A MOVE Conference - New Spaces of Scientific Knowledge

The spaces of academic, scientific, and policy knowledge production have markedly changed over the past ten years. A mutually constitutive set of new actors, institutional initiatives, scientific networks, and changing state strategies at various spatial scales have been transforming the landscape. Yet, despite a growing interest in the effects of the knowledge produced, less attention has been given to the reconfiguring subjects and sites that are shaping the evolving geography of contemporary knowledge production. The MOVE 2011 conference seeks to deepen our understanding of these changes along four themes:

1. The construction of transnational higher education and research spaces, with particular attention to branch campus developments and their architectural practices and spatial forms
2. The changing practices and influence of scientific diaspora networks
3. Scalar transformations in international and “global” health policy and the effect of these developments on public health practices
4. The sites and subjects involved in constructing migration and mobility policy expertise and knowledge

Speakers include:

• Christina Boswell, University of Edinburgh
• Matthew Connelly, Columbia University
• Brigitte Dumortier, Paris-Sorbonne University Abu Dhabi
• Amar Jesani, Center for Enquiry into Health and Allied Themes; Center for Studies in Ethics and Rights, India
• Vinh-Kim Nguyen, University of Montreal
• Erhard Stölting, University of Potsdam
• Gabriela Tejada, EPFL
• Bas Van Heur, Maastricht University

Short program (PDF)
A full program is available at http://www.move-network.ch/
Attendance is free and open to all but pre-registration is requested. For registration and all practical information (travel, accommodation), please contact Didier Ruedin ([email protected])

Deadline for registration: 21 June 2011