[spectre] CEU Summer School: Confronting the Crisis of Expertise (26-30 of July 2021) Budapest

[Tincuta Heinzel]

Dear all,



I am writing to you related to a summer school planned to take place at CEU
University in Budapest end of July (26-30 of July 2021). The topic of the
course is Confronting the Crisis of Expertise: Historical Roots and Current
Challenges
<https://summeruniversity.ceu.edu/confronting-the-crisis-of-expertise-2021>.
The summer school is organised in collaboration with Open Society
University Network and OSA Archives in Budapest. I will be part of the
course faculty along Jenny Anderson, Ioana Macrea-Toma, Adela Hincu, Istvan
Rev, Narcis Tulbure, Emily White.



Below is a short description of the course.



The registration deadline is 14th of February 2021.



Please do not hesitate to spread the word.



All the best,

Tincuta



*Confronting the Crisis of Expertise: Historical Roots and Current
Challenges*
<https://summeruniversity.ceu.edu/confronting-the-crisis-of-expertise-2021>

In the post-Covid-19 world, the problems already experienced by democracies
with regards to social divisions and diminishing trust in public
institutions are exacerbated by a growing epistemic crisis concerning the
simultaneous need and contestation of expertise for public policy purposes.
The existence of uncertain statistical data, the search for past models in
dealing with hidden enemies, the public attempts to translate scientific
knowledge and to make sense of decision-making processes, all point to a
persistent need for advanced skills for working with governance data and
discourses.



Our course enhances participants’ skills in analyzing the incorporation of
techno and scientific knowledge into public governance and discourses. The
summer school seeks to provide the tools and categories to critically
assess systemic responses in times of both contested expertise
and scientificization of politics.



The course will make connections between historical and current issues
related to expertise by analyzing the genealogy of interventionist
techniques and social inquiries. We will study the emergence of hybrid,
policy sciences during the Cold War by analyzing the cases of sociology,
(macro)economy, statistics, environmental sciences, and design. We
analytically investigate the differences as well as convergences between
East and West with regards to their data cultures and truth regimes in
order to analyze the validity, intelligibility, and portability of
scientific facts/ phenomena when being tested, communicated, appropriated
across time and space.



Last but not least, we shall connect the past problems of communicating
science along ideological divides with current concerns of conveying valid
scientific claims in a post-truth era.



The summer school is offered to advanced-level undergraduate students,
graduate students, junior faculty in humanities and social sciences,
journalists and artists interested in writing articles or creating projects
which might go beyond an academic context.



The course will consist of lectures, seminars and practical workshops with
archival documents and scientific datasets.
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