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What does it mean to welcome Omar Khadr? University students and the lesson of hospitality

Tyler J. Pollard interviews David L. Clark Earlier this year, professor and public intellectual, Dr. David L. Clark, invited the President and Vice-Chancellor of McMaster University, Dr. Patrick Deane, to support offering Canadian citizen Omar Khadr a spot in the … Continue reading
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Tagged David L. Clark, democracy, hospitality, justice, McMaster University, militarization, Omar Khadr, peace, public intellectuals, public university, punishing state, the university, Tyler J. Pollard, war on youth, youth
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“Dissociated Consciousness[es]”: The Rising Voice of the Administrator and the Falling Voice of the Academic in the Winter 2015 Labour Disruption at the University of Toronto

by Oliver Lue On February 27th, 2015, CUPE 3902 Unit 1, representing 6000 teaching assistants, course instructors and lab instructors, began job action against the University of Toronto.1 Members of CUPE 3902 demanded an increase to the minimum yearly stipend … Continue reading
Beyond the Politics of Civility and Trauma: The End of Higher Education as We Know It

The academy is entering a dangerous time. Academics now find themselves entering a time when a more comprehensive politics that deals with the rise of authoritarianism through a variety of related fundamentalisms–economic, religious, political, and educational–is being overlooked as a … Continue reading
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Tagged democracy, education, Henry Giroux, higher education, neoliberalism, privatization, public intellectuals, the university
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The University of the Spectacle

by James Compton The whole life of those universities in which modern conditions of managerialism prevail presents itself as an immense accumulation of spectacles. All scholarship that was once directly lived has become mere representation. I am reminded of this … Continue reading
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Tagged administration, education, higher education, public intellectuals, spectacle, the university
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The Canadian University and the War Against Omar Khadr

Tyler J. Pollard interviews David L. Clark Omar Khadr is a Canadian citizen who spent the first ten years of his life moving back and forth between Canada and Pakistan. In 1996 at the age of ten, he moved with … Continue reading
Posted in Democracy, Education, Featured Articles, Past Feature, Public Intellectuals, Social Justice
Tagged democracy, education, higher education, Interview, justice, Omar Khadr, peace, public intellectuals, punishing state
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Intellectuals as Subjects and Objects of Violence

By Henry A. Giroux Edward Snowden, Russ Tice, Thomas Drake, Jeremy Scahill, and Julian Assange, among others, have recently made clear what it means to embody respect for a public intellectual debate, moral witnessing and intellectual culture. They are not … Continue reading
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Tagged Henry Giroux, intellectual violence, public intellectuals, surveillance
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Conference 16-18 October 2014
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Tagged Canada, Discourse & Dynamics, Mount Allison University, public intellectuals, women
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Cultural Workers in Hamilton as Public Intellectuals
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Tagged Adam Trapp, Alexandra Epp, Atif Kubursi, cultural workers, Factory Media Centre, Hamiilton, Lee Reed, public intellectuals, Sam Siva, Sapphire Singh
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Public Intellectuals Resisting Global Violence: An Interview with Brad Evans
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Tagged Brad Evans, global violence, Grace Pollock, Histories of Violence, public intellectuals
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Carol Becker: Artists as Public Intellectuals

Watch Carol Becker, Dean of Columbia University School of the Arts, speak on how artists are redefining their role in the 21st century.
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