The First ETC (Economics, Trandsdisciplinarit y, Knowledge) Conference
(Post)epistemic economies and the Management of Knowledge. Transdisciplinarity as a new form of knowledge
George Bacovia University, Bacau, Romania, is organizing a international and interacademic Conference on June 17th-18th 2008: The First ETC Conference (Economics, Trandsdisciplinarit y, Knowledge) on „(Post)epistemic economies and the Management of Knowledge. Transdisciplinarity as a new form of knowledge”.
You may find more information on this topic in the attached Call for papers.
Web page www.ugb.ro/Conferen ce2008.
Contact: Prof Liviu Drugus
liviusdrugus@ ...
CALL FOR PAPERS
In the opening of the series: ETC international and interacademic conferences
(Economics, Transdisciplinarity and Cognition)
George Bacovia University, Bacau, Romania
is sending you this
CALL FOR PAPERS
ETC 2008: (Post)Epistemic economies and the Management of knowledge. Transdisciplinarity as a new form of knowledge
Why (Post)Epistemic Economy? Why transdisciplinarity ? Why us?
Knowledge has always been the real vector of any economic transformation and progress. What kind of knowledge? What kind of progress? Capitalism was about knowledge on how to obtain posses and exploit land, labor and capital. This specialized knowledge was called Economics and the economic epistemology was based on disciplinary, narrowly segmented knowledge. It was the Era of the modern, capitalist and industrialized economies. Nowadays, especially (but not only) in the postmodern, postcapitalist and postindustrialized developed and educated economies there is a need for more knowledge on how to produce knowledge. The real substance of a prosperous postmodern economy is the quantity and quality of knowledge and creativity. Therefore, some economic structures may be defined as postepistemic economies. A postepistemic economy is that kind of economy that produces and consumes knowledge more than any other resource. The academic and non-academic communities of teachers and researchers are the core of some present economies and of most future ones. The present research is more transdisciplinary than disciplinary, more experiential than experimental. As a result, the process of globalizing the world economy is conjoined with processes of unification in knowledge. This process has transdisciplinarity as one of its strongest tools. But who is asked to do that? We consider that all those implied in research and education, in media and communication, in shaping, in a way or another, our own lives should try to study and create the new postepistemic economies. Of course, the epistemic modern economies still exist and are developing on disciplinary narrow basis, but the new trend is a large transdisciplinary, even holistic approach. This conference, focusing mainly on the transdisciplinary approaches in research, is under the patronage of a great world thinker, founder and promoter of transdisciplinarity – professor Basarab Nicolescu, president of
“International Center for Transdisciplinary Reserach (C.I.R.E.T.)” located in Paris, France (http://nicol. club.fr/ciret/ indexen.html)
The Conference also hosts the workshop “Doxa Praxis Continuum and the Sustainable Regional Development” as a part of a possible future European project. Besides, education and curricular development may generate a real interest on transforming the education system into a creative and adaptive one.
A less developed country (Romania), an economic region that is ranked the last one not only in Romania but in the whole European Union (North-East Region), a relatively small town (Bacau) and a young and non-state funded university (George Bacovia University) may be considered as not being the most appropriate places to hold such a prestigious Conference. Our belief is that this particular position should be an extra-impetus for knowledge development, for exchanging new ideas and for promoting creativity and research all over Europe in order to reduce the gap between our continent and the United States.
Themes to be treated and many connected others:
Transdisciplinary Hermeneutics
Doxa Praxis Continuum and the Sustainable Regional Development (workshop)
Curricular development as a form of sustainable knowledge creation
(Re)defining the scope of economy
Choose a name: Economics, Political Economics or Political Economy
How political and moral is the economic field?
Disciplinarity, Interdisciplinarity and Transdisciplinarity in research
Management of information, knowledge and wisdom. Experiential management
Marketing of events: Experiential Marketing
Services Management and events management
Cultural studies in transnational economic contexts
Semiotics: semantics, syntax and pragmatics studies
Metaphors in management teaching
Social economics and social work
Financial (global) markets and asymmetric information
Tobin Tax and Islamic finances
Hospitability and tourism
Law and Moral dimension of businesses
Corporate Social Responsibility
Epistemic games and the new teaching methods
The game – based organizational culture in learning organizations
Cognitive theories and manipulating consumers’ behavior
From accountancy to accountability and responsibility
Ecology and Environment protection
Neuroeconomics, neurofinance, neuromarketing and neuromangement
Cognitive economics
From experimental to experiential economics
Any other connected fields, ideas and spheres are encouraged just in order to stimulate the transdisciplinary thinking. The organizing committee only have suggested/ proposed a number of themes that may become conference sections, provided that there are at least 3 papers on issues related to the theme.
Our colleagues/ participants willing to organize different sections on a proposed theme are invited to do so. Each section will have a chair person and a discussant that will analyze the papers in advance and will open discussions after each presentation. The participants are asked to bring hand outs, both for full paper and for power-point presentation. All accepted abstracts will be published on the conference site and in a book of abstracts.
