Reworking/Rethinking the University

Two Conferences at the University of Minnesota, April 11-13th, 2008; April 24-26, 2009

More papers from the conference

Tim Stallman (of the Counter Cartographies Collective) – “Carolina North.. mapping research, precarity, and labor in the 21st century (global) university” – (a draft of a radical comic book they are working on).

Jeff Williams (of the Minnesota Review) – “Debt Education”“Student Debt and the Spirit of Indenture” - “Teach the University” - (three papers that were the basis of his talk – the third has a helpful bibliography of university fiction, ideas, and histories).

May 15, 2008 Posted by eliumn | Uncategorized | | No Comments Yet

Papers from the Conference

Some of the conference participants have graciously shared their papers with us – a few as the original paper and a few in the presentation form.  Click on the links below to download them.  Feel free to post comments here in response. 

David Cerniglia and Heather Steffen, “Composing the University”

Randall Cohn, “Artificial Disciplinarity? Policing the Boundaries between Art and Design History”

Lisa J. Disch and Jean M. O’Brien, “Innovation is Overtime: An Ethical Analysis of ‘Politically Committed’ Academic Labor”

Isaac Kamola and Eli Meyerhoff, “Creating Commons: Divided Governance, Participatory Management, and Struggles over the Enclosure of the University”

John Mowitt, “The Neo-liberalization of Knowledge”

Richard Ohmann, “Talk on Radical Teaching”

Zach Schwartz-Weinstein, “Without Our Brain and Muscle: NYU and the Future of the Neoliberal University”

Barbara Scott Winkler, “Laboring in the Knowledge Factory: A View from Women’s Studies”

Jess Sundin, “Labor in the Neo-liberal University”

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