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DESCRIPTION:Event Name: About Academia: A Conversation with Muntadas\nEvent
  Url: http://www.artsboston.org/event/detail/441150239/About_Academia_A_Co
 nversation_with_Muntadas\nEvent Date Begin: 2011-03-08\nEvent Date End: 20
 11-03-08\n\nA conversation with Antoni Muntadas\, curator Jos&eacute\; Fal
 coni\, and Tom Cummins\,\nchair of the Department of History of Art and Ar
 chitecture at Harvard University \n\nOpening reception for the exhibition 
 MUNTADAS: ABOUT ACADEMIA to follow\n\nThe three-channel video installation
  ABOUT ACADEMIA addresses the problematic relationship between the product
 ion of knowledge and economic power.\n\nDuring ABOUT ACADEMIA's three-year
  development\, Antoni Muntadas researched the history of &ldquo\;academia&
 rdquo\; as an institution in the Western world\, tracing its historical de
 velopment from its inception in ancient Greece to its scholastic rebirth i
 n medieval times\, its re-foundation during the Enlightenment\, its establ
 ishment in the New World\, to its present challenges. He also interviewed 
 a dozen renowned faculty members at Harvard\, MIT and other research unive
 rsities across the United States. Participants include Carol Becker\, Noam
  Chomsky\, John Coatsworth\, Fernando Coronil\, Thomas Cummins\, Bradley E
 pps\, David Harvey\, Ute Meta Bauer\, Doris Sommer\, Mark Wigley\, and How
 ard Zinn\, among others.\n\nConfronting the viewer with some of the most p
 ressing questions concerning the supposed objectivity of academic knowledg
 e by pointing out the corporatization of institutions of higher learning i
 n the United States\, ABOUT ACADEMIA reminds us of the sometimes controver
 sial positions that universities find themselves in when trying to physica
 lly expand amidst disenfranchised communities\, as well as the contradicti
 ons often experienced with university donor agendas.\n\nStart time: 5:30 p
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SUMMARY:About Academia: A Conversation with Muntadas
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