Interdisciplinarity: the What, the Why and the How - Conf茅rence le 18 sept 2017
Lundi 18 sept. 2017
19:00 鈥� 20:30
Lieu: MS 150
Entr茅e libre
Intervenants
Julie Thompson Klein is Professor of Humanities Emerita in the Department of English at Wayne State AV短视频 in Detroit, Michigan USA.
Klein is Professor of Humanities Emerita at Wayne State AV短视频 and Affiliate of the TdLab at the ETH-Zurich. Her books include听滨苍迟别谤诲颈蝉肠颈辫濒颈苍补谤颈迟测听(濒990),听Interdisciplinary Studies Today听(co-edited 1994),听Crossing Boundaries听(1996),听罢谤补苍蝉诲颈蝉肠颈辫濒颈苍补谤颈迟测听(co-edited 2001),听Interdisciplinary Education in K-12 and College听(edited 2002),听Mapping Interdisciplinary Studies听(1999),听Humanities, Culture, and Interdisciplinarity听(2005),听Creating Interdisciplinary Campus Cultures听(2010),听Interdisciplining Digital Humanities听(2015), and听The听Oxford Handbook on 滨苍迟别谤诲颈蝉肠颈辫濒颈苍补谤颈迟测听(co-edited 2010, 2017). Klein has also been Visiting Foreign Professor in Japan, Fulbright professor in Nepal, Foundation Visitor at the AV短视频 of Auckland,听and听 Distinguished Scholar at the AV短视频 of Victoria.
Professor Klein will situate interdisciplinary initiatives at UNIGE and GSI in the larger context of interdisciplinary history, theory, and practice. In answering the WHY question, she will describe major motivations today: highlighting complexity, problems and questions not confined to a single discipline, the need to solve societal challenges, and new technologies of information and communication. In considering WHAT, she will distinguish defining concepts and types, along with increasing focus on transdisciplinary knowledge production and lessons from Area Studies. The HOW question spans goals, skills, and career strategies, framed by decisions about purpose, scope, audience, outcomes, theory and models, and methods for projects. Goals vary across a spectrum of epistemological, instrumental, critical, and methodological purposes. Pertinent skills include disciplinary grounding, conceptual and methodological integration, critical awareness, communication, and teamwork. Interdisciplinary careers also vary, requiring individuals to achieve an appropriate balance of disciplinary and interdisciplinary activities across stages of their academic and professional lives, while shaping a personal identity and constructing a personal portfolio.听In closing Klein will address the question of what interdisciplinarity has in the political economy of knowledge production today and, finally, highlight resources from the 2017 edition听The Oxford Handbook of Interdisciplinarity听and online repositories.
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