Please join us for the university beyond crisis a symposium designed to occasion collaborative critical discussion that thinks beyond the rhetoric of crisis to ask, what is, or what ought to be, the relationship of the university to the common good? How might we envision and work toward the realization of a university that addresses that relationship and in the process, address the idea of the “common good”? What alternatives to defensive postures might be elaborated toward these ends? And, what other ends might we elaborate?

Monday, 8 April 2013, 11a-6p
CUNY Graduate Center Skylight Room (9th Floor)
Free and open to the public

11a-1p
Opening remarks
Kandice Chuh
Roundtable I: on the current condition
Panelists: Duncan Faherty, Roderick Ferguson, Sonjia Hyon,
Laura Hyun Yi Kang, Nelson Maldonado-Torres, Chi-ming Yang

2p-3:45p
Roundtable II: practices and sites of learning
Panelists: Anthony Alessandrini, Lisa Duggan, Sujatha Fernandes,
Michelle Fine, Jennifer Miller, Justin Rogers-Cooper, Conor Tomás Reed

4p-6p
Roundtable III: the university as an object of knowledge
Panelists: Tita Chico, Gayatri Gopinath, Edwin Mayorga,
Victoria Pitts-Taylor, Robert Reid-Pharr, Siobhan Somerville

Closing remarks

For more information and suggested readings for this symposium, please see https://revolutionizingamericanstudies.commons.gc.cuny.edu/the-university-beyond-crisis-monday-8-april-2013/

This event is sponsored by the CUNY Graduate Center’s Revolutionizing American Studies Initiative, the Office of President William Kelly, the Advanced Research Collaborative, the Mellon Committee on Globalization and Social Change, and the Center for Place, Culture & Politics.