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Academic year 2023-24

Convenors
Miles Taylor (Humboldt University of Berlin, Germany)
Ku-ming (Kevin) Chang (Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan)
Heike Jöns (Loughborough University, United Kingdom)

Timing
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

4 October 2023
2 pm (BST/UTC+1)

Student Exchange and the British Government: UK Students’ Abroad, 1955-1978

Heather Ellis (University of Sheffield) | Abstract

1 November 2023
2 pm (GMT/UTC+0)

“Irrespective of Race or Color”: The Reconstructed University of South Carolina, 1873-1877

Christian K. Anderson (University of South Carolina) | Abstract

6 December 2023
4 pm (GMT/UTC+0)

Islam and University Politics in Colonial North Africa: The Political Economy of Reform

Julian Weideman (University of Toronto) | Abstract

7 February 2024
2 pm (GMT/UTC+0)

La riforma Gentile e la sua eredità (The Gentile Reform and its Legacy), ed. by A. Mattone, M. Moretti, E. Signori, Bologna: il Mulino, 2023​

Mauro Moretti (Università per Stranieri, Siena) | Abstract

6 March 2024
2 pm (GMT/UTC+0)

From Rhetoricians to Scholars: The doctorat ès lettres in the 19th Century

Pierre Verschueren (University of Franche-Comté) | Abstract

8 May 2024
2 pm (BST/UTC+1)

University Matriculation Registers as a Source for Historical Research and a Historical Database

Heike Hawicks (Heidelberg Academy of Sciences and Humanities) and Ingo Runde (University Archives of Heidelberg) | Abstract | Powerpoint presentation

5 June 2024
2 pm (BST/UTC+1)

Teaching the Colony at Wageningen Agricultural College (1918-1940)​

Larissa Schulte Nordholt (Wageningen University) | Abstract