The Future University
Thursday, 30 June 2011 to Saturday, 2 July 2011Location: Law Faculty, Sidwick Site, University of Cambridge
Programme
| Thursday 30 June | Faculty of Law, Sidgwick Site |
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from 9.00 |
Registration open (Atrium) |
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Lecture Room LG17 |
Graduate Research and the Future University |
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9.15 - 10.45 Lecture Room LG17 |
Session 1: Redrawing the Boundaries: Graduate/ Faculty Research Groups Chair: Judy Brown (Slavonic Studies, Cambridge) Welcome and Introduction: Zeynep Gürtin-Broadbent (Centre for Family Research, Cambridge) Highlighting some of the areas in which the groups serve their members
and the University more broadly, the panel will draw on the ways in
which a range of the interdisciplinary graduate/faculty research groups
supported by CRASSH have provided spaces for innovation, collaboration
and transformation in their fields. |
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10.45 - 11.15 |
Tea and coffee (Atrium) |
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11.15 - 12.15 Lecture Room LG17 |
Session 2: Sustaining Graduate Innovation: A Conversation Chairs:Bradon Smith (English, Cambridge) Dacia Viejo Rose (Archaeology, Cambridge) The Graduate/Faculty research groups have potential to foster
innovative work that reaches outside the university and to create
legacies beyond their active lives. This session will explore the
opportunities presented by these groups, and lead a discussion on what
forms such legacies can take, how they can best be maintained, and what
lessons this collaborative model may offer for the Future University |
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12.15 - 13.00 |
Break |
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13.00 - 14.00 Lecture Room LG17 |
Chair: Ian Patterson (English, Cambridge) Catherine Porter (Modern Languages; President, MLA, 2009)Translation: Theory and Practice in the Modern Language Department |
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14.15 - 14.30 Lecture Room LG17 |
The Future University Welcome and introduction: The Humanities Now Chair: Mary Jacobus (English, Director, CRASSH) Simon Franklin (Slavonic Studies, Head of School, Arts & Humanities) |
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14.30 - 16.00 Lecture Room LG17 |
Musical Performance and Creative Practice Chair: Jennifer Barnes (President, Murray Edwards College, Cambridge) Nicholas Cook (Music, Cambridge) Eric Clarke (Music, Oxford) |
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16.00 - 16.30 |
Tea and coffee (Atrium) |
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16.30 - 18.00 Lecture Room LG17 |
Keynote Chair: Martin Crowley (MML, Cambridge) Bernard Stiegler (Philosophy, Centre Pompidou) |
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18.15 - 19.30 |
Faculty of English, Sidgwick Site Reception and buffet supper (Atrium foyer) |
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19.45 - 21.30 |
Improvisation in the Round Presented in association with the AHRC Research Centre for Musical Performance as Creative Practice Chair: John Rink (Music, University of Cambridge) in conversation and performance with: Paula Chateauneuf, lute (The Division Lobby and the University of Birmingham)Stevie Wishart , violin and hurdy-gurdy 'Faint': Franziska Schroeder, saxophone; Pedro Rebelo, piano; Steve Davis, drums (Queen's University Belfast) |
| Friday 1 July | Faculty of Law, Sidgwick Site |
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9.30 - 11.00 Lecture Room LG18 |
Reorienting the Disciplines Chair: Sujit Sivasundaran (History, Cambridge) Simon Schaffer (HPS, Cambridge) |
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11.00 - 11.30 |
Tea and coffee (Atrium) |
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11.30 - 13.00 Lecture Room LG18 |
Universities, Democracy, and Digitality Chair: James Chandler (English, Franke Center for the Humanities, Chicago) Nigel Thrift (Geography, Vice-Chancellor, University of Warwick) |
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13.00 - 14.00 |
Lunch (Atrium) |
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14.00 - 15.15 Lecture Room LG18 |
Keynote: Chair: Duncan Bell (Politics and International Relations, POLIS) Sir Adam Roberts (International Relations, President, British Academy) |
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15.15 - 15.30 |
Tea and Coffee (Atrium) |
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15.30 - 17.00 Lecture Room LG18 |
Higher Education Policy and the Humanities Chair: Stefan Collini (English, Cambridge) Chris Newfield (English, UC Santa Barbara) |
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17.15 - 18.45 Lecture Room LG18 |
Panel Discussion: The Fate of the Humanities Chair: Geoffrey Crossick (Vice-Chancellor, University of London) Sir Leszek Borysiewicz (Vice-Chancellor, University of Cambridge) |
| Saturday 2 July |
Faculty of Law, Sidgwick Site |
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9.15 - 10.45 Lecture Room LG18 |
Global Literature and the Human Chair: Shruti Kapila (History, Cambridge) Debjani Ganguly (Post-Colonial Studies, Director, Humanities Research Centre, ANU) Joseph Slaughter (English and Comparative Literature, Columbia) |
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10.45 - 11.15 |
Tea and coffee (Atrium) |
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11.15 - 12.45 Lecture Room LG18 |
Digital Literacies Chair: Anne Alexander (Politics, CRASSH) |
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12.45 - 13.45 |
Lunch (Atrium) |
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13.45 - 15.15 Lecture Room LG18 |
Art Literacy Chair: Alyce Mahon (Art History, Cambridge) Marina Warner (
Literature and Creative
Writing, Essex University) |
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16.00 - 17.45 |
Finale at the Fitzwilliam Museum, Trumpington Street |
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17.45 |
Reception at the Fitzwilliam Museum |
