The Counter-University. Histories, Movements, and Ambitions

The Counter-University. Histories, Movements, and Ambitions

Veranstalter
Susanne Schregel / Detlef Siegfried, Institut for Engelsk, Germansk og Romansk (Engerom), University of Copenhagen
Veranstaltungsort
Søndre Campus, Building/Room 4A.1.68.
Gefördert durch
Carlsberg Foundation; University of Copenhagen
PLZ
2300
Ort
Copenhagen
Land
Denmark
Findet statt
In Präsenz
Vom - Bis
12.02.2025 - 14.02.2025
Deadline
05.02.2025
Von
Susanne Schregel, Institut for Engelsk, Germansk og Romansk (Engerom), Universität Kopenhagen

International Conference

University of Copenhagen, February 12–14, 2025

The Counter-University. Histories, Movements, and Ambitions

Creating autonomous and self-organised 'counter-universities' is a powerful tool for developing critiques of higher education and imagining potentially more fulfilling approaches to knowledge production. Bringing together scholars from history, art (history), cultural studies, sociology and other disciplines interested in the history and present of the counter-university, this conference serves to share research and perspectives on this significant but under-researched transnational phenomenon.

All are welcome to participate for individual panels or the whole conference. Please register by February 5, 2025, to assure there is enough space and plenty of coffee, by sending an e-mail to susanneschregel(a)hum.ku.dk.

Programm

Wednesday, February 12, 2025

14.00–14.30 Susanne Schregel, Detlef Siegfried (Copenhagen), Welcome and Introduction: The Counter-University. Histories, Movements, and Ambitions

Forms and Practices, I: Imagining and Building the Counter-University
Chair: Friedrich Cain, Vienna

14.30–15.15 Tobias Dias (Aarhus), The Inside is the Outside: The Political Aesthetics of Artist-led Universities

15.15–16.00 Nadiia Chervinska (Vienna), Counter-Universities in Times of Crisis: A Case Study of the Invisible University for Ukraine

Histories of the Counter-University, I: The 1960s and early 1970s
Chair Nikolaj Bjerggaard Olesen, Copenhagen

16.30–17.15 Benjamin Serby (Garden City, NY), Gay Liberation and the Free University Movement in the United States, 1965–1974

17.15–18.00 Lukas Biehler (Duisburg-Essen), Kritische Universität Berlin 1967/68: Democratising Society through Democratising University?

Thursday, February 13, 2025

Forms and Practices, II: The 1960s and early 1970s
Chair: Kasper Opstrup Frederiksen, Copenhagen

9.30–10.15 Lara Track (Heidelberg), Teach-Ins in the Context of the Counter-University. The Ann Arbor Teach-In of 1965

10.15–11.00 Sina Brückner-Amin (Karlsruhe), Radicalism’s Frontier: UC Irvine, The Farm, and the Quest for Institutionalised Dissidence

11.00–11.45 Barbara Hof, Loic Jeanson (Lausanne), Parallel Universes at the University: Science and the Controversy over the Vietnam War

Histories of the Counter-University, II: Art / Histories
Chair: Tobias de Fønss Wung-Sung, Copenhagen

13.00–13.45 Eszter Lázár (Budapest), Student Affairs During Art School Occupations (London 1968/Hungary 1990)

13.45–14.30 Susanne Schregel (Copenhagen), The “Free International University for Creativity and Interdisciplinary Research” (FIU). Or: Beuys in Context

14.30–15.15 Deborah Laks (Paris), Learning with Christian Boltanski

Histories of the Counter-University, III: The 1970s and 1980s
Chair: Jes Fabricius Møller, Copenhagen

15.30–16.15 Jonathan Lahey Dronsfield (Prague), Secret Universities under Communism as Counter-Institutions

16.15–17.00 Detlef Siegfried (Copenhagen), Against Theory. Experiencing the World in Danish and West German Travelling Universities to Africa and Asia, 1969–1985

Friday, February 14, 2025

Forms and Practices, III: Ecology and Space-Building Between the 1960s and Today
Chair: Amy Hart, Davis

9.00–9.45 Gregor Kanitz, David Sittler (Düsseldorf), Bio-Diversity of the Institution

9.45–10.30 Sarah Pogoda (Bangor, Wales), Treesense Experimental School – Treefysgol or Trivial?

10.30–11.15 Gerko Egert (Bochum), Building Learning Spaces – Learning Building Spaces

Counter-Universities Today: Social Conflicts of the Present
Chairs: Susanne Schregel and Detlef Siegfried, Copenhagen

11.30–12.15 Olga Schubert (Vienna), Monstrous Complicities – Self Organized Anti-Academies in the Arts around 2000

12.15–13.00 Ton Matton (Rotterdam), the potemkin academy lecturetour

14.00–14.45 Ella Rossman (London), Jan Surman (Prague), Antiuniversity Moscow – Possibilities of Innovation under Putinism

14.45–15.30 Final Discussion and Conclusion

Kontakt

susanneschregel(a)hum.ku.dk

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