BEGIN:VCALENDAR
VERSION:2.0
PRODID:-//TYPO3/NONSGML News system (news)//EN
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:news-34295@dpu.au.dk
DTSTAMP:20250925T073428Z
DTSTART:20251009T123000Z
DTEND:20251009T133000Z
END:VEVENT
END:VCALENDAR




<div class="news news-single">
	<div class="article" itemscope="itemscope" itemtype="http://schema.org/Article">
		
	
			<script type="text/javascript">
				const showAllContentLangToken = "Show all content ";
			</script>

			
			

			<article class="typo3-delphinus delphinus-gutters">

				<!-- News PID: 79837 - used for finding folder/page which contains the news / event -->
				<!-- News UID: 34295 - the ID of the current news / event-->

				<div class="news-event">
					<div class="news-event__header">
						<!-- Categories -->
						
							<span class="text--stamp">
<!-- categories -->
<span class="news-list-category">
	
		
	
</span>

</span>
						

						<!-- Title -->
						<h1 itemprop="headline">CHEF WG2 Webinar: Future institutions in, with, and for Society 3 – Siân Bayne</h1>
						
							<!-- Teaser -->
							<p class="text--intro" itemprop="description">Drawing on Siân Bayne’s inspirational and extensive research in higher education futures and digital education, this talk examines the complex relationships between humans and machines through critical, interdisciplinary, and utopian perspectives. It considers the implications of these entanglements and the relevance of cyborg pedagogy for our teaching and research, as well as the future of universities and related institutions, and their roles not only within society but also for and with society.</p>
						
					</div>

					
						<!-- Top image -->
						
					

					<div class="news-event__content">

						<!-- Events info box -->
						
								

								<div class="news-event__info theme--dark" id="event-info">
									<h2 class="screenreader-only">Info about event</h2>

									
											<!--- Same date -->
											<div class="news-event__info__item news-event__info__item--time">
												<h3 class="news-event__info__item__header text--label-header">Time</h3>
												<div class="news-event__info__item__content">
													<span class="u-avoid-wrap">
														Thursday  9  October 2025,
													</span>
													<span class="u-avoid-wrap">
														&nbsp;at 14:30 -  15:30
													</span>
													<p class="news-event__info__item__ical-link"><a href="/en/about-the-school/events/event/artikel/chef-wg2-webinar-future-institutions-in-with-and-for-society-3-sian-bayne?tx_news_pi1%5Bformat%5D=ical&amp;type=9819&amp;cHash=a7447826321640f55e193c0642a97b58">Add to calendar</a></p>
												</div>
											</div>
										

									<!-- Location detailed -->
									
											<!-- Location Simple -->
											
										

									<!-- Organizer detailed -->
									
											<!-- Organizer Simple -->
											
										

									<!-- Price -->
									

									<!-- Event link -->
									
										<div class="news-event__info__item">
											<a href="https://events.au.dk/cheftalkwebinar09102025">Event website</a>
										</div>
									

									<!-- Registration -->
									
										<div class="news-event__info__signup">
											
												<a href="https://events.au.dk/cheftalkwebinar09102025/signup" class="button">Register</a>
											
											
												<div class="news-event__info__signup__registration">
													No later than  Thursday <span class="u-avoid-wrap"> 9  <span class="au_news_events_month">October 2025, </span> <span class="u-avoid-wrap">at 14:00</span></span>
												</div>
											
										</div>
									
								</div>
							

						
							<!-- Media -->
							
								



							
						

						
							<div class="news-event__content__text">
								<span class="text--byline" id="byline">
									

									<!-- Author -->
									
								</span>

								

