Event overview
Part of 'Whose University?' a two-day conference co-hosted by Birkbeck, GLITS and InC.
RESISTANCE is an interdisciplinary event that will foster debate on the current crisis in higher education, broadly based around the themes of Creation, Action and Critique. Why is the study of arts, humanities and social sciences indispensable? How are such fields crucial to critical reflection on human values and principles? What are the most effective modes of resisting the changes to higher education? What is the relationship between theoretical critique and political activism?
Confirmed speakers: Nina Power, Alberto Toscano, Peter de Bolla, Priyamvada Gopal, Andrew McGettigan, Simon Szreter, Sarah Wood, Sam Riviere, Luke Wright, University for Strategic Optimism, Stewart Motha, Simon Hewitt, Louise Purbick
http://www.gold.ac.uk/resistance/
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.
RESISTANCE is accompanied by IDEA OF THE UNIVERSITY on 10 June. http://www.gold.ac.uk/calendar/?id=4545
Dates & times
| Date | Time | Add to calendar |
|---|---|---|
| 9 Jun 2011 | 9:30am - 6:00pm |
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