I wrote a blog post about my great experience as a postdoc at @tcddublin.bsky.social !
Thanks @agtgibson.bsky.social , for help and seminars on Hegel
A part of European Research Night Event - we need to talk accessibly about work we do
www.start-ern.org/franciszek-k...
The 3rd article from my postdoc @au.dk w/ Lynn McAlpine, Søren Bengtsen, & @agtgibson.bsky.social, titled “How do deans of humanities understand and enact societal engagement within their broader experiences of leading? A Danish case study” is out and available open access here: lnkd.in/dkfqzS5t
@franekkra.bsky.social
published a paper on interpreting discussion on centers and periheries through critical cycle! Check out how philosophy, high ed studies, and ideas for alternative organization of science comes together
Work of our group is also present in the book reviews!
Take a look at this excellent set of articles (if I may say so myself ☺️) on critical #HigherEd #internationalism. My article on #Southern #LatAm #regionalism and #extension with Evandro Coggo and Viginia Rodes is here www.berghahnjournals.com/view/journal...
And here's the link: www.berghahnjournals.com/view/journal... . LATISS is open access, so do go and take a look at the wonderful papers making up this thematic (and very special) issue.
Special issue I edited with @tainamsaarinen.bsky.social published today! "Alternative Internationalisms: Thinking Through and Beyond Criticality in International Higher Education".
This was a long time gestating, developing, growing, dormant, emerging, fruiting. Really proud of all our work here!
Happy with my thoughts and feelings after this lovely conference. Thank you so much for the conversations, provocations, responses and en-joyment. @tdelaquil.bsky.social @agtgibson.bsky.social @ainemahon.bsky.social and everyone! Hope you get a good rest now after all the rushing about! 😊🙏👏👏👏
A screenshot of the first page of the article from the journal Teaching in Higher Education: Critical Perspectives titled: Cut the bullshit: why GenAI systems are neither collaborators nor tutors by Gene Flenady and Robert Sparrow. The screenshot includes the abstract of the article (available via the link).
A screenshot of the cover of the journal Teaching in Higher Education: Critical Perspectives. The cover is red with a black band on the edge.
New publication alert! 🚨
Cut the bullshit: why GenAI systems are neither collaborators nor tutors
By Gene Flenady and Robert Sparrow
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
#HigherEducation #GenAI
“The War on Science”
Yall wanna hear something extremely embarrassing? Before Trump’s election, a bunch of academics who lumbered rightward after being criticized by the left (Pinker, Dawkins, Krauss) wrote essays for a book that is coming out in July about the threats to academia from the left.
YALL, THE TITLE!!
A reminder of a pretty etymology to brighten the day. The ‘daisy’ takes its name from the Old English ‘dæges ēage’, ‘day’s eye’, because it opens its petals at dawn, and closes them again at dusk.
Last night i spoke of the afterlives of Irish revolutionary women in the Free State-a state which defined a narrow model of what it meant to be an Irish woman. Anyone who did not live up to that model was surveilled, shamed and/or institutionalised! Narrow definitions of womanhood harm all women.
I covet! Alas, in Dublin... Looking forward to getting the book though. Soon!
And in a happy twist of fate it has been published in the "Postcolonialism: forging a knowledge of belonging" issue guest edited by Nuraan Davids: www.tandfonline.com/toc/ceae20/2...
I look at Freire's work to consider how listening can be viewed as the 'silent partner' in theories of dialogue, and how central it is for considering how we learn when we are wrong. I'm arguing through ontology against an exclusively epistemological framing of dialogue (and education).
I recently had a paper published, 'Listening and being-in-error: an ontology of dialogue in Freire', in Ethics and Education. It's open access and available here: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
The project is funded by Polish National Agency for Academic Exchange and @agtgibson.bsky.social is an academic mentor of the project in TCD
The second article from my postdoc @au.dk with Lynn McAlpine, Søren Bengtsen, and @agtgibson.bsky.social, titled “Rectors and university-societal engagement: Representing the ‘reality’ of ‘their’ university” is out and available open access here: doi.org/10.1177/1478...
