Fall 2007 Schedule

Friday, September 21: 12:00 - 1:30

“Landscapes of Science:  Thoughts on the Historical Geographies of Scientific Culture”

David Livingstone (Queens University, Belfast)

IMU, State Room East

4:00-5:30                                                                                                  

STIP Seminar Session (joint with Illinois)

Radio-TV 180

Friday, October 12: 12:00 - 1:30

“East Asian Scientists and the Challenge of Professional Marginality”

James Bartholomew (Ohio State University)

Ballantine Hall 004

                                   3:00-4:30

STIP Seminar Session

(with James Bartholomew and Richard Rubinger, IU, EALC)

IMU, Dogwood Room

Friday, October 26:  12:00 - 1:30

 “Cross-cultural Challenges in Thinking about Innovation and Creativity:

The Case of Asian/US University Partnerships in Science and Technology”

 David Hakken (IU, Informatics), Heidi Ross (IU, Education)

Ballantine 004

Friday, November 16:  12:00 - 1:30

“World Class Worldwide? The Challenges of Creating and Sustaining Research Universities in Asia”

Philip Altbach (Boston College)

Wylie 005

Friday, November 30: 12:00 - 1:30

“Cyberinfrastructure and Scientific Collaboration”

Geoffrey Fox (IU, Informatics)

Ballantine Hall 004

Spring 2008 Schedule

Friday, January 18 and Saturday, January 19:  Lectures by Sharon Traweek (UCLA), author of Beamtimes and Lifetimes: The World of High Energy Physicists, and Joan Fujimura (University of Wisconsin), author of Crafting Science: A Socio-History of the Quest for the Genetics of Cancer, both of whom have worked extensively on the practice of science in Japan.  A Saturday seminar session will include Professors Traweek and Fujimura, and discussion by STIP faculty scientists who have worked in Japanese laboratories, Lane Baker (Chemistry) and David Kehoe (Biology).

Friday, February 29 and Saturday, March 1: Presentation by Xue Lan, an administrator from Qinghua University in Beijing, China.  The presentation will be held on Friday with a training seminar and discussion session to be held Saturday.  To be joined by STIP members from the University of Illinois.

Plans for February - April will be finalized in the coming weeks.

Science and Technology in the Pacific Century

A joint research initiative of the University of Illinois and Indiana University

Coordinating offices:

Center for East Asian and Pacific Studies, University of Illinois

East Asian Studies Center, Indiana University

The STIP project explores shifts in the location of leading scientific research towards East Asian institutions, which is likely in this century to affect scientific practice and have significant impact on East Asia and the West.  the project objective is to build intellectual capacity and academic coordination on these topics.