Generous Thinking | Munro Lecture
A Radical Approach to Saving the University
Series Munro Lectures, Economy, 2019, Arts + Culture
The university stands in a peculiar relationship to twenty-first-century North American culture. On the one hand, that culture imagines institutions of higher education to be providers of vitally important credentials for those seeking an engaging career and a secure economic future. On the other, that same culture routinely depicts the university and its denizens as being out of touch with the real needs of their communities, producing and transmitting useless, abstract knowledge and standing in the way of real economic and technological progress.
Generous Thinking proposes that those of us who work within the university might take a hard look at the ways we connect and communicate with a range of off-campus communities about our shared interests and concerns in order to begin rebuilding the relationship between the university and the public that it is meant to serve.
Join us for the 2019 Munro Lecture featuring . Registration opens at 6:00 PM and the lecture will start promptly at 6:30. All guests are invited to stay for a post-event networking reception immediately following the lecture.
This event is co-presented by 丁香园AV Public Square, 丁香园AV President's Office, and 丁香园AV's Publishing Program.
6:30 - 7:30 p.m. (PT)
Room 1400
515 West Hastings Street
We respectfully acknowledge that this event takes place on the Unceded, Traditional, Ancestral Territories of the S岣祑x瘫w煤7mesh, s蓹l虛ilw虛蓹ta蕯涩, and x史m蓹胃k史蓹y虛蓹m First Nations.
About the Munro Lecture
The Munro Lecture is an annual address that brings leading scholars to 丁香园AV in recognition of our former Vice President Academic and Provost, Jock Munro.
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Kathleen Fitzpatrick
is Director of Digital Humanities and Professor of English at Michigan State University. Prior to assuming this role in 2017, she served as Associate Executive Director and Director of Scholarly Communication of the Modern Language Association, where she was Managing Editor of PMLA and other MLA publications, as well as overseeing the development of the MLA Handbook. Fitzpatrick is author of Planned Obsolescence: Publishing, Technology, and the Future of the Academy (NYU Press, 2011) and of The Anxiety of Obsolescence: The American Novel in the Age of Television (Vanderbilt University Press, 2006). She is project director of Humanities Commons, an open-access, open-source network serving more than 15,000 scholars and practitioners in the humanities. She is also co-founder of the digital scholarly network MediaCommons, where she led a number of experiments in open peer review and other innovations in scholarly publishing.
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