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<div><br></div>Dear All,<div><br></div><div><br></div><div>I am looking forward to seeing everyone in Lincoln for our planning meeting on Saturday.</div><div><br></div><div>Suggested agenda to follow shortly.</div><div><br></div><div>Is there anything that you anyone wants to include?</div><div><br></div><div>We did say that we would provide a space for children to meet and play.</div><div><br></div><div>Best wishes,</div><div><br></div><div>Mike</div><div><br><div><hr id="stopSpelling">From: nearymichael@hotmail.com<br>To: joycecanaan@blueyonder.co.uk; s.s.amsler@aston.ac.uk; ssc@lists.aktivix.org<br>Date: Fri, 7 Oct 2011 14:57:11 +0000<br>Subject: [SSC] Open Democracy: Our Kingdom<br><br>
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<div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Dear All,</div><div><br></div><div>Article on Social Science Centre now published at Open Democracy: Our Kingdom website </div><div>- http://www.opendemocracy.net/ourkingdom/mike-neary/social-science-centre-radical-new-model-for-higher-education</div><div><br></div><div>Looking forward to seeing you all in a couple of weeks.</div><div><br></div><div>Best wishes,</div><div><br></div><div>Mike</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><br><br><div>> Date: Fri, 23 Sep 2011 01:21:20 +0100<br>> From: joycecanaan@blueyonder.co.uk<br>> To: S.S.AMSLER@aston.ac.uk; ssc@lists.aktivix.org<br>> Subject: Re: [SSC] SSC Digest, Vol 9, Issue 14<br>> <br>> Thanks for opening up this discussion Richard and for adding to it Sarah.<br>> I really appreciate this opening up as it helps us think through more<br>> aspects of what it is that we are doing.<br>> <br>> Like Sarah, I think it is of utmost importance that we discuss if/how we<br>> research our developing practice. My intention in offering this suggestion<br>> initially<br>> was, as I noted in my first email, to begin to capture some of the<br>> excitement of this collaborative venture for our greater understanding of<br>> what it is that we are creating and for us to utilise to understand what<br>> is missing from the hellish state of university life that so many of us<br>> are working in. I think that the energy and possibility that the SSC is<br>> already providing is of considerable significance, as it offers us the<br>> possibility to build an alternative higher educaiton system--and as we<br>> modify it how to negotiate challenges as they arise (like this one of<br>> potentially standing in the camp of researchers of practices w are engaged<br>> in)--and to develop strategies for beginning to offer alternatives to the<br>> system that exists. How often is it that those of us who are against the<br>> system in its current form are accused of not having an alternative.<br>> Like Sarah I think that the suggestion of discussing it through articles<br>> from the Autnomous Geographies website is a great idea. However, for the<br>> next few weeks I won't be able to do so, preparing for the beginning of<br>> term and for a presentation.<br>> <br>> I just wanted, at this point, to thank you for your intervention as it is<br>> one we can think further with. I think that researching our practice and<br>> the feelings that are emergent from it is significant so if we can do this<br>> in a way that deals with the very thorny issues that the Autonomous<br>> Geographies' articles raise, that would be really helpful.<br>> <br>> I look forward to contributing to our discussion when things get easier<br>> here!<br>> <br>> Joyce<br>> <br>> <br>> On 21/09/2011 13:30, "Amsler, Sarah" <S.S.AMSLER@aston.ac.uk> wrote:<br>> <br>> >Hello all,<br>> ><br>> >Thanks, Joyce and Richard. I think this is an important discussion that<br>> >we could perhaps take up when we next meet, or arrange to otherwise do<br>> >so. It raises real qusetions about the relationships that we each might<br>> >have to the Social Science Centre and to universities, and the<br>> >relationship or not between these institutions (and ways of life). On the<br>> >one hand, I find it difficult to imagine how I might personally separate<br>> >them neatly, and wouldn't want to; it raises questions about the values<br>> >of participatory research from within the academy (as there are still<br>> >some strong and I think defensible traditions of this), co-research,<br>> >militant research, popular eduation, border crossings, complex<br>> >subjectivities, and etc. On the other hand there are pressing concerns<br>> >about the possibility of simply conflating these spaces/roles/projects<br>> >into the dominant form, which is also often the most comfortable one.