In their current, much criticised shape, university departments that provide education in social sciences are often presented as demented and inertia-driven institutions that hopelessly lag behind the galloping real world with its rapidly transforming social relations heavily shaped by the emergence of new technologies.
The students and faculty of the Department of International Relations at Central European University, take this critique seriously and would like to create a radical opening that could ensure an influx of new practices and ideas for the university of the future. They would like to scrutinize the current deficiencies of academic institutions and provide an online platform for new forms of expression and knowledge production.
For the first event in the post-University project, they focus on topics native to International Relations. However, without imposing any predetermined parameters for valuable knowledge claims, we welcome activists, intellectuals, artists, academics, as well as all concerned individuals to send us their ideas that could shape the university of the future and define its ultimate meaning and goals.