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Event: AID (Agora for Interdisciplinary Debate): Autumn 2012 Programme

Event date October 15, 2012
Location University of Helsinki, Finland
Host(s) Finnish Centre of Excellence in the Philosophy of the Social Sciences
Event website/information http://www.helsinki.fi/tint/aid.htm

AID is the new forum for interdisciplinary conversation coordinated,
by the Centre of Excellence in the Philosophy of the Social Sciences, University of Helsinki, Finland.

http://www.helsinki.fi/tint/aid.htm

Pursuing a conversational culture that is both leisurely and rigorous,
AID explores disciplinary identities and interdisciplinary relations
by focusing on specific topics, viewed from different disciplinary
perspectives. You will learn general lessons about interdisciplinarity
even though you might not be desperately interested in the topic of
the day.

For future sessions, topics that are being considered include social
theory and social ontology, climate change, religion and science,
realism, the role of biology in the social sciences, and more. If you
have suggestions, please send to <uskali.maki@helsinki.fi>.

Here is the programme for the Autumn 2012 term:

Monday 15 October, 14-16, House of Forestry, Unioninkatu 40, 3rd floor, room 6
“Debt and its images: Through the lenses of economics and political science”
discussed by Tuomas Malinen and Ville-Pekka Sorsa (University of Helsinki)

Monday 12 November, 14-16, House of Forestry, Unioninkatu 40, 3rd floor, room 6
“Why does mainstream economics appear so autistic to so many? A mere misunderstanding?”
discussed by Heikki Patomäki (Political science, U of Helsinki) and Hannu Vartiainen (Economics, U of Helsinki)

Monday 10 December, 14-16
“Shared histories as an example of the black hole between disciplines, or how to approach people’s experience of history”
discussed by Pentti Anttonen (Folkloristics, University of Helsinki) and Jorma Kalela (History, University of Turku)

http://www.helsinki.fi/tint/aid.htm

For further information, contact Pekka Mäkelä, pekka.a.makela@helsinki.fi.
Uskali Mäki
Academy of Finland Centre of Excellence in the Philosophy of the Social Sciences
TINT [Trends and Tensions in Intellectual Integration]
Department of Political and Economic Studies
University of Helsinki
http://www.helsinki.fi/tint
http://www.helsinki.fi/tint/maki
uskali.maki@helsinki.fi

 

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