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<div dir="ltr"><div><br></div>Dear Scholars,<div><br></div><div>Please see below suggested outline for the paper to be presented at the Edu-factory conference in Toronto at the end of this month - http://torontoedufactory.wordpress.com/category/program/. I am providing this outline as the basis for our writing workshop next monday evening.</div><div><br></div><div>The title for the paper is 'Social Science Centre: An institution of the commons?' I get the notion of 'institution of the commons' from a recent book by Gigi Roggoro: 'The Production of Living Knowledge - The Crisis of the University and the Transformation of Labour in Europe and North America', published in 2011. As you see from the conference timetable the book forms something of a centre piece to the whole event.</div><div><br></div><div>SSC scholars have remarked that the title of the conference, 'The University is Ours', is problematic, as it assumes a type of ownership that many of us are working against, and is, indeed, implied in the notion of 'the commons'. I suggest, therefore, that the paper is written with that critical sensibility in mind. It would also provide a nice framing for my presentation: I am presenting the paper written together with members on behalf of the SSC. In other words, none of us own the SSC.</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Suggested outline</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>What is the SSC? - co-op/pedagogy/ awards/subscription and funding/ types of memberships and broadness of perspectives/location</div><div><br></div><div>Context - HE policy in UK. This is an international conference so will need to explain brief history of HE policy in England and rest of UK</div><div><br></div><div>Part of network of radical alternatives to mainstream HE - Really Useful University, Free Liverpool University, Tent City U etc</div><div><br></div><div>A work in progress - How are we bringing this together, and what are the problematic issues</div><div><br></div><div>SSC and 'the commons': in what way is the SSC an 'institution of the commons", or might we want to define ourselves in another way?</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><br><div><div id="SkyDrivePlaceholder"></div><hr id="stopSpelling">Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2012 13:20:20 +0100<br>From: simonewright73@googlemail.com<br>To: ssc@lists.aktivix.org<br>Subject: [SSC] SSC meeting on 25/4/2012<br><br><div>Dear all,</div>
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<div>This is to confirm that the evening SSC meeting on Wednesday, 25 April will be held in the social space at the <a href="http://www.nomadtrust.org.uk/page.asp?cID=31" target="_blank">Pathways Centre</a> from 7:30-9:30 p.m. (located on Beaumont Fee in Lincoln). The Centre has generously opened their doors to us for our meeting.</div>
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<div>Best,</div>
<div>Sarah<br><br></div><br>
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