(University of Lancaster, UK)
We invite you to the first IAS International Conference, to be held at Lancaster University, 31 August-2 September 2006. The Conference is an opportunity to engage in interdisciplinary dialogue about the nature and future of the knowedge-based economy. Proposals for working papers or presentations within the Parallel Sessions of the Conference should be made in the form of abstracts of no more than 250 words to ias@lancaster.ac.uk by 14 July 2006.

Papers will be presented that engage critically with the knowledge-based economy in terms of different academic disciplines and interdisciplinary scholarship, different professional, practitioner and stakeholder interests, and policies and strategies that take the knowledge-based economy in one or another guise as their starting point. Indicative topics for papers and parallel sessions include:

Consumers and Consumption
Corporations in the Knowledge-Based Economy
Creative Industries and Cultural Policy (Session including invited speaker, Iain Bennett, Head of Creative Industries, NWDA)
Discourses and Narratives of the Knowledge-Based Economy (Session led by Professor Norman Fairclough)..detalii click sursa