GOVERNING ACADEMIC LIFE: PROVISIONAL PROGRAMME
Conference at the London School of Economics & The British Library
25th and 26th June 2014
Provisional Programme
(Some of the details below are subject to change, and more will be added later)
Website: http://www.governing-academic-life.org/provisional-programme/
Wednesday, 25th June
09.30-10.45: Refreshments
10.45-11.00: Welcome and opening remarks
11.00-12.30: Opening Plenary
Gurminder Bhambra (Warwick), ‘The Neoliberal Assault on the Public University’
Wendy Brown (Berkeley) ‘Between Shareholders and Stakeholders: University Purposes Adrift’
Mike Power (LSE) ‘Accounting for the Impact of Research’
12.30-13.30: Lunch
13.30-15.00: Parallel Sessions
A. (Anti-)Social Science, the neoliberal art of government, and higher education
John Holmwood (Nottingham) , ‘Neo-liberalism as a theory of knowledge and its implications for the social sciences and critical thought’
Nick Gane (Warwick), ‘Neoliberalism: How Should the Social Sciences Respond?’
Andrew McGettigan (Critical Education blog), ‘Human Capital in English Higher Education’
B. What is an author, now? Futures of scholarly communication and academic publishing
Roundtable discussion with Steffen Boehm (Essex), Christian Fuchs (Westminster), Gary Hall (Coventry), Paul Kirby (Sussex)
Chair: Jane Tinkler (LSE)
15.00-15.15: Refreshments
15.15-17.00: Parallel Sessions
A. Feminism and the knowledge factory
Convenor: Valerie Hey, Centre for Higher Education and Equity Research (CHEER, University of Sussex)
Barbara Crossouard (CHEER), ‘Materializing Foucault?’
Valerie Hey (CHEER), ‘Neo-Liberal Materialities and their Dissident Daughters’
Louise Morley (CHEER), ‘Researching the Future: Closures and Culture Wars in the Knowledge Economy’
B. Co-operative higher education
Convenor: Joss Winn (Lincoln)
Richard Hall, ‘Academic Labour and Co-operative Struggles for Subjectivity’
Mike Neary (Lincoln), ‘Challenging the Capitalist University’
Joss Winn (Lincoln), ‘The University as a Worker Co-operative’
Andreas Wittel (Nottingham Trent) ‘Education as a Gift’
18.15-20.00: Pay bar at Terrace Room, British Library
18.30-20.00: Remember Foucault? (Terrace Room, British Library)
Mitchell Dean (Copenhagen Business School), ‘Michel Foucault’s “apology” for neoliberalism’
Lois McNay (Oxford) ‘Foucault, Social Weightlessness and the Politics of Critique’
Chair: Peter Miller (LSE)
Thursday, 26th June
09.30- 11.00: Parallel Sessions
A. Governing academic freedom
Stephen J. Ball (Institute of Education: University of London) ‘Universities and “the economy of truth”’
Penny Jane Burke (Roehampton) and Gill Crozier (Roehampton), ‘Regulating Difference in Higher Education Pedagogies’
Rosalind Gill (City University), ‘The Psychic Life of Neoliberalism in the Academy’
B. Teaching the ungovernable: rethinking the student as public
Convenor: Carl Cederström (Stockholm Business School, Stockholm University)
Sam Dallyn (Manchester Business School, Manchester University), ‘Management Education: Critical Management Myopia and Searching for an Alternative Public’
Carl Cederström (Stockholm Business School, Stockholm University), ‘The Student as Public’
Matthew Charles (Institute for Modern and Contemporary Culture, University of Westminster), ‘The Ungovernable in Education: On Unintended Learning Outcomes’
Mike Marinetto (Cardiff Business School, Cardiff University), ‘The Ungovernable Syllabus: Social Science Fiction and the Creation of a Public Pedagogy’
11.00-11.30: Refreshments
11.30-13.00: Parallel Sessions
A. Measurement, management and the market university
Elizabeth Popp Berman (SUNY Albany), ‘Quantifying the Economic Value of Science: The Production and Circulation of U.S. Science & Technology Statistics’
Isabelle Bruno (University of Lille 2), ‘Quality management in education and research: an essay in genealogy’
Christopher Newfield (UC Santa Barbara), ‘The Price of Privatization’
B. Para-academic Practices: becoming ungovernable?
Convenor: Paul Boshears
Paul Boshears (European Graduate School; continent), ‘Rudderless Piloting, Unwavering Pivoting, Governing without Coercion’
Fintan Neylan (Dublin Unit for Speculative Thought), ‘The Logic of Para-Organisation’
Robert Jackson (Lancaster) ‘Para-academia and the Education of Grownups’
Eileen Joy (Punctum Books), ‘Amour Fou and the Clockless Nowever: Radical Publics’ (by weblink)
13.00-14.30: Lunch
14.30-16.45: Final Plenary: Beyond the Neoliberal Academy
Convenor: Des Freedman (Goldsmiths): Participants tbc.
16.45-17.00: Closing remarks
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