This a new online seminar series on the History of Universities is a collaboration between the University of York (UK), the Academia Sinica Taipei (Taiwan), Loughborough University (UK), and the University of Technology Sydney in Australia. We are keen to build up a core audience and also solicit papers for the seminar in 2021-2, when it will become a monthly online event. Please share.
Programme
2 June | William Whyte (St John’s College Oxford, UK) The university: a material history |
16 June | Universities and slavery (roundtable discussion) |
Richard Stone (University of Bristol, UK) Slavery and the foundation of the University of Bristol | |
Stephen Mullen (University of Glasgow, UK) Slavery and the University of Glasgow: assessing financial legacies in an Atlantic frame | |
Françoise Hamlin (Brown University, Rhode Island, USA) Brown University’s Slavery and Justice Report: on paper and in practice | |
Comment: Sabine Cadeau (Centre of African Studies, University of Cambridge, UK) | |
30 June | Laurence Gautier (O.P. Jindal Global University, Delhi, India) Muslim universities as agents of national integration in post-partition India |
14 July | Universities in years of pandemic: 1665, 1919, 2020 (roundtable discussion) |
Evelyn Lord (Wolfson College, Cambridge) Plague and the University of Cambridge | |
James W. Thomas & Holly Ann Foster (University of Southern Mississippi, Hattiesburg) How US HEIs responded to the influenza pandemic of 1918 | |
Joe Moran (Liverpool John Moores University) The place of the university |
Convenors: Kevin Chang (Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan); Heike Jons (Loughborough University, UK); Tamson Pietsch (University of Technology Sydney, Australia); Miles Taylor (University of York, UK)
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