<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Arial; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 20px/normal Cambria; min-height: 23px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px; "><span style="font: 20.0px Cambria"><b>Global University </b></span><i>Labour, Struggles and the Common within the Crisis</i></span><b></b></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 16px/normal Cambria; "><i> </i></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 16px/normal Cambria; "><i>Giovedì, 11 Giugno 2009 - Università di Roma ‘La Sapienza’, Facoltà di Lettere</i></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 19px/normal Cambria; "><i> </i></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 16px/normal Cambria; "><b>10.00- 13.00- The rise of the Global University, and its Crisis</b></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Arial; min-height: 15px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Cambria; "><span style="font: 19.0px Cambria"><b> </b></span>Introduction:<span style="font: 19.0px Cambria"> </span><span style="font: 17.0px Cambria">Claudia Bernardi</span><span style="font: 19.0px Cambria"> -</span>Edufactory Collective</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; text-align: justify; font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Cambria; "><span style="font: 19.0px Cambria"> </span><span style="font: 17.0px Cambria">Andrew Ross</span><span style="font: 19.0px Cambria">- </span>New York University</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; text-align: justify; font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Cambria; "><span style="font: 19.0px Cambria"> </span><span style="font: 17.0px Cambria">Stefano Harney</span><span style="font: 19.0px Cambria">- </span>Queen Mary University of London</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; text-align: justify; font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Cambria; "><span style="font: 17.0px Cambria"> Morgan Adamson-</span><span style="font: 19.0px Cambria"> </span>University of Minnesota</div><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: justify; font: 19.0px Cambria"> </p><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; text-align: justify; font: normal normal normal 16px/normal Cambria; "> <b>14.30- 18.00- The Global Struggles within the Crisis</b></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; text-align: justify; font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Arial; min-height: 15px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; text-align: justify; font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Cambria; ">Introduction:<span style="font: 19.0px Cambria"> </span><span style="font: 17.0px Cambria">Tania Rispoli</span><span style="font: 19.0px Cambria"> -</span>Scienze politiche in onda</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; text-align: justify; font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Cambria; "><span style="font: 17.0px Cambria">Dillip Kumar Dash</span><span style="font: 19.0px Cambria">- </span>University of Hyderbrad</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; text-align: justify; font: normal normal normal 17px/normal Cambria; ">Pedro Mendes Barbosa<span style="font: 19.0px Cambria">- </span><span style="font: 13.0px Cambria">Uninomade Brazil</span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; text-align: justify; font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Cambria; "><span style="font: 17.0px Cambria">Christopher Newfield-</span><span style="font: 19.0px Cambria"> </span>University of California Santa Barbara</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; text-align: justify; font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Arial; min-height: 15px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; text-align: justify; font: normal normal normal 19px/normal Cambria; "><i> </i></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 17px/normal Cambria; ">Queen Mary University of London, School of Business and Management (Londra)</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 17px/normal Cambria; ">Anomalous wave, Lettere in Onda (Roma)</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 17px/normal Cambria; ">edu-factory (trasnational network<span style="font: 13.0px Cambria">)</span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; text-align: justify; font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Cambria; "><i> </i></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; text-align: justify; font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Cambria; "><i> </i></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; text-align: justify; font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Cambria; color: rgb(57, 94, 171); "><span style="text-decoration: underline"><a href="http://www.edu-factory.org/">www.edu-factory.org</a></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; text-align: justify; font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Cambria; color: rgb(57, 94, 171); "><span style="text-decoration: underline"><a href="http://www.factoryofthecommon.org/">www.factoryofthecommon.org</a></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; text-align: justify; font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Cambria; color: rgb(57, 94, 171); "><span style="text-decoration: underline"><a href="http://www.busman.qmul.ac.uk/gl">www.busman.qmul.ac.uk/gl</a></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; text-align: justify; font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Cambria; color: rgb(57, 94, 171); "><span style="text-decoration: underline"><a href="http://www.uniriot.org/">www.uniriot.org</a></span></div><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: right; font: 13.0px Cambria"> </p><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; text-align: justify; font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Candara; "> “As was the factory, so now is the university. Where once the factory was a paradigmatic site of struggle between workers and capitalists, so now the university is a key space of conflict, where the ownership of knowledge, the reproduction of the labour force, and the creation of social and cultural stratifications are all at stake.” A few years ago in its manifesto, the edu-factory collective underlined the <b>productive and conflictive dimension of the contemporary university</b>.