Date/Time
Date(s) - 12/07/2018
9:00 am - 11:20 am
Location
Brown University - Pembroke Hall
Category(ies)
The annual conference of the Political Concepts Initiative will be dedicated to analyzing the contemporary conditions of knowledge production, with a focus on the sciences and the university.
Speakers present a single concept, one that needs to be revised, deconstructed, or invented in order to better understand, criticize, and, if necessary resist recent changes in the organization of scientific knowledge – and academic knowledge more broadly. This concept is a tool for a critical explication of ways in which scientific knowledges have been impacted by, and integrated into the neoliberal economy and global order, the forces that have eroded liberal democratic regimes and brought about the disintegration of the common, as well as the struggles for decolonization, democracy and social justice. Presentations question, first, the ways these processes, forces, and struggles work through the sciences and transform the inner fabric of scientific research and academic practice, and second, how science itself has been shaped as an arena of political struggle.