Registration and participation criteria:
The registration of the participants: on-line, on the conference site www.ugb.ro/conferen ce2008
Fees and other costs
The conference fee is 80 euros. This includes information package within a Conference bag (Program, Book of abstracts, the last issue of the scientific journal of the university etc.). After the Conference the final form of papers will be collected, and all participants will receive a copy of the “Buletin Stiintific” journal with the papers that have been communicated. The fees should be sent to the George Bacovia University’s account: RO50BRDE040SV037215 40400. Hotel prices are from 40 to 60 euros per night. A special conference price is being negotiated.
Guidelines for the authors:
Papers which don’t comply with the formatting conditions described bellow will be returned to the authors and will only be taken into consideration for final reviewing when they fulfill the mentioned standards.
The papers must be written clearly, concise, without any ambiguities.
Page Setup: Text margins: bottom – 2.2 cm; right – 2 cm; top – 2cm; left – 2 cm; page format A4. The text will be written in single line spacing, justified alignment.
Where and when?
“George Bacovia” University is already a well known actor on the educational services market, organizing every year international/ inter-university conferences on the latest issues. The Conference will take place on June 17th – June 18th 2008 at the university headquarters.
(see www.ugb.ro/Conferen ce2008 )
Important dates & info
Deadline for submission of titles and abstracts: March 30, 2008
Deadline for submission of full paper: April 23, 2008
Acceptance notification: May 8, 2008
Deadline for payment of conference fee: May 15, 2008
Conference programme on web-site: May 25, 2008
Please follow the Conference info on www.ugb.ro/Conferen ce2008
How to arrive at Bacau:
International Airport Bucharest “Henri Coanda”
www.otp-airport. ro
E-mail: otp@...
Airport information: Telephone - +40/21/2041200, +40/21/2041210, +40/21/2044050
Bacau Airport
www.bacauairport. ro
E-mail: office@...
Airport information: Telephone - +40/234/575362, Fax - +40/234/575366
National Railway Company (CFR)
www.cfr.ro
E-mail: marketing.calatori@ ...
Timetable Services: www.mersultrenurilo rcfr.ro
Telephone: Bucharest - +40/21/3145528
Bacau - +40//234/546340
Hotels:
Decebal Hotel
www.decebalhotel. ro
Moldova Hotel
www.hotelmoldova- bacau.ro
E-mail: office@...
Telephone: +40/234/511514, Fax: +40/234/510181
Dumbrava Hotel
www.hoteldumbrava. ro
E-mail: office@...
Telephone: +40/234/513302
Contact persons:
Liviu Drugus: Tel: 073240158 liviusdrugus@ ... ;
Bianca Balaban: tel: 0766305878 biancabalaban@ ... ;
Organizing Committee
Toader Gherasim; Liviu Drugus; George Neamtu; Daniel Gherasim; Tatiana Puiu; Andreia Melnic; Viorica ; Sorinel Novac; Violeta Urban; Nicoleta Botez; Bianca Balaban; Laurentiu Novac; Adrian Lupascu; Daniela Bordeianu; Mihaela Mastacan; Radu Bucsa (web master bucsaradu@.. . )
Scientific Committee
Basarab Nicolescu (founding president of CIRET, Paris, Franta - http://nicol. club.fr/ciret/ indexen.html); Savvas Savvides (dean of the Faculty of Economics, Cyprus College, Nicosia, Cyprus, vicepresident of SPACE - http://www.space- eu.info/) Eiji Furuyama, (Nihobashi Gakkan University, Japan, president of ISINI, Boston, USA); Gerrit Meijer, (Wageningen University, The Netherlands, former president of ISINI); Lorenzo Magnani (Pavia University, Italia si Canton University, China); Thomas Thijssen (Academia Via Nova from Amsterdam, president of the European Reserach Area Committee from SPACE), Liviu Drugus (vicepresident of ISINI, Chancellor of the Senate of George Bacovia University, Bacau); Dumitru Bontas, (vicerector George Bacovia University, Bacau); Benone Pusca (rector of Danubius University, Galati); Radu Florea (George Bacovia University, Bacau); Barbu Ciochina (director of the Departament, George Bacovia, University Bacau).
Sponsorship/ sponsors:
Calls for papers will be sent to potential sponsors willing to offer financial support to our activity, having in return the possibility of distributing advertisement information both before the beginning of the session (on our web page), during the session (leaflets in the participants’ conference bags) and after the conference by publishing the ads in our scientific journal.
Postconference trip
The participants may take advantage of being in the North East Region of Romania (Moldova) by choosing an excursion of 2-3 days in the Northern part of the country. All those interested are kindly asked to express their wish and the Organizing Committee will arrange some possible routes. Visiting monasteries or historical monuments could be an option.
Looking forward to welcoming you here,
Best regards,
Liviu Drugus and Bianca Balaban
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