Please contact Frances Thompson if you would like to attend.
John
> Office Hours: Activism and Change in the Academy
> The C-SAP Annual Lecture 2005
> 5pm, 7th June, The Barber Institute, University of Birmingham
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> Who is shaping the future of our universities? What role can we play? In this thought-provoking analysis of academic activism in US Higher Education, Professor Cary Nelson demonstrates how scholars and students have challenged the excesses of the corporate university. From working to reform disciplinary associations to alternative teaching, training and employment practices, his examples offer inspiration in these troubling times.
> Cary Nelson is Jubilee Professor of Liberal Arts and Sciences at the University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana, and Vice-President of the American Association of University Professors. The co-author, with Stephen Watts, of the book Office Hours: Activism and Change in the Academy (2004), he has published widely on the cultural politics of higher education and on cultural studies. His numerous edited and co-authored works include Academic Keywords: A Devil's Dictionary For Higher Education (1999), Disciplinarity and Dissent in Cultural Studies (2002), Higher Education under Fire (1995), Cultural Studies (1992), and Marxism and the Interpretation of Culture (1989). He is also widely known for his scholarship on the poetry of the modern American left.
> Lecture to be followed by reception and drinks. Free Admission to all, but please let us know if you wish to attend, by filling in the booking form or emailing [log in to unmask] <mailto:[log in to unmask]> Hosted by Sociology, Anthropology, Politics (C-SAP), part of the Higher Education Academy.
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