6th Annual Philosophy and Theory of Higher Education Conference
11-13 June 2024
Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway
Welcome to Trondheim in June!
In June academics from all of the world meet in Trondheim, joined in thinking, deliberation, imagination and dialogue on the foundational questions of higher education – across history, culture and context. We hope to see you there!
The deadline for registration is 15 May.
Register here! Note that this year we have a reduced fee for PaTHES members!
This year’s conference – Higher Education Brought to Life – bring people together to confer in the most human sense; to come together for three days to play with philosophical ideas and to theorise on higher education as we know it and as we aspire it to be – in engaging formats, bringing some of the core practices of the university to life. On the second day we will come together in three different «tracks» – CULTURE (time and body), NATURE (space and place) and COMMUNITY (of difference), and work collectively with the unique, multivoiced compilation of short essays authored for the conference book.
Keynote 1 – 11 June: Theorizing Education with Pädagogik
Marit Honerød Hoveid, Norwegian University of Science and Technology
By following some of the history of Pädagogik one can re-discover a rich theorizing of the central phenomena of education. Finding and doing distinctions related to education internationally is difficult due to the intertwining of concepts, interpretations and understandings in their cultural embeddedness. Theorizing higher education, however, opens the means for asking fundamental questions related to teaching and learning in higher education and to problematize what higher education is for. Through my keynote I hope to open for a discussion about education beyond understandings of its obvious practices – into the phenomena constituting ‘Pädagogik’ in higher education.
Keynote 2 – 13 June: Experimental collective commitments in restoring life to higher education
Ramsey Affifi, University of Edinburgh & Jakub Krzeski, Nicolaus Copernicus University
The second keynote for the PaTHES Conference 2024 advocates for a reimagined role of critique in academia, emphasizing its place in collective action and shared commitments to revitalize higher education. Through a conversational dialogue, Jakub and Ramsey explore how, despite better intentions, academics’ work often reproduces deadening academic practices and cultures. In particular, the authors explore the paradoxical nature of critique, acknowledging it often creates division and distraction, but how it also has potential for renewing life to higher education. Hence the keynote includes an interactive component, during which participants are urged to reflect on their complicity in the current state of academia and to redeploy critique into creating «experimental collective commitments”. This approach aims to foster a culture of collaboration and renewal, empowering attendees to shape the future of academia through meaningful engagement, built on the encounters during the conference.
Symposium – 11 June: Philosophy and Theory of Higher Education
How to understand philosophy and theory within our broad and heterogenous field of study of philosophy and theory of higher education?
Sean Sturm (University of Auckland), Maria Ahmad (University of Auckland) and Yanzhen Zhu (University of Hong Kong) will help us bring different voices from our community together to open up this theme and invite discussion, perhaps relating to the greater theme of the conference “Higher Education Brought to Life” or to discuss disciplinary or interpretive distinctions, traditions, or regional and cultural approaches.
Welcome!
The conference is organized by Uniped/Department for Education and Lifelong Learning, NTNU
Contact:
Main Conference Organizer: Dagrun Astrid Aarø Engen
Conference Administrator: Ragnhild Berge
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