International Symposium on Scientific Elites:
Concentration and Inequality
Copenhagen, September 7-8, 2023
Call for Abstracts | Keynotes | Programme | Registration | VenueProgramme
Please note that this is a preliminary programme, subject to change.
Thursday, September 7
| Time | Presentation | Presenter |
|---|---|---|
| 08:45-09:10 | Arrival and registration | |
| 09:10-09:15 | Welcome | Jens Peter Andersen and Mathias W. Nielsen |
| 09:15-09:45 | Opening Speech | Maja Horst Chair: Jens Peter Andersen |
| 09:45-10:45 | Keynote presentation: Homo Academicus Stanfordiensis | Dan McFarland
Chair: Jens Peter Andersen |
| 10:45-11:00 | Coffee break | |
| 11:00-12:30 | Contributed session I | Chair: Emil Bargmann Madsen |
A Danish Scientific Elite |
Kristoffer Kropp | |
Mapping elite sociability: using digital tools to recreate scientific networks in the Indian Academy of Science |
George Bailey | |
Elites in Sustainability Research: A Bourdieusan Study of Editorials |
Marco Schirone | |
| 12:30-13:30 | Lunch | |
| 13:30-15:00 | Contributed session II | Chair: Yvonne van Rossenberg |
Geographic concentration of USA IMO teams |
David Meyer | |
Academic Migration: Inter-disciplinary &-departmental Hierarchy, Closure, and Similarity |
Bas Hofstra | |
Academic Elitism: Career Experiences of First-Generation vs Generational PhD Faculty in U.S. Institutions |
Julia Melkers | |
| 15:00-15:20 | Coffee | |
| 15:20-16:50 | Contributed session III | Chair: Jesper W. Schneider |
"Noble and meritorious": formation and maintenance of scientific elites through the cultivating of scholarly personae |
Thammy Guimarães Costa Borges | |
Open Elites: Open Science Practices among Scientific Elites |
Behrooz Rasuli | |
Authorship inequality and elite dominance in management and organizational research: A review of six decades |
Mehmet Orhan and Yvonne van Rossenberg |
Friday, September 8
| Time | Presentation | Presenter |
|---|---|---|
| 08:45-09:00 | Registration & Coffee | |
| 09:00-10:00 | Keynote presentation | Stephanie Beyer Chair: Mathias W. Nielsen |
| 10:00-10:40 | Outcomes of the Scientific Elites project | Emil B. Madsen and Andrew C. Herman |
| 10:40-11:00 | Coffee Break | |
| 11:00-12:30 | Contributed session IV | Chair: Chaoqun Ni |
Social and cultural closure in awarding the Nobel Prize in Physics |
Jacob Habinek | |
Gender Disparities in Brokerage of Scientific Collaboration |
Jan Bachman | |
Gatekeeping and Social Closure in Academic Careers |
Maria Keil | |
| 12:30-13:30 | Lunch | |
| 13:30-15:00 | Contributed session V | Chair: Andrew C. Herman |
A biographical take on interdisciplinarity: exploring disciplinary mobilities and power relationships of the professors of biological sciences |
Pierre Benz | |
Cultural Focus as an Important Factor Creating Scientific Elites and the Absence of Its Reflection in Scientometrics |
Vaclav Linkov | |
Sequential choice and self-reinforcing rankings |
Pantelis P. Analytis | |
| 15:00-15:20 | Coffee break | |
| 15:20-16:00 | Keynote presentation | Cassidy Sugimoto Chair: Marc Lerchenmüller |
| 16:00-16:10 | Closing remarks | Jens Peter Andersen & Mathias W. Nielsen |
Practical information
Important dates
Abstract submission deadline: June 16
Registration deadline: July 1
Travel
The symposium will be held in Copenhagen (Denmark), with a well-connected international airport (CPH) and train connections to most of Europe. The airport and central train station are connected to a modern underground train and a local rail system.
Copenhagen Metro
Copenhagen Airport
Getting around by train in Copenhagen