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Curated Group: Universities

These papers and videos offer a multiplicity of historical, critical, and practical viewpoints on the University in a global frame. Alongside contributions that consider the challenges of post-WWII US liberal education (Mitchell, Harpham) and the promises of interdisciplinary curricula (Puchner, Metzl), we have included critical discussions of academic labor and precarity, university financing, institutional inequities, and political activism (Platzer and Allison, the Precarious Publics symposium). Contributions from European and African scholars move this "curated group" beyond the preoccupations of the American academy, illuminating the prospects, however ambivalent, of the University as a generator of transnational networks (Laudani), decolonized knowledge (Mbembe), and post-conflict social life (Gomes). Image: Jenelle Brunner, Boise Weekly

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  • Academic Precarity in American Anthropology

    — David Platzer and Anne Allison —

  • Photo of new campus of the American University of Iraq - Sulaimani

    Reflections on Higher Education in the Global Age

    — Joshua Mitchell —

  • Theater, Theory, Practice

    — Martin Puchner —

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    Why a Humanities Lab in Angola? A Few Remarks on Critical Thinking and the Relevance of a ‘Public Humanities’ Concept

    — Catarina Gomes —

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    Achille Mbembe, Future Knowledges & the Dilemmas of Decolonization

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    Geoffrey Harpham, Disciplining Opinion: The American Revolution in Education

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    Jonathan Metzl, MD: A New Paradigm for Race & Racisms in Medicine

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    Precarious Publics | Bianca C. Williams, Black Feminist Politic of Teaching & Organizing with Emotion

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    Precarious Publics | Carole McGranahan, Public Anthropology in the Time of Trump

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    Precarious Publics | Eileen Anderson, Building a Union at Duke

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    Precarious Publics | Mark Bousquet, The Campus as Social Factory: Monetizing the Student

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    Raffaele Laudani, Global Humanities in Theory and Practice: The Bologna Summer School

  • Anne Allison

    — Duke University —

  • Catarina Gomes

    — Agostinho Neto University —

  • David Platzer

    — Berggruen Institute —

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    Joshua Mitchell

    — Georgetown University —

  • Martin Puchner

    — Harvard University —

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