Northwestern Events Calendar

Feb
11
2016

What's Critical in Globalizing Knowledge? Power, Networks, and Norms in Transforming Universities

When: Thursday, February 11, 2016
5:00 PM - 7:00 PM CT

Where: Harris Hall, 108, 1881 Sheridan Road, Evanston, IL 60208 map it

Audience: Faculty/Staff - Student - Post Docs/Docs - Graduate Students

Contact: Jacqueline Stevens   (847) 467-2093

Group: Global Research University

Category: Global & Civic Engagement

Description:

Professor Michael Kennedy joins us to discuss his book Globalizing Knowledge. In his book, Kennedy explains how intellectuals and their knowledge institutions and networks shape, and are shaped by, global transformations. This cultural political sociology of knowledge and change is informed by his analysis of public engagements around inequality, nationalism, solidarity and energy across the world, especially in the USA, Europe and Eurasia.

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