Registration Fees Cost

BERA Student Member £15.00

BERA Teacher Member £20.00
BERA Member £25.00
Student £25.00

DYSTOPIAN
Non Member £45.00

REALITIES AND
Dystopian and utopian thinking can inform and influence the perceptions,
experiences and hopes of Higher Education practitioners. The current
‘ground’ of curricular practice, the functionalised architecture of university
environment, and the increasing shift towards technological bureaucracies

UTOPIAN THOUGHT:
are all operating to stymie the freedom, creativity and criticality of HE
academics. The need for alternative, transformative and critical horizons
to envisage a Higher Education of and for ‘hope’, is now essential. This
event will offer delegates space, ideas, and practices that will hopefully

ALTERNATIVE
translate in to ‘tactics for action’ for our respective HE environments.

As modes of enquiry, critique and praxis, dystopia and utopia can offer

FUTURES FOR
glimpses of higher education as a space of hope, higher education
reconfigured as a site of possibility. This event is a call for utopian and
critical dystopian engagement with higher education as a terrain of
struggle, to explore the possibilities that philosophy, pedagogy and

ACADEMIC PRACTICE
technology can offer for overcoming the political tourniquets of our
contemporary environments.

The event is for all interested in higher education and other post
compulsory domains of education including: higher education academics;
college-based HE academics; informal educators; postgraduate/research
THURSDAY 23RD APRIL 2020 students and community education practitioners.

9.15 AM - 15.30 PM
Call for abstracts:
UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD Potential collaborators are invited to submit abstracts, that address
the main theme: Dystopian Realities and Utopian Thought: Alternative
Futures for Academic Practice. Submit online today!
Deadline for submission: 27th of February 2020
Bursary Information
BERA are offering a limited amount of
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bursaries, please complete the form online
with a statement on why you want to attend
this event and why you need the financial @BERANews | #BERA_ Dystopian&utopianthinking
assistance.

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