Thursday, 28 October 2021

History of Universities Seminar 2021-22


Academic year 2021-22. URL and details on registration: https://www.histgeog-uni.net/history-of-universities-seminar/


Convenors

Miles Taylor (Humboldt University of Berlin, Germany)

Ku-ming (Kevin) Chang (Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan)

Heike Jöns (Loughborough University, United Kingdom)

Tamson Pietsch (University of Technology Sydney, Australia)


Timing

Wednesdays, fortnightly, 2.00-3.30 pm (BST/UTC+1 or GMT/UTC+0), online via Zoom


Contact email

historyofuniversities@gmail.com



3 November 2021

2 pm (BST/UTC+1)


Research education across the globe: disciplines, institutions, and nations, 1840-1950

Kevin Chang (Academia Sinica Taiwan) | Abstract


Chaired by Miles Taylor (Humboldt University of Berlin)


Please register your free online attendance here.



1 December 2021

2 pm (GMT/UTC+0)


A Scottish classic after sixty years: George Davie’s The Democratic Intellect: Scotland and her Universities in the Nineteenth Century

Robert Anderson (University of Edinburgh) | Abstract


Chaired by Kevin Chang (Academia Sinica Taiwan)


Please register your free online attendance here.



2 February 2022

2 pm (GMT/UTC+0)


Evaluating scientific papers, and their authors, at the Royal Society of London, c.1780-1980

Aileen Fyfe (University of St Andrews) | Abstract


Chaired by Heike Jöns (Loughborough University)


Please register your free online attendance here.



2 March 2022

2 pm (GMT/UTC+0)


Habsburg universities 1848-1918: biography of a space

Jan Surman (Masaryk Institute and Archives of the Czech Academy of Sciences) | Abstract


Chaired by Miles Taylor (Humboldt University of Berlin)


Please register your free online attendance here.



4 May 2022

2 pm (BST/UTC+1)


The twisted roots of social inequality and higher education in liberal democracies

Christi M. Smith (Washington University in St. Louis) | Abstract


Chaired by Heike Jöns (Loughborough University)


Please register your free online attendance here.





1 June 2022

2 pm (BST/UTC+1)


Universities and the wars of religion in early modern Europe: a roundtable discussion

Chaired by Miles Taylor (Humboldt University of Berlin)


The University as a place of refuge: religious exiles at the University of Tübingen during the Thirty Years’ War

Richard Kirwan (University of Limerick) | Abstract


An unintended export: rethinking the founding of Harvard College

Salvatore Cipriano (Boston College) | Abstract


From St Andrews, via Coimbra, to Leiden and onto Edinburgh: Protestant teaching, scholars and networks in Scotland and the Dutch Provinces

Esther Mijers (University of Edinburgh) | Abstract


Please register your free online attendance here.



6 July 2022

2 pm (BST/UTC+1)


University as a space to experiment with ideologies: Kenkoku University in Japanese-occupied Manchuria, 1938-45

Yuka Kishida (Bridgewater College) | Abstract


Chaired by Kevin Chang (Academia Sinica Taiwan)


Please register your free online attendance here.

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