<br>> ><br>> >The writing that came out of the Autonomous Geographies project would be<br>> >an absolutely excellent place to start to discuss this, in my view -- it<br>> >deals with precisely these questions, deeply, and might give us something<br>> >to talk around that is at enough distance to allow for dialogue and play.<br>> ><br>> >Best,<br>> >Sarah<br>> >________________________________________<br>> >From: ssc-bounces@lists.aktivix.org [ssc-bounces@lists.aktivix.org] on<br>> >behalf of ssc-request@lists.aktivix.org [ssc-request@lists.aktivix.org]<br>> >Sent: Wednesday, September 21, 2011 1:00 PM<br>> >To: ssc@lists.aktivix.org<br>> >Subject: SSC Digest, Vol 9, Issue 14<br>> ><br>> >Send SSC mailing list submissions to<br>> > ssc@lists.aktivix.org<br>> ><br>> >To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit<br>> > https://lists.aktivix.org/mailman/listinfo/ssc<br>> >or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to<br>> > ssc-request@lists.aktivix.org<br>> ><br>> >You can reach the person managing the list at<br>> > ssc-owner@lists.aktivix.org<br>> ><br>> >When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific<br>> >than "Re: Contents of SSC digest..."<br>> ><br>> ><br>> >Today's Topics:<br>> ><br>> > 1. Re: some thoughts (Richard Hall)<br>> > 2. really Open University - The Space Project (Andre Pusey)<br>> ><br>> ><br>> >----------------------------------------------------------------------<br>> ><br>> >Message: 1<br>> >Date: Tue, 20 Sep 2011 17:08:27 +0100<br>> >From: "Richard Hall" <RHall1@dmu.ac.uk><br>> >To: <ssc@lists.aktivix.org><br>> >Subject: Re: [SSC] some thoughts<br>> >Message-ID:<br>> > <br>> ><290C0FAF9352E54EB483CBA4ED12133C05A10439@artemis.LEC-ADMIN.dmu.ac.uk><br>> >Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"<br>> ><br>> >I've been thinking long and hard about this one, Joyce.<br>> ><br>> ><br>> ><br>> >I am happy for my contributions to add to a process that aids others and<br>> >helps us celebrate/develop our position - in that it is for us/those who<br>> >associate with us, and in that it is against the enclosed University.<br>> ><br>> ><br>> ><br>> >However, I would be more concerned if this was used by anyone as part of<br>> >their formal, funded role, for their own research agenda within the<br>> >academy. I read this tension being recognised and discussed in some of<br>> >the work of the Autonomous Geographies project:<br>> >http://www.esrc.ac.uk/my-esrc/grants/RES-000-23-0957/read<br>> ><br>> ><br>> ><br>> >I am not saying that this is what you want, Joyce. I do not read your<br>> >context below in that way. I just wish to be up-front about this issue.<br>> ><br>> ><br>> ><br>> >In solidarity.<br>> ><br>> ><br>> ><br>> >R.<br>> ><br>> ><br>> ><br>> >From: ssc-bounces@lists.aktivix.org<br>> >[mailto:ssc-bounces@lists.aktivix.org] On Behalf Of Joss Winn<br>> >Sent: 14 September 2011 14:56<br>> >To: ssc@lists.aktivix.org<br>> >Subject: Re: [SSC] some thoughts<br>> ><br>> ><br>> ><br>> >One possibility for the 'reflexive journals' is that people use the SSC<br>> >website blog for that purpose. It's available if you wish to publish<br>> >from it.<br>> ><br>> ><br>> ><br>> >If you wish to be added as an author, please let me know<br>> >(joss@josswinn.org)<br>> ><br>> ><br>> ><br>> >Joss<br>> ><br>> ><br>> ><br>> >On 14 Sep 2011, at 14:18, Joyce Canaan wrote:<br>> ><br>> ><br>> ><br>> ><br>> ><br>> >Hi all,<br>> ><br>> >I am hoping to add to the document we so constructively discussed last<br>> >Saturday within the next few days. One minor point from the email that<br>> >Joss sent: can we start at 11am until 4pm as some people can't get<br>> >there until 11?<br>> ><br>> ><br>> ><br>> >I have some additional thoughts I wanted us to discuss.I mentioned at<br>> >the meeting on Saturday that I would love to start researching the<br>> >process by which we are working (and would be keen to do so with<br>> >others). To this end, can I suggest that we discuss the possibility of<br>> >voice recording our meetings so that it might be possible to analyse the<br>> >processes by which we are working together-and dealing with challenges<br>> >as and when they arrive--so that we can develop these processes more<br>> >effectively in future and share our insights with others trying to set<br>> >up similar projects? This would of course need consent from all. Second,<br>> >whether or not people feel comfortable with voice recordings, might<br>> >some of us begin to create reflexive journals on the process itself and<br>> >its impact on other aspects of our lives? I ask this because I am<br>> >beginning to see that the thinking that we are doing