</div><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: justify; font: 13.0px Candara"> </p><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; text-align: justify; font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Candara; ">But in fact the university does not at all function like a factory, and we are not nostalgic for the struggles of the past. This statement was rather the indication of a political problem. If we begin with the incommensurable spatio-temporal differences between the actual functions of the university and those of the factory, what are the political stakes of their comparison? In other words: how can the problem of organization be rethought in the aftermath of the demise of its traditional forms such as the union and the political party?</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; text-align: justify; font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Candara; min-height: 15px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; text-align: justify; font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Candara; ">Today the economic crisis has opened new spaces to rethink the function of the university and the <b>production of knowledge itself on a global scale</b>. In other words, we have the chance to rethink the rise of the global university, as well as its crisis. Within edu-factory, we refer to this as the double crisis. On the one hand it is an acceleration of the crisis specific to the university that marks its end, the inevitable result of its eroded epistemological status; on the other hand it is also the crisis of postfordist conditions of labor and value, many of which circulate through the university.</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; text-align: justify; font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Candara; min-height: 15px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; text-align: justify; font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Candara; ">“We won’t pay for your crisis”: this was the slogan of Italian “<b>Anomalous Wave</b>”, that is, the refusal to pay the cost of economic crisis and the crisis of university itself. The slogan was translated in other struggles, in different forms but with a common goal. Starting from this point, we want to outline this double crisis from a global perspective. From <b>India</b> to<b>Brazil</b>, from <b>US</b> to <b>Europe</b>, we want to focus on different experiences to think about the production of <b>a transnational common space of debate and action</b>.</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; text-align: justify; font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Candara; min-height: 15px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; text-align: center; font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Candara; ">**********************************</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; text-align: justify; font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Candara; ">“Ciò che una volta era la fabbrica, ora lo è l’università. Dove una volta la fabbrica era un luogo paradigmatico di conflitto tra operai e capitalisti, così ora l’università è un luogo chiave del conflitto, dove la proprietà del sapere, la riproduzione della forza- lavoro, e la creazione di stratificazioni sociali e culturali sono tutte rimesse in gioco.” Alcuni anni fa, nel suo manifesto, il collettivo edu-factory sottolineava la <b>dimensione produttiva e conflittuale dell’università</b> contemporanea.</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; text-align: justify; font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Candara; min-height: 15px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; text-align: justify; font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Candara; ">Ma infatti, l`università non funziona esattamente come una fabbrica, e non abbiamo alcuna nostalgia delle lotte del passato. Quest’affermazione era piuttosto l’indicazione di un problema politico. Nelle incommensurabili differenze spaziali e temporali tra le attuali funzioni dell’università e quelle della fabbrica, quali sono le scommesse politiche di questo paragone? In altre parole: come il problema dell’organizzazione può essere ripensato in seguito alla dismissione delle forme tradizionali come i sindacati e i partiti politici?</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; text-align: justify; font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Candara; min-height: 15px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; text-align: justify; font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Candara; ">Oggi la crisi economica ha aperto nuovi spazi per ripensare la funzione dell`università e della stessa <b>produzione di sapere a livello globale</b>. In altre parole, per ripensare l’ascesa della global university, come quella della sua crisi. Con il termine edu factory ci riferiamo a ciò come a una doppia crisi. Da un lato costituisce un’accelerazione di una crisi specifica dell`università che ne definisce la sua fine, il risultato inevitabile del suo status epistemologico ormai eroso. Dall`altro ci riferiamo alla crisi delle condizioni di lavoro postfordiste, crisi della misura e del valore, che serpeggiano nelle università stesse.</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; text-align: justify; font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Candara; min-height: 15px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; text-align: justify; font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Candara; ">“Noi la crisi non la paghiamo”: questo è lo slogan dell’<b>Onda Anomala</b> che afferma il rifiuto a pagare la crisi economica e anche quella dell`università stessa. Questo slogan è stato tradotto in altre lotte, in differenti forme, ma con uno scopo comune. A partire da qui, vogliamo sottolineare questa doppia crisi da una prospettiva globale. Dall`<b>India</b> al <b>Brasile</b>, dagli <b>USA</b> all`<b>Europa</b>, focalizzando differenti esperienze per pensare la costruzione di uno <b>spazio comune</b> <b>transnazionale</b> di dibattito e azione.</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; text-align: justify; font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Cambria; min-height: 15px; "><i></i><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; text-align: justify; font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Cambria; color: rgb(57, 94, 171); "><span style="color: #000000">more info: <a href="mailto:info@edu-factory.org"><span style="text-decoration: underline"><b>info@edu-factory.org</b></span></a></span></div></body></html>