Foucault, writing and the contemporary university: A grim celebration

Foucault offers a number of different perspectives on the role and value of writing in the life of the individual, including his own. These involve explorations of  the nature and value of critique and truth telling as well as a consideration of writing as a way of caring for and crafting the self.

In this event, speakers draw on his thoughts to speak on the nature of academic writing and the challenges of life in a neoliberal academy. Topics include:

• The genealogical method as a call to arms,
• The role and purpose of academic writing particularly in relation to self-formation,
• Decolonial writing and the role of the intellectual,
• The role of writing in the life of the academic as both a technology of the self and a form of care of the self,
• The complexities of using ‘difficult’ theory in research designed to impact policy,
• The investor imaginary of HE and the ‘assetisation’ of writing and study, and
• Research and survival in a neoliberal university.

Speakers

• Patrick Bailey,
• Alice Bradbury,
• Bronwen Jones,
• Sarah Kerr,
• Adam Lang,
• Francesca Peruzzo, and
• Guy Roberts-Holmes.

In Conversation

• Stephen J Ball, and
• Mark Olssen.

This in-person event will be particularly useful for anyone who is interested in Foucault and related research.

Related links

• Centre for Sociology of Education and Equity (CSEE)
• Department of Education, Practice and Society