What should universities be?
The Centre for Applied Philosophy, Politics & Ethics (CAPPE) at the University of Brighton is hosting a series of talks about what universities should be. These talks form the David Watson Memorial Lecture Series, 2015-2016.
All talks take place in the Old Courtroom Lecture Theatre , Church Street, Brighton, 6-30 – 8.00 pm.
27 October 2015
Miriam David Higher Education: a Feminist Critique
Professor Emerita in Sociology of Education, University College, London, Institute of Education
10 November 2015
Bob Brecher Universities and the Neoliberal Agenda
Professor of Moral Philosophy, University of Brighton
Director, CAPPE
24 November 2015
Elizabeth Nixon, Deconstructing the Sovereign Student
John Scullion
Assistant Professor in Marketing, Nottingham University,
Senior Lecturer in Marketing Communications and Political Communications, Bournemouth University
8 December 2015
David Salomon The Politicization of the Universities?
Associate Professor, Political Science, Universität Siegen
5 January 2016
Jo Williams Academic Freedom in an Age of Conformity: Confronting the Fear of Knowledge
Director, Centre for the Study of Higher Education, University of Kent
19 January 2016
John Holmwood The University, Democracy and the Public Interest
Professor of Sociology, Nottingham University
Co-Founder, Campaign for the Public University
2 February 2016
Howard Hotson Educating homo sapiens
Professor of Early Modern Intellectual History, University of Oxford.
16 February 2016
David Eastwood Question Time
Vice-Chancellor, Birmingham University
Member, Browne Review
CEO Higher Education Funding Council, 2006-9
1 March 2016
Stefan Collini Reading the Ruins; imagining the future of Universities
Professor of Intellectual History and English Literature, University of Cambridge
8 March 2016
Julia Goodfellow Universities as Shapeshifters
Vice-Chancellor, University of Kent
Chair, Universities UK