This talk will consider the recent trend in research towards projects which are 'collaborative' across academic disciplines. Is the richest future for research to broaden our canvas across disciplines, to truly share with the public through 'citizen-sourced' projects, communicating our research to a wider public using broadcast media?
Or might time be better spent questioning what modern interdisciplinarity is, interrogating the principles underlying collaborative research in the humanities? What value is there in a radically new model of collaboration which posits the value of conceptual, and not merely discursive, work across disciplines?
The speakers seek to debate these issues and tentatively to posit some radical solutions.
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