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If We Would Have New Knowledge, We Must Get a Whole World of New Questions” Susanne K “ If we would have new knowledge, we must get a whole world of new questions” Susanne K. Langer Within a one-mile radius of The Knowledge Quarter brings Kings Cross is a remarkable together over 85 cultural, CONTENTS cluster of organisations research, scientific, business spanning research, higher and academic institutions education, science, art, both large and small under 01 The Conference culture and media. one umbrella. Positioning The Conference 05 the area as unique in the Event Programme 06 Individually they offer knowledge economy. It has resources for specialists become a recognisable brand that resonates with all kinds of 02 KQ Sessions knowledge seekers, whether Session Listings 08 - 11 prospective visitors, UK and overseas students or other 03 Partner Sessions knowledge based institutions Introd uction and businesses. Session Listings 12 - 21 in numerous fields, from The Knowledge Quarter 04 Speakers architecture and the arts to fosters knowledge exchange To the Keynote speakers 22 biotechnology and veterinary and collaboration between science. Together they staff and users of cross- KQ session speakers 23 Knowledge represent a concentration disciplinary communities to of knowledge and expertise exchange ideas, expertise Partner session speakers 26 Quarter to rival any in the world. and evidence. Developing What links them all is a focus networks to encourage 05 Sponsors on the advancement and collaborative projects, training, Sponsor info 30 dissemination of knowledge commissioned research and for research, inspiration, access to funding, engaging a growth, creativity and wide variety of audiences and enjoyment. benefiting the local research community. 3 01 THE CONFERENCE THE CONFERENCE 01 he Knowledge Quarter is How can the knowledge economy marking its third anniversary respond when facts are conflated with Twith a one-day Conference of quick-fire internet memes, when slick talks and workshops on the future presentation is more highly valued of Knowledge in an age of untruth. than genuine content, when the very A diverse range of speakers from notion of authentic truth has been across the fields of politics, media, devalued by the rolling news cycle and philosophy and academia will the dismissive cynicism of pseudo- convene today for one inspiring and science and special interest ‘facts’? provocative day of keynote talks, discussion groups and workshops, What, in short, is the future of looking at Knowledge in all its forms. Knowledge the concept, Knowledge 01 the ideal and Knowledge the Knowledge may be the last quantifiable resource? imperishable currency, but it’s a currency under threat of devaluation. Join us today as we explore these and From expertise to echo-chambers many more crucial questions and look and from fact to falsehood ‘The to ensure the future of Knowledge Future of Knowledge’ will mine the both at home and in an increasingly uncertainty that underpins our anxious uncertain wider world. age, exploring the challenges that face the knowledge economy in the early In addition to an inspirational day of The twenty-first Century. talks, Poet in the City has programmed a poet to be a journalist-spy, soaking What does it mean to be an ‘expert’ up and reflecting on the discussions when the sheer scale of information throughout the day to create poetic available in this connected world has chronicles which will be presented made us all curators of a vast bank after the closing remarks. Conference of almost endless data, providing the answers to even the most obscure queries with nothing more than a tap and a swipe? 4 5 CONFERENCE PROGRAMME 01 9:00 Registration 13:30–14:00 Afternoon Keynote Open all day Vivian Hunt, Managing Partner, UK and Ireland, McKinsey & Company BP Lecture Theatre 9:30–9:45 Welcome 14:00–15:00 KQ Panel Session Pg 10 Roly Keating, Chief Executive of the British Library and Chair, Knowledge Quarter The role of the Knowledge Translator BP Lecture Theatre BP Lecture Theatre 9:45–10:15 Opening Plenary 15:00–15:15 Break Jo Johnson MP, Minister for London and Minister of State for Transport 15:15–16:00 Parallel Session Pg 18 BP Lecture Theatre The future of knowledge through the eyes of the future Presented by Regent High School 10:15–10:45 Morning Keynote BP Lecture Theatre Baroness Valerie Amos, Director, SOAS University of London BP Lecture Theatre Parallel Session Pg 19 Publishing Knowledge: Have we had enough of experts? 