INVITATION to events on TUES 10 FEB and WED 11 FEB - UMTHOMBO PUBLIC LECTURE and PANEL DISCUSSION, at University of the Witwatersrand
PUBLIC LECTURE - Psychosocial Studies: Beyond Academic Boundaries, Connecting with Politics
The School of Human & Community Development and the African Centre for Migration & Society will present the Umthombo Public Lecture. Visiting Professor of Psychology, Ian Parker, from the University of Leicester will deliver a lecture on his paper that explores the contributions and limitations of psychoanalytic ideas in the new field of psychosocial research and implications for politics. Psychoanalysis offers a framework for reading in order that the researcher may better attend to the forms of subjectivity circulating in the text. The contribution of Lacanian approaches to the unconscious and politics is reviewed, and an argument is made for an approach to discourse that attends to psychoanalysis rather than an approach that presumes it.
Date: Tuesday 10 February 2015
Time: 12:30 to 14:00
Venue: Emthonjeni Centre Auditorium, East Campus, Wits University
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Biography
Prof Ian Parker, University of Leicester, is a leading international scholar who has published prolifically in the fields of psychoanalysis, psychology and social theory, with a particular focus on discourse, critical psychology, mental health and political practice. Most recently, he is the author of six books on the crisis, deconstruction, discourse and psychoanalysis in the series Psychology after Critique (Routledge, 2015) and of the second edition of Critical Discursive Psychology (Palgrave, 2015).
PANEL DISCUSSION – Research, the University and the Knowledge Economy
The School of Human & Community Development and the African Centre for Migration & Society will present this panel discussion. The 21st century has ushered in a new architecture for the production and consumption of the world’s claims to knowledge. Increasing demands for ‘innovation’ and scientific responses to a host of developmental challenges have focused the spotlight on research and development by governments across the globe. The university is expected to deliver return on state investment through teaching and research, with an increasing emphasis on the quantity of both graduates and publications. These local and global pressures require rethinking historical notions of the academic project, the goals of scholarship and questions of quality. Universities, including Wits, have begun to implement new systems for managing knowledge production. These systems include a move towards competitive ratings for academics, increased incentivisation for research and the installation of a strong performance management culture. This panel will turn a critical lens on these developments, debating the merits, challenges and sustainability of the university’s response within the rapidly aggregating demand for delivery in an increasingly 'knowledge thirsty' world.
Prof Ian Parker, University of Leicester, UK: Managing the Academy
Dr Robin Drennan, Director of Research, Wits: Living and Working in an increasingly quantified knowledge economy: a pragmatic approach
Prof Raimi Gbadamosi, ASAWU President, Wits: Time to Gaze out the Window
Date: Wednesday 11 February 2015
Time: 12:30 to 14:00
Venue: Humanities Graduate Seminar Room, South West Engineering Building, East Campus, Wits University
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