The Department of Humanities and Social Sciences presents a seminar on
The University in Crisis
Speaker: Professor Michael Burawoy
Date: Tuesday, December 6, 2016
Time: 6:30 p.m.
Venue: NIB Auditorium, LUMS
About the speaker
Michael Burawoy is professor of sociology at University of California, Berkeley, and one of the most renowned sociologists of his generation. Throughout his academic career he has engaged with Marxism, seeking to reconstruct it in the light of his research and more broadly in the light of historical challenges of the late 20th and early 21st. centuries. He has been a participant observer of industrial workplaces in four countries: Zambia, United States, Hungary and Russia, and developed the extended case method that allows broad conclusions to be drawn from ethnographic research. He has been the president of the American Sociological Association as well as the International Sociological Association, and is currently the editor of Global Dialogue, the newsletter and magazine of the International Sociological Association.
