Intellectual Integrity? How to be a public intellectual
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Tiens voilà un truc très “seenthis”, un débat intéressant , utile et urgent en France :) :
Intellectual Integrity? How to be a public intellectual
9th—10th July 2013
University of York
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The Integrity Project (www.projectintegrity.wordpress.com) is collaborating with the board of studies for academic practice to organise a series of events on the theme Intellectual Integrity? How to be a public intellectual.
These events explore the different ways in which the role of public intellectual can be enacted, both inside and outside the academy, and the different pressures, compromises, and opportunities that one aspiring to that role can expect to face. We will ask: what is it to be a public- intellectual, and can one step into the role without compromising one’s integrity?
Intellectual Integrity? is a chance for new and established academics, public figures, post-grads, students, and York residents to think about and discuss the risks and rewards of stepping outside the university or engaging in academic life as a public intellectual.
The Integrity Project explores the psychological, social, institutional and political preconditions for acting and speaking with integrity; those which undermine the possibility of maintaining integrity; and the consequences on individuals and societies of widespread failures integrity. Addressing this brings together social anthropologists and sociologists; philosophers and political and cultural theorists; and historians and scholars of literature and the arts. It also involves people actually living and working in circumstances which compromise or enable their acting with integrity, interested in changing or extending those practical circumstances, and reflecting on the benefits and risks of so doing