Debate
IPH What are universities – and what are the humanities in particular – for?
- Date
- Thursday 12 December 2024
- Time
- Location
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P.J. Veth
Nonnensteeg 1-3
2311 VJ Leiden - Room
- T1.16
What are universities – and what are the humanities in particular – for? In this moment of accumulative budgetary crises, we find this to be a question well worth our time.
On Thursday 12 December from 10-14 in our Common room: T1.16, we therefore invite you to a collective discussion of Jacques Derrida’s ‘The future of the profession or the university without condition’.
The text originated as a lecture given at Stanford in 1998 and despite it relative brevity, it casts a wide net in its interrogation of the responsibilities, freedoms, and ends, of those who work as academics within the humanities.
We want to have enough time for a meaningful conversation and have planned a longer session with a lunchbreak somewhere in the middle (please bring your own). Snacks and juice will be provided. Please do let us know if you expect to join, then we can plan accordingly.
If you can’t get hold of the text, feel free to contact Marie Louise who can help.
Be welcome to join us!
Johan, Marie Louise, and Susanna