The world—and the university, in particular—is at risk from privatization, corporatization, and regulation.  To meet these challenges, the disciplines must first, recognize and constitute publics apart from the policy world; second, critically reflect on their place in a global context; and third, forge connections within and among themselves while conserving their redemptive powers, such as they are.

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In conjunction with: Center of Democracy in a Multiracial Society, Center for Global Studies, Department of Anthropology, Department of Educational Policy Studies, Department of Geography, Department of History, Ethnography of the University, Illinois Program for Research in the Humanities, Institute of Communications Research, International Studies Program, Russian, East European and Euroasian Center, Unit for Criticism and Interpretive Theory