10:45–11:45 KQ Panel Session Pg 09 Presented by Pan Macmillan Claus Moser Room The role of the Knowledge Creator BP Lecture Theatre Parallel Session Pg 20 11:45–12:00 Break Mary’s Hand – curating historical fact as creative fiction Presented by McCaldin Arts The Hugh and Catherine Stevenson Lecture Theatre 12:00–12:45 Parallel Session Pg 13 Academic Expertise: the good, the bad and the ugly Presented by Warwick in London Parallel Session Pg 21 The Raymond and Beverly Sackler Rooms Reading Well: redefining the role of the expert through co-production Presented by The Reading Agency The Raymond and Beverly Sackler Rooms Parallel Session Pg 14 Heritage collections and wellbeing: the future of the past? Presented by Senate House Library, University of London 16:00–16:15 Break The Hugh and Catherine Stevenson Lecture Theatre Conference Programme 16:15–17:15 KQ Panel Session Pg 11 The role of the Knowledge Consumer Parallel Session Pg 15 BP Lecture Theatre The Face of Knowledge Presented by Pan Macmillan Claus Moser Room 17:15–17:45 Closing Remarks Roly Keating, Chief Executive of the British Library and Chair, Knowledge Quarter Parallel Session Pg 16 BP Lecture Theatre Whose knowledge is it anyway? Presented by Wellcome Trust 17:45–17:55 Poet in Chronicler BP Lecture Theatre Keisha Thompson BP Lecture Theatre 12:45–13:30 Lunch 18:15–20:00 Drinks Reception The Knowledge Quarter: Three Years On celebration and Essays launch Egyptian Sculpture Gallery *Programme correct as of 29 January 2018 6 7 KQ SESSIONS 02 The Role Of The Knowledge Creator We are told that people have had Chaired by: Time: SESSIONS KQ enough of experts. We are told that Juliette Morgan 10:45-11:45 our learning institutions are ivory Head of Campus, British Land towers, heady realms divorced from 12:00–12:45 Speakers: the realities of daily life. We are 14:00–15:00 told that facts are contingent, that Dr David Halpern 15:15–16:00 knowledge is a flexible commodity, Chief Executive, Behavioural 16:15-17:15 that the very notion of ‘truth’ belongs Insights Team to a past age. But is any of this really Dr Hartwig Fischer true, and if it is, what can the creators Director, British Museum Room: of knowledge do to stem the rising tide Professor Philip Nelson BP Lecture of distrust and ignorance? Chief Executive, EPSRC and Chair Theatre of the RCUK Executive Group As research methodologies evolve Professor Dame Nancy Rothwell and mutate, as greater and greater This session President & Vice-Chancellor, is delivered by: communication is made possible The University of Manchester between institutions, and new methods emerge for communicating Claire Fox knowledge to the wider public, what Director, Institute of Ideas can knowledge creators do to make up the lost ground of the much-vaunted ‘post-truth’ era? What does the future hold, not only for the creation of knowledge, but for the whole process of seeking, and learning, and giving the power of knowledge to society at large? PARTNER SESSIONS PARTNER 9 02 KQ SESSIONS KQ SESSIONS 02 The Role Of The The Role Of The Knowledge Translator Knowledge Consumer The medium, says McLuhan, is Chaired by: Time: Ultimately, all of the questions Chaired by: Time: SESSIONS KQ the message, but when the media David Adam 10:45-11:45 posed in today’s panels come down to Theo Blackwell 10:45-11:45 are in a state of constant evolution, Author and Editor, Nature one thing: the people. It is the people Chief Digital Officer, GLA are we in danger of losing sight of 12:00–12:45 whose trust knowledge creators must 12:00–12:45 Speakers: Speakers: that message? The 2016 referendum, 14:00–15:00 nurture, it is the people who consume 14:00–15:00 Shelina Janmohamed and the general election of 2017, saw 15:15–16:00 the media, and whose relationship to Tiffany Watt Smith 15:15–16:00 what appeared to be a seismic shift in Author, Commentator and Journalist truth and knowledge is under attack. Researcher and Author, Centre for the 16:15-17:15 16:15-17:15 the consumption and distribution of David Olusoga But is there something more to be History of the Emotions (Queen Mary political discussion; the mainstream Historian, Broadcaster and considered, here? Is it not possible University of London) news media were largely ignored, and BAFTA award-winning presenter Room: that the people are in fact not merely Lisa Feldman Barrett Room: likes and shares emerged as the new and filmmaker BP Lecture passive consumers, but rather a living, Professor of Psychology at BP Lecture arbiters of truth. Sarah Baxter Theatre breathing commons with something to Northeastern University and Author Theatre Deputy Editor, The Sunday Times contribute to the future of knowledge? Mariam Khan What, then, is the future for the Sally Adee Social Media Activist sharing of knowledge via the media? This session Perhaps we should not be asking what This session Former Technology Editor, is delivered by: Amber Perrier is delivered by: When the journalistic consensus we can do to help the people, but New Scientist Community Engagement Assistant, moves increasingly into the hands of what the people can do to help us, The British Library the public, how can we ensure that and each other.
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