The structures, origins and functioning of universities in post-Soviet countries, Latin American countries and other states of the Global South differ significantly. However, there is a global trend towards the precarization of academic work, the commercialization of knowledge and the narrowing of access to higher education.

During this panel discussion participants endeavour how to analyze the abovementioned transformations and discover whether the current situation allows for the emergence of a global struggle for the post-capitalist university?

Speakers:

– Maria Ivancheva, sociologist of higher education and labour. Author of the monograph The Alternative University. Lessons from Bolivarian Venezuela, Bulgaria.

– Nabeel Imtiaz, activist, сo-founder of a Student Union (Estonian Academy of Arts), organizer of political dissent campaigns in Leftist student spheres in Lahore, Pakistan.

– Mykhailo Samsonenko, international law student, coordinator of Socio-legal department of Independent Student Union “Direct Action”, Ukraine.

– Krystian Szadkowski, researcher of transformations, in particular issues of the public and the common in higher education in Central Eastern Europe, Poland.

The panel is moderated by sociologist and editor of “Commons” journal Anastasiia Riabchuk.