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Seminar at the London Institute “Cognitive Capitalism, Education and the Question of Digital
Labour”, Michael A. Peters & Tina (A.C.) Besley, Monday, 21 November, 12.30 - 2.00.
Seminar at the University of Cardiff “White Philosophy in/of America”, Michael A. Peters & Tina
Besley OMEC: School of Journalism, Media and Cultural Studies
Race, Representation and
Cultural Politics Research Group & (Re)Constructing Multiculturalism Research Network ,
November 25
Seminar at the University of Glasgow “Interculturalism, Education and Dialogue”
Tina Besley & Michael A. Peters, November 27 2012
SUSTAINABILITY AND EDUCATION POLICY NETWORK (SEPN), Project Planning
Meeting, Toronto, September 21-22, 2011 “Discourses of Sustainability: Policies and the Force of
the Declarative”
PESA Conference, December 2011 Interculturalism, Education and Dialogue: A New Path for
Philosophy of Education Tina Besley and Michael A. Peters, December
Learned Societies and Their Role in Knowledge Creation, Symposium with Nesta Devine and
Peter Roberts, PESA Annual conference, December, 2011
History, Philosophy and Social Theory in Education Research Network (HiPSTer) Conference
University of Waikato, 9 December,
Educational Philosophy and Politics
Conference on Higher Education Management (funded), National Taichung University of
Education, Taiwan, Invited Keynote, 22 December
Cosmopolitanism, communication and citizenship education (funded) Stockholm, Swedish
Research Council “The purpose of this international research conference, held at Örebro
University February 2-3, 2012, is to invite prominent scholars with elaborated different views of
these questions for deliberation together with other researchers who are invited to present papers.”
The Ethical Challenge of Multidisciplinarity: Reconciling ‘The Three Narratives’—Art, Science,
and Philosophy, July 2 – 6, 2012 in Cyprus
2010
Discussant on Heidegger Symposium, AERA Sunday May 2
nd
, 2010.
(With Tina Besley) Roundtable on Narrative Enquiry, AERA May 2
nd
, 2010.
Web 2.0 and the Transformation of Knowledge and Education, PES Conference, San Francisco,
April 9, 2010.
Philosophical Forms of Intercultural Dialogue, Invited Presentation Departments of Foreign
Studies Guangzhou University, March 2010.
Exploring the New Paradigm of Intercultural Education, Invited Presentation Departments of
Foreign Studies Guangzhou University, March 2010.
(With Tina Besley) Subjectivity and Truth, Philosophy Department, South China University,
March 2010.
2009
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Cultural Exchange, Study Abroad and Discourse of the Other, ‘Re-considering Indigenous
Ontologies and Epistemologies in the 21st Century’, PESA conference, East-West Center,
University of Hawaii, December 2009.
(with Tina Besley) The Narrative Turn in Educational Research
,
PESA conference, East-West
Center, University of Hawaii, December 2009.
The Philosopher as Exile
,
PESA conference, East-West Center, University of Hawaii, December
2009 (
http://www2.hawaii.edu/~pesaconf/
)
.
Rorty and the Cultural Politics of Conversation, Keynote at International Colloquium on
Richard
Rorty, UFRJ Campus UFRJ - Campus Praia Vermelha, Botafogo, Rio de Janeiro, 20-24
October, 2009 (http://www.richardrorty.com.br/).
Leo Strauss and the Neoconservative Critique of the Liberal University: Postmodernism,
Relativism and the Culture Wars, ‘Leo Strauss, Education and Political Thought’, AESA,
November 4, Pittsburg, 2009.
(with Tina Besley) Academic Entrepreneurship and the Creative Economy, ‘Walking in two shoes:
Institutional Creativity – Universities in Transformation’ Symposium ECER conference
28.9. – 30.9, 2009, Vienna, Austria.
Official Opponent at the Doctoral Defense of Essays on Radical Educational Philosophy by Olli-
Pekka Moisio, published in Jyväskylä Studies in Education, Psychology and Social
Research, 2009.
2008
‘Openness’ and ‘Open Education’ in the Global Digital Economy: An Emerging Paradigm of
Social Production.
Seminar given at the Bath Royal Literary and Scientific Institution on
Friday 7th March 2008 as part of an ESRC seminar series. Paper, video and audio available
at
http://www.bath.ac.uk/education/news/news0035.html
; for the presentation see,
http://www.authorstream.com/Presentation/rousseau1789-102281-prof-michael-peters-
edtech-classroom-conference-2008-education-ppt-powerpoint/
Open Education as a Mode of Social Production, 'Open Knowledge Systems: Scholarly and
Educational Futures' Symposium, PESA Annual Conference, Queensland University of
Technology, Thursday
4 December 2008.
The Virtues of Openness: The Politics of Academic Publishing, RMIT, 12th December, 2008.
Designing Citizens: City Space, Architecture and Subjectivity. Keynote presentation at Art,
Knowledge, and Globalization Symposium, Reimagining the Urban Habitus, RMIT, 10th
December, 2008.
Invitation to be an expert speaker and participant by the U.S. Civilian Research and Development
Foundation (CRDF) at the two-day ‘International Conference on Science and Education
Policies for Central and Eastern Europe, Balkans, Caucasus, and Baltic States’ held in
Chisinau, Moldova, September 18-21, 2008.
Invitation to participate in National Science Foundation (NSF) Workshop, ‘Developing a Research
Design for Short-Term and Long-Term Impacts of International Collaborative Science and
Engineering Projects’, NSF Headquarters, 4201 Wilson Blvd., Arlington, VA, July 28 and
29, 2008.
(With Tina Besley) Gender, Education & New Technologies: Assessing the Evidence; Girls,
Social Media & Social Networking: Harnessing the talent. Two 3-hour Interactive
Workshops, Post-Graduate Program, ‘Gender and New Educational and Employment
Environments in the Information Age’, Summer Workshops on Gender at the University
of the Aegean, Rhoades, Greece, 8-9 July, 2008.
Education and the Culture of Openness: New Architectures of Collaboration, ‘Education, Culture
and the Knowledge Economy?’ Education Policy and the Knowledge Economy Centre for
Innovation Law & Policy, Faculty of Law, University of Toronto, June 6
th
, 2008.