The first article from my postdoc @aarhusuni.bsky.social with Søren Bengtsen, @agtgibson.bsky.social & Lynn McAlpine, titled “Unveiling university-society engagement - university origin stories in Denmark” is out!
50 free copies here: www.tandfonline.com/eprint/F7DBJ...
CALL FOR PAPERS: How Sciences End Dates: 11–13 July 2025 Location: University of Oxford, UK Submission deadline: 31 January 2025 Conference Theme and Goals Historians have studied extensively how sciences begin—but how do they end? This is a crucial question for understanding how the labour of knowledge-making evolves. Previous attention to the founding, disciplining, and professionalisation of individual sciences has provided robust frameworks for thinking through the birth and growth of knowledge-making communities. Far less attention has been directed toward how those same communities decay, dissipate, or evolve beyond the contemporary boundaries of science. This conference seeks to cultivate case studies of the ends of sciences, and thereby to motivate a new approach to thinking about the developmental trajectories of scientific disciplines, communities, institutions, and the ordering of expert knowledge. A further aim is to strengthen the community of scholars with a shared interest in studying the ends of sciences. Submission Process Submissions should be sent to howsciencesend@gmail.com. Please title the email “SciEnds Abstract Submission” and include the following information in the body: - Full name as you would like it to appear on the programme - Email address - Affiliation, or how you would like to be identified on the programme - Presentation title - An abstract of no more than 250 words describing your proposed talk and how it fits the conference theme and goals. - An indication of whether you would like to be considered for travel support. (Limited funds are available to defray travel costs, with priority given to early career and insecurely employed scholars.) The submission deadline is 31 January 2025. We plan to circulate a draft program by the end of February 2025. Programme Committee Michelle Aroney (Oxford), Alex Aylward (Oxford), Joseph D. Martin (Durham)
CfP: How Sciences End
Oxford, 11-13 July 2025
Deadline: 31 January 2025
Submit 250-word abstracts to howsciencesend@gmail.com
[I'm broadcasting this on behalf of Joe Martin, Michelle Aroney & Alex Aylward, none of whom AFAIK are on this site yet]
A screenshot of a tweet that says *airhorn sound* *second airhorn sound* Me: This isn't my deodorant
Posting your favourite tweets without this in there is a CRIME.
The 'profession as a self-regulating collective without' aspect has to feature as an explanation here. Doctors and lawyers as classical professions know how to self-organise and do things without a lot of state direction, so anarchism would seem a natural fit.
Kinda has the vibe of chiding the unsophisticated ordinary idiom for not appreciating the nuances, but when all is said and done it doesn't actually have anything to do with those nuances. It just wanted you to know that it was aware of them.
Stephen King: why do you hate dune so much?
Tolkien: isn't it obvious?
Dean Koontz: is it because you're a deontologist and dune is consequentialism?
Tolkien:
Tolkien: what
For this episode on Wilhelm Dilthey, Chris Satoor invited Dr. Henriikka Hannula who just defended her dissertation on Dilthey to introduce the viewers to the rich philosophical system of Dilthey's thought. Via @nieaufgehenderrest.bsky.social youtube.com/watch?v=Zr1Z...
Hi Bluesky! We’re new here and first of all wanted to let you know about our current lecture series (with live streams):
What is Philosophy?
A Critical Polylogue with Philosophers from Africa
Thursdays, 6–8 p.m. (CET)
www.uni-hildesheim.de/glophi/2024/...
Live streams: youtube.com/playlist?lis...
Snow outside and that inside is perfection. Here's to you doing it right!
Reading bell hooks this evening, and I'm going to hold onto her sentences from the last paragraph "The academy is not paradise. But learning is a place where paradise can be created."
Luckily a copy was made in the 1930s before a period of improper care damaged the picture. The original daguerreotype was taken on Sept. 3, 1842, which is only a few years after the technology was publicly announced in Paris by the French painter and chemist Louis Daguerre. 2/9
Preparing 'scripts' for our department's videos of some courses I teach, and it's really hard to try boil down a module into 45 seconds. Concision is not a skill I've developed yet - more's the pity. When enrolments crater I will just roll out the Principal Skinner meme.