A recording of this event is now available below:

The idea for the session came about as a response to the shocking redundancies in Leicester earlier this year but also from an age of weariness in the face of managerial control in HE. We felt it was time associations worked more closely with unions in pushing back against these trends. To that end, some of the main political economy associations across Europe agreed to host the session on their websites and to distribute its details to their members. We hope that this will feed out further and encourage broader discussion on the kind of education we all want today.

COVID responses and the managerial threat to Higher Education

Thursday, 8th July, 16.00 London time

CPERN, in collaboration with EAEPE, SASE, ESA CPERN, BISA IPEG, and IIPPE are hosting a discussion with Henry Giroux, Laura Horn and Sam Dallyn. This will be followed by 20 minutes of Q&A.

We aim to raise awareness and solidarity for colleagues under pressure from university managers who are using COVID to mainstream their economics and management programmes and to worsen their employment relations.

-Charlie Dannreuther (Leeds University, convener)
-Henry Giroux (McMaster University, speaking about critical pedagogy)
-Laura Horn (Roskilde University, speaking for critical political economy in Denmark)
-Sam Dallyn (Leicester Business School, speaking about the strike)

Join the event via this link: https://eu.bbcollab.com/collab/ui/session/guest/fcdbc1d7ab2a467caec23118b467ee85

COVID responses and the threat to Higher Education

The idea for the session came about as a response to a number of developments – including the redundancies in Leicester earlier this year and the moves in Denmark to undermine critical research – but also from an age of weariness in the face of managerial control in HE. It is time associations worked more closely with unions in pushing back against these trends. To that end, some of the main political economy associations across Europe have agreed to host the session on their websites and to distribute its details to their members. We hope that this will feed out further and encourage broader discussion on the kind of education we all want today.

The speakers

Henry Giroux has been making powerful arguments against the encroachment of neo liberal practices in universities for many years, so it is very fitting that he begins our discussion. His links of higher education with neoliberalism and contemporary fascism and the role critical teaching plays in creating alternatives (att.) have been developed in over 100 books.

Laura Horn has been recently speaking out on national TV in Denmark against political attacks against critical scholars. She writes on neoliberalism in Europe, runs an annual Repoliticising Capitalism Summer School in Roskilde and is a leading figure in the Euro memo campaigning group.

Sam Dallyn speaks as someone present in Leicester on managerial practices and the challenges to critical thinking. He has also written on post capitalism, the role of the public intellectual and resistance to bureaucratic control.

Thursday, 8th July, 16.00 London time