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Academic year 2022-23

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, 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

5 October 2022
2 pm (BST/UTC+1)

Modern Historiography in the Making: Teaching and Research at German Universities, 1700-1900

Kaspar Risbjerg Eskildsen (Roskilde University) | Abstract

2 November 2022
2 pm (GMT/UTC+0)

Eureka! Gold Rushes, Universities, and Globalisation in the British World, 1840-1910

Caitlin Harvey (Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge) | Abstract

7 December 2022
2 pm (GMT/UTC+0)

An Era of Austerity? Universities and the Irish State, 1932-1945

John Walsh (Trinity College Dublin) | Abstract

8 February 2023
3 pm (GMT/UTC+0)

Dealing with Medical Uncertainty in the European Research University around 1900

Pieter Dhondt (University of Eastern Finland) | Abstract

18 April 2023
2 pm (BST/UTC+1)

New Research on English Universities in the 19th & 20th Centuries: A‍ Roundtable Discussion

Georgina Brewis (UCL Institute of Education) | Abstract
Sabine Chaouche (Sunway University, Malaysia) | Abstract
Charles Lee (Academia Sinica, Taipei) | Abstract

3 May 2023
2 pm (BST/UTC+1)

Lecture Hall Life: The Practice of the Lecture in 18th Century German Universities

Marian Füssel (University of Göttingen) | Abstract

17 May 2023
2 pm (BST/UTC+1)

University as a Space to Experiment with Ideologies: Kenkoku University in Japanese-occupied Manchuria, 1938-1945

Yuka Kishida (Bridgewater College) | Abstract

7 June 2023
10 am (BST/UTC+1)

Should We or Should We Not Speak of Medieval “Intellectuals”?

Frank Rexroth (University of Göttingen) | Abstract

5 July 2023
11 am (BST/UTC+1)

Knowing the World in the 1920s

Tamson Pietsch (University of Technology Sydney) | Abstract