The Knowledge Management Education Hub

Conferences

• International Conference “Towards Knowledge Democracy”, 25-27 August 2009, Leiden University, Leiden, The Netherlands
  Sub-title: Consequences for Science, Politics and Media

  This conference offers you a unique opportunity to share your visions and experiences on how to deal with the challenges and possibilities that occur on the interface between science, politics, society and the media. The ability to handle these boundary issues is essential in our world where knowledge becomes increasingly democratised. An international audience consisting of scientists, politicians, government officials, media professionals, societal organisations and other interested parties will convene in Leiden to exchange ideas. We expect hundreds of visitors and over a hundred keynote and panel speakers to discuss their views during this three-day event.

  Conference Themes:
  Knowledge & Future Research; State of the Art in Transdisciplinary Research; Practical Approaches to Boundary Work; Media, Politics and Knowledge Flow; Defining Knowledge Democracy

  Keynotes:
  Knowledge & Future Research: an introduction
  State of the Art in Transdisciplinary Research: an introduction
  Practical Approaches to Boundary Work: an introduction
  Media, Politics and Knowledge Flow: an introduction
  Defining Knowledge Democracy: an introduction

  Plenary Session:
  Transdisciplinary Scholarship
  Evaluating Evidence
  Presentation of “the Leiden Agenda”

  Parallel Sessions:

  Knowledge & Future Research
  1.1 Problems & Opportunities
  1.2 Scanning the Horizon
  1.3 The Future in Policy-making
  1.4 Future Research and Strategic Policy making: How do the Two Relate?
  1.5 Towards a Better Governance of Long-term Decision-making

  State of the Art in Transdisciplinary Research
  2.1 Transdisciplinary Research: Its Possibilities and Limitations
  2.2 Creating the Landscape: Scientific Knowledge in Regional Case Studies
  2.3 Transdisciplinary Research: Its Contribution to Problem Solving and the Consequences for Higher Education
  2.4 Stimulating Informed Debate on Sustainable Development
  2.5 Transdisciplinary Research as Social Learning
  2.6 Sustainable Value Development through New Knowledge Creation
  2.7 The Transition Approach and the Resilience Approach: What can we Learn?
  2.8 Roles, Competence and Action Perspectives of Actors in Transdisciplinary Research
  2.9 Research and Knowledge Transfer in Water Management

  Practical Approaches to Boundary Work
  3.1 Boundary Work and Transition Management
  3.2 Mainstreaming Citizen Participation
  3.3 Collaborative Knowledge Production
  3.4 A New Methodology for Policy Research?
  3.5 Boundary Institutions in Science Governance – Triangulating Knowledge and Democratic Practice
  3.6 Implications for the Science-policy Interface
  3.7 Practical Approaches to Boundary Work around Transformative Change

  Media, Politics and Knowledge Flow
  4.1 Old and New Media Living Apart Together?
  4.2 Knowledge Sharing: Who is the Facilitator?
  4.3 Lost in Translation
  4.4 Network Knowledge Society – Effects for Science & Politics
  4.5 Science-based Reports, Media and the Political Hype
  4.6 Citizens in Charge (1): Participation in Inspection and Monitoring : Introduction and Experiences in the Netherlands
  4.7 Citizens in Charge (2): Participation in Inspection and Monitoring: International Experiences and Conclusions
  4.8 Investigative Journalism and the Battle for Access to Information
  4.9 Communication about Controversial Issues
  4.10 From Response to Responsibility

  Defining Knowledge Democracy
  5.1 Policy Experimentation & Academic Accountability
  5.2 Researching Publics
  5.3 Production and Use of Knowledge in the Political Realm
  5.4 Scientists as Citizens: Citizens as Scientists
  5.5 Policy Experimentation, Social Learning, and Political Accountability
  5.6 Inconvenient Knowledge and Policy-making
  5.7 Organising Politics in a Knowledge Democracy – Reinventing Political Parties
  5.8 Knowledge-Democracy or Jericho-Democracy? A Design Workshop
  5.9 Facing and Bridging the Gap: Organising Knowledge For Policy-making
  5.10 Wanted: Competent Public Officials
  5.11 Improvement of Knowledge Transfer: Co-operation or Competition in the Research Field?

  Open Sessions:
  An Introduction to the “Meaning of Knowledge”
  Knowledge, Power & Identity: Struggles Over Unstructured Laptop Use in American University Classrooms
  An Inter- and Transdisciplinary Analysis of the Climate Discussion of Transport
  Democratic Decision-making and Innovative Knowledge: Two Cases
  Boundary Spanning in Hybrid Dutch Organisations
  The Knowledge Broker, Matching Supply and Demand of Expert Knowledge
  We’re Only in It for the Knowledge. Does Democracy Pay?
  People Empower Each Other, Information Technology Helps Only in Facilitating Them
  Dissemination and Implementation of Knowledge within the Public Health Sector
  Globalisation and Governance Reforms in India

  Open Space Session:
  Planning for Action
  Gathering and combining results. Preparing recommendations