The Settler Coloniality of Free Speech Dr. Darcy Leigh2 December 202213:00 – 15:00Cambridge Public and scholarly debates surrounding free speech often assume free speech is a public good and/or should be approached as a problem of “drawing the line” between free and regulated or benign and harmful speech. In contrast, Dr. Leigh provides a genealogy…
Authorial power, authoritarianism, and exiled intellectuals: Syria and Turkey Dr. Zeina al Azmeh and Professor Jo-Anne Dillabough28 October 202213:00 – 15:00Cambridge/Online In this seminar, Zeina Al Azmeh and Jo Dillabough draw upon data collected from Turkish and Syrian academics living in exile to pose the following overarching question: how does a crisis of the state…
Moral Authority and the Academy under Attack: The Case of #Boğaziçidireniyor at Boğaziçi University Dr. Elizabeth Buckner24 June 202214:00 – 16:00Cambridge/Online In this talk, Dr Elizabeth Buckner focuses on the question of how universities respond to authoritarian attacks on their autonomy through a close reading of faculty protests over rector appointments at Boğaziçi University (BU)…
Civic death as a mechanism of retributive punishment: Academic purges in Turkey Dr. Seçkin Sertdemir Özdemir20 May 202212:00 – 14:00 Cambridge/Online In an era when authoritarian governments increasingly target academics, Turkey’s 2016 purge of more than 6,000 academics and their diminution to civic death is conspicuous in its cruelty. Although unprecedented, this is not the first…
Globalisation, Culture and Higher Education Professor Susan L Robertson, Mariano Rosenzvaig & Dr. Elizabeth Maber18 March 202212:00 – 14:00 Cambridge/Online In this presentation we ask: what does it mean to take ‘the cultural turn’ seriously, and in our case, to engage it in research on globalisation and higher education? We argue that this involves adding…
Higher education, conflict and crisis: The ‘publicness’ of the national university in Lebanon Dr. Helen Murray25 February 202213:00 – 15:00 Cambridge/Online For a long time, higher education has been absent from research and policy priorities in the field of education, conflict and peacebuilding. This is now changing but it remains within an economic paradigm that…
Education, Conflict & Crisis: From Critique to Transformation Professor Mario Novelli 22 October 202112:00 – 14:00 Cambridge/Online Whilst the current COVID19 pandemic has brought home to many citizens in the Global North the fragility of their existence, including a lack of resilience in education systems and exacerbation of widespread learning inequalities, in the Global South this is but one more…
Higher Education, Violent Modernities and the ‘Global Present’: The Paradox of Politics and New Populist Imaginaries in HE Professor Jo-Anne Dillabough10 September 202111:00 – 12:30Geneva/Online A Keynote Address for the 2021 annual conference at the European Educational Research Association Higher Education constitutes a space that calls urgently for new understandings in the contemporary political moment….