UHM in Age of Globalization: Impact of the Military-Industrial-Academic Paradigm

Spring 2008 Speaker Series
INTERNATIONAL CULTURAL STUDIES CERTIFICATE PROGRAM

UH-Manoa in the Age of Globalization: The Impact of the ‘Military-Industrial-Academic’ Paradigm

Panel Discussants:
Geoffrey White: Anthropology and East West Center
Wimal Dissanayake: Academy of Creative Media
Richard Nettell: English
Kathy Ferguson: Political Science and Women’s Studies
Ming-Bao Yue: East Asian Languages & Literature [Moderator]

There has been a growing concern amongst academics at the increasing corporatization of the university and the transformation of academia into what John Armitage (2005) has called the “hypermodern militarized knowledge factory.” Building upon President Eisenhower’s warning about the rise of the “military-industrial complex” and Senator William Fulbright’s concern about the more expansive “military-industrial-academic complex,” Henry Giroux resurrects this concept in his latest book, The University In Chains: Confronting the Military-Industrial-Academic Complex to argue that “higher education represents one of the most important spheres in which the battle for democracy is currently being waged” (2007). The struggle for the university as a democratic public sphere and a site for independent knowledge production demands a new understanding of what it means to view the university as a “place to think in relation to other places where thought takes place” (Giroux 2007). This panel aims to explore this new understanding from a Cultural Studies perspective and offer some concrete examples of how the “military-industrial-academic complex” has impacted UH-Manoa at various levels, i.e. in departments and academic disciplines, in the establishment of curricula/programs, in the military presence on the islands, and in the administration.

Date: Wednesday, March 12th
Time: 12 pm – 1:20pm
Place: Burns Hall Room 2125

Sponsored by:
The UHM/EWC International Cultural Studies Program
Telephone: 808-944-7593
Fax: 808-944-7070
Email:culture@hawaii.edu
Website: http://www2.hawaii.edu/~culture

Event Sponsor
International Cultural Studies, Manoa and East-West Center

More Information
Patty Harris, ICS Program Manager, 944-7593, culture@hawaii.edu, www2.hawaii.edu/~culture

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