Lancaster University, Lancaster LA1 4YD, UK.
E-mail: ias@lancaster.ac.uk
Discourses of "The Knowledge Based Economy"
30 November - 1 December 2005
Please note, this research programme has now concluded and these pages are maintained here as a record of the activities of the Institute for Advanced Studies.
Co-ordinators:
Professor
Bob Jessop (Lancaster)
Professor
Ruth Wodak (Lancaster)
Professor Norman Fairclough (IAS Emeritus
Fellow)
The main purpose of this workshop was to bring together critical discourse
theorists and others with an interest in semiosis (including visual material)
and scholars of the knowledge-based economy to see how these two lines
of inquiry currently intersect and might be made to intersect even more
productively. We had a good mix of disciplines and themes represented
with the most important points of intersection being critical semiosis
as a method, current transformations of higher education and research
in the light of the rise of the 'globalizing knowledge-based economy'
as the hegemonic economic imaginary and an important basis for political
strategies at different scales from the local through the national and
EU, APEC, and NAFTA to the global (e.g. OECD, World Bank, UNESCO) and
the nature of knowledge work and symbolic analysis. Within this framework
papers ranged across different historical periods, differently scaled
sites, and different countries and continents.
In addition to the organizers, each of whom gave a paper, we had international visitors presenting papers from Austria, Belgium, Canada, Colombia, Denmark, Eire, Finland, Germany, New Zealand, Norway, Sweden, Switzerland, and the United States. Some of these were graduate students, some junior academic colleagues, and five of them were major international scholars with specialist expertise in the field. The latter comprised Professors Susan Robertson (Bristol), Roger Dale (Bristol), Mitch Ash (Vienna), Paschal Preston (Dublin), and Jerzy Hausner (Kraków).
The organizers (Prof Norman Fairclough, Prof Bob Jessop, and Prof Ruth Wodak) have signed a contract with Sense Publishers (specialists in higher education research) in a prestigious series edited by Prof Michael Peters (a leading scholar in the field) for an edited book from the conference on 'Education and the Knowledge-Based Economy in Europe', with a scheduled submission date of January 2007.
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