Monday, November 04, 2024 - 5 p.m. to 7 p.m.
Tideline
How calls for transparency can threaten referees’ and professors’ expertise
Nina Windgätter is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Philosophy. She says, “As part of my research in the philosophy of sport, I have an account of the roles referees play and the expertise required to fulfill those roles. I argue that the way video assistant refereeing has been implemented in soccer leads to a bad kind of transparency that undermines and subverts referees’ expertise in ways that make it harder to referee games well. There are interesting parallels with my job as a professor where I play analogous roles, and where attempts by administrators and legislators to make education more transparent threaten my expertise as an educator. In this talk, I’ll briefly explain my account of refereeing and the threat of transparency, before focusing on how analogous issues are affecting our classrooms, amongst greater calls for transparency in higher education.”
The event will be at Tideline Public House, which is located at 15 Newmarket Road. We will be in the main building, upstairs in “The Crow’s Nest.” There will be appetizers and a cash bar (beer and wine). No outside food or drink is allowed in the event space, and please note for your post-event plans that the food trucks are not open on Mondays. Please RSVP at humanities.center@unh.edu or 603-862-4356.
The Center for the Humanities hosts First Monday events, which center around short, informal talks by faculty members, designed to give colleagues a window into their work. We reserve time at the end for questions and conversation.
