Online CHEF talks and webinars in October 2021

Chef Talk


What is it like to be a Playful Academic, and how can we forge ways to get there?

PUP Talk (webinar)


Date: 
October 11, 2021, 15.00-16.30

Venue: Online. Participants will recieve a Zoom-Link closer to the event.

FeeFree

Speakers: Pedro Gonzales-Fernande, PhD student, HfMT in Hamburg, Germany
                   Katrin Heimann, Postdoc, Interacting Minds Center at Aarhus University, Denmark
                   Annika Lübbert, PhD student, Department of Neuro- and Pathophysiology, University Medical Centre Hamburg-                          Eppendorf, Germany

Registration deadline: 
October 6, 2021

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Abstract

The research team, consisting of Pedro Gonzales-Fernande, Katrin Heimann and Annika Lübbert describes: "In this session, we introduce the theories and backgrounds that inspired our ‘scores for the playful academic’ - short sets of instructions that help us bring playfulness into our work as researchers. We also invite you to explore these scores with us: in an hour and a half, we level the space for games, listening, movement and writing to play an active part in our academic projects and collaboration."

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Higher Education Reform in Nepal

CHEF-Talk


Date: 
October 14, 2021, 15.00-16.00

Venue: Online. Participants will recieve a Zoom-Link closer to the event.

FeeFree

Speaker: Nitya Nanda Timsina, Roskilde University

Registration deadline: 
October 11, 2021

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Abstract

Nitya Nanda Timsinas interest in this presentation particularly stems from her effort to revisit her doctoral thesis: 'Discourse of higher education reform in Nepal - towards neoliberalism' - an idea that the world is best governed by invisible hands of the markets. Nityas research shows that this reform, which manifests through the language and vocabulary outside the historical structure and consciousness of the Nepalese, is not driven by community of scholars, let alone understood by the people of Nepal. In that she argues, how neoliberalism as a way of describing human life through a system of winners and losers, is negotiating this reform. 

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