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) |
| 11:15-11:30 | Technical break |
| 11:30-13:15 | THEME 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 |
| 13:15-14:00 | Lunch |
| 14:00-15:45 | Theme 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 |
| 15:45-16:00 | Coffee break |
| 16:00-17:45 | Theme 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 |
| 17:45-18:00 | Coffee break |
| 18:00-19:00 | Presentation of the two symposia within Failure Week (Volkswagen Foundation) |
| 19:00__ | Flying dinner |
| Dec. 13, 2022 | |
| 11:15-11:30 | Coffee break |
| 11:30-13:15 | THEME 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 |
| 13:15-14:00 | Lunch |
| 14:00-15:45 | Theme 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 |
| 15:45-16:00 | Coffee break |
| 16:00-18:00 | F*** 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_00 | Dinner |
| Dec. 14, 2022 | |
| 09:45-11:30 | THEME 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? |
| 11:30-12:15 | Lunch |
| 12:15-14:00 | Theme 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 |
| 14:00-15:00 | Joint closing |
| 20:00:__ | Social event/after party after the conference somewhere in the city … |