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Research Seminar: “White Philosophy” Professor Michael A. Peters (Illinois, USA) Professor Tina Besley (Waikato, NZ) JOMEC: School of Journalism, Media and Cultural Studies Race, Representation and Cultural Politics Research Group & (Re)Constructing Multiculturalism Research Network Wednesday 23rd November Room: 1.27, Bute Building Time: 3-5pm Please Register for a Place: BowmanP@cf.ac.uk Reading material will be emailed in advance NB: Numbers are strictly limited by space Email: BowmanP@cf.ac.uk Tina Besley is Professor of Education at University of Waikato, New Zealand. (Previously Research Professor in Educational Policy Studies at University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.) She is associate editor of Educational Philosophy and Theory & co-editor of Learning and Digital Media. She has published 15 books & monographs including: Governmentality Studies in Education; Why Foucault? New Directions in Educational Research; Assessing the Quality of Educational Research in Higher Education: International perspectives. Her four books on Michel Foucault have been critically acclaimed. In 2009, her coauthored Subjectivity and Truth: Foucault, Education and the Culture of Self, was awarded the American Educational Studies Association Critics Choice Award. Her next co-edited collection is Interculturalism, Education and Dialogue. She is a Faculty Fellow in the Academy for Entrepreneurial Leadership, College of Business, University of Illinois & Adjunct Professor at Guangzhou University, China. Michael A. Peters is Professor of Education at the University of Illinois (Urbana-Champaign). He held a personal chair at the University of Auckland, NZ (2000-03) and Research Professor at the University of Glasgow, UK (2000-05), as well as numerous posts as adjunct and visiting professor throughout the world. He is the executive editor of Educational Philosophy and Theory (Blackwell) and editor of two international ejournals, Policy Futures in Education and E-Learning (both with Symposium). He has written over thirty-five books and three hundred articles and chapters, including most recently: Global Citizenship Education (Sense, 2008); Global Knowledge Cultures (Sense, 2007); Subjectivity and Truth: Foucault, Education and the Culture of Self (Peter Lang, 2007); Why Foucault? New Directions in Educational Research (Peter Lang, 2007), Building Knowledge Cultures: Educational and Development in the Age of Knowledge Capitalism (Rowman & Littlefield, 2006), and Knowledge Economy, Development and the Future of the University (Sense, 2007).