Dear Colleagues
You are very welcome to come along to the event below..
Discourses of Dissent: Social Theory and Political Resistance
Wednesday 16th February, 2011, 1:30pm-6:30pm
Birmingham & Midland Institute, Margaret Street, Birmingham, B3 3BS
1: Social Theory and the Politics of Austerity
- Ruth Levitas—University of Bristol The necessity of utopian thinking
- Sasha Roseneil—Birkbeck, University of London Criticality, not paranoia: Registers of critical social theory
- Karen Rowlingson—University of Birmingham, Why doesn’t the British public seem to care about inequality or the cuts in public spending?
2: Envisioning Public Universities and Public Futures
- Steve Fuller—University of Warwick, What are we defending when we defend public universities?
- John Holmwood—University of Nottingham, The idea of the public
- Dan Hind—Author and media reform campaigner, Media Reform and the Public University
Register online: www.discoursesofdissent.com
£10 waged, £5 unwaged / student
(includes tea/coffee and wine reception)
All the best
Karen Rowlingson
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