together is helping<br>> >me realise how limiting the current HE system is and how my contribution<br>> >to the SSC stems from the strategies that I have been developing to cope<br>> >with and seek to transform this system. My pleasure with our work comes<br>> >partly from recognising that we are engaged in a process of creating<br>> >powerful alternative ontologies and epistemologies of and for all<br>> >aspects of the university as a process. Thus our re-imagining and<br>> >reconstructing (or as Mike said elsewhere), 'reinventing' the social<br>> >sciences through thinking collectively, collaboratively, respectfully,<br>> >and learning from and with others who are at least in some ways<br>> >likeminded, fills me with pleasure, delight and energy. I think it<br>> >would be interesting to explore what we are bringing to and getting from<br>> >this process as these factors are crucial to understanding what we are<br>> >engaged in creating.<br>> ><br>> ><br>> ><br>> >Joyce<br>> ><br>> ><br>> ><br>> >_______________________________________________<br>> >SSC mailing list<br>> >SSC@lists.aktivix.org<br>> >https://lists.aktivix.org/mailman/listinfo/ssc<br>> ><br>> ><br>> ><br>> >-------------- next part --------------<br>> >An HTML attachment was scrubbed...<br>> >URL: <br>> ><https://lists.aktivix.org/pipermail/ssc/attachments/20110920/a10faebb/att<br>> >achment-0001.htm><br>> ><br>> >------------------------------<br>> ><br>> >Message: 2<br>> >Date: Tue, 20 Sep 2011 17:23:51 +0100<br>> >From: Andre Pusey <gyap@leeds.ac.uk><br>> >To: "ssc@lists.aktivix.org" <ssc@lists.aktivix.org><br>> >Subject: [SSC] really Open University - The Space Project<br>> >Message-ID:<br>> > <br>> ><03FEE575BFE70B4AA3BB5014DC59648B01888B80DB94@HERMES8.ds.leeds.ac.uk><br>> >Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"<br>> ><br>> >Dear all,<br>> ><br>> >Was sorry not to be able to make the SSC meeting in Lincoln, a few of us<br>> >in Leeds involved with the ROU had hoped to come down.<br>> ><br>> >Below are details of a new Really Open University initiative we are<br>> >working on. It aims to find some space between social centres and<br>> >projects such as the Social Science Centre.<br>> ><br>> >Hope to make it to the next SSC meeting.<br>> ><br>> >Best,<br>> >Andre<br>> ><br>> >http://reallyopenuniversity.wordpress.com/2011/09/14/the-space-project/<br>> ><br>> >The Space Project<br>> ><br>> >We would like to invite you to an open meeting to help us shape a new<br>> >vibrant venue for discussions, film showings, seminars, talks, workshops,<br>> >reading groups, archives, enquiries and other creative projects.<br>> ><br>> >The space will be close to Leeds City Centre hosting events that explore<br>> >social change (broadly defined) in an engaged and participatory way.<br>> >Facilitated by the Really Open University, we're seeking other groups and<br>> >individuals who would like to contribute to the life of the space by<br>> >hosting events and contributing to building a non-commercial,<br>> >self-managed space in Leeds.<br>> ><br>> >Do you have something you think you would like to do? Come along to our<br>> >open meeting or please get in touch with us at<br>> >wearethespaceproject@gmail.com<mailto:wearethespaceproject@gmail.com><br>> ><br>> >Where: The Space Project, 37-38 Mabgate green, Leeds<br>> >When: Tuesday October 4th 7:30pm<br>> >Facebook event: https://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=123462997754485<br>> ><br>> >The 'space project' will be run as a not-for-profit venture, with no paid<br>> >staff and events being free or donations-only.<br>> ><br>> ><br>> ><br>> >Andre Pusey<br>> >School of Geography<br>> >University of Leeds<br>> >(0113) 343 6757<br>> >gyap@leeds.ac.uk<br>> ><br>> >-------------- next part --------------<br>> >An HTML attachment was scrubbed...<br>> >URL: <br>> ><https://lists.aktivix.org/pipermail/ssc/attachments/20110920/0c8b0160/att<br>> >achment-0001.htm><br>> ><br>> >------------------------------<br>> ><br>> >_______________________________________________<br>> >SSC mailing list<br>> >SSC@lists.aktivix.org<br>> >https://lists.aktivix.org/mailman/listinfo/ssc<br>> ><br>> ><br>> >End of SSC Digest, Vol 9, Issue 14<br>> >**********************************<br>> ><br>> >_______________________________________________<br>> >SSC mailing list<br>> >SSC@lists.aktivix.org<br>> >https://lists.aktivix.org/mailman/listinfo/ssc<br>> <br>> <br>> <br>> _______________________________________________<br>> SSC mailing list<br>> SSC@lists.aktivix.org<br>> https://lists.aktivix.org/mailman/listinfo/ssc<br></div> </div>
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