Academia Europaea & Wenner-Gren Foundations Conference

From thursday the 18th to saturnday the 20th of may the Wenner-Gren Center in Stockholm, Sweden, hosts the Academia Europea with the conference "Crossing over to the future: Interdisciplinarity in research and higher education".

Background of the conference

More than fifty years has passed since C.P. Snow in his famous Rede Lecture of 1959 (Snow, C.P. 1964) on the ‘two cultures’ stressed the duality of the natural sciences and the humanities as a seemingly self-evident reality organizing academic production of knowledge. Snow argued that the university was a divided community with radically different cultures and languages. As is well known, his views have been greatly quoted, challenged and criticized. However, over the decades the contemporary research landscape can no longer be mapped by simple dichotomies. Today the concept of ‘interdisciplinarity’ has slowly but surely come to the forefront of research interests and is seen as leading the way to answering major research questions, often known as the Grand Challenges, that mankind faces today.

Programme

• Plenary: Interdisciplinarity across science - challenges and opportunities 
• Session 1: Interdisciplinarity in research - obstacles and opportunities 
• Session 2: From research to teaching - principles and programmes 
• Session 3: Interdisciplinarity and academic career path

Organising committee

Chair: Milena Zic-Fuchs, Zagreb mzicfuch@ffzg.hr Erik De Corte, Leuven erik.decorte@ppw.kuleuven.be Lars Engwall, Uppsala lars.engwall@fek.uu.se Liesbet Geris YAE, Liege liesbet.geris@ulg.ac.be Svend-Erik Larsen, Aarhus litsel@cc.au.dk Bert Weckhuysen, Utrecht b.m.weckhuysen@uu.nl. 

You can open the registration form and the detailed programme by clicking on the hyperlinks or by visiting the official webpage of the conference.