Deprofessionalization

14 November 17:00
Maplethorpe Seminar Room, St Hugh's College, Oxford

This event is part of ‘Literary Activism’, a series of public debates in collaboration with UEA, St Hugh’s College and TORCH, bringing together academics, novelists, poets, translators and publishers.

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‘Professionalism is a means not an end. Less is more. Professors are better off when they professionalize less and risk extinction when professionalization is primary.’ 

Charles Bernstein, ‘95 Theses’ (2016)

Participants: Amit Chaudhuri, UEA; Jon Cook ,UEA; Howard Caygill, Kingston; Denise Riley, UEA;  Nakul Krishna, Cambridge; Elleke Boehmer, Oxford; Peter D. McDonald, Oxford.

The event will also mark the publication of Literary Activism: A Symposium, a collection of essays from the first symposium in the series, edited by Amit Chaudhuri. The book is published in the UK by UEA's Boiler House Press, and by Oxford University Press in the India and the USA.

 

All Welcome.