地点：同济大学德国研究中心，901会议室
时间：周四晚18:30-20:00晚间
主持者：Maximilian Mayer 研究员(maximilian_Mayer@tongji.edu.cn)、王传兴教授（wangchuanxing@tongji.edu.cn）
协调人：庄呈展（cz.zhuang@googlemail.com）
联系人：李聪聪（leecony13@163.com）、赵丽娟（2juan@tongji.edu.cn）
研究主题
迅速变得复杂的国际政治现实，迫使社会科学与新出现的现象、关注和议题领域相接触，并进而转化成理论上的创新。新出现的议题中既有科学技术。当代人的生活与制成品、技术系统和基础设施密切相连，并完全被这一切所渗入。今天很难想象有哪一国内、国际或者全球性议题没有涉及到科技方面的因素。然而，对于全球问题研究和国际关系理论中的研究方法而言，情形却实在不容乐观，原因是科学技术在这些研究方法中依然被看作是外生性的。虽然有越来越多的学者正探究科学实践和技术系统在国际事务和全球政治中的作用，但这一研究主题值得进行远远更为系统的穷理尽性；虽然多数理论并未给予科学技术在其中的实际思想地位，但是包括地理学、科技研究、社会学、创新研究和全球史在内的诸多不同学科领域对此已有充分研究，从而证明并重构了这一虽未获认可但却充满生机的国际关系子领域的研究范围。因此，跨学科对话使这一研究领域在概念和分析方面的进一步拓展大大受益。
研究目标：
研究坊的主要目的，是促使形成一种有利于研究和分析思想发展的开放性、创造性环境。虽然具体的研究项目可能因时而变，但研究坊的主要工作目标不是研究项目开发。相反，我们的目标是希望建立起一个不断扩展的从事全球科技政治研究的跨学科专家网络。由此，同济大学各院系、各研究领域，以及沪上各高校间的学科及跨学科分析技能和专长将得到加强，从而使这一网络成为有关全球政治、科学技术的创造性前沿思想中心。
研究方法：
研究坊（起始阶段）内容包括系列讲座和随后的延伸讨论及问答。全部讲座内容都与研究坊的大主题相关，讨论环节则对不同学科和分析视角持开放性态度。研究坊中的讲座都是探索性的。事实上，研究坊认为，我们应赞赏和鼓励持不同观点者之间富有成效的交流，并认为这是一个对研究活动取得成功的至关重要的过程。我们热忱欢迎同济大学各院系，以及沪上其他高校的硕士生、博士生和博士后工作人员、研究人员和教授参加研究坊的活动。
“Global Politics of Science and Technology”
Interdisciplinary Research Lab – Tongji University
School of Politics and International Relations of Tongji University (同济大学政治与国际关系学院)
German Studies Center of Tongji University (同济大学德国研究中心)
Venue/Room:German Studies Center, Conference Room 901
Time: 18:30-20:00 PM
Moderators: Professor Maximilian Mayer (maximilian_mayer@tongji.edu.cn)， Professor Wang Chuanxing (wangchuanxing@tongji.edu.cn)
Organization: Chengzhan Zhuang (cz.zhuang@googlemail.com)
Contact: Li Congcong (leecony13@163.com), Zhao Lijuan (2juan@tongji.edu.cn)
Theme
The reality of international politics has rapidly grown in complexity, pressuring social sciences to engage with new phenomena, concerns, and issue domains, translating them into innovative theorizations. Science and technology is one of these issues. Contemporary human life is tied to and thoroughly permeated by artifacts, technical systems and infrastructures. It is hard to imagine any domestic, international or global issue that does not have technological or scientific aspects. However, this condition remains fundamentally challenging for many approaches within global studies and International Relations theory (IR), where science and technology have been largely treated as exogenous. Although an increasing number of scholars is exploring the roles that scientific practices and technological systems play in international affairs and global politics, the subject matter deserves much more systematic scrutiny. Although most theories do not grant science and technology a genuine conceptual place, there is enough research from divers disciplinary fields – including geography, science and technology studies, sociology, innovation studies, global history, etc. – to document and reconstruct the breadth and depth of the vivid, yet unrecognized subfield of international relations. Hence, the further conceptual and analytical development of this research field greatly benefits from interdisciplinary conversations.
Objectives
The main aim of this format is to foster an open and creative environment for research and development of analytical thinking. While concrete research projects might evolve over time, it is not the prime goal to develop research projects. Instead, we hope to slowly build an expanding network of interdisciplinary experts working on the issue of global politics of science and technology. Thereby, disciplinary and cross-disciplinary analytical skills and expertise shall be strengthened across departments and fields of research within Tongji University and among university in Shanghai, becoming a hub for creative and cutting-edge thinking about global politics, science and technology.
Methods
The research lab consists (in its first phase) of a series of presentations with subsequent extended discussions/Q&A. While all topics will be related to the general theme, thediscussions are open to for different disciplinary and analytical perspectives; research presented here is work-in-progress. In fact, the idea of this Lab is to appreciate and encourage productive exchanges among a diversity of viewpoints, a process that is essential for the success of this format. The format is open for Master- and PhD-Students, Post-docs of all faculties, as well as researchers and professors of Tongji and other Shanghai Universities.
Preliminary schedule Winter Semester 2015/2016
15th October 2015 Maximilian Mayer (Tongji University): “Global Politics of Science and Technology – recent international developments of an interdisciplinary research field”
Wang Chuanxing(Tongji University): Global Politics of Science and Technology– recent domestic developments of an interdisciplinary research field”
22th October Maximilian Mayer(Tongji University):“Old and new approaches to science and technology in International Relations theory”
29thOctober 2015 Wang Chuanxing (Tongji University): “Science & Technologies and International System Transformation”
19th November 2015 Cuihong Cai (Fudan University):“On China’s Cyber Security“
26th November 2015 Qiu Jiajun (School of Political Science and International Relations): ”Can Different Cultures Be Compatible with the Same Political System?”
1stDecember 2015 Prof. Douglas Howland (University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee): “Sovereignty and technology – notes about the emergence of the modern state systems in the 19th century”
10th December 2015 Zhong Zhiyang (Tongji University): “Human Resources in Science and Technology: Measurement issues and mobility”// Eike Hesselbarth (HEC Paris): „Industry 4.0“
17th December 2015 Dániel Balázs (Tongji University): “Hydrograhy, island infrastructures and the blue economy: technologies of maritime Silk Road”; Maximilian Mayer (Tongji University): “The paradigm of coproduction: How to raise questions and articulate research puzzles”
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