Time: May 18^th, 2021, at 14.00-15.30 Central European Summer Time (CEST) (UTC+2)

Place: A Zoom-link will be shared with the participants closer to the event

Abstract

This webinar is to discuss the book Enacting the University (Springer 2020) and its longitudinal and multi-sited ethnography of Danish university reform. After two decades of debate in national and international forums, a University Law in 2003 started a further two decades of reforms to Danish universities. The book juxtaposes two meanings of 에볼루션 카지노 웹사이트˜enactment에볼루션 카지노 웹사이트™: a top-down view based on laws and institutional power and a bottom-up view of multiple actors, such as students, academics and managers, who shape the university in day-to day life.

The book에볼루션 카지노 웹사이트™s challenge is to analyse the university as multiple 에볼루션 카지노 웹사이트˜congeries of small acts에볼루션 카지노 웹사이트™ whilst also seeing the emergence of new shapes in the formation of the university and its staging in the world.  It does this by tracing 에볼루션 카지노 웹사이트˜telling moments에볼루션 카지노 웹사이트™ when contestations between different ideas about the purpose and organisation of the university come to a head and new ways of acting are instituted, around which subsequent events turn.

By tracing the ways that the meaning and practice of 에볼루션 카지노 웹사이트˜freedom에볼루션 카지노 웹사이트™, 에볼루션 카지노 웹사이트˜openness에볼루션 카지노 웹사이트™, 에볼루션 카지노 웹사이트˜self-ownership에볼루션 카지노 웹사이트™, 에볼루션 카지노 웹사이트˜co-ownership에볼루션 카지노 웹사이트™ and 에볼루션 카지노 웹사이트˜participation in decision making에볼루션 카지노 웹사이트™ have been transformed and the ways 에볼루션 카지노 웹사이트˜strategic leaders에볼루션 카지노 웹사이트™, 에볼루션 카지노 웹사이트˜academic subjects에볼루션 카지노 웹사이트™ and 에볼루션 카지노 웹사이트˜student figures에볼루션 카지노 웹사이트™ have been negotiated and enacted, the book avoids a totalising  picture of the reform process. Instead, by seeing universities as contested spaces, continually re-enacted by a range of agents, the book ends by advocating university members adopt a politically reflexive stance to seek out ways to actively contest and shape the university into the future. 

Programme

• Brief presentation by the authors 
  • 14.00 Susan Wright, Gritt B. Nielsen and John B. Krejsler (에볼루션카지노 Aarhus University), Stephen Carney (RUC) and  Jakob Williams Ørberg, (Innovation Centre Denmark, New Delhi)
• Reviews of the book
  • 14.15 Sharon Rider, Distinguished Professor, Department of Philosophy, Uppsala University and co-editor of World Class Universities. A Contested Concept (Springer 2020).
  • 14.30 Paul Stubbs, Senior Research Fellow, Institute of Economics Zagreb and former Co-President of t, American Anthropological Association. Co-author of Making Policy Move (Policy Press 2015)
  • 14.45 Alan Irwin, Professor in the Department of Organization, Copenhagen Business School and co-author of (Informations Forlag, 2018).
• Discussion
  • 15.00 Open to participants