Public writing

• Max Weber Programme for Postdoctoral Studies

Roundtable organised by the EUI's Centre for Academic Literacies and Languages (CALL) and supported by the Max Weber Programme.

The phrase public writing raises questions for scholars who wish to address audiences outside the academy. The panellists in this roundtable discussion will address some of them: Can we talk about a European, cultural, public sphere? How does writing for different types of publication enable different relations of ideas and partnerships with collaborators? How does the idea of public writing fall prey to or resist demands of the modern, metrics-driven university? And what is the best advice anyone gave you on how to write for an unknown public? After short presentations the panel will open for questions and discussion. This event is organised by the EUI's Centre for Academic Literacies and Languages (CALL) and generously supported by the Max Weber Programme.

About the speakers:

George Blaustein is a founding editor of the European Review of Books and senior lecturer of History and American Studies at the University of Amsterdam; his work has appeared in the New Yorker, the Atlantic, and the New Republic. Claire Debucquois is an EUI Max Weber Fellow and her essay on the history of social and environmental devastation in Brazil ( Independence and/or Death ) is published in the latest issue of the ERB. Ingo Venzke is a Braudel Fellow at the Law Department, currently working on international economic and climate governance and a popular book on The Law of the Climate Crisis.