In this
summer seminar, we make ‘data’ unfamiliar. Through interdisciplinary engagements
we interrogate what we do / can consider as [good] data in the context of
social research: definitions, enactments and treatments of data. We think this is an important issue in
research at a time when data has gained the status of 'hard data' supplying
'hard evidence' and when the concept of data in many research projects is still
treated as taken-for-granted.
Invited Lectures
We have
invited critical scholars and methodologists to initiate conversations and to
provoke our thinking on our use and abuse of data in social research. See:Invited Speakers.
Workshops
Each
invited speaker will assign a few readings to prepare with for the seminar. During workshops these articles will be discussed together with the
presentations heard during the days and in relation to students’ own projects. See: Schedule
Each working group will keep notes on what was discussed which will then be solicited to participants together with presentation slides from invited presenters.
During the concluding session, discussion topics and questions from the parallel sessions will be brought back to the whole group of participants.
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This seminar will bring interdisciplinary and most current thinking and
problematizations on data in social science research to participants who will
greatly benefit from invited guests’ expertise in a friendly and collaborative
environment.
Venue
University of Tampere, Main Building, Kalevantie 4.
The main campus of the University of Tampere is close to the Tampere city centre, some ten minutes' walk from the railway station.
Organisers:
Zsuzsa Millei (JKK) & Antti Saari (EDU)
Contact:
Zsuzsa.millei@staff.uta.fi - Antti.w.saari@staff.uta.fi
Photo credit: Henri Cartier Bresson - Brussels 1932.
Photo credit: Henri Cartier Bresson - Brussels 1932.