I'm delighted, and of course nervous,
about the imminent launch of The Good
University in Melbourne and Sydney.
There has been some online discussion,
but the moment when the launcher and the launchee face the people, and the
people hold the actual book in their hands, and can talk back, is drama. Here are the
details, please come if you can! (If you can't, try: http://www.publishing.monash.edu/books/gu-9781925835038.html)
Melbourne: Wednesday 6 March,
6.30 for 7, Readings Bookshop, 309 Lygon Street, Carlton. To be launched by
Jeannie Rea, chaired by Nathan Hollier. Please book here: https://www.trybooking.com/book/event?eid=467389&
Sydney: Friday 8 March, 6 for
6.30, Gleebooks, 49
Glebe Point Road, Glebe. To be launched by Mehreen Faruqi, chaired by Kurt
Iveson. It's free, but to help with
catering, Gleebooks appreciates your booking by telephone (02)9660 2333 or
online at http://www.gleebooks.com.au/BookingRetrieve.aspx?ID=311903
In other
parts of the world, the Zed Books edition is available here: https://www.zedbooks.net/shop/book/the-good-university/forthcoming/
.
In North America, the Zed Books
edition is distributed by Chicago University Press: https://www.press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/distributed/G/bo39583362.html
To remind you, here is the
chapter list:
Introduction
1.
Making the knowledge: research
2.
Learning and teaching
3. The
collective intellectual: university workers
4. The
global economy of knowledge
5.
Privilege machines
6. The
university business
7.
Universities of hope
8. The
good university
And a correction! In the book I mention Times Higher Education as part of the Murdoch group. I'm out of date: it was sold to venture capitalists. And it's just been sold again: https://www.timeshighereducation.com/news/new-owner-times-higher-education.