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>From: Anne Gray <[log in to unmask]>
>Subject: Fwd: Re: 3rd April mtg of Critical Academic Network
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>Notification of a potentially interesting and useful new network. Please
>attend the meeting if you can- the Wednesday after Easter public hols.
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>Please circulate this to friends and colleagues.
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>>Date: Tue, 19 Mar 2002 08:46:30 +0000 (GMT)
>>From: Rasheel Butt <[log in to unmask]>
>>Subject: Re: 3rd April mtg of Critical Academic Network
>>
>>
>>
>> > 3rd April mtg of Critical Academic Network
>> >
>> > This announcement should be circulated widely to
>> > anyone interested.
>> >
>> > The idea for a Critical Academic Network was floated
>> > at a conference on
>> > 'Thinking and Doing', held on 2nd March in
>> > Southampton. The conference
>> > led to an email discussion list and then to a
>> > proposal for a planning
>> > meeting. Both are open to all staff and activists
>> > at academic
>> > institutions, regardless of employment status.
>> >
>> > The meeting will be held as follows:
>> >
>> > 11am-6pm Weds 3rd April
>> > in the upstairs room at the
>> > Jorene Celeste Pub
>> > 256 Kentish Town Road
>> > London NW5
>> > Located two minutes walk southwards from Kentish
>> > Town tube station on the
>> > Northern Line;
>> > same as the Kentish Town rail station of the
>> > Thameslink line from Brighton
>> > to St Alban's.
>> >
>> > Admission free. No need to register -- just turn
>> > up.
>> >
>> > Tentative agenda
>> >
>> > 11am: Strategic issues, e.g.
>> > * how to draw on academic resources for contributing
>> > to wider political
>> > campaigns, and
>> > * how to oppose commercialization tendencies (and
>> > other oppressive
>> > practices) in their own institutions, while
>> > developing alternative
>> > practices which link with progressive forces within
>> > and beyond.
>> > Those two topics will start with brief introductory
>> > talks. The topics
>> > could run in sequence or in parallel, depending upon
>> > how many people
>> > attend the morning session.
>> >
>> > 1pm: lunch
>> > The meeting room is free of charge, but we are
>> > expected to buy lunch in
>> > the pub.
>> >
>> > 2pm: Organizational issues: what the network should
>> > try to do:
>> > * infrastructural issues: our collective name,
>> > statement of aims (see
>> > draft below), webpage, etc;
>> > * other activities essential for the network: future
>> > events which we
>> > organize or in which we intervene, circulation of
>> > critical texts, our own
>> > collective publications, mass-media contacts, etc.;
>> > * activities optional for the network or which we
>> > could spawn: statements
>> > on specific issues (e.g. the Zionist occupation of
>> > Palestine, NATO-US-UK
>> > terrorism, etc.), a War Crimes Tribunal focusing on
>> > the UK government,
>> > intervention at the European Social Forum in
>> > November in Italy, etc.
>> >
>> > 4pm: Small work-groups which take responsibility
>> > for specific tasks,
>> > followed by a report-back to the entire meeting.
>> >
>> > Possible list of aims:
>> > 1) to coordinate debate on how academic resources
>> > and skills can best
>> > comment on political issues, contribute to protest
>> > campaigns, and help to
>> > build alternative practices;
>> > 2) to attack higher-education trends towards
>> > commercial dependence,
>> > marketization, neoliberal agendas, standardization,
>> > etc.;
>> > 3) to clarify ways to design research for those
>> > purposes;
>> > 4) to catalyse a network of academic networks;
>> > 5) to intervene in relevant events (e.g. academic or
>> > overtly political
>> > conferences) and to hold our own events.
>> >
>> > Hope to see you there,
>> > Anne Gray and Les Levidow
>> >
>> > If you would like to take part in an email
>> > discussion of ideas for the
>> > network, then send a message to
>> > [log in to unmask]
>> >
>>
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