Catherine Bennett discusses what she calls the ‘heightened vigilance about authenticity‘ in a comment piece about social mobility in today’s Guardian. Continue reading
Integrity and Activism podcasts coming soon…
Thanks to everyone who participated in the Integrity and Activism workshop on Monday. Special thanks to Northumbria University Histories of Activism Research Group and to all the speakers. We’ll have podcasts of the papers available for download early next week.
** Update: apologies for the delay in preparing the podcasts — the recordings needed cleaning up. We should have them ready by 7th Feb at the latest …
Integrity in the news: Schekman on disfiguring incentives in science
A comment piece by Professor Schekman in the Guardian today reflects widespread concerns in academia that reward structures — especially around publishing and ‘impact’ — are creating pressure to conduct research in ways that betray or undermine the academic virtues. Continue reading
Integrity in the news: ‘A stand for democracy in the digital age’
Writers Against Surveillance — a collective of 562 authors — have launched a petition calling for the ‘defence of civil liberties against surveillance by corporations and governments’. They identify ‘integrity of the individual’ as a precondition for democracy: Continue reading
Confirmed speakers for ‘Integrity Lost’ and ‘Saints and Madmen’
We are still putting together programmes for our two major conferences, ‘Integrity Lost‘ (Newcastle, April 2014) and ‘Saints and Madmen‘ (Einstein Forum, Berlin, June 2014), but while we’re working we thought we’d announce some of our confirmed panels and speakers. Click on the links in this post to go to the conference pages to find details and to register interest.
Final Programme for ‘Activism and Integrity’
The final programme for this workshop is now available to download here. For more information see the workshop page.
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Mind Association funding for Integrity Project
We are very happy to say that our application for a Mind Association Minor conference grant to provide post-graduate bursaries to attend ‘Integrity Lost, Integrity (re)gained‘ was successful. Details coming soon on the conference webpage, here or contact us if you’d like to be considered.
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Workshop Update: Integrity and Activism
Activism and Integrity Workshop
Monday, December 16th 2013, 1:30-4:30pm
Northumbria University, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Lipman Building 121
This workshop is hosted by Northumbria University’s Histories of Activism research group, in association with The Integrity Project. It will explore the ways in which concepts of integrity have shaped debates among activists from across the political spectrum in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Continue reading
Workshop: The Online Professional: Gender and Digital Culture
Friday 8 November 2013, 2.00PM to 5.00pm
At the ‘Intellectual Integrity?’ conference we hosted earlier in the year, Audra Mitchell convened a panel on the role of the female public intellectual. The panel explored some of the difficulties inherent in retaining one’s integrity as a woman and as an intellectual in the public eye. Sara Perry, who is involved in the Gender and Digital Culture project at York, was a member of the panel and asked us to share news of a workshop she’s involved in.
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Workshop Announcement: Activism & Integrity
On Monday December 16th 2013, the Northumbria University Histories of Activism research group, in collaboration with The Integrity Project, will be hosting a 1 day workshop at the University of Northumbria.
Activism and Integrity
Integrity can drive individuals to challenge existing structures and practices in various ways – campaigning against them, separating from them, or exemplifying alternative lifestyles. This workshop explores how personal integrity has compelled different kinds of activists to act only according to their conscience. The event – which will feature four papers delivered by historians working on a range of types of activism – will explore the ways integrity has shaped debates among activists from across the political spectrum; how it has governed action as well as intention; and how forms of organization and collective action are negotiated to preserve the integrity of the actors.
If you would like to attend the workshop, please contact either Dr Charlotte Alston (charlotte.alston@northumbria.ac.uk) or Dr Joe Hardwick (joseph.hardwick@northumbria.ac.uk).
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