*Please read this, because it is aimed at all of you. That �all� are 
researchers, academics, artists, social activists, programmers, students, 
archivists,� It is important to reach a wide, diverse, hererogeneous 
public with interests in �alternative ways� in general*

Dear all,

I am Stef Langmans, a Belgian Pedagogical Science graduate student at the 
Catholic University of Leuven. I�m doing preliminary research at the 
Centre for Philosophy of Education in the frame of an international open 
congress called �Rethinking the University after Bologna: Alternative 
Concepts and Practices beyond Tradition and the Market� in December of 
2008 that is hosted by the KULeuven and the UAntwerp. The congress will be 
held in the context of the evaluation of the Bologna process, but it aims 
to investigate new ways of conceptualizing the university as an 
institution and as a practice in a global higher educational space. Later 
on there will be launched a call for papers and workshop to fill in the 
concrete content of the congress. The congress aims to produce a strong 
and solid vision towards the future of higher education that can put 
forward to the European Commision and to all other establishments that are 
involved with the refroms within the higher educational space.

To come now to the point why I adressed all of you, is that I spent some 
time investigating as many existing alternative and public-directed 
practices of higher education as possible. But I am limited to perform my 
research solely through the internet and journals, so I presume that I got 
a disfigured image of the reality of the alternative practices. All of you 
that I adress in this email (around 2000 peoples and organisations) are in 
some way involved in such practices and I was hoping that you could help 
me to identify more local and non-internet linked practices. But also I 
wanted to offer you a space where I accumulated and brought together all 
current practices I came along during my research. 
I made a wordpress blogsite with links to alternative and public higher 
educational practices, divide in categories of �Knowledge 
Systems�, �Publishing & 
Archiving�, �Institutional�, �Educational�, �Research�, �Student Action� 
and �Art & Social�  at http://publiversity.wordpress.com 

Please take a look and if you are interested you can post anything you 
like that can help finding more practices or help just giving your vision 
and thoughts about the concept of future hihger education. I also would 
like to ask to become an administrator or an author of the blog (just 
reply if you are interested), so that you can add, contribute, change,� as 
much as you like. Because it was my intention to create a free space where 
thoughts and practices, visions and reality, dreams and narratives could 
meet and interact to produces valuable elements for the further 
conceptualization of the future higher educational spaces. So please 
spread the word and the URL (http://publiversity.wordpress.com) so that 
the blogspace comes to life and doesn�t stay a static archival container. 

Kind Regards,
Stef Langmans

Researchassistent of Prof. Jan Masschelein
Centre for Philosophy of Education 
Catholic University Leuven 
Vesaliusstraat 2
3000 Leuven
Tel: +32 16 32 62 28
Fax: +32 16 32 59 34
stef.langmans@student.kuleuven.be 
http://ppw.kuleuven.be/cfp/ 

Publiversity blog
http://publiversity.wordpress.com