[DIALOGnews] DIALOG/DISCCRS News 05/27/2005

[Sue Weiler]

*DIALOG and DISCCRS News
05/27/2005
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*RESOURCES
Prospective New Awardee Guide*
http://www.nsf.gov/publications/pub_summ.jsp?ods_key=nsf0529
*SCIENCE NEWS
FORUM*
*SUMMER PROGRAMS, COURSES, INTERNSHIPS, MEETINGS
**New England Complex Systems Institute Summer schook, Scholarships and 
Postdoctoral Fellowship opportunities
* http://necsi.org/education/school/summer05.html or 
http://necsi.org/education/postdoc/app.php
*Interdisciplinarity as a Challengei one-day conference
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*Prospective New Awardee Guide
* http://www.nsf.gov/publications/pub_summ.jsp?ods_key=nsf0529
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Science News

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Summer Programs, Courses, Internships*,* Meetings
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*New England Complex Systems Institute Summer schook, Scholarships and 
Postdoctoral Fellowship opportunities
* NECSI Summer School & Scholarships 
http://necsi.org/education/school/summer05.html
Postdoctoral Fellowship Opportunities 
http://necsi.org/education/postdoc/app.php
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Interdisciplinarity as a Challenge: One-Day Conference
* Date: 3rd June, 2005
Time: 9:30 AM until 5:30 PM
Host: Utrecht University, Faculty of Arts
Location: Utrecht, Drift 21, Sweelinckzaal
This course especially welcomes MA and PhD students, but is open to all 
who are interested. Please direct any questions to the organisers at: 
interdisciplinarity.conference at gmail.com.
The itinerary for the day includes: 
Keynote lectures by:
-Prof. Dr. Rosi Braidotti with a response by Prof. Dr. Berteke Waaldijk; 
-Prof. Dr. Stephan Jaeger with a response by Prof. Dr. Orlanda Lie, and
-Workshops run by graduate students from the Department of the Humanities;
-Plus various opportunities to network with fellow colleagues and 
professors during coffee, lunch, and drinks. (Please see below the 
detailed program for the day)
Please note that admission as well as lunch, coffee, and drinks are all 
free of charge.
****Registration is not necessary but highly appreciated!*** 
To register please email the committee at 
interdisciplinarity.conference at gmail.com. 
Conference statement:
"By tenaciously attempting the impossible task of knowing everything, 
interdisciplinarians help us see the various components of human 
knowledge for what they are; pieces in a panoramic jigsaw puzzle." - 
Moti Nissani
Over the last decades, interdisciplinarity has become the hottest new 
trend to hit the academic world. Interdisciplinary work is a necessity 
nowadays, due both to cutbacks in academia - forcing scholars to work 
together in larger departments - and to changes in society, spurring on 
the need for a fuller understanding of complex social, scientific and 
cultural developments.
As a result, new interdisciplinary fields of study, such as Medieval 
Studies, Women's Studies and Cultural Studies, have become part and 
parcel of Humanities departments everywhere, while interdisciplinary 
work is also undertaken within the established academic traditions. Not 
just a necessity, some consider interdisciplinarity a challenge: 
interdisciplinarity can create breakthroughs, provide scholars with very 
useful crossdisciplinary oversights, and free them from narrow 
perspectives. 
Others, however, question the benefits of interdisciplinarity, by 
pointing out its obstacles and dangers. For instance, can scholars 
evaluate sources from outside their fields of specialization well enough 
to base new conclusions on them? What happens when findings from 
Literary Studies are translated and integrated into research on, for 
example, visual culture? And in its need to be all-inclusive, can 
interdisciplinary studies rise above the analysis of the acutely topical?
This conference will address the benefits and dangers of 
interdisciplinarity. Speakers from various fields of study will give their
opinions on these issues as well as concrete examples of either 
breakthroughs or setbacks as a consequence of their nterdisciplinary
approaches.
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*This newsletter has been developed by C. Susan Weiler to distribute 
information of potential interest to recent PhDs engaged in 
interdisciplinary aquatic science or climate-change research, and to 
build an international sense of community among recent grads. It 
provides an international forum for the exchange of information and 
opinions regarding research, professional and social issues. The views 
and opinions expressed do not necessarily reflect those of the funding 
agencies or sponsoring societies. Dr. Weiler reserves the right to edit 
or reject material submitted to the list.
*        Please submit announcements of interest to recent PhDs to 
phd at whitman.edu. * Send a short message in the body of an e-mail 
message, and link to any appropriate websites. Do not send attachments.
       * Moving?* Send address changes to dialog at whitman.edu or 
disccrs at whitman.edu

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C. Susan Weiler, Ph.D.          
Office for Earth System Studies    Tel:   509-527-5948          
Whitman College                        Fax:  509-527-5961
Walla Walla, WA 99362
weiler at whitman.edu    
  Programs for Recent PhDs                 http://aslo.org/phd.html
  DIALOG poster        http://www.aslo.org/phd/dialogposter.pdf
  DISCCRS poster       http://www.aslo.org/phd/disccrsposter.pdf 
Workshop Report, Meeting the Needs of Interdisciplinary Ph.D. Graduates 
in a Changing Global Environment
http://marcus.whitman.edu/~weilercs/biocomplexity/              _______________________________________________ 

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