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GRAND CHALLENGES
LECTURE SERIES
VISITING
FELLOWS
THE ENDS OF WORK
PROFESSOR NICHOLAS SMITH
16 MAY 2018 | KEELE HALL | THE SALVIN ROOM
1.00PM-2.00PM | FREE ADMISSION
REFRESHMENTS AVAILABLE
One of the great challenges of our times is the current
transformation of work and how we should orient ourselves
ethically in relation to this transformation. It is popularly
argued that as more and more jobs become automated,
there will be less and less work to go around, decreasing
occupational stability, but no shortage of wealth. In
these circumstances, the fundamental moral challenge
is to ensure that those who remain in work do not enjoy
a disproportionately large share of this wealth, that the
growing numbers of unemployed people get their fair share,
and that no one is stigmatised for not wanting to work at all.
Put simply, to ensure that the benefits – and in particular
the freedoms – of the end of work are equally available to
everyone. However, the question remains; does this get to
the ethical heart of the challenge the transformation of work
poses for us? In this lecture I suggest that it does not.
Professor Nicholas H. Smith is Professor of Philosophy at
Macquarie University and an Institute of Liberal Arts and
Sciences Fellow 2017-8. He has published widely in critical
social theory and philosophy of work. His latest book,
The Return of Work in Critical Theory: Self, Society,
Politics, co-authored with Christophe Dejours, Jean-
Philippe Deranty and Emmanuel Renault, is published
by Columbia University Press (2018).
AT THE
INSTITUTE
2017-18
as more and more jobs
become automated, there
will be less and less work
to go around
LEAH THORN
Spoken Word Poet
Poetry (E)motion: Older
Women Rock the Potteries!
With Dr Dana Rosenfeld,
School of Social Science and
Public Policy and Kerry Jones
Keele Arts Officer
DR CRISTINA
DEVECCHI
THE UNIVERSITY OF
NORTHAMPTON
Leading Educational Change
in Global Higher Education
With Dr Jacqueline Potter,
Directorate of Human
Resources and Student
Services
DR THIBAUT
DEVIESE
UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD
Investigating the
pharmaceutical
skincare properties
of natural substance
skin based remedies
With Dr Szu Shen Wong,
School of Pharmacy
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The Institute Fellowship scheme encourages innovative
interdisciplinary collaborations involving international
scholars from different backgrounds and disciplines; natural
sciences and health sciences to humanities and social
sciences. Keele is a welcoming space to think, write and
create and the scheme enables fellows to come and spend
time here, away from everyday demands. In this way, the
Fellowship scheme promotes high quality interdisciplinary
research and provides a further stimulus to interdisciplinarity
across the university.
PROFESSOR
MICHAEL SOMEKH PROFESSOR
NICHOLAS SMITH
THE HONG KONG
POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY,
NSW, AUSTRAILA
Exploring some new
microscopy techniques
for cellular and
sub-cellular imaging
With Professor Melissa Mather,
Research Institute for Science
and Technology in Medicine The Fabric of Social
and Global Justice
With Professor Shane O’Neill,
School of Politics, Philosophy,
International Relations
and Environment.
PROFESSOR
ERWU LUI
TONGJI UNIVERSITY CHINA
Complex network model for
robust IoT/IoV in smart cities
With Professor Zhong Fan,
School of Computing and
Mathematics
DR SUE MC
GLASHAN
UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND
Primary cilia – do they
play a role in degeneration
of the intervertebral disc
and back pain?
With Dr Sharon Owen
Research Institute for Science
and Technology in Medicine
DR ANTU SORAINEN
UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI
Wills and Inheritance
in Sexually Marginalised
Groups/Contrasting Margins
of Kinship (Corekin)
With Professor
Mari-Andree Jacob,
School of Law
To find out more about
our visiting fellows, their
collaborations and the
Institute Fellowship Scheme
please see the website
keele.ac.uk/ilas/
institutefellowships/
visitingfellows2017
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