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SUMMARY:War on universities? Knowledge production\, neoliberalism\, and cr
 itique - Jana Bacevic (University of Cambridge)
DTSTART:20181026T163000Z
DTEND:20181026T173000Z
UID:TALK113107@talks.cam.ac.uk
CONTACT:Steve Watson
DESCRIPTION:Past decades have been marked by profound changes in the relat
 ionship between universities and the state\, including the introduction of
  tuition fees\, performance-based research funding (such as the REF)\, and
  reduction of employment security. Critics have described these trends as 
 an all-out attack or ‘war’ on the university\; a flurry of recent or r
 elatively recent publications and other intellectual interventions\, in th
 e UK as well as\, to a lesser degree\, in the US\, talks about the end or 
 death of\, or at the very least need to mount a defense of\, the public un
 iversity. \n\nThis talk presents a sociological reading of the relationshi
 p between the transformation of the conditions of knowledge production and
  this genre of critique. Rather than assuming that critique stands ‘outs
 ide’ society or is immune to the very conditions it sets out to describe
 \, it draws on sociology of knowledge and political economy to discuss som
 e of the tensions inherent in the relationship between epistemic positioni
 ng and modes of knowledge production in late liberalism.  \n\nJana Bacevic
  is a sociologist and an anthropologist. She works on social theory\, soci
 ology of knowledge\, and politics of knowledge production\; she has publis
 hed widely on politics of knowledge\, in particular in relation to regimes
  such as late socialism or transition to capitalism. Prior to coming to Ca
 mbridge\, Jana was a Research associate at the University of Aarhus in Den
 mark\, and Lecturer at the Central European University in Hungary. She als
 o has experience in policy advising for a range of governmental and non-go
 vernmental organisations. \n
LOCATION:Gatsby Room \, Wolfson College
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