How do changing access policies to research infrastructures and resources resonate broader political framework conditions? To what extent is the question of access a matter of persisting global inequalities and emerging strategic partnerships? How do the concepts of fairness and equity come into play when debating access to resources and access to infrastructures? 

These are questions we aim to adress in an interdisciplinary workshop organised by the Pufendorf IAS in cooperation with MAX IV Photon Source at Lund University.

The event starts with an open seminar/talk within the framework of Pufendorf & Friends. This is a series of open discussions and After Works for researchers, providing a forum for informal meetings across all discipline- and faculty boundaries.

The workshop is open to all and free of charge. Day 1 is an opening event without registration (se separate post in calendar here). Registration for Day 2 is however necessary (please note that a no-show penalty of 300 SEK will apply to registered participants who fail to cancel their registration - we will however accept last-minute cancellations and a reminder will be sent to all registered participants beforehand).

Please register for the workshop here

Programme June 1st

16.00 -18.00 Pufendorf&Friends: Mining in the Ecuadorian Amazon and indigenous communities: why research collaborations matter Leonardo Leonel Cerda Tapuy (Principal Director - Founder of Hakhu Amazon Foundation)

Programme June 2nd (tentative)

9:00 – 9:15     Welcome Stacey Ristinmaa Sörensen (Director of the Pufendorf Institute for Advanced Studies) and Franz Hennies (Head of User Office at MAX IV Photon Source, Lund University)

9:15 – 9:45     Introduction Aysegül Sirakaya (Postdoctoral Researcher at the Faculty of Law, Lund University) and Katharina C. Cramer (Guest Researcher at Lund University and Senior Fellow at Center for Advanced Security, Strategic and Integration Studies, University of Bonn)

9:45 – 10:30   Swedish Science for Life Laboratory (SciLifeLab) Explained Markus Heidenblad and Heidi Howard (Lund University)

10:30 – 10:45 Coffee break 

10:45 – 11:30 Significance of Structural Biology for Africa Emmanuel Nji (Cofounder of BioStruct-Africa and Research Fellow (CREATES) Strathmore University, Nairobi)

11:30 – 12:15 Ten Simple Rules for Global North Researchers to Stop Perpetuating Helicopter Research in the Global South Danny Haelewaters (Department of Biology, Ghent University)

12:15 – 13:30 Lunch

13:30 – 14:15 Access to Research Infrastructures: A European Perspective Nicolas Rüffin (Center for Advanced Security, Strategic and Integration Studies, University of Bonn)

14:15 – 15:00 Network Epistemology and Collective Consent Adrian Wüthrich (History and Philosophy of Modern Science, Technical University Berlin)

15:00 – 15:15 Coffee Break

15:15 – 16:00 to be announced

16:00 – 17:00 Roundtable discussion

17:15-  Concluding remarks and thank you!