ISTTT2107

Call for Papers

“SCIENCE, PHILOSOPHY, TECHNOLOGY: RESISTING A POST-TRUTH WORLD”

Dates: Sunday Aug 16 and Monday Aug 17

Location: St Hugh’s College, Oxford University

Website: https://gcas.ie/summer-institute-2020

Description: Recent political and economic events across the globe have both revealed and galvanized a systematic repulsion of truth and science through strategic, nefarious and overt campaigns. This conference begins with the belief that the university has largely surrendered its raison d'ê·tre to the pressures of a profit-centred economic paradigm that has created massive debts for students, compromised research protections and academic freedoms for faculty, and undermined quality teaching. Consequently, the pressures to make profits in education have also undermined the pursuit of truth and truth-telling in research findings, which have unleashed decades of unaccountable corporate activities that have threatened the environment and the health of democratic institutions. The conference creates a space in which strategies and tactics can be exchanged for recovering the locus classicus of the scholars’ responsibility to truth, students and to society.

Topics: Neoliberalism and Education, Technologies and Education, Critical Theory and Critical Pedagogy, Religion and Truth Telling, Philosophy and Technology, Blockchain and Decentralization, Anarchism and Cryptocurrency, Democracy and Philosophy.  

Submission Deadline: 1 April 2020. The committee will evaluate your submission and reply by 10 April. If your paper is accepted, you will be expected to register for the Conference/Institute by 14 April, 2020. You will have 20 minutes to present your paper with a 5 minute question and answer session.

Committee Members: Tere Vaden, Creston Davis, Shaun Henson, Nina Power

Keynote Speakers: Tariq Ali, William Desmond, Nina Power, Tere Vaden

Outcomes: GCAS has had many outcomes that emerge from our conferences, seminars and institutes including films and a forthcoming book, Practicing Intellectual Resistance. It is our intention to publish some of the presentations in various forms including, film, academic peer-reviewed publishing platforms, books, and other platforms.