[ecrea] Transatlantic Conference on Academia & the Public Sphere

The Public Mission of the Social Sciences and Humanities: Transformation 
and Renewal
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Website: http://publicsphere.ssrc.org/initiative-academia-public-sphere/

Transatlantic Conference with Jutta Allmendinger, Lisa Anderson, Thomas 
Bender, Michael Burawoy, Craig Calhoun, Klaus Eder, Rogers Smith, 
Wolfgang Streeck, Jacques Revel, Stephen Walt, and others. Leading 
scholars from both sides of the Atlantic who have studied the history of 
their disciplines will analyze the historical transformation of 
the public role of their professions comparatively and critically.

Social Science Research Center Berlin (WZB), Berlin, Germany, September 
16-17, 2011

To follow from a distance (conference-related conversations, content and 
outcomes), you can sign up for the newsletter [http://bit.ly/l0orVo] or 
follow updates on Twitter: http://twitter.com/PublicSphereHub

For those who can make the trip to the conference, we have compiled a 
page with practical information, including tips for hotels in the area 
and cheap accommodation for students: http://bit.ly/m2Uvqc

* Conference registration (free, but RSVP required): http://bit.ly/lILnic
* Conference outline and preliminary program: http://bit.ly/jIv0tP
* Companion to the conference (research resources): http://bit.ly/hDwOhe

Inquiries: for questions about the Berlin conference, please contact our 
European partners at (publicmission /at/ wzb.eu) <mailto:(publicmission /at/ wzb.eu)>

The transatlantic conference is inspired by and builds on the SSRC's 
Academia & the Public Sphere Essay Series: http://bit.ly/fVf5Ux

Sponsored by the Social Science Research Center Berlin (WZB), The Young 
Academy at the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities and 
the National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina, the Berlin Graduate School 
of Social Sciences (BGSS) at Humboldt University, the Social Science 
Research Council (SSRC) and the Institute for Public Knowledge (IPK) at 
New York University.

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