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Podcast: Start-Up Nation for the Humanities

(May 30, 2016)

Out of the ivory tower: Academia thrust into 21st century.

Host Gilad Halpern speaks to Prof. Gili Drori, head of the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and co-chair of the international conference "Internationalization, Globalization and Governance of Academia," which was recently held at the Van Leer Jerusalem Institute. They discuss how universities have adapted to market forces and global capitalism with a mixture of accommodation and resistance.


Sources: Tel Aviv Review Podcast