Conference: Ethnographies of higher education: researching and reflecting “at home”
Ethnographies of higher education: researching and reflecting “at home”
Prague, May 22-24
The conference programme board
Jana Baćević (Central European University)
Manja Klemenčič (Harvard University / University of Ljubljana)
Jan Nespor (Ohio State University)
Petr Pabian (University of Pardubice)
Tereza Stöckelová (Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic)
Preliminary programme
Wednesday, May 22
16,00 18,00 | Registration |
18,00 | Opening of the conference |
18,30 20,00 | Keynote speech 1 - Susan Wright (Aarhus University) |
20,00 | Welcome drink |
Thursday, May 23
8,30 9,30 | Registration | ||
9,30 10,30 | Opening, keynote speech 2 – Wesley Shumar (Drexler University) | ||
10,30 11,00 | Coffee break | ||
11,00 12,30 | Section A1 | Section B1 | |
11,00 11,30 | Dennis Beach: Changing higher education: Converging policy-packages and changing academic work in Sweden | James M. DeVita, Allison Anders: Using Ethnography to Identify LGBTQ Advocates in Higher Education in the US
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11,30 12,00 | Yu-Hsuan Lin: How Many Points Do You Have? | James M. DeVita: An Ethnographic Study of Gay Male College Students’ Facebook Profiles: Examining Methodological Considerations for Using Ethnographic Methods in Online Spaces | |
12,00 12,30 | Tereza Stöckelová et al.: Struggles over and for “points”: Czech academics facing up to the metrics-based research evaluation system | Allison Daniel Anders, Michelle Bryan: Teaching Critical Race Theory in the South: Autoethnography and Racial Justice | |
12,30 13,30 | Lunch | ||
13,30 15,30 | Section A2 | Section B2 | |
13,30 14,00 | John Taylor: Delivering epistemological turmoil. What can ethnography tell us about interdisciplinary research and interdisciplinary researchers | Ceres Karam Brum: Maison du Brésil: a student residence for the Brazilian elite in Paris
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14,00 14,30 | Dagmar Lorenz-Meyer: The performativity of emotions and affects in higher education: reconsidering the ethos of academic publishing | Vicki Trowler: May the Subaltern Speak? Researching the Invisible "Other" in Higher Education
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14,30 15,00 | Duna Sabri: The production and consumption of student voice: Student evaluations teaching (SET) as social and political objects | Katarina Kreceva: Towards Epistemology – reflexive interrelation between the topic, the methodology and the researcher | |
15,00 15,30 | Cao, Yannan: A false prosperity?: an evaluation of Chinese higher education reforms and academics’ responses under state-dominated marketization | Kamila Beňová: Research(er) at home: auto/ethnography of (my) PhD
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15,30 16,00 | Coffee break | ||
16,00 18,00 | Section A3 | Section B3 | |
16,00 16,30 | Per Blenker & Sarah Robinson: Conflicting discourses and tensions in entrepreneurship education: An ethnography of entrepreneurship education politics and practice | Karin Doolan: The importance of a critical ethnographic approach for uncovering injustices in higher education
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16,30 17,00 | Gregory Poole: Cultural debates surrounding university reform | Lovise Haj Brade: 'It's all just completely normal to me' - Investigating middleclass privilege within higher education
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17,00 17,30 | Karel Šima et al.: Who needs a promotional university? Academic prestige and professional reputation in search of its “markets“ | Irina Ilisei: How do Roma women in Romania make it into higher education? Analyze of the factors that influence access to higher education system of Roma women
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17,30 18,00 | Simon Smith et al.: The Czech ‘week of unrest’: the instrumentalisation of student protests by an academic oligarchy, or the elision of professional and organisational autonomy |
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19,00 | Social dinner (optional) | ||
Friday, May 24
10,00 12,00 | Section A1 | Section B1 |
10,00 10,30 | Eve Stirling: “I study Facebook! Becoming a Facebook student. Exploring the insider view of student experience through Facebook | Olivier Marty: Ethnography of education engineering. A question of distance |
10,30 11,00 | Katrine Scott: Comparisons of Everyday Student Life in a Transforming Post-Conflict Society | Diana Judith Milstein, María Cecilia Carrera: "Native" and "Stranger". Relations and Positions in the Field of an Ethnographer in the University |
11,00 11,30 | Tereza Virtová et al.: If nobody likes rote learning, why is everybody doing it? Beyond the ‘approaches to learning’ | Jagoda Gregulska: Ethnography of the unspoken
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11,30 12,00 | Petr Pabian et al.: Students cheat when they are cheated: understanding the interplay of students’ and teachers’ academic misconduct | Torbjörn Friberg: Eric Wolf and higher education
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12,00 13,00 | Lunch | |
13,00 14,00 | Keynote speech 3 – Paul Trowler (Lancaster University) | |
14,00 16,00 | Workshop 1 | Workshop 2 |
| Patricia Sackville: Bottom-up educational leadership and policy-making through storytelling: language policy in practice at a Canadian institute | David. M. Hoffman et al.: SELF-ETHNOGRAPHY, MOBILITY AND INTERNATIONAL COMPARATIVE HIGHER EDUCATION STUDIES: POTENTIAL AND LIMITATIONS |
Marianne Blanchard: Yes we can? On some limits of an ethnographic study in higher education | Desmond Ryan: If "...all ethnography is fictional", must all interpretation be creative?
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Thomas Koenig: Being an “Inside-Outsider” at the European Research Council for research | Shân Wareing, Duna Sabri: Institutional research: symbiosis or oxymoron? | |
16,00 | Closing of the conference | |