Curating the European University: Exposition and Public Debate
KU Leuven (Belgium) on 10-11 February 2011: Curating the European
University: Exposition and Public Debate
Why do we have universities? Are they only there to serve students and
conduct research? Or is it that, through this and in addition to this,
they also have an important public responsibility and public role?
In a time when politicians, policy makers and other stakeholders are
constantly increasing their expectations about what universities
should deliver, we believe that it is important to re-engage with the
idea of the university as a public institution. To this effect we will
be organizing an international event at the KU Leuven (Belgium) on
10-11 February 2011: Curating the European University: Exposition and
Public Debate. The aim of the event is to bring together individuals
and groups who share a concern about the public role of the university
and who have developed concrete initiatives for promoting and
enhancing the public role of the university.
The event will be organized around an exposition of initiatives,
practices or designs that aim to develop and support the university as
a public institution. These initiatives should propose alternative but
realistic ideas and plans on how to enhance the public role of the
university across all its domains: research, teaching, service,
administration, work. Submissions from all who are directly or
indirectly involved in the university are welcome. Submissions are not
limited to textual accounts, but may include visuals, photographs,
video, installations, and so on. The main criterion is that projects
should exemplify ways in which we can take care for the public role of
the university in Europe today.
The deadline for submission of outline proposals is 31st May 2010. An
international jury will make a selection by 28th June 2010. Final
deadline for submission of full projects is 1st November 2010. The
exposition of selected projects will start on the first day together
with the official presentation of the catalogue. During the second day
of the meeting round tables will be organised to discuss the projects.
For more information please see the documents attached.
We hope that this event will provide you with an opportunity to
present interesting initiatives from within your own institutions, and
we would appreciate if you could bring this initiative to the
attention of your colleagues.
Should you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact
curating_eur_univ@ped.kuleuven.be
You are kindly invited to forward this e-mail to all those who may be
interested. We hope to meet you or your colleagues in Leuven in 2011.
Sincerely,
Mathias Decuypere
KULeuven, Belgium
Also on behalf of the other members of the organizing committee,
Maarten Simons (KULeuven, Belgium), Jan Masschelein (KULeuven,
Belgium), Gert Biesta (University of Stirling, UK), Toon Braeckman
(KULeuven, Belgium), Jan Elen (KULeuven, Belgium), Marek Kwiek (Poznan
University, Poland), Sari Lindblom-Ylänne (University of Helsinki,
Finland), Grahame Locke (Radboud University Nijmegen, Netherlands),
Vassiliki Papatsiba (University of Sheffield, UK), Norbert Ricken
(University of Bremen, Germany), Nicolas Standaert (KULeuven,
Belgium), An Verburgh (KULeuven, Belgium), Lech Witkowski (Jagellonian
University, Poland) and Pavel Zgaga (Unversity of Ljubljana, Slovenia)
Mathias Decuypere
Department of Educational Sciences
Laboratory for Education and Society
Vesaliusstraat 2
3000 Leuven
Belgium
Email: mathias.decuypere@ped.kuleuven.be
Visit the website at
http://ppw.kuleuven.be/les/agenda-items/curating_eur_univ
University: Exposition and Public Debate
Why do we have universities? Are they only there to serve students and
conduct research? Or is it that, through this and in addition to this,
they also have an important public responsibility and public role?
In a time when politicians, policy makers and other stakeholders are
constantly increasing their expectations about what universities
should deliver, we believe that it is important to re-engage with the
idea of the university as a public institution. To this effect we will
be organizing an international event at the KU Leuven (Belgium) on
10-11 February 2011: Curating the European University: Exposition and
Public Debate. The aim of the event is to bring together individuals
and groups who share a concern about the public role of the university
and who have developed concrete initiatives for promoting and
enhancing the public role of the university.
The event will be organized around an exposition of initiatives,
practices or designs that aim to develop and support the university as
a public institution. These initiatives should propose alternative but
realistic ideas and plans on how to enhance the public role of the
university across all its domains: research, teaching, service,
administration, work. Submissions from all who are directly or
indirectly involved in the university are welcome. Submissions are not
limited to textual accounts, but may include visuals, photographs,
video, installations, and so on. The main criterion is that projects
should exemplify ways in which we can take care for the public role of
the university in Europe today.
The deadline for submission of outline proposals is 31st May 2010. An
international jury will make a selection by 28th June 2010. Final
deadline for submission of full projects is 1st November 2010. The
exposition of selected projects will start on the first day together
with the official presentation of the catalogue. During the second day
of the meeting round tables will be organised to discuss the projects.
For more information please see the documents attached.
We hope that this event will provide you with an opportunity to
present interesting initiatives from within your own institutions, and
we would appreciate if you could bring this initiative to the
attention of your colleagues.
Should you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact
curating_eur_univ@ped.kuleuven.be
You are kindly invited to forward this e-mail to all those who may be
interested. We hope to meet you or your colleagues in Leuven in 2011.
Sincerely,
Mathias Decuypere
KULeuven, Belgium
Also on behalf of the other members of the organizing committee,
Maarten Simons (KULeuven, Belgium), Jan Masschelein (KULeuven,
Belgium), Gert Biesta (University of Stirling, UK), Toon Braeckman
(KULeuven, Belgium), Jan Elen (KULeuven, Belgium), Marek Kwiek (Poznan
University, Poland), Sari Lindblom-Ylänne (University of Helsinki,
Finland), Grahame Locke (Radboud University Nijmegen, Netherlands),
Vassiliki Papatsiba (University of Sheffield, UK), Norbert Ricken
(University of Bremen, Germany), Nicolas Standaert (KULeuven,
Belgium), An Verburgh (KULeuven, Belgium), Lech Witkowski (Jagellonian
University, Poland) and Pavel Zgaga (Unversity of Ljubljana, Slovenia)
Mathias Decuypere
Department of Educational Sciences
Laboratory for Education and Society
Vesaliusstraat 2
3000 Leuven
Belgium
Email: mathias.decuypere@ped.kuleuven.be
Visit the website at
http://ppw.kuleuven.be/les/agenda-items/curating_eur_univ