CRISES / ACADEMIA
Summer School by IGITI HSE and DOXA
1-4 July, 2019 (Moscow)
Deadline for applications: April 14, 2019
Our Summer School will be devoted to the analysis of changes in the university space over the past few decades. The ideological changes in the last decades, largely caused by the collapse of the bipolar world order, contributed to the revision of the idea of the academy as an instance of truth and trust and led to the crisis of the university idea. At the same time, all participants of the university have been subjected to the precarization of academic work and to the marketization of higher education and of science, which caused major changes in the functioning of the university space.
The starting point for the summer school is the question how universities and academics balance in the process of knowledge production between academic achievement, research autonomy and market / state orientation. We will focus on the Russian context, which has undergone significant changes over the last two decades, but we will also make a comparison with the post-Soviet experience and the experience of Western countries.
To do this, we will focus on following questions: What role do academic intellectuals play in modern societies, and how has this role changed over the past two decades? What are the models and patterns of academic structures, and how have they changed in the recent years? (here we will focus on different types of hierarchies, both between staff and between students and teachers) What is the role of student knowledge and student voice in the academy? What impact do different hierarchical models of universities have on students? In what form do safe and free spaces exist and can exist for students? Given the growing importance of non-academic knowledge, how did the relations between academic and non-academic knowledge change in the recent years, and what is the potential of the dialogue between these two knowledge forms?
School is going to be held on 1-4 July, 2019 in Moscow.
More info about the school: http://doxajournal.ru/events/crises2019_en
Apply to school until April, 14: https://goo.gl/forms/a5ODSrBhPQMBNrmZ2
Speakers: Jan Surman (HSE), Jana Bacevic (Cambridge University), Alexandr Rusanov (HSE), Armen Aramyan (MSSES), Alex Pleshkov (HSE), Ella Rossman (HSE), Frank Kariorus (Pittsburgh University, American University in Central Asia), Mark Carrigan (Cambridge University), Polina Kolozaridi (HSE), Anke Hennig (Berlin).