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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/>* -- 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. -- *Mag. Dr. phil. Lydia Maria Arantes* Lendkai 37/5, 8020 Graz Österreich / Austria +43 650 5606696 ************************************************************* * Anthropology-Matters Mailing List * http://www.anthropologymatters.com * * A postgraduate project comprising online journal, * * online discussions, teaching and research resources * * and international contacts directory. * * To join this list or to look at the archived previous * * messages visit: * * https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/Anthropology-Matters * * If you have ALREADY subscribed: to send a message to all * * those currently subscribed to the list,just send mail to: * * [log in to unmask] * * * * Enjoyed the mailing list? 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