11.00 Welcome and introductions: Jef Huysmans (CCIG Director), Nick Mahony & Hilde Stephansen (Creating Publics project)

11.15 Re-enacting the public university: Professor Rebecca Boden (University of Roehampton): Rethinking an “open university"', embedding the academy in a social economy; Dr Joel Lazarus (People’s Political Economy and University College, Oxford): An analysis of the recent flourishing of critical education initiatives in the UK: critical education at the heart of social transformation