April 11th - April 13th, 2008
A Conference at the University of Minnesota - Twin Cities
This conference has been collectively organized by graduate students to
bring together thinkers from across the campus community and national
academic community to address the "crisis" of the university as it had
continually been transformed by neoliberal forces. The recent AFSCME strike
at the University of Minnesota and other academic labor struggles continue
to expose the university in crisis, yet we need to further develop both our
intellectual and organizational capacities to effectively address these
crises.
The conference will take place over three days. Friday will focus
generally on questions of neoliberalization and corporatization of higher
education and the casualization of academic labor. Friday's meetings will
be held on the University of Minnesota's West Bank campus, at the Carlson
School of Management (morning panels in Carlson, 2-213, lunch in Carlson, 1-132,
afternoon panels in Carlson, L-110). Friday night, we will host a reception
in Ferguson Hall, 280. Saturday and Sunday will look at questions of
alternatives, including campus labor organizing, radical pedagogy, and
other strategies of resistance. Saturday and Sunday will be held on the
East Bank Campus at the Institute for Advanced Studies (Nolte Hall, Room
140), and we will have a dinner on Saturday night at the Bell Museum.
Please see the conference program for more information.
Please note that this is a FREE and OPEN conference. Funding has been generously provided by many sponsors.
We are looking forward to rethinking the university with you,
The Conference Collective
Morgan Adamson
John Conley
Isaac Kamola
Stephen Koskela
Eli Meyerhoff
Lucia Pawlowski
Amy Pason
Matthew Stoddard