Call for Papers is now open for Learning Places, TechNetEMPIRE International Conference that will be held in a hybrid format, in Lisbon and Zoom, between 3-4 February 2022.
This event aims at tackling the possibility of a comparative view on how, when and where learning institutions of technical and scientific knowledge were organized across empires. By comparing different case studies in fields of knowledge and transformation of the built environment – military engineering, cartography, among others – the goal is to establish a comparative frame of the political-scientific enterprise of empires, across geographies and times.
The conference proposes a comparative reading between formal or non-formal structures of learning and individual agency abilities, that enables the understanding of transformations, influences and entanglements in different geographies from multiple spheres of knowledge and practices.
The conference seeks to answer particular questions such as:
– How did each empire manage the creation and location of its technical learning structures?
– How did each empire handle the circulation of technical agents?
– How did agents circulated and communicated establishing trans-imperial networks of knowledge?
– How was theoretical knowledge transformed by local and global influences?
– How did practical and formal institutional knowledge interact?
– What was the role of go-betweens – translators, local experts or workers, etc. – in the reshaping of knowledge?
– One of the most fruitful moments in the production of knowledge is the exchanges (trading zone or contact zone) between different epistemic communities or communities of knowledge. To what extent can these knowledge spaces be considered “trading zones” and to what extent did they foster the exchange of knowledge?
Proposals for papers (maximum 300 words) must be submitted together with a biographical note (maximum 100 words) in English. Please submit your proposal by June 20, 2021, using the form available by following this link.
All authors of accepted abstracts must submit a short paper (from 3000 up to 5000 words including footnotes and bibliography), until 30 November 2021.
Authors of accepted papers will be invited to submit their articles until 15 March 2022.
Texts must have up to 10.000 words, including footnotes and bibliography and may include some images, but authors must ensure copyrights. Articles will be evaluated through a peer-review process and will be published in an edited book or in an indexed scientific journal special issue.
A style guide and a template will be provided.
CALENDAR:
Call for papers: 5 April 2021 – 20 June 2021 (Closed)
Communication of proposals acceptance: 30 July 2021
Presenters Registration: 1 August 2021 to 30 September 2021
Papers submission: 30 November 2021
General Registration: January 2022
Event: 3 – 4 February 2022
Final article submission: 15 March 2022
Any further questions please contact: technetempire@fcsh.unl.pt
