Idea of the University
Part of 'Whose University?' a two-day conference co-hosted by Birkbeck, GLITS and InC.
Location: 309, Richard Hoggart Building. Roundtable will take place in 306.
Cost: Free
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Department: Research Group in Philosophy (InC)
Time: 10 June 2011, 09:30 - 20:00
IDEA OF THE UNIVERSITY seeks to bring together philosophers and pedagogists to reflect on the question 'What is a university?' and interrogate this historically contested institution that disciplines cohabitate, demarcate and regulate in terms of their particular subject, social, economic and political positions.
The symposium will conclude with a Roundtable discussion open to all participants.
Confirmed speakers: Alexander Düttmann, Mary Evans, Gordon Finlayson, Roberto DiNapoli, Soo Tian Lee, Stephen Rowland, Anton Schutz
WHOSE UNIVERSITY? a symposium
In the wake of the government’s plans to drastically alter the funding of higher education, the very ethos of the university is undergoing transformation. At stake are learning for its own merit, the validity of disciplines, the forms of life there produced and the concept of academic freedom, all under scrutiny amidst concerns of value--monetary, societal, public and private.
The intention of this symposium is twofold: to defend the role of arts, humanities and social sciences in academic learning and to establish a discourse for the university as a public good beyond the well-rehearsed humanistic defences of the past and the emerging value-based discourses of the present.
IDEA OF THE UNIVERSITY is accompanied by RESISTANCE on 9 June.
This event is sponsored by the Graduate School and the Visual Cultures Department.