- Date
- Monday 11 Nov 2024, 14:30 - 16:30
- Type
- Seminar
- Spoken Language
- English
- Location
Campus Woudestein, Q-building, ground floor
Some problems and questions may benefit from, or even require, an active engagement between diverse epistemic communities. What does it mean to do research that is engaged in this way? How can such research be made accountable to the diverse communities it affects? How can such collaborative practices in research be reconciled with ideas of value-freedom and objectivity of science? Does engaged research require rethinking standards of epistemic success in the sciences?
The event will feature Professor Alison Wylie (University of British Columbia) and social scientists from the EUR who pursue different types of engaged research in their work.
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Alison Wylie is a philosopher of science based at the University of British Columbia. She is the recipient of an honorary doctorate at the 111th Dies Natalis of Erasmus University Rotterdam on November 8, 2024. Wylie works on the epistemic and ethical questions raised by research practice in the social and historical sciences. She is a co-PI of the UBC-based research cluster "Indigenous/Science: Partnerships in the Exploration of History & Environments," and serves on the leadership circle for the US National Science Foundation Center for Braiding Indigenous Knowledges and Science.