The Centre for Citizenship, Identity and Governance (CCIG) at the Open University is holding a one forum (co-organised by the Creating publics project and Enactments programme) exploring enacting public engagement, with a fantastic line up of speakers. Which include:
Re-enacting the public university
Professor Rebecca Boden (University of Roehampton): ‘Rethinking an “open university”‘, embedding the academy in a social economy’
Dr Joel Lazarus (People’s Political Economy and University College, Oxford): An analysis of the recent flourishing of critical education initiatives in the UK: critical education at the heart of social transformation
Co-production and co-authorship in research
Dr Morag McDermont (University of Bristol): Productive Margins? Problematics of academics and community organisations co-producing research
Professor Les Back (Goldsmiths, University of London): title tbc
Digital articulations
Dr Aristea Fotopoulou & Dr Kate O’Riordan(University of Sussex) : Sustaining networked knowledge: expertise, feminist media production, art and activism
Dr Nick Mahony & Dr Hilde Stephansen (Open University): Making participation public: building agendas and sites for collective action
Full details, including how to register, can be found on CCIG’s website.
The event will take place in Milton Keynes on 23rd April