[SGRupdate] SGR conference 2016 - registration open

[Scientists for Global Responsibility (SGR)]

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Universities for sale?
The influence of the arms, fossil fuels and other industries

Scientists for Global Responsibility conference and AGM

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Saturday 19 November 2016

The Gallery, Farringdon, London

* Registration is now open *

Speakers from academia and campaign groups will discuss the ways in which
controversial industries are involved at UK universities, outline government
policies which encourage this, highlight the detrimental effects, and present
proposals for change.


Presentations:

* Militarising academia: arms corporations and UK universities
Dr Stuart Parkinson, Executive Director, Scientists for Global Responsibility

* He who pays the piper: universities, the oil and gas industry, and fracking
David Smythe, Emeritus Professor of Geophysics, University of Glasgow

* Universities, democracy and science: the challenge of the new neo-liberal
knowledge regime
John Holmwood, Professor of Sociology, University of Nottingham; co-founder,
Campaign for the Public University

* Investigating fossil fuel industry funding in academia
Maeve McClenaghan, Senior Investigator, Greenpeace UK

* Regulatory 'undersight': policing integrity at the university-industrial
interface in medicine
Dr Aubrey Blumsohn, previously Senior Lecturer in Medicine, University of
Sheffield

* Do universities betray reason and humanity? The urgent need for an academic
revolution
Dr Nicholas Maxwell, Emeritus Reader of Philosophy of Science, University
College London

For more details of the conference, including registration, see:
http://www.sgr.org.uk/events/universities-sale


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