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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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?

 

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