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From: Maggie Humm [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: 12 October 2009 17:04
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Cc: Mica Nava
Subject: FW: academic independence: GUEST LIST
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The Centre for Cultural Studies Research at the University of East
London
and the University of Notre Dame London Centre
invite you to:
'Losing the War of Academic Independence:
Tales from the Trenches on Both Sides of the Atlantic'
a public lecture with David Gunkel and Paul A Taylor, authors of the
recent
Times Higher Education Supplement article 'Winning the War of
Independence'
on differences between higher education in the US and UK.
Friday 23rd October, 5.30-7.30pm
at
University of Notre Dame London Centre
1 Suffolk Street
London SW1Y 4HG
The lecture will be introduced by Ann Mroz and Greg Kucich and chaired
by
Mica Nava.
Refreshments will be served.
David J. Gunkel is Presidential Teaching Professor in the Department of
Communication at Northern Illinois University. He is author of Hacking
Cyberspace (2001) and Thinking Otherwise: Philosophy, Communication,
Technology (2007).
Paul A. Taylor is Senior Lecturer in the Institute of Communication
Studies
at the University of Leeds and has been a visiting scholar in US. He is
a
regular contributor to Radio 4 and author of Hackers: Crime in the
Digital
Sublime (1999) and the forthcoming Zizek and the Media.
Ann Mroz is editor of Times Higher Education.
Greg Kucich is director of the London Program, University of Notre Dame
in
England.
Mica Nava is co-director of the Centre for Cultural Studies Research,
University of East London, and author of Visceral Cosmopolitanism
(2007).
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