Dr. sc. Marija Brajdić Vuković održala je pozvano izlaganje na konferenciji 'Performance in Higher Education and Beyond: Rethinking norms' u organizaciji ADU-a

Dr. sc. Marija Brajdić Vuković održala je pozvano izlaganje (keynote) na konferenciji DO WE EVEN KNOW WHAT IS GOING ON? Performance in Higher Education and Beyond: Rethinking norms - International Transdisciplinary Conference u organizaciji Akademije dramskih umjetnosti u Zagrebu.

Izlaganje pod nazivom: „The Erosion of Identity in the Academia as a Sign of the (Coming) Times“, temelji se na dvama radovima nastalim na projektu HRZZ RESETH „Social Responsibility and Professional Ethics of Croatian Researchers“. Uz izlaganje dvaju radova, Marija je govorila o mogućem smjeru promjena u znanosti u kontekstu veće društvene odgovornosti.

Kratak sadržaj izlaganja:
This talk examines how academics navigate tensions between social responsibility and institutional pressures, exploring the impact of these dynamics on their professional identities. Drawing on Latour’s (2004) concept of ‘matters of concern' over ‘matters of fact’ and Stengers’ (2017) advocacy for a science with ‘public intelligence,’ we propose that academics’ identities are also shaped by their engagement with social and community concerns. However, managerial pressures such as workload demands often lead to resistance—especially among experienced academics whose established identities may conflict with bureaucratic expectations. This talk is based on a project that explores these dynamics through the lenses of infrastructural inertia, collective ethics, and constitutive impurity (Shotwell, 2012). We argue that embracing complexity and complicity can provide a way forward, offering opportunities to create ‘life-promoting patches’ (Tsing, 2015), and contribute meaningfully to a warming world’s pressing ‘matters of concern.’ By discussing how academics reconcile these tensions, the aim is to propose pathways for fostering ethical, engaged academic practice in challenging times.