The Critical Tasks of the University, Panel 2, Part 1: Measures of Human Value
Channel: ICCTP
Date: 2017-11-07

PANEL 2
Measures of Value: Humanities in the Age of Calculation
 
Chair: ROSI BRAIDOTTI (Utrecht University)
 
“The Public Institution: Defending What is Yet to Come”  
ATHENA ATHANASIOU (Panteion University, Athens)
 
“The Measure of the Digital Humanities”
ANDREW PARKER (Rutgers University)
 
Respondent: PETAR BOJANIČ (University of Belgrade)
 
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The Critical Tasks of the University
Università di Bologna, Italy 
June 22-24, 2017

Conveners:
Rosi Braidotti (Utrecht University)
Judith Butler (UC Berkeley)
Raffaele Laudani (Università di Bologna)

Supported by:
International Consortium of Critical Theory Programs (UC Berkeley)
Chair on the Academic and the Civic (Utrecht University)
The Academy of Global Humanities and Critical Theory (Università di Bologna, Duke University, University of Virginia)
 
This conference is the first meeting of the conference cycle of the International Consortium of Critical Theory Programs (ICCTP), funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.  Focused on “The Critical Tasks of the University,” the conference evaluates the prevailing metrics of value that increasingly structure and restrict the university in various global locations and considers how critical thought or more robust notions of “critique” can inform and enliven our contemporary reflections on valuable ways of knowing. As important as it is to support the study of critical theory in the university, it is also crucial to defend the university as a valued site for critical thinking in public life. Taking up issues of censorship, the suppression of dissenting views, the devaluation of the humanities and arts, and the new metrics of excellence, this meeting considers how the critical humanities might reflect anew on the public obligations of the university as well as the need to safeguard the university as a site for critical reflections on pressing issues of public concern.