{"id":2543,"date":"2012-11-28T10:40:42","date_gmt":"2012-11-28T09:40:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/History-of-the-OU\/?p=2543"},"modified":"2012-11-28T10:40:42","modified_gmt":"2012-11-28T09:40:42","slug":"seminar-the-university-the-scholar-and-the-student","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/History-of-the-OU\/?p=2543","title":{"rendered":"Seminar: The University, the Scholar and the Student"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Thinking the present with Max Weber <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

A series of seminar-workshops to be organised by the Max Weber Study Group <\/span><\/span>of the British Sociological Association <\/span><\/span>\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Seminar-workshop 1: Co-organised with the University of Salford and UCU Salford\u00a0<\/p>\n

The University, the Scholar and the Student\u00a0<\/p>\n

7 December 2012 \u2013 University of Salford (Manchester)\u00a0<\/p>\n

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The recent publication in English of Weber\u2019s complete writings (and speeches) on universities has thrown new light on his involvement in university politics and his concern with the \u2018type of scholar\u2019 that universities were producing: Weber imagines a university system in which researchers are becoming workers \u2018separated from their means of production\u2019, and academics \u2018people of the trade\u2019. Inspired by Weber\u2019s observations, this seminar-workshop will reflect on the current state of the university and its attendant practices: what is the meaning of scholarly work when the scholar is faced by a series of sometimes contradictory conditions and imperatives (output targets in research, \u2018the student experience\u2019 in teaching coupled with compulsory debt-financing (huge fees) for students, the tension between instrumentalism and knowledge for its own sake, between a public and a market-driven university ethos, between a collegial institution and a hierarchical organisation). What is the meaning of the new regime under which universities are put to work, with its \u2018quality\u2019 indicators and debt-incurring devices, in terms of the pedagogy practised, the kinds of reason relied on, as well as the type of human being presupposed by such regime and resulting from its implementation? More generally, what kind of scholar, what kind of student, what type of human being, is being produced by these practices?\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Programme\u00a0<\/p>\n

10 \u2013 10:15 <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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Introduction to the seminar: posing some Weberian questions\u00a0<\/p>\n

(Carlos Frade, University of Salford) <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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10:15 \u2013 11\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Science as a Vocation: Context and Genesis\u00a0<\/p>\n

(Keith Tribe, University of Sussex) <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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11 \u2013 11:45\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Markets, expertise and democracy: rethinking the academic vocation under a neo-liberal knowledge regime\u00a0<\/p>\n

(John Holmwood, University of Nottingham) <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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11:45 \u2013 12:30\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Indebted servitude \u2013 the work of ‘the calling’ in the new feudal professions\u00a0<\/p>\n

(Sarah Amsler , University of Lincoln) <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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12:30 \u2013 1:15\u00a0<\/p>\n

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LUNCH\u00a0<\/p>\n

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1:15 \u2013 2\u00a0<\/p>\n

<\/span><\/span><\/td>\n

The external and internal conditions of academic vocation, revisited\u00a0<\/p>\n

(Sam Whimster, K\u00e4te Hamburger Kolleg \u2018Recht als Kultur\u2019, Universit\u00e4t Bonn) <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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2 \u2013 2:45\u00a0<\/p>\n

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University reform as state-making: the Research Excellence Framework, the Bologna Process, and the ‘Althoff system\u2019\u00a0<\/p>\n

(Eric R Lybeck, University of Cambridge) <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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2:45 \u2013 3:30\u00a0<\/p>\n

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The Government\u2019s Higher Education Reforms: Downgrading the Professional University and Upgrading the Entrepreneurial University\u00a0<\/p>\n

(Peter Scott, Institute of Education, University of London) <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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3:30 \u2013 3:45\u00a0<\/p>\n

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COFFEE BREAK\u00a0<\/p>\n

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3:45 \u2013 4:30\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Theme TBC\u00a0<\/p>\n

(Joyce Canaan, Birmingham City University) <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

<\/span><\/span><\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

4:30 \u2013 5:15\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Goal-Rationality, the Scholar’s Vocation and New Public Management\u00a0<\/p>\n

(Erik J Bostr\u00f6m & Sharon Rider, Uppsala Universitet) <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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