and possible futures of scientific inquiry and education, its changing  
cognitive structures, institutional contexts, and interdisciplinary  
interconnections.

We welcome proposals from scholars active in a variety of research  
fields, from history and philosophy of science to the various  
disciplinary perspectives applied to the study of science, science  
policy, and higher education (those from economics, sociology,  
political science, anthropology, management, education, communication  
studies, bibliometrics etc). Mixing such perspectives will yield a  
rich and comprehensive picture of the future of interdisciplinarity in  
social science.

Examples (just examples!) of possible themes:
•	Ways of opening the social sciences – promises, obstacles, risks
•	Hopes and prospects of unified social science
•	Cognitive and institutional conditions of interdisciplinarity
•	“The two cultures” – past, present, future
•	Forms of collaboration and dominance between disciplines
•	Natural sciences, social sciences, humanities: chances of (un)learning
•	Roles of neuroscience, genetics, and evolutionary biology in social sciences
•	Consequences of big data and data processing technologies
•	Roles of techniques (e.g. of modelling, simulating, experimenting)  
in bringing disciplines together
•	Roles of social sciences in projects led by natural sciences
•	Policy relevance of research and interdiscplinarity
•	Roles of social sciences in addressing and solving wicked problems
•	Consequences of extra-academic participation for the sciences of society
•	Consequences of contemporary governance of science and higher education
•	Reconfigurations of science-society relations
•	The West and the rest in the (social) sciences
•	Challenges in the management of interdisciplinarity.

SUBMISSION OF ABSTRACTS
In addition to submitting an abstract of a single paper, you are also  
welcome to propose a whole session of 3 (or 4) papers (sessions are  
envisaged to be 90 minutes).

Abstracts of single papers should be 500-600 words. Proposals for full  
sessions should include a general abstract of 300-400 words describing  
the theme of the session plus separate abstracts of each paper of  
300-400 words.

Please submit your abstracts through EasyChair.  
https://ifoss20.wordpress.com/abstract/

DEADLINE
The deadline of submitting your abstract is 15 September 2016

CONTACT
In all matters concerning the conference, please first contact  
research assistant Sofia Blanco Sequeiros at sofia.blancosequeiros  
[at] helsinki.fi


-- 
Uskali Mäki
Academy Professor
TINT - Centre of Excellence in the Philosophy of the Social Sciences
Department of Political and Economic Studies / Philosophy
University of Helsinki
http://www.helsinki.fi/tint
http://www.helsinki.fi/tint/maki
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