6 and 7 December 2023 | Casa da Cidadania da Língua, Coimbra
Organised by the Centre for Interdisciplinary Studies in collaboration with the municipality of Coimbra, the international symposium Interdisciplining Knowledge: Humanities, Science and Culture aims to become a regular forum for questioning the unpredictability of knowledge creation and the way it is shaped by institutions, lines of research, disciplinary competences and the allocation of resources. The symposium focuses on research processes in the humanities, sciences and culture in order to reveal the complementarities and tensions between different paradigms, methodologies and premises cultivated by different traditions of knowledge in the humanities and natural sciences. The symposium proposes to discuss interdisciplinarity from three perspectives: heterogeneities, evaluations and performativities, examining how interdisciplinary relations are shaped as complex and emergent phenomena.
The following speakers have been confirmed for the Symposium: Georgina Born (University College London), Nicholas Evans (Australian National University), Olga Pombo (University of Lisbon) and Andrew Barry (University College London).
For over two decades, the Centre for Interdisciplinary Studies (CEIS20) has established itself as a research centre invested in the contemporary production of interdisciplinary knowledge, with a focus on the arts, humanities and social sciences. The Centre’s research activities are anchored in the study of complex processes that emerge and operate in the human, social and artefactual domains, taking into account temporal and environmental transformations. CEIS20 studies knowledge networks, exploring the relationships between conscious acts of knowledge and the properties and interactions that arise from emergent processes and systems.
Admission is free.