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Dear List Members,
On behalf of Katharina Eisch-Angus I would like to spread the word about
this conference on the transformation of European universities coming up in
Graz, Austria. Please find the conference program enclosed below, and as an
attachment. Thank you!
Kind regards,
Lydia Arantes
*Curiosity and Commitment *
*Cultural/Social Sciences and the Transformation of European Universities*
*A celebratory symposium for Helmut Eberhart*
*18 –19 October 2018, Graz, Austria*
*The international symposium addresses political transformations within
universities and their influence on academic everyday spaces, working
strategies and research motives from the 1970s to the present day.
Centrally the focus will be on investigating how the use of scientific
curiosity and responsibility in various European countries has been, and
will be, shaped by changed policies concerning university teaching,
research and funding. On the other hand, the question of how the potential
of a curious, socially responsible research can be used to productively
confront and counteract power-political transformations will be pursued.
Special attention will be paid to the transformation of European
universities into competitive enterprises in the global knowledge society
and to the conceptualization of knowledge production as an economic
activity and political tool. Keynote speeches and lectures will provide an
exploration into the heterogeneous university landscape of Europe with
insights into local as well as superregional challenges in the context of
"Maastricht", "Bologna" and the discussions about the neo-liberalization of
European universities. In the field of tension between "curiosity-driven
research" and "research driven by funding policy", the conference also
explicitly addresses the situation of teaching, and of young scientists in
an international context. *
*The reason for the symposium is the retirement of Prof. Dr. Helmut
Eberhart in autumn 2018. The scientific and university-political aspects of
an academic biography, living between curiosity and mission, prescribe the
temporal, thematic and sociopolitical guidelines of the conference.*
*All lectures will be simultaneously translated into English/German.*
*Program*
*Thursday*, 18.10.2018
13.00 *Greetings and keynote*
Helmut Konrad, Graz, Austria: *One step forward and one back. A dancing
course in university politics*
15.00–17.00 *Lectures*
Güldem Baykal Buyuksarac, Istanbul, Turkey: *On science, research ethics,
and politics: Revisiting applied anthropology in the neoliberal age*
Ulrika Wolf-Knuts, Turku, Finland: *Was everything better in the past?*
Jürgen Barkhoff, Dublin, Ireland: *Impact – dirty word or the salvation of
the Humanities?*
19.00–22.00 *Eulogy, ceremony with buffet*
*Friday,* 19.10.2018
10.00–13.00 *Lectures*
Britta Kalkreuter, Galashiels, UK: *Ideas or solutions? Pondering the
business of academic research*
Johannes Moser, Munich, Germany: *Elusive imaginations. The ‘restructuring’
of German universities from the perspective of European ethnology*
Sanja Potkonjak & Nevena Skrbic Alempijevic, Zagreb, Croatia: *Images of
utopia: University policies, academic practices & social changes *
Klaus Schönberger, Klagenfurt, Austria: *Cultural science between
educational demand and absolute university – questions to an applied
cultural science between creative industries and critical cultural analysis*
15.00–20.00 *Excursion to a pilgrimage site and Styrian wine bar*
*Location:*
Universitätszentrum Wall, Simultanübungsraum und Multifunktionsraum,
Merangasse 70, 8010 Graz, Austria
*Organisation: *Katharina Eisch-Angus, Barbara Frischling, Judith Laister,
Burkhard Pöttler, Johann Verhovsek
*Cooperation partners: *
*Institute for Cultural Anthropology and European Ethnology of Graz
University Department of Translation Studies Working Group Social Sciences
and Humanities (WG SSH) of the European university network COIMBRA*
*International
Doctoral Program ‚Transformations in European Societies‘*
*https://kulturanthropologie.uni-graz.at/
<https://kulturanthropologie.uni-graz.at/>*
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Univ.-Prof. Dr. Katharina Eisch-Angus
Institut für Kulturanthropologie & Europäische Ethnologie, Institutsleiterin
Institute for Cultural Anthropology & European Ethnology, Head of Institute
Karl-Franzens-Universität Graz
Attemsgasse 25/I, A 8010 Graz, Tel. +43 (0)316 380-2585
http://homepage.uni-graz.at/de/katharina.eisch-angus/
Im Erscheinen: K. Eisch-Angus: Absurde Angst. Narrationen der
Sicherheitsgesellschaft. Wiesbaden: Springer VS, 2018.
A. Schwell, K. Eisch-Angus: Der Alltag der (Un-)Sicherheit.
Ethnographisch-kulturwissenschaftliche Perspektiven auf die
Sicherheitsgesellschaft. Berlin: Panama, 2018.
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*Mag. Dr. phil. Lydia Maria Arantes*
Lendkai 37/5, 8020 Graz
Österreich / Austria
+43 650 5606696
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