- Theoretical, technological and other infrastructures being developed to support the emergence and enactment of publics;
- Projects that problematize, reimagine and rework social and power relations;
- Forms of collaborative knowledge production that bring together diverse actors within/beyond the university.
Programme
11.00-11.15 Welcome and introductions
Jef Huysmans (CCIG Director), Karim Murji (Enactments research programme), Nick Mahony & Hilde Stephansen (Creating Publics project)
11.15-12.45 Re-enacting the public university
Professor Rebecca Boden (University of Roehampton): Rethinking an “open university”‘, embedding the academy in a social economy
Dr Joel Lazarus (People’s Political Economy and University College, Oxford): An analysis of the recent flourishing of critical education initiatives in the UK: critical education at the heart of social transformation
12.45-13.30 Lunch
13.30-15.15 Co-production and the making of public knowledge
Dr Morag McDermont (University of Bristol): Productive Margins? Problematics of academics and community organisations co-producing research
Dr Aristea Fotopoulou & Dr Kate O’Riordan (University of Sussex): Sustaining networked knowledge: expertise, feminist media production, art and activism
Dr Nick Mahony & Dr Hilde Stephansen (Open University): Making participation public: building agendas and sites for collective action
15.15-16.00 Tea/coffee and collective reflections on the day
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