Registration Open for ‘Protest and the University of Brighton’ Symposium
Protest and the University of Brighton
One Day Symposium
Critical Studies Research Group
Centre for Applied Philosophy, Politics and Ethics
Saturday 10th May 2014
Grand Parade
Free for students / unwaged, £20 waged
This one day symposium, organised by the Critical Studies Research Group (CSRG) and the Centre for Applied Philosophy, Politics and Ethics (CAPPE), will look at the history of protest at University of Brighton in relation to current struggles against the privatisation of higher education.
How is protest at University of Brighton remembered, and what is the effect of this on current and future forms of protest? How do we account for the privatisation of higher education, and what can theory tell us about resistance? How is solidarity maintained across different forms of protest? What lessons from the past can help us stake a claim in the university of the present?
Please see below for the symposium programme. For more information please contact Tim Huzar: T.Huzar@brighton.ac.uk.
10:00 – 10:30
Welcome
10:30 – 12.45
Chris Cocking – Policing Student Protests: Criminalising Dissent?
Bob Brecher – The Humanities Programme as Protest: 1985 – 2014
Tim Huzar – Democracy as Protest: Towards an Alternative Students’ Union
Tom Hickey – Trade Union Protest at the University of Brighton
12:45 – 13:30
Lunch
13:30 – 14:40
Lucy Pearce – A Question of Historical Consciousness: the Cultural Memory of May 1968 in the Student Protests 2010
Tom Akehurst, Louise Purbrick, Lucy Robinson – After the Winter of Discontent
Sue Gollifer, Naomi Salaman, Lizzie How, Molly Maher, Tilly Sleven, Lois Mckendrick, Phoebe Hill – Any Questions? From the Occupation at the Brighton School of Art 1968
14:40 – 15:00
Coffee Break
15:00 – 16:00
Workshop / Discussion
16:00 – 16:15
Closing Remarks
The CSRG was founded in 2011 by postgraduate students in the School of Humanities, University of Brighton, with the aim of providing an interdisciplinary forum for the discussion of critical ideas and practices in light of the socio-political struggles we face today. The challenges that interdisciplinarity might pose are counteracted by our shared interest in the role and scope of critical thought and practice in the context of contemporary capitalism. For more information on the CSRG, please visit: brightoncsrg.noblogs.org.
CAPPE was founded in 2005, with the aim of bringing together philosophy both with other disciplines and with the wider public. It intervenes in the public arena on the basis of a commitment to rigour, clarity and criticism and to extend the practice of philosophy beyond its narrowly academic boundaries. For more information on CAPPE, please visit: arts.brighton.ac.uk/research/cappe.
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