Failure in Science

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FAILURE IN SCIENCE: CONTEXT, IGNORANCE AND THE FUTURE OF FAILING, December 12-14, 2022, Hannover

Venue: Herrenhausen Palace, Hannover

Dec. 12, 2022
11:00-11:15  Welcome (Volkswagen Foundation)
11:15-11:30Technical break
11:30-13:15THEME 1: FAILURE & FAILING IN SCIENCE
Theme 1.1. Failure in science vs failure of science
Chair: Matthias Gross
✔ Linsey McGoey (University of Essex): Freedom and Failure
✔ Manu Kapur (ETH Zurich): Failure and Learning
✔ Stuart Firestein (Columbia University in the City of New York, online): Failure as a Portal
13:15-14:00Lunch
14:00-15:45Theme 1.2 Cultures of failure, fear of falling
Chair: Adriana Mica
✔ Marcin Serafin (IFIS – Polish Academy of Sciences): Theorizing Dyads: The Emotional Scaffold of Roderick McKenzie’s and Robert Park’s Failed Collaboration
✔ Roland Zarzycki (Collegium Civitas, Warsaw) and Piotr Alchimowicz (Collegium Civitas, Warsaw): Fear of Failure as a Major Factor in the Decay of the Scientific Method
✔ Bashir Bello ( Federal University Gusau): Failure in Academic Research: Frequenting the Locals and Avoidance of High Impacts Journals by Nigerian Academicians
✔ Dashun Wang (Northern University, online): Quantifying Failure
15:45-16:00Coffee break
16:00-17:45Theme 1.3 Practice of failing
Chair: Mikołaj Pawlak
✔ Cosmina Paul (Ana Aslan International Foundation): How Do We Normalize Failing in R&D and Innovation Funding Programmes?
✔ Shankarjyoti Saikia (University of Delhi, associated with Failure Lab, University of Warsaw): On the Rationality of Calculated Experimentation: Embodying Failures within Conceptualizations and Practices of Medical and Laboratory Sciences in Delhi
✔ Kata Katz (Universität der Künste Berlin) and Mafalda Sandrini (Free University of Berlin): Failing with Intent – Ways of Hacking Academic Life
17:45-18:00Coffee break
18:00-19:00Presentation of the two symposia within Failure Week (Volkswagen Foundation)
19:00__Flying dinner
Dec. 13, 2022
11:15-11:30Coffee break
11:30-13:15THEME 2: Failure and the overcoming of vulnerabilities and neglect in science
Theme 2.1: Measurement, learning and competition
Chair: Mikołaj Pawlak
✔ Xiaodong Lin (Teachers College, Columbia University in the City of New York):  Learning From Failures: Psychological Analysis
✔ Mark Lutter (University of Wuppertal): Who Drops out of Academia? Gender Differences in the Field of German Sociology
✔ Julia Gruhlich (Paderborn University): Academics Aren’t Failing at Science – Science Is Failing Academics. Precarity, Diversity and Care at the Neoliberal University
13:15-14:00Lunch
14:00-15:45Theme 2.2: Failure gap and resistance
Chair: Matthias Gross
✔ Paola de Vivo (University of Naples Federico II): Conventional Thinking and Development. Beliefs, Contradictions, and Ignorance in the Implementation of Public Policies
✔ Adriana Mica (University of Warsaw), Mikołaj Pawlak (University of Warsaw), and Paweł Kubicki (Warsaw School of Economics): Failure as Resource: Failure Living Labs in Science
✔ Mieke Van Houtte (Ghent University): Cultures of Failure Turning into Cultures of Resistance
15:45-16:00Coffee break
16:00-18:00F*** Up Tales in Science, part I (Volkswagen Foundation)
Moderator: Xiaodong Lin (Teachers College, Columbia University in the City of New York) and Stuart Firestein (Columbia University in the City of New York, online)
18:00-19:00
Walk, meditation, technical break
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19:00_00Dinner
Dec. 14, 2022
      09:45-11:30THEME 3: Science, failure, and the future
Theme 3.1: The future of failure, the future of science
Chair: Adriana Mica
✔ Gertrude J. Fraser (University of Virginia) and Claire Holman Thompson (author, University of Virginia): Storying Failure, Storying Science in the Life Histories of Women Scientists and Engineers
✔ Michael Borggräfe (Technical University of Berlin), Tobias Lehmann (Technical University of Berlin)and Jochen Gläser (Technical University of Berlin): Forms and Effects of Failure in Science: The Case of Retractions
✔ Martin Hájek (Charles University): Failure Infrastructures in Science: Should We Make Failure More Transparent?
11:30-12:15Lunch
    12:15-14:00Theme 3.2: Children and students: The education of failing
Chair: Matthias Gross
✔ Nadine Wilchess (Mind the Class):  Failure Science Protects School-Systems from Mental and Behavioral Disorders
✔ Carolyn Jackson (Lancaster University): Constructions and Consequences of “Failure” in Higher Education
✔ Marta Petelewicz (Educational Research Institute) and Julita Pieńkosz (Educational Research Institute): Failure and Shortcomings in Previous and Current Educational Experiences of Learners. Trajectories of Adult Students                                                           
14:00-15:00Joint closing
20:00:__Social event/after party after the conference somewhere in the city …