Visiting Specialist: Kris Olds
Dr. Olds (bio) is Professor of Geography, University of Wisconsin-Madison. He received his doctorate in Human Geography from the University of Bristol (England), and he taught previously at the National University of Singapore and at the University of Bristol. The faculty page on his department’s website details his many research projects, and his research-blog, GlobalHigherEd, is especially informative.
The Global: New Knowledge Spaces and Places
November 2 & 3, 2009
The Office of Global Affairs hosted the second "Global Brandeis Symposium," which also marked the launch of the new Brandeis graduate program in Global Studies.
Keynote talk: "Cross-Border Higher Education, Authoritarianism, and the Global Goverance of Academic Freedom"
Dr. Kris Olds, University of Wisconsin-Madison
5:00 p.m., Monday, November 2
Rapaporte Treasure Hall, Goldfarb Library
Featured guest Dr. Kris Olds, Professor of Geography, University of Wisconsin-Madison, delivered the keynote lecture entitled “Cross-Border Higher Education, Authoritarianism, and the Global Governance of Academic Freedom.”
"Student and Faculty Responses"
9:00 - 10:30 a.m., Tuesday, November 3
Faculty Club Lounge
This session, moderated by Prof. Chandler Rosenberger, Assistant Professor of International and Global Studies and Sociology, provided an opportunity for students and faculty to continue the discussion of Dr. Olds’ Monday lecture and to broaden the discussion by considering several of his recent papers on related themes.
"Places of Knowledge, Forms of Knowledge"
1:30 - 3:00 p.m., Tuesday, November 3
Brown 218
This session, moderated by Prof. Richard Parmentier, Director of the Global Studies Program, discussed the connection between institutional configurations (spatial, regional, architectural, etc.) and forms of cultural production (discourse, texts, images, etc.) generated in these transnational, diasporic, and global places. Brandeis faculty made brief presentations of their ongoing research and thinking related to the general topic: “Places of Knowledge, Forms of Knowledge.” Faculty presenters included Mark Auslander, Elizabeth Ferry, Talinn Grigor, and Ulka Anjaria.
To view Kris Olds' readings, click here.