Friday April 11, 4:30 pm “Extreme Work-Study.” Panel presentation. University of Minnesota. Rethinking the University: Labor, Knowledge, Value. CSOM, room L-110.
Saturday April 12, 12:45 pm. “The Faculty Organize, But Management Enjoys Solidarity.” Keynote Address, 54th Annual Meeting of Michigan Conference AAUP. Marriott Hotel, Eagle Crest Resort, Ypsilanti.
Wednesday April 16, 4- 5:30 pm. “Permanently Temporary: How Higher Ed Became a Wal-mart-style Employer.” Sponsored by University of Cincinnati AAUP. 53 McMicken Hall.
Thursday April 17, 7 pm. “Higher Education and the Low-Wage Nation.” Institute of labor and Industrial Relations, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. 504 E Armory Ave (Wagner Education Center).
Friday April 18, tba. “The Waste Product of Graduate Education.” University of Chicago, tba.
Tuesday April 29, 11:30 am. “The Campus is Burning: The Corporate University and Its Antagonists.” Sponsored by the Polygraph Collective. Duke University. Seminar with Fred Moten in the afternoon.
Wednesday April 30, 6pm. “From ‘I Feel Your Pain’ to ‘Your Problem is My Problem’: Precarity, Universality and the Future of Academic Labor. ” Sponsored by the Center for the Study of Culture, Technology and Work at the City University of New York. Graduate Center, 365 Fifth Avenue, Room 6112.
Possible appearances in FALL 2008:
Central Connecticut State University (no date, not confirmed)
Illinois State University: (no date, not confirmed)
NYU/New School, sponsored by ACT-UAW (no date, not confirmed)
October 16-19 Albuquerque, NM (American Studies Association) “Who is the ‘You’ in Youtube?”
November 21-22 Washington DC (AAUP Council, if re-elected)
December 27-30 San Francisco (MLA) “Social Media and Social Reality,” “The Figure of Writing and the Future of English Studies”
Recently:
- Happy Fourth?
- Poverty In Higher Ed
- What I’m Reading Now
- Meet the Trustees, Part 1: Trustees Behind Bars
- They’ll Be Watching You
- Maybe He Can’t
- Academic Labor Bookshelf
- Job Listing #666
- Psst! Forward this Link to Grad Students
- Don’t Miss COCAL VIII
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Item: today’s (4/17) Oregonian reveals that one of the three candidates for portland State University’s Presidency has withdrawn from the competition. His reason: given the discrepancy between the elevated goals of the university and the resources available to achieve them, assuming the office of the Presidency would be ill-advised.
How refreshing to encounter such candor and to hear someone admit that so called “human resources” (once called workers) must be sufficient unto tasks assigned!