Conference Ethnographies of High Education: researching and reflecting “at home” provides platform for the presentation and sharing of ethnographic research concerning the issues of policy, positionality, engagement in higher education and heterogeneity of the field of higher education (research).
Conference will be accompanied by methodological workshop on ethnographic effects of studying higher education.
Conference will bring together scholars in the field from around the world and will be focused rather on intensive disscusions in small groups supplemented by keynote lectures by Paul Trowler, Susan Wright and Wesley Shumar (see preliminary programme).
Conference is jointly organised by Centre for Higher Education Studies, Prague, Institute of Sociology of Academy of Sciences of CR and University of Pardubice.
Venue
For information about accomodation during your stay in Prague, please contact main organiser Karel Sima (karel.sima@centrum.cz)
Main conference programme will be held in the building of Center for Economic Research & Graduate Education – Economics Institute (Charles University, Academy of Sciences of CR), contact information
Opening public lecture will be held at Faculty of Arts, Charles University contact information, map
Dates
Conference 22-24 May 2013
Deadline for proposals 15 January 2013
Proposal confirmation 15 February 2013
Deadline for registration 15 April 2013