The University and Economic Forces

Reimagining the University

Dec 22

Written By The Center on Modernity in Transition

Speakers

KRISTOPHER OLDS

Kristopher Olds is a Professor in the Department of Geography at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He is the co-editor of *Global Regionalisms* and *Higher Education: Projects, Processes, Politics.*

CAITLIA ZALOOM

Caitlin Zaloom is a professor of Social & Cultural Analysis at New York University. She is the author, most recently, of *Indebted: How Families Make College Work at Any Cost*, as well as a founding editor of *Public Books*.

DEONDRA ROSE

Deondra Rose is an Associate Professor at Duke University’s Sanford School of Public Policy. She is the author of *Citizens by Degree: Higher Education Policy* *and the Changing Gender Dynamics of American Citizenship*.

Moderators:

SHAHRZAD SABET

Shahrzad Sabet is Co-Director of the Center on Modernity in Transition (COMIT) and a Fellow at New York University’s Institute for Public Knowledge. Her current book project, which spans a variety of disciplines, makes the case for a reimagined universalism that reconciles the oneness and the diversity of humankind.

BENJAMIN SCHEWEL

Benjamin Schewel is Co-Director of the Center on Modernity in Transition (COMIT). He is author of Seven Ways of Looking at Religion (2017) and is currently working on a second book, Encountering the Axial Age, both from Yale University Press.

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