Debating Research Together - Explorations in the excellence and the shoddiness in how we in academia engage in cross-cutting scholarly debates

Recorded lecture from Circus' Symposium 2021

(The videos opens in Youtube). 

Day 1

How and why do we debate research together?

• Welcome
  Professor Tora Holmberg, Vice-rector at the Disciplinary Domain of Humanities and Social Sciences at Uppsala University
• Opening remarks
  Professor Claes-Fredrik Helgesson, Director at CIRCUS
• Pendulums of Regret: Revisiting Ideals for Academic and Public Discussion
  Karen Tracy, Professor Emerita in Communication, University of Colorado, Boulder
• Peer Review and the Management of Controversy: A Short History, 
  Alex Csiszar, Professor of the History of Science, Harvard University

Caring for the scholarly debate in different arenas

• Caring for the Academic Commons: Colloquia, Conferences, Corridors and Canteen
  Marie Cronqvist, Associate Professor of Journalism and Media History, Lund University
• Editorial Practices and the Caring for the Scholarly Conversations: Reflections from a Re-tired Editor
  Professor Claes-Fredrik Helgesson, Director at CIRCUS

Shoddiness and challenges

• Equality in the Higher Seminar
  Ulrike Schnaas, PhD in German Literature and Educational Developer at the Division of Quality Enhancement, Uppsala University.
• Disagreements in Scientific Peer-Review: Challenges and Opportunities
  Lambros Roumbanis, Associate Professor of Sociology, Stockholm University
• Open discussion on shoddinesses and challenges

How can we care for the scholarly debate?

• Panel discussion with all presenters
• Concluding remarks

Day 2: 
Should We Just Accept This Dismal State of Public Debate? – Or can academia constructively contribute to improve on the present societal condition?
New collaborations between research institutions and external actors

• Opening remarks
  Professor Claes-Fredrik Helgesson, Director at CIRCUS
• Exploring future(s) through interdisciplinarity and mixed methods: Experiences from the LU Futura initiative
  Marie Cronqvist, Associate Professor of Journalism and Media History, Lund University
• The art of vibrant intellectual debate
  Professor Ann-Katrin Bäcklund, Director at The Pufendorf Institute for Advanced Studies, Lund University

Debate climate - diagnosis of the present state and ways forward

• Discursive Shifts in Contemporary Public Debates: Resisting Challenges of Radicalisation and Polarisation
  Michal Krzyzanowski, Professor of Media and Communication Studies, Uppsala University
• Timeout - Why do we need ground rules for constructive societal discussions?
  Laura Arikka, Chief Executive Officer at Dialogpaus, Finland