									<!-- Body text -->
									<h2>Info about event</h2>
<h3><strong>TIME</strong></h3>
<p>Thursday 9 October 2025,&nbsp;&nbsp;at 14:30 - 15:30 CEST</p>
<p>Register No later than Thursday&nbsp;9&nbsp;&nbsp;October 2025,&nbsp;at 14:00</p>
<p>Zoomlink for the event: <a href="https://aarhusuniversity.zoom.us/j/65101375524" target="_self" title="https://aarhusuniversity.zoom.us/j/65101375524">https://aarhusuniversity.zoom.us/j/65101375524</a>&nbsp;</p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p><strong>Cyborg theory in education 40 years on</strong><br> Donna Haraway's 'Cyborg Manifesto', written in 1985, celebrated the political potential - and the possibility of joy - in the breakdown of the boundary between human and machine. Her vision was one which emphasised the power of hybridity, imagination, irony and ‘serious play', and has been influential in education ever since, particularly in the fields of eco-pedagogy and digital education.</p>
<p>However, times have radically changed since Haraway first argued for the liberatory potential of cyborg selfhood. 40 years on - and after AI -&nbsp;we need to ask whether the figure of the cyborg is still a useful one for education. For example, who now has the power to take responsibility for the setting and confusion of human/machine boundaries – is it still the ‘us’ proposed in Haraway’s famous claim that ‘the machine is us’? If we could enjoy the idea of being ‘theorized and fabricated’ machinic/organic hybrids in 1985, do we feel the same in 2025 when our hybridity, while still theorised and fabricated, is also now relentlessly datafied and monetised? Is the concept of cyborg pedagogy still useful for our practice and our research?</p>
<p>This talk will discuss these issues, offer a critical re-reading of the manifesto, and explore how a developed cyborg theory still offers useful ways ahead for our teaching and research. Finally, the talk reflects on what this might imply for future institutions that are in, for and with society.&nbsp;</p>
<p>The CHEF&nbsp;working group&nbsp;on “Future institutions in, with, and for society”explores potentials and scenarios for transforming higher education institutions and engendering engaged, empowered, and co-creative future institutions in, with, and for society, focusing&nbsp;on co-operative, imaginative, and participatory theories, models, and institutional practices.&nbsp;“Future institutions in, with, and for society”&nbsp;explore new institutional and education formats such as quadruple helix innovation ecosystems, living labs, citizen science or research, mode three knowledge creation, speculative and utopian methods, and transformative partnerships.&nbsp;</p>
<p>“Future institutions in, with, and for society&nbsp;”&nbsp;inquires into future roles, values and practices emerging at the intersection of education, culture and arts institutions,&nbsp;industries, and the public domain. It&nbsp;asks&nbsp;why and to what end new co-operative, collaborative, and co-creative theories, models and practices are needed.&nbsp;And&nbsp;how to rethink, reshape and support higher education institutions that are entangled with natural, cultural, and societal stakeholders and build transformative futures across boundaries together for the public good.&nbsp;</p>
<p>--</p>
<p><strong>Short bio:</strong></p>
<p><strong>Siân Bayne</strong> is a professor of Digital Education at the University of Edinburgh. She is also the director of the Centre for Research in Digital Education and the lead on Higher Education Futures as the university's assistant principal. Her research is critical and interdisciplinary and currently focused on higher education futures, utopia, and theories of ‘enhancement’.&nbsp;<a href="https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0133-7647" target="_self" title="https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0133-7647">https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0133-7647</a>&nbsp;</p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p><strong>Websites</strong>:</p>
<p>University of Edingburgh website: <a href="https://edwebprofiles.ed.ac.uk/profile/sian-bayne" target="_self">https://edwebprofiles.ed.ac.uk/profile/sian-bayne</a></p>
<p>Siân Bayne website: <a href="https://sianbayne.net" target="_self">https://sianbayne.net</a></p>
<p>Siân Bayne LinkedIn: <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/sian-bayne/" target="_self">https://www.linkedin.com/in/sian-bayne/</a></p>
<p><a href="https://dpu.au.dk/en/research/research-programmes/chef/about-chef/translate-to-english-working-groups/translate-to-english-future-institutions-in-with-and-for-society" target="_self">Read the description of WG#2</a></p>
								
							</div>
						
					</div>

					
						<!-- Content elements -->
						
					
				</div>
			</article>

			
				
				
			

			<!-- related things -->
			
		

	</div>
</div>