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Academic year 2024-25
Convenors
Miles Taylor (Humboldt University of Berlin, Germany)
Ku-ming (Kevin) Chang (Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan)
Heike Jöns (Loughborough University, United Kingdom)
Timing
Usually Wednesdays, about monthly, mostly 2.00-3.30 pm (UK time: GMT/UTC+0 or BST/UTC+1), online via Zoom
Contact email
historyofuniversities@gmail.com
Friday, 18 October 2024
9 am (BST/UTC+1)
Academic Freedom and University Governance: Lessons from Harvard and Elsewhere
William C. Kirby (Harvard University) | Abstract
6 November 2024
2 pm (GMT/UTC+0)
African Universities and the Ends of Empire: Teaching “British Civilisation” in Senegal
Ruth Bush (University of Bristol) | Abstract
8 January 2025
2 pm (GMT/UTC+0)
Global Mega-Science: Europe’s Role in Enabling Contemporary Global Science
Justin J. W. Powell (University of Luxemburg) | Abstract
5 February 2025
2 pm (GMT/UTC+0)
The “Development Decade” and Higher Educational Planning in Pakistan, 1958-1969
Meher Ali (Princeton University) | Abstract
4 June 2025
2 pm (BST/UTC+1)
Geographies of Academic Travel from Heidelberg and Emerging Research Cultures across the Sciences and the Humanities, 1751-1810
Heike Jöns (Loughborough University)
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2 July 2025
2 pm (BST/UTC+1)
Constitutional Law and Empire in Legal Education in Inter-War Britain
Donal Coffey (Maynooth University)
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