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Roundtable: “Academia as a “Toxic” and “Careless” Culture: Academic Labour, Subjectivity, and the Body”

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Date: 04 May 2012, 16:30
Location: Beech Grove House

This roundtable brings together feminist scholars from different disciplines and career stages to discuss the embodied and affective experience of academic labour at a time of intense (re)configurations of academic cultures and working practices. We are particularly interested in analysing the “toxic” (Gill, 2010) and “careless” (Lynch, 2010) aspects of those cultures and working practices, and their impact on our experiences of research and teaching, on individual and collective subjectivities, on our bodies and on practices of care (of/for ourselves, others and the community).

Speakers:

  • Prof. Mary Evans (LSE)
  • Dr. Sarah Amsler (University of Lincoln)
  • Dr. Maria Puig de la Bellacasa (University of Leicester)
  • Dr. Kate Hardy (University of Leeds)

Chair:

  • Dr. Maria do Mar Pereira (University of Leeds)

This is event is free and open to all. No registration required

This initiative is co-hosted by the Centre for Interdisciplinary Gender Studies (University of Leeds) and the European Network GenderAct (http://www.gender.hu-berlin.de/internationales/projekte/generationaltransmission).

We hope you can join us for what promises to be a lively and thought-provoking discussion!